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ok, it's only their first single. But i think mcfly are gonna be catchier and cuter than Busted (especially now that busted are attenpting to be more serious). however, members of McFly seem to lack a bit of personality?

― lid, Saturday, 28 February 2004 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

btw, the single is about sooz from "As If"!

― lid, Saturday, 28 February 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's a cute bit of bowerbirding, but (bear in mind I have not seen the video), it doesn't jump up and down and say "WE ARE HERE!". Busted were far noisier than this. More oomph needed, definitely. So polite-sounding too - what are the kids supposed to do with it? You couldn't blast it in your bedroom.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 29 February 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't have anything else to say about this song, but if this thread fails to get more replies than the Modest Mouse one, it will be safe to say that ILM has been lost to the indie kids for good.

(Kidding..)

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 29 February 2004 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.mcflyofficial.com/uploads/1073980639D95p5140sq.jpg

^video still.

http://www.mcflyofficial.com/uploads/1068744444tom.jpg

^Tom, by all accounts the ambitious mastermind of the band who nearly got into busted, writes the songs and is a Beach boys fanatic.

mcfly just doesnt seem to have captured ppl's attention the same way busted has. quite surprising.

― lid, Sunday, 29 February 2004 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it on slsk?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 29 February 2004 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

If they're 60s obsessed... why are they called McFly?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 29 February 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't the McFly a nod to Back to the Future? Anyway, it has surf guitar which is totally 50's, so it fits. The do do do bits sound like the kind of song that would be on the theme tune to a kids TV programme, if they dropped that kinda thing they'd be quite good, rather than just about average.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 29 February 2004 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, they are named after Marty, it just seems weird to have an 80s reference in a 60s fetishising act.

From what I've heard so far of them... eh. They'll not be as big as Busted, put it that way. Bigger than Stamford Amp, though.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 29 February 2004 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, Tom, it's on slsk. Message me if you want it.

― edwardo o, Sunday, 29 February 2004 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom from Mcfly co-wrote 'who's david' and a load of tracks from Busted's LP, i heard.

I'd say its gives them a leg up

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Sunday, 29 February 2004 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I have it on slsk. Nick H is my user name.

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 29 February 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

If Tom is the singer, he has a voice like Charlie but much more pop-flecked. Any idea why he didn't get into Busted? Or was Busted always going to be James' (and, to a lesser extent, Matt's) baby?

― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 1 March 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

He'll be promoted if (when?) Charlie leaves, probably. This may turn Busted into the listenable, enjoyable band everyone touts them as.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

mcfly are brilliant and they will diefinatly catch on, their new single is great, an danny is well cute! xx

― Hana, Sunday, 28 March 2004 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh heh, they are the Monkees. This is a good thing. (Though I still get disturbed because every time they're announced on TV, I think it's going to be Mogwai.)

The song is catchy rockist bubblegum, but a shame about the lyrics, eh? Plus, the whole TV-tie-in thing just makes me slightly suspicious, it's just a bit too Saturday morning.

That said, their guitarist is fantastic. (If indeed it is the guitarist with the fringe playing the licks, but they didn't appear have a session guitarist lurking in the background the way that Busted did...) Ring, ring! It's George Harrison, he wants his licks back!

I'm waiting for the day that James and Fletch leave their respective bands and just go all out to form the ultimate homoerotic bubblepunk songwriting team, you know, like Boyce and Hart meets the Pet Shop Boys... I'm waiting for their cover of 53rd and 3rd!

― Psycho Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and Tom didn't get into Busted because his eyebrows aren't evil enough, and besides, there has never been a cool pop star named "Fletcher" in the history of music, ever. ;-)

― Psycho Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

tom and james forming their own powerpop duo is an astounding idea.

and when did james become so attractive? is it all down to his fringe?

http://www.jellyflaps.com/busted/james.jpg

― lid, Sunday, 28 March 2004 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"She's just a loner with a sexy attitude"

"I'd like to phone her 'cos she puts me in the mood."

