a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis

wait i was gonna do that, are we swapping jobs for 2015?

fuckin why not

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not like it was working out for either of us as was like

a fair point well made

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imagining some kind of Prefab Sprout/Street Preachers crossover there

why can't mod bands look like this anymore?

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it's nice those blokes letting their kids be in the band

is that Stevie g

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Il faut un temps, dans les années 70, où courait un slogan fort en vogue : « If its too loud, your’re too old. » Passé la démagogie du propos, on peut se souvenir de ce type de phrase édité sur les albums : « To be played at maximum volume. » Même le Ziggy Stardust de Bowie en a bénéficié, on pourrait ajouter que cette recommandation n’aurait pas été saugrenue sur les disques des Stooges, MC5, Fleshtones ou autres.

Avec The Dukes, cette même instruction semble superflue : « Black Hole Love » ou « Gold Digger » ressusciteraient Rob Tyner (Rock in Peace), « Alive » puise sans vergogne du côté des musiques qu’affectionne Tarantino pour ses films (western et riffs démesurés) et des titres lorgenront sans fausse honte vers des groupes « hard » plus récents : Linkin Park sur « Genius », QTSA avec « The Great Escape », le punk US façon Offspring dans « Just In Case » et un groupe avec qui on peut voir plus d’une affinité revivaliste, The Hives sur « The Tyrant ».

here you! you in a band?

Eventually someone's gonna post a pic of a band that an ILXor is in.

This thread is like Shit Haircuts R'Us!

All the shit haircuts under one roof...

who or what's to blame for this 'Who, mods, Jam, parkas, Faces, Chelseas, Stones..' look/talk/bollocks? it wasn't even this bad 10 years ago. the influence of YouTube and Spotify? BBC4 rock docs? Classic Rock magazine?

makes me pine for the ElectroClash revival.

I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Shit Haircuts R'Us kid!

xp release of Quadrophenia on home video?

I've got two problems with these bands. The first is the misogyny. I don't know if Oasis ever wrote misogynistic lyrics - I'm not one of the millions who are familiar with their work - but 'Eggs for Breakfast' is some sub-Confessions/Carry On garbage that Noel Gallagher would never have descended to.
The second problem I have is that there's a difference between being influenced by a list of artists and being 'influenced' by them. The latter is just blatant copying. I really wonder what the Gallagher brothers opinion on all these bands is. Maybe we'll never find out - they are from the demographic that buy a good proportion of Oasis records, so it's unlikely that Noel or Liam would ever say something as blunt as "fucking load of shite copycat wankers".

Hmm. I mean, I like The Who/The Jam/Small Faces etc. on a musical level. I'm not really interested in adopting the look and waltzing around like I've just took a time machine from 1965 and acting like I'm willing to pretend that the last 40 years of music didn't exist.

The thing about these bands is that they don't seem to be aping The Who/The Jam/Small Faces directly; the impression that I get is that they're aping Oasis aping solo Weller aping The Who/The Jam/Small Faces etc., which is something completely different. I haven't heard any of the music by some of these bands, but just from looking at them and reading "what they're all abouuuuut, maaaaan!", I get the impression they're more on the Cast end of the spectrum of quality than the The Who/The Jam/Small Faces end of the spectrum.

For some reason, I have this vision of half of these bands listening to Confessions Of A Pop Group by The Style Council and whining "Blasphemy! What's this bollocks, Weller? It's not proper enough! There's no tunes on it! Maaaaaan!"

it's unlikely that Noel or Liam would ever say something as blunt as "fucking load of shite copycat wankers".

Hmmm, this would be a different Noel and Liam then?

Actually, Turrican OTM * 5!

See, blokes above the age of (lets say) 40, some are balding, some arent. Those that have a decent amount of hair, and don't want to adopt the shorts/t-shirt look that most dads do, have the option of opting for the "mod" look, but at the end of the day, it's still "older blokes that are wearing suits or Parkas or button down shirts", which is still, um, OK I guess.

But DON'T STILL BE WEARING THE Johnny Marr HAIRSTYLE, IT LOOKS WRONG on someone that's not 20 or thereabouts.

I was in Brighton this one time when there was some large Mod festival on (I didn't know about it), and I went into one of the shops but the racks had loads of identical shirts in, many blokes scrabbling for one, I came out wanting none of it. And ended up feeling like Weller in that picture where he's crossing some forecourt wearing a not-bad long coat and surrounded by loads of lads in parkas. And that is not what I want to feel like.

Anyway. Kasabian. Looks like they are the best of this sort of thing, and that's not masivly great anyway.

like

everyone in music looks shit stupid

that needs to be acknowledged like

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Pick the OK haircut!

<trick question>

this thread isn't really about haircuts per se

What, I have to listen to them as well?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0a750--UUc

Brother (the shit band)

Brother (the shit band)

Wonder what they're all doing now that they failed to conquer the music scene.

I feel bad for being rude about these guys the other day, I think they're kind of like people who dress up as superheros or anime characters at conventions, faintly risible but they're not hurting anyone and if they're enjoying themselves then fair enough, I suppose. swagger on, noelrock revivalists!

which is not to reproach anyone else posting to this thread, if you go about dressed like that and claiming you're here to save the world from music-by-numbers you have to expect some degree of pointing and laughing

cosplayers are far more gender-mixed, far less self-satisfied with their own deliberately blinkered world view, and don't come out with a lot of guff about good old-fashioned anime making a comeback despite it being as fucking popular as it's ever been

but if you don't wanna be beastly to the Derrbrains i suggest there's a thousand other threads round here that unironically champion shit that's working the same rhetorical trenches

After a while they all sort of look a bit like stuffed toys

all culture has regressive vectors, the point is why these regressions? why this rhetoric? who do these kids think they are?

