Im thinking Out Hud (titles are too long) and Foals (titles are too short).
- Features: * Homefires at Field Day 2008
- Features: * Green Man 2008: DiS's festival highs (and lows)
- Features: * Reading/Leeds: what our writers thought
- Features: * Reading/Leeds: what the photographers snapped
- Features: * Reading/Leeds: Day Two report
- Features: * Reading/Leeds: Day One Report
- Features: * Preview: Reading & Leeds 2008
- Features: * Field Day 2008: DiS's highlights
- Features: * Storas Festival 2008: the DiS review
- Features: * Summer Sundae Weekender: DiS's highlights
- Features: * Green Man 2008: DiS's five festival picks
- Features: * In Photos: DiS Stage @ Summer Sundae Weekender
- Features: * Green Man 2008: Q&A with festival founder
- Features: * The Weekly DiScussion: the best festivals EVER
- Features: * Pohoda Festival 2008: the DiS review
- * DiScover Club @ RoTa @ London Notting Hill Arts Club, 30/08
- * Future Of The Left, Working For A Nuclear Free City, Dinosaur Pile-Up @ Sheffield The Harley, 30/08
- * Santogold @ London Koko, 3/09
- * Hercules & Love Affair @ London Koko, 4/09
- * American Music Club @ Bristol Thekla Social, 9/09
- * Bon Iver @ London Shepherds Bush Empire, 11/09
- * American Music Club @ London Bush Hall, 11/09
- * Plans and Apologies, Jeffrey Lewis, The Atoms @ Derby The Royal, 12/09
- * Guided Missile @ London Buffalo Bar, 13/09
- * American Music Club @ Cambridge Barfly at The Graduate, 15/09
- * Club AC30 @ London King's Cross Scala, 16/09
- * Adrian Orange, Sparky Deathcap @ London Cafe Otto, 16/09
- * American Music Club @ Winchester Railway Inn, 16/09
- * Andrew W.K. @ London Madame Jo Jos, 19/09
- * Rolo Tomassi, DiS DJs, The Ghost Frequency, Mirror Mirror @ London Old Blue Last, 22/09
Hinder
..... because.... their best song is called lets get stoned or something.... and its terrible, they are a poor mans Nickelback
I thought...
Nickleback were the poor mans Nickleback?
crack
is the poor man's nickelback
Múm
I don't know why they annoy me so much. They just seem totally pointless.
ah yeah
mum are annoying. i can't figure out why either. we should ask them
Any band that goes on about "polyrythyms" or "serial music"
but isn't nearly as interesting as either of those things.
so foals then
.
nah they're fun
but i don't hear any of these
avant garde artists they harp on about in their music.
And they are NOT math rock.
the pitchfork review of the album
hit the nail on the head in this respect.. they do have far more in common with bloc party than they do with don cab..
exactly
and it really annoys me. most of it's 4/4 - and not with any syncopation - it's just 4/4 disco beats.
they go on about steve reich and PiL but sound not even remotely like either.
Eh
I don't think slagging them off for the math rock thing is fair, pretty sure they never described themselves as such... that label was mainly slapped on them by journos with limited musical vocabularies.
but the singer did say it
and he also said that he thinks most people won't like them because their music is "too abrasive" for the mainstream.
and then they release cassius. pop pop pop!
Really? Well he ALSO infamously said
"we're a pop band" or "we make pop music" or whatever, which people were equally hateful about.
He did a photo shoot with the label written on his knuckles.
His old band is more math rock.
^ well that changes things
i'm glad he admits it is just pop. but equally, can't he make his mind up.
i actually like them, but i find them just a wee bit too pretentious for a band who are just straight forward pop.
Placebo
That fucking little girl front guy can suck a grenade.
Poison
Mostly every thing they do and stand for annoys me. I am annoyed by there little "dance moves": the lower leg side kicky stomp thingys and the stupid drum stick twirlies, their hideous taste in gear, clothing, song subject matter- I would love to pee in their mouths.
and motley crue
actually, all poodle rock bands. including Guns and Roses and MEtallica.
Pigeon Detective
Charmless, tuneless, fat, ugly, northern bastards who encapsulate everything I am not.
aren't they just?
i can't get past the acne
Pavement.
*Awaits the anger*
But, yeah. Don't get 'em. At all.
totally
and dinosaur junior. what the fuck is all that about?
^5!
Couldn't agree more.....
Quite like Dinosaur Jr. myself
But yes, Pavement are terribly, terribly over-rated. They're not even bad...just a bit dull to be honest.
do these bands annoy you
or are you just annoyed that the are so highly regarded and yet you can't see why. If they do annoy you; why?
are they REALLY highly regarded?
by whom?
it's just dreary, dreary , dreary eyed americana for people that wear plaid shirts, have wood panellin gin their lounges and smell of book sand cats.
they are just not interesting. and every single song sounds exactly the same.
that's more like it
Hatred: It's the only thing that lasts.
yes. i really do hate them...
(he types while scratching out the eyes on every picture of dinosaur junior and pavement he has in his secret basement.
Soon.he thinks, soon).
That is 'books and cats' isn't it?
I was trying to work out what book sand cats were...
sort of like normal cats
only made of sand
.
It's such a stereotpye that indie listeners like booksand cats.
I like pavement and my cat is just a regular cat.
" are you just annoyed that the are so highly regarded and yet you can't see why"
Ha, of course not.
I don't like them as I find their music insincere and a little heartless.
I'm sure they are neither of these things but that's what I get from it and god knows I've tried. I've listened to all of their albums many times.
And yes I've heard Major Leagues.
