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1st Step of Recovery Is Admitting Your Problem

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by oceanRain
Hello, my name is Rain (sniff) and I'm part of the Chris Martin fan club.

*DiSers clap unenthusiastically*

And I just don't get Fiery Furnances.... *sobs*

DiS. "Er, thanks for sharing."

It's OK. Admit your failings. We're here to help.
oceanRain | 12 May '05, 16:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I find apres-Bends Radiohead interesting but unengaging
*eeek!*

I can't understand the fuss about Interpol
*Yikes*

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I think The Clash are over-rated. Not sure that's a failing though, but your post looked lonely

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Well, I do like Killers and Razorlight and I´m not shamed of it, oh yeah

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I too think the Clash are overrated - London Calling = meh.

I also think the Who are terrible, terrible shit. (Although Keith Moon was the exception)

I think Pet Sounds is a mediocre album at best.

Post-rock a la Mogwai & Slint is dull dull dull.

I really like Steely Dan. And Queen.


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Pet Sounds is over-rated. I find it hard to listen to when there's any alternative AT ALL available to me, including the radio. Commercial radio even.

I've got no love for Jeff Buckley. His voice is annoying.



(This thread rocks)

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Anti Pet Sounds alert!

I agree. In the words of Jerry Seinfeld*: 'What's the deal with Pet Sounds?'


*maybe

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"Post-rock a la Mogwai & Slint is dull dull dull. "

Kleeb, that's probably because you're missing the subtleties in post-rock, the ebb and flow in the construction of the music. You probably need something as facile as singing and choruses and verses to like a song. Hehehe.

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Hmm, was going to stick some mogwai on your mixtape...

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I think Razorlight are damn good.

I don't think Keane are half as bad as they're made out to be on here, they're just boring.

I liked the Libs and I'm probably going to buy the Babyshambles album.

I think the Mars Volta are worse than the Noise Next Door.

And, I'm not at all ashamed of any of the things I said!

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I am making my assumption re Mogwai from owning & trying to 'get' Young Team. I did hear one track from Happy Songs for Happy People which kind of had a cartoon animal video & that was pretty cool. SO maybe it's possible I could be converted....but I just find it too.....boring....:-p

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They may not make it on the mixtape anyway, all their songs are too bloody long!

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Well I'm currently eyeing up an 8 minute song & a 10 minute song for yours.....is that too much?!!

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Not at all, just trying to decide on whether 11 admittedly repetitive minutes (im really selling mogwai to you here) might not be better spent on something else, particularly when i was uncertain whether you'd like mogwai before i even read that comment above.

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Ha ha see what you mean!! I think I'll stick the long tunes on & make up for it with a couple of v. short tunes. It's difficult this mixtape business!!

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I hate f*cking Franz and thought Editors were uninspiring. Does that make me *good* or *bad*?

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I can quite happily listen to albums by The Game and Jay-Z, and be as happy as if I was listening to some uber-cool indie music.

Trout Mask Replica just sounds like a drunk man falling into some bins to me.

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*stomp... stomp... stomp...*

Why is my glass of water vibrating?
Oh my God, it's JDTraynor! We've wandered into its territory, just stay perfectly still...

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I actually hate everything i've said i liked on this and really like pop and gangsta-rap. This was all just a ploy to look cool.

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I really like Girls Aloud.

*ducks*

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Girls Aloud AND Jay Z are both good. No shame in the game. Shame in THE Game though. Yikes.

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it's not for his insightful views on modern life. It's for the beats, which are far from shameful. Except for that single, that stinks.

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Scatman by Scatman John is probably my favourite song at the moment. Just listen to him scat! Mindblowing stuff.

I also love Jive Bunny. I am proud of this.

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We went to a friend's wedding in Doncaster a few years ago and judging by the way the DJ had premixed most of the stuff he was playing I am sure it was the Jive bunny man.

It was quite fun watching him pretend to be mixing when you could see he was still playing the same CD but it sounded exactly like Jive Bunny. Or maybe Jive Bunny was his mate and lent him the CDs, who can say.

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Some weeks you'd go to Trash (back in the day when it was playing music I liked) and Erol wouldn't fuck up a change between records.

On those nights I always assumed he'd pre-mixed his set to MD and was running it under the counter! :D

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the jive bunny is indeed from Doncaster - he ranks alongside saxon as the towns great contributions to music.

