The Thrills - classic or dud

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they hate the Dublin scene, and the Dublin scene hates them. But do you like them?

I heard a song by them on the "Intermission" soundtrack, and I thought it sounded quite nice, so now I am interested in seeing them play live.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thiiiiiiiiis close to liking them after seeing them live... then they turned into exactly the student-radio-friendly MOR Colin Murray midfield clogger dullard types I'd been hoping they wouldn't be. They did seem to be perfectly decent people, but they're just so dull...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Those three singles really bugged me

TS: The Thrills v Damien Rice

*shudders*

― Michael B, Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

they're ok but there's at least a hundred new bands i like far better

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

While I like the album, I've not really felt the need to play it more than about five times. It drifts along nicely, and it makes a perfect soundtrack for "Teachers" (which used two songs from it last night).

I've got one major gripe about the album though - there's one or two songs on there where the production is so horrible that I can't bear to listen to them - it seems to be all digital distortion and compression and too much normalisation which make the songs sound harsh and disgusting. It doesn't do them any favours at all.

― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

They're touring with Adam Green, which would be the only reason I'd go and see 'em. They seem to be one of those bands who are pleasant and listenable but you wouldn't really ever bother putting them on...

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Which song was them on the Intermission soundtrack? And where in the film was it?

I don't like them at all really, for hating the Dublin indie scene they get an extra star though.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The best song on the Intermisson soundtrack was "Body talk". That Magnetic Fields song is great too.

― Michael B, Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

most inappropriately named band ever (sorry for repeating this 'quip' ad infinitum)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Intermission was fucking great, incidentally.

"even in me brogueens, I'M MORE NIMBLE"

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm sporty".

ehhh, they are on the soundtrack CD, I don't particuarly remember them in the film.

incidentally, where is that bar that features in the film, where you can go to pick up aul wans?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 9 October 2003 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i liked the tough police guy best.

"You can call this one 'Personal justice'..."

As for the Thrills, they're pretty much Dud. "One Horse Town", "Your Love is Like Las Vegas" and "Big Sur" are all nice - the rest is boring mid-tempo balladry. Their music has very little personality. Don't bother seeing them live - I saw them support Beck and they were dull as fuck.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

There's always tamangoes DV.

haha Kilian "the only real human quality I have to speak of is a fondness for celtic mysticism, artistes like fainne leasta, clannad"

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

let's show our contempt for the Thrills by turning this into a thread about Intermission! I like it when the jilted wife starts whacking the guy who wants to talk about dreams in the university lecture.

"He said next week, you fool! You fool! What are you? A FOOL!"

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

hey Kilian! was that you in Intermission? you looked so different.

I bet you never get that.

I think I might look for the Thrills album cheap.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ha! - a couple of people from college interviewed Cillian (different spelling) Murphy, and mentioned that they new someone with the same name. linda was an extra in one of his films (Disco Pigs) too.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The acting Cillian Murphy is a bit of a rocker himself. He played my friend's guitar so hard at a party that (in Bryan Adams stylee) his fingers bled. The friend creepily didn't wash the blood off...

― Conor (Conor), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

They seem to be one of those bands who are pleasant and listenable but you wouldn't really ever bother putting them on...

Bingo. They sound like lame Irish Beach Boys at best. Nice but zzzzzzzz.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 9 October 2003 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"a mhuinteoir, a mhuinteoir"

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 9 October 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

their influences are wonderful & they're obviously talented musicians, but their songwriting lacks vitality. i think given time they could be great...the seeds are there

― Dallas Yertle (Dallas Yertle), Thursday, 9 October 2003 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Like a really weak fart that you're afraid might still follow-through, no satisfying nosie or smell, just discomfort and dampness.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 9 October 2003 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

the thrills are just a shit stars of heaven tribute act.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 9 October 2003 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

It takes a bit longer to become classic, doesn't it?

They are great though. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 9 October 2003 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Geir is in the Thrills. I heard him last night on Dave Pearce's Focus Gruppe. They played BEP's 'Shut Up'. I think it's rub, and not as good as 'Where is the Love'. But I wouldn't go as far as this rockist: he said 'this kind of music' would not be remembered in 'two or three years' but at least it had a 'Glen Campbell guitar line' (I dunno who GC is btw). This strikes me as being racist to be honest -- hip-hop not being 'proper music'. Did the Thrills sleep through Britpop? Total dud anyway.

― Nu-Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my god the guy was on Irish radio too last night, he was so fucking boring, droning on and on in his monotone south Dublin accent.

Anyway the funniest part about it all was that he raved about how many new cds he was buying and you sit there hoping he says "the rapture" or something you've never heard of even, but it was just the usual predictable stuff.

Then to make it more ridiculous he started saying how "The Charlatans and Oasis turned us on to old bands like the Stones and the Smiths, so now we can do that for the kids at our shows".

