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"Lots of good new music"

Having broadband really is a rather wonderful way of refining your taste in music. Whereas before you'd have to spend £13.99 on an album from Virgin Megastores to discover whether you like a band, this method allows me to sort the wheat from the chaff, as it were. As such, I have discovered some excellent new bands whom you might wish to seek out yourself (and then buy your albums):

Eighties Matchbox Beeline Disaster - Really dumb, dumb and stupid rock, but loveable with it. Big fuzzy basslines, a singer what goes 'RRAAARRRGH' and songs about intercourse with members of YOUR family. It's all quite chaotic really, but a few of their songs are great, notably 'Celebrate Your Mother', 'Chicken' and 'Fishfingers'. Wapow!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Yeah, the NME have been going ape over them for ages now, but their music quite appeals to me. It's fairly hectic and you'll either love it or hate it, and to be honest, they look like New York art students and are probably the most annoying people you'd ever meet, but songs like Graveyard, Date with the Night etc. are definitely worth a listen.

The Thermals - Recommended to me by (again) the NME, only heard a few tracks from them but I like them already. Kind of like The Stooges, but not as good, yet still... quite good.

Sleepy Jackson - If you can, get hold of a song called Glass Houses, it's ace and will be the best thing you'll hear all day.

Other songs rocking the Snuggly-meter at the moment include:

Cave in - Inspire
The Mars Volta - I Cut My Teeth
Radiohead - Myxamatosis
The Rapture - Out of the Race and Onto the Tracks
The Thrills - Santa Cruz
The Zutons - Creepin and a Crawlin
Transplants - Diamonds and Guns

Judah Ben-Hur wrote:
> and Jolene by the White Stripes
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No. Absolutely not.
Either listen to the original by Dolly Parton or the only cover version that matters by Silverfish.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> The Thermals - Kind of like The Stooges,
> but not as good, yet still... quite good.

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Really? What's your favourite Stooges song?

> The Zutons - Creepin and a Crawlin
This rocks. Excellent voice.

However, I stopped reading the NME a long long time ago when I realised that, personally, they were Smash Hits for dirty students.

Would someone listen to Dredg? Just once?

Listening to Transplants album now... very varied.

BEARDS. wrote:
I saw them live supporting Placebo.

Damn you! I curse you to your grave!

Hum, still no news on when Placebo will be rescheduling their cancelled gigs.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Eighties Matchbox Beeline Disaster

I'm going to see these. They were guests at Placebo's recently cancelled gig.
>
> Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Excellent band! Great singer too.

> The Thrills - Santa Cruz :: Will have to get this. One Horse Town is a great song, so no doubt this will rock.

> Transplants - Diamonds and Guns

Yeah, I got this. Brilliant!

:cD

I'm beginning to like quite alot of acoustic versions of songs/unplugged. Aswell as quite slow moving songs aswell....

*gets list*

These are definatly worth giving a listen to....

Incubus - Mexico
Incubus - Vitamin
Counting Crows - Round Here
Counting Crows - Hard Candy
Audioslave - Like a Stone
Staind - Outside (acoustic *live* version)
Staind - Epiphany (MTV Unplugged)
Lenny Kravitz - Hey Joe (unplugged)
Nirvana - The man who sold the world (MTV unplugged)
White Stripes - Dead leaves on the dirty ground

*waves flag* Go! Download them!

It really wasn't sarcasm.

The other part was though.

If we hear a few tracks from albums instead of just the single then bands will begin to realize that they cannot sell albums off the back of one good single.

(see hot hot heat, etc)

Judah Ben-Hur wrote:
> You illegal mongrels runing music.

Not really, I'm just making sure I don't spend my money on crap. I don't see there's anything wrong with that. If I download good music, I'll go and buy the album, if I download crap stuff, I'll stay the hell away from it.

> Listen to gay Bar by The Electric Six now!!!!1

*hopes that was sarcasm*

and Jolene by the White Stripes