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by Vinnie
So here's the question do you lovery,helpful,gorgergous,funnypeople know of any other bands like VC or DV.
Posted: 13:59 Sep 05 2002
I think its time for some new music!
Ok i'm getting really bored with todays pop music.
It all starting to sound the same.
It's all so manufactured, even the rock bands are either playing a pumped up pop tune or some thrash which makes your ears bleed.
I been looking around for something different.
Bought Rasputina which i think I need to be in a really depressed mode to listen to. It's quite weird.
Got the Nerf Herder CD which I was expecting to be a lot harder rock that it was.
Tried Velvet Chain and thought it was brilliant
just been to their website and ordered a couple more of the CD's.
Also tried Darling Violetta the Kill you EP which i loved the title track is so haunting.
Oh yeah also order the THC - George Sarah CD so i'll see what thats like when I get it.
So here's the question do you lovery,helpful,gorgergous,funny
people know of any other bands like VC or DV.
It all starting to sound the same. It's all so manufactured, even the rock bands are either playing a pumped up pop tune or some thrash which makes your ears bleed.I been looking around for something different.
Bought Rasputina which i think I need to be in a really depressed mode to listen to. It's quite weird.
Got the Nerf Herder CD which I was expecting to be a lot harder rock that it was.
Tried Velvet Chain and thought it was brilliant
just been to their website and ordered a couple more of the CD's.Also tried Darling Violetta the Kill you EP which i loved the title track is so haunting.
Oh yeah also order the THC - George Sarah CD so i'll see what thats like when I get it.
So here's the question do you lovery,helpful,gorgergous,funny
people know of any other bands like VC or DV.
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Posted: 13:59 Sep 05 2002
i can't think of any off-hand at the mo.
But i know what you mean about Nerf Herder; even though i'm a big fan, at first when i bought one of their albums i'd expected it to be heavier, but now i love them all the same
But i know what you mean about Nerf Herder; even though i'm a big fan, at first when i bought one of their albums i'd expected it to be heavier, but now i love them all the same
Posted: 19:01 Sep 05 2002 
A wise man once said "never discuss politics or religion at the dinner table." Maybe it's time we brought this motto up to date and make it slightly longer:
"Never discuss politics, religion, sport, music or films at the dinner table."
Everyone has their own idea of what is good or bad but for the record, I get quite depressed when I think that the majority of the Top 40 this year has been compiled by rap, r'n'b and drum'n'bass *stuff*. Even the boy- and girl-bands had some good tunes in them once. Now everyone and their record company is "rethinking" old classics and, as you say above, making brainless pop for braindead people.
Remaking a tune can be cool, when you change the format in an original way. But how many artists in the commercial charts are original?
The flipside to that is: how many people search out independant music? People seem to like only what is given to them.
Oh, this could so easily slip into a "society is basically lazy" rant, but I'll refrain for now!
"Never discuss politics, religion, sport, music or films at the dinner table."
Everyone has their own idea of what is good or bad but for the record, I get quite depressed when I think that the majority of the Top 40 this year has been compiled by rap, r'n'b and drum'n'bass *stuff*. Even the boy- and girl-bands had some good tunes in them once. Now everyone and their record company is "rethinking" old classics and, as you say above, making brainless pop for braindead people.
Remaking a tune can be cool, when you change the format in an original way. But how many artists in the commercial charts are original?
The flipside to that is: how many people search out independant music? People seem to like only what is given to them.
Oh, this could so easily slip into a "society is basically lazy" rant, but I'll refrain for now!
Posted: 20:46 Sep 05 2002
*snigger* ... the above will be followed by those time honoured classics "Young people these days" and "I've lost a button off my cardigan"
Posted: 22:35 Sep 05 2002 Oh, go on
by Cirieno
The flipside to that is: how many people search out independant music? People seem to like only what is given to them.
Oh, this could so easily slip into a "society is basically lazy" rant, but I'll refrain for now!
I know you're quite capable of supporting your position and I'd like to hear it.If people like what's given to them, why should they seek out more?
Posted: 23:34 Sep 05 2002
If youlike VC and Dv and i do,then you might like Kosheen, its alittle trance-er but has haunting lyrics and vocals,especially song hungry .
Posted: 02:30 Sep 06 2002 LOL
by Kate
*snigger* ... the above will be followed by those time honoured classics "Young people these days" and "I've lost a button off my cardigan"
Seriously, if you think the charts are bad now, you only have to watch TOTP2 occasionally to realise that, with few exceptions, they've always been bad.
And I actually don't think it's all that helpful in a discussion like this to dismiss entire genres just because one doesn't personally like them. If you judge, for want of a better word, 'indie' music solely by what appears in the charts, you end up evaluating the whole lot to the standards of Stereophonics and Coldplay, and to that may I just say *yaaawn*
Phrased in those terms, it's quite a difficult one to argue. But you probably knew that.
by Demona
If people like what's given to them, why should they seek out more?
Because it means taste is effectively dictated by a few record company executives, and the playlist choosers at Radio 1 and MTV? Because what is the most popular, or has the largest amount of money behind marketing it, is very rarely what is best?
Having been in a band, it's a rather depressing fact that when you're unknown, it's much easier (and better paid) to get gigs playing covers of well-known artists than it is playing your own material. People want to hear what they already know, and while that is their choice, I don't think it does a whole lot for the development of new and interesting music in the future...
Oh, and on a more positive note, the new Queens of the Stone Age album's pretty good.
Posted: 09:40 Sep 06 2002 Seconded. Good to hear Dave Grohl back on the drums aswell.
by In a State of Dan
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Oh, and on a more positive note, the new Queens of the Stone Age album's pretty good.
My current recommendation would be N.E.R.D. Hiphop with guitars. Nice.
Posted: 13:24 Sep 06 2002
my current new music top five is
1-ben kweller
2-dashboard confessional
3-avril lavigne
4-vanessa carlton
5-the music
oh and saves the day too!
1-ben kweller
2-dashboard confessional
3-avril lavigne
4-vanessa carlton
5-the music
oh and saves the day too!
Posted: 14:38 Sep 06 2002 How great is that CD. Been listening to nothing else (except for Tenacious D
by willow_fantastico
3-avril lavigne
) Posted: 17:09 Sep 06 2002 
The tenacious D album is great
i was listening to a song the other day, that sounded so much like Dv that i got a shock when it wasn't actaully them...can't remember the title or band tho :O i'll get back to you if i remember
i was listening to a song the other day, that sounded so much like Dv that i got a shock when it wasn't actaully them...can't remember the title or band tho :O i'll get back to you if i remember
Posted: 18:04 Sep 06 2002 Whats that song of his with the most random video ever made?? (giant strawberrys and stuff)
by willow_fantastico
my current new music top five is
1-ben kweller
How good is that song shes releasing?! Is the album as good??
by willow_fantastico
3-avril lavigne
Posted: 18:26 Sep 06 2002 LOL ,will do
by Teresa
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It's brilliant. Go buy
(Edited by Eve 06/09/2002 19:05)
Posted: 19:05 Sep 06 2002
the song by ben kweller is caled wasted and ready off his new album sha sha, his old band radish are worth checking out too very cool.
avril's album is great not as pop like as the new single sounds!
avril's album is great not as pop like as the new single sounds!
Posted: 13:32 Sep 08 2002