pocketfuloflips

And great album. Review is spot on.

is pretty embarrassing. apart from the keith lemon bit, which is kinda rad.

i've not listened to HORSE in a few years, may have to check this out.

review

when reviews crop up on here expressing astonishment that the punk rock spirit of keeping DIY alive is still going strong.

I thought this was the Finnish punk band of the same name, on Combat Rock.

I'm going with "Mark E. Smith".

although almost all the bands i saw were different to the ones the author of this review saw. :D

NEXT TIME someone tell me about the goddamn chalet gigs/parties. ;)

i'm liking jaguar love so far. think the ep is tighter than the album but i suspect even the lesser tracks will grow on me over time.

i'm looking forward to hearing more past lives, too.

i'd say that poverty doesn't generate great art, but great art is something that people will pursue in spite of poverty, and that people who choose to make music and all else be damned will usually be pretty poor, as statistically speaking music is a rubbish way to make a living.

but then i guess sensible, balanced claims don't generate DiScussion, amirite?

the scenes listed were generally made up, artists and audiences, of the young and poor. that several of the key artists involved had upbringings that weren't poor is neither here nor there.

still, your hyperbole aside i agree that lines like "let’s start this debate by looking at a few past examples of just why we should perhaps be so excited, even grateful that we're on the verge of recession" are very silly indeed. in fact they're so silly i'd guess they were included primarily to generate responses like yours, and mine. ;)

That is not a very good song. Nice that it states the obvious though; something had been bothering me about Palin but I hadn't quite put my finger on it.

I rarely take seriously any reviewer or critic who is afraid, unwilling or not permitted to express a negative opinion.

I don't read sites like DiS just to guide what I buy. If you take music seriously as a cultural force or a mode of expression, even just a little bit, you want to see people engaging in dialogue about the merits, or lack of, of what is being released.

I know that sounds quite pretentious but it's pretty simple really. You either want to be told what record you should go and buy this week, or you want to take part in talking about and exploring music, which continues to be big and varied and exciting at the same time as it is narrow and uniform and dull.

How dare people have hobbies! Especially trivial ones!

Next they'll be listening to music or something.

go to bed drunky.

So I don't know what's really going on, but I'm pleased Divers is still writing for DiS.

Rolo Tomassi are ace. And Eva inspires frightening devotion in some of my friends who are really old enough to know better.

You can read music reviews?!

for Jaguar Love :D

Brighton/Exeter bands don't play Brighton as one of their final dates, apparently. Booooo.

Mind you we are all cynical and disinterested down here.

The answer is "you, apparently".

HTH!

More bands should sell pinball machines and coffins. It's the only way to save the industry.

To each their own and all that, but for me the bigger the venue = the less memorable/special/fun/exciting the gig. I'm kind of appalled by these hugely expensive stadium shows, but I guess that they're just not for me, so you know... whatever.

Still, anyone who pays £40-50 for 70s punk reformations is a fucking cunt. ;)

IMO. I've not heard this album but I do like some of the tunes on the last one, inc. "Thou Shalt Kill". That aside I think this is a really good & thoughtful review. Kudos.

Someone should give those kids some Assfactor 4 records and stuff.

"The Damned’s ‘New Rose’ was a straight-up heater, but then the genre mainly threw up 18 years of unlistenable garbage until ‘Self Esteem’ dropped."

Toot toot, here comes the failboat!

And I too was woken up by the melodious croonings of Paul Simon. Hurray for Americans taking all the drugs!

duh no why he spaek up no duh emo lol

(Don't like his band, good on him for speaking up.)

no, plus MORE.

obvious gags here

Still digesting :)

He should probably reconsider running for New Labour, then.

favourite review of today.

Which is enough of a reason really :)

"Good to see the spirit of G.G. Allin is still alive and relevant today. Oops, sorry: when I said "relevant today" I meant "playing to three people in Newcastle pubs"."

That's probably unfair to Newcastle pubs and gigs they put on. Fuck off PfA.

And they'll put file downloaders in magical holding cells in cloud fortresses, a bit like the ones in Laputa except built by Capita.

And not win free stuffs?

Well, it would work if you were really lucky.

I was just being flippant. I haven't read the NME for years, it used to make me very angry. :)

So in all fairness, this is my fault & not theirs. Its. His.

The NME, eh.

It's healthy to have dreams, especially the one that you're still relevant.

And I'm pretty sure that video has Johnny from The Wire in it!

Wonder if they'll ever play Brighton again...

<3 Fucked Up

Year of the Pig is awesome - I think Rough Trade have copies of it still. That's where I got it from.

Also we have *two* piers. :)

I didn't listen, but I do like free stuff!

Radiohead did pretty well out of letting people opt to pay. IIRC they got £4-6 on average for each person who downloaded it. That average includes the people who paid nothing at all. So by offering it as a "free" download, they made more money on it than they would have done through the traditional label/distro/store route.

Wacky fun.

but okay.

"...completely loses, as punk today always does, its brains, its mind and its soul at the hands of a desire to prove that it has more balls van vat ovver geezer staring at me over der."

That's good, perhaps next week we can talk about how indie today is always a bunch of self-indulgent, limp-wristed cissy toss. Sounds equally accurate to me.

It's not great but it's not bad, & I quite liked getting to hear the Ruts (sort of) on Radio 1 on a Sunday afternoon.

Although fortunately they've yet to drift as far astray as Coheed & cocking Cambria.

I too am a fucking fool who never went to see 'em live.

I can finally specify why I hate the Eagles!