Who's Worse? The Hoosiers or The Feeling?

i almost have to admire the hoosiers for pronouncing their own name wrong

The Hoosiers are at least kind of frenetic enough to be actively annoying

The Feeling should by rights be like second band on at the Jug of Ale at 9:30, polite applause from the 20 friends they've bought, dad at the front on his own with the camcorder, y'know?

Hoosiers make worse music, pretty sure that dude from The Feeling is more deserving of a broken jaw though.

Tracer, how should you pronounce it? "Hoosher"? "Hooz-yer"?

There always seem to be bands doing ELO impressions and each one seems to be worse than its predecessor. Keeping the Dream Alive by Freiheit wsa the first, that wasn't bad. The Feeling did a worse ELO impression than Freheit and the Hoosiers are considerably worse still.

taking sides: that advert where the Hoosiers are all quirky and shit going "apparently no-one's heard of us! We've had a number 1 album!" and pushing the screen and shit, vs that T4 documentary about the making of the new Feeling album where they're fucking around in helicopters and talking up the supreme nobility of their limitless musical ambition

Alice and Amber both like the singles a lot (They did a cover version of "Goodbye Mr A"), so we got them the album. However, after the tenth singalong of "Run rabbit run" and the rest of the "Radiohead Light" stylings of the tracks that aren't singles, we cry ENOUGH!

The Feeling songs seem chock full of cliche, but their latest single "I thought it was over but it's not" seemed purposefully vague. What wall came down? What is "A baby king with a grown man's crown" referring to? Is it all some sort of lyrical rubik's cube, and when it's figured out, all you get is nothing more complex than one colour per side?

Wow, that Feeling T4 documentary must really have been something special!

They're both pretty bad, but each in their own way. The Feeling are pleasant enough when they're on the radio, but I forget the tunes as soon as the record's finished playing. They're bland. The Hoosiers aren't bland, but they sound horrible, and if I hear them on the radio, I turn it down for a couple of minutes, I can't stand listening to their gawky, clunky, clumsy sound.

The only bit of music by either of them that comes to mind is the bit of that hoosiers tune that was nicked off ELO. That's pretty bad, I think?

Hooiers are worst (as in, I have to turn the radio down), so I voted for them.

The Feeling: Elle Style Awards Band of the Year 2008

Well done to The Feeling on a tremendous achievement.

Hey guys, remember Cherry Ghost? No, me neither.

What is "A baby king with a grown man's crown" referring to?

It's a far reaching metaphor for the Bush administration, duh

Irwin Sparkes is a bit of a twunt, but at least he realises it. The Hoosiers wackiness is forced, but I can ignore them. But the smugness and self importance of The Feeling really pisses me off.

Nicked from some other message board...

Well, you were there when the wall came down / A baby king with a grown man’s crown / And we played in the sun as the curtain was crumbling / Well I was young and I could not see / That if you go won’t you please take me / And you told me that I would forget you eventually (and I nearly did) / Yeah, yeah // I thought it was over but it’s not / I thought it was over but it’s not // I’m spinning in circles I can’t stop / I thought it was over but it’s not / I’m in love / With a fool / And you don’t know what you’ve lost / It hurts from the bottom to the top / I thought it was over but it’s not / Yeah // Another year and the job was done / The old republic was dead and gone / And the new way of living would be a reality / But it’s a while since you shut that door / I lie awake ain’t asleep no more / Though the nightmare is gone now I don’t have a dream (I don't have a dream)// I thought it was over but it’s not / I thought it was over but it’s not // I’m spinning in circles I can’t stop / I thought it was over but it’s not / I’m in love / With a fool / And you don’t know what you’ve lost / It hurts from the bottom to the top / I thought it was over but it’s not // Does anybody know? / Does anybody know? / Does anybody know? // I’m spinning in circles I can’t stop / I thought it was over but it’s not / I’m in love / With a fool / And you don’t know what you’ve lost / It hurts from the bottom to the top / I thought it was over but it’s not
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Pretty sure some of these lyrics are wrong as they don't make sense. Anyone got any suggestions?

Lol to say the least.

The Hoosiers: a British Presidents of the United States of America for the new millenium? They'd probably take that as a compliment!

Think this'll be the year Ben's Brother finally make it big.

Was gonna diss that band who had a name like Nubb or something, but I forget what they were called.

It's a far reaching metaphor for the Bush administration, duh

I was gonna say it was about a penis but it's all gravy.

xpost Kubb - fronted by the singer from Rootjoose, as I never tire of mentioning

As funny as these guys being fronted by one of the 21st Century Girls?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fight

The Feeling: they want to be Radiohead, really they're not even Travis.

I thought The Feeling wanted to be Supertramp?

Scouting For Girls are worse. The Feeling look like session musicians, The Hoosiers look like... twats, but Scouting For Girls look like date-rapists.

Does looking like a date rapist prevent you from making good music?

The Jam looked pretty rapey.

