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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Oerdin on 25 Apr 2008, 11:02
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I just thought I'd shill a bit for this band. BTW if anyone will be at Coachella on Sunday the 27th then my friend's band will be playing on the second stage. "Does It Offend You, Yeah?" is a pretty cool English band which describes their music as "you take a pinch of french electro, add a bit of 90s grunge, add a trist of techno and season with oodles of indie". They're currently on a tour of the US and Canada, they just played the NME awards in Hollywood, will be playing Coachella this weekend, and will be at San Diego's Casbah this weds. Their tour schedule is on their myspace page along with a couple of their songs:
http://www.myspace.com/doesitoffendyou
Their main band page:
http://www.doesitoffendyou.com/
A write up Rolling Stone Magazine did on them:
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/03/26/breaking-artist-does-it-offend-you-yeah/
And of course their Pitchfork review:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/49280-you-have-no-idea-what-you-are-getting-yourself-into
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Man I don't think I can get past that ridiculous name
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Every time I read that name, I hear Mike Myers’ Austin Powers voice. Like, “Do I make you horny, yeah?”
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This lot are on Warped this summer as well.
And I really shouldn't judge, but that is a downright horrible band name.
(I generally don't take any Pitchfork reviews to heart but DAMN. 2.3?)
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Yes, yes it does offend me yeah. The music that goes with the band is pretty terrible too.
Crap. No waffles.
Oh wait, this isn't the PRF...
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Don't judge a band by its name - look at My Bloody Valentine!
awful name, okay but extremely overrated band.
yes i went there.
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*shrug* I never really dug them as much as say..Cruyff In The Bedroom (speaking of AWESOME band names..)
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Overrated music, rubbish band. Generally, any band on the NME tour is going to be pretty awful. The NME pride themselves on hyping up average indie bands and banging on about how they discovered them first. The more obscure and crap the name the more likely it seems your going to get into NME nowadays.
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If you like We Are Wolves, you'd probably like Does It Offend You, Yeah?
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the singer's voice is very obnoxious.
maybe they should go on tour with Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah!
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what the fuck is the NME and why does everyone hate it so much?
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the singer's voice is very obnoxious.
maybe they should go on tour with Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah!
There's very little singing to speak of anyway. Most of it is weird synths, electronics and computerized noises.
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what the fuck is the NME and why does everyone hate it so much?
NME is the New Musical Express. It's a music magazine and is a thousand times more obnoxious and annoying than Pitchfork quite possibly due to its age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NME
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what the fuck is the NME and why does everyone hate it so much?
NME, the New Musical Express.
A shitty music magazine which thinks Pete Docherty is Jesus re-born. It likes to pretend it knows anything about music, which it dosnt.
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the singer's voice is very obnoxious.
maybe they should go on tour with Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah!
Terrible singers aside, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are awesome. Does It Offend You, Yeah? are not.
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I've got a J Church 7" somewhere that has in the thanks list "thank you to everyone in the UK. Except the fucking NME."
This band really missed the point of Nathan Barley. Bad, bad music.
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Terrible singers aside, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are awesome. Does It Offend You, Yeah? are not.
Both of those bands can go tour in a fucking furnace for all I care.
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ITT: We hate everything.
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I made a mix once and used one of these dudes' songs, it was ok!
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Emilio, you don't even listen to music with guitars in anymore.
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hey I listen to New Order
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This band doesn't sound bad, but they don't really sound good?
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Pretty terrible, really.
Also: that band name is terrible. When I realised it was a band name, I was expecting some sort of free noise stuff, I AM HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED.
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Bad times to listen to DIOY,Y? :
* First thing in the morning
* When hoping to find music better than Daft Punk
* When nurturing high expectations
Good times to listen to DIOY,Y? :
* At about 2:30 in an indie club, after a night of generic jangly indie pop in the key of the sodding libertines - hearing We Are Rockstars then sounds like the future of music. Just...don't ruin it by listening to it sober the next day.
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Thank god I'm not the only one that thingks that everything that is being made and considered indie now a days sounds like the libertines (where I am anyways).
Do people not get that it was barely good the first time around?
(Sorry if that offends, my love for the libertines doesn't go that far, if it goes anywhere at all).
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You folks are a bunch of follow the leaders. Listen to music and make up your own minds why don't you instead of just parroting the person above you?
