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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Darkness, darkness everywhere.... |
| Date | Mon, 02 Feb 2004 16:19:03 -0500 |
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At Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:33:15 m m wrote:
>Really? The first time I heard them was when they covered Radiohead's
>Street Spirit. I thought it was hilarious. The "poking fun at rock and
>roll" stuff is in their music as well as everything else. I can't imagine
>someone hearing them on the radio and thinking that they were serious.
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>But they sound exactly how they look. They sound like a parody of 70s/80s
>rock and they look like a parody of 70s/80s rock. It's one big parody,
>with some impressively catchy tunes thrown in. It's my belief, that you
>can tell this simply by hearing them. The rest of it just confirms it, if
>you initially thought that, for some reason, they could be serious.
Here's the problem with the audio cues for telling if these guys are serious
or not:
The Vines. The Hives. The White Stripes.
I thought *these* bands were jokes. Turns out I was dead wrong (according to
the world press and millions of album sales later). So, now that a band like
The Darkness shows up with even less originality in a fistful of kitsche
'70s riff rip-offs what the hell am I supposed to think now?
Oh, those guys were serious...THESE guys are comedians.
Sorry. The whole scene has been one big turn off. Bad production. Bad
performing. Bad songwriting.
Sheesh, I'm starting to sound like my parents when I brought home the first
Clash record...
God, I'm gettin' old...and intolerant.
Jaimie Vernon,
Bullseye
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