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"If you could see any 5 bands die..."

Had to be done really.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
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> Aha. It seems everyone hates the Bravery, bar one song, but it's
> never the same one.
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> You choose Public Service Announcement ... :' (

It's the funkiest one of them all.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
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> I've heard 'Never Lose ...' and I love it - still a hint of the Libs,
> while sounding very different. Lovely singing voice, too. Reminds me
> of Bob Dylan a little.
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I didn't go crazy for that, but I heard their new song on Zane Lowe the other day and it was really really good. I think they are a better prospect than Babyshambles.

I quite like the guitar on F Forever, you know the instrument played by Unnamed sack of bones #1.

Asher wrote:
> Yeah. I mean if you've heard the new Yeti stuff, it's really good,

I've heard 'Never Lose ...' and I love it - still a hint of the Libs, while sounding very different. Lovely singing voice, too. Reminds me of Bob Dylan a little.

> and Carl Barat always had the better voice and charisma anyways. The
> Libertines as a group were really good,

My favourite songs are with Pete and Carl singing alternate verse / chorus or whatever. They've got quite similar voices, but it's a nice, slight, difference in sounds.

Carl's solo stuff is excellent, yeah - give me anything by him over what Pete is 'producing' these days, if you can call it that.

but strip them down to
> individuals and Pete is nowhere near as good as his bandmates.

Certainly not.
Well, the Babyshambles stuff he did while the Libs were together was actually pretty good - basically just acoustic Libs. But since the official split ... it's just terrible, with Pete stumbling around, shouting and mumbling the lyrics, expecting people to be happy just because it's him.

Rargh. I'd really just like to straight-punch him in the fase, tell him to grow up, get back with the Libs and be good again.

Asher wrote:
> FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
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> No, the Bravery have Out of Line. Nothing else.
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> You mean the one song on that album that physically hurts my ears?
> What are you on about? The only one worse than that is the godawful
> bonus song Hot Pursuit.

Aha. It seems everyone hates the Bravery, bar one song, but it's never the same one.

You choose Public Service Announcement ... :' (

They were good at the time, when we were the equivalent of "teeny boppers", but it was easy to grow out of them

Having listened to some recently I'd say they're still not awful, and as you said about Rap, you can't be too quick to judge

Their newer stuff is pants though

I didn't say it wouldn't get them a career, I just said it was never going to be good.

Were Sum 41 good?

Case closed.

Sum 41 made a career out of it

A punk boyband was never really going to be good though, was it?

Goddamn I hate The Bravery.