That metacritic thing is pretty weird. All of the reviews are pretty positive, yet the band is at best mediocre? Where are the reviews which are like "ho-hum another by-the-numbers guitar band yawn 3/10"?
― Pashmina, Friday, 9 November 2007 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
stylus amirite
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 9 November 2007 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"what kind of music do you play, guys"
"we call our style 'vocational qualification rock'medio-core'"
― Pashmina, Friday, 9 November 2007 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link
That middle guy looks like someone with the modesty of David Essex and the looks of Ian McNabb.
― NickB, Friday, 9 November 2007 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
While I completely agree with the sentiments contained within this thread, I'm concerned for Dom's safety. We need to find a way to block all NME approved music from hitting his ears before he develops an aneurysm.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Let's find out what all the fuss is about, eh?
― Just got offed, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh wait, THAT'S Chelsea Dagger? FUCK, I'd been meaning not to find out what that was.
― Just got offed, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm on the frontlines here, man. My boss keeps going on about how awesome The Enemy were in concert last week.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Not really related, but I just found this Kogan nugget in the teenpop thread and figgered this was as good a place as any.
"...the term "indie dance" gets bandied about, probably in relation to the Gossip and the Kooks and the Pipettes..."
!!!
― Raw Patrick, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:14 (sixteen years ago) link
The kids, with their hippin' and a hoppin' and their allover print hoodies...
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks for putting song in head guyz
normally suffer this once a week during enforced xfm listening session in friends' car.
― ledge, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
tho i think the hoosiers wind me up even more
shit
― ledge, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
what about those young knife guys
are they a joke, or are they like someone's son or something
― That mong guy that's shit, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Young Knives = 'breath of fresh air' Boris Johnson supporters.
― Raw Patrick, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure in ILX's dark past the Young Knives would have received "phwoarrr, dirty dronerock boys sure get my clit-on" posts.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
But then Blount stopped posting aaaaaaahhhh
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Sadly, Young Knives >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fratellis
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.lullabyes.net/blog/uploaded_images/yk-771850.jpg
Maybe not, eh.
― Raw Patrick, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
man, I don't miss this
― That mong guy that's shit, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Isn't that Lucky Jim on the extreme left?
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't think anyone in that photo is on the extreme left
am i rite
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Longtime ilx poster "acrobat" has the kinda look for The Young Knives, it has to be said.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 November 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
that is actually over the line
― That mong guy that's shit, Friday, 9 November 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
18 (?) Played a Celtic Park every time they score*. Results in thousands of people going "duh ru duh duh ru duh duh rurururu duh duh ru duh duh ru duh duh rurururu duh".
19 *Replaced the Pogues' "Fiesta".
― onimo, Friday, 9 November 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
20 - #18 also includes weird arm waving thing kind of like toy soldiers gone mental.
― onimo, Friday, 9 November 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Oddly, I was just thinking how much the tune reminds me of 'Tin Soldier Man' by the Kinks.
― NickB, Friday, 9 November 2007 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know what this is and I'm too scared to listen to it in case I have exactly the same reaction as Louis.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I know which song this is, is it the one with the da da da da, da da da da, da da dadaaadadada sing-along chorus? As much as I hate it, Scouting For Girls is still worse, and I feel, more morally objectionable. I had a similar reaction to Pash when I heard that one.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I actually think SfG is worse too, but I'm not exposed to it as much as Chelsea Dagger. Matt, you WILL have heard this song. You probably think it's by the Kaiser Chiefs.
― Just got offed, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Just got offedMatt DC, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:11 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say, everyone knows this atrocity without knowing its name.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
21. "Characterised by its anthemic, scat sung chorus, which repeats the line 'Dur dur dur', it has been adopted on many football terraces as a crowd favourite (see below)."
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 November 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
young knives are deese
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 November 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
If we're mapping 00s haircut indie up against 90s Britpop, where do the Fratellis fit in? I'm assuming it's somewhere around Cast territory.
(xpost - this song was surely written precisely in order to be adapted for terraces and that fact that to my knowledge this has never happened is very funny)
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
it's B-sides are called "Dirty Barry Stole the Bluebird" and "The Pimp".
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 November 2007 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
^22.
23. yeah i was gonna say, everyone knows this atrocity without knowing its name.
-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:11 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
(there is no equivocating 90's with 00's Britpop.)
― Just got offed, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
it's not unlike the supernaturals -- 'the day before yesterday's man' -- on the annoyingometer.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I was reading WSC's "Half Decent Football Book" the other day, and one of the most interesting points in it was that how, in the past 30 years, probably the only song that has gone straight from the top 40 onto the football terraces is "Go West" by the Pet Shop Boys: ie, for all these plays to laddishness that these awful bands make, or any usage of "terrace friendly choruses" in modern indie/rock, the only band who succeed at thjs are two old homos who couldn't tell their arse from Elano.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Of course, "Monster" by The Automatic may still say in the terrace canon, but even then there's not much they have in common with, I dunno, The View or Milburn
God knows. Britpop never got this... misanthropic, did it? Or just viscerally contemptous of its audience. Even when Noelrock was in full swing.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
WHAT'S THAT COMING OVER THE HILL IT'S MICHAEL CHOPRA
I don't hear this as much anymore
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
90's Britpop actually cared about the music, about its audience, about succeeding through innovation and sound. There was a lot of shit but there was also a lot of very good music. 00's Britpop is all about the 'product', the market, the image, the imitation. It sucks harder than any other musical agglomeration I can think of.
