a mix between The Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis

I’m actually really good at writing about myself. I’ve always got something to say and an opinion on most things.

yes i'm sure you do

What would be your ideal gig?

Being the last band on at a big festival.

if only there was a convenient word for this position

I have a dislike for most people that don’t dare to be different.

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This has to be a joke, right?

having watched the video of "Eggs for Breakfast" i'm hoping so

It's like they have even less awareness than Raygun.

(for reference)
RAYGUN - finally the 00s has its own Gay Dad

not everyone that keen on the Eggs for Breakfast video:

callogan245 days ago

You look like a bunch of miserable bastards, smile some and stop objectifying women, sexist video.

though the girl just looks vaguely bored and contemptuous throughout the whole thing, don't know if this was intentional

This is a vanity project of independently wealthy dudes right?

The girl did add a bit of sophistication (boredom and contempt) to the video which I liked.

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okay that one must be a joke

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guy second from the right doesn't really seem 100% committed to the 'look'

I was trying to start off 2015 giving humanity the benefit of the doubt

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The girl did add a bit of sophistication (boredom and contempt) to the video which I liked.

― Treeship

ruh-roh blurred lines defence raggy

wait i was gonna do that, are we swapping jobs for 2015?

fuckin why not

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not like it was working out for either of us as was like

a fair point well made

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imagining some kind of Prefab Sprout/Street Preachers crossover there

why can't mod bands look like this anymore?

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it's nice those blokes letting their kids be in the band

is that Stevie g

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Il faut un temps, dans les années 70, où courait un slogan fort en vogue : « If its too loud, your’re too old. » Passé la démagogie du propos, on peut se souvenir de ce type de phrase édité sur les albums : « To be played at maximum volume. » Même le Ziggy Stardust de Bowie en a bénéficié, on pourrait ajouter que cette recommandation n’aurait pas été saugrenue sur les disques des Stooges, MC5, Fleshtones ou autres.

Avec The Dukes, cette même instruction semble superflue : « Black Hole Love » ou « Gold Digger » ressusciteraient Rob Tyner (Rock in Peace), « Alive » puise sans vergogne du côté des musiques qu’affectionne Tarantino pour ses films (western et riffs démesurés) et des titres lorgenront sans fausse honte vers des groupes « hard » plus récents : Linkin Park sur « Genius », QTSA avec « The Great Escape », le punk US façon Offspring dans « Just In Case » et un groupe avec qui on peut voir plus d’une affinité revivaliste, The Hives sur « The Tyrant ».

here you! you in a band?

Eventually someone's gonna post a pic of a band that an ILXor is in.

This thread is like Shit Haircuts R'Us!

All the shit haircuts under one roof...

who or what's to blame for this 'Who, mods, Jam, parkas, Faces, Chelseas, Stones..' look/talk/bollocks? it wasn't even this bad 10 years ago. the influence of YouTube and Spotify? BBC4 rock docs? Classic Rock magazine?

makes me pine for the ElectroClash revival.

I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Shit Haircuts R'Us kid!

xp release of Quadrophenia on home video?

I've got two problems with these bands. The first is the misogyny. I don't know if Oasis ever wrote misogynistic lyrics - I'm not one of the millions who are familiar with their work - but 'Eggs for Breakfast' is some sub-Confessions/Carry On garbage that Noel Gallagher would never have descended to.
The second problem I have is that there's a difference between being influenced by a list of artists and being 'influenced' by them. The latter is just blatant copying. I really wonder what the Gallagher brothers opinion on all these bands is. Maybe we'll never find out - they are from the demographic that buy a good proportion of Oasis records, so it's unlikely that Noel or Liam would ever say something as blunt as "fucking load of shite copycat wankers".

Hmm. I mean, I like The Who/The Jam/Small Faces etc. on a musical level. I'm not really interested in adopting the look and waltzing around like I've just took a time machine from 1965 and acting like I'm willing to pretend that the last 40 years of music didn't exist.

The thing about these bands is that they don't seem to be aping The Who/The Jam/Small Faces directly; the impression that I get is that they're aping Oasis aping solo Weller aping The Who/The Jam/Small Faces etc., which is something completely different. I haven't heard any of the music by some of these bands, but just from looking at them and reading "what they're all abouuuuut, maaaaan!", I get the impression they're more on the Cast end of the spectrum of quality than the The Who/The Jam/Small Faces end of the spectrum.

For some reason, I have this vision of half of these bands listening to Confessions Of A Pop Group by The Style Council and whining "Blasphemy! What's this bollocks, Weller? It's not proper enough! There's no tunes on it! Maaaaaan!"

it's unlikely that Noel or Liam would ever say something as blunt as "fucking load of shite copycat wankers".

Hmmm, this would be a different Noel and Liam then?

Actually, Turrican OTM * 5!

See, blokes above the age of (lets say) 40, some are balding, some arent. Those that have a decent amount of hair, and don't want to adopt the shorts/t-shirt look that most dads do, have the option of opting for the "mod" look, but at the end of the day, it's still "older blokes that are wearing suits or Parkas or button down shirts", which is still, um, OK I guess.

But DON'T STILL BE WEARING THE Johnny Marr HAIRSTYLE, IT LOOKS WRONG on someone that's not 20 or thereabouts.

I was in Brighton this one time when there was some large Mod festival on (I didn't know about it), and I went into one of the shops but the racks had loads of identical shirts in, many blokes scrabbling for one, I came out wanting none of it. And ended up feeling like Weller in that picture where he's crossing some forecourt wearing a not-bad long coat and surrounded by loads of lads in parkas. And that is not what I want to feel like.

Anyway. Kasabian. Looks like they are the best of this sort of thing, and that's not masivly great anyway.

like

everyone in music looks shit stupid

that needs to be acknowledged like

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Pick the OK haircut!

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