Help me! I like the new Stereophonics single!

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Dakota.

It made number one! Good!

I also liked "The Bartender and the Thief" and that one about reading a paperback book.

Hurt me!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Hopefully, this will turn you into some "dadrock" that is actually good, such as Coldplay, Travis or Keane. Maybe there's hope for you after all ;)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Nooooooo....! The Black Hoooooleeee!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Help me! I like the new Thrills single!

Also, Stereophonics >>>>> Keane and Travis, lesser of 2 evils that may be.

― BARMS, Monday, 14 March 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Stereophonics operate within a genre where the songs are the most important thing, without being able to write good songs within a truly melodic context. "Mr. Writer" was OK (and I am not thinking of the lyrics), but generally, Stereophonics lack the melodic skills that are so important within that genre.

Which is why Travis and Keane are sooooooo much better.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

i hate how people be like 'oh yeh i quite like 'Dakota' but when they hear 'Black And White Town' it's all 'oh god! his voice! arrrggh!'

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

"not too hard smack in the mouth? ooooh naaaah i'll take a firm knee in the goolies instead please"

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

There are two Stereophonics singles I can actually remember: This and "Have A Nice Day." This one I like.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

course you kind of have to go out of your way to hear the Stereophonics here.

Jealous?

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

stevem otm -- wtf is all this revisionism. the veryphonics are shit, ahave always been shit. what makes this one any more tolerable?

― NR_Q, Monday, 14 March 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

stevem otm -- wtf is all this revisionism? the veryphonics are shit, ahave always been shit. what makes this one any more tolerable?

― NR_Q, Monday, 14 March 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

"Mr Writer" is not OK. You can't divorce the tune from the words. Specially not there.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Enrique, your accusations of 'revisionism' are sorely misplaced.

― BARMS, Monday, 14 March 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I can always divorce the tune from the words.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

I think you are all missing the point - Stereophonics have done an electro-dadrock single!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

The most bizzare thing was i heard this played at a 'cool' indie club last week. It made no sense whatsoever.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

The sound during the verse is better that that during the chorus, though.

― late adopter, Saturday, 19 March 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

To be fair Mark it's not HORRIBLE like all of their stuff since Bartender (before then the odd decent tune - Tramps Vest/ Local Boy/ Thousand Tree). They were just horrifically terrible since Bartender - which I thought was a pretty decent single - and they are all so characterless that it makes them hard to like, even when you consider their new single is actually alright.

Keane/ Travis/ Coldplay - however - have never done one single thing of worth. They are the fucking dregs of the MOR bucket and just horrible. If they play music in hell then Chris Martin's voice is all that is heard.

― Zarr, Saturday, 19 March 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

I didn't think Dakota was horrible the first time I heard it but that's its evil trick - the sub-Killers electro beeps are just a ruse. Second time round, watching them mime unconvincingly on TOTP, its sheer awfulness is all too apparent.

Apparently the new album has a song about a doorman called...Doorman. Nice to see Kelly Jones is hasn't lost his skill for metaphor and simile that served him so well on such favourites as I Stopped To Fill My Car Up, in which our Kel, er, stops to fill his car up.

― stew, Saturday, 19 March 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Zarr, you have it, I think.

I remember getting a freebie interview CD from Melody Maker, which was 30 mins of interview followed by two accoustic tracks. God, the CD went out never to return after 15 mins ! Talk about DULL!!!!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 19 March 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

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