Calvin Harris should stop making music immediately

my own mud? um..

ugh could the guy get any less likeable.

Possibly the worst shit ever made.

Andy I'm so glad you agree. I despise him.

"It annoys me some DJs are getting paid five times as much as us when we are a proper band and they're only playing other people's records."

twat

but i like "acceptable in the 80s"

really boring on tv

I forgot Carl Cox existed till this thread. Is he still big in Europe? I’d expect not ...

Oh wow, the sheer assholery of that DJ comment...

Yes, everyone knows that playing records is harder than making them, so why shouldn't DJs get paid five times more?

carl cox doesn't get paid more because of what he does on stage. he gets paid more because he can draw 10 times as many people.

I caught the last few songs of his LA set last week, and didn't think it was that bad. Sort of had a 90s dance/LCD Jr. vibe to his songs. I did notice that the club was 18+, and most of the crowd did not have over 21 wristbands, which I think says a lot about his demographic.

Also, way more females than males in attendance, and most looked like they hadn't been to an indie club before. Led me to believe that he must be getting a huge MySpace/MTVU push.

calvin harris - scotland's disgrace pt. 48.

carl cox is STILL massive.

Are there any mega-big name 90s DJs who aren't still massive? It's like they can go out of fashion as much as they want and still draw big crowds.

CALVIN HARRIS AND THE MITCHELL BROTHERS TOGETHER ON ONE TRACK. THE BEST OF BRITISH DANCE MEETS THE BEST OF BRITISH URBAN. HOW CAN THEY FIT SO MUCH NON-IRRITATING TALENT ON ONE SONG? I HAVE NO IDEA.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zt7VRD6zlSs

Led me to believe that he must be getting a huge MySpace/MTVU push

along with a nice line in DFS sofas ..

ok

1. playing in a real band? big whup, what fucken difference does it make? I think almost anybody would rather hear a good DJ set than a shit band

2. he is a poor imitation of mylo, who is a poor imitation of Les Rythmes Digitales

3. he jumped on the electro/80s revival bandwagon at least 5 years too late

4. he is a stupid twat

^ all 4 points OTM

But I do like Acceptable in the 80s...

Calvin Harris OTM

a bunch of my friends are really digging this guy, but i gave the album a spin and was thoroughly unimpressed. it's getting massive college radio play. maybe some good remixes would make it more palatable.

emily, play your friends "darkdancer" by Les Rythmes Digitales from 1999.

i went back to my college a couple weekends ago for homecoming and this shit was playing all over. wtf

I thought he was very funny in this Metro mini-interview

4. he is a stupid twat

-- max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 14:27 (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

^^^this dude was frequently otm, whatever happened to him?

"I couldn’t stand that J-Lo song with the saxophone all the way through, Get Right. That was bad."

idiot.

just read this on wikipedia about the "Acceptable in the 80s" video:

The music video features many references of the time; the stereotypical large hairstyles, bright dayglo colours and bizarrely, scientists dissecting what appears to be an otter, products of which are used by a hair stylist, TV chef, and to heal a grazed knee. The video is directed by Woof Wan-Bau.

this could be a number of things I suppose; is he saying that BACK THEN animal testing and vivisection were (more) acceptable, that there wasn't as much environmental consciousness as today? I love it that someone called Woof Wan-Bau exists.

I think it was more that people just hated otters in the 80s, as they were associated with the (then) embarrassing 70s (Tarka The Otter, Ring Of Bright Water etc.)

(actually Ring Of Bright Water came out in 1969, but we all know the 70s began in 1968)

we have some songs of his on the work ipod, one where he is singing about "electro man" is a mix of the "electro boy" song from the mighty boosh and that one belle & sebastian dance track, sung by the dude from david devant and his spirit wife. really really bad.

Maybe Calvin Harris is just trolling.

'In My Arms' from the forthcoming Kylie album is quite good.

So's her cover of "Love is the Drug."

bentley rhythm ace of 2007

some good stuff alright. he's otm about that j-lo song.

he's rubbish

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/7328513.stm

Chart star Calvin Harris has lost seven months of work on his new album in baggage problems at Heathrow.

