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Post by "BING E BONG" on Aug 22, 2024 10:16:07 GMT
Madness had some excellent pop songs. Sonic Youth are a bunch of chancers Blimey! |
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Post by adamcoan on Aug 22, 2024 10:27:00 GMT
This place and its taste is going downhill rapidly.
Ken Bruce would win music presenter of the year here. Tsk.
Anyway Sonic youth v the Eagles.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 22, 2024 10:30:22 GMT
Madness had a musicality. There are often some beautiful chord and key changes in there.
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Post by rayge on Aug 22, 2024 11:58:05 GMT
This place and its taste is going downhill rapidly. Ken Bruce would win music presenter of the year here. Tsk. Anyway Sonic youth v the Eagles. Al the posts before this page are five years old. Maybe the communal taste started at the bottom of the hill.
I like both bands a good deal, but voted for SY back in the day.
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Post by adamcoan on Aug 22, 2024 12:12:34 GMT
Maybe.
Sonic youth are one of those bands that can genuinely thrill and surprise you. If they didn't exist, you would wish that they did.
Sonic youth v Randy Newman, anyone ?
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Post by shakesomeaction on Aug 23, 2024 10:30:33 GMT
I like good singles, and Madness were one of the great singles bands of all time.
Sonic Youth are too busy with moody photo shoots and playing at being arty to actually produce anything listenable. Beloved of the kind of people who are more interested in the album covers and the band's coolness rating than the actual music.
I've never actually listened to them but I'm sure I'm right.
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Post by tory on Aug 23, 2024 10:37:58 GMT
You are. They don't play Sonic Youth at Weddings do they?
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Post by fange on Aug 23, 2024 12:18:05 GMT
They don't play Sonic Youth at Weddings do they? I don't think this is really the "Stamp of Quality" that you seem to be implying it is. Madness was a great singles band, for sure, but SY have made a lot more music that means a lot more to me. Plus, 'Dirty Boots'. |
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Post by fange on Aug 23, 2024 12:19:26 GMT
Sonic youth v Randy Newman, anyone ? Don't give Davey any more ideas. |
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Post by riggers on Aug 23, 2024 14:46:20 GMT
On paper, it's SY, but 9 out of 10 times these days, I'd rather listen to Madness.
A fantastic run of singles. There's obviously a nostalgia element, but the artistry is there. They're in that classic lineage that goes from the Kinks through to Blur and The Libertines.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 23, 2024 15:34:39 GMT
They don't play Sonic Youth at Weddings do they? I don't think this is really the "Stamp of Quality" that you seem to be implying it is. Madness was a great singles band, for sure, but SY have made a lot more music that means a lot more to me. Plus, 'Dirty Boots'. 1. Madness could stretch over an album too. 2. The ability to make great singles is often underrated. 3. Buy some shoe polish.  |
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Post by DayoRemix on Aug 23, 2024 15:40:11 GMT
SY are one of the greatest bands of all time. Loved them well before seeing any "Moody Photos". Their amazing run of quality albums is tough to match. Madness? Few decent singles here and there, I guess. Could go a lifetime without hearing "Our House" again and be comfortable, though.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Nov 2, 2024 11:16:03 GMT
Madness have a lot in common with The Small Faces. With both the laddish good time zaniness can hide sophisticated musicianship and a reflective melancholia. Ultimately the struggle to keep both elements balanced destroyed both bands.
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Post by davey on Nov 2, 2024 23:07:45 GMT
Sonic youth v Randy Newman, anyone ? Don't give Davey any more ideas. Not fair to Sonic Youth. Obviously they aren’t in Randy’s league. |
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