The De La cover sounds like The Kane Gang or Hue & Cry or Curiosity Killed The Cat - is somebody really wanting that??
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 02:42 (ten years ago) link
OK, I've not played any of these, I'm sure they are fair to middling stuff that will get no traction except for this kind of publicity...
Except that SOMEBODY POSTED A VIDEO OF "THE HARD!" Yeah!!!!!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 09:54 (ten years ago) link
xpno
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 11:12 (ten years ago) link
funny, for me it's when I see people shitting on a perfectly amiable band with 1,000 YouTube hits for absolutely no reason and making it some kind of moral crusade that I wonder why I bother getting up.― katherine,
― katherine,
Listen to their cover of Me Myself & I and then say that.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9qT6TBr9RE
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 11:18 (ten years ago) link
Was there an ilx thread where people discussed the relationship between Innocent Smoothies style 21st century twee indie and Mondeo Pop?
There is a bit of overlap isn't there, I think it started with 'Lovefool'.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 11:38 (ten years ago) link
is mondeo pop after the 80s yuppie sophistipop or the same thing with a different name?
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
damn i hear much worse music every day on television, shopping, etc.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
I'm sorry to hear that.
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
If I heard that on the subway I would smile for a second or two. I feel like this is not an uncommon reaction. And I don't think I'm wrong for having it. Sorry.
― katherine, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
the track on this advert is worse than hero and leander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh0Jq680aZM
The soundtrack to ‘Reasons To Be Cheerful’ is inspired by Ian Drury’s iconic hit from the 70’s and is updated by Sense, a UK rapper. The ad uses people of Britain to inform the creative and follows the best things about being British.
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
If it got played on the subway there might be a lot of suicides
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
I don't know, I guess I'm lacking whichever acquired taste or which coolness gene makes "pleasant, absolutely nothing dislikable" code as "THE WORST THING EVER."
― katherine, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
These people are good musicians. That's as far as I'm willing to go.
― a dessicated quasi-tsunami of gut-busting cosmic - tech (DJP), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
The female singer has a nice voice but the songs are annoying.
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Plus how can a small student band afford to make videos , employ pr and get a review on AMG? It has all the hallmarks of a label like domino stagemanaging everything.
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
the video i watched was recorded on an iphone? idk how amg works, you will have to ask ned, but sure as fuck if domino or anyone like that was running some sinister sub rosa scheme to get hero and leander to rule the world, they would be doing a better job of it
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
why are hero and leander worse than all of those shitty bands in the primal scream / stone roses copyists thread?
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
because ive heard hero & leander?
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
then you haven't done your due diligence, if you want to answer the question you asked
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/modernfaces
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
why are you defending hero & leander?
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
this seems like every other shitty band that ilx would clown, ۩
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Monday, 28 October 2013 21:20 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
i described Modern Faces as a great English rock and roll band on one of their Youtubes and did get so much as a "fuck off", really don't think anybody cares about any of this shit
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzmecHQ4TM (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 19:03 (ten years ago) link
"didn't get"
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzmecHQ4TM (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzmecHQ4TM (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 19:03 (7 seconds ago)
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
if doran is seriously interested in pursuing the idea that some shit music is for whatever reason objectively worse than all the rest of the shit music then he could use this neglected old thread
hi music journalists, what are the worst albums you have ever heard?
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
― ۩, Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
as per my other post itt their album is on a label called Tapete which I think is German, and is neither a Domino-sized indie behemoth nor a bedroom CDR operation
― when I was Ted Croker man I couldn't picture this (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
lol Lloyd Cole is on Tapete
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzmecHQ4TM (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
weird that anyone considers this "pop" music really, this is so far below the radar
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
?? we're doing "pop" vs "popular"??? in 2013????
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzmecHQ4TM (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
the sum total of the invective is like, 5 people going "this sucks"
― a dessicated quasi-tsunami of gut-busting cosmic - tech (DJP), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
no I mean like aesthetically this bears no resemblance to the formal characteristics of current pop music
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
AND it isn't popular
i dunno, "pop" is just rock-derived music that doesn't rock, in some senses
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzmecHQ4TM (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link
otherwise what tag wd you put on this?
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzmecHQ4TM (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:26 (ten years ago) link
this thread? #there's no such thing as bad publictiy
― katherine, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
we should let the lex decide on whether this band are bad or not
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
― Paraoxonases in Inflammation, Infection, and Toxicology (nakhchivan), Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:47 PM (2 hours ago)
i'm doing it i'm going in.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
I'm so glad this garbage isn't popular.
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
xp eh. slightly shittier kasabian isn't very interesting.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
feathercut indie isn't for actual listening to tbf
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzmecHQ4TM (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
I know I sound self-righteous here, but what about the millions of people who do actually enjoy listening to this stuff? There are a lot of these people. And I'm sure they are valid as people.
― katherine, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
I honestly couldn't care less if other people like this band or not. I think they're terrible and I'm very happy I never have to hear them unless I make an effort to subject myself to them; that's where my engagement with this ends.
I don't even know who you're arguing with here, or why.
― a dessicated quasi-tsunami of gut-busting cosmic - tech (DJP), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
I'm arguing with the trend, that gets stronger and stronger by the fucking day, that taste, as defined more and more narrowly, is some kind of moral imperative, and how it warps things like a 1,000-view band on some German indie pop label into the Great Satan of Music with 100+-post threads devoted to how bad they supposedly are and how no one can possibly listen to them.
― katherine, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
i'm with you as far as "good taste" is concerned, but this is just "I Love Music", the message board for people who like talking about how bad music is.
and i think it's ok to be repulsed by something, tho yeah that rarely merits the backslappy "oh yeah let's all congratulate ourselves about not liking this" threads, but there's room for piss-taking of artists, genres, aesthetic decisions i think.
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzmecHQ4TM (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
"trend" "good taste"
boo fucking hoo
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
nobody had heard of the puppini sisters when dom p made that thread but it was a totally worthwhile one. You cant like everything.Noone is trying to define taste more narrowly on ilm.
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BVf7evHCQAER-ID.png
― Most people do not want a mixed-up interchangeable body OR mind (soref), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:32 (ten years ago) link
millions of people enjoy oasis so should noodle vague stop hating on them?
― ۩, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
oh fuck I'm not supposed to like the puppini sisters
― katherine, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link