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Does it exist? help!
imagist42:
--- Quote from: quietnow on 14 Dec 2007, 07:41 ---i heard "piano pop" and wanted to mention ben folds
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I can't tell but I hope you're not implying there's something wrong with this urge?...
Kai:
Whenever I want to talk about the Scissor Girls, I invariably mistake them for the Scissor Sisters and then I look and feel like a complete idiot.
That's all I really have to add to this.
UberDrivel:
I'm really liking Chromatics right now. They've definitely got the languid disco thing going on: http://www.myspace.com/chromaticsmusics
Plenty of ambient + dancey stuff out there as well. Booka Shade and Mylo come to mind.
Ballard:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 14 Dec 2007, 06:33 ---You appear to have confused obscurity with quality. Scissor Sisters aren't bad because they're popular they're bad because they write terrible music, and this is not altered by them being relatively unknown in the US.
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I'll preempt this by saying that I hate to turn a good topic into a fruitless debate on hipster ideals. However, it is very much a matter of their popularity. Certain acts reside within a grey area in terms of their acceptance within the indie community. The Scissor Sisters are not one of these bands. In Europe they're huge. Top 40 radio fodder. Therefore, any merit they have as musicians goes down the tubes. It is simply unfashionable to listen to a band that the walking cultural cliche on the street/bus/train/at work/in school praises daily.
In America, they've gone relatively unnoticed, and those people who do listen to them, such as myself, see much merit in their work. Merit that is untainted by their popularity with the masses.
Though of course blind dismissal of a band based solely on this factor has been deemed acceptable. Carry on.
Johnny C:
They're not popular here and I really can't stand 'em. Just sayin' dude.
I guess we're in The Commonwealth though.
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