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Post by DayoRemix on Aug 16, 2023 19:43:18 GMT
The Killers went 18x Platinum in the UK, over four albums..What the hell??
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2023 19:58:26 GMT
Scary isn't it
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Aug 16, 2023 19:59:18 GMT
Never got that band at all.
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Post by rayge on Aug 16, 2023 20:00:37 GMT
Never heard them.
It's Grand to be Old
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2023 20:03:16 GMT
Biggest band on the planet for 5 minutes.
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Post by Charlie O. on Aug 16, 2023 22:53:46 GMT
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Post by DayoRemix on Aug 16, 2023 23:36:48 GMT
Never heard them. It's Grand to be Old They snuck in the backdoor in the wake of The Strokes and Interpol and for some reason, Brits became enchanted with them.. |
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 16, 2023 23:39:08 GMT
It's just one song though isn't it? And even that was a rip off of Queen Bitch.
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Post by DayoRemix on Aug 17, 2023 1:15:52 GMT
It's just one song though isn't it? And even that was a rip off of Queen Bitch. In the US, it was just a few singles and the first album, but the UK bought the hell out of albums 2-4 and all their singles through 2008 charted/sold well.. |
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Post by loveless on Aug 17, 2023 1:34:18 GMT
It brings me zero pleasure to say it, but...they are still playing the arenas in all US major markets (same venues as, say, McCartney or Madonna). When I was DJing, I seem to remember at least one of their songs being a frequent request. The fact that I accidentally accredited a Franz Ferdinand song to them doesn't speak well for either act.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 18, 2023 20:37:28 GMT
I was quite pleased to catch in the listings a Sky Arts hour long piece on Ian MacCulloch, given they were a major band for me back in the day.
As it turned out I could barely understand him and he just seemed to be rambling on in a way I couldn't make much sense of. Goodness knows how many takes they had to do to piece together a semi-coherent interview. I lasted 20 minutes.
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Post by fonz on Aug 19, 2023 8:18:20 GMT
I was quite pleased to catch in the listings a Sky Arts hour long piece on Ian MacCulloch, given they were a major band for me back in the day. As it turned out I could barely understand him and he just seemed to be rambling on in a way I couldn't make much sense of. Goodness knows how many takes they had to do to piece together a semi-coherent interview. I lasted 20 minutes. I’ve had similar experiences with interviews with Jaz Coleman. He seemed more heroic, to me, before there was so much out there on the net-you tube etc Now he comes across as deluded, whereas before he seemed dangerous and menacing. “Don’t meet your heroes “. These days we don’t need to meet them for the scales to fall from our eyes. |
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Post by DarknessFish on Aug 19, 2023 8:55:54 GMT
I was quite pleased to catch in the listings a Sky Arts hour long piece on Ian MacCulloch, given they were a major band for me back in the day. As it turned out I could barely understand him and he just seemed to be rambling on in a way I couldn't make much sense of. Goodness knows how many takes they had to do to piece together a semi-coherent interview. I lasted 20 minutes. I’ve had similar experiences with interviews with Jaz Coleman. He seemed more heroic, to me, before there was so much out there on the net-you tube etc Now he comes across as deluded, whereas before he seemed dangerous and menacing. “Don’t meet your heroes “. These days we don’t need to meet them for the scales to fall from our eyes. Have you seen the documentary on Killing Joke? Really rambling, juvenile shit from most of the band, loads of bollocks about the occult. Youth is the only one who seems vaguely normal, and he's clearly stoned out of his tree throughout. |
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Post by fonz on Aug 19, 2023 11:01:51 GMT
Yeah. Disappointing really. I wanted to see more of the creative process, rather than the self-mythologising bollocks.
They were a great band- my absolute favourite for a couple of years in my late teens, and I’m still very fond, but…
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 19, 2023 13:38:51 GMT
Yeah. Disappointing really. I wanted to see more of the creative process, rather than the self-mythologising bollocks. They were a great band- my absolute favourite for a couple of years in my late teens, and I’m still very fond, but… You say that, but if you're the reincarnation of a Norse God it's worth mentioning!  |
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