Mansun : Classic or Dud

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No, that was the Brotherhood of Man.

If you sing "Being a Girl" in a stupid voice, it does become a bog standard Franz track.
-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 June 2006 10:56 (1 year ago) Link

^^^REAL TALK

the only mansun fan i've ever met is a terrible, terrible cunt

the only mansun fan i've ever met is an internet legend

Yr ex-girlfriend is an internet legend?

naw, i don't think she was a big fan rly.

im talking about louis.

So anyway. Plus bonus Kula Shaker trashing.

http://www.vanyaland.com/2013/11/15/paul-draper-britpop-band-mansun-california-rapper-mansun-face-twitter-dazzling-results/

I thought paolo nutini had one okay song

good-natured beefs that result in potential collaboration are the future, i've seen it

boggling at the fact that Draper has a blue tick on his twitter account.

i just can't get through the solo album. so much clattery, so much singy, too much something. I love the work he did on the Anchoress album but I'm not enjoying the work she did on this.

Just listening to this for the first time. Don't Poke The Bear is one of the worst openers I've heard in a long time. I know his voice was always an acquired taste but that is such a horrible vocal.

I'm listening to the album for the first time right now, still on "Don't Poke the Bear", and yeah, I was pretty into it until the vocal came in. Definitely a Bold Choice.

this is better than i expected

pvmic

i expected it to be bad tbf

pvmnic

He could have followed Six with this album. Nothing quite as good as I Can Only Disappoint U, though

I'm going to listen to ATTACK OF THE GREY LANTERN tonight.

is he not #cancelled now

nah he was a pathetic ass but idk if 'drunkenly propositioning your tourmate on fbook chat' is full-cancel territory. like, obv v shitty but yellow card and 'do better' imo

Paul Draper: ex-Mansun frontman denies stalking musician Catherine Anne Davies https://t.co/tzHjmCYadO

— Guardian culture (@guardianculture) December 12, 2022

a pattern has emerged :(

no excuse at all but he is fucked in the head and needs help as well as censure/punishment

honestly fuck him anyway tho, not gonna let this ruin Six but fuck relistening to his recent solo stuff (which was awful recriminatory bollocks anyway)

CAD and I are FB friends and she's posted obliquely about this over the years on her personal account, but didn't know the extent of it, and I have no reason to think she is anything other than utterly sincere and he is an absolute cunt

well as i say (as my post before the jump demonstrates), this is not a first offence!

he did not 'do better'

Somehow he and his lawyers blocked the story Laura Snapes had been working on for a while where she had talked to some of his victims. I'm glad he's finally getting called out in public. He's an awful human being and I doubt I'll listen to Mansun again.

There's more? Ugh

As I say though, I tend to forgive the art more than the artist, especially if the art long pre-dates the awful behaviour. You will prise Six from my cold dead hands etc, but Draper now? The wolves can have him

He seems to have gone massively downhill in recent years. I liked his first solo album, but fuck knows what has happened to him

i believe CAD wrote a lot of that first solo album so maybe that's part of the issue.

That 'Things People Want' song sounded like a lost single from Mansun at their best.
Strange to think just a few years down the line, everything is now in the bin, completely