uggggh

Interesting logic there...

:-)

the cover reminds me of the cover of Blur's 13 - not sure why....

http://allmusic.galeon.com/caratulas/b/blur13.jpg

9/11 to the end of Plan B? You did, didn't you?

Just checking....

But yeah, a shame about Plan B....sorry to see it go.

Whats 'pervs people' according to my last post?
Apart from a good name for a dance troupe....

"The aim of the session will be to heighten the 200 attendees' senses into 'feeling' the music rather than just hearing it."

So there won't be any pervs people feeling people up in there, definitely not. Oh no.

but the Bon Iver comment:

"Maybe it’s that they’re basically just boring yuppie music."

Oh. Do. Shut. Up.

Master & Everyone, Superwolf & Bonnie Prince Billy Sings, I really don't get where your ears are at.

I think Master & Everyone, in particular, is a startling intimate, subtle and beautiful record.

But anyways...each to their own. Saying that I've never thought "I See a Darkness" is his best album and that is apparently an opinion which is illegal in indie circles....

Spot on about Ease Down The Road mind....oft ignored that album....

Not fascinating, just good sense - dare I say it - good business sense.

I believe the phrase is 'Adapt or Die'

But yeah, great band - great label.

that Warp didn't get in touch with you to find out if you were happy with them signing Maximo Park.

Really weird.
You'd think it would be high on their priorities wouldn't you...

Listen to Radio 1 for three hours, that issue will be remedied for you pretty quick.

Morning!

don't work from the email that is sent out, either the page is blank or there is now way of resetting your password.

I only know this as I thought I'd test it. Because I'm pedantic.

Honestly.

they had cancelled all dates I wouldn't have minded.

But all of them BUT London.....

Twats!

Saying that I've never listened to them so....

I'm sure they're lovely.

http://wordpress.thequietus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/robb11.jpg

But yeah looks good,

Looks like there might be a few unyieldy links in there.

But good work...

dumbass...

that Joanna Newsom article of a couple of years back, but not quite.

Great band though.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXshpwRaLwI

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"despite knowing how they’re supposed to be a great live act I’m still surprised by how much I enjoy the set. "
annoyed me as a sentence and as an idea.

I'm not even sure why.

But whenever I hear Lamar on the radio I go:

"Lame-ar"

Which sounds like....

Hence my comment, and remember, first impressions last (80's-90's ad reference...)

But you know if they've spent the time to write 19 minute songs you'd think they'd think of a name that doesn't sound just like a bland soul singer that has sold a shed loads of records.

By the review though, they sound really good.

Like it matters huh?

haven't thought their band name through at all.....

the reaction and outrage relating to this reminds me why I pretty much don't like anyone or anything.

It really doesn't fucking matter.

morning!

This is because:

Its a fucking great album BUT because of all the other stuff Reis has done it will be compared to all of them and given a slightly lesser mark than it deserves.

So in summary, its fucking great.

Not in the slightest.

It's always difficult to suggest tone when you write on these things ain't it? I'm probably sounding more aggressive than I intend.

"You don't sign to EMI because you want to make music"
That's just as deluded, some bands sign to majors so they can afford to make music as well as shift units, which will mean they can carry on being able to afford making music. Remember Radiohead were on EMI until recently, yeah they left disgruntled, but they still signed and had a lot of good things to say about the people they worked with there. Besides I don't think anyone would describe Kid A as a radio friendly unit shifter....
But sure, you're right. Whatever. All bands signed to major labels are exactly the same. All of them.

But fuck it. We could probably go into a massive roundabout discussion about all of this so there's not really much point.

But I still stand by what I said about the first line of the review. Its just pointless and slightly vindictive.

Oh, and about the Westlife thing. Seriously I had to listen to a whole album the other day. It actually kind of hurt, I felt exhausted by it.

"I'd also wager that the audience (or target-market) for Coldplay crosses over rather largely with that for Westlife. What are you going to do about it?"

What I meant by it was that Westlife's music is made as product to sell to people whereas regardless of what people think Coldplay do make music because they like making music, they've been making populist anthem music since they started, it just happened to get popular and is coincidentally good product to sell. Be that a good or a bad thing I don't know....

Anyway, I'm not being personal I just thought it was a shit review. And if that makes me pedantic, well damn, then that's what I am.

*makes note to send "well damn, that's what I am" to Chris Martin as a lyric proposal*

"Gone are the days when you could identify a drummer by both his style of play and the sound of his kit, never mind being able to identify what model of guitar someone is playing from its tone."

Massive inaccurate generalisation ahoy!

"At one point on Coldplay's fourth album, Chris Martin, millionaire rockstar and male-bride of Oscar-winning Hollywood stalwart Gwyneth ‘homeopathy’ Paltrow, "

Review the fucking ALBUM.

Which I agree he goes on to have a crack at, but what a fucking pointless thing to put at the start. We all know this and have our opinions of it, but if wanted snidey comments about personalities I'd fucking read Heat.

I don't even like Coldplay and this annoyed me....

anyway....

no actually, this is a terrible review, I just re-read it. This has been written with pre-conceived ideas and opinions and absolutely no objectivity whatsoever. This can all be summed up by the line:
"music for people who don't like music"

You can say a lot about Coldplay but that's just inaccurate. Have you ever heard a Westlife album in its entirety? Until you have, you have no idea what "music for people who don't like music" even means.

"It may have sounded like an interminable fuzz-drone waiting to kick in to some of my ‘uncultured’ peers"

is an annoying way to defend Fuck Buttons.

They're just over-rated, its fuck all to do with being cultured....

Round about the age of 12.

Also for a band who hate press...is it just me or are they e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e.

Anyway, still love 'em though....

yeah get the knuckledusters out for that one....

T'was only kidding.

Besides us kids of today we know punk rock man, we know craziness.

The other day yeah, I like totally forgot to turn the sound limiter on my ipod yeah? And I like started up and it was well loud, like really proper loud. So loud that someone looked at me on the bus and I was like "yeah, what" so he looks at me all like "whatever" so I kind of stood up and he didn't, so I like totally pwned him yeah?

So in many ways our experiences are the same.

But in summary I think the main reason for my slightly pissy remark earlier was that this article combines two of my pet hates: Lists and reviews of stuff that are just about the reviewer not what their reviewing. So I wrote it to see if I could annoy you a littletinywinkly bit.

Aren't I the big arse...

"At the end of the gig my best friend Stu had his T-shirt ripped off, his trousers ripped off. He was just stood there in his black briefs and DMs with blood pouring out of his nose and down his chest. Another friend got knocked unconscious and one of our party had bad concussion for a week. I was very flexible due to the amount of Special Brew I used to eat in those days and quite floppy. I didn't sustain any injury and had a thoroughly good gig."

I hope his wonderful glasses with the rose-tints were equally undamaged.

Shame about the mentally ill guy sat on it.

of the music from the original Terminator movie.

But in a good way.