Later with Joolz last night

[Daz39]

8 minutes ago, The59Sound said:

Alter Bridge are decent and they're Creed with a new singer. 

I find Alter Bridge really underwhelming. It’s like Audioslave; the ingredients are great but meh (3 or 4 songs excepted)

[KevB]

On 21/10/2017 at 09:53, dmccombe7 said:

I'll occasionally look to see who's on and if anyone interesting i'll record it so i can jump oast all the other crap.
The show is usually a waste of TV space. Jools has lost the plot with some of the material he puts on the show.

There are far more well known and popular genres of music out there that don't get TV time.
Why not put on some modern rock or Prog bands for a change. Doesn't need to be every band just an occasional one.

Being saying it for years. That programme is absolutely perfect for a band like Big Big Train who, because of the way they work and size of the project is not very amenable to being able to tour or do a lot of live work (though its obvious from the times they do a gig they are quite capable of cutting it live). Think a lot of people would fine them interesting, not just prog heads.

[dmccombe7]

I just find he's picking the same old, same old. Its like watching BBC re-runs. Its very occasionally i see a band that i particulary like but maybe its down to my taste in music which ranges from Rock, Prog, Funk, Jazz-rock, Blues and even Country music and all that stuff that isn't X-Factor material. You know that unpopular music that everyone buys more off than the modern stuff. 

Dave 

[stingrayPete1977]

3 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

I quite liked Nickelback. I thought they were an ok band. Not sure what the prob is and why they aren't liked ?

Have you had a little morning drinky?! 

[Barking Spiders]

1 hour ago, Daz39 said:

I find Alter Bridge really underwhelming. It’s like Audioslave; the ingredients are great but meh (3 or 4 songs excepted)

The mrs likes them but I hear nowt special at all. Pretty run of the mill American hard rock. Ditto Audioslave and I like RATM and Soundgarden

Viz Later is there anyone who isn't bored of with a format which hasn't changed in 54 series; the mix of a couple of shoite indie bands that soon fade back into obscurity after their 3 1/2 minutes, a septegenarian blues/soul/jazz artist, a band with a trumpet player from some token African country, a couple of earnest singer-songwriter types and some old rock act whose best days are behind them. Once in a blue moon they throw curveball by featuring a metal or dance act.

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, stingrayPete1977 said:

Have you had a little morning drinky?! 

Even tho i had a good laugh at that i still don't understand why. I'm not a fan but i did buy one of their albums and found it OK......not great but its ok catchy lyrics kinda thing.

Dave

[AndyTravis]

6 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Even tho i had a good laugh at that i still don't understand why. I'm not a fan but i did buy one of their albums and found it OK......not great but its ok catchy lyrics kinda thing.

Dave

erm...

[dmccombe7]

You guys are just takin the P outa me now. I looked at the graph Andy and as much as i laughed at the VID clip i still think they are ok. Maybe a bit baw-heided but songs are OK. I quite like that old American soft rock tho. 

Doesn't make me a bad person.......just suspect 

Dave

[stingrayPete1977]

It's just a bit of fun really and they appear to be unfazed by it. 

I've only heard the stuff on the radio, they're better than Coldplay. 

[dmccombe7]

I bought a Coldplay album too ................but have to admit its not what i expected and its never been played since 

[Daz39]

13 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

I bought a Coldplay album too ................but have to admit its not what i expected and its never been played since 

The first album is not bad, after that it’s just samey bland.

[Count Bassy]

9 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

 I am still at a loss why Nickelback have been singled out .

Because they're successful?

[Frank Blank]

I must admit I have a totally unfounded and, in analysis, irrational reaction to Nickleback despite never having heard a track nor seen a performance. I think I can trace my prejudice down to having heard them described as ‘Mum Rock’ and indeed knowing two Mums who like them. However, my mum (*spits, dances on grave* capitalisation withheld) liked Frank Sinatra, David Bowie and preferred The Rolling Stones to The Beatles yet I don’t refer to any of those as Mum *insert genre here*. I have heard a couple of Coldplay tracks which left me unmoved in any way, I cannot understand their popularity (but don’t begrudge them it) any more than I cannot understand the vociferous reaction to them, alright they don silly garb and consciously uncouple from partners but they do seem to illicit a reaction far more hostile than their banality deserves.

[mikel]

12 hours ago, Count Bassy said:

Because they're successful?

That is fairly often the only reason why some acts are disliked.

