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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 21, 2022 23:05:58 GMT
It's kind of how I feel about Kings of Leon tbh. First 3 albums were great and they just shat the bed massively from the fourth onwards. First two*. But yes Oh come on, Because of the Times has absolute great tracks. Charmer and Camaro are stand outs for me on that album. |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 21, 2022 23:07:48 GMT
Eurgh Razorlight. Johnny Borrel really was a one of a kind prick of that generation. That interview with the Metro is still one of my favourites.
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Post by Danno on Jan 21, 2022 23:08:18 GMT
They essentially invented the 2000's landfill indie on their own. Razorlight, Marmaduke Duke, The Fratellis, The Enemy, The Maccabees, The Wombats, The View, Little Man Tate, The Kooks and every post-Libertines act once the band broke up. What would we have done without guzzling that liquid hot bin juice in that decade witbout Coldplay directing them all? There's crossover with the horrible, horrible garage rock revival stuff as well. Easily the worst period of music in my lifetime. Nu-metal is probably 'worse', but at least it had a bit of vigour as well as being ironically entertaining. Yeah that was pretty fucking rough too. Witnessing the NME herald the 'new Sonic Youth/MC5/Mudhoney/whatever' every week was supremely irritating. I remember getting disproportionately enraged when they started promo'ing The Vines as the 'new Nirvana' around the same time |
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Post by Danno on Jan 21, 2022 23:09:38 GMT
Oh come on, Because of the Times has absolute great tracks. Charmer and Camaro are stand outs for me on that album. Yeah but that's all tbh. Plus Camaro is just Poundland Trani  |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 21, 2022 23:12:21 GMT
I mean yeah that period where every band with a 'The' in the name was a trying time. It was a like a conveyor belt of interchangeable bland middle class frontmen. Although I always like Bloc Party.
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Post by Danno on Jan 21, 2022 23:12:35 GMT
Oh come on, Because of the Times has absolute great tracks. Charmer and Camaro are stand outs for me on that album. That said, it's very likely that it's a record I've come to dislike more once I recognised it as the point where they switched from good to bleh. |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 21, 2022 23:13:17 GMT
Oh come on, Because of the Times has absolute great tracks. Charmer and Camaro are stand outs for me on that album. Yeah but that's all tbh. Plus Camaro is just Poundland Trani Hmmm, fuck, Trani is good. Shit I feel the need to turn on Four Kicks. |
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Post by clemfandango on Jan 21, 2022 23:13:28 GMT
If you want to know where the singer of kings of Leon copied his whole style from listen to master of sparks by zz top on the album tres hombre. It’s a great album too 👍
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Post by Danno on Jan 21, 2022 23:13:32 GMT
I mean yeah that period where every band with a 'The' in the name was a trying time. It was a like a conveyor belt of interchangeable bland middle class frontmen. Although I always like Bloc Party. Silent Alarm is brilliant |
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Post by Danno on Jan 21, 2022 23:16:12 GMT
Yeah but that's all tbh. Plus Camaro is just Poundland Trani Hmmm, fuck, Trani is good. Shit I feel the need to turn on Four Kicks. I saw it live (Trani)on the end of the Aha Shake Heartbreak tour and I think my mouth was open the entire time. It was astonishing |
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Post by clemfandango on Jan 21, 2022 23:16:38 GMT
Four kicks to be fair is an amazing track. How they went from that to use somebody is beyond me
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 23:18:51 GMT
I'm actually listening to Aha Shake Heartbreak now for the first time in years. Such a good album.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 21, 2022 23:19:22 GMT
Four kicks to be fair is an amazing track. How they went from that to use somebody is beyond me Because they wanted to capture that elusive market of the girls blocking everyone's view sitting on their bf's shoulders shouting "this song is about me!" |
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Post by Lizard on Jan 21, 2022 23:25:03 GMT
KoL have a couple of good tunes, but I have no idea how anyone can endure the singers' voice. It's so insanely horrible I have to turn them off after a few songs.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 21, 2022 23:27:29 GMT
KoL have a couple of good tunes, but I have no idea how anyone can endure the singers' voice. It's so insanely horrible I have to turn them off after a few songs. GET OUT |
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Post by clemfandango on Jan 21, 2022 23:30:19 GMT
KoL have a couple of good tunes, but I have no idea how anyone can endure the singers' voice. It's so insanely horrible I have to turn them off after a few songs. Listen to zz top master of sparks. His whole voice act is basically copying billy gibbons on that track |
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Post by mothercruncher on Jan 21, 2022 23:34:58 GMT
I went to see KoL early on, early enough that they were playing a sports centre in Gloucester. They came out and started with a growly rock yell of HELLOOOO GGLAAASTERRRRRRrrrrr and it took me a good couple of songs to get over that cognitive dissonance.
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Post by Danno on Jan 21, 2022 23:50:31 GMT
I'm actually listening to Aha Shake Heartbreak now for the first time in years. Such a good album. My absolute fave. I want King of the Rodeo played at my funeral else I will just up and leave |
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Post by Lizard on Jan 21, 2022 23:52:53 GMT
KoL have a couple of good tunes, but I have no idea how anyone can endure the singers' voice. It's so insanely horrible I have to turn them off after a few songs. GET OUT I will if you yelp it like the KoL singer. |
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Post by Danno on Jan 21, 2022 23:55:51 GMT
I will if you yelp it like the KoL singer. There was little, if any, yelping on the first 2-3 albums. They did go tits up after that but after hearing Sex on Fire the first time I pretty much cut ties |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 21, 2022 23:57:59 GMT
Mmm, yeah it was more mumbling as opposed to yelping. Now I'm remembering that piece of shit Radioactive.
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Post by Danno on Jan 22, 2022 0:02:59 GMT
I will if you yelp it like the KoL singer. GETTT OUUUUÙ-UUUUÙUT, YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 22, 2022 0:04:13 GMT
WEOW WOW WOWWWWWWW WEOW WOW WOWWWWWWWW
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Post by Danno on Jan 22, 2022 0:04:18 GMT
Mmm, yeah it was more mumbling as opposed to yelping. Now I'm remembering that piece of shit Radioactive. I always felt it was just very, very South USA, and then he started trying to hide that for some reason |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 22, 2022 0:08:58 GMT
Mmm, yeah it was more mumbling as opposed to yelping. Now I'm remembering that piece of shit Radioactive. I always felt it was just very, very South USA, and then he started trying to hide that for some reason Because all those girls on their bf's shoulders need to understand all those songs that are about them. |
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Post by clemfandango on Jan 22, 2022 0:09:55 GMT
I take it none of you have listened to master of sparks by zz top from 1975 yet?
That’s what bread that awful Caleb voice
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Post by dfunked on Jan 22, 2022 0:10:28 GMT
Radioactive snatches
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 22, 2022 0:12:28 GMT
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Post by Ulythium on Jan 22, 2022 0:19:00 GMT
I think the biggest tragedy of what NME called the New Acoustic Movement was that Snow Patrol opted to go down that route. Their first two albums (1998 and 2001) are genuinely good, Pavement-influenced indie rock affairs; then Coldplay became huge, and Snow Patrol's third album (2003) seemed like a cynical, calculated take on Martin-esque arena-ready schmaltz. They never looked back.
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Post by Danno on Jan 22, 2022 0:20:05 GMT
I always felt it was just very, very South USA, and then he started trying to hide that for some reason Because all those girls on their bf's shoulders need to understand all those songs that are about them. glol'd. Nice one |
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