What an ambitious goal! To make people buy old canonical rock records. The revolution is truly here. Yeah they must be Geir related, he is their Guru. Geiru.

Casual hip-hop hatred is de rigeur in the Irish scene, trust me.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Can we talk about Intermission again?

"THAT'S FUCKING DELISH THAT IS"

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Charlatans and Oasis turned us on to old bands like the Stones and the Smiths, so now we can do that for the kids at our shows".

'Old bands like the Smiths'. Fucking hell. Sometimes I feel I fell asleep in 1996. Terrible music too. So is that awful 'are you gonna be are you gonna be' wankshitcunttoss record about Oasis or what?

― Nu-Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

a friend of mine said that a couple of acquaintances of his tried the whole brown-sauce-and-tea thing. they said it tasted like "brown sauce with tea". surprise!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

I'm hearing a few Thrills songs for the first time. They sound like Grandaddy feat. Sean O'Hagan on banjo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 March 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard worse.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

They sound like Grandaddy feat. Sean O'Hagan on banjo.

And would that sound like Buffalo Springfield?

― no opinion, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, no.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

A song from the new album: "Not for all the Love in the World" is really excellent. *Alot like* a track from Mercury Rev's 'Deserter's Songs' but this would have been the standout single.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 24 July 2004 00:18 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

I agree with Spencer. I just heard this and it sounds like the best Grandaddy song EVER. But really good.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I liked 'Big Sur,' 'Don't Steal our Sun,' and 'Santa Cruz' from the first one but I think their new record blows smelly chunks.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh god. They were opening for the Pixies last month. Dull as ditchwater...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago)

"Not for all the Love in the World" is very romantic!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 8 October 2004 22:02 (twenty years ago)

saw them w/ the pixies last week.....wanted to yell out 'THE THRILL IS GONE', even though i wasn't sure if they ever had any thrills to give in the first place.. very boring. singer has a nice-sounding voice, though.

― 6335, Friday, 8 October 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Great band. May be classic later on, definitely far from dud anyway

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 8 October 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago)

singer has a nice-sounding voice, though

hahaha, that's like the worst thing about them, as I mentioned on this here thread - Whose singing voice is annoying you right now......

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 8 October 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago)

singer has a nice-sounding voice, though
hahaha, that's like the worst thing about them, as I mentioned on this here thread - Whose singing voice is annoying you right now......

the worst thing about them were their very by-the-numbers songs, imo. i thought his voice was pleasant. HAHAHA.

― 6335, Friday, 8 October 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago)

OK, you haha-ed louder than me. You win.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 8 October 2004 22:55 (twenty years ago)

he who laughs loudest...is often really annoying to others. sorry 'bout that. let's just agree that the thrills aren't that thrilling. :)

― 6335, Friday, 8 October 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago)

dud, big fucking dud. I like 2 songs from their debut, "One Horse Town" and "Your Love Is Like Las Vegas." The new one, blehh.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 8 October 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01152008/business/hands_pink_slips_268573.htm

missed this story. terrible shame.

― special guest stars mark bronson, Thursday, 5 February 2009 11:42 (sixteen years ago)

The Dublin band's three studio albums and one live release have sold just 182,000 copies; its latest, "Teenager," has sold 6,400 copies to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan, despite favorable reviews in places as disparate as Rolling Stone and The Wall Street Journal.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:03 (sixteen years ago)

God bless this ruthless impersonal corporate machine.

― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:15 (sixteen years ago)

the thrills are just a shit stars of heaven tribute act.

Now, that was a good band. When the revival train reaches eighties indie jangle I hope that they're one of the first namechecked.

― Shallow Gravy (Billy Dods), Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:44 (sixteen years ago)

The debut album is still great.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:47 (sixteen years ago)

Hands, the Terra Firma CEO who plunked down $6 billion to acquire EMI

http://i11.tinypic.com/47tsg49.gif
http://www.hhcmagazine.com/assets/images/Terra-Firma4.jpg

― Limoncello Carlin (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Thursday, 5 February 2009 12:50 (sixteen years ago)

Hang on, The Thrills are still going?

― The Tracks of My Balls (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 February 2009 13:04 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

pour one out

― the archetypal ghetto hustler (history mayne), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 13:53 (fifteen years ago)

The Thrills Is Gone

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 14:03 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

I'm hearing a few Thrills songs for the first time. They sound like Grandaddy feat. Sean O'Hagan on banjo.

lol I have no memory of having heard this band before, but I'm listening to them again, and jaymc in 2004 OTM.

― blatant marvin jack (jaymc), Friday, 26 July 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago)

Love Sean O'Hagan, like Grandaddy.

DUD.

― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 26 July 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago)

"You just don't have the requisite Celtic soul, man."

― hyggeligt, Saturday, 27 July 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago)

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