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Arctic Monkeyness?
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With the massive rise in decent indie music about in the last 2 or 3 years, does anyone else think that the Arctic Monkeys are a little over hyped?
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in a word, yes.
its just the media, they need to have some big new band or other to talk about. IMO it just detracts from the music itself.
i just listen to what i enjoy listening to. and dont pay any attention to magazines, radio etc.
there are some good unsigned bands/artsists on places like myspace and cdbaby (myself included). being a bit of a dreamer, i cant help but think there is an opportunity to completely eliminate the press as we know it today, and create a new network of news distribution. things like google news and slashdot are on the right lines, but something more community based, where there isnt just a few pri**s talking out of their own arses.
i do indeed, I hate NME! They manipulate peoples like and dislikes so damned well its ludicrous. Cant people decide for themselves whether or not they like something. they are ok!!! Nowhere near as special as the Strokes, or razorlight. The personal vendetta the press have against starsailor too is equally irritating to me.
Its ironic that they are gettting so much attention as they refuse to play ball and refused to do TOTP and refused to play at the Brits which i think is good. They should stand their ground and not bend over and do what the big corporates want them to do.
I think their album is great but i think the Editors is better!
I can't help but agree. In my student days i bought the NME each week for something to read. But overtime, the constant barrage of "Pete Doherty has been seen watering a plant" and "Speculation the Kaiser Cheifs have 7 pairs of shoes between them" slowly eroded my patience. I'll try to avoid this eing a rant about the NME, but the Arctic Monchavs are one of those terrinbly dull bands that the NME seems to adore.
I like some of these new bands, but most of the stuff to come from London over the last couple of years sounds exactly the same to me. I also get a bit bored of hearing bands trying intentionally to look and sounds like their parents bands, eg maximo park, strokes, arctic monchavs...
Call me traditional but i like a band who change their sound, do something different or have a personality. Give me Thom Yorke, Nicky Wire or Johnny Rotten any day.
That should spawn a rant or three!
I can't help but agree. In my student days i bought the NME each week for something to read. But overtime, the constant barrage of "Pete Doherty has been seen watering a plant" and "Speculation the Kaiser Cheifs have 7 pairs of shoes between them" slowly eroded my patience. I'll try to avoid this eing a rant about the NME, but the Arctic Monchavs are one of those terrinbly dull bands that the NME seems to adore.
I like some of these new bands, but most of the stuff to come from London over the last couple of years sounds exactly the same to me. I also get a bit bored of hearing bands trying intentionally to look and sounds like their parents bands, eg maximo park, strokes, arctic monchavs...
Call me traditional but i like a band who change their sound, do something different or have a personality. Give me Thom Yorke, Nicky Wire or Johnny Rotten any day.
That should spawn a rant or three!
I like some of these new bands, but most of the stuff to come from London over the last couple of years sounds exactly the same to me. I also get a bit bored of hearing bands trying intentionally to look and sounds like their parents bands, eg maximo park, strokes, arctic monchavs...
Call me traditional but i like a band who change their sound, do something different or have a personality. Give me Thom Yorke, Nicky Wire or Johnny Rotten any day.
That should spawn a rant or three!
This album/band - OMG, I have had to yes HAD to listen to this album every day for over three weeks now I know every blooming word. I understand the appeal, I liked the singles and I kinda like the album (It is typical indie) but the whole thing was very clever. I have been asked about this band for well over 9 months before I even knew who they were, the constant media bombardment means they were and still are storming it. The record sales are huge and if it had been like every other album release it wouldnt have sold so much so quick. You are right though Indie is definatly 'in' again big style, its every where and mostly very simular to what we have already heard. Personally I don't believe them to be anything fantastic or groundbreaking but the record companies got a hold of it and thrust it at us we had no hope of escaping the Monkeys arrival and we didn't and it continues to sell and I guess it will do for months to come.
I like the Arctic Monkeys, but they are just this years over-hyped band.
What I don't buy is the "we made all our success off the back of self-made internet popularity/word of mouth", it just doesn't get that big, that fast, in my opinion.
I have a view that "The Man" (see School of Rock movie) has seen the way ahead for the music biz is downloading, and has therefore put a shedload of cash into marketing them passing it off as if they came about their success as a result of people downloading a previously unheard band who weren't yet signed.
i.e. the record co's have dangled them as a carrot, so that the next time "The Cosmic Whippets" or whoever it may be comes along, people get hyped up and go download crazy before the record co's have had to invest much in them....kerching!!!!!!!!!
Call me cynical too, but wasn't one of their dad's in a new wave band called The Arktic Monkeez in the early 80's? Now I admit my dad "helped" me with my homework too, but that might be taking things a bit too far!! I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but you heard it here first!
Can I just reiterate before anyone gets on my case as a cynical old g!t - I like the AM's and think its a good, but not a great album. So they probably are a bit over hyped, but if it weren't them it would be someone else. At least it cuts down on all the Pete Doherty coverage, and for that I thank them!!
Good for you Steve, whilst they're a very boring band toi listen to, they fdo distract from "Who's Pete Doherty currently talking to?" or "The Strokes' drummer has new haircut!"
Jay139 is right too though. You can count the truely profound/groundbreaking albums since the 80's on one hand. Still, it reminds me that i'm better when the latest batch of students start claiming "The Speakers" or "The Nitrogen Particles" [insert stupid "The" name here] are the greatest thing since sliced bread. Guess i am an old git. now i just need an old git friend like the ones in Harry Enfield!
He told you you're pretty? nice one! i've never been called pretty by anyone (famous), although Nicky Wire did say that a shirt i wore to one of their gigs was "cool" and i should sell it on ebay. Matt Bellamy aimed a comment in my general direction "F8cking fans, why don't they just f*ck off home?!" I'm hoping Morrissey will shout some abuse at me in a couple of months, i've got a few choice words to say to him.
Hey goodsoulette, I've also met The Strokes drummer - how small world is that! We couldn't get tickets for their last UK tour so went to see them in Amsterdam; sitting in the hotel bar he came down pre-show for a few beer and sat and had a drink with us whilst his gorilla minder stood round looking uncomfortable. A thoroughly charming bloke too, completely unlike any of these wannabe rock star types. Great gig too!
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