Playlouder - Music is the Network

I'd like to think any coming apocalypse would be heralded by greater signs than a glut of uninspiring electro-pop, but if you're referring to any particular modern bands do let your adoring public know.

I guess you're missing Ian Curtis and Jeff Buckley. It's hard for all of us. I feel your pain.

to be fair playlouder hasnt told me about an amazing new band for quite a while that i can recall. the most recent one that springs to mind is these new puritans who ended up getting what i thought was quite an unfair review.

has anyone told you about an amazing new band?

I also thought that review missed the point. You should upload a 2nd opinion review.

BF if you liek young men in tight trousers talking gibberish over dated 80s music you should check out Trash Fashion: http://www.trashfashion.co.uk/

There are no "amazing bands" out there, Paul. It's all shit. Sign of the times I suppose. Though You'll be happy to know that I can no longer pinpoint the limey as being the source of this demise. The culprits stand as: emo kids and MySpace. The two are really one in the same. Both have rotted the enamel from the tooth of pop culture and turned it into another soul-sucking self-centered paradise for fuckwits with no fucking ambition. Trendy kids with out-of-tune guitars and slurping out songs about what's it's like to have everything in the world and yet not be happy. Music isn't about being happy - music is about scoring dope, nailing a piece of pussy and smashing exploitative empires such as MySpace for fuck's sake! What happened to that!? So tired of this sterile-sounding muck and idiotic band photographs of suburban college kid drop outs standing in some wheat field (that has not been raped by a Wal-Mart) thinking that they look oh so fucking cool with their "pimped out" MySpace profile informing me what talentless shitheads they really are. Amazing? Hardly.

Music needs to either get its shit together or fuck off and die on a remote island full of emo lepers. Just round up every douchebag with Korean-built "acoustic" guitar who puts his name on the list at coffee shops and smash his /her laptop to bits and pack them together from all parts of the world and ship them off! We better start thinking about saving what good and pure in this world before it's all too late.

We're listening to Gorgio Moroder here

E=MC2

Um, I just reviewed a little band called the B-52s. YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD OF THEM! Anyway, they're pretty "fresh" so maybe you should find my review and READ IT PROPERLY.

I think Moroder might have been a pussy nailer - LITERALLY

i loved the picture

err jamie theres about a mile inbetween trash fashion and these new puritans you smug shit

what? they're from a different end of Shoreditch High Street? (YES! self-five)

um. if you want.

also maybe youll find this website more to your liking www.drownedinsound.com

Yes. I love it. I aspire to write for it one day. Maybe you'd find this website more to your liking: http://www.allabout-penis-enlargement.com

thanks for your concern about my nether regions! not completly neccessary to what we were talking about but it is duly noted! perhaps you should note that playlouder is about objective music coverage and not vitriolic anti scene rhetoric.

also i dont think im ever going to get tired of the crying dawson

playlouder is definitely about anti-rhetorical scene vitriol

dis on the other hand is governed by a cabal of the finest musicologists in the world - oh how plangent that sounds

heh last impression i got of dis was a bunch of shut ins who thought reuben was the best thing to happen to british music in recent times

i was possibly being ironic, but definitely being ignorant

by the way, you don't look like a black fag

tell me about it!

how do you change profile pics, cant seem to do mine

aha (which is short for we had to bugger it in order to do something else but it's coming back soon)

ahhh thought i was getting daft. also didnt know new comments in chat appeared in real time until just now.....groovy

tell all your friends - we use real-time slag off protocol

haha, didnt wanna lower the tone of what is otherwise lovely music discussion but this jamie guy just came out of nowhere with a completly unreasonable comment. anyway i'll shut up now and let the rest of the chat get back on target (talking about dawson crying).

I was just trying to big up my good mates Trash Fashion.

Fine. From now on I hate all music. Except Reuben (who are great).

And them.

worringly enough i did used to be friendly with trash fashion about 2 years ago when they were birmingham based

Drowned In Sound banned for repeated use of the word "limey."

Ooh! Do you have any dirt on them? You could do a gossip column. Weren't King Adora Brummies too?

I have no idea what that means.

Best Brum bands: Baxter, Black Sabbath, erm... Senseless Prayer?

king adora used to hang around in a club called XL's that got shut down because it was basically an underage sex/drug den. not really much on trash fashion other than that it just used to be the two brothers doing it before they got signed and they were pretty nice guys!

the music scene is terrible in birmingham. its full of awkwardly anti cool retards who think sounding like they might be giants is cutting edge. see johnny foreigner for a recent example.

looks like I missed a trick on the Brum scene with Kind Adora then

Gogol Bordello

I saw gogol bordello and the guy put his microphone in a bucket of red wine. I didn’t know what to make of it.

Someone told me XL's got burned down. I used to work tjhere.

LOL reuben.

d Penis enlargemnt.

Trash Fashion.

are you just repeating the topics of conversation?

The straightforward answer is that record companies stopped recruiting A&R men from the ranks of studio engineers and gave the whole gig over to marketing instead. However, I have one or two additional theories of my own...

1. MySpace: where any suck-ass moron with an acousitc guitar and persoanl photographer spammed every other douchebag on that horrible site with the illusion that they had talent becuse they had a keyboard over a..keyboard.

2. Lack of quality drugs

3. degenerate artform.

That one goes back to MySpace. "Oh look at us! We're in a band! Not only that, we're ina band that hired a photographer to take our photo of us standing in a field with that whole god damn'we suffer for our art' expression on our talentless faces." Fuck and off.

Kristy: 1. You've identified a symptom, rather than the cause, albeit a pretty fucking major symptom of what's gone wrong with rock 'n' roll this century.

2. The proliferation of cocaine in the English-speaking world has a lot to answer for; that it's the current chav drug of choice speaks for itself, in my opinion.

I'd love to stop and chat further, but there's the serious business of sleep to get on with...suffice to say, I'll unveil my theory (which involves cocaine, multinationals and the fact that politicians represent no one nowadays) at a more sociable hour.