#225

Oh dear!!
I always get Starsailor and Toploader mixed up…both horrendous bands

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#226

Oh…Maximo Park are FAR better than The Killers.

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#227

Weren’t Starsailor the last band to release music produced by Phil Spector before he went to jail. this might be bollocks but, I seem to remember something about this when Spector got jailed

#228

Not quite as good as Kings of Leon but still a 5/5

#229

Surely the album wasn’t THAT bad!

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#230

starsailor might be the band with the biggest disparity between the quality of their music and the quality of the music of who they are named after (tim buckley’s starsailor)

#231

This is correct I’m sure (haven’t looked this up).

#232

I think my mum has a Starsailor hoodie, and that’s all you need to know about them.

#233

Same goes for Tim Buckley’s album “Kula Shaker”.

#234

Same goes for Jethro Tull’s album “Aqualung.”

#235

aye i wasn’t criticising them headlining just was surprised as i had no idea they had managed to maintain that level of popularity

#236

Aqualung are sad and lovely and you should feel bad.

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#237

worth a 2, some good songs (Jenny, Things that I’ve Done), Sam’s Town is a pretty unfairly underrated record, like that their mates with Alex Cameron have given him a platform even if the majority of their fans won’t have a clue what Cameron’s schtick is (cuz its partly aimed at them).

#238

Giving them a 1 just to counter the people countering the try hards

  • Nah changed it back to a 2 because When We Were Young still beings a tear to my eye
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#239

They were stunningly arrogant when they first came out. called themselves the best band of the last 15 years, that kind of stuff. Don’t really mind that so much, bit of banter innit, playing up to NME or whatever.
But then Sam’s Town was a blatant, po-faced attempt at being some kind of ‘big statement’ Springsteen-esque opus and they just didn’t have the substance for it to land.

Maybe after that they settled on being ‘just a good pop band’? But by then yours truly had made up his mind.

#240

Shite sandwich. Lucky to get a 1.

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#241

Is Ronnie the guy with the hair?

#242

He looks like a chibi Nick Cave and is the drummer

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#243

haha Stellastarr. (Puffs on cigar) Haven’t heard that name in a while. ‘My Coco’ was a jam

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#244

I actually revisited that album a few weeks back following a discussion about them elsewhere. Wanted to see if it held up. Other than “My Coco” it really didn’t.

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