#381

We all do it though don’t we? I know if I was on desert island discs, I’d be tempted to go full-on pretentious rather than Husker Du, Supertramp, Mingus or whatever that would be far more honest…

#382

I reckon I would be inclined to agree if they sounded like Slint meets Beyonce, but the TOTP influences are pretty much absent.

#383

Thought their arrangement of Time to Pretend was quite good but the videos of Mamma Mia do look quite awful. Think I was getting a bit more out of them as a band when they were more mopey and hyper-confessional lyrically, but I’m along for the ride with gusto. Also reminds me of my mate’s band from university who used to finish on a cover of Voulez-Vou haha

#384

how dare a band in their late teens and early twenties have a laugh and enjoy themselves on stage after the stress of a much hyped debut album release amidst a pandemic. They better not make mistakes like these in the future (!)

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#385

not saying they don’t listen to mainstream pop music but a band who sound like Slint claiming that mainstream pop is ‘the only thing they like’ is just obvious nonsense

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#386

You’re paraphrasing though, as was I most likely. I think what they were saying is that pop music is the genre they agree/ meet in the middle on the most. Not that it really matters.

Makes total sense to me why a band who grew up in the youtube/4music/post-MTV era should all share a liking of mainstream pop music.

#387

Um, OK?

#388

Sorry I don’t think I intended this to be a direct reply to you - just think we’re all overreacting a bit here to what is just a bit of fun

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#389

Fair enough, no worries. I get what you’re saying. I suppose the counter to that is live music isn’t judged solely on how much fun the people performing it are having. If I’d paid money for tickets at least part of me probably would be wondering if they were taking the piss.

Anyway, I think I’ve spent way too much time on this debate when all I really meant to say is their singer isn’t… well-suited to covering ABBA. I still like the record and would probably go see them live.

#390

Yeah I definitely get this. Considering they only played about half the album I can understand if people feel a bit miffed that they skipped some of their own tracks in favour of a cover.

Again yeah I agree.

#391

kind of a shame that they all like abba but instead of making music like abba they’ve got to make that slint no wave sort of stuff.

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#392

Fwiw there’s a podcast where they talk to Britt from Slint about how much they love Slint and other beloved bands of the wanker canon

(Down to the fact that the number of tracks on For the First Time was because of the number of tracks on Spiderland)

It’s a really lovely podcast too

#393

Also to be brutally honest, having listened to the Abba cover

Lighten up ffs

:safetywink:

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#394

ActuaLOL

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#395

People annoyed? By a band? Covering a song they like? Y’all must have been pretty pissed off when Sonic Youth covered the Carpenters so.

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#396

Think that’s the Beastie Boys, not ABBA

#397

When I strolled into the black-country-new-road-s-album-is-getting-a-lot-of-good-reviews thread this morning, to finally see what all the recent fuss with this Mamma Mia cover was about, I expected to have strong opinions, but after one minute and five seconds of it, I’m still just struggling to deal with the audacity of the keyboard player, starting to play the song before the rest of the band had got back from the toilet. Very audacious, imo.

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#398

Incredibly annoying though that the band just decide to come in at the wrong place, so it sounds like the keyboard’s out of whack till it all realigns at the chorus.

Anyway yeah, lots of incredibly strong opinions in here about a throwaway thing that doesn’t matter.

The internet.

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#399

welcome to DiS!

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#400

Although it is clearly awful I really like the Mama Mia cover. Saw them a few times before things were locked down last year and found them a fairly joyless live band (and I do quite like the album).

Their late night show in the tent at the last End of the Rd was particularly grim, with the band appearing to want to be anywhere but playing that show and just going through the motions. Nice to see them looking like they are having some fun.