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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Dandy01 on February 01, 2005, 01:48:00 pm
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I just won myself two tickets!
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Originally posted by Dandy01:
I just won myself two tickets!
I'm going
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how?
Originally posted by Dandy01:
I just won myself two tickets!
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Originally posted by Dandy01:
I just won myself two tickets!
Congratulations! ;)
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Keane??? Did someone mention Keane??? Did you see that dismantling of the arseholes by Roy Keane and his troops?
What a lesson in how to shut the French twats up once and for all.
Viera certainly shut his pie-hole when Keano threatened him in the tunnel before the game had even started.
:D
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Keane the UB40 for the new millennium
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103.1 recorded them live this week @Ramshead, to be broadcast Sunday approx during Superbowl halftime
I don't get the UB40 comparison
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Originally posted by lily1:
how?
Originally posted by Dandy01:
I just won myself two tickets!
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through On Tap, shh
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I always have this horrible vision of people dry humping to thier song, "Red Red Wine" at a UB40 concert. Plus, it's basically MOR stuff that doesn't offend.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
I always have this horrible vision of people dry humping to thier song, "Red Red Wine" at a UB40 concert.
So you were at a UB40 concert?
Keane are more like the new blander version of Travis....
SO did anyone go to the show? And did you enjoy it?
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I went.
Zutons I believe are the worst band and music I've ever heard. I missed Redwalls. Keane was fine. Read into fine if you want. 1/2 hour set.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
I always have this horrible vision of people dry humping to thier song, "Red Red Wine" at a UB40 concert. Plus, it's basically MOR stuff that doesn't offend.
i guarantee you that the people who went to the keane show are people whom i would immediately hate upon meeting ... it makes my skin crawl to think of the people who like keane ....
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Originally posted by El Tee:
I went.
Zutons I believe are the worst band and music I've ever heard. I missed Redwalls. Keane was fine. Read into fine if you want. 1/2 hour set.
30 mins?!?
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Originally posted by Forumie Partie Markie:
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
I always have this horrible vision of people dry humping to thier song, "Red Red Wine" at a UB40 concert.
So you were at a UB40 concert?
Keane are more like the new blander version of Travis....
SO did anyone go to the show? And did you enjoy it? [/b]
I saw ub40 once in like 85 at the smith center. The Untouchables opened (not the dc hardcore band) up and mopped the stage with them.
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thats about the time i saw ub40, can't remember the support act. this was also before "red red wine" became a frat house standard. it was there more recent ub40 shows where i could see the dryhumping occuring.
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I was 14 when I went to this show and I only wished I'd gotten to do some dry humping.
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
it makes my skin crawl to think of the people who like keane ....
How can something so friendly and innocuous cause such vitriol?
Did they run off with your G/F?
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Yes, i thought the band made a good effort with a clear and earnest delivery, good interaction with the crowd, and a nice amount of energy. The show seemed to improve and build with time, as album sleepers and newer material gave way to the more catchy and chilling singles.
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I knew this guy in my dorm named Vernon Berger. He had this ugly girlfriend named Renee. Despite being high school sweethearts and sticking together and going to the same college, Renee would not let Vernon fuck her. So he was left to dry hump her on numerous occasions, which apparently led to some sticky situations.
Eventually they broke up, and Renee started dating a new guy, who she fucked within a month.
Vernon also told a story of how he was travelling in the South, and a stranger was badmouthing Jews until Vernon mentioned that HE was a Jew. Apparently, the stranger then asked him where his horns were. Vernon asked him why would he ask such a thing. The stranger responded that he had heard that all Jews have horns. I personally think that Vernon was making that shit up, probably just frustrated from cumming in his pants all those times.
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Originally posted by Forumie Partie Markie:
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
it makes my skin crawl to think of the people who like keane ....
How can something so friendly and innocuous cause such vitriol?
Did they run off with your G/F? [/b]
yeah seriously. I didn't insult your wants to be a lawyer. Sheesh. Go listen to some Keane man, and stop hatin'. :D
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Originally posted by Dandy01:
newer material gave way to the more catchy and chilling singles.
The second new song they played was beautiful.
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Originally posted by Forumie Partie Markie:
Keane are more like the new blander version of Travis....
SO did anyone go to the show? And did you enjoy it?
I thought that a few minutes into the show. They sound SOOOO much like Travis (except Tom Chaplin doesn't sound half as interesting as Fran Healy). All in all, the show was short but enjoyable. Disposable pop, to be sure.
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so there set was really only a half hour? at least last time they played an hour, even after being delayed an hour or two.
