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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: scarred on 07 Sep 2010, 23:08
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http://pitchfork.com/news/39973-the-xx-win-the-mercury-music-prize/
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Well done band-I-find-boring
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So what, they won a British hipster tool music prize.
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Who is this band?
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So what, they won a British hipster tool music prize.
Man I think that is giving too much credit to the Mercury Prize. It would like to think it's a hipster tool music prize, but it always gives the impression of being run and judged by slightly out of touch, middle-aged music pundits who want the kids to think they're hip. At least Paul fucking Weller didn't win.
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Well done band-I-find-boring
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Congrats to the XX. Since the Mercury Prize fairly often means career death, I couldn't be happier.
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Unlikely in this case - see here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/sep/08/mercury-prize-2010-xx) - but yeah it's fairly meaningless. Still, one for the trophy cabinet so fair play to 'em.
Who is this band?
A British pop band who have just won a British pop prize, there's a helpful link in the first post.
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Unlikely in this case - see here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/sep/08/mercury-prize-2010-xx) - but yeah it's fairly meaningless. Still, one for the trophy cabinet so fair play to 'em.
best part of that article is the comments
She looks like Stephen Fry!
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yeah that owned
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guys i like the xx
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I'm still bitter that they're not X.
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or The Ex
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Personally I'm bummed they're not David Bowie.
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I'm bummed their singer doesn't have a Grandfather Clock on his head.
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has there been a band called "xxx" and if so is it a japanese hardcore band
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"what are you listening to?"
"oh, it's 'metal lightning pussy' by xxx"
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I saw the xx at a festival once. It was boring so I went to go see Titus Andronicus instead.
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I like the xx but man that is the only possible decision. I don't think I'd ever bother seeing the xx live
Fuckin Titus Andronicus
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The mash-up of XX and Biggie's Juicy is actually pretty awesome. Otherwise, I think they're decent - I just don't see where they will go in terms of direction, at this point.
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I like the xx but man that is the only possible decision. I don't think I'd ever bother seeing the xx live
Fuckin Titus Andronicus
Yeah the only reason I was watching the xx was because I had already seen Titus Andronicus exactly a week before going to the festival. They rocked both times.
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Apparently, with hushed, early-hours dynamics and an undertow of sexual desire, the xx's debut album is a compelling listen. The band's influences are drawn from outside the indie canon – the xx are famously fans of modern R&B, which might account for the album's preoccupation with sultry yearning, not a mood indie music traditionally conjures: it sounds original, but isn't abstruse enough to scare less adventurous listeners. Already on an upward trajectory, you can imagine the profile boost of the Mercury finally pushing the xx firmly into the mainstream.
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Guys TITUS ANDRONICUSSS
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Guys TITUS ANDRONICUSSS
just like a bunch of walking fistpumps
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Why is everyone on this forum such an enormous fag?
Not that I have anything against it, it just seems so statistically unlikely.
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are there any three genres more comfortable with giving someone the finger than rap, country or metal
if not then i think i'm probably the most qualified here to tell khar he can go fuck himself
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Hipsters bashing on hipsters who voted for hipsters to win the (annual?) hipster award.
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Crisis on Infinite Hipsters.
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It's hipsters all the way down, ma'am
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theory of infinite hipster regress
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hipster/poseur duality
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Hipsters bashing on hipsters who voted for hipsters to win the (annual?) hipster award.
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every time you call the mercury prize a hipster award, god kills a talented musician.
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if not then i think i'm probably the most qualified here to tell khar he can go fuck himself
Why you got to talk about me like I'm not here.
Also what's your problem with faggots.
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i don't subscribe to labeling actually
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You should, it's much cheaper than labelling every month.
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Surely that depends on the amount of labelling you do?
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So NPR did a thing on The XX a little while ago and it turns out that some songs that I liked but didn't realise were by The XX were actually songs by The XX that I liked. So I guess I like The XX and, um, fuck alla y'all.
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the best part of that NPR spot was that they said they were embarking on their first US tour even though they've been touring here and elsewhere since early 2009
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I thought the point was they were on their first U.S. tour as over-21s