Cure have a number of classic albums btw and the Libertines have 1 and a half barely notable singles and a legacy of completely vapid, nothing shite
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A 2 for Canât Stand Me Now and Donât Look Back into the Sun. Can take or leave most of the rest of the first album and pretty much everything after and the less said about Doherty the better quite frankly.
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1/5, awful band, no redeeming features or songs. Better not be higher than Rancid.
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Interesting that several people have spoken up about the drummer, but no-onesâs mentioned the bassist.
WHAT ARE YOU ALL HIDING?!
Have you ever heard Yeti?
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He made SFAâs Yeti suits? Good lad.
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Only 2 decent songs and both written by someone else. Canât Stand Me Know (Mark Keds) and Donât Look Back into the Sun (Bernard Butler - allegedly).
There was a glimmer of something interesting about them at the start, but it was quickly submerged in a morass of hype and bad drugs. Pete Doherty is a genuinely shitty human being. Just scrape a 2 for using the phrase âwhat a fucking divâ in a song.
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learn something new every day on here
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I mean the debut album has a distinct suggestion of recent smack use on its cover and itâs considered an iconic image. I think the elegantly wasted posturing is harder to separate from the music than e.g. britpop/lad culture from Oasis, for example
I did know this but had completely forgotten in my rant above. They bear responsibility for Razorlight.
Negative points, please.
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If only that were true.
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So Come, I Am Waiting, which is absolutely my favourite song of 2005 that didnât appear on the album Illinois.
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Itâs just weird regardless isnât it? Is this person basically saying that if youâre writing/recording music then if other people say itâs not right and you say otherwise youâre a waster? I mean this is how art works: someone makes and they decide itâs how they want and everyone else gets to decide if they like it.
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Thatâs interesting as I thought the NME was dead and buried by 1999 - as soon as the paper changed from old newsprint the qualtiy of journalism seemed to go down, but maybe itâs jus because I wasnât interested in the bands they were covering at the time. Thereâs no doubt the Conor McNicholas era fucked it forever though.
Iâve always wondered about that MySpace thing - it wasnât really the band was it.but just a fan who had uploaded digital copies of their demo tape? Remember the media hailing Arctic Monkeys as the first of a new generation of groups expoloting social media, but I donât think they even knew they had a MySpace.
First I heard of them was on the Evening Session when they used to do that battle of the demos thing. That was almost a year before the NME finally picked up on them.
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