"New Acoustic Movement" - classic or dud?

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The 'New Acoustic Movement' is partly the music biz trying to ride the wave of David Gray & Eva Cassidy selling shitloads of records, partly standard NME horseshit & partly a bunch of half-arsed indie twats thinking it's 'weally twendy' to go acoustic. Not a fan. Nonethless there will always be great maverick songwriters like Joe Pernice, Peter Bruntnell and Bap Kennedy who write their songs on an acoustic guitar. Unfortunately, no fucker has ever heard of them and meanwhile the insipid indie cack gets all the attention. Ho hum.

― Brian Macartney, Thursday, 10 May 2001 00:00 (12 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

The New Acoustic Movement is better than what's going on in America right now. All the angry white suburban males who have a copy of "Walk This Way", a guitar, and arms covered in tattoos are crawling out of the wood work and into the radio etc etc etc. Limp Bizkit and all their offspring are making me angry. Be thankful for what you have.

― Lindsey B, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Both are equally bad as far as I'm concerned, just in different ways.

― DG, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

I don't know anything about starsailor or about KOC. But I do know that The Optimist LP by Turin Breaks is one of the best albums i've heard in the past couple of years, as compared to the 3-chord-based drivvle that is forever droning out from most britpop artists, especially fuckwits like Travis. So i recon movement or not if it means getting music like Turin Breaks produced then i'm well up for it, even if it means putting up with David Gray releases.

― Jamie MacPherson, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

How can anyone think these bands are garbage? KOC is refreshingly original and a great album. Starsailor is wonderful, and Turin Brakes is just as good. PLease, with all the commercial cock rock here in the US this is the greatest thing to hit us in years. Enough with the Fatty Freddie Durst shit and all this Kid "White Trash Rock shit.

― Freddy the ballsack, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Classic by far.

― finkel, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

this is the greatest thing to hit us in years

Let me register my severe doubt at this particular claim.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

9 years pass...

was freddy the ballsack one of calum's socks?

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

A dud to end all duds

― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

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