Calvin Harris should stop making music immediately

yep, he is like some vile British public school James Murphy

[goes to youtube to check out who this calvin character is]

oh that acceptable in the 80s guy? that was neat enough.

[listens to 'all the girls']

oh christ.

The buzz: "This purveyor of retro-electro is going to be huge in 2007!" - MTV.

The truth: This purveyor of reference-heavy designer funk is going to be hilarious in 2007.

Most likely to: Make us laugh.

Least likely to: Make us dance.

File next to: Hot Chip, The National Trust, Superthriller, Gonzales.

good god, his videos make me want to KILL.

aw he's only a kid. he were stackin shelfs a year back now he's a pop star. i like the romance of this fact. merrymaking... is ace!

i did this on the jacques lu cont thread.

People, Newton Faulkner is still out there being encouraged by somebody.

Robin Thicke. Amy McDonald.

tbh, I actually kinda like "Acceptable in the 80s". But his videos... he just seems so punchable.

FUMING Scots dance artist Calvin Harris cut short his gig at last night's Live at Loch Lomond festival after an angry row with fans who threw mud at him.

The Dumfries-born star dropped a song from his set after a few morons in the crowd tossed the dirt on stage.

Calvin, who has produced tracks with KylieMinogue, couldn't believe what he was seeing and slammed the yobs before performing The Girls.

As he introduced the song, he said: "I don't know what you are throwing mud at me for. I make my own music - I'm here to entertain you.

"I'm not like one of those DJs like Carl Cox over there playing other people's records and getting paid £20,000 to do it."

The rest of the crowd cheered as Calvin pointed towards the other dance tents. He then appeared to try to get among the audience to catch the culprits, before deciding it was better to end the gig prematurely.

He spoke exclusively to The Razz after coming off stage.

Calvin said: "It was like three or four guys chucking mud at me and I just thought it was time somebody said something.

"It was when it hit my keyboard that I got angry because I thought 'how much is this gig going to cost us?' I stuck up for myself.

"We actually dropped a song and cut short the set because of it. I wanted to play The Girls so I dedicated it to the guys who threw the mud."

Calvin claimed it was even more of an insult because he's performing with a "proper band" and being paid less than other artists.

He added: "It annoys me some DJs are getting paid five times as much as us when we are a proper band and they're only playing other people's records.

"They are getting so much more than us but we seem to get the grief. It is kept secret in the industry but we are doing all these gigs and other guys are getting paid £20,000 for playing 20 records.

"I kept trying to find the guys who were throwing the mud. The first time it reached the stage I tried to throw some of it back but I didn't want to keep doing that in case it really started something.

When it was messing up all our gear, I thought I should really do something."

Calvin admits being a festival rookie but insists the experience won't put him off playing more.

He said: "Before this I'd never attended a festival - I was just so busy making tracks in my room.

"If I've learned anything it's always bring your own wellies and then leave them with the tour manager. He knows how to deal with dirty wellies."

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/therazz/daily/tm_method=full%26objectID=19577177%26siteID=66633-name_page.html

lol

carl cox has to put his grandkids thu college somehow.

Remember when Carl Cox was on the Big Breakfast?

he's so old i can remember him from 'that was the week that was'.

Playing Lance Percival's records?

Remember when Carl Cox was on the Big Breakfast?

playing Whigfield! it was awesome

Harris probably hasn't heard Cox's own tunes. 'The Player' destroys anything he's ever done or will do.

What is it with dance acts talking about proper bands and "proper pop" music being back in the charts according to popjustice?

Why does everything have to be "proper"?

bit harsh to bracket james murphy with this witless cock, ronan!

it's like inverse rockism. xpost

'proper' pop as opposed to actually good/great pop

What the hell is proper pop anyway?

It's the kind of thing I would expect 50 year old Abba fans to say.

tim f's review in the local street press - "he admitted that he never liked disco, maybe he should fucking well stay away from it then." hero!

What the hell is proper pop anyway?

White people.

Ahh, that explains why the lex used to slag off popjustice as something else then.

The Sunday Mail just loves this guy. Yet another live review in todays paper.

BETTER LIVE.

