Going for three in a row: The Datsuns and The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster: TS and C/D?

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So then. Kiwi garage RAWKS! - OR - CELEBRATEYOFATHAWHENHESLEEPINWIYOSISTAANDYOBRUTHAANDYOMUTHA - OR - Whatever happened to The Beautiful South?

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 4 October 2002 18:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Datsuns sound like Kulashaker, but not as good (and they were shit).

80's matchbox people sound like about 7 or 8 different bands, all of them rubbish.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 4 October 2002 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Now the Beautiful South.......

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 4 October 2002 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

petra jane to thread!

― Ess Kay (esskay), Friday, 4 October 2002 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Haven't heard the Datsuns yet, but 80sMBLD are one of my secret guilty pleasures. With all the hype, I so WANTED to hate them. But they're actually really entertaining in a sort of "Cramps played at the wrong speed" sort of way.

They're really retrofetishistic, and they're not going to save anything or anyone, but they are a great deal of fun live. Which is what I look for in a rock show, really.

― kate, Saturday, 5 October 2002 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

the datsuns are a punk rock band - that's about it, loud, crazy, nothing boundary breaking but if you like it loud'n'proud, the datsuns are for you...that is why it's funny how the nme were trying to describe them - they couldnt - it's basically something that could have come out of the sst scene of the early eighties...all the songs sound the same, but it's a good song.

d4 are cool. if you love the clash, which i do, live, this has all the energy of joe strummer and co. (groans from the indie kids)....aand they are on a mandate of playing 200 gigs a year, so the rock and roll flows through the shows like a disease.

― doomi, Saturday, 5 October 2002 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

You know, I hate it when bands TRY to make me adore them.

As I've been walking around London, they've been FOLLOWING me, staring out of their posters, following me with their eyes, begging me "Come on, look at us! We're dirty! We haven't bathed or washed our hair since 1997! You know you want to let us paint your toenails!!! Please?!?!?"

And I've been ignoring them, becuase you know, life is too short to have boys begging for your attention all of the time, I can't adore EVERYONE, or else I might actually pay attention to The Calling by mistake or something.

But they're trying REALLY HARD. They've started following me into stores, and blasting AC/TweeC riffs at me when I'm trying to browse, and popping up in magazines when I'm trying to concentrate on hating the music press and wondering if Julian or Courtney have bigger spare tires.

And I think that I might have to soon accept the fact that I actually quite like the Datsuns, as well. Somebody help me. Or else just shoot me and put me out of my misery.

― kate, Monday, 7 October 2002 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

bang bang yer dead.

; - )

(that's alright - i've had the official worse day today)

― doom-e, Monday, 7 October 2002 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I'm sorry! I actually had a good day for the first time, in well, a long time today! I got a job! I can pay rent again!

Hence, what I was doing in Virgin, trying to find bands to blow my rent money on when I ever get paid...

― kate, Monday, 7 October 2002 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Been avoiding this... but I like that 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster "Celebrate Your Mother" track. Probably because it does remind me of the Cramps, X, Gun Club, and Birthday Party (am I forgetting anything else?). Anyway, I think its a pretty menacing yet catchy tune, and I'm glad that retro-rock is starting to move into the '80s. The Datsuns, however... oh boy. They are dull as dish water. AC/DC sounds like sex. The Datsuns sound like masturbation.

― Aaron W., Monday, 7 October 2002 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

the datsuns sound like a shitty pearl jam type band that discovered "garage" & "punk" last week. & hey i just found out that is in fact the case (except it was maybe more like 2 weeks ago)

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 06:13 (twenty-three years ago)

oi! Kate! Enough cross-posting already...*ducks*

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 06:34 (twenty-three years ago)

AC/DC sounds like sex. The Datsuns sound like masturbation.

This is PRECISELY why I like them. What do dirty teenage rock boys REALLY know more about, sex or masturbation? So clearly they're better at masturbation.

― kate, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

oh god somebody kill the datsuns please!! the world and hamilton luv them, the rest of new zealand hates them. theres a million bands like that in every town and they bore me to fukkin death.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 02:16 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

the datsuns: back back back.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Monday, 25 September 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

i'd go with 80s matchbox.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Monday, 25 September 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

80s Matchbox wins, by a mile. When will their 3rd album come?

― zeus (zeus), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

They split up a while back.

― LC (Damian), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

80s Matchbox were OK, The Royal Society is a pretty good album. The best thing I could say about the Datsuns is they are better than Jet.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I can't stand the Datsuns and wanted to hate 80s Matchbox since they were obvious NME fodder. But despite this I love 80s Matchbox, Celebrate Your Mother is great, but Psychosis Safari is even better! ;o) Is their follow up album any good?

― Rombald (rombald), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

They split up a while back.
-- LC (damiansuzuk...), September 25th, 2006.

They are currently working on new material and attempting to find a new record deal, after the collapse of the No Death record label. Recently the band have released some demos from their new album, these can be found on their myspace page[1] - Wikipedia.

― zeus (zeus), Monday, 25 September 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

They also played a gig in Leeds last month, so they're around in some form...

― Rombald (rombald), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

Hey there's a new Eighties Matchbox album.

― Borbotemungus or something like that. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 1 November 2010 10:54 (fourteen years ago)

Didn't The Horrors buy them out, lock stock and barrel?

I'd be happy if Eighties Matchbox came back because they were the far superior band.

― Wheal Dream, Monday, 1 November 2010 11:07 (fourteen years ago)

four years pass...

I'd be happy if Eighties Matchbox came back because they were the far superior band.

post eighties matchbox material :

https://soundcloud.com/sicrecords/piano-wire-into-the-orchid

― mark e, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 13:13 (ten years ago)

the datsuns ffs

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 13:28 (ten years ago)

what a shower of shite

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 13:28 (ten years ago)

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