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Re: Bands that keep getting better

If we can have bands the kept getting better...

The Beatles
Joy Division

Otherwise, I'd say...well... I actually can't think of any... oh well.

wrightylew | 30 Jul '05, 21:02 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I take it you're ignoring the fact that JD became NO, and in the process became utterly bolllocks? Or do you think NO are better?

homesick_alien | 30 Jul '05, 21:07 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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No I didn't mean that at all. As the band - Joy Division, they got better as their career progressed. New Order I see as a completely different band. I know its just one man, but... well my rating explains it all.

"Jet Stream Lover, WOO!"

wrightylew | 30 Jul '05, 21:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Ah right, yeah, I agree, new order are terrible. Though NO still see themselves as essentially the same band, at least that's what they said in an interview I read. meh...

homesick_alien | 30 Jul '05, 21:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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In the book about Ian Curtis, his wifes says that apparently they had a discussion and decided that if one of them were too die them they would carry on but under a different name, which is what they've done...and why they do some much Joy Division stuff live.

IranDIS | 30 Jul '05, 21:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Yeah, I read that.

Its a shame though. Hearing lil' fat Bernard trying to go deep enough to get Transimission. He ends up just going into his throat.

Its like the Beatles going on without Lennon, but making it twice as bad (Paul and George could sing).

wrightylew | 30 Jul '05, 21:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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the beatles were on the up until let it be, which isn't very good at all, and abbey road, which sounds like a disjointed collection of solo songs, and all of the macca ones are pretty awful.

Jamie_Summers | 30 Jul '05, 23:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Caribou - each new album he bashes out sounds like a debut

homesick_alien | 30 Jul '05, 21:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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totallly totally toyaly

alsi: blur

quietcrown | 30 Jul '05, 21:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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two words:

auteurs / haines.

andrewfartwasher | 30 Jul '05, 21:21 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Muse
Longwave

Acquiescence | 30 Jul '05, 21:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Agreed on Longwave.
New album is suprisingly good.

But i think Muse just keep getting more nad more boring...

lyle | 30 Jul '05, 21:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I cant understand how anyone can thing Muse are boring.

I really really can't. We must have completely different genetic stock in our ears.

frankiegoestostoke | 30 Jul '05, 21:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Definitely !

I really liked the first album.
But the last one...

lyle | 30 Jul '05, 21:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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You've got it the wrong way round man! The first one was standard Radiohead copyist stuff with 5 really good songs padded out with filler. However Origin Of Symmetry was a giant leap forward into masterpiece territory and Absolution just followed. Still glad to hear you like Longwave's There's A Fire. What are your fav tracks on it?

Acquiescence | 30 Jul '05, 21:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The first Muse album was ok. Kind of straight up indieish stuff. But the market is full of bands that sound like Showbiz era Muse.

Nothing sounds like Muse do now.

frankiegoestostoke | 30 Jul '05, 21:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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^^^^^^^^
what he said

andrewfartwasher | 30 Jul '05, 21:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Haven't listen to the new Longwave album enough ( too many new albums... ) to have favourite tracks yet, but it's a big improvement for them.
I completely agreed that Muse first album was unoriginal, but since them, they have become nearly unlistenable ( IMHO ).
And they were awful live when i see them.

lyle | 30 Jul '05, 21:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Super Furry Animals have a tendancy to shit on their last fantastic album with whatever they do next.

I think Blur do too, but not to the same extent
*awaits abuse*

and Belle and Sebastian

StavrotheHamster | 30 Jul '05, 22:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Statistics
Interpol
Elbow
Glassjaw

HeartbrokenStar | 30 Jul '05, 23:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Not really a band but Omar and Cedric, ATD-I, good stuff, 1st Mars Volta album - great, 2nd Mars Volta album - equally/maybe more so, greatS

Sigur Ros
The Icarus Line

smallpox_champion | 30 Jul '05, 23:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Tool....well...only like Lateralus so does that count?

ISIS

less_than_zero | 30 Jul '05, 23:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Forward Russia for sure

stubryce | 30 Jul '05, 23:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Green Day
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mcfly

Martbowski | 30 Jul '05, 23:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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cedric and omar peaked with the 1st MV album in my opinion. the second one was far too wanky as were the coinciding tour. i walked out of the brixton gig 10 minutes early so i didnt have to catch a late train, which shows how little i was bothered, especially compared to their immense first album show at reading, which was up to that point one of the greatest live shows i thought i'd ever seen.

Jamie_Summers | 30 Jul '05, 23:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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What?

I was at the Manchester gig and it was the best fucking thing I have ever seen. Who wants to go to a gig and listen to songs as they are on the album? You might as well just not bother.

thunder_cat | 31 Jul '05, 00:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeh but the first album is better than the second because as well the tunes being extremely intricate and clever they also had some sense of structure, rathere than being a solid mass of pure wankery with no sense of control. didnt someone interesting say its all about the notes you don't play, rather than the oens you could? 2 hours of pure solos just did my head in.

Jamie_Summers | 31 Jul '05, 00:10 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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oh and 4 of the people who i know went to the same gig, all agree and thought the mars volta were a lot better on the first album tours. so nyer.

Jamie_Summers | 31 Jul '05, 00:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I would say the first album is better, but I wouldn't call their live tour a display of wankery. Admittedly on Frances the Mute I got bored listening to four minutes of birdsong at the end of L'Via L'arquez (or whatever). But seeing how they could develop music live off the top of their heads was amazing.

thunder_cat | 31 Jul '05, 00:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Plus I also went to the Manchester gig with four other people who shared my point of view. So nyer back. ;-)

thunder_cat | 31 Jul '05, 00:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yes but my friends are cooler than your friends. one of them is sri lanka, like M.I.A. thus i W.I.N.

Jamie_Summers | 31 Jul '05, 00:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yes she's not from sri lanka, but the entire country personified, before you reply with a witty answer! touche!

Jamie_Summers | 31 Jul '05, 00:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Well, one of my friends is Turkish just like... erm...

Kemal?

thunder_cat | 31 Jul '05, 00:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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A Silver Mt Zion constantly impress me. Every lp is very progressive in its music style and the incorporation of singing into all the tracks makes them even tighter as a band in their own right. Every release of theirs is highly anticipated and never disapointing.

I also lost interest in Muse after Showbiz. I almost fell asleep watching Belamy masturbate the keys at Glasto 04.

Over and Out.

flackcaptain | 31 Jul '05, 00:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yup.

Edb1 | 31 Jul '05, 00:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Radiohead.

Thom_fa | 31 Jul '05, 00:21 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I was waiting for someone to say Radiohead.

The Mars Volta - well, Cedric and Omar, peaked on the first album. The second one was just too wanky and self indulgent. It was a good album but it lost itself among attempts to pad out songs for longer than they had to. And live, they're great, but they've lost the rabid energy they used to have, the Electric Ballroom was a classic show - the Brixton shows, while good, were not.

dis-integration | 31 Jul '05, 11:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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