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Post by campbell22 on Feb 21, 2008 11:49:38 GMT
Fergal good to see someone else with reasonable opinions on this forum, FastFuse God help you if you think that The Strokes were just;
"a very brief flash in the plan, helped a great deal by the NME"
The Strokes sparked the British music scene into action, and for that we should only be thankful.
"Is This It" is consistently voted in polls for great records/albums , Julian Casablancas voice and Albert Hammond JR's Guitar playing skills are electrifying.
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Post by nykee14 on Feb 21, 2008 13:12:12 GMT
haha the taste and class still remains thing is, whether you like them or not, because of them britain got interested in music again and record labels started to take chances with signing proper bands, the libertines only got signed on the back of the strokes' popularity and they ended up changing british music massively because great music was finally back on offer But The Libertines were around quite a while before The Strokes. Admittedly they got signed because of The Strokes popularity but a lot of the main Libertines material was recorded/written before they were signed. I think they would have been found if The Strokes wern't around. |
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Post by fastfuse on Feb 21, 2008 14:01:37 GMT
Campbell I've got God sat here telling me to spread the word that the strokes are 'cack and overrated' (his words not mine)
The only people who did like them were students or people who read the NME.
The albums that followed 'is this it' room on fire and first impressions of earth are complete rubbish (imo).
I realize there first album crops up in the readers/writer polls but it won't in 5 years because no one will care about a bunch of posh little tossers who wear there jeans 3 inches away from the tops of there shoes!!!
Albert Hammond's guitar playing as average and how can you say fat boy Casablamcas has a good voice, on his records it always sounds like its been run through a distortion pedal!!!!
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Post by campbell22 on Feb 21, 2008 17:54:45 GMT
I did like The Strokes , and i still do like The Strokes.
I see you are very angry about the image that the Strokes convey, and you are very angry about their backgrounds but that has nothing to do with the music.
Julian Casablancas voice sounds so good because it is different.
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Post by Fergal on Feb 21, 2008 19:43:40 GMT
haha the taste and class still remains thing is, whether you like them or not, because of them britain got interested in music again and record labels started to take chances with signing proper bands, the libertines only got signed on the back of the strokes' popularity and they ended up changing british music massively because great music was finally back on offer But The Libertines were around quite a while before The Strokes. Admittedly they got signed because of The Strokes popularity but a lot of the main Libertines material was recorded/written before they were signed. I think they would have been found if The Strokes wern't around. very true about most of the tunes being wrote before they got signed and that, the libertines were as great as they always were before they were signed and most of the first and second album was already in their arsenal, however i doubt whether they would have got signed without the strokes getting everyones attention, carl barat himself has said that they used to repeatedly go to record labels with their demos and they'd just throw them back in their faces, but once the strokes came on the scene the labels that were throwing their tapes back in their faces were welcoming them with open arms. but obviously the libertines outgrew the strokes and were a far far far superior band, despite the strokes being great |
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Post by fastfuse on Feb 21, 2008 20:46:29 GMT
No thats very true it doesn't matter were they come from and I don't care what people look like. I like the Kings Of Leon and they looked like inbred bible bashers from the deep south when they first came out (OH YEAH.......THEY ARE!!!) Am not angry Campbell I just don't like em, and I think there 'Overrated' thats all!! I admire the way your fighting there corner.....(fucking Converse Chuck Taylors and drainpipes..... for f**k sake  ) |
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Post by Fergal on Feb 21, 2008 20:49:56 GMT
aye leave fastfuse78 alone now  iv never seen so many people kick off cos of someone not liking the strokes, at least fastfuse78 respects the strokes and that, we all have bands that we dislike a lot but respect what they did, for me its led zepellin, yes they apparantly did tons good for music but i strongly dislike em, still respect em though. any led zep fans on here by the way? P.S. The strokes are still immense as ever |
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Post by fastfuse on Feb 21, 2008 20:57:03 GMT
Cheers Ferg.....Fucking bullying me that Campbell. Did you see him try to flush my head down the bog   Lets Talk about overrated football managers, am a united fan so I can't comment...... But Campbell's from Newcastle lets ask him eh??? How long till KING KEV'S up the road P45 in hand, back to malaga playing golf and doing Terry McDermots perm? |
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Post by campbell22 on Feb 21, 2008 22:02:12 GMT
Campbell lives in Newcastle as he is a student at The University of Newcastle but is from Doncaster and supports Liverpool.
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Post by fastfuse on Feb 22, 2008 16:12:29 GMT
Even better lets talk about Benitez!! Come on Campbell i'm only pulling your leg!!!
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Post by campbell22 on Feb 22, 2008 16:35:44 GMT
I know you are fastfuse. I have got plenty of time to educate you on Rafa.
He has been treated in a disgraceful manner both by the yanks and by the newspapers. People seem to forget that this is a man who in his first three seasons in English Football won us The European Cup , The FA Cup, and then took us to another European Cup Final.
Like any other Liverpool supporter if i was to be asked at the beginning of the season which trophy i would most like us to win, it would be the league, and the league will always be the priority. However the success in Europe we achieve should be respected much more than it is by the written press who so often forget Rafa's achievements and look upon his "rotation" as being the reason of our demise.
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Post by fastfuse on Feb 22, 2008 16:56:34 GMT
I like him, but he just cant get the league thing right. His record in the champions league is outstanding. Inter hadn't lost in god nows how long until the other night. BUT those yanks don't give a shit about that I hope he's still here next season, he's got to improve things. He's like a professor of football and most importantly he's going bald but makes up for it by growing a goatee.......GENIUSE!!
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Post by chel on Mar 4, 2008 20:01:18 GMT
whatever band the nme is banging on about from week to week.
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Post by shoopdelaang on Mar 4, 2008 20:08:47 GMT
I hate that every new band is called the arctic monkeys from...., the next arctic monkeys.
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iv never seen so many people kick off cos of someone not liking the strokes, at least fastfuse78 respects the strokes and that, we all have bands that we dislike a lot but respect what they did, for me its led zepellin, yes they apparantly did tons good for music but i strongly dislike em, still respect em though. any led zep fans on here by the way?
