https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6asCfcl7Ues
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Monday, 21 October 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfYwnsMjPEs
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Monday, 21 October 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago)
they are the pinnacle of the form and the logical endpoint of all guitar music made by people from that particular island
― GM, Monday, 21 October 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago)
I'm just getting started m8
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Monday, 21 October 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago)
(you're right with a Cardiacs-shaped exception, but)
strong affinities between both those tracks and Coldplay in terms of rock as template imo but "bands with guitars" is a poor construction because plenty of "bands with guitars" have v. little relationship to the rock template
― chimped the keeper (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 October 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlQyAIEA3nc
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Monday, 21 October 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago)
who's the new troll
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 October 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago)
NV raisin' the temperature. Gonna do same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmT871PkLyM
^^^neoclassical punk symphony
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Monday, 21 October 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago)
piano break straight out of Coldplay
― chimped the keeper (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 October 2013 17:43 (eleven years ago)
dudez the obvious refutation of this is metal
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 October 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoU5kdkQw3A
this might be closer to being further away
― chimped the keeper (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 October 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago)
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, October 21, 2013 6:38 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I thought most people had figured out who imago is
― Tesco and Horse Dobbins 2013 (wins), Monday, 21 October 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago)
:D
A lot of British metal is pure Coldplay. Sabbath and Zeppelin are Coldplay with distortion pedals ffs.
This otoh...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs_9Lx8F6Sw
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Monday, 21 October 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzmXQY0l5Xs
― Matt DC, Monday, 21 October 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago)
Haha I smell a posthumous edit coming
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Monday, 21 October 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago)
Bollocks.
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Monday, 21 October 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago)
Nakhers made me listen to this the other day, which is decidedly unlike Coldplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9O2tsIbKD0
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Monday, 21 October 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago)
disagreements over metal aside, it's true that PiL represent a path not followed by UK alt-rock, for better or worse.
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Monday, 21 October 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago)
mostly worse tbh
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Monday, 21 October 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago)
(xxp) Is This The New Arcade Fire Single?
― sleepingbag, Monday, 21 October 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago)
I'm going to have to post a Cardiacs song aren't I, no point delaying the inevitable. Compare this to Coldplay and I'll cut you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C82Gcu5BTiY
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Monday, 21 October 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago)
xxp I suppose shoegazey bands did the clouds of guitar thing, but they didn't have the dub underpinnings nor the metallic sheen. Pretty unique, though I suppose Joy Division had something sort of similar going on (though it's difficult to listen to JD with fresh ears IMO)
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Monday, 21 October 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago)
The Durutti Column were the really revolutionary Hannett band
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Monday, 21 October 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago)
get back to your Gerogerigegege thread, slacker
― money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Monday, 21 October 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEGvzjmUs8Y
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Monday, 21 October 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago)
thank you for proving my point for me
― GM, Monday, 21 October 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago)
A Certain Ratio!
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Monday, 21 October 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago)