I thought it might be. I got into them around the time of the first EP (true story I was at their first UK gig and wondered who those White stripes wannabes with the lady dressed as a Native American were) and I still think their EPs (including Is Is) are better than their albums. But when they're good, they're really good. I once listen to nothing but Y Control for a whole day.
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BritGAF |OT6| Dark Souls? More like Arse Holes
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I thought it might be. I got into them around the time of the first EP (true story I was at their first UK gig and wondered who those White stripes wannabes with the lady dressed as a Native American were) and I still think their EPs (including Is Is) are better than their albums. But when they're good, they're really good. I once listen to nothing but Y Control for a whole day.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah Yeah Yeahs first album is great. I saw them a few times, once when Dave Pajo from Slint was providing keys and geet. Yes, I squeed.
Strokes are inoffensive. I like a couple of songs but I completely missed the bandwagon on that one.
I used to have time for him but... scientologist, unfortunately. Sure, separate the Man and the Art/Death of the Author etc. problem is, it's fucking Scientology.
I was on that Strokes bandwagon in big amounts until the third album. Nikolai thanked me from the stage when Julian was thanking all the fans. I wouldn't shut up about it for a long time. They are incredibly handsome men.
You see with Beck, I find the Scientology creep in his lyrics interesting and his music too good to ignore. Some of his lyrics are just amazing - particularly on Modern Guilt. I much prefer miserable lost Beck to happy collage Beck.
Orphans!
NinjaBoiX
Member
Love Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Show Your Bones is the best record, but Fever To Tell is still pretty badass.
Beck is mint too, Midnite Vultures if you're asking.
It was definitely a bit too electro for its own good but it wasn't a complete write off. I loved Dragon Queen.
I've decided to evaluate my life by how good it is compares to Lumines. At the moment life is good, but Lumines is better.
Cmon dudes give me some scores to beat!
Oh and re Beck, I like Midnight vultures too. I like "hey lady, step inside my Hyundai" 😄
Cmon dudes give me some scores to beat!
Oh and re Beck, I like Midnight vultures too. I like "hey lady, step inside my Hyundai" 😄
I'll check mine later. I don't think it's especially good, but I know I completed that world cube level up thingy on my first run through. Kinda bummed me out because I thought it'd be some long running persistent thing.
Come to think of it, I've probably only played Lumines Vita a handful of times. I burned myself out on the 360 version. I should get back into it.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
What is Lumines?
Yeah. I did too. A bit like Curiosity.
It's a little bit like a squares-instead-of-lines Tetris crossed with a rhythm game crossed with FLASHY LIGHTS AND SWIRLY COLOURS. It's from Tetsuya Mizuguchi and has that whole synaesthetic thing going on. With cubes. I love it because of all the aesthetics but also because it's twitchy and score chasey.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
That's too bad. You might try Morning Phase?
I think the drop off was much quicker with strokes. Amazing first, poop second. Yyy, Amazing first, okay second then downhill. I find most bands suffer from this in recent (20 years+ when I say recent, a stretch but I digress) times, never managing to go from strength to strength.
Thank god interpol are one and done, there's no telling how much they could've sullied their good name after that fantastic first album.
I saw yyy two nights on the trot once. True story.
Get out! The Strokes' second was better than the first!
And I didn't mind Antics.
But I mostly agree. I don't follow the modern "indie" bands so much anymore but when I did it was always massive hype around a debut and then a trail off. This is pre-Spotify though.
I'd like it if more bands took the approach of The Fall. Just keep recording and don't stand on ceremony trying to make The Joshua Tree (or whatever the Big Album paradigm is now).
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
Reptilia is better than anything on Is This It, but the album is nowhere near as good. A real classic.
You both need to stop worth the crazy talk.
New York City Cops and Hard To Explain are better than anything else they've ever done.
Re: big hype and then nothing, I think the Arctics have been one of the few to buck the trend, now that I think about it.
Yeh I think Arctic Monkeys have constantly improved album to album.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Arctic Monkeys are basically George Formby gone electric.
NinjaBoiX
Member
You guys are all wrong, Trying Your Luck is the best Strokes track.
Y Control is seriously one of my least favourite YYY's tracks, it's kind of limp. It's no Date With The Night or Pin.
Y Control is seriously one of my least favourite YYY's tracks, it's kind of limp. It's no Date With The Night or Pin.
True story, they've constantly changed up their sound too. From the bouncy, upbeat punk of WPSIATWIN, to the slightly darker more angular punk of FWN, to hazy stoner rock on Humbug, 60's psychedelia on Suck It And See and big, bold, anthemic blues on AM.
Really really no.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
I didn't like AM that much, it had a few good tunes but overall doesn't stand out from the crowd to me. I got to see them perform live over the summer and it was their old stuff that really got people moving. It kind of seems like they are aging into Dad Rock which makes sense given they've all gotten older. I've just always preferred the bite of Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.
toythatkills
Member
My life isn't even as good as Meteos.
As for music, surely we can all agree that the best representative of BritGAF is Mr B.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Grab yourself a ukulele and play/sing along. Seriously, it's uncanny.
