Do Me Bad Things. 27/4/04.
I fell in love.
They were the all day breakfast of the UK rock n roll scene. Everything you wanted on one plate, in one place.
And now it's on record, screaming grit, bleeding popstar and raining doo wop.
The story:
There was once a plan, a conspiracy if you like. Songs were becoming too political and too long for the radio. But the government had difficulty stopping it. They tried herding in the pesky drug dealers, cowboys and songsmiths but nothing happened.
So they created DMBT.
Then they let them write three of the most inspired rock creations, laced them with firecracker rocket paint and sent them on a journey to Archway via Croydon.
'The Song Rides':
Lost Slayer riffs were resurrected with that soft female angle, Axl Rose was replaced by Robbie Williams and the drummer was designed to keep up.
'That's My Demographic':
Mark Lanagen had trouble with his voice. Because it was stolen and bettered by the bad things. It was then plastered against some slides by Iggy Pop.
'Burn Some Money':
The female touch adds class. It adds pop. Doo wop singers will be so hot right now when you discover the bad things. Don't think the Bell Rays, think a Tina Turner you'd want to shag while smoking her rock crack stash. Choruses will never be the same again. Bands will need to improve.
The man tremendous mike (obe) has once again discovered the band that we all want. There will be no surprise here; this will of course explode. Magazines will have to fit nine bad things on their covers; radio will have to cram nine bad things into their recording booths; TV should be fine - plenty of space. This is special.
Done.
Innit.
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two revolving male lead singers.
three doo woop singers.
two guitarists.
a bassist.
and a drummer.
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but who is your favourite of the singers? that is the question.
is it the camp skinny one?
or the ugly brickie?
the latter seemed to have the better songs.
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genius or rubbish, wasn't quite sure..
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Its fucking annoying
Must remember to avoid this.
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Rage against the Commitments - Nice.
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or are we talking darkness "good"?
explain please.
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This band is SILLY.
Like Monty Python silly.
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no, they've just got King Ming singing. He looks like a wolfman with his new hairy face.
i like This Song Rides quite a lot. the B-sides are atrocious, though.
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What do Monty Python sound like? Anygood? Rock/Punk?
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judging by your capitalisation of the words 'silly' and 'serious', i can only assume that your problem with the 'girls' isn't that they're minging (which they don't appear to be in real life) its that they're GIRLS (oh the horror. girls in a band! how terrible for poor little you. the weight of virginity must press heavy upon your shoulders).
i've seen the Do Me Bad Things a few times live and would like to point out that while it does look from their photo and the things that they say that they may not be entirely serious, the music tells a very different story.
they rock hard, but they've got great melodies and the musicianship is way above average (you strike me as someone to whom that sort of thing is important, Mr Passionate).
as for Monty Python. excellent. definately more punk than rock. singer Junk Cleese left to form The Fawlty Towers but died soon after by choaking on his own Spam.
(did you know the internet is the most powerful research tool in the known universe? no. thought not)
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Regards
Tom
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Silly... just silly.
Like I already said.
As serious as jelly, and that's no food!
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you fucking twat
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hahahahahahahaha.
the Mooney Suzuki are the most stupid looking bunch of ugly fancy dress victims i've ever had the luxury of walking out on after half a song.
if that guy carrys on sticking his finger in the air in that dumb way it'll drop off.
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For what it's worth, I can't get enough of DMBT! I am waiting for the cd/vinyl to turn up in the post - but listening to the XFM studio session over and over!
I like to think I have reasonably eclectic musical tastes - and DMBT mix these seamlessly all in one song – marvellous!!
I would love to see them live, but need to win over a few friends first!
Keep up the good work DMBT - especially with a full studio album please!!
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I don't think there's anything silly about Do Me Bad Things. My first impression on seeing them a few months ago was that you can't get bored when there are 3 singers all taking on their own individual style to the songs they are singing. So i went to see them again. After a few more gigs, i started recognising the songs, and i found myself going away singing them to myself. The more DMBT have played the more they have grown into their set, the more impressive they are to watch. They've taken criticism and they've taken praise and they've built on it. Each time i see them they just blow me away that little bit more.
I don't see The Darkness connection myself apart from the obvious Must Destroy link, but one thing i will say is that The Darkness took a lot of shit for being a joke and were as serious as anything, they worked hard and they proved the cynics wrong, can't we learn from that and allow bands who are doing something a little bit different and a little bit more creative than the run of the mill boring template bands, get on with it and show us what they're made of?
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I do not understand how you can say that girls have to be attractive to be in a band? Isn't the point of a band to make good music? Chantal, Clare and Kimberley are all really pretty and extremely good singers, so what are you going on about? I quote... 'serve the purpose of being remotely attractive'?!!!! .... obviously you dont appreciate music for what it is...
I think that your comments are riduculous and you obviously havent got a clue...
And besides... where the fucks your band??!!!!!
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I do not understand how you can say that girls have to be attractive to be in a band? Isn't the point of a band to make good music? Chantal, Clare and Kimberley are all really pretty and extremely good singers, so what are you going on about? I quote... 'serve the purpose of being remotely attractive'?!!!! .... obviously you dont appreciate music for what it is...
I think that your comments are riduculous and you obviously havent got a clue...
And besides... where the fucks your band??!!!!!
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I do not understand how you can say that girls have to be attractive to be in a band? Isn't the point of a band to make good music? Chantal, Clare and Kimberley are all really pretty and extremely good singers, so what are you going on about? I quote... 'serve the purpose of being remotely attractive'?!!!! .... obviously you dont appreciate music for what it is...
I think that your comments are riduculous and you obviously havent got a clue...
And besides... where the fucks your band??!!!!!