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"Brits get serious + results"

Finally, it looks like theyre at last turning into awards show that is about decent music, it started last year with some respectable nominations but none won anything, this years winners are much better apart from Will Young and Robbie Williams(I always thought Radio 2 listeners had better taste).

Joss Stone for best female was ok although how she won best Urban is beyond me.
Franz Ferdinand deservedly won best rock and group although should have been nominated and won best single
Keane walked off with best album and best newcomers
Gwen Stefani got best international female, don't agre with it, should have been Kelis
Avril Lavigne should have got best pop act but it went to McFly
Will Young getting british single was a disgrace
Muse got live act
Eminem got best international male and a couple of years ago i would have agreed but at least it wasn't bloody Usher
Scissor Sisters win international album, breakthrough and group, the last one probably being the only one should have got.
Robbie Williams won yet another vote to prove once again how dumb the voting public are, if thats the best song of the last 25 years i'll jump off a cliff.
Bob Geldof gets the outstanding contribution to music award, wrongly i think, musically he's not done much in a long time and if anything this is just for his charity work.

Overall it's a big improvement on previous years and i'll be looking forward to next years Brits.

Can someone tell me how the hell a crappy Will Young song got in the top 5 of that greatest songs.

I can accept Robbie Williams being nominated because everyone loves him. Joy Division should have won and even that song wasn't that good.

Cycloon wrote:
> FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Cycloon wrote:
> Nobody. There was no (edit: truly) good British rock band
> from
> last year, that I heard of. Or at least, Muse is around etc, and the
> Doves, and Radiohead, but they didn't do much last year.
>
> Ahh .. quick edit there I see.
> Nothing truely legendry, obviously. But a whole load of very good
> indie-rock that I wasn' prepared to buy and play many times.
>
> I keep myself rather ensconsed in digging up foreign (FOR SHAME I
> hear you cry) bands who released their stuff 1/2 years ago.
>
> Aye, same here.
> 'Tis the two sides to my music loving. Both living in perfect
> harmony.
>
> Note the change. CAN YU C IT m8?
>
> LOLOL!
>
> ;)

wasn'
wasn'?

You sure told me.

Stale/crap/atrocious/horrendous/pain inducing.
Yes.

Can't rememer what song it is ... or who sings it, but there's a pretty new rap song they keep playing all over the place. Sounds like what I'd regard as proper rap (well, probably slightly more R&B, but still) from the 90's.

Against all this quite bland stuff, it sounded quite refreshing.

Mainstream music in general has got very stale of late.

Blame the chavs.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Cycloon wrote:
> Nobody. There was no (edit: truly) good British rock band
> from
> last year, that I heard of. Or at least, Muse is around etc, and the
> Doves, and Radiohead, but they didn't do much last year.
>
> Ahh .. quick edit there I see.
> Nothing truely legendry, obviously. But a whole load of very good
> indie-rock that I wasn' prepared to buy and play many times.
>
> I keep myself rather ensconsed in digging up foreign (FOR SHAME I
> hear you cry) bands who released their stuff 1/2 years ago.
>
> Aye, same here.
> 'Tis the two sides to my music loving. Both living in perfect
> harmony.

Note the change. CAN YU C IT m8?

LOLOL!

;)

ßulle†† wrote:
> I don't think that's what Tilt was getting at.
>
> He quoted Flock saying no-one has anything new to say anymore and
> that the videos are all clichéd.
>
> All those above acts definitely don't fall into that judgement.

No they don't but i'm taking about those making an impact on the mainstream, only Kanye West has come even close over here, we've got such a mix at the moment and i can't see any new sound exploding in the same way as Disco or rap or grunge, things have gotten a bit stale regarding genres in the last 5 years.
Whatever is underground has been underground for a long time and that can't be a good sign as it's not likely to ever get mainstream sucess.

Cycloon wrote:
> Nobody. There was no (edit: truly) good British rock band from
> last year, that I heard of. Or at least, Muse is around etc, and the
> Doves, and Radiohead, but they didn't do much last year.

Ahh .. quick edit there I see.
Nothing truely legendry, obviously. But a whole load of very good indie-rock that I was happy to buy and play many times.

> I keep myself rather ensconsed in digging up foreign (FOR SHAME I
> hear you cry) bands who released their stuff 1/2 years ago.

Aye, same here.
'Tis the two sides to my music loving. Both living in perfect harmony.

Cyclone said pretty much what I was trying to say actually

Nobody. There was no (edit: truly) good British rock band from last year, that I heard of. Or at least, Muse is around etc, and the Doves, and Radiohead, but they didn't do much last year.

I keep myself rather ensconsed in digging up foreign (FOR SHAME I hear you cry) bands who released their stuff 1/2 years ago.