Nat
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 26, 2004, 14:46
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Tut... Jesus Jones sigh... them were the days..
Nirvana for me.. total hype and a pile o'shite live!
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Lawrence
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 26, 2004, 14:59
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I never bought into the Nirvana hype at all! Actually I bought their first mini-album and thought it was annoying crap -- some junior high-school version of Mudhoney or something...
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morfe
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 26, 2004, 15:01
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S'funny, I saw them on the 'Extremities...' tour and they sounded: astonishing!
Mind you, Cope sounded great on the Head On tour, yet nothing I've seen by him since has come close to matching it, both soundwise and performance.
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anthonyqkiernan
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 26, 2004, 15:01
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Them were the days. "Nirvana? Pah, just a second rate Dinosaur Jr tribute. Now, The Fluid! That's a band..."
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morfe
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hot air
Jan 26, 2004, 15:10
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Over Wendy!
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Lawrence
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 26, 2004, 15:47
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The Fluid were much worse than that! They didn't even have the attitude (however immature it was) that Cobain had!
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Glam Descendant
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Love Missile F1-11
Jan 26, 2004, 17:03
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Speaking of this song, Bowie has released a cover of it, as the b-side of "New Killer Star".
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Moon Cat
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Re: ..'SSSake
Jan 26, 2004, 19:17
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Am I right in thinking that Degville did a solo album called World War IV, or am I imagining it?
Any good?
I must say I did enjoy the raised eyebrows when Tony James joined the Sisters Of Mercy post Sputnik - him and Eldricth made quite a team at the time.
I saw a pic of the Sputniks recently playing some minigoff thing somewhere. They've aged pretty well.
I'm sure I saw the Sputniks guitarist (Neal X?) playing with Marc Almond's band at a gig about 6, 7 years ago in Manchester. . Didn't half look like him. Almond was doing some kind of proto-electroclash glam stomp stuff
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GramPositive
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Re: Failure to deliver - Hype let downs.
Jan 26, 2004, 19:25
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Agreed. The Stone Roses were, and continue to be, the most overhyped band in history.
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Popel Vooje
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Re: Love Missile F1-11
Jan 26, 2004, 21:03
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For goodness' sake, why? Even if he'd covered Gary Numan, it would have been more dignified. As for Sigue Sigue Sputnik, I always regarded them as an unholy cross between Generation X and Suicide without any of the good qualities of either.
Other, more recent examples of what (IMO) constitutes hype without substance;
The Strokes - Yes, thank you, I already have "Lust For Life".
The White Stripes - Tenth rate Royal Trux tribute band with the commercially viable addition of a foxy drummer.
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