NinjaBoiX
Member
Really never dug Y Control, it's a proper fan favourite too. It sounds like them treading water to me. It really lacks their usual venom and riotous energy. But then again I love Modern Romance and that's about as sedate as music gets!
I assume you meant Pin by "on", wicked video too:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Pin
Alex does have a very distinctive regional accent while singing, so I guess there is that!
Psch you guys.
1. Room on Fire is great.
2. The best Strokes song is probably You Only Live Once.
3. Fever To Tell is patchy. It's not as good as the Bang EP or the Machine EP. Pin is good though. Y Control is amazing.
4. Interpol's second album is good.
5. I want to like the Monkeys but I find his melodies really, really samey. They do occasionally do a song that knocks me sideways though (A Certain Romance, Brianstorm, Don't Sit Down, whatever the last song on Humbug was, R U Mine)
Oh and Bowen we've got a bit of a gaming gathering happening tomorrow round at ours now. Excited! Posting in case any other Mancs want to ask for an invite.
1. Room on Fire is great.
2. The best Strokes song is probably You Only Live Once.
3. Fever To Tell is patchy. It's not as good as the Bang EP or the Machine EP. Pin is good though. Y Control is amazing.
4. Interpol's second album is good.
5. I want to like the Monkeys but I find his melodies really, really samey. They do occasionally do a song that knocks me sideways though (A Certain Romance, Brianstorm, Don't Sit Down, whatever the last song on Humbug was, R U Mine)
Oh and Bowen we've got a bit of a gaming gathering happening tomorrow round at ours now. Excited! Posting in case any other Mancs want to ask for an invite.
show me your skeleton
Member
can't stand how similar the chord progression/rhythm is to black sabbath's war pigs on one of the recent arctic monkeys singles.
NinjaBoiX
Member
It's on Arabella, and it's thoroughly intentional, an homage if you will. They even segue into War Pigs for 10 seconds or so playing it live. It's only two notes anyway, it's hardly like they lifted a whole melody.
And as you've mentioned it, the cadence of the opening line is delicious:
"Arabella's got some interstellar gator-skin boots,"
Hot Coldman
Banned
what happened to jimbor
He pissed off a scouser, who then had a whinge and reported him.
Check the UK politics thread. Oddly none of those complaining seemed to be frequent posters in that thread and look as if they turned up specifically to be insulted.
show me your skeleton
Member
aye but those are war pigs' two notes!
seriously though the arctic monkeys have taken each album as an opportunity to move away from what i enjoyed about them. love their first two releases and appreciate the development but it ain't for me.
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
The guy who said 'reported' is joking I think, it is part of his footballgaf persona. He's a good poster. Jimbor got banned for being a dick, which is fair given that that is what he was trying to do.
I sort of thought that but it turned out everything after the second album have been growers for me. Love them now.
If his persona is not having a laugh and being a snitch, then hes a shit poster
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
He isn't actually snitching lol. But with jimbor it is inevitable that he'll cross the line at some point, just the nature of his posting. Shame he is banned.
NinjaBoiX
Member
Haha, I know this shit. You're soaped up and washing away, and then suddenly, there is more cock to wash.
I'm terrible for scratching my nuts while I take a piss. Sometimes I'm done, shaked off the drips and all that, yet I'm still stood there for a good minute or so scratching my ballsack.
Simple pleasures.
Hot Coldman
Banned
TRULY THE MOST INTELLECTUAL THREAD GOING
Nerdkiller
Membeur
Haha, I know this shit. You're soaped up and washing away, and then suddenly, there is more cock to wash.
I'm terrible for scratching my nuts while I take a piss. Sometimes I'm done, shaked off the drips and all that, yet I'm still stood there for a good minute or so scratching my ballsack.
Simple pleasures.
I love a good thigh rub myself.
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
Incredible stuff...
Yesss Five Guys is opening a branch in Market Square. Cannot wait to see what the fuss is about. I swear every restaurant thread mentions that company.
Yesss Five Guys is opening a branch in Market Square. Cannot wait to see what the fuss is about. I swear every restaurant thread mentions that company.
oh shit really? fucking hyped.
Apparently it pales in comparison to the US branches and the independent burger restaurants.
NinjaBoiX
Member
Nothing, they're pretty bland to be honest. Not awful, probably better than MaccyD's or something, but when you barely get any change out of twenty quid it's hard not to feel disappointed.
Better off going to a Wetherspoons, the burger is far tastier, you get a pint, and it's like a third of the price.
Yeah, I was thoroughly underwhelmed when I went. The bun was yeasty and a bit stale, and the patty seemed like nothing more than plain minced beef.
Seasoning, what is it?
Really? I went in the US and thought it was pretty mediocre.
NinjaBoiX
Member
I agree with Mike, get all the toppings so it actually tastes of something. Maybe ask how long the buns have been out while you're there.
I'll admit the fries are pretty damn tasty, but it's massively overpriced for how thoroughly mediocre it is as a meal. You could have a pretty decent meal in a restaurant for the same price.
