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Stu B Newbie

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Chubbhead isnt it kings of leon?!They are very good though,they were good on Jools Holland and i saw a bio of them on one of the satellite tv channels,think it might have been the amp and they seemed really nice blokes.

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I thought DJ Shadow was supposed to have some similarities with Aphex Twin, downbeat electronica, heard bit's and pieces of it but it's never really floated my boat.

Got Rh's 'There There' on Saturday and it sounds very good, should make the top ten, if there is a god. Also bought the Led Zep Live DVDs which I haven't really watched yet, but can't deny looking forward to.

I've found it to be a back catalogue year in music, not a huge amount of new decent stuff out though 'Hail to the Thief' and 'Phantom Power' by SFA should be worth the wait. I've found myself getting Pet Sounds and The Best of The Velvet Undergound, that sort of stuff.


It has been said on more than one occasion I'm the other Aphex Twin (when I had long hair and a beard going on and used to make up tunes and beatboxes and p**s every one off). No similarities at all with DJ Shadow apart from both get categorised under the 'electronica/ambient/dance' bracket. Not too keen on the latest offerings from these two, best Aphex LP is Selected Ambient Works 85-92, one of my top 5 alltime LPs, Entroducing by DJ Shadow is also a very worthy purchase.

You know you're getting old when indie stuff comes out and it passes you by, the only band that have really interested me this year are The White Stripes. Not strictly a new band I know, but new to me.

New SFA album as well eh., looking forward to that. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Oh, and to answer the other thread, i'm still about, just working a little harder (13 hours today) <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
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No need...

 

Some bands will always be defined by what they’re not. Mention Gerry & The Pacemakers and the words “crap early Beatles” automatically emerge through the mist. The Stone Temple Pilots still can’t leave the house without the neighbours sneering: “Never a patch on Pearl Jam or Nirvana”.

 

Oldham’s Inspiral Carpets are likewise always cast as subordinates. The third most celebrated Madchester band after The Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays, they weren’t dance-rock visionaries or generational figureheads. With their big noses and jug-ears, they certainly didn’t get the looks. Clint Boon’s Farfisa organ drew on ‘60s US garage-rock curios like The Music Machine and ? And The Mysterians but also conjured up Blackpool Pier on a drizzly October evening, Despite the hedonistic times, Tom Hingley’s vocals suggested a particularly earnest monk.

 

Their omnipresent “Cool As F*ck” slogan (truncated for this collection’s title) now looks vaguely satirical.

 

Even so, sneerers will be surprised how well they stand up. Reflecting rather than transcending their surroundings, early singles Find Out Why and Move are both belligerent and mildly hallucinatory – a peculiarly Northern mix. 1990’s chart breakthrough This Is How It Feels – a maudlin tale of loneliness and suicide in Lancashire – is a clumsily endearing tryout for Jarvis Cocker’s anti-social realism.

 

Massively inappropriate superstardom beckoned but 1991’s second album, The Beast Inside (featuring flagging single Please Be Cruel), lost that earlier driving edge. Absurdly, Caravan even went belatedly baggy. Oddly enough, before splitting in 1995, the Inspiral Carpets regained the plot as their popularity went into freefall; 1992 singles Two Worlds Collide and Generations were swirling, propulsive epics. Heads down, psychedelic pop comes in many forms, but rarely does it sound this browned-of.

 

Put simply, the Inspiral Carpets were one of Britain’s good little bands (although the scrappy B-sides and early tracks on Rare As… won’t convert anyone).

 

Perhaps Boon got it about right when he predicted how St Peter would greet them at heaven’s gates: “Good songwriters, strong melodies and fine harmonies. Dodgy middle-eights, but we’ll let you off. In you go.” Cool as f*ck? Cool enough, anyway.

 

 

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