― dave q, Thursday, 7 August 2003 10:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 7 August 2003 10:06 (twenty years ago) link
hee hee!
― person#0 (person#0), Thursday, 7 August 2003 10:10 (twenty years ago) link
Unfortunately they keep dragging the rest of us with them!
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 August 2003 10:11 (twenty years ago) link
Those who know too much history are also doomed to repeat it at the rest of us.
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 7 August 2003 10:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 7 August 2003 10:18 (twenty years ago) link
Scorpions - minor-key vocal harmonies - a gtr god = Darkness.
Talk about damning with faint praise!
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 August 2003 10:18 (twenty years ago) link
Ignorance is bliss.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 August 2003 10:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 7 August 2003 10:21 (twenty years ago) link
JtN on the money.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 7 August 2003 10:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 August 2003 10:25 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 7 August 2003 10:26 (twenty years ago) link
I never heard the original bands much either, and am certainly not familiar with them, but the whole poodle-haired cock-rock thing is tired anyway. I always took the 'joke' to be that The Darkness were so bad and so overblown with it that it was mildly funny, and that it was such a caricature that it had to be tongue-in-cheek. Even if it was tongue-in-cheek it would have palled after two songs anyway, because the thing with so-bad-it's-good is that it swiftly just becomes bad.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:08 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:23 (twenty years ago) link
― doom-e cool kid of death, Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:24 (twenty years ago) link
― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:26 (twenty years ago) link
― doom-e cool kid of death, Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:29 (twenty years ago) link
The joke has long worn thin. They are still here. Bah.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:31 (twenty years ago) link
― doom-e cool kid of death, Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:33 (twenty years ago) link
― doom-e cool kid of death, Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:36 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:38 (twenty years ago) link
strokes, garage rock (the hives), ac/dc inspired rock (datsuns etc) and then the darkness (comedy robbie williams metal, full on eighties rock), where does it go from there? the pop cycle. and with the present hype, after awhile, the darkness will die.
― doom-e cool kid of death, Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 12:29 (twenty years ago) link
This might be the most upsetting thing JtN has ever written *if* what I heard in Probe in Liverpool the other week was The Darkness.
I heard who someone who sounded like a not-quite-into-it Bruce Dickinson bawl their way through a set of pancake-thin pub-band demos. It was ugly and forgettable like a subsiding Maryport semi. If this isn't The Darkness, I apologise.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 7 August 2003 12:58 (twenty years ago) link
― doom-e cool kid of death, Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:10 (twenty years ago) link
just bcz a punk rock fan doesn't like 'em does not mean they are classic or dud. must try harder.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:19 (twenty years ago) link
And isnt Tom, like thirty two or something? Not really down with the kids unless you are a paed.
― doom-e cool kid of death, Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Give me a D! Give me an ARKNESS! (RickyT), Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:33 (twenty years ago) link
this line is funny on many levels. not perhaps the ones it was intended to be funny on.
ps: Tom, if that's the case then I am happy to have 5 years of listening to great music before it all goes pear.
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:34 (twenty years ago) link
(Actually one of the reasons I like the 'Ness is that they are the brilliant return of everything that was left out of the Creation "international guardians of rock and roll" canon.)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:51 (twenty years ago) link
explain??
ps. yer sources must be really old - mcgee has been djing the crue and ratt since 2000.
― doom-e cool kid of death, Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:52 (twenty years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:55 (twenty years ago) link
― doom-e, Thursday, 7 August 2003 13:57 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Thursday, 7 August 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 7 August 2003 14:03 (twenty years ago) link
― doom-e cool kid of death, Thursday, 7 August 2003 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
Is it because AWK & The Darkness use guitars prominently that the realness/irony issue irks some of you?
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 7 August 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 August 2003 14:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 7 August 2003 14:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 7 August 2003 14:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 7 August 2003 14:55 (twenty years ago) link
What puts me right off the darkness is the same as what puts me off about the strokes, anyway, this sense that i have of listening to an "also ran" act, but w/o the big act that they are an also-ran to. Like, I, being old and crap, remember seeing Girl on top of the pops. Girl were this glammy pop-rock band, who were an also ran to def leppard. The darkness remind me of girl, and there is no def leppard. Also, whenever there is a hype band like the strokes, or gay dad, or the darkness, there's always this bit of me that wants them to blow my cynicism into the weeds. Gay Dad were the most frustrating of these bands, because in retrospect I can see how if they'd been just a little bit better, they'd have been really good, but they just weren't good enough. With both the strokes and the darkness, there isn't even that for me. I get all cynical about them, b/c of the stupid hype, but what I really want inside is for them to live up to the hype. What I really want is for the darkness' album to be as good as boston's first album, or asia's first album, but there's just nothing there. What they should have done, and I'm totally serious here, is ditch all their shit songs, and get diane warren to write them a set of awesome power-ballads in the style of "nothing's gonna stop us now", or "sole survivor", or "more than a feeling" BUT THEY DIDN'T!@# AND THEY =k-SUX0R!!!1!!!@#
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:05 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:11 (twenty years ago) link
I think 'Christmas Time' is the best Darkness song full stop!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 15 December 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link