Low's version of Transmission takes some beating.

Tortoise's version of As You Said is really great. Even if I don't know the original

The Ting Tings and U2. FUCKING HATE BONO AHHHHHHHHHH

Vampire Weekend. Ugh.

Who is Vampire Weekend?

Seriously, I am at a loss about some of these newer (?) bands you guys keep mentioning.

I reckon you mean this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgsCmekHUIg

Yes.

I think it's good, it doesn't change too much from the original but it has GAB's usual dual-bass and distorted-guitar style. I dig it, though I'm not too interested in covers either way.

Fuck Vampire Weekend. Such a cool band name wasted on such a crap band.

I guess I just don't understand how everyone here has heard this band. Obviously, I can download their album right now or look up on myspace/youtube/etc but what actually made them popular enough for people on this board to know about them and decide they didn't like them?

Radiohead
The Mars Volta
Battles
Fuck Buttons

I don't know why the last two really get to me but they do.

Yeah, Battles aren't the best songwriters in the world.

Mars Volta I can understand but Radiohead and Battles????

The Sex Pistols (wow! so punk! amirite? NO)
Black Kids
Anything 'produced' by Mark Ronson (wannabe Danger Mouse)
Agyness Deyn (not a band but I hate her)
The Kaiser Chiefs
Razorlight
The Kooks (again)
Paul Weller
Oasis

basically anything slapped on the cover of NME;

Ohh, so why did.. uh.. P!ATD scrap a whole album? I MUST KNOW!

They basically got a lot of popularity on blogs and became an overnight sensation because they're four pale ass white kids from Brooklyn that incorporate "world music" into typical indie pap, not to mention that everyone said they sounded "fresh" even if their entire schtick is blown off of Paul Simon's Graceland album and Eno-produced Talking Heads.

People seemed to stop caring about them a few months ago, though, thank fuck.

Cool, thanks for the info.

Ha ha ha! Cantanky strikes again - zing!

Never heard anything else of MGMT, but that Electric Feel song is kind of addictive, very Princey.

my friend was telling me that Swans covered Love Will Tear Us Apart, i'd like to hear that (if it's true).

i actually enjoy the mars volta. they have made some pretty great songs, but i rarely listen to them
fuck buttons are great though

DUDE holy shit, the same thing happened to me when I talked shit about coldplay to this girl. She called me close-minded.

I called her a whore.

I hate it when people who listen to bullshit safe rock call others close minded for not liking their bullshit safe rock. close--minded would be not even listening to a band because you don't like the genre or something, but listening to coldplay or marron 5 and then deciding "this sucks harder than the greasy seeping anus of a professional power bottom" is just fine! it is not close minded!

and is not Coldplay music for the ladies anyway?

pussies, not ladies

I like to keep my derogatory terms away from the gender that provides me with tasty love!

(every single person I have ever heard mention coldplay is a woman)

It's a funny world we live in.

I told him he was gay. Zing.

It's a pretty safe assumption that people who like Coldplay don't really like music.

You can blame any part of how true trendiness these days is defined by how obscure your bands are - when looking at the general public , it DOES seem odd to like coldplay , they kind of ARE the outsider . i never doubt anyone who says they like coldplay that they actually like coldplay , so good for them , they arent trying to bullshit at least , while if someone starts shooting their mouth off about magik markers etc etc that i decide right then and there that they arent actually open for a discussion on music so much as defining their identity at me .

you know how I know....ah fuck that joke.

There are about a million bands that rub me the wrong way.

Anything too pig like, I fucking hate pig squeals.

you are dead on

Whoever said Mark Ronson, you are correct.

Also all of these Falloutatthediscoformyveltine bands that all have the same clean guitar sound and waily vocals, and look like this

I like some coldplay, but they are shit. And the fallout type bands annoy me.

Oh, the utter utter greyness of them, so sort of, well, indistinct. They really are the blandest thing I've ever come across.

They don't really bug me though, because I feel a complete nothingness for their nothingness. It's not that there are reasons to dislike (or indeed like) them; rather, the thing is that I can't find anything noticeable about them.

edit: after studying that photograph, the thing I recall most clearly is that the brickwork on the wall seems to have been done quite professionally.

He should have stayed a drummer.

what do you expect from a kiss fan?

I don't know if No Doubt are as bad as all that, but am I the only one who has ever noticed how much they owe to Dale Bozzio and Missing Persons?

Gwen Stefani makes the sort of records that almost seem scientifically guaranteed to get on my wick. Bah!

No shit....that Queens of the Stone Age album says it all. Just think of the possibilities.


That said, playing the drums is hard work and he's already rich as fuck so he's prob just like, "Fuck it."