British music def the best !
Mar 15th 2006, 1:43 pm
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British music def the best !
Saw James Blunt last night at webster hall last night, what a great singer and british !!!!!! Shame he is a bit of a posh pratt, but great singer better than some of the crap you hear over here. 
Mar 15th 2006, 1:54 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Originally Posted by elaineKB
Saw James Blunt last night at webster hall last night, what a great singer and british !!!!!! Shame he is a bit of a posh pratt, but great singer better than some of the crap you hear over here.
Mar 15th 2006, 1:55 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
It was a thread title that promised so much - shame
Mar 15th 2006, 3:57 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Or as I like to call him, James Funt.
Mar 15th 2006, 5:05 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
It was a thread title that promised so much - shame
Mar 15th 2006, 5:15 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Originally Posted by Celsius
So what are you listening to?
On my phone I have 400 mp3's including stuff from from The Jam, Public Enemy, NWA, William Orbit, Beth Orton, The Neptunes, Moby, David Holmes, St Etienne, Kosheen, A-Ha, Blur, The Clash, KLF, New Order, Muse, Madness, The Prodigy, blah, blah, blah. So quite a diverse mix there.
As for Mr Blunt - Back to Bedlam has 1 good song on it - his current UK single - the rest is bland pish imo.
Nothing Damien Rice or David Grey (to name but 2) haven't done before and better.
The second an artist gets introduced along the lines of "Former British Soldier James Blunt" alarm bells should start ringing that his material isn't strong enough to stand up for itself.
Mar 15th 2006, 5:55 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Originally Posted by Celsius
So what are you listening to?
Mar 15th 2006, 5:57 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Originally Posted by LeedsGirl
Radio 1 right now, Chris Moyles and Hard-Fi and Dandy Warhols in the car.
Only listening to their stuff on radio 1 though - cd collection in need of updating
Mar 15th 2006, 5:59 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
Hard-Fi = good
Only listening to their stuff on radio 1 though - cd collection in need of updating
Only listening to their stuff on radio 1 though - cd collection in need of updating
Mar 15th 2006, 6:36 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
... Public Enemy, NWA, ...St Etienne,
Mar 15th 2006, 7:08 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Originally Posted by Bob
some old classics, not heard much of any of that stuff in a while....must go digging
Unfortunately those days are gone now so I have 20gb's of tunes to do me for the foreseeable future.
I strongly recommend that you get your hands on "She's on the Phone" by St Etienne, stick it in your car and turn the bass and volume up full blast - utterly superb.
Mar 15th 2006, 7:14 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
I spend most of the day listening to Radio 1.
On my phone I have 400 mp3's including stuff from from The Jam, Public Enemy, NWA, William Orbit, Beth Orton, The Neptunes, Moby, David Holmes, St Etienne, Kosheen, A-Ha, Blur, The Clash, KLF, New Order, Muse, Madness, The Prodigy, blah, blah, blah. So quite a diverse mix there.
As for Mr Blunt - Back to Bedlam has 1 good song on it - his current UK single - the rest is bland pish imo.
Nothing Damien Rice or David Grey (to name but 2) haven't done before and better.
The second an artist gets introduced along the lines of "Former British Soldier James Blunt" alarm bells should start ringing that his material isn't strong enough to stand up for itself.
On my phone I have 400 mp3's including stuff from from The Jam, Public Enemy, NWA, William Orbit, Beth Orton, The Neptunes, Moby, David Holmes, St Etienne, Kosheen, A-Ha, Blur, The Clash, KLF, New Order, Muse, Madness, The Prodigy, blah, blah, blah. So quite a diverse mix there.
As for Mr Blunt - Back to Bedlam has 1 good song on it - his current UK single - the rest is bland pish imo.
Nothing Damien Rice or David Grey (to name but 2) haven't done before and better.
The second an artist gets introduced along the lines of "Former British Soldier James Blunt" alarm bells should start ringing that his material isn't strong enough to stand up for itself.
Mar 15th 2006, 7:23 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Big ups to that!
SXSW starts tonight.... eat yer heart out at www.sxsw.com and see who's playing.
I'll deffo be at Belle and Sebastian at 1 am.
and in work tomorrow!
SXSW starts tonight.... eat yer heart out at www.sxsw.com and see who's playing.
I'll deffo be at Belle and Sebastian at 1 am.
and in work tomorrow!
Mar 15th 2006, 8:45 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
Ahh, they joys of kazza and the bloke knocking out 40 albums for a fiver on ebay.
Unfortunately those days are gone now so I have 20gb's of tunes to do me for the foreseeable future.
I strongly recommend that you get your hands on "She's on the Phone" by St Etienne, stick it in your car and turn the bass and volume up full blast - utterly superb.
Unfortunately those days are gone now so I have 20gb's of tunes to do me for the foreseeable future.
I strongly recommend that you get your hands on "She's on the Phone" by St Etienne, stick it in your car and turn the bass and volume up full blast - utterly superb.
Now I can't stop downloading stuff from iTunes, I think I'm addicted.
I see one song I want, then another, then another; and it's so easy, and only 99c a song.
Mar 15th 2006, 8:48 pm
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Re: British music def the best !
Originally Posted by Celsius
Your musical tastes are eerily similar to mine...
mine too...went to see Madness in San Diego about six months ago - it was unbelievable. San Diego gets some really good acts in small venues. I've managed to see Tricky, Blur, Manic Street Preachers, Charlatans, Paul Weller and a few others in tiny clubs. Not many good shows on at the moment though.
