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Panic over! They're coming back! We're saved!
Posted by Beezer on 21 January 2010 - 2:40pm.
Cheap jibes aside I'm genuinely taken aback at how inarticulate this lot are, or appear to be, in this article given that all of them (35?) are meant to be lyricists and vocalists.
No matter, it all will all transcend into the future(?). And they paved the way for N-Dubz you know.
Thanks for that.
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It's an art, you know...
The lost art of '"conversating"', that is.
From Popjustice yesterday...
"According to So Solid "the UK needs us back" - a claim which sits badly next to yesterday's midweek sales figures."
I'd heard that they'd all
I'd heard that they'd all gone vegetarian and were reforming as the So Salad Crew...
(2 x 10) + 1
Romeo Dunn
Sneering aside
I remember seeing them on Top Of The Pops performing Ride Wid Us, and being impressed. Great track, and a very charismatic performance. Not sure about this video, but I can't find a TOTP clip.
Would you be
so snotty about the wilful ignorance displayed by the Gallagher brothers and Happy Mondays, the doggerel of the early Beatles hits, the cod-afro posturing of The Rolling Stones at their most idiotic, or Mark E Smith's unrivalled "genius" for language-mangling, Andy, or do you reserve your condescension just for Black-British rap-garage posses?
If I want erudition I'll stick with a book, but if I want a pop thrill I'll go with S-SC, thanks.
As an Oasis fan...
...I can confirm that the Gallagher brothers get their fair share of shoe-ings from the Massive. Not sure if snotty is the word but there you go...
Props
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No
I'm pretty unreserved as far as my condescension goes. I'm right with you on Oasis and Happy Mondays. We stand shoulder to shoulder.
Touching on this condescension for a moment, yes I can see how that view has been taken but I aimed for more of a touch of playful mockery so beloved on this blog. And really, given the fact that they declare either in seriousness or jest (and I favour the latter) the 'UK needs us' is anyone truly surprised that someone has poked a cyber-finger into their ribs?
In all honesty I don't feel that the typings of this podgy 45 year old has caused them one iota of annoyance. For one thing none of them are podgy or 45 by the look of things and for another whatever fun I'm having at their expense is far out-weighed by their overall success in their chosen public career.
I have no gripe with the genre. Why should I? It's produced some strikingly good records. No, I focussed on the apparent lack of focus they seemed to show in conversation in this interview. Rambling and disconnected thoughts with little of interest to say. Which I thought surprising given that the primary drive behind their sound are lyrics. I would have thought that as poets of a stripe they'd want to express themselves more deeply. If one of the artists I admire, Mark Knopfler say, allowed such drifting thoughts to be placed on public record then I'd quite expect one of the many internet wiseacres to take him to task in the same way. Hell, it might even be me!
Erudition? Again, I'm with you. If I want to be fully informed or enlightened then a pop 45 is not usually the place to look. So I rarely do myself. I'm all for the thrill of it.
I think
their fifteen minutes of fame only has 21 seconds to go
Ah, the So Stupid Crew
I saw Michael Harvey of this erudite and thought provoking popular music combo playing football at King's Lynn, he played up to quite a high level and wasn't (isn't?) bad. I must say he took some stick from what must be one of the most vocal and abrasive crowds in non-league football and he took it extremely well with a smile and a wave.