"The rumours spreading that she cooks in the nude."

Excellent.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 28 March 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

This song is really excellent, it's what I always wanted Busted to be. But where Busted still clung desperately to pop-punk stylings like deliberately awful singing and rubbish tunes, McFly are just unashamedly power pop. It reminds me slightly of the poppier end of Britpop, actually - like Dodgy and Supergrass, though not as bad as that would imply.

The surf guitar isn't as good as "No Good Advice", but it's better than "Gay Bar". And the lyric "I'm not into fashion but I like the clothes she wears" makes me giggle.

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 28 March 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

James hit puberty and got good hair. That's what happened. I have no other explanation!

I dunno, I like the bubblepunk stylings of Busted. They're like a cross between The Archies and The Ramones, which gives them that sort of sweet/bitter edge. (I love them when they're bubblepunk, but when they do that emo/grunge/indie/Charlie wank I just want to beat them about the heads with a Buzzcocks single.) McFly are just pure Archies. Which is good, but not perfect for me.

― Psycho Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i could've sworn the lyric was "i'd like to bone here cos she puts me in the mood" - makes you think....(about some better music)

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 28 March 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

HER not here, and I noticed the 'Gay Bar' similarity in the guitar hook as well which is the only thing I could like about it I think

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 28 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm glad I'm not British

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 28 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the vocal harmonies, they're really Classic 60s, and the surf guitar is SOOOO much better than Gay Bar, but honestly, like I said, lyrics are DIRE. Which makes me think that James is the lyricist of the team and Tom is the musician.

― Psycho Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

CURSE YOU, FREAKING TRIGGER AND ILM!!!

I remember when I first came on ILM, I used to spend all day discussing Spacemen3 vs. Loop and experimental dronerock and the like, and now I'm actually getting involved in a Taking Sides: Busted vs. McFly thread.

Curse you, Tom E! ::shakes fist::

― Super-Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

You could do both. Spacemen 3 vs. Busted shagfic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 March 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

There should be way more Stockhausen/Schoenberg/Berg etc fanfic

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 28 March 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Stock/Aitken/Waterman fanfic is more U&K, I think.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 28 March 2004 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I've decided I don't really like this. What The Lex says is good about is it actually what is boring about it. Good luck to them though, one of them is called Tom after all.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 28 March 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I still think it sounds like a kid's TV theme. The kind of kid's programme that would feature those really irritating stage school kids.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 28 March 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

(I should actually give credit where credit is due, I blame Catty and that summer I spent at Princess Park Manor finishing the album artwork and overdosing on music videos...)

HEY! What is wrong with doing theme songs for kids TV? Kids TV Themesongs PAID MY FUCKING RENT for most of 2002. Naught wrong with this! (It would have been better if they'd actually called it The McFly TV Theme Song, but we can't all be as cool as the Dandy Warhols, can we?)

― Super-Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate otm re: kids' TV theme tunes, that whole feel adds to the McFly charm. Begone with all attempts to be 'punk'!

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 28 March 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I sort of see the point, though, in that the video rather irritates me with the fact that it's a tie-in, but not a direct TV Theme. If they were going to do a TV Theme, a la the Banana Splits or something, they should have gone all out. If there were going to do a generic "TV theme" then they shouldn't have had the product tie-in. Dunno, hard to explain.

I would like the song better if I didn't know it was a real television show, you know?

BRING BACK AUTHENTIC PUNK!!! THE SEX PISTOLS WERE A PREFAB BUBBLEGUM BOYBAND!!!

― Super-Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

See BUSTED AND THE JEWS thread for why Busted are the most authentic punk band there are at the moment... (though you'll have to page through quite a few lame jokes first... oy vey...)

― Super-Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a real TV show? What, a McFly TV show? Like S Club? I feel simultaneously disillusioned and out of the loop.

