whats not rocking your musical world

[Silverfish]

That Foo Fighters song. I've moved into the graphics studio at work and they have the radio on. Radio 1 seem to play it every 12 minutes. NYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

I'll never understand why they do that, especially when they start a month before it's released. You you might start out really liking a song, but by the time it's on the shelves, you're already sick of it. And they wonder why sales are slumping...

 

[Augustus Gloop]

That band Plain White Ts and their new song. I didn't think they could release a track worse than their other effort but they have. Bland, bland, bland, bland...

As for the Foo Fighters, hard to imagine Grohl came through the DC punk scene and then moved onto Nirvana. Not much of a fan of the latter but at least they weren't some middle of the road Tom Petty imitation.

 

[db]

That Foo Fighters song. I've moved into the graphics studio at work and they have the radio on. Radio 1 seem to play it every 12 minutes. NYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

the one with the intro that sounds a bit like "stairway to heaven"? yeah - i like the foo fighters, but that song even gets on my tits now..

 

[jimbob23]

'Chasing Pavements' by Adelle or whatever her name is.

"Should I give up?" Yes, you bloody well should.

 

[jimbob23]

Anything by the Fratellis, the Hoosiers, the Killers, the Kooks, the Enemy, the Wankers, the Plain White Tees, the Twats, the Bollocks, Maximo Park, the Morons, the Chimps, the Imps, the Shrimps, Bloc Party, Schloc Party, Moc Arty, Professor Moriarty, Scouting for Girls, the Klaxons, Pigeon Detectives and any other large-haired, impossibly-tight-jean-wearing, silly-white-canvas-shoe-sporting dross peddlars.

It's so farking dull!!!

Whenever I tell people I like hip-hop, all I ever get is, "Oh, there's been no decent hip-hop made since [insert arbritrarily chosen year here]." OK, the mainstream's a bit shaky, and I can see why people hate Fiddy et al, but there's some quite good thing's going on if you look a bit deeper.

This kind of signs my own argument's death warrant - no doubt if you look a little deeper there's some interesting and entertaining guitar-led stuff going on, but listening to Radio 1 all day at work has made me realise just how dire state of "popular" music is.

To be honest I'd rather listen to Girls Aloud, Take That or even the Cheeky farking Girls. At least they seem to be enjoying themselves and doing something they - however misguidedly and superficially - believe in, rather than going through the motions like the above mentioned band of soulless middle class twits.

I know that my point's pretty flimsy - if you were listening to anything all day you'd get sick of it, but I need to get off my chest how wank all this stuff is. How long before all records in the top 40 consist of one chord accompanied by a three-minute long sigh, or somebody going "Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo," until the drummer dies of boredom?

All I can do is cross my fingers and hope somebody else wants to listen to Radio 6. They played "Going the Distance" by Cake yesterday. You wouldn't get that on Radio 1.

 

[Augustus Gloop]

Bloc Part are ok, bit hit and miss though. The remixes tend to be better than the original versions though which I guess speaks volumes. As for the rest that you list I quite enjoyed the latest Maximo Park but it was passing, the promo was sold a month or so after I had received it. Again, says a lot.

As for modern day hip hop, check out the new Dalek record. Sublime. Great bit of input from a Mr Mike Patton too.

Can't say I get too excited by a lot of modern day hip hop though but there's still some good stuff about. Just have to dig a little deeper.

The new Take That record is a belter though. And that's coming from someone who currently listens to a lot of drone, doom, psych (folk) rock, dubstep old school American punk/hardcore.

 

[db]

Anything by the Fratellis, the Hoosiers, the Killers, the Kooks, the Enemy, the Wankers, the Plain White Tees, the Twats, the Bollocks, Maximo Park, the Morons, the Chimps, the Imps, the Shrimps, Bloc Party, Schloc Party, Moc Arty, Professor Moriarty, Scouting for Girls, the Klaxons, Pigeon Detectives and any other large-haired, impossibly-tight-jean-wearing, silly-white-canvas-shoe-sporting dross peddlars.

i sort of get the point your making, but i think you're being a bit over-zealous; the list you give basically makes you sounds like one of those people who only likes one genre of music and thinks everything else sounds the same!

i agree with the sentiment wholeheartedly, but i hardly think you can lump the hoosiers, maximo park, bloc party and klaxons in with the others.. i don't like any of them (apart from the hoosiers, who i think are brilliant and sound more than a bit like the cure), but at least they have a different sound and are trying something new.. as i say, not my cup of tea, but comparing them to plain white teas, or the killers, or something is just closed-minded..

