I rep for Hour of the Bewilderbeast, but I won't vote for it.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 8 September 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
I love a thread where ILX can amusingly trash a load of shit so-called experts used to adore. More please.
― that's not my post, Thursday, 8 September 2011 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
1-dizzee2-arctics3-portis
― pandemic, Thursday, 8 September 2011 08:36 (twelve years ago) link
Probably should have said "Vanishing Point is a more deserving winner," but we can make these claims about a lot of these artists' catalogues.
We could have, and "Vanishing Point" is also an excellent album, but outside "contrarian" ILM, "Screamadelica" is generally considered to be their masterpiece, among critics and indie audiences alike.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 8 September 2011 08:38 (twelve years ago) link
god pulp really are the fucking worst band ever though. i literally want to punch jarvis DICKHEAD cocker in the face― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 September 2011 00:22 (9 hours ago) Bookmark
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 September 2011 00:22 (9 hours ago) Bookmark
yeah, worse than hitler
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 08:47 (twelve years ago) link
there was a band called hitler, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwsWGLLub30
This is what I found...
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:01 (twelve years ago) link
Its no good taking the piss out of Michael Jackson when your legacy is a load of landfill brit-pop shite and a decades worth of Peel session debris. Pulp were truly dreadful, just pumped up chancers who got lucky. The fifth form doggerel of JC on Common People is the apex of absolute shiteness. The Auteurs had already nailed it with The Upper Classes. Looking at this Mercury list makes me feel queasy and angry at how its nearly always the tossers that win in life.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
winning the mercury prize |= winning in life
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
Hey, Luke Haines, welcome to ILM! (xp)
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:36 (twelve years ago) link
Talentless chancers, yeah! Coming round here, punching our peados - who do they think they are? All those singles were rubbish weren't they? Disco 2000, Es & Whizz, Common People, Do You Remember the First Time, Babies - who likes those? A: No one! We only bought them to throw in the bin.
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:38 (twelve years ago) link
2000: Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
FUCKING TWENTY PENCE BUSKER, FUCKING DIE
You've just reminded me of that viz cartoon, in which Badly Drawn Boy is desperately busking outside Natwest, and the caption below is "Badly Overdrawn Boy".
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
My favourite Viz strip was "Vidal Baboon"
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
Luke Haines otm
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
The Auteurs had already nailed it with The Upper Classes.
Did Luke Haines have a strand of uncertainty with regard his position in the social strata in the lyrics? Or was it pure invective?
I mean, I also wrote a version of a similar scenario, way back in the day. It was called "Lichtenstein". It wasn't great, but.
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for Different Class, by the way, risking the opprobrium of various people on here.
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
xxxpost Vidal Baboon LOL
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
i gots no problem with people repping for pedestrian indie as long as they don't mind a little banter in return
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
god pulp really are the fucking worst band ever though. i literally want to punch jarvis DICKHEAD cocker in the face
so otm
― seasoning sauce all over me (tpp), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
mum emailed me to tell me "dj harvey that dj you and your father like won the mercury music prize" haha
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
if that's where you're setting the bar i'm not sure what in the way of indie wouldn't fall under it.
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
indie music is just the worst.
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:48 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that King Creosote, for one
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:52 (twelve years ago) link
it's just rubbish innit? just blokes meowling in stupid accents about how the quality of the rain was better in the '60s.
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
xxxxp preferred him when he played for AFC Wimbledon.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
Who? Glenn Mulcaire?
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:57 (twelve years ago) link
and don't get me started on the grebos...
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 09:58 (twelve years ago) link
Was MC Harvey, not DJ Harvey, sorry.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:04 (twelve years ago) link
and don't get me started on gomez. i would like to PUNCH all of them in the DICK extremely HARD
― missingNO, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:06 (twelve years ago) link
with my FIST
― missingNO, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
DICK...HARD...FIST...
o_O
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
Its no good taking the piss out of Michael Jackson when your legacy is a load of landfill brit-pop shite and a decades worth of Peel session debris. Pulp were truly dreadful, just pumped up chancers who got lucky. The fifth form doggerel of JC on Common People is the apex of absolute shiteness.
otmfm. had an argument in the pub about that last night - everyone lionises cocker for that dickhead stunt but it's like, c'mon son stack MJ's music up against JC's and there's only one possible winner, and it's not the man peddling trite ~social commentary~ that only seems smart cuz it was concurrent with fucking neanderthals like oasis
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
god franz ferdinand are a bunch of CUNTS aren't they? they deserve to get KICKED in the HEAD very HARD by FEET
― missingNO, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
SO HARD... literally!