The Automatic can suck my balls.
― Just got offed, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
90's Britpop actually cared about the music, about its audience, about succeeding through innovation and sound.
lol
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
not all of it, but a good deal of it. i don't want to get all Geir on yer asses, but there was plenty of decent stuff.
― Just got offed, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Geir?
haha xpost
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
You know, Louis, it takes a certain something to both wear rose-colored glasses AND live in an ivory tower...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
That said I do agree that the level of cynicism in the 00s bands we're talking about is off the scale, compratively speaking
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i googled the lyrics to 'chelsea dagger' coz all i've got out of it is the annoying chant. i don't understand the lyrics though so that's cool.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Colchester fans to financially fucked Coventry the other week: "What's that coming over the hill? TEN POINT DEDUCTION, TEN POINT DEDUCTION!"
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 10 November 2007 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
...and I also like The Young Knives!
― zeus, Saturday, 10 November 2007 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link
25. One Fratelli is called Mince, which is the worst nickname ever and choosing to be known by it makes him a twat.
― ailsa, Saturday, 10 November 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
26. The riff at the start sounds a lot like "Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not" by Half Man Half Biscuit, thus fooling me into perhaps thinking that the drudgery of the workplace Jo Whiley listening is going to be enlivened by "There's a bloke over there who says I can meet.... Ken Livingstone". And then it's this shower of shite.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 15 November 2007 11:18 (sixteen years ago) link
oh that'd be nice.
Wouldn't it though?
― Mark G, Thursday, 15 November 2007 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Vampire Weekend are like the charm school Fratellis. There, I said it.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 31 January 2008 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
they wear blazers right? fuck em.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 31 January 2008 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Much better produced.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 31 January 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Better rhythm section.
The Fratellis have confirmed they’ve split up after singer John Lawler posted a note on the band’s website.
"We have no plans to work together right now", he said.He posted his comment on at exactly the same time as bandmate Barry spoke of his past successes with the trio.
Lawler continued "Sometimes things just work out that way. Mince, Baz and I are working on music but not with each other.
"Your passion is appreciated more than we will ever be able to say. We'll forever give our hearts and souls to music and to you guys who want to hear what we do."
Lawler is currently busying himself with Codeine Velvet Club while drummer Mince is playing with metal band Throne o’Diablo.
Fans paid tribute to the trio on their website with one posting "You guys changed my life. Thank you for the wonderful music, memories and everything else."
http://www.faetzbook.com/images/maracas.jpg
― this guy was grey for me to poupon (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 22 April 2010 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Many hits, all forgotten but one..
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 April 2010 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Friends of my ex played in a band with the drummer prior to The Fratellis and claimed he stole the riff for Creeping Up The Backstairs from one of their own dismal songs, which they continued to include in their set. Apparently it was a really sore subject for them.
LOL
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 22 April 2010 11:19 (fourteen years ago) link
1. "Halloween Blues" 2. "This Old Ghost Town" 3. "She's Not Gone Yet But She's Leaving" 4. "Seven Nights, Seven Days" 5. "Shotgun Shoes" 6. "Whisky Saga" 7. "This Is Not the End of the World" 8. "Jeannie Nitro" 9. "We Need Medicine" 10. "Rock 'n' Roll Will Break Your Heart" 11. "Until She Saves My Soul"
― many a slip 'twixt Yow and Yip (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:04 (ten years ago) link
"Chelsea Dagger" has also been played over stadium sound systems before and after many football matches, and has frequently been played at other sporting events as well. League One side Yeovil Town play the song after a goal is scored at their stadium Huish Park. Since moving to the Juventus Stadium in 2011, Italian Serie A side Juventus F.C. does the same, as does Scottish First Division outfit Raith Rovers. English Championship side Nottingham Forest, who have reluctantly used it for quite sometime as many fans are opposed to the banal moronitude of the track, as well as Perth Glory in the Australian Hyundai A-League.
― Semih Semih yam Semih yay Semih Şentürk (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:07 (ten years ago) link
really transfixed by the Area Band mediocrity inherent to their song-titling approach
― many a slip 'twixt Yow and Yip (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:10 (ten years ago) link
Little is known about Lawler's life before he joined the Fratellis. He attended St. Maurice's High School and went to college before dropping out within three hours. Before joining the Fratellis, he played in an Oasis and Blur cover band.
― Semih Semih yam Semih yay Semih Şentürk (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:13 (ten years ago) link
Oasis AND Blur? Fucking hell. Who is this crazy deviant.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:21 (ten years ago) link
Mencap i wd "finest" yr display name but i'm not dealing with 200 posts from outraged Americans
― RAWK of Agger's (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
all part of the ongoing quest to find a joke with the smallest possible theoretical audience
big fan of twin cover bands and the bet-hedging therein - there's an Abba/Carpenters one that I see listings for quite often
― many a slip 'twixt Yow and Yip (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.cjtazz.co.uk/images/tributes/jamiroquai_jawonderquai-l.gif
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:50 (ten years ago) link
^that might be the platonic ideal
― many a slip 'twixt Yow and Yip (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:54 (ten years ago) link
Abbarpenters
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link