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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: ggw on September 30, 2005, 10:50:00 am
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Apparently, the Arctic Monkeys are going to be fookin huge:
The taste-makers
So you think you decide what goes into your music collection? Wrong. Alexis Petridis speaks to the people who control what you hear, like and buy
Friday September 30, 2005
The Guardian
Michael Parkinson
Presenter: Parkinson
Who's going to be big next year? "The two best albums I've heard for a long time are by Madeleine Peyroux and Lizz Wright. I think Lizz Wright has some voice, she could be a huge star."
Conor McNicholas
Editor: NME
Who's going to be big next year? "The Arctic Monkey are going to be the biggest band this country's seen since Oasis. We Are Scientists are going to make a splash. The Mystery Jets, and Carl Barat from the Libertines' new band."
Mardi Caught
Director of talent and artist relations: MTV Networks
Who's going to be big next year? "Sway and Lethal Bizzle. Paul Wall is a rapper who debuted on the Billboard charts recently and sold 136,000 copies in a week. There's a track by Syleena Johnson and R Kelly called Hypnotic. It hasn't got a release date yet, but it's going to be huge."
Alison Howe
Co-producer: Later with Jools Holland
Who's going to be big next year? "I know everyone is saying the same thing, but I was bowled over by the Arctic Monkeys. I like the Rakes, the Cribs. I think the Joseph Arthur record is good."
Tammy Hoyle
Producer: CD:UK
Who's going to be big next year? "Arctic Monkeys have an obsessive fanbase and a brilliant frontman. I haven't seen Infadels live yet, but someone on our team is raving about them. And Son of Dork (James from Busted's new band) are attracting attention on our website forum at the moment."
Jonathan Ross
Presenter: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Suzi Aplin
Producer: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Who's going to be big next year? Aplin: "Louis XIV - glam rock, filthy lyrics, really entertaining - and Kubb."
Colin Martin
Head of music: Radio 2
Who's going to be big next year? "The Upper Room, a really good band. A band called the Feeling and a new singer-songwriter called Joseph Arthur, I really think he's going to do it."
Sarita Jagpal
Acting head of music policy: Radio 1
Who's going to be big next year? "Arctic Monkeys, they've got the most exciting sound. I'd love to think Pendulum would do something, but I doubt it. It would be interesting to see if Morning Runner do anything, and Bedouin Soundclash."
Steve Owen
Dance and urban manager: HMV
Mel Armstrong
Rock and pop manager: HMV
Who's going to be big next year? Owen: "Sway. He's got a sense of humour, and he can really connect with the crowd." Armstrong: "Arctic Monkeys. The pre-orders on our website are scary. White Rose Movement I think are going to be big, Boy Kill Boy, Kubb, the Modern, Louis XIV. On the metal front, Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine."
Helen Marquis
Music buyer: Amazon.co.uk
Who's going to be big next year? "Arctic Monkeys. We have a report each week called unresolved search results, which tells you what things people have typed in on site and not been able to find anything by and they were massive on it. Others are the Test Icicles, Lady Sovereign, Morning Runner and Be Your Own Pet."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,16373,1580828,00.html (http://www.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,16373,1580828,00.html)
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I know a guy that loves this band. They're terrible.
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Is that Sway like the MTV news guy? "Hey ya'll it's Sway, here is my robotic delivery of the lame MTV news."
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Looks like Arctic Monkeys is the band to watch. Anyone familiar?
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Econo apparently is. He's usually a pretty good reference.
Originally posted by Bags:
Looks like Arctic Monkeys is the band to watch. Anyone familiar?
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Greetings from London, first time back on the board since coming over here....
Lowdown on Arctic Monkeys...
They're a young band from Sheffield who play slightly Libertines-esque garage rock that would be basically just ok except for the fact that the lead singer is an amazing lyricist. Towards the middle of this past Spring the band put about 15 songs up on a website to download for free. Everyone told their friends, cousins, and beloved pets and the next thing you know they have a huge, rabid fanbase that knows all the songs even though they're only available as demos. They've released only 1 official single, in fact they only signed w/ a minor label a few months ago and are expected to jump to a bigger one soon. Supposedly their live shows are absolutely bonkers, with the lead singer not being able to be heard over the crowd singing the songs, and the situation down the front being one crazy adoring mosh pit.
They're first single is Fake Tales of San Francisco, which is basically about shit brit bands trying to act like they've been all over the states and have the hipster thing down.
Fake Tales of San Francisco
Echo through the room
More point to a wedding disco
Without a bride or groom
There's a super cool band yeah
With their trilbys and their glasses of white wine
And all the weekend rockstars in the toilets
Practicing their lines
I don't want to hear you
(Kick me out, kick me out)
I don't want to hear, you know
(Kick me out, kick me out)
I don't want to hear you
(Kick me out, kick me out)
I don't want to hear you
I don't want to hear your...
Fake Tales of San Fransisco
Echo through the air
And there's a few bored faces in the back
All wishing they weren't there
And as the microphone squeaks
A young girl's telephone beeps
Yeah she's dashing for the exit
And she's running to the streets outside
"Oh you've saved me," she screams down the line
"The band aren't very good
And I'm not having a nice time"
I don't want to hear you
(Kick me out, kick me out)
I don't want to hear, you know
(Kick me out, kick me out)
Yeah but his bird thinks it's amazing, though
So all that's left
Is the proof that love's not only blind but deaf
He talks of San Francisco, he's from Hunter's Bar
I don't quite know the distance
But I'm sure that's far
Yeah I'm sure that's pretty far
And yeah, I'd love to tell you all my problem
You're not from New York City, you're from Rotherham
So get off the bandwagon, and put down the handbook
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook
Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook
Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook
Get off the bandwagon and put down the handbook
Yeah
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forgot to mention i'll be seeing them this upcoming thursday at the astoria in london...will report back
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there's a funny story about the arctic monkeys in this month's vice magazine ... turns out there's tons of fucking going on in the bathroom stalls at their shows
they don't sound that great
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Wow, the dude IS an amazing lyricist.
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Originally posted by Xavier Bush, Power Forward:
Wow, the dude IS an amazing lyricist.
He's right up there with Sufjan Stevens rhyming "hate her" with "Decatur" and "go" with "Chicago".
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Most of my favorite bands sing nonsensical stuff, so clever lyrics don't matter much to me.
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my brain reinterpreted this thread title as "Bands to Ignore at all costs"