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Original Message Date: 23-Jul-05 @ 11:52 AM Edit: 23-Jul-05 | 11:54 AM - the killers
Anyone notice how pop music has a very distinct identity at the moment, in the same way you might think of music in the sixties or eighties. There's some pretty good stuff knocking about in the albums charts. Its the like the total evolution of everything that happened in the ninties coming to the fore. Well thats what it seems like to me. A lot of eighties stuff on the mainstream radio stations these days too. I think as the media bubble consumes us further we'll start to losing all perspective of time... and its starting with the killers... its like those big synth rock bands from 1986 that we all cringe at but love all the same, but yet the killers still sound so contempory. Even U2 are hawking that sound.
Message 11/21 27-Jul-05 @ 02:42 PM - RE: the killers
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
Message 12/21 28-Jul-05 @ 06:39 AM - RE: the killers
gawd....
they're gonna be in sd this week and i'll definitely be sure to miss em.
the line should've said>>> i just got sold just like a soldier.....
no payola involved here!
Message 13/21 28-Jul-05 @ 11:27 AM - RE: the killers
It makes you wonder cos i cant beleive the real star-quality talent just isn't there like it was in previous decades.
I caught the performance by Mariah Carey when i was TV channel flipping during that Live8 concert recently (hey, i aint gonna watch that tripe) - I was amazed how bad she was live, truly aweful! - out of tune, poor phrasing, lack of sustain (and breath frankly she sounded like she'd run the 400 meters after each song). How much fucking around do they do with that woman in Pro-Tools for gods sake!
Add to that the cringe-factor of her pretending to sing with a cute bunch of african schoolboys (who didnt appear to be even mic'd up, you couldnt hear them in the mix) and it was making my toes curl up underneath & scratch the bottom of my feet with embarrasment! - The cringe-factor was off the scale!!
standards have definately dropped for 'major' artists in the last decade. I had dinner 1.5 years or so back with some people one of whom was from Warners (I think it was), and this woman was banging on about how the guy from Pop Idol was so great cos he'd sold a million records.
I was like "But that wasnt like an artist, that was a TV show promo product, backed by the biggest TV show in the Uk"... sure, and Tellytubbies sold something like 20 million quids worth of goods (books/dvd's/toys etc) for the bbc in product sales in the first year apparently to put it in perspective ....and this Warners woman is carrying on like he's the saviour of the Brit music biz. Fuckin rediculous. And of course, where is he now?... nowhere like all of these TV talent show winners.
it's pretty sad. I cant understand what these people are playing at in the majors.
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I had an idea for a script once. It's basically Jaws except when the guys in the boat are going after Jaws, they look around and there's an even bigger Jaws. The guys have to team up with Jaws to get Bigger Jaws.... I call it... Big Jaws!!!
Message 14/21 28-Jul-05 @ 12:24 PM - RE: the killers
k wrote:....and this Warners woman is carrying on like hes the saviour of the Brit music biz. Fuckin rediculous. And of course, where is he now?... nowhere like all of these TV talent show winners.
its pretty sad. I cant understand what these people are playing at in the majors.
k... but surely you know its all about return on investment and shareholder value. if she helped sell million records then she indeed is one of the saviours of the biz, from the *biz* point of view that is. real art went somewhere else.
the spirit of the times is all about internet distribution and small net labels innit
Message 15/21 28-Jul-05 @ 01:36 PM - RE: the killers
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Message 18/21 30-Jul-05 @ 07:38 AM - RE: the killers
this might take time.
a mix of the clash and prefab sprout?
do bring that on.
Message 19/21 30-Jul-05 @ 09:16 PM - RE: the killers
but i am not hearing/buying much - i got that free with a newspaper - so I am right out of it
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