But its only what I think which amounts to hell of a lot of fuck all.
i love pavement.
don't worry, you'll get no anger from me.
i didn't get them at first, i thought there was too much irony or something. but after listening to more of them i realised they just have sense of humour and playfulness, which is always a good thing for me. just really good songs, not over-polished or over-worked.
your politeness
has almost made me want to reconsider.
:) i feel there's too much hate flying around these boards sometimes.
have you heard their song 'major leagues'? that's the song that made me get them, made me realise they had sincerity, but also a sense of humour.
i'm not sure.
i may investigate them again at some point. i went through all this with Belle and Sebastien.
so did I, actually.
When I was a stroppy adolescent their almost implausible feyness really wound me up, and they were the antithesis of the swaggering Geezer Rock garbage I was into at the time.
Now my hatred is almost exclusively confined to Coldplay. They are pathetically, embarrassingly poor.
aren't they just?
Coldplay = Pony.
good on you for sticking to your guns
Clarky Cat.
Is 'just because' a valid reason?
i think that
qualifies. it's for the same reason i would like to fly an aeroplane into black kids (the band that is).
i dislike them too.
i think they're trying too hard, and really want to be 'the next big thing' or something. pretty much the antithesis of pavement, who i expressed my love for above.
How weird.
I'm listening to the fake blood remix of little boots, and i heard "fake blood" as i read your username.
coincidence?
i think not!
i actually got it from a :( song though.
"just because" is never a valid reason on a music forum
no
and I'll tell you why. Just because.
Does that help?
touche
.
: )
.
Ok, here is my reason.
http://tinyurl.com/6eoulj
^ exactly
while we're at it...
HA-fucking-DOUKEN.
they seriously grind my gears.
there is no god
I like the eyeball though
Word.
*grindie my gears
bay i
nice pun
anything one might label
lad rock
because its
obnoxious
^ yes
bad rock
haha
lad rock? more like BAD rock!
lol
Pretty much!
It's just dull.
She Wants Revenge
Girlfriend used to date the drummer or something. And they suck donkey cock.
terrible name as well.
i want revenge too now. the cunts.
:)
any band
that has a large amount of fucking stupid fans. i don't care if you make good music, i don't want to join the legions of idiots.
Remember the lesson of The Smiths
Just because a bunch of wankers like it, doesn't mean that it's shit
And remember the lesson of Take That
If a pile of pillocks pretend to like it, doesn't mean it's crap
That said,
Radiohead do annoy me for this very reason.
oh the horror
poor thom's eye
Radiohate
:(
radio love
i do love them
and remember the lesson of razorlight
no one likes it.
For me...
Hedley. They are huge here in Canada. I can't stand the lead singer's voice and I have the unfortunate luck of having to listen to them all day at work. Fuck.
then you have only one option
..kill your co-workers and get new ones who don't listen to them.
i did the same the same thing with bloc party.
Death Cab for Cutie
Because they're shit. And Ben Gibbard is gay.
i don't mind them
but his wimpish voice stops me from actually liking them
MARS VOLTA & ATD-I
how could i forget?
completely pretentious and annoying.
terrible argument
yeah.
"pretentious" is such a terrible word. Why shouldn't people have pretentions? Pretentions are proved either wrong or right in time. They are progressive.
how
were At The Drive-In pretentious?
I can see why the Mars Volta can be seen as, but not ATDI
ARCTIC MONKEYS
one good song does not make a band. Irritating monkey faced cunts with their wry smug "well observed" lyrics about the North of England. Musically they are soooo middle of the road and they have inspired a shit load of copycat bands including the Courtneers who are unbelievably shitter. I wish they would all just bog off.
^
This x 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
it's all a bit RATM
with synths and the lyrics ('dancing on the ashes of the corpse' - silly).
i used to sound just like their songs when i was 14 and my mum was like, being, really out of order and not letting me go out on a school night.
synths
werent really a huge factor for them though, and that lyric is wrong to be pedantic
dont think ill ever see atd-i lyrics compared to schoolboy fury again either
ha
i was a very pretentious, bookish schoolboy.
sorry about the misquote - i didn't pay much attention as i was too busy asking myself the infuriating question "can i get into this?".
Piffle
the feeling
and that goodbye mr A band
too keen
Los Campesinos
annyoing vocals. Annoying everything. SHIT. they are just terrible, and I don't understand why people like them... I think thats the ting I get most annoyeda bout... like, am I an idiot or something? What am i missing out on?
and Belle And Sebastian
I just hate the whole 'twee' thing really
well..
los campesinos are fucking atrocious. b&s are fucking brilliant. i have expounded at great length on here before as to why los campesinos's twee-ness is suffocating whilst b&s's is liberating, but it's really too late to be bothered to do that again now.
throw johnny foreigner in with los campesinos as well. both shit because of basically the same reasons.
Amy Winehouse beyond belief
Because: I just can't believe people are fooled.
I feel like we're through the looking glass, wearing the emperors new clothes. In a David Lynch film.
I just hate her voice, hate the fact she's popular, HATE her being mentioned in the same breath as the greats (Aretha, Billie, fuck it even Anita) by people that know fuck all about anything.
She is an objectionable waste of space. And don't get me started on that whole Nelson Mandela thing.
And Oasis to an equal extent.
Whilst I'm here let me add Johnny Foreigner
trite lyrics, crap songs, twee student bed sit bollocks. arrggghh. and these are the saviours of british music?!!
yes yes yes
can we add mark ronson to the firing line?
he really bites.
you know what
it really annoys me when he is on stage and plays one note on his stupid guitar through the whole thing
THAAAAAAAAAAANK
YOU!
Marvin Gaye
fuck off, you sing like a girl
define
singing like a girl?