Teenage Dirtbag Vs Faithless-Fight.

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Rollo Tommasi.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Not caring about titles is irredeemably rockist.

― Tom, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

will, can i have my wheatus record back now. you've had that nearly as long as DG has had my Strokes cd, and Pinefox my Beanie Sigel

― gareth, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

blimey a lecture pertaining to deep emotional analysis from a RYAN ADAMS fan!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡

some smart fellachick can link to original my wheatus-weepage incident, and the actual whys and wheres: i do remembah that ben th*mpson told me i was weeoing for Impossibility of Art which given the pronouncements on this thread ain't surely none too soon — tho come to think of it twas he also told me the Rollos were but one!

― mark s, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

THIS ISNT ABOUT RYAN ADAMS. LEAVE ME AND RYAN OUT OF THIS YOU TRAMP.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ryan doesn't love you anymore Ronan. he loves me now. we're going to make drill'n'basscountry together

― gareth, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Gareth! SHHHH!
I haven't yet finished with your Travis or Stereophonics...

― Will, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Gareth you bitch, you can have Johnny Cash.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Would that be the collaboration with the Aphex Twin, Gareth?

― RickyT, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i luv me dancin' type music, buy i never understood the idolisation of faithless. are they grate? why?

I'm a hopeless case anyway cos i think Teenage Dirtbag is fantastic. bought the album too, ner. mr wheatus bloke does a good job of doing quite old fashioned guitar pop with a veneer of modern geek-rock to get ver kids on board. it's like when you listen to the police and can hear a trad reggae sound (which is what they wanted to do) with a veneer of post-punk (which is what the kids wanted). A

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Faithless are merely dull, whereas Wheatus are appalling.

― stevo, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I put faithless in the same boat as the beautiful south. Put on my diving gear, swim underneath and drill a hole in the bottom. *evil laughter*

― james, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Teenage Dirtbag: is dud because of triteness of teengeek revenge/triumph fantasy cliches (see fame thread) and big metal bluster whining; is classic because of combination of heartfeltness of said cliches (like MArk S said) and camp-bombast rendition of same via excellent tune. I hated it, my friend D casually loved it, I heard it again through his ears (metaphorically, natch) and now I can't not like it.

― Ellie, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I kind of blame Faithless for the scourge on humanity that is Dido, so I will vote for Teenage Dirtbag to please my pokemon master.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I always thought it was Roland from Grange Hill!

― james, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dido >> themetune to Roswell High >> Teenage Dirtbag in Space

― mark s, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

This whole question is the equivalent of a grinning torture master saying "Do you want the slow death by roasting or the slow death by intestinal extraction?"

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Wheatus are appaling, but Teenage Dirtbag obv gifted to them by a higher being.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Both of them have one genuis song; it's really a question of "Insomnia" versus "Teenage Dirtbag". I refuse to choose.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dan is correct. Someone needs to put together a Faithless vs Wheatus remix of "Insomnia" and "Teenage Dirtbag", I would listen to that shit all day long, it'd be even better than the Strokes vs Christina thing.

― Ian, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

that's because the strokes vs Christina thing is not that good. I vote for wheatus by the way, mainly due to that Maxi Jazz chancer and his interviews about his spirituality and inner meaning. meh.

― chris, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

those hybrid things are shit. the beach boys/michael jackson one they played at Trash was awful. the DJ Pied Piper 'do you really like it' vs Axel F is far far worse though

― gareth, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

wait til you hear me mix the queen is dead into the private psychedelic reel. (in my dreams that is)

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bah, Teenage goo goo muck jumps into the ring with a chair. Thats not to be allowed.

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

five years pass...

"Teenage Dirtbag" - that's a shitty song

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

no no way

― Stevie D, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm on my own now

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Faithless rave anthems from their first two albums are fab, especially "God is a DJ". I've never heard a better tune about clubbing as a religious experience. But their trip-hop tunes are pretty boring, even though Maxi Jazz has a nice voice and some okay lyrics. That said, Rollo's solo trip-hop record (When We Were Young) is better than any Faithless album.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 11:01 (sixteen years ago) link

I've never heard a better tune about clubbing as a religious experience

then you've never heard ax-009

― Filey Camp, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 11:04 (sixteen years ago) link

i still like that Faithless track off The Beach soundtrack

― blueski, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 11:08 (sixteen years ago) link

I still like "Insomnia".

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

I'm reviving this partially because I'm listening to "Insomnia" but mostly for the mention of DJPC upthread

― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Monday, 26 January 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link

five years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JA36857TBs no contest

― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link

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