Keane: Whats Your opinion?

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i was shocked as to how much more overblown "everybody's changing" and "bedshaped" are on the album in comparison to the versions on the fierce panda singles. pointlessly so..

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

I'm really diggin' this lately. Is something wrong with me?

If you get past the guy's overly earnest singing style and the band's lack of guitar/bass, it's quite the decent album. Great melodies. Great pop. The last 3 songs are my favorite.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Thursday, 3 March 2005 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

KEANE = TALK TALK.

Chapter 1: 3 poshboys make soaring pop album without guitars, make a fortune.

Chapter 2: Go nuts with artistic and commercial pressures, hole themselves away in farmhouse and produce epic, organic songs about dying.

I'm so convinced about this that I've decided to get in on the ground floor. So I'm going to force myself to listen to "Hopes & Fears" in the same way as "The Party's Over".

You'll see. In 20 years they will be "who?" but also part of the canon.

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 3 March 2005 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I still think Somewhere Only We Know is a great tune. A lot of folks seem to see them as Coldplay-2 but Coldplay could never write a song that good. I've still yet to hear anything else from these cats though.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Who says Talk Talk were posh?

― Some Dadaismus Implied (Dada), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

My mum loves Keane. That pretty much sums them up.

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

talk talk were quite posh, but who gives a fuck - they were terrific.
how anyone, even an imbecile with virtually no critical faculties like huey, can possibly say keane are anything like talk talk is utterly beyond me.
talk talk were doing something interesting, keane are doing something considerably less than interesting, their styles of music are entirely different, blah, blah, blah ad nauseum.
and as for the snarky reference to "the canon"... change the fucking record.

― stelfoxx, Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Would it surprise people to know that the singers mum is on the board of governers at one of the poshest private schools in the country?

― Webb Friendly (Webb Friendly), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

how anyone, even an imbecile with virtually no critical faculties like huey, can possibly say keane are anything like talk talk is utterly beyond me.

It's fairly straightforward - Keane remind me of early Talk Talk, circa The Party's Over. By the way, if the chips were down I'd say that Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock were my two favourite things ever.

What's a Critical Faculty?

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 3 March 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

and as for the snarky reference to "the canon"... change the fucking record.

WTF????

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 3 March 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Talk Talk? A-Ha?

I dunno about the rest of the album (someone can fill me in), but "Somewhere Only We Know" sounds EXACTLY like The Raspberries.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I like "Somewhere Only We Know." Haven't heard anything else from the album. The DJ Shadow Vs. Keane promo we got at the station is stagnant ass.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Keane new single is so dumb

Wimpy Keane vocalist singing along to sub faux U2 guitar chords.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

surely only middle-class people, like NME readers, know what 'scrumping for apples' means.

I missed this sentence at the time. Jesus WEPT this place sometimes

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm with Huey. The new single's a U2-aping piece of anti-industry nonsense, but watch this album shift 2 million copies and the band go absolutely nuts on LP#3.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

srsly DJ, my co-workers would not unnerstand that phrase.

― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:43 (twenty years ago)

I understand that phrase.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:00 (twenty years ago)

anti-industry?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. If I could remember what it's called I'd google the lyrics. Maybe more anti-press, anti-naysayers. Either way, it's politely pissed off, and a little more muscular than you might expect. I always thought, melodically, that The Last Time was a big nasty rock bitch trying to get out of a pussy ballad.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

First Keane..and now Snow Patrol are back to inflict the airwaves with their brand of bland rock

..can it get any worse? are the thrills due for a comeback this year?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Snow Patrol are My Bloody Valentine for stockbrokers. I do not see this as a bad thing. Also my girlfriend loves them.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Where can I find Keane's cover of "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"?

― Brian G, Monday, 24 April 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I heard some other track of theirs t'other day, along with a video shown on Channel 4 for seemingly no particular reason... now sound like a weird soft rock version of muse all baroque smoothness, weird... not great but not entirely unpleasant... the video was kind of uninentionally wannabe-Bergman. Weird as I said...

