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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.
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.
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They have?
Ah, might check them out again then.
Ah, might check them out again then.
Feeder have gotten so heavy.
Oooh, something heavy....erm....Pantera?
Oooh, something heavy....erm....Pantera?
Oh GOD it's a list of middle of the road gah!ness.
Someone PLEASE suggest something heavy!
Disturbed need to crank it up a notch, yeah. :D
Someone PLEASE suggest something heavy!
Disturbed need to crank it up a notch, yeah. :D
blimmerfisch wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> ...it's a final greatest hits album and they pack it all in.
>
> Go press some buttons and create some noise or something
Yeah NASA really let me slip in under the net, but shhhh!
> Hedfix wrote:
> ...it's a final greatest hits album and they pack it all in.
>
> Go press some buttons and create some noise or something
Yeah NASA really let me slip in under the net, but shhhh!
blimmerfisch wrote:
>
> So hopefully...
Hedfix wrote:
> ...it's a final greatest hits album and they pack it all in.
Had to edit that in because CHIPSEH ruined it, like he ruins EVERYTHING!!!1111 :'(
Well I SAY edit, but what I mean is re-post..... :( ....., DAMN YOU CHIPSEH!!!!1111
>
> So hopefully...
Hedfix wrote:
> ...it's a final greatest hits album and they pack it all in.
Had to edit that in because CHIPSEH ruined it, like he ruins EVERYTHING!!!1111 :'(
Well I SAY edit, but what I mean is re-post..... :( ....., DAMN YOU CHIPSEH!!!!1111
Hedfix wrote:
> ...it's a final greatest hits album and they pack it all in.
Go press some buttons and create some noise or something
> ...it's a final greatest hits album and they pack it all in.
Go press some buttons and create some noise or something
...it's a final greatest hits album and they pack it all in.
Stereophonics!
Jesus, "Word Gets Around" was amazing. Every track was excellent, with a few stand-out's like "Check My Eyelids For Holes" and "A Thousand Trees" etc etc.
"Performance and Cocktails" was... pretty average, really. A few good songs here and there. Then "Just Enough Education to Perform" was, with exception to the first song, pants. Most of it was whiny and it did nothing for me. "You've Gotta go there to come back" was the weakest album. It was dire.
"Language. Sex. Violence. Other" was a step in the right direction, but it still fell short. Nothing that they've done since WGA has compared to it, and I daresay it will.
Jesus, "Word Gets Around" was amazing. Every track was excellent, with a few stand-out's like "Check My Eyelids For Holes" and "A Thousand Trees" etc etc.
"Performance and Cocktails" was... pretty average, really. A few good songs here and there. Then "Just Enough Education to Perform" was, with exception to the first song, pants. Most of it was whiny and it did nothing for me. "You've Gotta go there to come back" was the weakest album. It was dire.
"Language. Sex. Violence. Other" was a step in the right direction, but it still fell short. Nothing that they've done since WGA has compared to it, and I daresay it will.
Radiohead have a new album due early next year.
So hopefully...
So hopefully...
Stryke wrote:
> Both.
So you've heard their entire album then?
> Both.
So you've heard their entire album then?
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