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Originally posted by Forumie Partie Markie:
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
it makes my skin crawl to think of the people who like keane ....
How can something so friendly and innocuous cause such vitriol?
Did they run off with your G/F? [/b]
as i've said before, i don't like most people, i also almost immediately put a mental tag on bands and their fans
i (fairly or unfairly) tag keane-likers as either mid-20s to late-30s soft-rock vh1 fans who really feel like they're in on a hot-hot-new item ... often (but not always) these people live in northern virginia, watch primetime network TV, call "friends" their favorite show of all time, and are ex-sorority members.
i don't like these people.
but hey, that's just my irrational prejudices, and this is a good place to vent them.
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
i don't like Markie
Poor me! :(
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Originally posted by lily1:
so there set was really only a half hour? at least last time they played an hour, even after being delayed an hour or two.
No, it lasted longer than that, perhaps just under an hour.
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Hey Dandy, what sorority were you in?
Originally posted by Dandy01:
Originally posted by lily1:
so there set was really only a half hour? at least last time they played an hour, even after being delayed an hour or two.
No, it lasted longer than that, perhaps just under an hour. [/b]
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Hey Dandy, what sorority were you in?
Originally posted by Dandy01:
Originally posted by lily1:
so there set was really only a half hour? at least last time they played an hour, even after being delayed an hour or two.
No, it lasted longer than that, perhaps just under an hour. [/b]
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None; I don't fit HoyaSaxa's biased profile :p I happen to get hooked on melodious music at times.
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Jeez, HoyaSaxa - how the hell did you ever get into music/entertainment reporting? If you hate people/music that's outside of your (narrow) tastes/and judge people by where circumstances force them to live, maybe you should change careers? Hmmm - there are a few openings for prison guards in Guantanamo Bay. You won't have to share space with us assholes from Virginia (who btw pay real money to read your employer's money-making papers)...or listen to Keane.
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Originally posted by Suki:
You won't have to share space with us assholes from Virginia (who btw pay real money to read your employer's money-making papers)
what?? you get paid in real money?? damn, i knew i shouldn't have agreed to get paid in donuts.
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Originally posted by Suki:
Jeez, HoyaSaxa - how the hell did you ever get into music/entertainment reporting? If you hate people/music that's outside of your (narrow) tastes/and judge people by where circumstances force them to live, maybe you should change careers? Hmmm - there are a few openings for prison guards in Guantanamo Bay. You won't have to share space with us assholes from Virginia (who btw pay real money to read your employer's money-making papers)...or listen to Keane.
I actually work as an in-house writer for an environmental think-tank ... I just freelance for Express, and you don't have to pay money for that paper, it's free.
I'm a misanthrope and a cynic, plain and simple. But as a writer, my job is to put that aside and just write. I also have very broad tastes, much broader than most. Again, this is a good place to vent.
See, if I went to Gitmo, I'd be subjected to endless hours of Puddle of Mudd, Nickelback, and Linkin Park from our valiant men in uniform. I think I'd rather chance it with Keane. And the people I (obviously unfairly) stereotyped aren't assholes, like you say, they're just losers.
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
me and my attitudes are as cliche as the stereotypes I live my life by
yep
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Originally posted by ratioci nation:
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
me and my attitudes are as cliche as the stereotypes I live my life by
yep [/b]
what a hoot!!
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I'm glad I'm not the only one on this board who says retarded shit.
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
and this is a good place to vent them. [/QB]
says who?
<img src="http://www.crosseyedcowboys.com/images/Clown_1.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Originally posted by Dandy01:
Originally posted by lily1:
so there set was really only a half hour? at least last time they played an hour, even after being delayed an hour or two.
No, it lasted longer than that, perhaps just under an hour. [/b]
Neither here nor there, but I left at 10:30 when they first left the stage. Yes, 45 min. sounds about right. A friend called about 10:45 mentioned something about an encore.
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...and the parent company that publishes Express is...???
Signed: A Loser
PS. Get professional help.
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Originally posted by Suki:
...and the parent company that publishes Express is...???
Signed: A Loser
PS. Get professional help.
Hah, I'm quite balanced actually. I don't think I'll be needing a therapist anytime soon.
And, like I said, my thoughts/opinions are completely biased/rude/mean/stereotypical. But they're also not categorical. I'm just making an observation, and I'm sure there are many Keane fans who don't fit my description at all.
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http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/9597.html (http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/9597.html)
By the way, stop taking me so seriously, I sure as hell don't. I could also come up with the same "categorizations" about almost any band I like.
