Busted?

Quite obviously the nadir of popular music as we know it. And, it's worth pointing out again, THEY'RE THE FUCKING DUM DUMS.

Every now and again a song comes along that defines, either politically or socially, the zeitgiest of a specific time and place in history. One thinks of "Anarchy in the UK" (another punk song), "Fuck tha Police" or the defining record of the flower power generation, "Russians" by Sting.

"Year 3000" is such a record. In these troubled times of treaty withdrawls, sabre rattling and Pete Townshend, no one single piece of audio says all that needs to be said, and says it well.

"I've been to the year three thousand
Not much has changed but they lived under water"

Think about that. Think long and hard about the world and think too of those sweet words of truth. In these days of meaningless, meaningless pap being passed off as pop lyrics, think of "That's What I Go To School For". Think about how pro-active that statement is. These plucky geniuses care not for gunz, hos, and "Solid Crews", these boys are visionaries, like Martin Luther King or Ronald Reagan. They stand atop their chosen platform and deliver truth after life changing truth. Can this be said of modern bands such as Blur or the Kinks?

In short, Busted stand alone as the pinnacle of what music has been and could ever be. They can express more with 3 chords and a distortion pedal than the entire works of Mozart and Bach ever did. And they were pretty OK. They eschew the bland conformity of having a drummer and head out into uncharted territories of aural excellence without fear or favour. No drummer. Incredible stuff. Headset mics. Unbelievable.

I urge anyone alive or dead to burn your Sade cassettes, your Demonic House and your "Noise Metal" and convert to the church of Busted. Am I being literal? YES! They are Gods that walk the earth, men amongst men, the absolute and perfect conclusion of all that is true and good in the world. Including cartoons.

VIVA BUSTED! VIVA THE NEW FLESH! ALL HAIL BUSTED! ALL HAIL OUR NEW POWERCHORD MASTERS! BOW DOWN BEFORE BUSTED YET YE PERISH IN THE FIREY VAULTS! CONVERT, SINNER! CONVERT!

"that's what i go to school for" (was that them?) was horrible, tho

flower power? the mighty Sting? 1985?

Plus the good looking one looks like a young Dermot Morgan which brings back fond memories of Father Ted.

I don't mind the others but the dopey, lanky streak of piss is dating Hiedi Sugababe. That's enough for me to hate them.

"we went to the year three thousand / everyone bought our seventh album"

Now, I think The Stone Roses, Massive Attack, Elestica and Mark Hollis have got pretty respectable levels of insouciance when it comes to BIIIIIIG gaps between albums, but

*red flashing lights/sound of klaxons followed by 20 tons of quickset concrete*

hmmmmmmm

Hey, it worked for the Beastie Boys. (viz their "appearance" on Futurama)

It just shows the depths of sexism on this board that people are willing to take the Sugababes seriously - on this very thread - for being punk bubblegum, yet Busted are reviled for being bubblegum punk.

We were talking about Busted in the pub and decided that pop fans who hate Busted need to be thrown out of the Poppist International.

But I repeat - has anyone heard the album??

(*Prepares Poppist International expulsion form*)

-- DavidM (i...), January 19th, 2003. (DavidM)

Mind you, that's probably due to jealousy, but still.

What will they do?

It sounds like it's being sung by a ProTools program (especially on the chorus, obv.)

It's like saying when you hear Duane Eddy's guitar "Oh thats all 2" tape". If anything causes that effect its Antares Autotune.

Jesus Christ it's like talking to art critics who don't know what a brush is.

2: she ain't plump at all, she's lovely

and Busted v Darkness = pop v pomp - pop wins every time, especially when the pomp is done so awfully (I hate Queen too)

I am 33. Trust me, it's middle aged.

*not really i guess

;-)

Yes, "ProTools" does not equal processing, but ProTools ENABLES processing and cutting and pasting and other digital manipulation on a scale that no other format before it ever did... it's like saying PHOTOSHOP DOES NOT EQUAL PICTURE-FIDDLING!!! but when you a giant cat shooting laser beams at Gareth's head floating over LA, do you say "wow, digital picture manipulation" or do you say DUDE! PHOTOSHOP!!!

No, you wouldn't say "Dude, it's all two inch tape" any more than you'd look at a photograph and say "dude, it's just a Nikon single lense reflex" but when you see the musical equivalent of photoshopping - i.e. beatmatching and step delay and autotune and cutting and pasting of licks and sequencing etc. etc. etc. it is PERFECTLY JUSTIFIED to say "dude, it's all ProTooled".

He's turned into Little Jay Ferguson from Sloan! Parka and everything! No wonder he hath won my heart!

http://www.busted.com/images/news_uploads/4159D63C5633.jpg

I blame stress and hangover and, erm, the menopause.

Apparently.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid109/p6fa1bb02b64fcdfef5d4a84f4542cf06/f92db136.jpg

Was just exposed to this tonight. Um......

3 Busted What I Go To School For Sep 2002
2 Busted Year 3000 Jan 2003
1 Busted You Said No May 2003

and the album is great!

ryaner95 (2 weeks ago) +2 Reply | Spam
i used to fuckin like busted and then i just started to listen to this stuff because of my brother who always played rave music my fav techno song is this and pretty green eyes

no band this decade can beat this run of singles.

3 Busted What I Go To School For Sep 2002
2 Busted Year 3000 Jan 2003
1 Busted You Said No May 2003

and the album is great!

― acrobat (elwisty), Thursday, February 1, 2007 5:03 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol what happened to this mad bastard?

my kids loved Year 3000, but it kind of wears off after they hit 10 yrs old

hoo boy do i love the new busted album

they made the most obvious and stupid 1975 record they possibly could / they made a good 2016 maroon 5 album

like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YQ_UY11uMw

The new album sounds very Australian to me and I'm not even sure what I mean by that.

i am soooo in love with "without it"

it feels like... johnny hates jazz?