Arctic Monkeys album.

It is very good. I don't agree with Windy, it fuses a combination influences that I've not heard before - from Buzzcocks to Pulp to Formby to John Coooper Clarke.

The band have lots of potential. They have a good drummer, which keeps the tension there in a lot of the songs. They have a good singer, and they work hard on their lyrics (don't tell me you've ever heard anyone rhyme "scary 'un" with "totalitarian" before).

They work together as a giant rhythm machine and I don't think there is a weak link, really - they don't rely on voice, or any one member's song-writing potential. I hope they go far.

 

I don't remember much hip-hop in the 70s

Or the various genres of dance music that have evolved since the revolution in the late 80s. No, I don't really like that stuff either, but its obviously out there and it's obviously new, even if I'm too much of an old fart to appreciate it. I can't say I'm fond of The Streets, but it doesn't sound like anything that was produced in the 70s. I may not like how music has evolved, but it has.

 

Thanks for the essay. I'll call for you next time I go out.

Let me just try something - Adolf Hitler was a right basturd.

 

All new music these days is bob

 

RE: I don't remember much hip-hop in the 70s

Basically every band out today is copying someone else, but they're doing it wrong.

 

I give up.

No, really.

 

Did it work?

 

and montegue's and capulets, with banging tunes and dj sets

 

Formby???

when im cleanin windows!

 

I heard a track off the album on Radio Two.
I liked it and I think they are good if the track was typical of them.

But they are not the greatest band ever.
And I dont believe the hype.

I watch plenty of bands like them at the Cockpit and the Leadmill, only they dont all get to breaks.
They reminded me of The Hives.

They are certainly not in the top 100 ever bands.

 

RE: I don't remember much hip-hop in the 70s

was talking about rock music not hip-hop.