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Scottish Bands?
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: spoon_of_grimbo on 16 May 2009, 17:34 ---btw, i did that pre-order thing for the new idlewild album - apparently it's finished and in the post right now! i'm BEYOND excited! 100 broken windows and the remote part are among my favourite records EVER, so i can't wait to hear the new one.
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Have you heard their material after The Remote Part? It's been... different. And not in a good way. I've basically given up on them ever stopping their attempts to be a third-rate REM and get back to being a good band again. It all went horribly wrong after Bob Fairfoull left (I heard he slammed Woomble up against a wall and screamed "punk fucking rock you doss cunt". This may not be true but I hope it is). I wish I was looking forward to the new one too since I used to love them so much but at this point I think I'd rather not hear it.
Cernunnos:
Has nobody mentioned the Delgados? They seem to generally be forgotten most of the time, But probably shouldn't be.
a pack of wolves:
Peloton is basically a completely perfect album. The Great Eastern is amazing as well and Hate is really good but Peloton is possibly the best album of the '90s so yeah, The Delgados definitely deserve more love. As do Snowblood, another great band from Glasgow. I just wish Super-Fi would hurry up and release their final album, it's been ages since they split.
spoon_of_grimbo:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 17 May 2009, 17:22 ---
--- Quote from: spoon_of_grimbo on 16 May 2009, 17:34 ---btw, i did that pre-order thing for the new idlewild album - apparently it's finished and in the post right now! i'm BEYOND excited! 100 broken windows and the remote part are among my favourite records EVER, so i can't wait to hear the new one.
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Have you heard their material after The Remote Part? It's been... different. And not in a good way. I've basically given up on them ever stopping their attempts to be a third-rate REM and get back to being a good band again. It all went horribly wrong after Bob Fairfoull left (I heard he slammed Woomble up against a wall and screamed "punk fucking rock you doss cunt". This may not be true but I hope it is). I wish I was looking forward to the new one too since I used to love them so much but at this point I think I'd rather not hear it.
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i disagree.
i'll admit warnings/promises is pretty far removed from what they were doing, but take it on it's own merits and it's a solid album. i don't listen to it often, but when i do, i really enjoy it. and the one after that, make another world, is a sort of combination of the three albums before it, and a real grower. i've got all their cds, and i've acquired mp3s of just about all their b-sides and there's literally a HANDFUL of songs in their whole catalog that i don't like.
then again, i tend to accept it when bands change sound and just get used to it, i'm not one to cry "sellout" or anything. and it helps that their music's as emotional now as it's ever been.
a pack of wolves:
I think The Remote Part was their best selling record so it would be daft to call them sellouts based on what they did after that. Change is good, I didn't mind them slowly excising the noise and thrashing until the chaos had disappeared by The Remote Part leaving them with a sound very distant from songs like I Wanna Be A Writer. They got polished but they handled it well, they managed to keep some of their old bite but got a sense of the epic into their sound by playing pop that it seemed they'd been trying slightly unsuccessfully to do in earlier tracks like You Just Have To Be Who You Are. But I never really liked REM so they completely lost me with their sound after the line-up change.
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