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Keane at 9:30 Club: Sad, Syrupy and Satisfying
By Hoya Saxa 03
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 3, 2005; Page C05
So cute, so earnest, so positively wussified, the sensitive men in the band called Keane make their fellow Brit-poppers in Coldplay sound like a bunch of hairy headbangers. And let me tell you, that isn't an easy task. Arguably the hottest new group on the planet, Keane -- whose debut full-length CD, 2004's "Hopes and Fears," has gone gold in the U.S. and platinum in the U.K. -- doesn't use a lick of guitar in its painfully pretty tunes of love and lovesickness. That, apparently, would be far too macho.
But lest anyone think this trio of lonely hearts from Battle, East Sussex, makes its lush, swoony soundtrack strictly for the ladies, let's just say there were a whole lot of tall, strapping dudes at a sold-out 9:30 club Tuesday night, hanging goofy, puppy-dog faces throughout the hour-plus show. Why, it's a wonder no one fainted from the dreaminess of it all.
With Coldplay, Doves, Oasis and Travis all due for albums this year, the music charts are about to be overcome by a new Brit-pop invasion -- and a lot of music to help you get over that nasty breakup. Keane, scheduled to play on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, has the potential to outsell every one of those hook-loving blokes.
Because, for all its unapologetic wimpiness, Keane is as catchy and likable as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
Piano man Tim Rice-Oxley is the band's chief songwriter. From the very first swirls of the opening tune, "Can't Stop Now," he thrashed away at the keys as if each note were causing him extreme emotional anguish. Drummer Richard Hughes's job was to provide a steady, uncomplicated beat; the band prefers to work in the mid-tempo range, but there's no mistaking that each tune is a big anthemic ballad designed to make you blubber.
Named after a mutual babysitter from the old neighborhood, the band is fronted by the ruddy-cheeked redhead Tom Chaplin. His voice is a rich, high-reaching joy, and he delivers variations of his "I'm so lonely tonight" mantra with such a sincere intensity -- it's almost operatic at times -- that it's hard not to buy the undiluted syrup he's selling.
Where Coldplay's Chris Martin prefers indecipherable poetry and math-geek arrangements -- he seems to forever be chasing Radiohead's experimental nutter Thom Yorke -- Rice-Oxley prefers to write mush for the masses. Over soft, simple synth melodies that hearken back to Elton John's best years, Keane indulges in bittersweet crescendo after crescendo, up-and-down drama that goes a little like: Things are getting better, things are getting better, no they're not, no they're not. And repeat.
Although by the end of the night the sentiment was starting to blur together, Keane delivered a host of doozies that stood out and glistened. The she's-gone gem "Sunshine," which sounded like a mainstream offering from the Alan Parsons Project, has a shimmering chorus of "Oh, oh, oh, can anybody find their home?" that Chaplin unleashed with such pure sweetness that you expected someone -- perhaps one of those tall, strapping dudes -- to run onstage and hug him. The epic "Bedshaped," a slow, gauzy rumination on a relationship gone kaput, is nothing short of a suicide special ("I know you think I'm holding you down / And I've fallen by the wayside now"), and it just might be the song for which Keane is forever remembered.
"I really feel that a good song should change the way you feel or think," said Chaplin before brushing the hair from his eyes, cradling the microphone like a baby bird and rearing back to deliver the night's big singalong: "Somewhere Only We Know," recently used in a Victoria's Secret commercial and as hopeful as these guys get. In a rare bit of rock-star posturing, Chaplin held the microphone over the crowd so everyone could croon the chorus: "This could be the end of everything / So why don't we go somewhere only we know?" Pass the Kleenex, pal.
For all you hipsters looking for the Next Big Thing, Keane wasn't the only up-and-coming act on Tuesday's bill. Opening band the Redwalls, a Chicago quartet who like to show off Beatles influences in both their songs and their hairdos, blended guitar jangle and sweet harmonizing -- then mussed it all up with feedback and punk thrashing. And you'll no doubt be hearing a lot more from the night's middle act: the Zutons, a shaggy Liverpudlian quintet with schizoid tastes in ska-pop (think Madness), classic rock (think the Kinks), and surf music (think Dick Dale). Led by singer-songwriter David McCabe, the Zutons throw one heck of a party -- and only a band as persuasively ooey-gooey as Keane could get the crowd to stop smiling and start swaying.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59200-2005Feb2.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59200-2005Feb2.html)
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Sean Daly is NOT hoyasaxa03; of that I'm sure since I met the former, and he seems to be a nice, gentle, humble and NOT angry guy, who does not mind being jostled by the crowd while he's trying to take notes. (However, I have not observed Sean while his GF is being hit on at Interpol concerts...I'll report back on that if I ever observe it.)
