Bloc Party: C/D?

Or did the backlash already exist?

It was number three...

I think I'll always hold up "Is This It" as a sort of yardstick for rock albums, of course because I am not really into rock, and it's a fantastic pop album really. Bloc Party for me come across a bit too right on or something with some of the lyrics and delivery, like "passionate" in that rock way, which doesn't do much for me.

“He’s born a liar / He’ll die a liar… / …he’s just like his dad / He’s just like his dad / Same mistakes / Some things will never be different… / …why can’t you be / More European?”

...are horrible. And I'm someone who's generally forgiving of bad or indifferent lyrics.

Haha Ronan I think we have totally different preferences when it comes to guitar music - I like a bit of bombast to my indie rock. Part of the reason the likes of the Strokes never really clicked with me was because it all seemed a bit too neat and composed.

To be fair, I'm like that with all music - once dance music gets too dry and tidy I tend to lose interest, maybe that's why I've never appreciated the clickier end of microhouse for example.

ON THE FUCKING MONEY

i'm gonna say IF....!! (even tho it doesnt quite fit) just to see cozen wince

DJ Koze's remix of "Zu Dicht Dran" on Kompakt.100

"International Snootleg" by International Pony Vs. Losoul (feat. Malte)

they're just so painfully average. classic, dud ... either of these would be an improvement, to be honest. i'd say they were forgettable but i can't even remember.

I realize that in the world of ILM there aren't many hard or fast rules, but a band with one album and a handful of EPs?

They get the C/D treatment?

Already?

Would the same have been done following the release of Radiohead's Pablo Honey or Daft Punk's Homework or the Jaxx Remedy?

I guess it's possible they too would have got it, what with so many itchy mouse buttons hovering over the "Submit" button. But I don't suppose it'd have made the judgment any less premature.

Perhaps. Especially considering I began this thread last April.

Radiohead are always the example that gets brought up in these circumstances and the people who do so are right in a way. But there's also a slightly annoying "well, its only their first record" line that gets trotted out by indie kids defending shit records. I mean, The Music might come up with a certified pop classic in two or three years but I doubt it.

Of course giving bands time to develop is a good thing, I just dislike it being used as an excuse.

Perhaps I'm just being too literal here. It would seem the title "classic" would be reserved for bands that have had an opportunity to develop.

It's less an "excuse" for Bloc Pary and more a pursuit of accuracy in labeling.

Because, after all, what's a band or artist worth if we haven't pigeonholed them within one month of its first album's release?

"they're lack" should be "their lack"

"pigeonholed them" should be "pigeonholed it"

Why'd you have to get so hysterical?
Success, success, success is over
Why'd you have to get
So fucking useless

appear on your album you'll get an advisory sticker. The Bush Admin. and/or music industry have bigger fish (see Shiavo and P2P, respectively) to fry than lil' ol' Bloc Party.