That said I do agree that the level of cynicism in the 00s bands we're talking about is off the scale, compratively speaking
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Colchester fans to financially fucked Coventry the other week: "What's that coming over the hill? TEN POINT DEDUCTION, TEN POINT DEDUCTION!"
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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"?
― Just got offed, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
see, not ivory:
http://www.simonho.org/images/Cambridge/Peterhouse1.jpg
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
HOLY FUCK MY ROOM IS IN THE CENTRE OF THAT PICTURE
SHIIIT
― Just got offed, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Any chance we could just stick to slagging off the Fratellis?
― Neil S, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
NOT WHEN I'VE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY STALKED
― Just got offed, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
The great thing is that, Kevin Bacon style, all LJ zings are no more than two posts from logically stretching back to the Fratellis
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v150/103/125/36910239/n36910239_35469211_4596.jpg
― Just got offed, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
This song is great.
― da croupier, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
A bit of controversy there...
― Neil S, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Dom's through the looking glass, though. Knows what these songs mean in the context of the British class/sex wars. I accept that.
― da croupier, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
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%
― tissp, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
haha i knooooow he wouldn't have repped for the Doctor's Advocate if he was from HERE.
― da croupier, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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
Amarillo has managed it too, usually in relation to Arsene Wenger's sweet distribution methods. Rehab as well sometimes.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Surely Go West was sung at football matches before the PSB cover?
http://www.hardtofindrecordsrecordstore.com/htfrimages/BMR180010.jpg http://www.billiethevision.com/usr_img/MALL_konvolut.jpeg http://www.mysteryisland.net/loveandfear.jpg
That's about it.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i love the young knives ;_;
― electricsound, Friday, 9 November 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I think they're pretty good too.
― Neil S, Saturday, 10 November 2007 10:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the one Young Knives song I know.
Jesus Christ the Fratellis are a stale dogshit pannini tho.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 10 November 2007 10:33 (sixteen years ago) link
-- da croupier, Friday, November 9, 2007 9:15 AM (Friday, November 9, 2007 9:15 AM) Bookmark Link
I rep for The Doctor's Advocate and I'm from HERE. (Assuming HERE means America.)
― The Reverend, Saturday, 10 November 2007 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link
It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at
― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 10 November 2007 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
...and I also like The Young Knives!
― zeus, Saturday, 10 November 2007 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link
25. One Fratelli is called Mince, which is the worst nickname ever and choosing to be known by it makes him a twat.
― ailsa, Saturday, 10 November 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
26. The riff at the start sounds a lot like "Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not" by Half Man Half Biscuit, thus fooling me into perhaps thinking that the drudgery of the workplace Jo Whiley listening is going to be enlivened by "There's a bloke over there who says I can meet.... Ken Livingstone". And then it's this shower of shite.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 15 November 2007 11:18 (sixteen years ago) link
oh that'd be nice.
Wouldn't it though?
― Mark G, Thursday, 15 November 2007 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Vampire Weekend are like the charm school Fratellis. There, I said it.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 31 January 2008 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
they wear blazers right? fuck em.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 31 January 2008 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Much better produced.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 31 January 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Better rhythm section.
The Fratellis have confirmed they’ve split up after singer John Lawler posted a note on the band’s website.
"We have no plans to work together right now", he said.He posted his comment on at exactly the same time as bandmate Barry spoke of his past successes with the trio.
Lawler continued "Sometimes things just work out that way. Mince, Baz and I are working on music but not with each other.
"Your passion is appreciated more than we will ever be able to say. We'll forever give our hearts and souls to music and to you guys who want to hear what we do."
Lawler is currently busying himself with Codeine Velvet Club while drummer Mince is playing with metal band Throne o’Diablo.
Fans paid tribute to the trio on their website with one posting "You guys changed my life. Thank you for the wonderful music, memories and everything else."
http://www.faetzbook.com/images/maracas.jpg
― this guy was grey for me to poupon (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 22 April 2010 10:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Many hits, all forgotten but one..
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 April 2010 11:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Friends of my ex played in a band with the drummer prior to The Fratellis and claimed he stole the riff for Creeping Up The Backstairs from one of their own dismal songs, which they continued to include in their set. Apparently it was a really sore subject for them.
LOL
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 22 April 2010 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
1. "Halloween Blues" 2. "This Old Ghost Town" 3. "She's Not Gone Yet But She's Leaving" 4. "Seven Nights, Seven Days" 5. "Shotgun Shoes" 6. "Whisky Saga" 7. "This Is Not the End of the World" 8. "Jeannie Nitro" 9. "We Need Medicine" 10. "Rock 'n' Roll Will Break Your Heart" 11. "Until She Saves My Soul"
― many a slip 'twixt Yow and Yip (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:04 (ten years ago) link
"Chelsea Dagger" has also been played over stadium sound systems before and after many football matches, and has frequently been played at other sporting events as well. League One side Yeovil Town play the song after a goal is scored at their stadium Huish Park. Since moving to the Juventus Stadium in 2011, Italian Serie A side Juventus F.C. does the same, as does Scottish First Division outfit Raith Rovers. English Championship side Nottingham Forest, who have reluctantly used it for quite sometime as many fans are opposed to the banal moronitude of the track, as well as Perth Glory in the Australian Hyundai A-League.
― Semih Semih yam Semih yay Semih Şentürk (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:07 (ten years ago) link
really transfixed by the Area Band mediocrity inherent to their song-titling approach
― many a slip 'twixt Yow and Yip (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:10 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Semih Semih yam Semih yay Semih Şentürk (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:13 (ten years ago) link
Oasis AND Blur? Fucking hell. Who is this crazy deviant.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:21 (ten years ago) link
Mencap i wd "finest" yr display name but i'm not dealing with 200 posts from outraged Americans
― RAWK of Agger's (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
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
― many a slip 'twixt Yow and Yip (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.cjtazz.co.uk/images/tributes/jamiroquai_jawonderquai-l.gif
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:50 (ten years ago) link
^that might be the platonic ideal
― many a slip 'twixt Yow and Yip (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:54 (ten years ago) link
Abbarpenters
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link