Everyone who’s on here bitching about the band name obviously has not checked out the greatest TV show of all time… The BBC version of “The Office.” If you had any taste in pop culture, you would understand what the line “Does It Offend You, Yeah” means. The band chose that name to out silly little kids with no sense of taste… like you. Surprise!
I laughed at this because it's so true. Watch BBC and maybe you'll get the inside joke. :lol:
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Did you watch the US or UK version? Two totally different animals.
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You folks are a bunch of follow the leaders. Listen to music and make up your own minds why don't you instead of just parroting the person above you?
What if I just don't like it without any prompting from other people, is that cool? Because apparently the only right opinion is the one you have. They don't sound very good to me. Boring singer, too busy with the music, not unique or different in any notable way. So, I don't really like them.
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Fuck you right back. to answer you question no not because people have different tastes in music from me but because most people just said "that's a strange name" and didn't listen to the music. If you didn't make so many assumptions then you wouldn't end up looking like such an ass.
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I ended up listening to it. It's even worse than their name.
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On listening, I pretty much totally agree with muffy. It's nothing special, just some more of the generic indie-dance-nu-rave-silly-name stuff, but by comparison with the trying-to-be-Pete-Docherty stuff, it is quite acceptable.
C- Please try harder, Brits-making-music-for-'the kids'. Your work has potential.
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trying to listen to this band made my internet crash.
maybe it's a sign that this is just not meant to be.
i guess i will have to turn elsewhere when i have a craving for repetitive glitchy electronic tunes then.
edit- it's like moving units+venetian snares but more headache-inducing than either.
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Yeah, try listening to Crystal Castles and We Are Wolves, glitchy & electronic.
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crystal castles are alright.
haven't heard we are wolves yet though.
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does anybody else hear badly done DFA1979 with really shit electro parts?
yeah it is no surprise their album is in the bargain bin at my local music shop already.
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For once, you may agree with the 2.3 that Ol' Forky gave it.
haven't heard we are wolves yet though.
They're a great electro rock outfit from Montreal.
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does anybody else hear badly done DFA1979 with really shit electro parts?
vocals=moving units
electro parts=cheap imitation of venetian snares
but hey what do i know about music.
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I was expecting some sort of free noise stuff, I AM HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED.
That's sort of what I was expecting, too.
I went back to try again, and they're slightly less shitty this time around. I guess I would say they're alright.
For the record, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are pretty awesome.
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I AM OFFENDED BYT HIS BAND IN MATTER OF FACT!
despite the fact that the joke was made in like , the third post.
oh well. these guys need to swich their name and become better musicians and the n i would listen to them.
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I think liking this band is much like people who claim to like American Apparel clothing- eveyone knows its schlocky crap, made poorly on purpose, so that if you say you hate it, other hipsters can tell you you "just don't get it". Thankfully, bands like this only last a few years, until their fans jump to the newest fad.
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Yeah, and American Apparel t-shirts are super comfy.
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Yeah, and American Apparel t-shirts are super comfy.
iawtc
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Plus they don't have a recockulously bad name.
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"iawtc" is almost as bad an acronym as Does it Offend You, Yeah is a band name.
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What does it even stand for?
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that's nice.
i agree with this comment
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Oh, I see.
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what happened to good old plain English?
QFT
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I must confess them I'm partial to this band because one of the players is a friend of mine. I know he's worked hard to improve his musical skills and I'm happy he's been able to expand his career beyond just playing local places in Reading, England and is now on a North American tour. So, yes, I may be biased by my friendship but I enjoy their music. I also believe they show a wide range of musical talent from French electronica to the wider indie style tones. If half of you who poo-poo other people's work tried half as hard to create your own then maybe you would be more successful in your own endeavors.
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this just sounds like all of the writers of pitchfork took a shit in a bowl and then that bowl was transported to a super-secret factory in eastern germany where it was compressed at the temperature and pressure of a thousand suns until it resembled a compact disk. That disk was then given a silly name and a Faux-Pretentious/Whiney Crybaby fanbase....
oh your friends in it, i really like my friends too but even i can admit their music is only a few inches away from terrible coldplay sounding shite.
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If half of you who poo-poo other people's work tried half as hard to create your own then maybe you would be more successful in your own endeavors.