Did you take your own mud?

my own mud? um..

ugh could the guy get any less likeable.

Possibly the worst shit ever made.

Andy I'm so glad you agree. I despise him.

"It annoys me some DJs are getting paid five times as much as us when we are a proper band and they're only playing other people's records."

twat

but i like "acceptable in the 80s"

really boring on tv

I forgot Carl Cox existed till this thread. Is he still big in Europe? I’d expect not ...

Oh wow, the sheer assholery of that DJ comment...

Yes, everyone knows that playing records is harder than making them, so why shouldn't DJs get paid five times more?

carl cox doesn't get paid more because of what he does on stage. he gets paid more because he can draw 10 times as many people.

I caught the last few songs of his LA set last week, and didn't think it was that bad. Sort of had a 90s dance/LCD Jr. vibe to his songs. I did notice that the club was 18+, and most of the crowd did not have over 21 wristbands, which I think says a lot about his demographic.

Also, way more females than males in attendance, and most looked like they hadn't been to an indie club before. Led me to believe that he must be getting a huge MySpace/MTVU push.

calvin harris - scotland's disgrace pt. 48.

carl cox is STILL massive.

Are there any mega-big name 90s DJs who aren't still massive? It's like they can go out of fashion as much as they want and still draw big crowds.

CALVIN HARRIS AND THE MITCHELL BROTHERS TOGETHER ON ONE TRACK. THE BEST OF BRITISH DANCE MEETS THE BEST OF BRITISH URBAN. HOW CAN THEY FIT SO MUCH NON-IRRITATING TALENT ON ONE SONG? I HAVE NO IDEA.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zt7VRD6zlSs

Led me to believe that he must be getting a huge MySpace/MTVU push

along with a nice line in DFS sofas ..

ok

1. playing in a real band? big whup, what fucken difference does it make? I think almost anybody would rather hear a good DJ set than a shit band

2. he is a poor imitation of mylo, who is a poor imitation of Les Rythmes Digitales

3. he jumped on the electro/80s revival bandwagon at least 5 years too late

4. he is a stupid twat

^ all 4 points OTM

But I do like Acceptable in the 80s...

Calvin Harris OTM

a bunch of my friends are really digging this guy, but i gave the album a spin and was thoroughly unimpressed. it's getting massive college radio play. maybe some good remixes would make it more palatable.

emily, play your friends "darkdancer" by Les Rythmes Digitales from 1999.

i went back to my college a couple weekends ago for homecoming and this shit was playing all over. wtf

I thought he was very funny in this Metro mini-interview

4. he is a stupid twat

-- max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 14:27 (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

^^^this dude was frequently otm, whatever happened to him?

"I couldn’t stand that J-Lo song with the saxophone all the way through, Get Right. That was bad."

idiot.

just read this on wikipedia about the "Acceptable in the 80s" video:

The music video features many references of the time; the stereotypical large hairstyles, bright dayglo colours and bizarrely, scientists dissecting what appears to be an otter, products of which are used by a hair stylist, TV chef, and to heal a grazed knee. The video is directed by Woof Wan-Bau.

this could be a number of things I suppose; is he saying that BACK THEN animal testing and vivisection were (more) acceptable, that there wasn't as much environmental consciousness as today? I love it that someone called Woof Wan-Bau exists.

I think it was more that people just hated otters in the 80s, as they were associated with the (then) embarrassing 70s (Tarka The Otter, Ring Of Bright Water etc.)

(actually Ring Of Bright Water came out in 1969, but we all know the 70s began in 1968)

we have some songs of his on the work ipod, one where he is singing about "electro man" is a mix of the "electro boy" song from the mighty boosh and that one belle & sebastian dance track, sung by the dude from david devant and his spirit wife. really really bad.

Maybe Calvin Harris is just trolling.

'In My Arms' from the forthcoming Kylie album is quite good.

So's her cover of "Love is the Drug."

bentley rhythm ace of 2007

some good stuff alright. he's otm about that j-lo song.

he's rubbish

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/7328513.stm

Chart star Calvin Harris has lost seven months of work on his new album in baggage problems at Heathrow.

