― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Lex - your pop-kid act is as boring as it is predictable. You flounce into every guitar-band thread and say 'why does anyone like this, it's crap, buy J-Lo instead, guitars are nasty NYYAAAHH'. Jesus! Why do you bother?
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link
But all that's irrelevant because yeah, Nick, it's totally fucking awesome that you've made some kind of faint mark on a band you love, and it's a testament to your writing but also to your passion. And I think that anyone who smears either of those things (regardless of what they think about the band) is daft, foolish and mean - in short, not someone I would want to have a conversation with.
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post - thanks, Sean.
Here's a couple of tracks off the new album for anyone who's interested.
http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3E81P3DA5IJJR1K684SY3K2S4Hhttp://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2CD57X6N6R7ML0BM3FG4T3MB14
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― wootoo, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― gek-opl, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyways I read your review Nick, nice on BTW, and now am looking forward to hearing this record. They are signed over here in the States and will be coming out one day.
― BeeOK (boo radley), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link
An unnamed source close to the squad told the Sun that England's bling-bling stars were "gutted" that clean-cut, middle-of-the-road indie band Embrace were chosen to pen their World Cup anthem, as they wanted a bad ass rapper instead.
Rather than drawing up a tactical masterplan to bring the trophy back to England for the first time since 1966, the players have apparently been spending a great deal of time in recent months deciding on the more pressing issue of who should record their tune.
And according to the insider, the consensus was for US hip hop impresario and part-time political commentator Kanye West, famed for his love of girls, god and glamour.
Imagine their dismay, then, when music consultant Chris Nathanial, who had been drafted in to choose the artist, chose to overlook Chicago b-boy Kanye and instead plumped for the somewhat more down-to-earth Huddersfield quartet.
"A leading music consultant was paid good money to make sure an artist was chosen who the players would respect and be willing to work with," the source told the newspaper.
"Kanye West got a resounding thumbs-up and moves were made to get him on board.
"The players were gutted when they found out the FA wanted to stay British and Kanye had been snubbed."
England stars Wayne Rooney, Ashley Cole, Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney are all self-confessed hip-hop aficionados, while England skipper David 'Straight outta Leyton' Beckham named his two dogs after his favourite rappers Snoop and Puffy.
Ferdinand and Rooney are also currently working on a MC battle-based TV show, Hip Hop Idol.
Still, while the squad may be less-than-enamoured with Embrace, it could have been much worse.
Apparently, Rooney had been attempting to plug a rap joint recorded by the Manchester United star's cousin, James, entitled Dreams as the perfect rousing World Cup anthem, which fiancee Colleen McLoughlin thought was "brilliant". We're sure it was a masterpiece, Colleen.
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/news-channels/entertainment-channel/england-stars-gutted-over-world-cup-song-$361875.htm
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
V annoyingly patronising tone from the reporter.
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Gosh I used to get angry.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 20 January 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
Pretty surprised you called them your favourite band at one point.
Lex has not changed one bit has he?
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 20 January 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
As much as I (or anyone) has or had a favourite band, then yeah, it probably was them. In that I cared about and followed and was affected by their music more than anyone else. But then my relationship with them and their music has always been atypical, so there's no other artist who even comes close to being comparable.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 20 January 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
Fair enough. I've never been a fan of them myself but I can see why having that relationship would make you feel like you did and express it the way you did on this thread. I Think when this thread started Mansun were probably still my favourite band (probably the last year after a good seven years of them being there) I still like those first two albums a lot but I can think of at least fifty bands I like more right now. Kind of glad I wasn't on a forum like this defending them back then, I'd probably regret a lot of what I said.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 20 January 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
My housemate at uni loved Mansun.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 20 January 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
Can I ask, without wishing to seem rude, how old you were in 2004?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 20 January 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
24/25. I was in relationship hell for the first six months or so of that year, which isn't an excuse but is context.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 20 January 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link