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.
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I believe our page on The Killers describes them as something like "more 80s then the 80s actually were"?
And this is why I don't go to clubs.
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.)
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....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.
Listen to Music with Tropers at The Troper Turntable!I'm a Rap fan but Public Enemy incite severe Hype Backlash
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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
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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.