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Nothing wrong with Jay-Z!

Get the Grey Album if you like the Black Album, its brilliant :)

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Whenever I expect/want an argument about something I post no-one ever responds

I guess my opinions aren't opinionated enough - that's my DiS failing - I'll try better next time

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Oh, I'm sorry Anschul. Did you say something?

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I like Alien Ant Farm alot.




...there I said it.

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For some reason i like that "this shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S" bit in the gwen stefani song. And i think "cry me a river" by Justin Timberlake is superb. Otherwise i'm a reasonably well adjusted member of society.

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*Stands up*
MynameisPsycheandIlikeSnowPatrol and since it has come to my attention that some of you are stroking guns and holding bats I'll see myself out
*Runs...fast*

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But there's nothing wrong with liking Mr TImberlake surely?

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He seems a nice guy. Now if only he'd record a track that's half-decent I might consider his music worth the bother.

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Hi everyone, my name's Kevin.

I like lots of bands that have a reputation for dullness. Keane especially, but also Thirteen Senses and Snow Patrol.

I sometimes feel very out of my depth with all you hipsters on DiS. I don't dislike the really cool bands, I just haven't heard much or any of their stuff.

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Keep coming back, Kevin. Works if you work it.

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I don't get the Fiery Furnaces either.

I like the Libertines.

I think Oasis are the best British band of the last 15 years.

Interpol bore me.

I'm sorry! *Breaks down in tears*

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Interpol are so overrated it hurts.

Phil Collins has more talent in his little finger. Fact.

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(I do quite like them though)

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You mean the drummer of the Phil Collins 3 has more talent etc etc....?

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If it makes you happy :)

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At the drive-in bore me (and before you start, I've heard relatonship of command).

The pixies are a bit of a laugh but not to be taken seriously.

I quite like the libertines, and the music, and the zutons, and the coral and I really like Sleeper.

I also maintain the Dark Side of the Moon is the best Pink Flloyd album.

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"Some weeks you'd go to Trash (back in the day when it was playing music I liked) and Erol wouldn't fuck up a change between records.
On those nights I always assumed he'd pre-mixed his set to MD and was running it under the counter! :D"

Really Theo put your posts at the end. Tchh!

I only went to Trash once and I hated quite literally everything about it so much I've never been back since. They probably don't want the likes of me there anyway.

Oh god Sleeper, I'd blanked them out of my mind. Unfortuately I have to confess to having liked them back in the day. Gah.

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Yeah, but then I'd have to scroll to the top to click the reply and crap. I find this message board highly confusing to read through! It needs an OVERHAUL!!

Anyhoo...

Trash was great when it started at Plastic People (97ish?) I thought. Then the second venue was kind of where it all began to change and now it's at The End it's just too much, though Rory's second room offerings always used to be cool.

I know Erol through mutual school mates and in those days used to go out with them a lot so the club was fun for reasons aside from music.

I think 'inbetweener' still sounds pretty good, much as I'd like to claim coolness! :-D

I have a complete Dire Straits collection from years back somewhere at home. I still quite like the first two albums when I occasionally put them on while visiting mum's place. :-/

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DSOTM IS the best Pink Floyd album. That's not a confession, that's just the truth.

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Talent maybe.

Song writing ability: no.

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I have a worrying love for britpop, especially girl fronted bands. Sleeper, elastica, echobelly, kenickie, i love them all unashamedly.

Is this wrong?

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me too, except louise wiener got so irritating i had to start hating sleeper. And that horrible concept of girl fronting ugly boy backing band, yuk. Same as Salad. God I'd forgotten about them too. Eek!

I don't know why, but I've got a good idea, that we'll meet again some day

Etc

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i dont get the subtilties in post-rock either i guess.
i jus cant appreciate 3 mins of the same three notes being strummed. maybe its having a pulse that does it

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I saw Salad live in Manchester at the Roadhouse in '97 or something I guess. I enjoyed it a lot. Oh dear.

3 mins of the same chord doesn't sound like any post-rock I listen to...

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i didnt say chords, i said notes.
and by post-rock, i mean like Mogwai and Mono, not stuff like Dirty Three or GY!BE, or smaller bands like The Exploits of Elaine and Lyca Sleep, who actually have more to their music than pedal changes

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Oh fuck yeah, i'd forgotten about salad.

Another one (although i never liked them)who got lumped in under them same banner:

Catatonia.

