Keane: Whats Your opinion?

Can the Priory clinic cure them never to inflict music on the British nation again, thanks

Getting dropped by EMI must have made him sober up.

Ayethangyou.

Ah the gazillion jokes we could make about said choice of cover. But alas no I think my migraine just exploded in a million more migraines.

A dream.

"Somewhere We Only We Know" and "Nothing In The Way" = great. Most of their other singles = less good but still enjoyable. On the whole, their acute MOR melodic sensiblities more than make up for the lack of charisma/flamboyance, and the fact they seem to be dullards - but that could be unfair.

The only Keane related thing to have given me any pleasure was when someone (Charlie Brooker?) wrote that the singers face seemed to be made of 'runny cheese'.

I remember that. You're correct, it was Brooker.

Dull people tend to make the best music: Coldplay, Travis, Keane, Dodgy, Kooks. Noen of them providing the tabloids with the best headlines - all of them GREAT music.

(And going a bit back in time, you can add Howard Jones too - the press tends to get hostile towards acts that don't give them the headlines they need to sell papers)

Actually "HEADMASTER SUSPENDED FOR USING BIG FACED CHILD AS SATELLITE DISH" was about the singer from Keane

THey should be slowly dunked into vast, tepid vats of each others' vomit for what they did to "She Sells Sanctuary."

"She Sells Sanctuary" is rubbish anyway.

OUT

Ha!

Geir's line about dull people reminds me of the guy on the DMB thread who said some of the best music ever is bland.

After reading everything else in my bag after I forgot my book for the bus, I read that Spin piece on Coldplay and found myself wondering if they're actually the sound that I'll remember for the early 2000s (especially since, not being British nor particularly mindful, I can't tell Travis from Keane from Starsailor from Athlete).

Certainly seems like that's the background music for most of the advertisements aimed at my demographic (occasionally replaced by cooing female indie voice number three: vulnerable and fey). But whenever I hear that sort of sweeping, vague music, I feel like I've been sneezed on—damp and oozed-on and annoyed.

fucking thing sucks.

Geir's line about dull people reminds me of the guy on the DMB thread who said some of the best music ever is bland.

Dull people don't necessarily make dull music. For instance, Bach apparently was a very dull guy.

truth bomb

When I described Keane as dull, I wasn't referring to the absence of tabloid headlines - that would be intensely idiotic - but rather to the fact that in interviews they come across as rather dull-minded. But, as I said, that may be unfair.

I think Keane might be damned by the bands they're associated with. Travis, Kooks, Athlete, Starsailor etc. are all fairly ghastly. What Keane have over them - superior songwriting, melodic sophistication - perhaps aren't sufficiently in-your-face characteristics for people not to just lump them in with all the other dullards.

And are the Kooks actually dull people? I know they said that the Strokes saved music, which is a pretty dull thing to say, but even so?

It's alright, Ned - they're probably releasing it on 3.5 floppy disk

I sincerely hope The White Stripes, Billy Childish or some other technologically luddite act does so.

At the risk of being punched, I would say that "Spiralling" sounds like a mixture of Low-era Bowie and Colour of Spring era Talk Talk with what's-his-face from the Blue Nile on vocals, topped off with a post-ironic nod to "Fix Up Look Sharp" by Dizzee Rascal.

^drunk

Does the singer/Penist still look like a plate of melted cheese?

Got 'Spiralling' on repeat at the moment. Outstanding, so it is.

Still going. Yeah, this is great.

suggest ban

A year later. I still really like this tune, but it is agony to listen to - this is one band who could really do with a remastering.

i have not been as up to date on music like i once was. anyways i stumbled upon this:

In the United Kingdom, Strangeland debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 47,839 copies. It is Keane's fifth consecutive number-one album, a record only beaten by ABBA (eight), Led Zeppelin (eight), The Beatles (seven) and Eminem (six). The album has sold around 100.000 copies in the UK, being certified gold. The album also reached number one in Ireland and the Netherlands, becoming their second number-one album in both countries. It debuted and peaked at #17 in the US, before falling to #70 the next week.

Strangeland was just released in May of this year.

i'm just shocked as i had no idea that this is one band that really, really took off. i might have to go and listen to this.