Scouting For Girls are worse

Why do you think I excluded them from this poll?

you think you're hot snot on a silver platter but you're really cold boogers on a paper plate

The Feeling: they want to be Radiohead

Wrongest thing ever said on ILM!

If you look like a date-rapist and make wimpy sub-Keane, sub-Supertramp piano ballads for girls who like boys in white Fred Perrys, then you're gonna be shit. If you look like a date-rapist and make... I dunno. Thuggish music, maybe? it's the concealed thuggery in SfG that makes them sinister and bad and nasty; likewise Kaiser Chiefs. Date-Rape Rock, we should call it. If they sounded like The Young Gods it'd be OK.

(xpost) I get "the feeling" (ha ha ha... oh never mind) that The Feeling want to be political like Radiohead.
Scouting for Girls? WTF is it with these "zero stage presence" bands? Hot Chip look like Tony Robinson and the crew from Time Team spending their day off pissing around in Dixons.

The Hoosiers, hands down. That singer is such a collosal prick. The Feeling don't particularly offend me.

I was amazed when I found out the Hoosiers were British. I'd heard them for months and just always assumed they're American.

The Hoosiers are far shittier than The Feeling.

I hate the Feeling so much. They are on a par with Scouting for Girls. The Hoosiers I don't care about and at least they didn't have a song on ABC1 ALL YEAR last year. But is the poll question "Who's worse" or "Who gets your goat less"??? this is key.

Was it really only a year ago that Orson won best international band at the Brits?

kiss of death?

The Feeling are apparently The Official Guilty Pleasures Band.

I believe the word is "pogrom."

one festival to avoid:

v festival

The line-up so far is:

16th August Hylands Park/17th August Weston Park

V Stage:
Muse
Stereophonics
The Kooks
Maximo Park
Alanis Morissette
The Futureheads

Channel 4 Stage:
The Prodigy
The Pigeon Detectives
Newton Faulkner
The Hoosiers
Duffy
Amy Macdonald
Shed Seven

JJB Arena:
Ian Brown
The Pogues
Jamie T
The Twang
Sugababes
David Jordan

16th August Weston Park/17th August Hylands Park

V Stage:
The Verve
Kings Of Leon
Amy Winehouse
Lenny Kravitz
The Feeling
Girls Aloud
Squeeze
One Republic

Channel 4 Stage:
Kaiser Chiefs
The Zutons
The View
Reverend And The Makers
Scouting For Girls
The Courteeners
The Rifles

JJB Arena:
The Chemical Brothers
The Charlatans
Hot Chip
Travis
Robyn

Tickets go on sale 10am, Friday 7th March.

That does indeed look like a vision of hell on earth.

All festivals should be avoided. I've got a stereo, a bathtub and an imagination; I'm staying at home this summer.

But is the poll question "Who's worse" or "Who gets your goat less"??? this is key.

^^ cos i want to vote hoosiers worst for music/vids/singer's face/THAT ad.

Holy shit @ that V lineup

what's the comedy tent like?

(I know, it's a canvas thing with ropes and poles, etc..)

Channel 4 Stage:
Kaiser Chiefs
The Zutons
The View
Reverend And The Makers
Scouting For Girls
The Courteeners
The Rifles

^^^This is a list of bands where THE ZUTONS are the best act on it.

Think about that people.

Comedy Tent:
Marcus Brigstocke and his Rich Snowboarding Mates

V festival is the mainstream festival - blend the following: Radio 1 / Radio 2 / NME / Q / Virgin Radio

Marcus Brigstocke's current stand-up routine contains five minutes on "Have you ever noticed how CHAVS hire CHEAP LIMOS?"

He truly is the comedy mind of his generation.

The Chemical Brothers
The Charlatans
Hot Chip

That's alright tho, innit? Chems were good last year at Glasto.

The Feeling are better, but both are brilliant, so I refuse to vote for Hoosiers as "worse". There should be more music like that in the charts. Softrock rules!

^^^Only man who can challenge Brigstocke for the comedy crown

I thought The Charlatans had split up, anyway.

Geir, I made an option for you.

But I eated it!

Generally, the world needs way more ELO/Jellyfish-influenced acts and way less Aretha Franklin/James Brown-influenced acts. That would make music better.

No doubt the main DJ at the V Festival will be Sean "Guilty Pleasures" Rowley, the Steve Walsh of his age, turning up and playing the same four records for another 50 grand. Nice work if you can invent it.

It is The Feeling, without a shadow of a doubt

I enjoyed the documentary about Geir on Radio 4 last night:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/pip/zy9cp/

This has nothing to do with skin colour. I hate R&B and funk for its lack of melody and harmony, not because it's associated with black people.

A lot of great melodic music has been made by black people and even more awful and completely unlistenable non-melodic music has been made by white people.

I enjoyed the chat show which Geir used to host:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39712000/jpg/_39712465_kilroy_bbc_203.jpg

Oh oh wo oh wo...

http://www.go-quick.com/GoodbyeMrAmberAlice.mp3

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