The Darkness

[ggw]

Anybody heard them?
 
 Their album has sold 200,000 in the UK, went to #2 on the charts and their label pushed the US release from early 2004 to September 16.
 
 They were compared to Andrew WK.

[jadetree]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Anybody heard them?
 
 Their album has sold 200,000 in the UK, went to #2 on the charts and their label pushed the US release from early 2004 to September 16.
 
 They were compared to Andrew WK.

I read something about them and it sounded awful, so yeah, like Andrew WK, but seemed like it would be more like hair metal, so less synths.

Arrggghhhh!!!!!     The light!

[Joymonster]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Anybody heard them?
 
 Their album has sold 200,000 in the UK, went to #2 on the charts and their label pushed the US release from early 2004 to September 16.
 
 They were compared to Andrew WK.

I've heard a few tracks from them on KNAC and they're shit.
 
 http://www.thedarknessrock.com/

[markie]

Originally posted by jadetree:
 I read something about them and it sounded awful, so yeah, like Andrew WK, but seemed like it would be more like hair metal, so less synths.

An unusually good sum-up. If only you would come and see Andrew WK live, perhaps you would see the light.

[SPARX]

Originally posted by Anton Newcombe:
   

Originally posted by jadetree:
 I read something about them and it sounded awful, so yeah, like Andrew WK, but seemed like it would be more like hair metal, so less synths.

An unusually good sum-up. If only you would come and see Andrew WK live, perhaps you would see the light. [/b]

I highly recommend Ten Benson to any AWK fan.

[markie]

Originally posted by SPARX:
  Ten Benson to any AWK fan.

If I start liking too many guilty pleasures it will mean I just have shit music taste.
 
 A WK's stage presence transcends his music.

[kurosawa-b/w]

I finally heard a Darkness song and wasn't that impressed. It wasn't as bad as I expected it to be but really just not that exciting. Supposedly, they are wacky live. Maybe it's the spandex? It all sounds silly to me.

[Jaguär]

Yeah, I'm not impressed with them either. I think they are a short lived performance band. Their album is only about 37 minutes long. My thinking is that was the maximum that people could handle before taking the thing off and flying it out the window. I think they are more a UK festival fad band than anything.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Anton Newcombe:
 

A WK's stage presence transcends his music. [/b]

MY stage prescence transcends "Party Hard" ok?

[Venerable Bede]

here's the popmatters review: http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/d/darkness-permission.shtml
 
 but this review name-drops way too much. . .tiny tim, reef and the scorpions in the same review???

[ggw]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  here's the popmatters review:  http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/d/darkness-permission.shtml
 
 but this review name-drops way too much. . .tiny tim, reef and the scorpions in the same review???

Too much name-checking?  Apparently you didn't read their Junior-Senior review today; which name-drops the following:
 
 the B-52's,
 T. Rex,
 Kool and the Gang,
 Chic,
 Iron Butterfly,
 Bootsy Collins,
 the Beach Boys,
 the Beastie Boys,
 the Isley Brothers,
 the Everly Brothers,
 Adam and the Ants,
 ABC,
 Bachman Turner Overdrive,
 Sly Stone,
 Sweet,
 James Brown,
 Toni Basil,
 Smokey Robinson,
 Eddie Cochran,
 Donna Summer,
 both George Michael solo and Wham!,
 Rockwell
 the Trashmen
 Run-DMC
 Kraftwerk
 Talking Heads
 Electric Light Orchestra
 Nancy Sinatra
 Lee Greenwood
 Sonny and Cher,
 the New York Dolls,
 Stevie Wonder,
 Ray Charles,
 the Ramones
 the Archies
 Cheap Trick
 Flying Lizards
 Bob Dylan
 Eddie Hazel
 Pete Townshend
 Tupac