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There was a guy taking notes right next to me on the right side at the bar. He had light-brown hair, stood about 6 foot and was medium-build.
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you didnt see THESE GUYS did you???
<img src="http://img.mtv3.fi/mn_kuvat/9045/12514.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Originally posted by Dandy01:
There was a guy taking notes right next to me on the right side at the bar. He had light-brown hair, stood about 6 foot and was medium-build.
Yep, you had a Sean-sighting.
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That's how I picture you and Rob_Gee. You are the one on the right.
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
you didnt see THESE GUYS did you???
<img src="http://img.mtv3.fi/mn_kuvat/9045/12514.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Originally posted by Suki:
Originally posted by Dandy01:
There was a guy taking notes right next to me on the right side at the bar. He had light-brown hair, stood about 6 foot and was medium-build.
Yep, you had a Sean-sighting. [/b]
I'll say hi next time, but if he's sans notepad, I might not recognize him. He seemed friendly enough and was surrounded by several chicks.
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hmmmm, note to self: bring pen and paper to next concert ;)
Originally posted by Dandy01:
Originally posted by Suki:
Originally posted by Dandy01:
There was a guy taking notes right next to me on the right side at the bar. He had light-brown hair, stood about 6 foot and was medium-build.
Yep, you had a Sean-sighting. [/b]
I'll say hi next time, but if he's sans notepad, I might not recognize him. He seemed friendly enough and was surrounded by several chicks. [/b]
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Originally posted by brennser:
hmmmm, note to self: bring pen and paper to next concert ;)
heehee, it's so studly
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Originally posted by Suki:
Sean Daly is NOT hoyasaxa03; of that I'm sure since I met the former, and he seems to be a nice, gentle, humble and NOT angry guy, who does not mind being jostled by the crowd while he's trying to take notes. (However, I have not observed Sean while his GF is being hit on at Interpol concerts...I'll report back on that if I ever observe it.)
Sean Daly is NOT Suki; of that I'm sure because I met the former and he seems to be a well-adjusted, normal human who can take some ribbing and isn't immediately personally offended when someone mentions how their favorite band is bland mainstream slop served up as "indie" and "the hot new thing" for viewers of The View and VH1.
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Is there a doctor in the house?
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
Originally posted by Suki:
Sean Daly is NOT hoyasaxa03; of that I'm sure since I met the former, and he seems to be a nice, gentle, humble and NOT angry guy, who does not mind being jostled by the crowd while he's trying to take notes. (However, I have not observed Sean while his GF is being hit on at Interpol concerts...I'll report back on that if I ever observe it.)
Sean Daly is NOT Suki; of that I'm sure because I met the former and he seems to be a well-adjusted, normal human who can take some ribbing and isn't immediately personally offended when someone mentions how their favorite band is bland mainstream slop served up as "indie" and "the hot new thing" for viewers of The View and VH1. [/b]
Clever. :roll:
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Originally posted by Suki:
Is there a doctor in the house?
http://www.bestdoctors.com/en/doctors/wnsuki.htm (http://www.bestdoctors.com/en/doctors/wnsuki.htm)
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in honor of hoya's rant on keane fans yesterday, i decided to stereotype the fans of other bands playing soon at the club on my (and some friends) rather useless and probably not as amusing as i'd like to thinkg blog (http://soidisantra.typepad.com/).
it's all in good fun. we're all stereotypes. my favorite band is (was) pavement, and it's probably not shocking that my favorite tv show is (was) mr. show and that i think all of these dance-punk bands "try too hard." i'm so predictable.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
That's how I picture you and Rob_Gee. You are the one on the right.
its more like this actually
<img src="http://www.mds.mdh.se/~adb93tem/b&b/pics/lighter.jpg" alt=" - " />
me, still being on the right...
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SD's Official "10 Bands We Really Hate in 2005"
In no particular order. You'll notice a few leftovers from the past. QOTSA will be on this list until Josh Homme gets stabbed in the neck by me. And no, I have no idea why I hate him so much. But fucking Christ, do I ever. That Colin Meloy could use a good stabbing, too. I will go to my grave knowing that Kings of Leon are better than his sad excuse for a Neutral Milk Hotel rip-off of a band.
