The Ranting Room

Hey Chopper, I could miss alot more than two goals for the other half!!!

Jim

It all comes down to Pallas with you, doesn't it..   

You gotta let these things go, man!

I read your post Jim, sagely nodding in agreement...... then I read your header........

So we will be moving into "The Emmerites" stadium and waving a cheerio to Highbury..........with an empty trophy cupboard...........

I do keep things in perspective though, never wear umbro, or drink lager.........so i think I might be salvagable as a human being!!! .....
and I am still blinkin agrovated by those stoooopid flags on the cars right now!

What annoys me with some of these new clothes bands is that they feel as if they can by-pass the apprenticeship which can be long and arduous in the music business, but if you neglect the ground work (ie playing some seedy little venues to build your loyal fan base) you will tumble very quickly!
And no matter how much talent you have, (IF you have) you jerk folk off if you over hype yourself!

P-C

Prog-Chick, the closet Umbro shirt wearing, lager swilling football fanatic, currently mourning the death of football in north London wrote: My main rant this morning is ........... "the emperors new clothes" When there is piles and piles of hype about an album (usually something new) folk get swept up in it and believe the hype......... no one dares to put their head up and say "sorry folks but that there emperor is butt naked!" i like to remain positive about stuff, and if there is something I really don't like I keep my gob shut............(in the main!) but sometimes it would be good if you could put your hand up and say "what is ALL the fuss about!" without getting your head bitten off!!!

I couldn't agree more - how many more new bands are going to be foisted upon an ever more gullible public, hungry for yet another group of skinny undertalented teenagers desperate to be the next big thing? Two such bands have been mentioned elsewhere in this thread: 'The Libertines' and 'The Arctic Monkeys' - did nobody at the record companys' A&R department notice (between making their monumentally bad cocaine fuelled decisions on who the general public are to like in the next 18 months) both of these bands are fronted by vocalists who can't actually sing? No, I'd go further than that - the two croakers in question couldn't carry a tune in a very large bucket if their lives depended on it.

The Arctic Monkeys are now in a dilemma - usually, these bands "emerge" at the beginning of the year, coincidentally, just before the lineup is announced for the Glastonbury Festival, thereby guaranteeing them a place high on the bill on the main stage, usually on the Friday afternoon - this ensures maximum exposure to the target audience, many of whom will go away, convinced by the ecstatic audience reaction that they've seen THE NEXT BIG THING, but unaware that said reaction is 5% genuine & 95% "everyone else is cheering, so I'd better cheer louder, because if I don't, my friends will think I'm out of touch and I might not get laid tonight". This year, there is no Glastonbury, so The Arctic Monkeys will either (a) have to get their act together, and produce at least one more "quality" album at the end of 2006, thereby maybe getting their foot on the ladder for next year's Glastonbury (and in the process turning from "product" into a "band" who maybe worth hearing in the future), or (b) fade into obscurity.

Call me a cynic, but I think I know which option will be taken, and in a year from now The Arctic Monkeys' vocalist's highest words of wisdom will be "do you want fries with that?"

Darren said:

crimson thing wrote: For those of us living around Exeter, Swindon & Bristol aren't considered West Country  ....   ....but I fully expect to be trumped in turn by some Cornish surf freak....

Reading all these towns made me laugh - I'm from the state of Rhode Island in the USA, and here are a list of some of the towns in that state:

Cumberland, Warwick, Exeter, East and West Greenwich, Coventry, Bristol....

and then Massachusetts has Somerset and Worcester among others.

they don't call it "new" england for nothing!

Actually it doesn't, inbreeding is very much on show, especially in certain places within the County.

Oh and The Wurzels are prog!


Edited by Geck0 - May 18 2006 at 12:16

Oh I know we're not West Country, but some people say we are...

West Country is Somerset, Devon and East Cornwall.

Indeed.  Swindon here for me, so... not really West Country, but close enough!  At least I don't have the somewhat irritating Swindon accent.

Oh I knew you weren't referring to The Arctic Monkeys, but I presume you are referring to a similar phenomenon of getting caught in the hysteria.

The the bubble bursts eventually (and often, thankfully).

The Arctic Monkey are responsible for that dire song "Don't You Look Good On The Dancefloor".  It's awful.

Ah, well I lived in Bristol for a few years and the accent did annoy me at time.  But to be fair, the Cockney accent annoys me more!  All my family are from London, but none of them are from that area of London, so I'm lucky.

Ah, so you mean something like "The Arctic Monkeys"?  People were saying how original and new that album and band sounded.  Nonsense!  It sounds like everything else.  Bland and not original!

Which album are you referring to then?

Also, where abouts are you a residence?  I class myself as West Country, even though I'm not!