The dance musician, from Dumfries, in the south of Scotland, was returning to the UK from America when the bag containing his laptop went missing.

A spokeswoman for his record company confirmed it contained the only copy of work on Mr Harris' second album.

His first release - I Created Disco - was a top 10 hit and carried the debut single Acceptable in the 80s.

The album's success led to him working with the likes of Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Kylie Minogue, for whom he wrote the forthcoming single In My Arms in his bedroom on a 15-year-old computer.

A spokeswoman for Columbia Records confirmed that the lost laptop contained several new songs the DJ and musician had been working on.

"He has lost the only copy of the new album," she said.

"It is a big cause for concern - months of work have gone into that."

She said it would not affect his live performances as they did not involve the use of the laptop.

However, it could set back work on a new album for some time.

"They have offered about £750 in compensation," said the spokeswoman.

"You can't really put a price on something like a new record."

Flights cancelled

British Airways has said its priority is to reunite passengers with their luggage as soon as possible.

More than 400 volunteer staff have been working to deal with the situation.

Thousands of bags were caught in a backlog after the opening of the new T5 terminal at Heathrow this week.

Numerous flights were cancelled due to problems with the baggage handling system.

British Airways has admitted that the chaos surrounding the opening of Terminal 5 has so far cost about £16 million.

there is a god

i thought this thread was about beat happening

Oh no that sucks! "Acceptable in the 80s" was pretty good but "The Girls" had the girls going wild! That song is hot.

I never checked the full album to be honest but I can't believe he would keep his entire new one on just one laptop. Way to suck, British Airways!

This is totally a dog-ate-my-homework story, and is Harris's excuse for not yet having churned out the follow up Columbia is no doubt pestering him for so they can rush release it before everyone gets (even more) sick of him.

yeah as much as i would like this to be true, what kind of mongtard doesn't back that shit up?

He should just steal Laromlab's album and pass it off as his own.

Has Dom been moonlighting as a baggage handler at Terminal 5?

of course he has another copy. its just a load of PR gumph aint it.

Was about to say the same. If it was really the case they'd be suitably embarrassed to not issue a fucking press release about it

Perhaps he did a song with Naomi Campbell and she wasn't too keen on it.

Maybe the record label is trying to get extra compensation from british airways

That would be hilarious so I hope you're right

Anyone tech-savvy enough to make good electronic music knows to back shit up. What a jackoff.

yep, he is like some vile British public school James Murphy

Well, this song with Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris, it's quite good.

it's awful. the way the bassline so wants to be a classic bounce, and fails by so much, makes me cringe.

the lex is back??? wow.

that deadmau5 dub injects some life into his 'merrymaking' track which is one of those songs that has been completely overshadowed by the remix.

Hey, that Dizzee track is quite good. Calvin Harris revival starts here.

im happy that i dont live in the uk and therefore can pretend like the dizzee track doesn't exist

the dude on the hook is the worst part about it actually

I'm seeing this guy open for MBV in three months. Hm.

Dizzee or Calvin? I'm not sure either are obvious MBV opening acts

Hey, that Dizzee track is quite good. Calvin Harris revival starts here.

-- Ismael Klata, Wednesday, July 9, 2008 9:51 PM

I disagree. Dizzee's vocal is phoned in, he switches between generic "electro" and generic "Indian" music in a way that just sounds lazily tacked-together, his own vocal is a cringe-worthy... it sucks, basically.

Dizzee or Calvin? I'm not sure either are obvious MBV opening acts

Calvin. Dizzee I've seen already, great show.

http://i36.tinypic.com/auavwx.jpg

And what's with the Peter Beardsley do?

i like his production for seb/roisin's "off & on" much more than i like "dance wiv me"

I just noticed Dizzee confessing that he'll "feel like a wally" if he doesn't pursue this girl - how can you hate that?

http://store01.prostores.com/digitalgravel/catalog/lacelocks_wallychampihmdj_c.jpg

thought this said Calvin Johnson at first, thought "well, i agree, but it's too late now, isn't it?"

I still like "Dance Wiv Me".

dont mind this song anymore but the hook lets it down a lot.

ned YOU ARE FUCKING KIDDING ME - this guy is opening up for MBV in LA??!?!?!

a fucking travesty.