As for "Mum rock" perhaps mum's are just like other people and have broad tastes in music. My mum, bless her, would have been 94 this year. Her favorite band was Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac, she was also partial to the Beatles, the Small Faces and Miles Davis.  My dear departed parents saw my brothers band play 100s of times so they were well into live rock music.

[dmccombe7]

At this stage in the proceedings i must point out that altho i quite like Nickelback........I'M NOT A MUM.  

Dave

[BreadBin]

My mum saw Jimi Hendrix live and went to the IOW Festival, she doesn't like Nickleback.

Chad Kreuger is apparently a really decent fella. 

[Marvin]

Creed, Nickleback and what seems like an almost endless list of similar bands took grunge and commercialised everything about it. The resultant 'post-grunge' thing is generic, homogenous, derivative etc, etc, etc. It's actually difficult to distinguish one band from another. It's essentially pop music, and not particularly good pop music at that. Dull, comes to mind.

'Later' is probably representative of music at the moment, in that you very occasionally stumble across a half decent band or artist, but in the main there's nothing much of interest.

[dmccombe7]

So.......no strong feelings about them then 

[EBS_freak]

20 hours ago, stingrayPete1977 said:

I've only heard the stuff on the radio, they're better than Coldplay. 

Am I the only person that really rates Coldplay's first album? I think it all went south when they started doing the big production stadium stuff. So basically everything after the first album.

(un)Funny story, I actually saw them on a (NME?) newcomer gig and thought at the time that this weedy, nervous chap could do something in the industry if he sorted himself out. I thought the tunes were pretty robust and commercial friendly despite never having heard them before... I never realised until about a year or two later that that guy kinda blossomed and the band is kinda doing alright for itself.

I say "went south" but they seem to be doing a better job of selling out countless stadium tours than I am. They've probably had a higher class of drugs and fast women too.

[AndyTravis]

5 hours ago, BreadBin said:

My mum saw Jimi Hendrix live and went to the IOW Festival, she doesn't like Nickleback.

Chad Kreuger is apparently a really decent fella. 

My mum likes The Carpenters, Joan Armatrading and Helen Reddy...she’s not into nickelback.

She has seen Neil Diamond live twice though. He’s pretty Metal.

[AndyTravis]

1 minute ago, EBS_freak said:

Am I the only person that really rates Coldplay's first album? I think it all went south when they started doing the big production stadium stuff. So basically everything after the first album.

(un)Funny story, I actually saw them on a (NME?) newcomer gig and thought at the time that this weedy, nervous chap could do something in the industry if he sorted himself out. I thought the tunes were pretty robust and commercial friendly despite never having heard them before... I never realised until about a year or two later that that guy kinda blossomed and the band is kinda doing alright for itself.

I say "went south" but they seem to be doing a better job of selling out countless stadium tours than I am. They've probably had a higher class of drugs and fast women too.

Yeah I like the first 2 albums a lot. Played on the night of the launch of Parachutes at the Night and Day in Manchester...never met any of them or anything, went off and did an acoustic set at the Thirsty Scholar on the same night and got paid in beer.

[EBS_freak]

1 minute ago, AndyTravis said:

Yeah I like the first 2 albums a lot. Played on the night of the launch of Parachutes at the Night and Day in Manchester...never met any of them or anything, went off and did an acoustic set at the Thirsty Scholar on the same night and got paid in beer.

Ah good. You can join my unpopular gang... although I will only admit to liking half or so of the songs on the second album. Always thought their videos were quite good also...

[AndyTravis]

2 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:

Ah good. You can join my unpopular gang... although I will only admit to liking half or so of the songs on the second album. Always thought their videos were quite good also...

I also thought some of there more recent stuff was ok too - in fact, bollox, I think they’re alright generally.

it was when Chris Martin started writing crypto-nonsense on his hand and he got a bit of the Bob Geldofs about him...and dancing like a granny on acid. 

Thats when it became the time to hate them.

Edited October 25, 2018 by AndyTravis

[EBS_freak]

7 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

it was when Chris Martin started writing crypto-nonsense on his hand and he got a bit of the Bob Geldofs about him...and dancing like a granny on acid. 

Thats when it became the time to hate them.

Agreed. What a bellend.

 

Edited October 25, 2018 by EBS_freak

[Daz39]

16 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Yeah I like the first 2 albums a lot. Played on the night of the launch of Parachutes at the Night and Day in Manchester...never met any of them or anything, went off and did an acoustic set at the Thirsty Scholar on the same night and got paid in beer.

I like Parachutes; except the popular songs (hah!). Some of the second album is ok too. After that it's just too mainstream and lighters in the air rubbish.