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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.

Stryke wrote:
>
> The Killers, sir, but from New York. It's all that electro-pop
> nonsense. One of my mates' is into it. Can I go now, sir, mummy wants
> me home?

Interesting.

I like a Killers song (that sounds wrong but so does putting 'the' infront), hmmmmm.

*Goes off for more ice-cream*

What an odd evening....

Hedfix wrote:
> Ahhh, it was the freaking Pepsi ad wasn't it?

:-)

Welcome to the machine. It's not who you know, it's who you blow isn't "Heddy"?

Chipseh wrote:
> gimo80 wrote:
>
> I still love rocking out to a good old bit of Pumpkins. And Pearl
> Jam. Ahh, good times.
>
> Hell yeah, bring it on. :)

Siamese Dream? Ten? *orgasms*

Chipseh wrote:
> I don't think I can be on good terms with you anymore, RBS.>
> :D

Heh. But come on. Standing On The Shoulders of Giants? Bland. Don't Believe The Truth? Bland.

The Masterplan, 'cking AWESOME.

RastaBillySkank wrote:
> Hedfix
>
> Never that great, but his earlier stuff was so much better. He's just
> too commerical now.
>
> :-)

Ahhh, it was the freaking Pepsi ad wasn't it?

gimo80 wrote:

> I still love rocking out to a good old bit of Pumpkins. And Pearl
> Jam. Ahh, good times.

Hell yeah, bring it on. :)

RastaBillySkank wrote:
> Chipseh wrote:
> They still are. I loved "Don't believe the truth". :)
>
> Oh balls. They've had about 2 good songs an album since Heathen
> Chemistry.

..........!

I don't think I can be on good terms with you anymore, RBS.

:D

Hedfix

Never that great, but his earlier stuff was so much better. He's just too commerical now.

:-)

Hedfix wrote:
> Stryke wrote:
>
> Yup, I have, if you were gearing up for a 'you can't judge them'
> mini-speech. And they're still crap.
>
> What bands do they sound like?

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The Killers, sir, but from New York. It's all that electro-pop nonsense. One of my mates' is into it. Can I go now, sir, mummy wants me home?

RastaBillySkank wrote:
> RHCP
>
> What happened to them?!

I never liked them to begin with. :D

Ahhh this thread is cracking me up tonight.