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There aren't?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago) link

permission to land has gone gold in canada and is still going fairly strong.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 02:34 (twenty years ago) link

The Darkness=Boston=Awesome.

I haven't been this confused by the over-analysis of a band since Andrew W.K.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 02:34 (twenty years ago) link

just tell me that if Jani Lane made you pick between them you'd pick Jani, Lucy!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 03:00 (twenty years ago) link

And The Darkness are doing better here than I would have expected. Which actually kind of makes me mad when I think about the relatively muted reply we gave the Electric Six (though arguably the Darkness's videos are easier for MTV fans to accept).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago) link

weird to look back at this thread (thanks to the other thread) on the morning of The Brits and see just how far the Darkness have come since Doom-E predicted last summer that they wouldn't even see out the week.

3 times Platinum, 4 nominations for Brits.
i'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that maybe they've crossed over into "pop" now.
whereas, Do-Me is still posting on a messageboard.

― hahaha, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 10:01 (twenty years ago) link

I still don't get it. Actually I do get it, I just don't like it.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

"The Darkness"? More like "The DORKNESS" if you ask me!! They SUCK!!

Yes, they're the greatest British rock and roll band of the past ten years, but they still SUCK!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

you were on that funny thread.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

Is their frontman Kevin Rowland?

― stephen morris, Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

No that's the Mars Volta

― dave q, Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

They make me smile. For that alone, I welcome them.

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

I bought the damn thing. I needed a copy of Thing Called Love at hand. Goddamn I need to get net at home

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 7 March 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

shhh anthony, say NO MORE!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 7 March 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago) link

GUITAR! reeeeeerneedlerneedlerneedler

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago) link

on friday night i was dancing to dancing on a friday night! its kind of my favourite on the album, in a five way tie with "givin up", "love on the rocks", "holding my own" (anyone else noticed its a bout wanking?) and "stuck in a rut".

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

Revive!

Why didn't anybody TELL me this album was so fucking good?!?!?! I'm only halfway through it on my first listen right now but MY GOD can these guys write some catchy rock riffs!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh and forget what I said upthread. I made that up, obviously.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

they're a fun rock band (at least the album is) with funny falsettos. the "growing on me" video is basically a Marshall Stacks ad.. and a great ad at that.

Haven't listened to them in months, but they're still on my iPod. And i can still remember most of the album from memory.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I almost can thanks to repeated bar plays in my neck of the woods. Sadly, rather than causing my heart to grow fonder, it just pissed me off more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, the first DVD of AC/DC's The Family Jewels wipes Permission To Land away with a clean sponge, but it wipes almost anything away alone.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

that's unfair. they're competing with disc 2 (specifically "shook me all night long")

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

and I don't dig the album as a whole but "Growing On Me" into "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" tops any two-fer of arena-glee since "Back In Black" into "Shook Me"

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Any word on what The Darkness is up to these days, recording-wise? (Speaking of tongue-in-cheek bands, I get to see Electric Six play in a tiny Irish pub tomorrow night. That should be a hoot!)

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link

This doesn't sound good.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Nah, it might be for the best.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I stress "might"

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Jokes are only funny if they're serious.
-- Tom

Jokes are only funny if they're serious.
-- Tom (freakytrigge...), August 7th, 2003.

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No, jokes are only funny if they're vaguely original.
Contrary to what The Lex says, I think this joke was funny in the first place
-- Stewart Osborne

Two good points that are not, contrary to Stewart's belief, mutually opposed.

Stewart goes on to nominate Spinal Tap, but I think Marc Bolan or Slade would be a good starting point. 'I drive a Rolls Royce / Cos it's good for my voice'.

I think there's something very arch about The Darkness - they write good songs and have a great sense of the comically deadpan. They are neither serious enough, nor original enough to be really funny.

― moley, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Pardon my bad cutting and pasting,

― moley, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Good god I'd forgotten about Roy Keane as Detroit techno purist upthread. Aaah, happy days...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

"Girlfriend" is awesome.

I think I like this more than the debut, singles aside.

― 'Twan (miccio), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm interested in hearing the album. But, hard rock success-wise, I do believe they've squandered any momentum they had. It will take some doing post-holidays to get the ball rolling again. Relentless play of a video, maybe, would do it. It's a crowded market.

― George the Animal Steele, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link

the production is sillier and I mean that as a compliment.

― 'Twan (miccio), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I love "Knockers."

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ can't imagine there's anything funny about that statement (Je4nne Fu, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link

This is really growing on me.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

ilm hates fun

-- Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 20:17 (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

This guy really was the worst ILX poster ever

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Sunday, 20 July 2008 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Dude this Fritz obsession of yours is really, really weird.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 20 July 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link

yay The Darkness. they had good b-sides.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 20 July 2008 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link

"I know the right guys
'Cause I used to work in building supplies"

― calstars, Sunday, 20 July 2008 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

lulz

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 16 March 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link

Turbonegro have the better humour and choruses in their (superior) songs.
This is dreadful, one of the worst things I've ever heard. Only a complete tasteless sad bastard could like this.

― Pfunkboy in blood drenched rabbit suit jamming in the woods (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 16 March 2009 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link

six months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFYv6gSqimE

― cutty, Sunday, 11 October 2009 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Uh oh
http://thequietus.com/articles/05866-darkness-reform-for-download

― Neil S, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link

http://new.assets.thequietus.com/images/articles/5866/darkness_1300183131_crop_550x350.jpg

It's Laffin' Nick Cave and the not-bad seeds!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link

Least clamored for reunion ever?

― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link

i'm pretty excited for it

― I'd rather climb into the saddle of my Ford Mustang and sink spurs (stevie), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link

Good news.. although is this a reunion or ending a hiatus?

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link

or even 'closure', seeing as how Frankie is back

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link

three months pass...

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/lighter.jpg

― also we’re divorced now and i hate this movie. (contenderizer), Saturday, 9 July 2011 05:48 (twelve years ago) link

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