hard-fi crap/not crap

[milesy]

I have never heard them

you are very lucky!!

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I have never heard them

You have. And you love 'em. You just don't know it yet.

 

[Orang Utan]

Hard-Fi and Maximo Park are the best guitar bands to emerge in the last year. Fact.

What's to like about them?

 

[Belushi]

Never heard of 'em but voted crap on point of principal as they're an Indie band.

 

[MarkMark]

I voted LOL.

Do I get a prize?

 

[MysteryGuest]

I voted LOL.

Do I get a prize?

Yup - the dodgepot mix CD.



((((MarkMark)))))

 

[milesy]

yes you do. you get to beat the crap out of MysteryGuest

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

What's to like about them?

Maybe the fact that they piss consummately all over Jet, Kings Of Leon, The Stills, The Shins, The Shits and every other guitar band to emerge in the two or three years previous to them in terms of passion, songs and presence is a good start...?

 

[MarkMark]

Ah shit... not the CD and beating MysteryGuest up... again!

 

[milesy]

Maybe the fact that they piss consummately ...every other guitar band to emerge in the two or three years previous to them in terms of passion, songs and presence is a good start...?

i can prove that you are wrong with one simple picture.

 

[Orang Utan]

How come they just sound like all the other retro shitey wannabes to me then?
Horrible vocals, unmemorable tunes or hook and guitars that sound like so many other guitars - dull dull dull dull

 

[milesy]

jo whiley loves hard-fi.

nuff said.

 

[thestraightman]

It's not supposed to be depressing, it's about victory over bottom-of-the-heap wage-slavery and glory in the face of regular state-sanctioned fistfuckings.

Or living in Staines, in other words.

You've missed the point.

Jimi Hendrix was a "depressant"

His music was not "depressing"

Hard-fi are "depressing"

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

i can prove that you are wrong with one simple picture.

Is that Busted or McFly? I have very poor eyesight these days...

 

[thestraightman]

jo whiley loves hard-fi.

nuff said.

jo whiley

someone kill me

 

[bmd]

I saw them on Later with Jools and Foo Fighters were playing on the same program, they made shite-fi look even more rubbish than usual.

 

[poului]

Maybe the fact that they piss consummately all over Jet, Kings Of Leon, The Stills, The Shins, The Shits and every other guitar band to emerge in the two or three years previous to them in terms of passion, songs and presence is a good start...?

really, that's like saying Jamie Cullum is the best jazz musician of the last 20 years just because he's better than Kenny G.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

How come they just sound like all the other retro shitey wannabes to me then?
Horrible vocals, unmemorable tunes or hook and guitars that sound like so many other guitars - dull dull dull dull

Funny that, as when I first heard both of them it struck me how unlike everything else currently around they sounded. And as for retro, I don't see it myself. Kings Of Leon are retro whereas MP and HF are pop classicists. It's a different thing.

 

[poului]

Funny that, as when I first heard both of them it struck me how unlike everything else currently around they sounded.

Wow, a geordie accent!


Groundbreaking!

 

[thestraightman]

jo whiley

someone kill me

No no

Kill HER

 

[tarannau]

Marginally talented guitar pap-pop with irritating singalong bits that increasingly grate with airplay. They're like a McFly for kidults who believe that they're older and more discerning than they actually are.

Give it a year and you'll be hard pressed to remember who they are.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Jimi Hendrix was a "depressant"

His music was not "depressing"

Do you mean JH was like alcohol? Or that he was depressive?

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

really, that's like saying Jamie Cullum is the best jazz musician of the last 20 years just because he's better than Kenny G.

Well that's clearly not the case, is it? So not a good analogy.

 

[thestraightman]

Do you mean JH was like alcohol? Or that he was depressive?

You know what I mean

 

[akirajoel]

Kings Of Leon are retro whereas MP and HF are pop classicists. It's a different thing.

No comment.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Marginally talented guitar pap-pop

You're suggesting that pap requires a marginal amount of talent to produce?

 

[Orang Utan]

Funny that, as when I first heard both of them it struck me how unlike everything else currently around they sounded. And as for retro, I don't see it myself. Kings Of Leon are retro whereas MP and HF are pop classicists. It's a different thing.

They sound like they've been listening to a lot of Clash records. I'm sure there are a few bands out there (maybe GYBE/Mogwai/Sigur Ros but even they have retro elements) but I cannot think of one genuinely inventive guitar band at the mo. They make the same old sounds with their instruments, so ALL guitar bands are retro really, cos it's a retro instrument.

 

[poului]

Well that's clearly not the case, is it? So not a good analogy.

what, and it's clearly the case that Maximo Park and Hard Fi are the best guitar bands to come out of last year?


Have Arcade Fire, 65 Days of Static and the Books just washed over you then?


tsk.

 

[thestraightman]

saw arcade fire live on cduk
I have to say they fucking rocked
*shouldn't like that sort of thing*

 

[PacificOcean]

Guitar bands and music?

Surely an oxymoron?