The album's success led to him working with the likes of Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Kylie Minogue, for whom he wrote the forthcoming single In My Arms in his bedroom on a 15-year-old computer.

does this blurb annoy anyone else as much as it annoys me?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Everyone

... for whom he wrote (insert song title here) for (Insert answer here) on a notepad he nicked from school twenty two years ago!

i think this bears repeating:

"They have offered about £750 in compensation," said the spokeswoman.

"You can't really put a price on something like a new record."

Er, around £750 then? Also, hahaha that's fuck-all.

Dope zinging from British Airways officials, there.

i think it's kinda funny how calvin harris is all "give me praise! how come people aren't talking about my involvement in the new dizzee single!"
and it's like, well, cos no one likes you and we'd rather forget that you wrote some okay beats for once. plus dizzee's been reeling from his mercury music prize for so long, it's nice to see the fella doing well with one of his less-good singles.
whatever, i'm just bitter cos apparently i look like calvin harris.

But he gets all the girls, he gets all the girls!
Yeah Calvin is pretty shocking but he's not as shocking as plenty of other artists. I say he should stop making music progressively and then quit altogether.

i went to a gig of his at the astoria earlier this year. it was SHOCKINGLY terrible.

(and i felt about 63 years old, which admittedly didn't help)

Why is this Dizzee's first number one rather than the BUGSY MALONE ONE?

People have taste in their arse.

How soon we forget Band Aid 20.

^^This is true, so very true.

Band Aid 20 I excluded on compassionate grounds.

Giving a little help to the helpless

Dizzee will never top 'I Luv U'. Calvin will never top losing his laptop.

^^Hahaha

But peoples; "There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time (OH I WONDER WHY THE FUCK THERE WOULDN'T BE SNOW ON A CONTINENT THATS GOES THROUGH THE EQUATOR) Do they know its Christmas time at all?" Sorry that line always fucks me up.
I change my mind, Harris must quit but also Geldof should suffer somehow.

Don't get me started on the lyrics of Feed the World, it's disgustingly glib and misleading. And how about all that snow on the top of all the mountains in Africa?

surely not all of them

new song is the bomb imo B-)

thought the new single was awful, but kind of coming around to it as i'm forced to listen to it once an hour at work. funny that I first heard it and thought 'how embarrassing, this is gonna tank'. shows what i know.

i thought this was gonna be refreshed because he stopped making music.

with a number one solo single, you'd better brace for more.

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/i-barfd.jpg

new song is the bomb imo B-)

― twitty milk (deej), Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:11 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

deej otm, u guys are haters

he only gave it a B- though

which song are you talking about deej?

"i'm not alone"

and thats a dude in cool shades B-)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ertScSJvL._SS500_.jpg

are there some hott remixes of this

haha the lyrics are so dum

the very first time i heard it i was convinced it was the worst piece of music i had or ever would hear

and now its just kind of average and i cant bring back those deep feelings of loathing and i don't know where they came from

this is just classic big room superemotional dance music ...?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=19

Yo Deej you were right about this. Heard it on the radio yesterday. Big tune!

I keep trying to remember how this goes and then realise I'm thinking of "Bonkers" instead.

why, why does he sing

Yes this is a worthy question to ask. His vocals actually work on "Dance Wiv Me" because he's playing middling everyman, but here it's just like, can you please replace your sonky moaning with the girl from Fragma's "Toca's Miracle" so we can properly get down to business?

or Ian Van Dahl, he had a nice voice. very feminine...

Ian Van Dahl is female.

deej was so right about this

if u guys love him so much can we effect some sort of c harris swap? u can take that endless twat calvin and we'll have t.i. or cici.

(u're all OBV wrong about this dreadful, hackish track)

his remix for Passion Pit is massive. really good for the summer!

i was just listening to that youtube clip thinking "yuk, this is awful" then the beat kicked in and i figured i'd better just go ahead and download it now as i will no doubt be forced to play this for the tourists sooner or later

he is still like some vile British public school James Murphy

Dear god, I have to witness this fool playing live at the UCL summer ball.
Not only that, but there's a funky house DJ ("Stevie B") on the line up also.

