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Drowned in sound are total wankers

Drowned in sound are complete wankers, posing as a 'friendly' and 'helpful' alternative to the NME. Many bands are featured on here, some great, many crap and some that are obviously of no consequence whatsoever. However, for some reason Dis have got something against bands promoting themselves on this site which is surely the whole point of the exercise, isn't it? It just seems to me that Dis are just like NME but without the Kudos, salary or status. Total fucking wankers that promote their own shit bands with names a child could have come up with. You are all a bunch of Savage Garden wannabe mutha-fuckers and I hope you burn in hell with Dolf De Datsun and all the other non-entitys currently clogging up the student digs around this fine isle.

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You had a vague point up untill you dissed Dolf. Who do you like then? Fiver says ur a fucking Manics fan or something

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MASTURBATION IS NOT A CRIME

But that's beside the point... are you just some bitter band that we've not had time to review the demo of? Believe it or not, we can't review EVERY demo that comes in. Imagine how much we get that is utter shit and then treble that number. Then realise that 1 in every 50 demoes is remotely good and that listening to the other 49 is mostly like torture, especially when half the bands don't include proper contacts, have gross artwork and end up splitting up by the time we find the descent demoes.

Or do you mean that we don't write news stories about every band that plays the bull'n'gate or does a 3-date tour of the highlands? Just cus a band has a single out, doesn't mean we have to write a "news" story because "news" has to be something that IS "news" to more than a few people to warrant the time and effort.

If I hadn't been drinking coffee you'd not of got a rise from me but i can type effortlessly.

Time for another wank I think.
Sean

hmmmmmm....

Ok... i know i said i was a bit gutted i didnt get a review from DiS... but that was outta respect and i wasnt complaining..just saying...BUTTTTT, i come to this message board and all i see is people slagging this web site down!!!... whats it all about?... if u dont like what these guys do then dont come here...right?

chill out

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um...you see that box up the top of the screen? the one with the 'X' inside it? press it once and your problems will be solved

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It's always such a pleasure to read and take part in a well articulated, reasoned and concise discussion. Keep those toys in your pram, dude, and keep your purile, pathetic pre-school tantrums to yourself. Get a life, and take the advice of those around you: If you don't like it here, go somewhere else. Unless you like being all "sixth-form angsty". I'm guessing that's half the problem though, right? Your crap sixth-form band got dissed, or even worse, ignored? Well, go and cry to mummy, cos she can give you a cuddle to make it all better. As for "Savage Garden wannabe[s]"? "Savage Henry": casting stones a little too close to home n'est pas? I believe it may actually be you and your "special" friends who have more in common with the Garden in question... Oh, please don't send your big brother round to sort me out, just stop chucking toys and get on with your sad little life. There-there little Snookums, it's alright now, all those nasty boys and girls have gone now. Poor little baby...

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i almost cut my jugular open earlier while shaving, that kinda sucked

DiS, however, doesn't. If you want to promote yourself as a band, hit our Announcements Board and do so...

ollie.


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"I'm in a band called the Good Urchins and we are influenced by Nirvana, Pumpkins, Del Amitri and Entombed. We will be doin some local gig around burnley in the summer time... looking for record contract."

You could leave a message like that or maybe just not bother. Record companies dont use it, nor does anyone that reads the postings care. What good is leaving an announcement on the announcements board when its read coldly by practically no-one?

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Come on then, what should we do instead? Flood the news section about one-off gigs and bands recording demo's?

We don't have a paid team to sit and write about everything for a start - because believe it or not writing about 400 unsigned bands a week would be a bit of a chore.

AND we can't let bands have free-run to use dis to publicise their own bands because where would there be any genuine opinion and how would people know what bands are remotely worth checking out?

There is only so much we can do. But if you wanna shoot us down, then so be it, but at least suggest what we can do better. We're trying our hardest.

And you know what, for a week, for just a tenner you can take out a banner advert to promote your own band, bypassing us to use our space to promote your own band. We've not pushed the advertising thing but in coming weeks we will be, as well as introducing a proper classifieds section and users will be able to submit gigs to a different database too, hopefully - still looking into that.

Like I said, we can only do so much. It's easy to whine and niggle, but to actually say something productive takes time and can help change what you don't like.

Sean

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no mate you are the total wanker as if Drowned in Sound is so bad don't read it, there are things in life i don't like such as the film Gorillas in the Mist so you know what i do i make sure i never have to watch it if its on TV i either switch the channel or do something else other than watch TV like GO OUT try out then you may have a smile on your face instead of a permanent frown you unappreciative git D.I.S. is good you however are a dick...

by the way hello everyone i know its been a while but i'm back by the way the Manics are still crap as are Miss Black America (they've split yipee!) and the Datsuns. bands that are/ have been (in the past) good include Big Black, Shellac, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, McLusky (i know as people they suck though i've met them), Terrashima, fixit Kid, Soulwax, Super Furry animals, the Rapture, Beck (a one-man band), Jimi Hendrix (another one-man band), At the Drive-in, Liars, Mohobishopi, Pixies, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Les Savy Fav, Helmet, Eels, Death in Vegas, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Hefner, Stone Roses, The Who, (early Syd-Barrett-era) Pink Floyd, Queens of the Stone Age, (early Pinkerton&blue LP) Weezer, the Wannadies, Clinic, Fat Truckers, Radiohead (not last 2 lps), Sex Pistols, The Damned, the Elastik Band, the Moldy Peaches, Marilyn Manson, the lift to Experience, the Immortal Lee County Killers, the Jon Spencer blues Xplosion... (see i can be positive!)

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Dear Mr Henry,
Your assertion that all of Drowned in Sound's current staff (henceforth to be described as 'we') masturbate has been noted.

In fact, we would like to confirm this. According to several leading physicians, the average male should ejaculate at least once every three days to maintain the correct operation of his prostate gland.

As for why female members of staff masturbate as you assert, I cannot comment.

Kind regards,

You're almost as boring as the blatant street teamers with their press release-esque praise for crud like The Jeevas xxx

bump


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And just in time too.


why ?


The most pointless

bump in history?> maybe


hehe


I really wanna bump a really old thread

I just can't be arsed to :(


actually quite funny though aint it?

they blocked the anonymous comment functiona while back didnt they?


ouch !


thank goodness

he's barred.


Drowned in Sound are most definitely not total wankers

They've just given me two tickets to the Underage festival tomorrow.
3rd time I'm seeing Patrick Wolf in about 5 months.


I sent two cds in

and didn't get a review.

I still love them though


You almost did

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if this is true, i'd like DiS to wank me