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Triple J Hottest 100 '07
Shadows Collide:
--- Quote from: McTaggart on 27 Jan 2008, 03:09 ---People like muscles because they like fun. DO YOU HATE FUN??
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You're joking right? This argument seriously enrages me, more than any other.
McTaggart:
It was hardly an argument.
FireAarro:
--- Quote from: gardenhead_ on 27 Jan 2008, 04:06 ---He's really terrible live too.
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This much is true. Sooooooo true. Seriously, for half his songs he didn't sing the melody line, and he stood behind a stupid keyboard/mic stand the whole time. The few times he used the keyboard, you couldn't tell if anything he did on it corresponded to musical events.
That being said, I do enjoy his music, and don't find him derivative (what the other guy said). He's got a fairly unique dance-pop niche and a signature vocal style.
gardenhead_:
--- Quote from: McTaggart on 27 Jan 2008, 04:38 ---Honestly, I don't think Muscles is terribly derivative. When I hear any track on the album I don't immediately think of twenty other tracks that sound the same. Alot of the rest of the list, like a lot of the rock and a lot of the dance (have the Chemical Brothers made any new tracks in the last 5 years?) strike me as much more derivative in that they sound like a lot of the rest of the stuff on the list. Muscles just sounds like Muscles. He's got this energy that sets him apart from a lot of the rest of the dance music there is. Things like Pendulum and the Chemical Brothers' new tracks sound pretty boring and flat all the way through and seem to try and avoid having parts that stand out from the rest of the tracks. They feel like you're not meant to hear the music and they're not meant to have any effect on how you feel. Muscles is out to make people dance, rather than just be there so that people have something to dance to.
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I've only really heard him live, and from that I do not intend to ever listen to him again. The music and Muscles himself are so simple and boring that it's almost insulting. He seemed to put no effort into the music and the only interaction he had with the crowd was when he reminded them who he was after every fucking song and when he kept telling people to "get into it".
LCD Soundsystem released an album last year but the Australian public doesn't seem to have noticed. 1000000000 x better than Muscles on record and live.
McTaggart:
It's probably got a lot to do with radio play rather than some songs on the album that didn't get played much being pretty ok. Muscles works really well in a radio setting, LCD Soundsystem not so much. Their catchy song that got airplay was hard to take seriously but not so clearly a joke that it was fun. Constantly thinking "oh god they can't be serious" doesn't translate to good times which doesn't translate to many votes. Songs that get played at parties and generally times you're buzzing do better, hence all the dance and rock and Regina Spector's John Lennon cover placing so far down.
You also have to consider that triple j's audience is not you, it seems to be the sort of people who carry on their innane little conversations with Rosie Beaton every weekday and call up the radio at 1 in the morning to brag about how pissed they're getting.
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