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03 October 2006 00:58 / Attention Britain

man, you've got some mad daft shit masquerading as the vanguard of modern music. i mean, nevermind about Arctic Monkeys, but Bloc Party? Kaiser Chiefs? that shit is abyssmal. Franz Ferdinand, all eyes are on you: will you make a listenable 3rd album? Dirty Pretty Things are already sorted. the New Order of current times, if you will. perfect music dwarfed by the story of The Other Band They Were At One Point.

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04 October 2006 06:15

Ida Bruland writes,

Hey Math.

What! You don't like Arctic Monkeys? Everybody's darlings! Oh well, I've seem them live twice and both times they proved themselves worthy of all the hype. Great great live band. However...I never find myself listening to their album (maybe because I don't own it, I just downloaded some songs) and I guess that means i don't like them all that much either. So I'd say that from a live perspective they deserve all the accolades they've been given, but material-wise, they don't have enough good songs to be anywhere near as good as they've been made out to be. Does that dilemma make sense?

As for Kaiser Chiefs. Another band I was impressed with live but whose records I never listen to (hmn, there's a pattern emerging here).

I don't even have a an opinion on Bloc Party, but apparently Kele was at a Bright Eyes gig in London with his boyfriend and Michael Stipe that I also attended, though I didn't see them myself.

Haven't heard enough Dirty Pretty Things to agree/disagree that they're the New Order of current times - but I do know I don't like New Order very much (or Joy Division for that matter). I like the IDEA of Carl Barat and I can't stand Pete Doherty, his priorities seem to be in the wrong place and I'm not even talking about drugs, just general personality.

By the way, do you like Russell Brand? English comedian who's apparently a close friend of Carl Barat and certainly a massive Morrissey-fan. You can hear/download his Sunday morning radio shows online on the BBC6 website if you're interested. He's quite a character.

As for a new crop of British bands I like, but it may not last (oh the number of times I got excited by a band just to realise months later that they were really totally unexciting...) there are bands such as The Fratellis, Louie and Metro Riots - they all have myspace-sites (why OF COURSE) so you can check them out easily if you want. There's also the ragged but soulful voice of young Scottish singer Paolo Nutini and the pleasantly sunny music of Lily Allen with her spot-on lyrics. But again, all these people are too new to tell whether they'll last or not...

06 October 2006 08:37

math writes,

yeah, hm, i think it's perhaps easier to like Arctic Monkeys if one isn't that into Dirty Pretty Things / The Libertines /etc? i mean, to me Arctic Monkeys just sound like a poor teenaged entry into that basic genre. i really do mean 'nevermind about them', though, as [1] only an act like The Smiths or Gorillaz or something can really survive that kind of NME-led hype and [2] given the Monkeys' insistence on making their fans look at that ugly album cover, ugly band name, terrible fashion, bad videos [that Scummy Man film- what?!], etc, there's no point in complaining about it; it just makes more sense to say 'nevermind'. like, they want to do unattractive things for some reason, an impulse i have never understood in anyone. they want to do unattractive things and where they're doing it is magazine covers. ok. it's not my place to be upset.

ha, i first heard of The Fratellis and Louie in an NME piece on young bands who _cover_ Arctic Monkeys! i've only heard a couple songs from both acts; not bad.

with ref to the Dirty Pretty Things / New Order comparison, i basically mean, Dirty Pretty Things largely makes more accessible music in the vein of The Libertines, as New Order did in the vein of Joy Division; and as with New Order, people more or less like it but are more interested in nostalgia for the previous band. yeah, Pete Doherty is incomprehensible. i don't like Babyshambles except for the Kilimanjaro [sp?] single.

i've seen a couple youtube clips of Russell Brand. i liked him, though he didn't leave a huge impression on me. oooo, downloading British radio- yeah, god, that's something i should do much more often. yeah, i'll try downloading something this weekend, cool.

i saw Kaiser Chiefs live in L.A. a few days after Employment came out. they were horrible! i know they've been playing festivals for about 2 years straight now, so i guess they've got more practice etc, but man, that one gig made me decide to never pay for a plain Kaisers ticket again ever. if they swing through a festival i'm at, ok. Bloc Party i saw in L.A. around the same time; i hear Michael Stipe likes them a lot actually; i found them totally pompous and just intolerable. oh well. Banquet's a pretty ace tune, but the last thing i want to hear next from Kele Okereke is songs about hate crimes. yuck.

i actually think that, for example, Kasabian put out a better 2006 album than most NME bands. it's certainly not genius or anything; in fact, it's pretty ridiculously derivative; but man... it sure is better than crap like The Automatic or Be Your Own Pet.

as far as hyped young Brit bands go right now, i think Larrikin Love are pretty decent.

thanks for stopping by, Ida!

xo, math+

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