The dance musician, from Dumfries, in the south of Scotland, was returning to the UK from America when the bag containing his laptop went missing.

A spokeswoman for his record company confirmed it contained the only copy of work on Mr Harris' second album.

His first release - I Created Disco - was a top 10 hit and carried the debut single Acceptable in the 80s.

The album's success led to him working with the likes of Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Kylie Minogue, for whom he wrote the forthcoming single In My Arms in his bedroom on a 15-year-old computer.

A spokeswoman for Columbia Records confirmed that the lost laptop contained several new songs the DJ and musician had been working on.

"He has lost the only copy of the new album," she said.

"It is a big cause for concern - months of work have gone into that."

She said it would not affect his live performances as they did not involve the use of the laptop.

However, it could set back work on a new album for some time.

"They have offered about £750 in compensation," said the spokeswoman.

"You can't really put a price on something like a new record."

Flights cancelled

British Airways has said its priority is to reunite passengers with their luggage as soon as possible.

More than 400 volunteer staff have been working to deal with the situation.

Thousands of bags were caught in a backlog after the opening of the new T5 terminal at Heathrow this week.

Numerous flights were cancelled due to problems with the baggage handling system.

British Airways has admitted that the chaos surrounding the opening of Terminal 5 has so far cost about £16 million.

there is a god

i thought this thread was about beat happening

Oh no that sucks! "Acceptable in the 80s" was pretty good but "The Girls" had the girls going wild! That song is hot.

I never checked the full album to be honest but I can't believe he would keep his entire new one on just one laptop. Way to suck, British Airways!

This is totally a dog-ate-my-homework story, and is Harris's excuse for not yet having churned out the follow up Columbia is no doubt pestering him for so they can rush release it before everyone gets (even more) sick of him.

yeah as much as i would like this to be true, what kind of mongtard doesn't back that shit up?

He should just steal Laromlab's album and pass it off as his own.

Has Dom been moonlighting as a baggage handler at Terminal 5?

of course he has another copy. its just a load of PR gumph aint it.

Was about to say the same. If it was really the case they'd be suitably embarrassed to not issue a fucking press release about it

Perhaps he did a song with Naomi Campbell and she wasn't too keen on it.

Maybe the record label is trying to get extra compensation from british airways

That would be hilarious so I hope you're right

Anyone tech-savvy enough to make good electronic music knows to back shit up. What a jackoff.

i don't know if actual djs in actual clubs actually play him but yeah he's all over the radio, drinking from the bottle being the current irritant

I can't imagine any DJ with any kind of rep ever playing Calvin Harris, but he's probably ubiquitous in high street nightclubs (ie most of the clubs in the UK).

"thinking about you" is such a good song

yeah it's much better than his other recent stuff, i was actually surprised it was him. naturally it is not getting nearly as much american radio play as his other songs did.

fukk yes

gr8 song, esp for the 278th single off that record, possibly the best 278th single ever?

i'm sort of into "summer"

video for it is garbage

horrifyingly, i kind of enjoy the rita ora single which is his handiwork i think *ducks*

"Summer" is ok but seems like a rewrite of "Feel So Close" (which I kind of liked *ducks*)

the synth line of the chorus to summer is beyond parody, like something from page 2 of "john thompson's elementary guide to the piano"

not into "summer" at all

i enjoy like 50% of his singles COME AT ME

'summer' is aite. i still think 'i'm not alone' is the best, such a dumb song i love

it's my favorite by him too, tho i heard it again recently and i would say it has lost some of its appeal

haim, big sean, gwen stefani & tinashe on the new one http://www.stereogum.com/1709814/haim-tinashe-gwen-stefani-featured-on-calvin-harris-motion/news/

haim song on this album is the best thing he's done since 'acceptable in the '80s'

hmmm wrong, that would be his Armani photoshoot

lol

only good thing dom ever did was the title of this thread

it still applies obviously