Whenever I tell people I like hip-hop, all I ever get is, "Oh, there's been no decent hip-hop made since [insert arbritrarily chosen year here]." OK, the mainstream's a bit shaky, and I can see why people hate Fiddy et al, but there's some quite good thing's going on if you look a bit deeper.

...but listening to Radio 1 all day at work has made me realise just how dire state of "popular" music is.

as you say, you've countered your own argument here.. you are doing decent hippity-hop vs. radio 1 trend-queens.. hardly a fair comparison.. that's like denouncing all hip-hop is crap based on the argument john peel's record collection vs. akon!

All I can do is cross my fingers and hope somebody else wants to listen to Radio 6. They played "Going the Distance" by Cake yesterday. You wouldn't get that on Radio 1.

they played it loads when it was released - 11 years ago! you can hardly expect radio 1 to keep it on constant rotation lol..

in summary: i agree, radio 1 is shit though..

 

[Augustus Gloop]

John Peel liked a fair bit of hip hop. Fact.

Ear bleeding Dutch techno and gabba hardcore too!

 

[db]

John Peel liked a fair bit of hip hop. Fact.

Ear bleeding Dutch techno and gabba hardcore too!

oh yeah, i didn't mean his back catalogue only included guitar-based beat-combos (which i guess, reading back, my post might have suggested)..

it was peel that introduced me to Hellfish - a fine industrial gabba techno producer!

 

[jimbob23]

i sort of get the point your making, but i think you're being a bit over-zealous; the list you give basically makes you sounds like one of those people who only likes one genre of music and thinks everything else sounds the same!

That's your inference, but maybe I wasn't as clear as I couldn't have been - however, I didn't want to be one of those people who says "I listen to everything, you know." I was merely giving an example of one genre of music I particularly like to give an example of the criticisms levelled at it (which I later made completely pointless by negating my own point). I actually quite like a fair bit of music, but happen to think that all that I mentioned is pap.

but comparing them to plain white teas, or the killers, or something

Which I wasn't, other than their dress sense and to lump them all under the category of "shit".

as you say, you've countered your own argument here..

So why are you pointing it out?

All I can do is cross my fingers and hope somebody else wants to listen to Radio 6. They played "Going the Distance" by Cake yesterday. You wouldn't get that on Radio 1.

they played it loads when it was released - 11 years ago! you can hardly expect radio 1 to keep it on constant rotation lol..

My point entirely, you nutter! I wouldn't want them to, but the fact that Radio 6 played it, as they do so many other old tracks you wouldn't get on Radio 1, makes it far more worth listening to (in my opinion, of course. Everyone else is entitled to theirs, obviously. Unless it conflicts with mine).

 

[Toble]

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/i-hate-musics-artist-index/

 

[gary barlow]

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/i-hate-musics-artist-index/

not to sure what this site is all about but i reckon it's the only time i'll see tony allen's name next to that of the all saints.
tony allen = genius
all saints = er...not genius.

 

[Toble]

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/i-hate-musics-artist-index/

not to sure what this site is all about but i reckon it's the only time i'll see tony allen's name next to that of the all saints.
tony allen = genius
all saints = er...not genius.

i stumbled on this a few years ago. She hates music. All of it.

I particularly like how Marillion are killing file sharing, and her criticism of the Cure's Friday I'm In Love.

 

[db]

"Love is Noise"

i've heard this tune so many times on the radio, and just assumed it was the by same people who did that boring "lazy" tune a couple of years ago (x-press 2, was it?), or that remix of lou reed, or one of the other crappy dance tunes of that ilk (bob sinclar, etc.).. i've just heard it for the thousandth time, and this time actually caught the name of the artist - the verve?!?!

what??

 

[db]

i know saying "the new killers' tune is crap" is a bit like saying "my latest shit was really smelly," but seriously, who likes this guff??

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

 

[Andreas Rex]

That new Alesha Dixon song:

Alesha Dixon:

 

[MISS T]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7703821.stm

It makes no sense to me.

 

[ToriRat]

really not liking the new GNR song...can they even stil be GNR when its only actually Axl " i wear incredibly tight shorts even tho i have a small luchbox" Rose in it? Its Blah.....no its actually EPIC BLAH......blah to the enth degree with boring sauce and chocolate covered indifference sprinkles...

Um I really dont like it much can u tell?

 

[tek-monkey]

LMAO! Good description, not heard it yet but not in any rush to. Shame, cos they were good, erm, pre 1994!

 

[db]

jesus christ, what the hell is this new paolo nutini nonsense?? it sounds like someone's nan doing a bad daniel o'donnel impression