Maybe we wouldn't be so negatively adjusted towards the band you posted if you didn't insult us for not liking it.
My own opinion of you has little to do with what I posted. I still contend that it takes very little effort to denigrate other people's work when you produce nothing yourself and, yes, you are an excellent example given how you have cursed at me. My bile is mostly directed at you personally instead of the community at large.
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I play in a band, do art, and I work full time. But even if I didn't, I think I would still be justified in saying I don't like this band. It doesn't sound to me like they're trying to write greart songs, it sounds like they are trying to write kitschy songs. Irony for irony's sake has never made sense to me.
Which, reminds me of this -
http://www.mitchclem.com/nothingnice/222/
Thank you Jeph Jacques.
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This thread has gotten silly, the band in question has been deemed unlistenable by 99.9% of the forum and we are getting nowhere with this argument.
Judging by your response to a bunch of people's personal oppinions oerdin, you belong in the emo thread
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does anybody else hear badly done DFA1979 with really shit electro parts?
Honest to god, the first time I heard of them I was told they were the other dude from DFA1979 (not jesse keeler).
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Wow, that's really cool, but what is it meant to be?
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its a honest rendering of an artists soul, also, a botched pair of handcuffs.. :police:
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I threw away the key!
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Oh Haaaaaarry, where are you?
Edit: Look at the time this post was posted. Do you see what time I posted?
That kind of posting takes skill everyone.
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Oh Haaaaaarry, where are you?
God dammit, why does it have to be me? I'm sick!!
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Harry, you're meant to do this:
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I think it's more amusing to watch you kids, though.
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You mean it doesn't.... offend you, yeah?
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Before this thread gets locked I want to say that I love this band. I love the keyboard work, the patches and parts are actually really good and take a pretty solid knowledge of synthesis to create. The vocal melodies are all pretty catchy and the songs on the record are varied enough that isn't the same stuff repeated over and over again.
The other thing I love about this band is the complete lack of pretension. You can tell that they are making music that they enjoy and are having fun doing it. They don't take them selves to seriously, do you not see the humor in naming the last song on your album "Epic Last Song"
I donno, I just enjoy it and think it is a fun record. They are one of the reasons I bought a 3 day pass to Lollapalooza.
Also for the record Crystal Castles are a bunch of over rated pretentious pricks. They have some good songs but are so full of themselves I kinda want to vomit.
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I've only heard "we are rockstars" but it has rocked every dance floor I've heard it played on.
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Also for the record Crystal Castles are a bunch of over rated pretentious pricks. They have some good songs but are so full of themselves I kinda want to vomit.
I don't think two people constitutes a bunch. Also, they have always seemed like pretty nice people to me. Just a couple of nerds who like to make dance music.
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What I'd like to know is how they're prtentious?
Their music has always been very fun albeit sometimes two glitchy. Over the years, it's gotten more inviting and clearer that fun should be had while listening.
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Crystal Castles is like bill murray
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DIOY,Y is like Carrot Top
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They just got Sony to agree to put one of their tunes into the new Gran Tourismo so even if they're sell outs and not cool enough for the indie kids I'm glad my friend's band is doing so well.
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Only a pretentious douchebag (read someone who likes DiOY,Y?) would stop liking a band because they OMG totally sold out :-D
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Who said I disliked them for selling out? I specifically said I like my friend's band and I'm happy they're doing so well. Please read more carefully in the future.
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I was commenting on this part.
Only a pretentious douchebag (read someone who likes DiOY,Y?) would stop liking a band because they OMG totally sold out :-D
If it was a typo though then no biggy.
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Actually,I wasn't being serious about the whole DiOY,Y? comment but I was about selling out. I think the fact that in all seriousness accused them of selling out makes you guilty of douchebaggery.
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DOES DIOY,Y? LIKE MUDKIPZ?
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I think the fact that in all seriousness accused them of selling out makes you guilty of douchebaggery.
I think Oerdin's "sell-outs" comment was probably meant to be read in inverted commas, as in, he was saying that now all the indie kids will call them sell-outs, not that he thinks they're sell-outs. But the way the post was written did leave it open to interpretation.
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What I'd like to know is how they're prtentious?
Their music has always been very fun albeit sometimes two glitchy. Over the years, it's gotten more inviting and clearer that fun should be had while listening.
