How low can it go??

[hamish]

Did anyone notice how Kelly Osbourne's latest is a direct rip-off of Visage's hit?? Even the video is very simlar, y'know moody black and white and French spoken in the background.

[hamish]

My favourite Ultravox song is "The Voice" from Rage in Eden album- thumping bass and kinda creepy chorus - like something you'd hear in a monastery.

Love Talk Talk's "In my life" - used to play it in Mel's - used to echo right round the ground but a few didn't like it - "stop playing that heavy stuff" - can't win sometimes!!!

[mypost]

The British music industry reached a new low this week, when a mobile phone ringtone, masquerading as a "song", went to the top of the UK singles charts. This has to be an all-time low. I just can't understand how a respected UK music group, namely Oasis, could have a song that is outsold by a mobile ringtone. If that's the best they can come up with, it's no wonder that the UK music industry is in serious decline.

I don't believe it!!! It's No.1 for 3 weeks now. Wtf is going on??

[Frank Blue]

Did anyone notice how Kelly Osbourne's latest is a direct rip-off of Visage's hit?? Even the video is very simlar, y'know moody black and white and French spoken in the background.

This amuses me with the Osbornes. Thanks to MTV's exposure and the pushy mother, they think they can crack the charts by being formulaic and following the latest fashion trend in music. Kelly Osborne the rock chick is now doing synth music
Other guilty persons of following trends: Gwen Sefani, Madonna........

The only band to have sucessfully pulled off the synth/80s style so far are the Killers. The Bravery are awful - just 1 decent track on that album.

[mypost]

I don't believe it!!! It's No.1 for 3 weeks now. Wtf is going on??

They are off the top spot after 4 weeks. Who replaced it? Elton John!!!

It's gone lower!!

[Lionel Ritchie]

Well, I certainly noticed that it is pure **** anyway. She should be strung up, along with Gwen Stefani for what she did to Talk Talk's 'It's My Life'...

They did a great p i sstake of this silly cow a few weeks back on Dead Ringers. It was a spoof of one of her videos.
I'd love to get my hands on a copy of it. The jist of it was

"the songs a load o' b0llix -just keep looking at the pictures"

As Fat Tony says "It's funny because it's true"

[noby]

The only band to have sucessfully pulled off the synth/80s style so far are the Killers.

Uhm, Ladytron?

[ThatGuy]

There has always been novelty songs topping the charts in Britain. Always. People who complain about Crazy Frog/Mr.Blobby/Wurzels or the likes of Take That Bros or Westlife topping the charts are too concerned with letting their music tastes making them look "cool" to their peers. Who cares if a single like that tops the charts? It means nothing. It's not as if the 8-14 year olds who buy it are going to stroll casually into a music store and pick up the latest offering from a struggling singer/songwriter. It's irrelevant.

[Gerrit]

Belgian punkrock band Janez Detd covered A-Ha's "Take on me" and interrupted just after the second chorus for a sample of "Will I be famous", then to go with Take On Me... It sounds mad, but somehow it was catchy. The cover was more a fun thing than a quality cover though.

Seems punk bands know how to cover without making it too irritant. I adore The Damned's version of "Eloise" (www.onewaylove.com --> media section, live video's)

[mypost]

There has always been novelty songs topping the charts in Britain. Always. People who complain about Crazy Frog/Mr.Blobby/Wurzels or the likes of Take That Bros or Westlife topping the charts are too concerned with letting their music tastes making them look "cool" to their peers. Who cares if a single like that tops the charts? It means nothing. It's not as if the 8-14 year olds who buy it are going to stroll casually into a music store and pick up the latest offering from a struggling singer/songwriter. It's irrelevant.

There is a distinct distance between a song, and a phone ringtone. If you reach the top of the charts, it means that you are the best around at the time. How a phone ringtone, can reach the top of the charts, when it has competition from the likes of Oasis, Coldplay, and U2, I will never know. It topped the charts for 4 weeks, so it says an awful lot about the crap that masquerades as music in the UK now, and shows how much the industry, once one of the best in the world, has declined.

[Gerrit]

There is a distinct distance between a song, and a phone ringtone. If you reach the top of the charts, it means that you are the best around at the time. How a phone ringtone, can reach the top of the charts, when it has competition from the likes of Oasis, Coldplay, and U2, I will never know. It topped the charts for 4 weeks, so it says an awful lot about the crap that masquerades as music in the UK now, and shows how much the industry, once one of the best in the world, has declined.

In Belgium the frog got a golden disk for +25000 sold singles as well It seems to be a hit all around Western Europe...

BTW, why is that frog not hiding his genitals in that video ?? Kids are watching those charts as well

[Gerrit]

Great version alright. Suitably dramatic.

You heard it ??


Janez Detd are a weird thing. No one (or hardly anyone) seems to take them seriously, yet they sell well and play for respectful crowds every time. Their singer is a devote Christian and tried to sell themselves as "Christian punk rock", but so far none of the youngsters seems to pick up the message...


Ack, only one top punk act for me, and it's The Damned