Calvin Harris is trying to ingratiate himself to ILM now!

Calvin Harris has described the state of music in the charts over the past couple of years as 'very depressing'.

The Scottish dance star said the number of guitar bands in recent times had been 'boring'.

Calvin Harris was speaking as he missed out on the award for Best Contemporary Song at the Ivor Novellos.

Harris said: "Things got very depressing, things got very boring with indie band after indie band - it became known as indie-landfill."

Charts change

"There's no more accurate description for the state that music was in," he continued.

Harris and Dizzee Rascal were attending the awards held at London's Grosvenor House Hotel but missed out to Elbow in the category of Best Contemporary Song.

Commenting on an apparent increase in dance music Harris said: "I think people have just realised they just want to have fun for a while.

"I think the summer's coming around…we're in a recession people want to have fun, people want to forget about their worries.

"They want to listen to Bonkers, they want to listen to the new Basement Jaxx single and I think that's a good thing, I love happy music."

Calvin Harris will spend the summer playing festivals including Glastonbury, T In The Park and Creamfields.

funny thing is, his music is just as boring as the shitty "indie" bands he slags off.

i think we can all agree that if Calvin Harris and all those indie-landfill bands stopped making music and just buggered off then the charts would be better.

no we don't!

calvin is grebt and otm. fucking elbow.

both suck and should bugger off

it's not my fault the bluebells split up!

that wouldve been in your favour!

heh!

Calvin is having a Twitter meltdown moment: http://twitter.com/calvinharris

THIS ENTIRE INDUSTRY IS FULL OF RICH PEOPLES KIDS, EVERYWHERE, FUCKING RICH PEOPLES KIDS RICH PEOPLES KIDS

(Continues in this vein for quite some time)

All inspired by this review: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/aug/07/calvin-harris-cd-review

BECAUSE OF THE FUCKING RICH PEOPLES KIDS there are people who will like the album who wont get the album because they saw a shit review

THIS ENTIRE INDUSTRY IS FULL OF RICH PEOPLES KIDS, EVERYWHERE, FUCKING RICH PEOPLES KIDS RICH PEOPLES KIDS

It's a slightly better lyric than I GET ALL THE GIRLS I GET ALL THE GIRLS, I suppose.

AP (for it is he!) responding at http://twitter.com/alexispetridis

Or maybe CH is sticking it to Gavin Martin in equal measure: http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/the-ticket/2009/08/album-of-the-week-calvin-harri.html

I don't think Gavin Martin has been called a "kid" since 1978

RICH PEOPLES KIDS GETTING GOOD REVIEWS BECAUSE MUMMY FUCKED THE JOURNO IN THE 80S

Might want to ruminate on this given that a strong majority of music journos are in their 20s or 30s

Right, I misunderstood, who is he referring to?

Wow, that Petriedes article is one of the best things I think I've ever read of his. I mean that totally without irony.

So basically, Harris' angst about that article boils down to "wah wah wah, Alexis Petriedes is smarter and better educated than I am" - WOW, that must *really* hurt.

Credit where credit's due, I think everyone gave that album two stars, not just Petridis.

Now clarified: "that wasn't about @alexispetridis' review by the way, his came as no surprise."

there are people who will like the album who wont get the album because they saw a shit review

lol

FUCKING JOURNALISTS GIVING PEOPLE SHIT REVIEWS

AND SLEEPING WITH WOMEN IN THE PAST

Which jobbing indie band's parents would you travel back in time to have sex with?

"Gay Dad" indeed

"Come tweet wiv me"

Been digging his tweets immensely. Thanks Mike!

I've got love for you unless your mum fucked a journo in the 80s, the 80s

apparently he debuts on the hot 100 this week with one of his own tracks ;_; rihanna what have you done

tired of hearing that damn chintzy circus organ all the time

title of thread still applies

never gonna forgive rihanna for this tbh

Rev OTM

I guess we should get used to it

tired of hearing that damn chintzy circus organ all the time

yesss but this is like the definition of "grooving" for certain people

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/silkstink.jpg

I wonder what you guys would be saying had you been around for La Bouche, The Real McCoy and Captain Hollywood Project

(although "Feel So Close" is pretty much terrible)

I wonder what you guys would be saying had you been around for La Bouche, The Real McCoy and Captain Hollywood Project

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, February 16, 2012 7:06 AM Bookmark

iirc my thoughts on all this stuff at the time was "when are they playing Coolio again?"

