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Post by o on Sept 29, 2017 19:40:43 GMT 1
Stereophonics were one of my first favourite bands; I couldn't stop listening to "Performance and Cocktails" when I was about 14 and I really loved their debut as well. Then "Just Enough Education to Perform" came out and apart from maybe one or two decent songs I hated it. Didn't like "Dakota" either. I haven't bought a record of theirs in ages! Graffiti on the train was excellent!
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Post by Smurfie on Sept 29, 2017 20:22:09 GMT 1
I disagree with Katy Perry - her current album I find is her best.
Pixies - no interest with their new material Belly - file above - though Star is absolutely brilliant Morrissey - all downhill since Vauxhall and I.
PSB have blips but remain consistent. Madonna is just a one track per album reasonably decent. Britney went to wading through sludge.
In reverse Steps.
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Post by raliverpool on Sept 29, 2017 20:51:32 GMT 1
Stephen Patrick Morrissey. Both musically, and certainly as a disgusting human being. I haven't listened to the new one yet. The last album that ended up getting removed from everywhere had its moments and he's had poor moments before then got better. I don't like calling him a "disgusting human being", just that "big mouth strikes again" is certainly a good way to sum up some of the things he says. Morrissey laments the failed assassination attempt on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher after the Brighton hotel bombing. "The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed." (1984) His infamous NME interview "Blacks & whites will never get along because they don't have the same level of intelligence" (1991) At Coachella festival "The smell of burning animals is making me sick. I can smell burning flesh . . . and I hope to God it's human." (2009) Two days after Anders Breivik's massacre of 77 people in Norway, Morrissey on stage in Warsaw, Poland said "The killings were "nothing compared to what happens in McDonald's and Kentucky Fried sh*t every day." (2009) When asked about an incident in which an Australian student shot a starting pistol at the Prince of Wales, Morrissey responds, "I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place." (1994) In a Spanish TV interview in a heated conversation with the legendary mild mannered Nile Rodgers talking about dance music and all music of black origin "It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people." (1992) Discussing animal cruelty in China, Morrissey tells The Guardian, "You can't help but feel that the Chinese people are a subspecies." (2010) In an open letter to his fan club, Morrissey rips into the "blustering jingoism" of the London Olympics, comparing the mood in the U.K. to Nazi Germany. "The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hijacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press. . . The spirit of 1939 Germany now pervades throughout media-brand Britain." (2012) "2016: Trump & Brexit, the results were magnificent.β (Radio 6 Music interview, today) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- As I frequently do I will just quote the late David Bowie (paraphrasing Ann Widdecombe's observation on Michael Howard) on the former Smiths frontman: "There is something of the Enoch Powell about him". PS. Well done to Annie Clark (St. Vincent) for withdrawing from next week's Radio 6 Music Live series of concerts, after finding out and refusing to share the bill with Morrissey.
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Post by raliverpool on Sept 29, 2017 20:53:34 GMT 1
Pixies - no interest with their new material A case of "Deal, or no Deal"
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Post by Hupin on Sept 30, 2017 9:55:32 GMT 1
For me, Coldplay are nowhere near the band they used to be. I loved Parachutes and Rush Of Blood To The Head, then really liked X&Y, but since then I haven't even bothered listening to a full album
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 1, 2017 11:10:00 GMT 1
Irony with Coldplay is the worse their music became the more it sold
Good branding. Good image. Good industry links and money behind it. They kind of just massively sold out in the end to prelomg their fame by a few year
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Post by Whitneyfan on Oct 1, 2017 12:25:31 GMT 1
Apart from Yellow and In My Place, I used to really hate Coldplay when they first came out and everyone was raving about them. I just thought they were too depressing and melancholy for me. Over the years I have come to appreciate them a lot more.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 2, 2017 2:09:20 GMT 1
In 2003 I walked out of their headline set after about 4 songs at T in The Park. I was never a fan of their faux melancholy indie. I just didn't believe it, they are rich public school boys, had everything including a 12k a term education and went to Uni in London. Within a year or so he started dating Gwynyth Paltrow. What's he got to be melancholy about?
I did rather like the singles in the middle of their career in bits and pieces when they evolved into their own style and even enjoyed their first crossover dancey poppy efforts but then it's like they have just chased whatever made them the most coin i couldnt name you anything they have done for atleast 5 year but it sells bucket loads
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 2, 2017 9:33:14 GMT 1
Radiohead when they decided tunes were a thing of the past with their Kid A album.
Ditched them for Muse.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Oct 2, 2017 11:24:31 GMT 1
I liked Radiohead for the Creep song alone.... I haven't liked a single thing they've done since then!
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 2, 2017 11:42:33 GMT 1
"Just" is now my favourite song by them. It was a single around the time of the Blur vs Oasis battle and in my chart was stuck a few places behind those, and Alanis Morissette was #1 ahead of both of those at the time. That was the time we were spoilt for good music in the charts.
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Post by TheThorne on Oct 2, 2017 12:13:36 GMT 1
βJustβ is my favourite as well and brilliant video
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Post by borneoman on Oct 2, 2017 14:27:57 GMT 1
couldn't disagree more bout Radiohead, they totally changed their sound with kid-a they reinvented themselves, evolved and changed into something even better, which a rare thing in music, it was something brave and if you don't like the new direction, that's your loss, at least they didn't keep repeating themselves, which is what 80% of the rock bands do (Keane, Oasis, etc)
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Post by Hupin on Oct 2, 2017 19:30:49 GMT 1
I do love Radiohead (I class them as one of my favourite bands of all time and loved seeing them live) and I'm one of those people that still listen to Kid A and Amnesiac. Though I do completely understand why it wouldn't appeal to most people's ears and would never try to tempt someone round to them if they said they don't like them
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Post by greendemon on Oct 3, 2017 10:31:10 GMT 1
I like old indie Radiohead and post-OKC Radiohead. They are one of the few bands for me who have successfully reinvented their sound and come out of it at least as good as they were before.
My favourite album is The Bends but my favourite track of theirs is Pyramid Song (which is actually from one of their less impressive albums...)
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 3, 2017 11:05:40 GMT 1
I went to see Radiohead with Hupin not long after Glasto and they were brilliant. I only like 4 or 5 songs post ok computer until their latest album which is a lot less experimental
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 3, 2017 19:12:26 GMT 1
I'm not sure I'd say Morrissey had disgusting morals, I think he is more a performance art work, like a black-hearted Gilbert & George. After all there's not much consistency in his opinion.
Anyway. Another one. Paul Weller. The Jam, once they hit their stride, were brilliant; their last few singles were masterpieces. The Style Council started with a great single and then got worse and worse. And now Weller is basically in all filler mode.
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