Though I just listened to the song again and that piano mini-glissando just before the final chorus is SO GOOD!

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 28 March 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I think the TV show is called As If or something. (Haven't seen it, know nothing about it, I was hoping it would be about The Tribe or maybe the California Dreams, I mean McFly on The Tribe, how cool would that be?) I know nothing about it.

Pay no attention to me, I think every band should get their own TV show. I want to remake Rock N Roll High School starring Busted.

― Super-Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The song was inspired by McFly watching As If, the girl in it had 5 colours in her hair. I learn much form Pop World.

Nowt wrong with kid's TV Themes, the song just makes me think of bad kid's TV shows - the kind where they run businesses and get into scrapes and wearing bright clothes. It's the do do dah bits, which would be accompanied by fast motion Benny Hill style running about.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 28 March 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I've heard of As If! And now I just feel old, because that is how on the pulse of yoof culture I am.

If pop stars all had their own TV programmes I might actually watch TV sometimes!

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 28 March 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

mcfly is not tied with As If or any tv programmes. as jel said, the only connection is that tom wrote the song as an ode to Sooz from As If.

yah, james did get a good haircut. he also looks incredibly young and cute for a 20 year old. and hot. (im glad im only a coupla years older than him so i dont need to feel too bad about perving on him)

― lid, Sunday, 28 March 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The best thing about this little phenomenon is that I can't tell the difference between them and Jet. Of course, the difference is that Jet are a REAL rock'n'roll band...

― Stupid (Stupid), Sunday, 28 March 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Excuse me, but they just about BEGGED 30-something women to lust after them. I refuse to feel guilty. It's not my fault if I'm marketed to.

(God, how do I get a job in the marketing department of Prestige Management?)

― Super-Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

THE SEX PISTOLS WERE A PREFAB BUBBLEGUM BOYBAND!!!

That reminds me they were the one group I forgot to talk about here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 March 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Excuse me, but they just about BEGGED 30-something women to lust after them.

If we're talking McFly here, not Busted... well, let's just say that I am VERY IMPRESSED that they got their shirts off in their FIRST video. Well done management people!

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 28 March 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite passtime is complaining about shitty pop bands like Busted or McFly, waiting for people to say "but The Sex Pistols/The Beatles/some other critically acclaimed band was a 'manufactured' band/band who sung mindless pop songs!" and then replying "yeah, and I hate The Sex Pistols/The Beatles."

― Stupid (Stupid), Sunday, 28 March 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

No, sorry, Lex, I was talking about Busted again. Maybe we should move to a Busted thread, but we'd only have to put up with 1000 times comments like the one just above this one.

― Super-Kate (kate), Sunday, 28 March 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Why are a band with such an obvious 60s fetish named after a character from an 80s movie? Couldn't they have named themselves after yr man from The Graduate?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Tons of people I've talked to like McFly. I think they'll do well in the charts.

― Krystyn, Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

No, sorry, Lex, I was talking about Busted again. Maybe we should move to a Busted thread, but we'd only have to put up with 1000 times comments like the one just above this one.

If we're going to perv on Busted, Charlie definitely needs to be mentioned. The eyebrows slightly scare me, but otherwise... well, I'm a sucker for that public school head boy look! But I think McFly are better looking... their management thought to airbrush the acne out BEFORE the photoshoots.

Er, token music comment - I can't actually imagine what any other McFly song might sound like. "5 Colours In Her Hair" has this novelty, one-off feel to it, rather like "Alright" by Supergrass... which may as well have been a one-off itself.

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh, no, EYEBROWS!!! You don't understand. I get the FEAR whenever eyebrows are involved. (Speaking of which, those are some fearful catapillars that Fletch is sporting, there.) This has stopped me from fancying boys from Damon Albarn to Courtney Taylor, I just can't get past those THINGS above their eyes... don't get me started...

