100 reasons why "Chelsea Dagger" is the worst fucking song ever

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.

But then Blount stopped posting aaaaaaahhhh

Sadly, Young Knives >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fratellis

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.

http://www.lullabyes.net/blog/uploaded_images/yk-771850.jpg

Maybe not, eh.

man, I don't miss this

Isn't that Lucky Jim on the extreme left?

Don't think anyone in that photo is on the extreme left

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Longtime ilx poster "acrobat" has the kinda look for The Young Knives, it has to be said.

that is actually over the line

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".

20 - #18 also includes weird arm waving thing kind of like toy soldiers gone mental.

Oddly, I was just thinking how much the tune reminds me of 'Tin Soldier Man' by the Kinks.

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.

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.

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.

Oh wait, THAT'S Chelsea Dagger? FUCK, I'd been meaning not to find out what that was.

-- Just got offedMatt DC, Friday, 9 November 2007 13:11 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

yeah i was gonna say, everyone knows this atrocity without knowing its name.

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)."

young knives are deese

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)

it's B-sides are called "Dirty Barry Stole the Bluebird" and "The Pimp".

^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.)

it's not unlike the supernaturals -- 'the day before yesterday's man' -- on the annoyingometer.

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.

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

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.

God knows. Britpop never got this... misanthropic, did it? Or just viscerally contemptous of its audience. Even when Noelrock was in full swing.

WHAT'S THAT COMING OVER THE HILL
IT'S MICHAEL CHOPRA

I don't hear this as much anymore

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.

90's Britpop actually cared about the music, about its audience, about succeeding through innovation and sound.

lol

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.

Geir?

haha xpost

You know, Louis, it takes a certain something to both wear rose-colored glasses AND live in an ivory tower...

That said I do agree that the level of cynicism in the 00s bands we're talking about is off the scale, compratively speaking

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.

Colchester fans to financially fucked Coventry the other week: "What's that coming over the hill? TEN POINT DEDUCTION, TEN POINT DEDUCTION!"

You know, Louis, it takes a certain something to both wear rose-colored glasses AND live in an ivory tower...

Why is it that you only ever engage with me in order to belittle me? I'd really be intrigued to know. I'd also be interested to hear an explanation for your post. WTF "ivory tower"?

see, not ivory:

http://www.simonho.org/images/Cambridge/Peterhouse1.jpg

HOLY FUCK MY ROOM IS IN THE CENTRE OF THAT PICTURE

SHIIIT

Any chance we could just stick to slagging off the Fratellis?

NOT WHEN I'VE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY STALKED

The great thing is that, Kevin Bacon style, all LJ zings are no more than two posts from logically stretching back to the Fratellis

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v150/103/125/36910239/n36910239_35469211_4596.jpg

This song is great.

A bit of controversy there...

Dom's through the looking glass, though. Knows what these songs mean in the context of the British class/sex wars. I accept that.

Harry Lime ARL (5:04:43 PM): passantino can be pretty funny, when he's not being a cunt
thom jesus west (5:05:08 PM): yeah, i mean, he's a twat, but he's getting pretty good at working with it. he's like our miccio
-- butts lmao (adelangsto...), January 27th, 2006.

24. probability of clicking randomly in the current time scrolly thing on youtube video and hearing du dur dur dur dur dur dur dur chorus roughly = 95%

I'm trying to find the goddamn best of lists on stylus since I realized I have no idea what music Dom has actually enjoyed since 2004.

haha i knooooow he wouldn't have repped for the Doctor's Advocate if he was from HERE.

really transfixed by the Area Band mediocrity inherent to their song-titling approach

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.

Oasis AND Blur? Fucking hell. Who is this crazy deviant.

Mencap i wd "finest" yr display name but i'm not dealing with 200 posts from outraged Americans

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

http://www.cjtazz.co.uk/images/tributes/jamiroquai_jawonderquai-l.gif

^that might be the platonic ideal

Abbarpenters