Ceyrs' singing (if you can call it that) was a crime against music.

Actually went to see echobelly on their recent tour. It was erm 'interesting'.

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Echobelly not so good any more, eh? I've got their first 3 albums and still listen to the first one quite a lot. It's probably one of my fave albums ever, actually. ooh, another confession!

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Catatonia, Salad, Echobelly...
... that was a good time !

I'll admit to like Embrace and even to have seen them live twice ( in Paris, there was 80 people ).

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And like Kevin before, i actually listen to Thirteen Senses.
And i have the Jeevas albums !

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is my memory all wrong, or was the girl from Salad quite tasty? Red hair? they had one song that mentioned Federico Fellini, but pronounced it 'Fred Fellini'? Am I on the right tracks?

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Yeah she was a model turned TV presenter or the other way round or something wasn't she? It just served to highlight the extreme ugliness of the rest of the blokes in the band even more.

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Yes, she was tasty.
Funny thing is that new band The Little Flames sounds a lot like Salad ( which is good ).

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Bollocks, i could have seen little flames on tuesday, if someone had told me they sounded like salad i'd probably have gone.

:(

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I'm sure you can still buy their very good first single 'goodbye little rose'.

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Its just been added to my list of things to buy...

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When I first heard the Little Flames single earlier this year I thought, Oh my goodness, is this a Salad song I've not heard before?

Marijna Van der Vlugt was the Salad singer's name and I thought she was a fine looking lady as well.

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Yes, that is the fantastic "Diminished Clothes." Salad probably pioneered this gorgeous female vocalist/three mingin blokes band set up, a set up that is crying out to be re-created. Women are usually better at the thrashy punk thing than blokes - Kenix, Period Pains, X Ray Spex, Bette Davis and the Balconettes, Valerie, Erase Errata, Zombina, Bis, Helen Love - I could go on. And look at the Fall - superb band with Smith's current wife/girlfriend always augmenting the line providing the tripped out keyboard bashings.

I do listen to Radio 2 and SAGA though. Wogan is better than Moyles anyday (though you probably guessed this) and SAGA is good if I need a Carpenters fix. Strike three!

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Hello, my name is Aidan and I like Marillion, U2, Coldplay, Pink Floyd and Saint Etienne.

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'I'm Barney and i'm an alcoholic'

"Mr Gumble this is a girl scout meeting."

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I really like Sleeper, and Wener's books. She's a really really good writer, in a sub-Nick hornby, dorothy parker pop type way. In fact fuck it, i'm not vaguely ashamed about that one, If she looked as feminine as the nme cover-boys you'd all be worshiping

however, i do like the first stereophonics album (in a hardly listen to it but appreciate when i do way). As in, reckon its about as good as say, Grace, or any other (deservedly) critically acclaimed, but slightly mentally hyped work.


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substitute feminine with effeminate (and spell it properly, probably)

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'I'm Barney and i'm an alcoholic'

"Mr Gumble this is a girl scout meeting."

"maybe, or is it just that you girls can't admit that you have a problem."

chuckle.


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I like coldplay, and many other bands which most "hardcore" people would wretch in horror at. I am who i am *sigh*

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I love Coldplay, I can't wait for the album.

I also like Counting Crows in a big, big way.

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i like ska. third-wave-men-in-hawaiian-shorts ska makes me happy.

*hides under the table*

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the only ska I've dabbled with has been slightly dodgy american punk ska like Less Than Jake. is that what we're talking about here?

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yes. i own seven or eight less than jake albums.
they're not dodgy! they're actually really good.

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err yeah, I agree... actually, Borders And Boundaries may well be one of my favourite albums of the last half-decade. 'Last Hour Of The Last Day' makes me extremely happy

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yeah borders and boundaries is probably their best album. although their older stuff is great, too.
i saw them live last year, and it is definitely the Best Gig I Have Ever Been To.

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I think that's what she's referring to. 1st wave ska is Jamaican 50's/60's gear, 2nd Wave is Coventry/London 80's gear, 3rd Wave American 90's/00's gear.
Personally I love the Specials, Madness, Bad Manners etc a la 2nd wave of ska. Lip up fatty!!

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oh, don't get me wrong, i love all ska.
the specials, selecter, skatalites, bodysnatchers, bad manners, rico etc. i love it. just that third wave stuff is more catchy and i probably like it a little bit more.