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
ehhh -- MJ rules but the spectacle of wiry uncertain Cocker destroying Jackson's well-choreographed display of kitch was great television.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
"wiry, uncertain" = ripped to the tits on coke
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:14 (twelve years ago) link
nb nowt wrong with being ripped to the tits on coke but let's not buy this "David vs Super-Goliath" version eh?
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:15 (twelve years ago) link
cos it was much more like "hype toddler shows off in front of mates" imo
OTM, still MJ deserved it, no matter how good he was
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
i often think that if MJ had beaten the crap out of him there and then his career wd have never dipped
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
He's a lover, not a fighter
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
and really "oddball reclusive black guy pretends to be Jesus in concert performance" is much more subversive and funny than "aging student doesn't like pop music"
― placeholder for weak pun (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
tbh give me a pop star throwing jesus poses any day over a pop star trying cluelessly to be an Important Social Commentator
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
What's that Oasis song again, Heal The World?
― It was a Thursday night. I was working late... (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
though i guess MJ was trying to be both, lol
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't that what Jacko was doing tho? Albeit in messianic megalomaniac mode?
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:20 (twelve years ago) link
oops (xp)
and really "oddball reclusive black guy pretends to be Jesus in concert performance" is much more subversive and funny
Maybe, if it actually had been subversive or funny
― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:21 (twelve years ago) link
rephrase: if you're a pop star trying to be an Important Social Commentator, you damn well better accompany it with some jesus poses
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:22 (twelve years ago) link
Thing is, JCock was 'hero' to many for that stunt for years, but after MJackson died, the whole thing seems, um, I dunno, churlish?
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 September 2011 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
i love a lot of BDB songs, esp from HOTB and the about a boy soundtrack. and one or two from the next one. after that he became entirely unlistenable. some of the most grating shit i've made myself listen to.
― witchho (zachlyon), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
voted xx just over dummy. similar albums in some ways - they both feel real modern. products of their times perhaps - dummy is all 90s bombast (i remember really liking "roads" at first, which quickly faded) while xx is pretty subdued and cautious. fwiw i find third and xx super super similar, and at times i wonder if third is the superior album to dummy. def still feeling my xx pick, and real surprised dummy stomped it so hard
― fennel cartwright, Thursday, 22 September 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
"Bombast"? Dummy? "Bombast"?
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Thursday, 22 September 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
"roads" is basically THE most melodramatic song ever
a lot of dummy is pretty chill but there are still some srsly emo lyrics there
― fennel cartwright, Thursday, 22 September 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
Missed this poll, but echo 'the right album won'
― Mister Potato shares Manchester United’s commitment to (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
the snore album snored
― Dios mio! This kid is FUN to hit! (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 September 2011 07:08 (twelve years ago) link
Aren't all these albums, by definition, overplayed though? And if that's the case, any winner could be accused of being a boring choice?
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Friday, 23 September 2011 08:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah exackly this is why lists, polls, awards, and shit that wins lists polls and awards sucks and is wank
― Dios mio! This kid is FUN to hit! (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 September 2011 08:20 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think anyone could accuse Speech Debelle's album of being overplayed.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Friday, 23 September 2011 08:27 (twelve years ago) link
Poor Speech Debelle
― the tax avocado (DJP), Friday, 23 September 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
Speech Impediment Debelle
― Dios mio! This kid is FUN to hit! (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 September 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
When she won, did peopl eyell out "Speech! Speech! Speech! " ?
That would explain her length of award acceptance.
― Mark G, Friday, 23 September 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
Speech Débile
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 23 September 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
@campbellclaret Alastair Campbell met Speech Debelle at a Labour/arts do last night. Really nice, and she didn't laugh when I showed her the song I wrote about Elvis5 minutes ago via web
― lex pretend, Friday, 23 September 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
Never before have I seen so much irrelevence in one tweet.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 September 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
would love to hear that tbh
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Friday, 23 September 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
He later had a discussion about Avatar and vuvuzelas with Hull City manager Phil Brown.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 September 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
See, i have no idea if you're joking about that or not
― pandemic, Friday, 23 September 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link