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  3. are kasabian really bad poo - discuss

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    Remember in the 80s when U2's Rattle & Hum documentary came out? They were ridiculed for desperately trying to shoehorn their way into the annals of rock n roll folklore, playing with BB King, singing at Graceland, recording at Sun Studios etc, all done with nary a hint of irony or shame?

    Well, for me, Kasabian are, if anything, even more guilty (I'm prepared to admit that up until then -self-importance aside- U2 had some decent tunes). Kasabian on the other hand, demand nothing less than ubiquitous adulation, with nothing to suggest they're worthy of even mild approval. Seriously, every album is accompanied by the same sound-bites in interviews, "we want to mobilise a generation, unite the people in the name or rock n roll...blah blah blah". They're one of those bands (though by no means the only one) that have stripped that, already largely redundant term of whatever integrity w as left attached to it. Oasis were officially split for about 13 seconds before the two main Kasabian dudes were on the cover of the NME, banging on about how "Oasis is no more, we're the biggest band in Britain now", clinging to some wholly inaccurate notion of record sales as a barometer of cutural significance. Sure enough, not long after, the ads for their latest cow pat of an album bore the tagline "from the biggest band in Britain". (Someone might want to point out that there's one hell of a gulf between Oasis' status as biggest band in Britain and theirs: a few million units worth).

    I saw them at Glasto last year and, absolutely, they can get a crowd going. But every song sounds like the result of a focus group, put together with the express objective guaranteeing they get the biggest mosh. Lyrics don't have to make sense of course, but they have to at least sound half decent. Theirs are litle more than an excuse to justify the presence of a lead singer.

    Ah yes, the singer: legs apart, arms aloft, beconing the crowd to (yawn) "come on". Christ, whatever happened to light and shade? Even Oasis' contentious arrogance was (to begin with, anyway) tempered by an ocassional sense of vulnerability or sensitivity (Rocking Chair, Slide Away, even Wonderwall).

    Kasabian amount to little more than a talentless yob standing in front of a mirror playing air guitar, with absolutely nothing to say for himself but determined to be heard.

    So, y'know. Poo!

  10. Spiringsteen

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    Oh look, a Bruce fan making things up yet again. :) :angry:

    The majority of those posts are not slagging off Bruce. They're either cvallimng pe4ople morons fopr making stuff up that I've not said or they're taking the piss out of morons like you who refuse to accept my right to my opinion because I've dared to have an opinion of Bruce that isn't full of praise for him.

    But you can call it comprehensive journalism if you like. I'd be far more accurate calling your sorts of antics comprehensive trolling tho. :angry:

  13. Dub music any recomendations?

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    Also check out Channel One Soundsystem. They're playing one of the smaller areas of the dance village on the Sunday, as they did last year. We were camping fairly close to the dance village and after getting rightously sto**ed to Black Mountain we were chilling by our tent. Rest was impossible though as the earth would shudder every few seconds with the type of apocalyptic rumble that only a proper dub bass can deliver. We wondered over to inverstigate and it was just what the (bush) doctor ordered. By no means the biggest stage/crowd (the opposite, truth be told) but one of my highlights of the weekend. I'll definitely be checking them out again, see ya there.

    JAH RASTAFARI...

  15. clash from hell

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    I feel your pain mate. Bruce is a no-brainer on Saturday night for me. Just too monumental an event to miss. That said, by far the act I want to see most after the Boss would be Animal Collective. Hard to whinge when you have such an embarrasment of riches, but still...

  18. Will Springsteen get his "stage"

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    Not over here he isn't. Macca plays one gig with Ringo, and it's all over the papers. Springsteen can't ever get that kind of response from the media, or is as widely known universally as Macca. Macca was humbled by playing Glasto. I don't know what Springsteen's response will be, but the idea that Glasto should feel honoured by his presence - piffle.

  21. Springsteen - 2.5hr set

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    unlike some here, I'm not a Bruce encyclopaedia. :D

    The track I heard off his new album on the radio the other day was as dire as it gets for even the world's worst pop act. :(

    And "Santa Claus..." was hardly a landmark moment in music, eh? :ph34r:

    TBH, even the likes of Born to Run doesn't get far past bland.

  23. 2 Legend (Old Duffer) Headliners

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    I've held off talking about this in a vain attempt to not get my hopes up. Suffice to say the thought of Bruce playing the greatest festival in the world was something completely inconcievable not so long ago. I've been pretty heartened by the (generally) enthusiastic response the two "old duffers" have received as I actually expected a lot more of a backlash. But there was talk earlier in the thread of Bruce in particular being "firmly in the past" and another thread noted he wasn't "relevant". This is arse. I'd argue that Bruce playing Glasto would be the culmination of a five-or-so year period thats seen him become more relevant (whatever that means) than any time since the mid-80s. Many of the better (admittedly mostly American) bands of recent years have either acknowledged his influence and/or actually joined him onstage, from the Arcade Fire to the Hold Steady, the National, Band Of Horses, even the bl**y Killers ripped him off on their second record. He's still filling stadiums and he's doing it on the back of new material. No Stones-type lazy-trawl-through-the-hits here. In addition, he’s played benefits for Obama (surely the best thing to happen to the FUTURE in a long time), who was quoted as saying “the one person I’ve always wanted to meet was Springsteen” and used his music throughout his campaign.

    As for Shakey, I find it difficult to believe anyone would begrudge him a headline slot, given the shadow he's cast over "alternative" music for over three decades. The intensity he brings to a live performance would shame whatever hip young gunslingers happened to be on the bill.

    It might initially seem top-heavy, two legends simultaneously but seriously, what are the alternatives? Another year of the landfill indie carousel? Not to come off like a jaded nostalgist (I'm 30, incidentally) but the fact is there's very few bands out there genuinely worthy of a headline slot. Even the names mentioned here like the Prodigy? ONE class album (Jilted), one MASSIVE album (wherein the rot started to set and the cyberpunk posturing got in the way of the music), followed by eleven years of...not much at all.

    There's a reason the old duffers haven't suffered a similar fate. They've both made monumental f**k ups (Neil Young's -ahem- Shocking Pinks and THAT Dancing In the Dark Video for example) but come Glasto, if these rumours are true, the two guys who don't really have to be there, the two multi-millionaires, will be the the two guys playing as if their very lives depend on it.

    For the second year running the Eavises have surprised people, got them talking and made Glasto unique in the ever-growing festival "circuit". Respect.

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