Very true, Fagan. I stuck up a tune recently on ‘what are you currently listening to’ that might be to your liking.
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Leave these two geebags at it here cm. at least they won’t be soiling the Smashing Tunes thread if they are tied up here.[/quote]
Fuck sake. The whole purpose of the thread being set up was not to clog up Smashing Tunes. You’re going over old ground, old man.
Alt-J have tonight won the Mercury Prize for the wonderful An Awesome Wave which I actually listened to this evening when shopping for underpants in town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jfmwYNq_cg
She makes the sound, the sound the sea makes, to calm me down.
Probably not a coincidence that the first Mercury winner I’ve never heard of coincided with the year that I turned 30 years old.
They’re not great and I would say I’m surprised they won, but It’s the Mercury. Not always the best barometer by which to judge an album.
It took a while to grow on me but I think it is an excellent album
It’s a fantastic album. 8.6 / 10 for me.
I think that’s called the “M-People - Bizarre Fruit Clause”.
Disappointing that posts discussing tonight’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize announcement were not posted on the Barclays Thread where they belong.
I don’t have time to be hanging around waiting on albums to grow on me. I want instant results baby, and I want them yesterday.
It’s an above average album at best. Another band, like so many these days, that will be gone after so much acclaim.
What did you deduct 1.4 for, chief?
How predictable…
Number of 2012 Barclaycard Mercury Prize nominees I had previously heard of: 1.
I have seen Field Music and Richard Hawley live so I suppose I’m not too bad. Hawley is some funny cunt. It was almost half stand-up, half music. Great artist. Plan B is the dude in that Michael Caine vigilante movie. The rest I’ve never heard.
Richard Hawley is the only one I have heard of. And very good at music he is too.
An even more predictable retort.
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I don’t have time to be hanging around waiting on albums to grow on me. I want instant results baby, and I want them yesterday.
It’s an above average album at best. Another band, like so many these days, that will be gone after so much acclaim.[/quote]
I find that debut albums turn out to be best albums in the majority of cases. If I had to pick a percentage then I’d say in 62% of cases.
I would agree with that, but a lot of modern day bands fail to sustain themselves and I don’t know if It’s the consumers, or record companies fault, as they searche for the next big thing and brush these bands aside, but sustainability is certainly a major problem for a lot of these bands.
Maybe the market is over saturated also compared to what it used to be years ago and the same number of truely talented bands are hanging around as before. I certainly don’t think newer bands are being allowed to develop artistically and It’s a shame. Yeah, debut albums make a lot of bands as they explode onto the scene, but some of their real gems appear on later albums.
I would agree with that, but a lot of modern day bands fail to sustain themselves and I don’t know if It’s the consumers, or record companies fault, as they searche for the next big thing and brush these bands aside, but sustainability is certainly a major problem for a lot of these bands.
Maybe the market is over saturated also compared to what it used to be years ago and the same number of truely talented bands are hanging around as before. I certainly don’t think newer bands are being allowed to develop artistically and It’s a shame. Yeah, debut albums make a lot of bands as they explode onto the scene, but some of their real gems appear on later albums.
Where do people find obscure music? It seems a strange pursuit to me, lads jacking off to artists that nobody has heard of in order to appear cool. Why not just go with the myriad of mainstream artists out there? It seems to be a hobby carried on primarily by arseholes.