In this thread, at least 50 posts about "Ya Don't See The Signs (Feeder Remix)" by Mark B and Blade

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I dunno, this is one of the all time great rubbish songs. Journey rapper, journeyman DJ, journey rock group on the remix in an obvious attempt at "nu" "metal" "cashing" "in". No, it doesn't work, but it's an enjoyable failure.

Blade has never actually been able to rap. At all. What this remix proves is that he'd make a half decent pop-metal vocallist. Maybe they could reform Three Colours Red again or something?

Also, the release of this preceeds "21 Seconds" by three months and "Witness (One Hope)" by two. It's such a... bollocks track to have kicked off BRITISH RAP REVIVAL OF A SORT.

What the hell was Blade doing on Virgin in the first place anyway?

More influenced by this track: Lostprophets or Kano?

Discuss other THINGS about this song as well. Or don't.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 31 July 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

I knew this would be you Dom.

I like this song against all sense.

Blade would be a better rapper if he could do anything other than complain about how hard he's had to work to get nowhere.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 31 July 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

Mark B & Blade (tho the former didn't turn up because he was 'doing interviews') served up the joint worst live hip-hop show I've ever seen (level with Busta Rhymes and Kool Keith), back when this was in the charts. People crowdsurfed to it

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

I do think Blade's "I AM SO DOWNTRODDEN" schtick does get amazingly tired, he does realise that there are quite a few other people on the face of the earth who don't have multimillion record deals, right? Like, circa 6 billion of them.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

Blade later went on to release a single about how reality pop is DESTROYING OUR NATION'S HEALTH. He's like the Paul Morley of Albanian immigrants or something.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

I do think Blade's "I AM SO DOWNTRODDEN" schtick does get amazingly tired

I don't wanna buy a record where the dude just complains all the time about how no-one is buying his record. I HAVE! Moan at everyone else not at me.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

But this is the thing, he's not even got some Jemini or RA The Rugged Man style hard luck tale to tell, he's just got "Yeah, I got dropped from my record label". You know, like Hepburn did.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't RA The Rugged Man's tale of hard luck that he was a bellend?

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think it goes long beyond bell-endry and possibly into slander if we discuss it here, I'm not sure. Biggie was a big fan, you know?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

I remember 'The Unknown'.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

I think it goes long beyond bell-endry and possibly into slander if we discuss it here

He caused his own hard luck though.

I like "The Unknown" but the 70s acousti-prog track it samples and interpolates the chorus of is better.

(We may make it to fifty.)

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

The album featured a skit where Mark B and Blade broke through enemy lines to give Westwood a copy of their album. Westwood cameos, they never fail to be funny. "Westwood, Westwood, Westwood, Westwood, Roll Deep. Westwood, Westwood, Westwood, Westwood, Roll Deep."

Too many lulz.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

I actually really enjoyed the album at the time, and spent much of the weekend sifting through about five million promos such as that one, so I may even spin this tonight

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

I listened to it a lot when it came out, but then I listened to a lot of Dilated Peoples the same time it came out, so I'm probably not the best judge.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

I listened to it a lot when it came out, but then I listened to a lot of Dilated Peoples the same time it came out, so I'm probably not the best judge.

i too was afflicted by this disease.

i *think i interviewed them around this time, and remember Mark B as just being this grumpy old sod. Blade was very into it all. but yeah, hip-hop that's about hip-hop is so dull to me now.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

"I still meet people today who come up to me and say this was the song that got them into hip-hop": Blade in this month's HHC.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

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