MonkeyBoy
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Re: Quick Review #4: Darkness
Feb 06, 2004, 09:13
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I think with The Darkness some people are confusing Fun with irritating. They've been sponsored by The Sun for f*cks sake (The purveyours of all things in good taste).
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keith a
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Re: Quick Review #4: Darkness
Feb 06, 2004, 10:16
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well they specialise in tits...
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Bess Keloid
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Re: PS
Feb 06, 2004, 17:47
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>(I used to sorta know their singer Wendy
>Case -- >who is friends with Kim Fowley,
>that makes me 2 degrees away so there!)
Cor. I shook KF's hand outside the Night & Day in M/CR last year & gave him due praise for 'Outrageous'.
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Nukleopatra
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Re: Quick Review #4: Darkness
Feb 06, 2004, 20:19
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What it says is that he doesn't give a shit about what people think about him or his taste in music. And that - not name-dropping the "right" influences or wearing the "right" clothes or striking the "right" poses - is the true rock and roll attitude!
xoxo
'patra
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MonkeyBoy
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Re: Quick Review #4: Darkness
Feb 06, 2004, 22:34
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Yeah but he is still a complete Charlatan out to take any fan of crap 80s metal for anything he can get. I saw him the The Sun (racist, homophobic tabloid - sponsoring him) about how he has made a million in the last year.
Now that he has fleeced a load of gullible ex-mullet wearers for their money he should retire. They are a novelty act and should have f*cked off after their first single.
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keith a
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Re: Quick Review #4: Darkness
Feb 07, 2004, 01:04
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no, what it says about him is that he's got shite taste as well as being in a shite band.
as for rock'n'roll attitude? like who gives a fuck about all that nonsense. and don't say julian in his brain donor guise - he's taking the piss, you know!
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Nukleopatra
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Re: Quick Review #4: Darkness
Feb 08, 2004, 15:37
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I don't think Cope's taking the piss, but you're free to think so if you want. Just like you're free to think 80s metal was shit, and I'm free to think it was great and more and that more people are either admitting to secretly loving it or are starting to appreciate it and that it's more than a nostalgia fad and that what's going on now is just the tip of the iceberg and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it, and I'm having the time of my life with it.
And that's my last word on this.
xoxo
'patra
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keith a
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Re: Quick Review #4: Darkness
Feb 08, 2004, 16:04
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>Just like you're free to think 80s metal was shit, >and I'm free to think it was great and more and >that more people are either admitting to secretly >loving it or are starting to appreciate it
This is just another example of dumbing down in my book!
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Dog 3000
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Pondering The Darkness
Feb 08, 2004, 18:54
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"I hope The Darkness do make it big in America, so big in fact that they go over there and never come back."
That might actually happen tho no one expects it to.
Basically, The Darkness (like Interpol & The Strokes & so many others) are peddling a kind of nostalgia-fashion-rock. The Darkness do it with more humor & irony than most, in part because they emulate populist "heshers" like Night Ranger and Van Halen instead of elite "hipsters" like Joy Division and Television.
I don't think nostalgia-fashion-rock has much of a shelf life at all. Like in the 1980's there were all those neo-psych bands, did any of them last? (I can't even remember the names -- think Long Ryders was one?)
BUT -- I can imagine a scenario where The Darkness' brand of silly fun catches on with the American teeny bopper / camp-loving ironist and they actually make a real career of it as "the Real Life Spinal Tap" -- or maybe a bit like the Weird Al of Hair Metal. Of course their original fans in Britain will mostly write them off if/when that happens.
I'm thinking maybe the "novelty" factor might work in their favor career-wise, though it will probably be (already is?) the kiss of death as far as The Darkness being taken seriously as a "cool rock band."
Of the 4 "Next Big Things" on the Spin cover, I think they might surprise everyone and last longer than the others.
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Lawrence
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Re: Pondering The Darkness
Feb 08, 2004, 19:03
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Actually the Long Ryders were the poseurs in the LA neo-psych scene, and pretty much killed it as far as I'm concerned. There wasn't anything fake about the Dream Syndicate or Rain Parade, but the Long Ryders came in thinking it was a big deal to have fake Neil Young sideburns and play whiney soap-box country-rock shite, and LA became unhip for awile... The Ryders were nothing but the Alarm in cowboy boots!
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