Innocent Bystander said about 1 month ago or at 11:15PM on Monday, November 24 2008.
this is not some sort of bitch session, but there are heaps of bands that are seemingly the bees knees at the moment, or just in general are out ther for all to marvel at.
However, sometimes I feel that their popularity or the amount of time I have to see or hear about them far out-wieghs how good they actually are.
Or, sometimes there's just band who irritate the shit our of you..
discuss
fuck buttons
holy fuck
i haven't heard fucked up yet because i'm afraid they'll complete the unholy trinity
It isn't? You could have fooled me.
haha. Well I guess it is then. But it's not about putting down some band cos their bass player is your ex. Hopefully.
For me, I just cant understand Block Party. There is not 1 song of theirs that I can recall. They are all devoid of any sort of catchyness or any redeeming feature.
Fucked Up are quite good. Holy Fuck are boring. Haven't heard Fuck Buttons.
Great thread!
Fuck Buttons have at least 1 or 2 good tracks.
Holy Fuck I havnt heard. arnt they supposed to be touring? Hope for their sake people turn up
who are Fucked Up?
Fuck Fucks were fun at least
I don't like the Cold Plays.
the arcade fire, los campesinos, vampire weekend, pivot...
see. I like Coldplay. I dont even mind Muse, that much. Travis piss me off
If Holy Fuck are cool, I like them because they're uncool.
How's that!
most of those ''Smell'' scene bands. style over substance and continuously fawned over by journalists in their early 20s trying to seem credible by making comparisons to those fuzzed out lowfi/c86 type bands of the mid-late 80s
examples: No Age/Vivian Girls/Times New Viking - lots of noise is sorta cool I guess but soon enough you realise the songs are devoid of any staying power Ponytail/Abe Vigoda - I don't care how much fun you pretend you're having the music's still shite and you can't sing either.
I listened to Bright Tomorrow by Fuck Buttons. It sounds like The Private Psychedelic Reel by The Chemical Brothers before the drums kick in. It's cool.
I like lovely allen by holy fuck.... the rest of the album is a bit filler-ish.
i'll prolly see holy fuck when they play live next month and have high hopes, but i still remain underwhelmed by them on record
fuck buttons aren't brutal enough to be good noise or melodic/danceable/interesting enough to be good as anything else so they add up to middling 'crossover'-friendly dullness
but I LOVE holy fuck!
expatriate
No Age are so horrible. It is my destiny to bash them up when they arrive here.
i bet you'll love them, batman4evs.
No, I'm gonna bash them up.
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Mr.Horse, please...we aren't too different, you and i. We just got off on the wrong foot. I know that the only success tangible is the satisfaction you get from whatever shitty noise you make and pass off as music yada yada yada, but when we're both working as Storemen at Big W, I bet it will grate just a little that we never got to make any money doing something that we like.
nah, bugsy. i think it's about taste and people not necessarily agreeing with each other. not enough fighting if you ask me.
we talkin bout practice
It's hip to be square.
+1 The Drones
baby brain are outsider. so they're ''cool'', right?
You're alright fishandfingerpie, you're alllllllright.
the fancy boys , theyre just total birthday party rip offs
inside outsider really
Stop it, Jaws are good!
RadioHead are an average band that every no taste tosser thinks is the greatest.
well said wons.
and while i wouldn't go so far as saying dislike, can i add eddy current as not quite living up to the enthusiasm they seem to engender?
agree with both monty
the fancyboys are the greatest rock n roll band in the world but
sacre bleu!
foo fighters
foo fighters are popular, but i dont think they fit the 'cool' title.
they still blow
yes they do.
most of the stuff that people on here carry on about for a year and then pretend like they never liked em....
good call mo, i totally agree with people who dislike qotsa, radiohead, little red, ecsr - just don't get the appeal. granted i hate sitting through bands let alone 'cool' gigs where people go to be seen, makes me feel like being stuck in a coffin.
add twee indie to that list
listening to the beatles, free Hare Krishna lentils.