Sleaford Mods

deems I'm not the biggest led zeppelin fan, louis is more your man for that sort of raucous experimental uk prog-folk but fwiw this is my favourite led zep song

Sleaford Mods 30+ years behind Tracy Ullman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GgkoaXWdXc

sorry wins i dont take candy from strangers, money from friends or music tips from internet message board i love music

they're playin' in fuckin' 'itchin tonight!

I do remember that in the mid-80s Dollar were the assumed to be the epitome of lightweight MOR fluff.

Not sure how true that is, Paul Morley never stopped going on about them so they were popular with the New Pop wing at the NME.

"mirror mirror" is an interesting tune.

"hand held in black and white" is pretty good too. Dollar were like Trevor Horn's pet project (before FGTH arrived)

I do remember that Dollar were assumed to be the epitome of mid-80s lightweight MOR fluff.

Fixed.

It was Trevor Horn's work with Dollar that got him the gig with FGTH/ ZTT I think? Certainly not his stint as Jon Anderson as Yes.

It definitely got him the gig with ABC for The Lexicon Of Love; Martin Fry's on the record about that.

"Ibiza" - The Prodigy ft Sleaford Mods - https://youtu.be/guUHZnbWoyo

a testament to Andrew Fearn's importance to the band

yep

wait, don't prodigy already have a ranter? what happened to their clown?

oh shit, did the clown die?

rip prodigy clown

Bad move for the Sleaford Mods to hitch their wagon to such has-beens.

xpost. As far I know, Trevor Horn only produced four songs for Dollar. The ones mentioned by various people upthread of course. Those songs are lauded retroactively by eg. ILM types for being Trevor Horn productions, not because they are Dollar songs. Most of their hits were produced by others.

wiki says keith flint (the funny hair prodigy shouty guy) is alive and well and still in the band

Bad move for the Sleaford Mods to hitch their wagon to such has-beens.

hey now the prodigy sound like aerosmith when placed next to newton faulkner

there I said it

Dud.

Don't know who Newton Faulkner is. But both the Mods and the Prodigy sound really old-fashioned right now. Their gigs are full of dudes in their forties. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Went to a couple of Exploited gigs in the 90s that were great fun.

I had to strain pretty hard to dredge up a target that would be as laughably "who? oh right, them" as SFG tbf

is that dog latin post real, the side comment about the US having REAL rock bands made me wonder if he was trying for his own ranty over music career

I never said anything about 'real' anything.

I apologize, you said GOOD

:)

Anyway, that Prodigy thing is really really terrible. may as well have got Keith Flint to shout 'oibeefa! Wass 'e fackin' doing?' over that sad excuse for a beat and saved Williamson the trouble.
enjoyed seeing them the other night at a packed out local show. surprised that the average age was, yes, about 45 or perhaps more. kind of expected there to be a bit of a hip, younger contingent but not really. spoke to the dad of a friend outside who was enthusing about them. then had to endure some grumpy bugger i know who hates everything go on about 'they're good but they'll never last unless they get a proper band together' which was pretty lol.

shit the Ibiza track is no good? i guess it was never going to be as good as we heard it in our heads in advance.

yeah the Dollar thing, ABC hired him for Lexicon.. because of the Dollar singles and then TH approached FGTH by which point he was already A Big Deal.

ibiza thing is like the worst 90's thing ever. i was never a fan though. dirtchamber thing was the only thing i ever liked by them.

hay scott

http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000009622969-zevklk-original.jpg?8460df1

srsly though how can you not love "experience"

i guess it was never going to be as good as we heard it in our heads in advance.

The thing I'm hearing in my head in advance is fucking terrible, I can't think of any two acts more likely to bring out the absolute worst in one another.

...no comment xxp

that is actually wins in that painting, funny story

i will never listen to it again perhaps but i actually like that prodigy song tbh, the objective terribleness somehow only enhances its gleeful mania. kind of reminds me of when the fall started doing dance stuff like why are people grudgeful

I'd say it sounds like the Revolting Cocks but that might imply it had merit.

xp it reminded me a bit of that MES & D.O.S.E. track a bit, the Fall go big beat was really a sound the world had been waiting for

Reminds me of 'DARE' by Gorillaz. Indie frontman + electronica combo might be one of my least favourite genres. Never sounds quite right, and yeah like Matt DC says, more often than not it's the worst of both worlds.

Plug Myself In was great fuiud

hell no I'm not going to listen back to see if 19 years of hindsight might have changed that view

by the sound of it there was little to no collaboration per se on the 'Ibiza' track, Jason just sent them some lyrics and they put it over a standard neo-Prodigy beat

it's certainly nothing special but I'd kind of rather Jason offhandedly did stuff like this rather than wave it away because the Prodigy aren't the coolest thing on the block anymore

Never sounds quite right

i think that's what i liked about it - it sounded demented

and hell no I'm not going to listen back to see if 9 hours of hindsight might have changed that view

At this point the Prodigy really are starting to sound like Jeremy's 'Outrageous' bedroom track from Peep Show.

ha

Their next collab is with Leftfield - a pattern begins to emerge. http://www.nme.com/news/leftfield/83915

Chemical Bros collab coming soon

This is a bit embarrassing.

At this point the Prodigy really are starting to sound like Jeremy's 'Outrageous' bedroom track from Peep Show.

Ha ha. "No, mum, I'm not coming in for my DIINNNAHH... Eat it your FUCKING SELF"

And did those feet
In ancient times
FEEL IT

This is a bit embarrassing.

― Matt DC,

agreed.
bills have to be paid.
suspect that they are beginning to learn that being outside the loop means you can do/say whatever the fuck you like, whereas now with signatures provided on various forms, life is no longer that simple.
expect lyrics re being fucked over by the music industry in 2 years.

i really enjoy them
they feel to me like something that's not going to last, or at least in a vital way, for a super long time
but that's ok too, not everything needs to
i mean jeez i could count some of the greatest punk bands of all time that never had more than a handful of singles and maybe an album