The only example I can really site is that they played a show in Dekalb, IL not to long ago. The show promoter has a graphic designer design posters for his shows and then allows him to sell the extra posters at the shows. Crystal Castles refused to let him sell his posters at the show even though he had designed a pretty bad ass poster gone to the troubled of screening them and then putting them up all over town to promote their date.
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It's not really leeching off of Crystal Castles' effort if the poster designer was employed by the people promoting the show. That does seem like a pretty rude thing to do to someone that has gone through the personal trouble of promoting your band's show.
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THEY ARE FUCKING OPENING FOR NIN WHEN I AM SEEING THEM IN PHILLY! :cry:
OERDIN I HOPE YOUR HAPPY YOU DEAF SON OF A BITCH
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Deerhunter
Crystal Castles
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
A Place To Bury Strangers
White Williams
Of all the bad luck, every other band i love on the list and this one has to open, this is like getting struck by lightning
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Irony is so delicious.
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you sadistic bastard
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Dude, that is just awful.
That is probably going to be worse than having to sit through a Coldplay show.
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What I'd like to know is how they're prtentious?
Their music has always been very fun albeit sometimes two glitchy. Over the years, it's gotten more inviting and clearer that fun should be had while listening.
The only example I can really site is that they played a show in Dekalb, IL not to long ago. The show promoter has a graphic designer design posters for his shows and then allows him to sell the extra posters at the shows. Crystal Castles refused to let him sell his posters at the show even though he had designed a pretty bad ass poster gone to the troubled of screening them and then putting them up all over town to promote their date.
that's just being a jerk not being pretentious.
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What I'd like to know is how they're prtentious?
Their music has always been very fun albeit sometimes two glitchy. Over the years, it's gotten more inviting and clearer that fun should be had while listening.
The only example I can really site is that they played a show in Dekalb, IL not to long ago. The show promoter has a graphic designer design posters for his shows and then allows him to sell the extra posters at the shows. Crystal Castles refused to let him sell his posters at the show even though he had designed a pretty bad ass poster gone to the troubled of screening them and then putting them up all over town to promote their date.
that's just being a jerk not being pretentious.
Touche.
I like some crystal castles, that kinda rubbed me the wrong way. Also, it couldn't have been to much money related because they had a solid guarantee plus a decent percentage of back end.
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You really don't need to quote the post directly above yours.
Christ, I'm in a foul mood tonight.
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I went and watched them tonight at the Casbah in San Diego. It was a great show. Plus it looks like next time they do a North American tour they'll be with Nine Inch Nails. It seems they're going gang busters.
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THEY ARE FUCKING OPENING FOR NIN WHEN I AM SEEING THEM IN PHILLY! :cry:
OERDIN I HOPE YOUR HAPPY YOU DEAF SON OF A BITCH
I am. :)
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Christ, I'm in a foul mood tonight.
It's okay.
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The only example I can really site is that they played a show in Dekalb, IL not to long ago. The show promoter has a graphic designer design posters for his shows and then allows him to sell the extra posters at the shows. Crystal Castles refused to let him sell his posters at the show even though he had designed a pretty bad ass poster gone to the troubled of screening them and then putting them up all over town to promote their date.
Pretty ironic, considering that Crystal Castles themselves are in trouble for co-opting Trevor Brown’s beaten-up Madonna picture without permission. Crystal Castles can make money by piggybacking on a graphic artist’s work, but graphic artists can’t make money by piggybacking on Crystal Castles.
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They're NOT the reason I've decided not to go to Warped Tour this year, though it didn't help.
(ps: it's because I'm going to see Boris instead)
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You really don't need to quote the post directly above yours.
Christ, I'm in a foul mood tonight.
It's ok.
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Look three posts above yours.
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Look three posts above yours.
Ahh, sorry about that.
You will forgive me though.... right? You kinda have to don't you?
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One of their songs has officially been chosen as the theme music for the Fast & the Furious 3 movie who's trailer debuted during the Super Bowl. I'm really happy for my friend as he's worked hard and deserves some success.
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Overrated music, rubbish band. Generally, any band on the NME tour is going to be pretty awful. The NME pride themselves on hyping up average indie bands and banging on about how they discovered them first. The more obscure and crap the name the more likely it seems your going to get into NME nowadays.
Sounds like the NCAAP Image Award for Indie music.