McFly are more kind of "conventionally" attractive, but in a more pre-packaged boyband sort of way. What was appealing about Busted was that they *weren't*. HSA used to like that about them, he would say "apart from the Hollywood looking one with the eyebrows, they're so ordinary looking." (Heh heh, he said this before I developped the, erm, sexual obsession.)

Er, yeah, musical comment. I've been trying to figure out exactly what Monkees riff 5 Colours is based on, and the closest I've come to is "Pleasant Valley Sunday." Would have to hear the song again to work it out.

I'm still hoping that Bourne/Fletcher will be the Barry/Greenwich of the Naughties. But they'd have to get married first...

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

McFly are more kind of "conventionally" attractive, but in a more pre-packaged boyband sort of way. What was appealing about Busted was that they *weren't*.

Yes! At first I definitely got the impression that Busted were being marketed primarily at the BOYS, as a slightly less offensive Brit version of Blink 182, Sum 41 et al, and that their GIRL audience was never taken into account until they suddenly turned up at concerts holding banners and screaming. Whereupon someone somewhere appears to have gone "damn, but Busted aren't even that good looking, imagine if we had a Busted who WERE" and created McFly... thus missing the point entirely.

Charlie's eyebrows don't look so bad in the new video... he has a big fringe wich nearly hides them. But James! You're right upthread, he is suddenly attractive for no reason at all. Matt still looks like a 12-year-old though.

Er, music... yeah the new Busted song is a bit rubbish. It just doesn't have the zing of McFly, and I still hate their voices.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 29 March 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

But... but... the new Busted song is the best one on the album! (OK, the video truly, truly disturbs me but we'll just leave my air hijackers/terrorist paranoia out of this) It's total bubblepunk! Big buzzsaw guitars and that little banana splits anti-cat-and-dog-tone keyboard noise... ah! I can't stand Charlie's voice, he's trying too hard to be all earnest and emo and it makes me want to punch him, as usual. Matt has a decent snotty-punk-sneer, but James has that classic-power-pop-pretty-voice. (Cue Sloan song...)

Yeah, McFly have conventionally better voices, as well (apart from James) but that's the same as the looks thing. The unconventionality was what made Busted so appealing.

I would have just loved to be a fly on the wall when McFly were created. (notice that we all just assume they were grown in a lab by image consultants, rather than actually answering NME ads or anything.) Cause I really can see the kind of scenario you describe, Lex. Heh heh.

Am I mistaken, cause I thought Busted were marketed at gurlz from the beginning. I mean, the first album has the whole "interactive video bit" with colour glossy pictures and everything. I am just *fascinated* by the marketing process behind this, it's sick.

(And no, sorry, even with a fringe covering the Eyebrows, heck no. Not if he were the last boyband on earth!)

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

So it was McFly that I saw on Friday night at the Scooby Doo 2 premiere. I thought it was Busted at first - what with them looking exactly the same but with an extra member! I was worried.

― marianna, Monday, 29 March 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Marianna, you can't be in our drunken North American super-group if you can't tell the difference between Busted and McFly! Honestly!

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't see the McFly video until the Saturday morning ToTP! How could I have known on Friday night?!

― marianna, Monday, 29 March 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, you are forgiven, then.

But only as it gives me a chance to post this image:

http://www.busted.com/images/news_uploads/4159D63C5633.jpg

Is it Busted? Or is it Sloan? I can no longer tell the difference! Wouldn't it be great if Busted turned into the British Sloan? OK, they're missing the annoying guy with the glasses, but still. We could do without that!

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

All marketing processes are fascinating. I totally want to be a pop svengali soon, though I'm thinking more along the lines of a male tATu than anything to do with Busted.

One (sadly negative) factor we have not yet taken into account: once you've heard Wes Butters cream himself over 'Boosted' on a Sunday afternoon during the top 40 rundown, there is very little chance of ever genuinely loving them again :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 29 March 2004 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I luuurve boosted.

