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"Bands that just don't rock ENOUGH"

I've got quite a big catalogue of music on my PC and on my shelves, and every time another album skips round on random that I haven't heard in a while, I often find myself thinking 'whatever happened to these guys? They used to ROCK.' There's so many bands out there that absolutely have the potential to be amazing in every way, but are seemingly more content to put out cruddy ballads or boffo electronica to try and alienate as many people as possible, thus proving their artistic integrity. Either that or they just started to suck. A few examples:

Radiohead Please please please don't turn this into a Radiohead sucks/Radiohead rules thread, because that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that after listening to the Bends, I'm gagging for them to go back and write some songs that try to tear the roof off the joint - they haven't let loose for ages, but when they used to play My Iron Lung or even Paranoid Android, no one could touch them. Please start rocking again.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club I've got both of their albums and on each there are a couple of amazing songs that attempt to shatter the inside of your head they're so awesome, but the rest of them albums are full of dreary Jesus & Mary Chain knock-offs and show-gazing nonsense. Whatever Happened To My Rock N Roll is fantastic, Six Barrell Shotgun likewise. Why no more of these ones, boys?

Cooper Temple Clause I remember one of the albums I was most excited about a few years ago was the new Coopers album, because I loved most of the tracks on the first one, and the new single Promises Promises was the best song I had heard that year. Why then, was the album a complete Cleveland steamer? Why not turn the fuzzbox up and drown out the singer's whiny voice, rather than messing about with lame effects and the kind of sounds you get on your school keyboard.

Audioslave First album = ace, not a patch on Rage but Cochise and Set it Off were great, rest of the LP was not far behind. Second album? Still hasn't grabbed me yet, just lots of shouting while Tom Morello puts his pedals on Hold and wishes he'd gone to be a Mexican freedom fighter with Zach. How can a band with such a great heritage turn into a band with no balls?

There are more, but I'm too depressed to think of them. I'm going to put Evil Empire on and put my head through the ceiling.

Death from Above 1979 if you ask me.

Both.

Stryke wrote:
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> They're crap, incidentally.

Is that 'crap live' or 'totally crap'?

Another band worth looking at compared to these wishy washy ones:

Vex Red.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> monkey_man wrote:
> Snugs is the only one to see them in concert, so he's the worst by
> default.
>
> Twice, haha. No defence really, except for the fact that they just
> happened to be supporting other bands I went to see.

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I know that feeling, I had to stand a half an hour of The Bravery as a support act.

They're crap, incidentally.

United By Fate was the good album.

I.e, the only one, but it still kicked ass.

Used for Glue was the good single.

I agree.

Most new big bands go 'tintintintaptaptap' rather than 'FZZZTTTTT'

As I have said before.

Rival Schools ftw.

monkey_man wrote:
> Snugs is the only one to see them in concert, so he's the worst by
> default.

Twice, haha. No defence really, except for the fact that they just happened to be supporting other bands I went to see. If it makes me any cooler, I was in punching distance of Justin Hawkwind but his bouncer glared at me so I thought better of it.

I have always hated them, always always. I will fight to the death to prove my innocence. I feel like that Scouser in prison in Bulgaria.

Even Weezer stopped rocking well. WEEZER!