Asides: Fall Out Boy, R Ashcroft, Therapy?, Coldcut and Giant Drag

Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance Aims to be JEW's Sweetness but falls far short. This is everything that stinks about modern commericial rock music, middle of the road pap tailored for middle of the road saps in baggy trousers. Where is a cultural apocalypse when you need one?

Richard Ashcroft - Music Is Powerless Christ this is shite! Funk guitar fights with strings and a multitude of sounds for your attention as Ashcroft does his schtik over the top. Mince.

Therapy? - Rain Hits Concrete Heard it all before but you can't deny Therapy? for their knack at writing Big Black flected pop punk. Catchy but sour!

Giant Drag - This Isn't It - Surly yet sweet grunge pop that is half way between the Breeders and Veruca Salt. Contains a snazzy guitar solo at the half way mark that would make Mascis proud.

Coldcut - True Skool - More memorable than it should be this track is a great catchy slice of sitar pumped hip hop.

[Ghostsuit]

I love Dance, Dance and your middle of the road pap is music I can dance too. Sure it's not something that will move the world but it moves your feet and your body. Different music for different things. It's a cracking pop punk tune thank god it replaces a slot that would probably be filled on the radio by an Artic Monkeys tune, now that is pish.

[Charlie Parker]

Artic Monkeys is pish, FOB at least had a catchy pop single first time around which I would find fufilled your description for me
* jigs *

[Jenpot]

Originally Posted by Ghostsuit

I love Dance, Dance and your middle of the road pap is music I can dance too. Sure it's not something that will move the world but it moves your feet and your body. Different music for different things. It's a cracking pop punk tune thank god it replaces a slot that would probably be filled on the radio by an Artic Monkeys tune, now that is pish.

Exactly! Middle of the road, pah! FOB's lyrics are FAR smarter than the majority of pop-punkers and what's more this song has FAR more dancibility* than Sweetness by Jimmy Eat World.

Pfft.

*It's so a real word.

[Charlie Parker]

They're hardly Cheap Trick

[Jenpot]

Good job they're not trying to be

[*blaine*]

Originally Posted by Jenpot

Exactly! Middle of the road, pah! FOB's lyrics are FAR smarter than the majority of pop-punkers

when you can make them out through the mumbling

I didn't want to say I like Dance, Dance in case it made me look uncool

[*blaine*]

its dancable. i like it but i am uncool

[Jenpot]

They don't mumble, you're all deaf

Liking it makes you part of the cool kids Vonnie, come over to the dark side. Free clip-on sideshed and fresh pair of drainpipes for every new recruit.

[Charlie Parker]

Stop talking about Fallout Boy, Giant Drag rock

[poprock]

Old pop-punk fan decries new pop-punkers shocker.

Personally, I’m with Mr Parker. I find FOB generic and uninspired. Not so much that it offends me, just enough to make me pass ’em over for the next record on the shelf.

They’re exactly the sort of music I was once rabidly into, so to me they just sound like a pale imitation of records I already know.

Such is the way of the world.

Oh aye, and I heard a Giant Drag single last night. They do rock.

[Charlie Parker]

[*blaine*]

Originally Posted by Jenpot

They don't mumble, you're all deaf

Liking it makes you part of the cool kids Vonnie, come over to the dark side. Free clip-on sideshed and fresh pair of drainpipes for every new recruit.

maybe not mumble but theres several times on that album that make me go
"what the fuck did he just say"

[MarkMono]

I mean no offence when I state the simple observation that Fallout Boy sound like they're singing "blah blah blah.."