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Jonny0110 Since: May, 2011
#226: May 22nd 2011 at 5:42:54 PM

Underrated: Social Distortion, Cold, American Head Charge, Breaking Benjamin, Smile Empty Soul, Saint Anger, Strung Out, Beautiful Creatures, Victory Pill...

Overrated: Green Day, U2, The White Stripes, The Libertines, Green Day, Bullet for my Valentine, Green Day, The Killers, Coldplay, Green Day, Stereophonics and in case I missed them out, Green Day.

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
Laugh it off, everybody
#227: May 22nd 2011 at 5:46:12 PM

*likes Green Day entirely unironically*

underrated: The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu, The KLF, really, anything involving Jimmy Cauty. Bill Drummond's gone off the deep end though.

also, DJ Vadim and DJ Spooky.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#228: May 22nd 2011 at 5:48:52 PM

I like U2, The Killers, and Coldplay, but I won't argue against the fact that they're overrated.

edited 22nd May '11 5:49:05 PM by Zudak

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
Laugh it off, everybody
#229: May 22nd 2011 at 5:49:54 PM

Oh, U2 are good too, if a bit full of themselves.

Coldplay's quality is pretty variable, but I loved Viva la Vida.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#230: May 22nd 2011 at 5:53:41 PM

Viva La Vida's definitely their best.

Jonny0110 Since: May, 2011
#231: May 22nd 2011 at 5:56:10 PM

The Killers I only put on there because I am that bloody sick of hearing Mr. Brightside in clubs. Smile Like You Mean It and Jenny Was a Friend of Mine are awesome.

I stand by the Coldplay one though evil grin

Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#232: May 22nd 2011 at 5:58:24 PM

I'm a bit tired of Mr. Brightside too, and I don't even go to clubs.

Hot Fuss has some good stuff but I like Day And Age better.

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
Laugh it off, everybody
#233: May 22nd 2011 at 6:00:32 PM

The only opinion I have on the Killers is that I think they sound like a New Order ripoff, but that's just me.

I like Coldplay's music, it's....well it's cold.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
Jonny0110 Since: May, 2011
#234: May 22nd 2011 at 6:02:44 PM

Ha here's a way to simulate the club experience (at least in Newcastle). Play Mr. Brightside 18 times, that Fratellis song 31 times, Don't Stop Believing by Journey until all the trendy idiots stop pretending to like it and Sex on Fire until your Kings of Leon CD melts.

Oh, and avoid eye contact with yourself in a mirror for 3 hours before finally looking and reluctantly making yourself a drink really, really slowly.

Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#235: May 22nd 2011 at 6:05:44 PM

[up][up]I believe our page on The Killers describes them as something like "more 80s then the 80s actually were"?

[up]And this is why I don't go to clubs.

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
Laugh it off, everybody
#236: May 22nd 2011 at 6:13:21 PM

Wow.

Your clubs suck ass.

What kind of club plays the goddamn Killers? What kind of club plays The Kings of Leon? How is that even close to club music?

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#237: May 22nd 2011 at 6:16:32 PM

>implying that people don't get down to "Use Somebody"

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
Laugh it off, everybody
#238: May 22nd 2011 at 6:17:17 PM

[rant about degradation of club culture goes here]

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
Jonny0110 Since: May, 2011
#239: May 22nd 2011 at 6:17:57 PM

Clubs just play what's popular. Mr. Brightside gets everyone up and dancing, Don't Stop Believing causes a singalong (at least for the first verse, which is all anyone knows). That's "popular" club nights, you also get ones purely for Electro or Rock/Metal etc.

And yeah, they do mostly suck (although I was at one of the Electro ones with all lasers and shit and it was pretty awesome. And I know nothing about Electro.)

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
Laugh it off, everybody
#240: May 22nd 2011 at 6:20:49 PM

Electro I can see, but the others....what.

Electro is actually quite good music, if a more or less dead genre.

Still, the only way that club music and pop music should be combined is like this, for instance:

listen to it all the way through and you'll see what I mean.

edited 22nd May '11 6:21:49 PM by SpainSun

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
Saeglopur Resident Hipster from Various places in the UK Since: Jan, 2001
Resident Hipster
#241: May 22nd 2011 at 11:58:07 PM

On Coldplay: I'm an unashamed fan of albums 1, 2 and to some extent 4. X & Y was an abomination.

On The Killers: Hot Fuss was awesome, but Mr. Brightside is possibly the most overplayed song in the history of time. They've only gone downhill from there, as far as I'm concerned.

On clubs: I hear ya, Jonny. I'm not sure if that's just the state of clubs here in the UK though. Indie being what it is at the moment, it's chart-hitting indie songs that a bunch of people holding plastic cups can jump up and down and shout along to that get played in the big chain clubs like Gatecrasher (*barf*) and Oceana (*bleurgh*), as well as every Student's Union Bar in the country.

There are some better clubs out there if you want specifically club music or specifically good indie/alternative music, but you have to go looking for them. They sure as hell won't be on the main strip. Round my way, that main strip is Broad Street, which has all of the worst clubs - generic, shiny-lights-and-sticky-floors shit holes with all the atmosphere of... well, the atmosphere of several hundred desperate students smelling of sweat and stale lager trying to get off with each other to the whiney, repetitive strains of Sex On Fire. Pretty much hell on earth.

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TheGloomer Since: Sep, 2010
#242: May 23rd 2011 at 2:08:11 AM

Billy Joel is underrated (especially compared to Elton John). Toto is underrated also.

I'm not sure who else is or was rated poorly by critics. Obviously those ones were very popular with audiences.

edited 23rd May '11 2:09:18 AM by TheGloomer

cutewithoutthe Góðberit Norðling Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
Góðberit Norðling
#243: May 23rd 2011 at 4:09:47 AM

I like The Killers, but I hate Mr.Brightside.

I used to like it, but...no more!

AdeptusAlpharius Alpha Legionnaire from Bosnia and Herzegovina Since: Dec, 2010
Alpha Legionnaire
#244: May 23rd 2011 at 4:32:31 AM

Balkan Folk Needs More Love.

I ♥ the VRS
Lapsedtreker Call me Lappsed from Internet Since: Apr, 2011
Call me Lappsed
#245: May 23rd 2011 at 4:37:43 AM

I'm a Rap fan but Public Enemy incite severe Hype Backlash

Proveing 12 year olds are the filthist people around
inane242 Anwalt der Verdammten from A B-Movie Bildungsroman Since: Nov, 2010
Anwalt der Verdammten
#246: May 23rd 2011 at 5:53:49 AM

DJ Spooky

DAMN STRAIGHT.

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JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
Apparition in the Woods
#247: May 23rd 2011 at 6:05:15 AM

[up] Yes. Thank you.

On a different note: Bügsküll. Their early work predicates eerily a good 75% of '90s indie music in spite of the fact that the likelihood of you even knowing that it exists is slim to non-extant. What's worse is that most of their best material (Gargamelodies, Distracted Snowflake Volume One) is nearly impossible to find.

edited 23rd May '11 6:10:29 AM by JHM

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
#248: Jun 5th 2011 at 3:31:06 PM

Balkan Folk Needs More Love.
Too true.

vanthebaron Mystical Monkey Master from Carlyle, Il Since: Sep, 2010
Mystical Monkey Master
#249: Jun 5th 2011 at 5:15:04 PM

Underrated: sonata arctica (in my area)

Overrated: country in general

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Alichains Since: Aug, 2010
#250: Jun 5th 2011 at 6:16:49 PM

Country? I wouldn't call it overrated. Most people who don't like country tend to dismiss it on principle.


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