The Decemberists
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
The Flaming Lips
Queens of the Stone Age
The Dears
Rilo Kiley
Secret Machines
Prosaics
Keane
Bloc Party
--DM--
http://soidisantra.typepad.com/soi_disantra/2005/01/sds_official_10.html (http://soidisantra.typepad.com/soi_disantra/2005/01/sds_official_10.html)
Originally posted by BookerT:
in honor of hoya's rant on keane fans yesterday, i decided to stereotype the fans of other bands playing soon at the club on my (and some friends) rather useless and probably not as amusing as i'd like to thinkg blog (http://soidisantra.typepad.com/).
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yes, we are hateful. towards the bands. i have plenty of friends who like tons of those bands. and i like kings of leon, so my opinions are worth this much = 0.0.
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the comparison of Decemberists to Neutral Milk Hotel is way off base, and I know lots of people do it
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Originally posted by BookerT:
yes, we are hateful. towards the bands. i have plenty of friends who like tons of those bands. and i like kings of leon, so my opinions are worth this much = 0.0.
If Kings of Leon played ball, you would have to replace 80% of your "Ugliest Starting Lineup."
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the comparison of Decemberists to Neutral Milk Hotel is way off base, and I know lots of people do it
yeah, it's a little lazy and easy. but, y'know...
It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money.
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does anyone see the similarities between Keane and Snow Patrol?
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Originally posted by Dandy01:
does anyone see the similarities between Keane and Snow Patrol?
OH yeah. other than "spitting games", everything i've heard from snow patrol has been slop, especially "run," talk about syrupy....
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All I know is that Keane got 8.9 from BigYawn and Snow Patrol got 8.0, so they both must be great.
Originally posted by Dandy01:
does anyone see the similarities between Keane and Snow Patrol?
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Originally posted by Sam Pulsize:
All I know is that Keane got 8.9 from BigYawn and Snow Patrol got 8.0, so they both must be great.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Originally posted by Dandy01:
does anyone see the similarities between Keane and Snow Patrol?
OH yeah. other than "spitting games", everything i've heard from snow patrol has been slop, especially "run," talk about syrupy.... [/b][/QUOTE]
Yeah, those losers from Virginia have been busy spending money on the WRONG kinds of music. The Gods of rock have spoken! Perhaps a constitutional amendment should be proposed banning any music other than that endorsed by 930 board members - especially those members posing as journalists.
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Originally posted by Suki:
Originally posted by Dandy01:
does anyone see the similarities between Keane and Snow Patrol?
OH yeah. other than "spitting games", everything i've heard from snow patrol has been slop, especially "run," talk about syrupy.... [/b]
Yeah, those losers from Virginia have been busy spending money on the WRONG kinds of music. The Gods of rock have spoken! Perhaps a constitutional amendment should be proposed banning any music other than that endorsed by 930 board members - especially those members posing as journalists. [/b][/QUOTE]
Suki, sit down, take a valium, put on some keane, and chill the fuck out.
Listen to whatever bland, easy-to-shit music you want to, I could honestly give a fuck. But I do, however, reserve my right to ridicule you for it.
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BIG YAWN.
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now now, there is no need to fight, you both have bad taste in music :D
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Originally posted by Suki:
BIG YAWN.
Rhetorical Jousting
Step 3: Feign indifference, burn inside with hatred.
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Your name may be PETER Denton, but you're acting like a DICK.
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
Originally posted by Suki:
Originally posted by Dandy01:
does anyone see the similarities between Keane and Snow Patrol?
OH yeah. other than "spitting games", everything i've heard from snow patrol has been slop, especially "run," talk about syrupy.... [/b]
Yeah, those losers from Virginia have been busy spending money on the WRONG kinds of music. The Gods of rock have spoken! Perhaps a constitutional amendment should be proposed banning any music other than that endorsed by 930 board members - especially those members posing as journalists. [/b]
Suki, sit down, take a valium, put on some keane, and chill the fuck out.
Listen to whatever bland, easy-to-shit music you want to, I could honestly give a fuck. But I do, however, reserve my right to ridicule you for it. [/b][/QUOTE]
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
Rhetorical Jousting
Step 3: Feign indifference, burn inside with hatred. [/QB]
Where is Dupek? Or flawd? Sigh...I miss them...
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Originally posted by Sam Pulsize:
Your name may be PETER Denton, but you're acting like a DICK.
ohhhh shit. really?
sorry everybody!! won't happen again!!
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quote:
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Originally posted by Sam Pulsize:
Your name may be PETER Denton, but you're acting like a DICK.
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ohhhh shit. really?
sorry everybody!! won't happen again!!
yeah, seriously. you should know that rhett, er, sam takes care of that around here.