― Wes Butters, Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

as if is a well good program, sooze is hot, mcfly are shit

― qwerty, Friday, 16 April 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i think dougie from mcfly is so god damn fine. anyone agree with me??

― dougielover, Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Dannie out of Mcfly is SOOOOO cute I love his hair.Anyone agree with me

― jade c, Saturday, 24 April 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

hi to the people i am taking to over there

― danielle johnson, Monday, 26 April 2004 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

(I should actually give credit where credit is due, I blame Catty and that summer I spent at Princess Park Manor finishing the album artwork and overdosing on music videos...)

...and living next door to Busted.

okay, in the same building. But still. My neighbours? Busted.

We moved out before Girls Aloud and V moved in, though. You know, before the neighbourhood went downhill.

― Catty (Catty), Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt still looks like a 12-year-old though.
Matt looks like a naughty teenage boy who won't stop sniffing around my doorstep as soon as my husband leaves for the office....

whooops. < / marketing to thirtysomething women >

― Catty (Catty), Sunday, 9 May 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

mcfly rule they are the best thing since busted. dougie is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hot. any1 wanna email me then go ahead!!!lolz!!!

― kianshunny, Friday, 20 August 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

wooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo i lurvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvve McFLY aNd bUsTeD!!!!!!!!! I LoVe dOuGiE AnD DAnNy WoOoOohHoOoOoO SoRrY CoKe iS bAd fOr mE mWAhAhAhA tAlKs l8r bI Bi XxXxXxX

― char, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Alice?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

dear mcfly
who been close kaleigh birthday very soon october on date are now 8th
who birthday tomrrow on months .
see party in the park see perforance and that who day
competitions on winner to mcfly ,
copy you doing at kayleigh school send
who see mcfly day soon back later.
watch the vidoe mcfly borrow day please send now
feel in tom fletcher

― kayleighconway, Sunday, 4 September 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

Contrary to reports, Danny Jones will not be leaving McFly, according to the man himself.
Today’s Sun stated that Danny is unhappy with life in the band and has asked to leave McFly and go solo. The report also said that Danny will head over to the US to write songs with a production company.
Here, however, is the word from the horse’s mouth. “I’m really upset by this rumour,” said Danny, “No way am I giving up my dream job. I’ve got McFly in my blood and I’ll be in McFly as long as the fans want us.”

More good news for McFly fans – having ‘McFly in his blood’ is not a real illness, so don’t worry.

http://www.mtv.co.uk/mtvuk/news/article.jhtml?articleId=45132605

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 20:07 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

http://www.myspace.com/dougie_harrystopsmoking

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

this band becomes more of an irritant with every record they release.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 12 January 2007 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

not really. their music isn't very good but two of them are very pretty.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Friday, 12 January 2007 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

I've been living in the UK for the past 1,5 years and only just now have I heard McFly. I'm totally in love with Star Girl. Do they have more songs as good as that one?

― Lovelace, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

One knows how to improve their target market, one does not:

Multiplatinum-selling pop group McFly are to become the latest music act to give their new album away for free after signing a deal with the Mail on Sunday.

Readers of the mid-market Sunday newspaper will get a free CD of McFly's new album Radio:ACTIVE when they buy a copy of the Mail on Sunday on July 20.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/24/mailonsunday.pressandpublishing

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:49 (seventeen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7472226.stm

― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

'If U C Kate'

dgi.

― Mark G, Thursday, 5 May 2011 10:11 (fifteen years ago)

The Poster Children had a song called 'If You See Kaye' already.

― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Thursday, 5 May 2011 10:16 (fifteen years ago)

Ah, so this way they get to play it on the National Lottery without complaint, right?

― Mark G, Thursday, 5 May 2011 10:24 (fifteen years ago)

whitehouse already had a song called 'just like a cunt'

― eid orb (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 May 2011 10:38 (fifteen years ago)

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