Stereophonics-largely rubbish

[killer b]

I've only ever really listened to their first album - which is still mint - some of their second album, and the unexpectedly good Dakota song, but on a whim I thought I'd stick them on a random Spotify random playlist, and fucking hell, all their later stuff is truly turgid. Horrible. Lifeless. How on earth as they still big?

I think bands who achieved a level of success when albums still sold loads have a sort of zombie afterlife just from their existing fans - the last Stereophonics album got to number one on sales of 30,000 - expect the vast majority of those sales were to people who've been fans throughout and buy their stuff out of habit as much as anything else.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Helps that all the people who were into Stereophonics when they started out are dads now, and just want something non-threatening to play in the car.

 

[8ball]

There was a clear watershed when they did that song that sounded like a Ford advert. They were on the turn but I can’t think of anything decent after that.

First album had a few good ones on it, and I like the Bartender And The Thief (good wedding song).

 

[SpookyFrank]

There was a clear watershed when they did that song that sounded like a Ford advert. They were on the turn but I can’t think of anything decent after that.

First album had a few good ones on it, and I like the Bartender And The Thief (good wedding song).

The bartender and the thief are lovers
Steal what they need like sisters and brothers

Because what siblings are known for is the fact they steal things? Rather than the simple fact of their consanguineity? And if they both steal things, the song should be called 'The Thief And The Other Thief'. Or, depending on the interpretation of this opening couplet, perhaps 'The Two Incestuous Thieves'.

 

[8ball]

The bartender and the thief are lovers
Steal what they need like sisters and brothers

Because what siblings are known for is the fact they steal things? Rather than the simple fact of their consanguineity?

It's a Welsh band. Cultural context.

 

[DotCommunist]

Since this tread was posted they covered handbags and gladrags which was ok the first time I heard it and not ok thereafter

 

[editor]

I think bands who achieved a level of success when albums still sold loads have a sort of zombie afterlife just from their existing fans - the last Stereophonics album got to number one on sales of 30,000 - expect the vast majority of those sales were to people who've been fans throughout and buy their stuff out of habit as much as anything else.

I get that but - fucking hell - I couldn't believe how limp and insipid their recent stuff was, like the aural equivalent of pink sludge.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Since this tread was posted they covered handbags and gladrags which was ok the first time I heard it and not ok thereafter

And they added it to later pressings of their album, thus short-changing fans who bought it when it first came out. I always thought that was a cunt's trick.

 

[8ball]

Since this tread was posted they covered handbags and gladrags which was ok the first time I heard it and not ok thereafter

They did it years before this thread.

 

[rutabowa]

The bartender and the thief are lovers
Steal what they need like sisters and brothers

Because what siblings are known for is the fact they steal things? Rather than the simple fact of their consanguineity? And if they both steal things, the song should be called 'The Thief And The Other Thief'. Or, depending on the interpretation of this opening couplet, perhaps 'The Two Incestuous Thieves'.

I think you are missing an important comma, it should be "steal what they need, like [such as] sisters and brothers". It's a song about human trafficking.

 

[DotCommunist]

They did it years before this thread.

did you know without checking? which I couldn't be arsed to do.

 

[8ball]

did you know without checking? which I couldn't be arsed to do.

Why did you say it, then?

 

[killer b]

did you know without checking? which I couldn't be arsed to do.

it was the theme tune to some fairly successful mid-00s sitcom I think

 

[DotCommunist]

Why did you say it, then?

it was 2010s in my head, its all a blur tbf

 

[The Boy]

it was the theme tune to some fairly successful mid-00s sitcom I think

The Office, wasnt it?

 

[rutabowa]

The Office, wasnt it?

Is there a german word for "something you used to find funny but which now the mere mention of induces existential despair"?

 

[rutabowa]

i bet there is

 

[skyscraper101]

Liked the first album and a few off the second. Couldn't be arsed with much else after that. He seemed to take the whole looking like a proper a rock star verrrry seriously, which put me off too.

 

[Badgers]

Gig last night should push up the COVID-19 cases in Wales.