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I know, I know. They got everything, which are hated at ILM: they are young, English, white boys with guitars, working class singalong songs, and they are quite ugly. But, they wrote some good songs as well.
The album "Stars Of CCTV" is cleary not flawless, but a few songs are really great, especially 'Tied Up Too Tight', and 'Hard To Beat' is one of the best singles is 2005 to dance to. Did anyone hear this album?

― zeus, Monday, 12 September 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

Previous thread to which you yourself contributed. I've changed my mind about them somewhat since the posts I made there.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 12 September 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

OK, but it was just for 'Hard To Beat', then. And the spelling was incorrect too in the title, with no dash there...

― zeus, Monday, 12 September 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Do you still think it "one of the best singles is 2005"?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 12 September 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

Yes. It is in my top... erm... twenty.

― zeus, Monday, 12 September 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

Didn't one of the Mercury judges reveal over the weekend that Hard-Fi lost out to Antony & The Johnsons by just one vote? (A friend told me, so I don't have the source.)

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 12 September 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

Hard-Fi are going to be the comedy Menswe@r-esque punchline of haircut indie in five years time, no?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

No, they're a bit better than Men Swear.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

Do all of their songs sound exactly like the Clash or is that just "Hard to Beat"?

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

"Hard To Beat" sounds nothing like the Clash!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

The Guardian had a great article about Hard-Fi pointing out how they'd superseded The Streets as the authentic voice of British youth!

Or "Londoners", as they're sometimes known.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

this album is being advertised on talksport - they play about 4 clips - all hideous - ghastly gormless lo-fi production

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

They are probably Mike Skinner's favourite band (apart from Bloc Party).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

was this band "manufactured" to appeal to twunty teenagers who listen to xfm?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

"I stole the microphone..."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

Hard-Fi are going to be the comedy Menswe@r-esque punchline of haircut indie in five years time, no?

Bullshit. There is nothing common in Hard-Fi and Franz/Kaisers/Maximo Park, etc.

― zeus, Monday, 12 September 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

No, it was manufactured to music journalists, who can lament that bands like Hard-Fi are hyped instead "the pure genius" of Bark Psychosis and a lot of obscure bands.

― zeus, Monday, 12 September 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

'hard to beat' is lovely - it reminds me of style council-era weller for some reason, very 'soul'-y. the rest of it sucks though.

― foxy boxer (stevie), Monday, 12 September 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

No, it was manufactured to music journalists, who can lament that bands like Hard-Fi are hyped instead "the pure genius" of Bark Psychosis and a lot of obscure bands.

― zeus, Monday, 12 September 2005 12:50 (5 years ago)

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 September 2011 12:57 (fourteen years ago)

working class singalong songs

yah we hate this stuff

― the Paul Squires of mean-spirited moaning and cynicism (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 September 2011 13:01 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/rs1b9.jpg

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 September 2011 13:04 (fourteen years ago)

I think "Hard to Beat" is pretty nice and sometimes I'm tempted to listen to another Hard-Fi song but then I think no.

― the Paul Squires of mean-spirited moaning and cynicism (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 September 2011 13:05 (fourteen years ago)

i'm not sure i ever heard them

i remember some news article where they were all YEAH SO WHAT to some journalist who said they wrote music for IT support workers from slough

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 September 2011 13:07 (fourteen years ago)

that was a good stance to take imo

― the Paul Squires of mean-spirited moaning and cynicism (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 September 2011 13:08 (fourteen years ago)

aha there it is, misremembered slightly

"We did an interview with Popworld, and Simon Amstell asked me, 'Why do you have short hair?' I thought, the main reason is because I don't want to look like every other fucking band who look like they should be on the subs' bench for Millwall in the early 70s. He said, 'You look like an IT technician.' I thought, what the fuck does it matter if I look like an IT technician? IT technicians are the people who are going to buy our fucking records, that's not a term of abuse. They're people just like us, ordinary people who come from towns like us, who know where we're coming from. Those people are generally ignored, they're generally taken for granted, they generally have stuff forced down their throats. There's a lot of people out there who don't like the fact that we've connected with them and jumped all that kind of scene-ster shit, all those bands walking around dressed like they're from a fucking charity shop when you know they've got money. It gets on my tits."

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 September 2011 13:13 (fourteen years ago)

i recognise that angry, self-deluding young man, a little.

― the Paul Squires of mean-spirited moaning and cynicism (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 September 2011 13:15 (fourteen years ago)

feel weird abt so much indie from before 2006 or so where i read articles about them but avoided their music

time was the discourse mattered, you see

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 September 2011 13:15 (fourteen years ago)

the discourse was all there was, and now there isn't even the discourse, really

― the Paul Squires of mean-spirited moaning and cynicism (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 September 2011 13:18 (fourteen years ago)

perfectly empty signifiers consumed by perfectly empty signifiers

― the Paul Squires of mean-spirited moaning and cynicism (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 September 2011 13:18 (fourteen years ago)

rly enjoyed chakravorty-spivak's 'suburban knights': hard-fi and the poetics of ressentiment

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Friday, 9 September 2011 13:22 (fourteen years ago)

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