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Where can I find Keane's cover of "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"?

I think it's a download from the War Child Music website.

― Lotta Continua (Damian), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

what's scrumping????? explain pls

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

it's when kids in neatly pressed shorts stand on a wall taking apples from a low-hanging tree, until a friendly policeman appears and stops them with a winking admonishment.

re: keane. i caught a bit of their chicago concert on the telly the other night. for two songs i almost thought i liked them. then sense reasserted itself and i realised they really are quite appallingly fucking dull. a couple of good tunes and an interesting no-guitars gimmick does not a classic rock band make.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

They're not a rock band though. They're Adult Contemporary Piano Pop!

Also why "unintentionally wannabe-Bergman"? I've not seen the video and I'm not overly familiar with bergman's style but it's not beyond the realms of possibility that Keane said "We like Bergman, please make our video like Bergman". If they're as dull and middle class and polite as people say then surely they'll be into classic Euro-cinema.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 06:59 (twenty years ago)

The manager at a CD store I used to work at played their first album literally everyday. He loved it so much that he actually bought 4 different copies of, each of them slightly different (UK, US version with bonus track, etc).

The only thing nice about living in China is that I'll never ever hearthe new Keane single/album.
Actually, britpop is surprisingly popular here, so maybe someday I'll be walking around the streets and I'll hear someone blasting Keane. ugh.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 07:43 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Woooo! Tom Chaplin's a drugfuck!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5273692.stm

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

he must have confused himself with a rockstar

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

he's doing it very professionally.

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

rockstars seeking drug help = Lennon, Hendrix etc. turning in their graves

― Scourage (Haberdager), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

They were going to play Ibiza Rocks? lol2010

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

he must have confused himself with a rockstar

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/08/22/PH2006082200456.jpg

"Am too a rock star. Am too."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

I always like this post-1990 crop of UK three piece bands where there's the lead doof and the two anonymous dorks. Kingmaker was kinda prescient.

http://www.limeweb.com/kingmaker/images/band1.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

KEANE = TALK TALK.
Chapter 1: 3 poshboys make soaring pop album without guitars, make a fortune.
Chapter 2: Go nuts with artistic and commercial pressures, hole themselves away in farmhouse and produce epic, organic songs about dying.
I'm so convinced about this that I've decided to get in on the ground floor. So I'm going to force myself to listen to "Hopes & Fears" in the same way as "The Party's Over".
You'll see. In 20 years they will be "who?" but also part of the canon.

-- Huey (hue...), March 3rd, 2005.

if this is true it will be nothing short of the best thing ever

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Tom Chaplin officially on drugs is a sure indication of this actually happening. His 'I Believe In You' is simply begging to be written. Keane are the best band of the 00's, they just haven't realised it yet.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

He's 27 isn't he?

*tolling bells*

Brian... Jimi... Janis... Jim... Kurt... errrrrrrrrrrr, Tom Chaplin

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

If he's in The Priory, the same rehab clinic as Pete Doherty and Justin from The Darkness, maybe they'll write songs together! (I don't think I would want to hear them, but anyway)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Wah, Justin is in rehab?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

I heard he was in a hair transplant clinic

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

yep, he is.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

If it's possible to find out what combination of drink and drugs Tom's been taking then maybe we'll discover how to make the music sound good.

― lexurian (lexurian), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

Keane Chaplin [Blando], Doherty [Shambolic] and Darkness Justin [Glam Dork]

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

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm. Just when you wondered how Keane could get any more boring and you find out that this was them off their tits. God help how dull they'll be sober.

― T B (T B), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wah, Justin is in rehab?

Getting dropped by EMI must have made him sober up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

well it's not like The Darkness' novelty rock was going to sell a second time around was it?

― T B (T B), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

go tell it to the red hot chilli peppers/smiths/[insert other novelty act]

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

They already had the second time around and 'were' working on the third.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Turd more likely. I think it's actually an plot.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

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