QuoteDo the Kaiser Chiefs count as "Cool"? Themselves and Babyshambles and the vast majority of the new English nonsense at the moment pi$$ me right off. It's all been done several decades ago, far better.
Okay kids I'm feeling bitchy. What "Cool" bands do you think are or were just awful. You know the ones I mean. The type of thing Tom Dunne plays because Q magazine tells him he should ..nay must Like. The types students with more money than sense pay 150 quid to watch on a big screen in a godforesaken field in Kildare while waving their event sponsor t-shirt over their head and ignoring the fact they didn't bring sunblock.
Or ....Maybe it's a particular record that's gained iconoclastic status (rumour has it that both Fleetwood Macs Rumours and Van Morrisons Astral Weeks suck balls)
Leave the pop stuff, the talent show contestants, the boybands, the R'n'B types and the Robbies down the drain with some nice caustic soda where they belong.
I'll get the ball rolling shall I? .....
The Bravery Jeeeeeeeesus wept!!! They apparently "evoke the new wave cool of The Cure, New Order and latter day Television".
My hole they do!!! Looking like something out of a 1986 wella advert and sounding like they're tearing the hole out of Duran Durans 'Planet Earth' more like. Evoking nothing but a desire in me to slap them a headbut.
Oasis I never got Oasis. Three good songs in twelve years (and probably not the three that came into your head) does not a good band make. Bland banal pub rock with lyrics that'd make a cheeky girl blush. Oh and a talentless cnut for a lead singer who's apparently charismatic because he puts his hands behind his back and leans into the microphone.
U2 I never got U2 either. Very orrdinary, unremarkable songs ...normally semi-lifted from a decent song by someone else. I heard a scouser opine recently that as far as he's concerned they're "still a 3rd division Bunnymen". I'd go with that.
Snow Patrol I just find yer mans middle class Belfast accent a bit of a low register Brian Kennedy after a verse and a half. (though I commend him for the fact you can tell where he's from in his singing voice ...kudos for that only). Beyond that there must be a picture of these guys next to the word 'Twee' in the dictionary. ...and referring to the love interest in yer songs as 'my dear' (or maybe it's a deer)? It's unmanly I tells ya.
R.E.M. see U2 -but substituting the word 'Bunnymen' for 'Go-Betweens'
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Do the Kaiser Chiefs count as "Cool"? Themselves and Babyshambles and the vast majority of the new English nonsense at the moment pi$$ me right off. It's all been done several decades ago, far better.
Coldplay
Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Chiefs
The Frames
David Gray
Damien Dempsey
Bloc Party
MOT
yessssssssss!!! that's the idea!!!!!!!!! We're on the right track! Keep 'em coming!
Damien Rice puttin' yer anaemic bird on a barstool next to you and singing songs about how she''s made a complete pussy out of you ....what a bunch of @rse!!!!!!!!!!!!
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
never got the Libertines meself
couldnt agree more and any of those hippy type bands around these days with either wasitcoats or suits/tight tshirts and tight jeans and hair not one way/length or the other. all crap.U2 I never got U2 either. Very orrdinary, unremarkable songs ...normally semi-lifted from a decent song by someone else. I heard a scouser opine recently that as far as he's concerned they're "still a 3rd division Bunnymen". I'd go with that.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Every band and artist in the world, except the ones which I like!
It's glorious!!!!!!Originally Posted by Soper
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Could be open to ridicule but 'The Beatles'
Never really got Guns N Roses, probably more to do with Axl than anything, cause I listen to Velvet Revolver a lot.
Apparently The Darkness are reviving the theatrics in rock. Are they bo11ox, they're a bad Queen tribute act that got lucky
Could someone please shoot Fred Durst?
The Beatles would be my main one.
Oasis post Definitely Maybe.
The Seahorses, but think everyone sussed them quick.
Damien Dempsey
Pete Doherty
In fact there's loads of the current crop that are hyped - but I blame the NME which is essentially the music version of The Sun. Build em up to knock them down - we love it.
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
The Darkness - terrible music.
Can I include Tom Dunnes own Something Happens. I don't know if they could ever have been classified as cool, but God they were always rubbish.
They say what about the meek?
I say they’ve got a bloody cheek
never liked the Divine Comedy - his posh voice really fecks me off!
Keane - is the lead singer a hobbit?
easy target but the likes of multi-millionaire corporate geeks masquerading as rock stars venting their angst'. Limp Bizkit, Korn, Offspring and the likes... Fred Durst apparantly is 'associate director' of a record company. Wheres the angst in that?
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'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
To be fair to Neil Hannon -he talks that way too.
True about Fred Durst ...ditto yer boy from Offspring.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Mercury Rev
The Thrills
Mercury Rev started out as a "Sucky band that are actually cool", but along the way turned into a "Cool band that actually suck".
When the original singer, Baker, left/was kicked out the nme likened it to Cannon leaving Ball, ie who gives a f***. Somewhere along the way, nme changed their tune.
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Kaiser Chiefs
The Darkness
The Libertines
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Abri o portão de ouro, da maquina do tempo.
Mi mamá me hizo guapo, listo y antimadridista.
Careful now -Robbie isn't "cool". i.e. you're unlikely to see a guy down the student union wearing a Robbie T-shirt unless...
a) he's making a failed stab at irony
b) it's in a seminary
c) it's in the garda training college
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
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