Liam/Noel Gallagher or Paul Weller, I'd guess.

Yet none of 'em seem to grasp that Weller doesn't solely listen to '60s music, just as Oasis failed to grasp the "progression" aspect of The Beatles.

Oh, they grasped the aspect, they just couldn't do it.

I don't know, man. It also felt like Oasis' take on Beatle-like progression what to look at how The Beatles progressed and thought "ah, we'll try and sound like The Beatles sounded on Revolver", rather than do what The Beatles did which was keep one ear on what was going on elsewhere and try and bring those influences into what they were doing. Even when the Gallaghers were guesting on Chemical Brothers and Death In Vegas tracks, the results still had more than an air of 1966/1967 about them: 'Setting Sun' recalling 'Tomorrow Never Knows', and 'Scorpio Rising' having that 'Pictures Of Matchstick Men'/'Hey Joe' chord progression. At least Weller dabbled with Acid Jazz, house music, slick '80s soul etc. even if the results weren't to everyone's taste.

It just felt like, no matter what the Gallagher's attempted to do, it still had to have some kind of '60s "authenticity" aspect to it in order to keep things proper, maaaaan.

and I guess this is ultimately why other bands of the era like (for example) Blur ended up having the upper-hand in the long term, because they weren't shy to soak up contemporary influences into their sound without sounding like they were slaves to the '60s. They did what The Beatles did, rather than sounded like how The Beatles sounded, but the results sounded far more contemporary naturally because it was contemporary influences they were soaking up.

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(From upthread) Have all of their eyes been switched with each other?

Still, they’re a tight outfit and evidently don’t take themselves too seriously, as shown by the brilliant and naysayer-defying Don’t Come A Knockin’ On Our Rock N Roll Coffin,

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is that for real?

calling the crappy puns 70s album thread

xpost:

Yup, that is indeed the artwork for their debut EP.

just incase their fans dont get the pun they spell it out for them with the cereal box LOL

Soldier On & Style Going Hand In Hand

Posted on February 18th, 2014 in Fashion

A lot of the time the music industry isn’t just about music, it’s about fashion and style as well. So it’s just as well we’re a fashionable bunch!

Look at any band through the years and you’ll see they embraced certain looks and fashions – The Beatles and The Kinks with their suits and more recently Oasis and The Stone Roses with their take on a more modern mod look, sporting their parka jackets.

If you’re in the music industry it’s important to look good, after all you’re on a stage in front of crowds of people, you can’t look sh*ite!

For us, we like the mod inspired gear. Lots of Fred Perry, lots of Pretty Green, and then you’ve got Jordan’s velvet jackets and Liam’s funky scarves.

It’s all about skinny jeans, fitted shirts and smart shoes. Only the best, like we said, you can’t look sh*te when you’re performing in front of crowds of people.

And it’s not just about clobber as well. You need to be rockin’ a quality barnet too.

Fortunately in the scene we jump about in there are a lot of good haircuts, lots of fringes and sideburns, but you always get the odd crap one.

Look no further than Tour de France winner, Bradley Wiggins. A true mod, he rocks a quality haircut and his sense of style hits the mark. He’s quite obviously inspired by the great Paul Weller – a class act.

Some of you will maybe be reading this thinking it’s a bit gay to be writing about clothes and hair but they’re probably the ones who wear sh*te clothes and have sh*te haircuts.

The mod movement has been around for decades so what is it about it that’s kept it strong for so many years?

Youths of the early 1960s were one of the first generations that didn’t have to give their money to their family. With more disposable cash, young mods were able to buy stylish clothes, with the first youth-targeted boutique clothing stores opening in the likes of the famous Carnaby Street.

As we said earlier, it’s hella important to look good when you’re part of the mod movement. This is something those in the 60s were all too well aware of. In fact some newspaper reports from the mid-60s focused on the mod obsession with clothes, often detailing the prices of the expensive suits worn by young mods. In some cases they were even able to seek out extreme examples such as a young mod who claimed that he would “go without food to buy clothes”. Mental.

Through time male mods adopted a smooth, sophisticated look that included tailor-made suits with narrow lapels, thin ties, button-down collar shirts, wool or cashmere jumpers, and Chelsea boots.

We all know that the mod scene is big on scooters, but some of you might not know that this is because their body panels concealed moving parts and made them less likely to stain clothes with oil or road dust. Yeah they look good, but it’s all about the clothes, the fashion.

In fact protecting the sharp suits worn by mods is one of the main reasons parkas are so prominent in the mod scene just like the stylish yet functional scooters.

This is just a snapshot of mod fashion and the longevity of it. But although short a small insight into the the history and mechanics of the trend, you can see how it’s always been important to look good and take pride in your appearance – a trend Soldier On will continue.

To learn more about Soldier On and to keep up to date with all we’re doing, including our upcoming gigs, you can visit our website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts.

Soldier On.

They've missed out the Small Faces

Fortunately in the scene we jump about in there are a lot of good haircuts....