I fux w/ "Sweet Dreams" and "Another Night" (tho I always thought this sounded like a Coke jingle) and maaaaaaaaaaayyyybe "Be My Lover" tho

i can't figure out if la bouche and the real mccoy are supposed to really be a defense of this (or anything)

it's more, people are having this hysterical overreaction to this dude as if he's some brand new circle of awful hell rather than someone who is pretty clearly operating in a paradigm that's been sending hits to the charts for 20 years

it's basically "look, we survived Robert Miles, we will survive this too, just relax"

"look, we survived Robert Miles, we will survive this too, just relax"

I immediately vote for this as the replacement slogan for "Keep Calm and Carry On"

fuck you Dan, "Children" is a classic *takes ball and goes home*

lol

I mean, in the interest of full disclosure I never understood why everyone despised "Children" either but Miles such a good stand-in for "commercially successful dance dude that dance people seem to hate with terrifying and unhealthy fervor"

it's basically "look, we survived Robert Miles, we will survive this too, just relax"

Dan obviously doesn't remember the mass group suicides of the 90s.

i loved "children" and "one & one"

still do

calvin harris could never

i am a big fan of "another night" to be honest

"Another Night" is brilliant. That bit near the end with the crazy little synth arpeggio behind Olaf's rap is one of the best all time house party moments.

it's more, people are having this hysterical overreaction to this dude as if he's some brand new circle of awful hell rather than someone who is pretty clearly operating in a paradigm that's been sending hits to the charts for 20 years

Pretty much all of my issues with Harris are tied up with his voice and persona, which were heavily prevalent on "I Like The Girls" and "Born In The 80s"; those records really were some brand new circle of awful hell. He was a dickhead in interviews and the like at that time as well.

Fear and loathing seem somewhat overdone if he's just producing chintzy circus organ dance-pop now, but if he opens his mouth on the new record then all bets are off.

lol @ this being a carbon copy of "We Found Love" with Ne-Yo subbing in for Rihanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMbjW43vGY

I just looked at his wikipedia page... that "Sweet Nothing" song is getting some radio play in the US and aside from the horrible Rihanna song it's his highest charting single. But in the UK his last six songs have gone 2-2-2-2-1-6 and both albums #1. Is he totally unavoidable on UK radio/in clubs etc?

i don't know if actual djs in actual clubs actually play him but yeah he's all over the radio, drinking from the bottle being the current irritant

I can't imagine any DJ with any kind of rep ever playing Calvin Harris, but he's probably ubiquitous in high street nightclubs (ie most of the clubs in the UK).

"thinking about you" is such a good song

yeah it's much better than his other recent stuff, i was actually surprised it was him. naturally it is not getting nearly as much american radio play as his other songs did.

fukk yes

gr8 song, esp for the 278th single off that record, possibly the best 278th single ever?

i'm sort of into "summer"

video for it is garbage

horrifyingly, i kind of enjoy the rita ora single which is his handiwork i think *ducks*

"Summer" is ok but seems like a rewrite of "Feel So Close" (which I kind of liked *ducks*)

the synth line of the chorus to summer is beyond parody, like something from page 2 of "john thompson's elementary guide to the piano"

not into "summer" at all

i enjoy like 50% of his singles COME AT ME

'summer' is aite. i still think 'i'm not alone' is the best, such a dumb song i love

it's my favorite by him too, tho i heard it again recently and i would say it has lost some of its appeal

haim, big sean, gwen stefani & tinashe on the new one http://www.stereogum.com/1709814/haim-tinashe-gwen-stefani-featured-on-calvin-harris-motion/news/

haim song on this album is the best thing he's done since 'acceptable in the '80s'

hmmm wrong, that would be his Armani photoshoot

lol

only good thing dom ever did was the title of this thread

it still applies obviously