The Hoosiers: morelike The Rubbishers

Who started this fucking indie/AOR "singing in a strained higher pitch" chorus bullshit? Franz Ferdinand? Someone drop the banhammer on this genre asap.

Suggested video treatments for upcoming Hoosiers singles:

The Hoosiers have a fun night in, but aliens land
The Hoosiers AS The A-Team
The Hoosiers in a wacky concentration camp

BIG HOOSIERS aka the shitindieband

Can't we go back to the days when real bands like The Futureheads and The Hives were in the top 10?

Can't we go back to the days when real bands like Alice Deejay and Fragma were in the top 10?

Can't we go back to the days when real bands like Scouting for Girls and The View were in the top 10?

This board is mean. I think The Hoosiers are a pretty good band. Mr A sounds like Mr Blue Sky by ELO!

^ban

They're fucking awful.

Can't we go back to the chart glory days of "Cash Machine" and "Ruby"?

And now I've got that "Goodbye Mr A" line going round and round in my head. Thanks.

Mr A sounds like Mr Blue Sky by ELO!

I think I'll just carry on listening to Mr Blue Sky

Never heard them, never heard of them. With a name like that I'd have assumed they were a jam band a la phish.

They're a bit like The Wombats.

The Hoosiers aka The Steendrivers

they only exist so people will say "well I guess The Feeling weren't that bad after all!" and buy a couple of copies of The Feeling's album, right?

interesting fact: no one has ever heard of this band

they built up no fanbase using internet community sites like myspace

Mountain Goats to adopt more jovial cheeky Supertramp-via-Cast sound on next album.

somebody sent Dom the advance way too early, heads will roll

You could do a video where you dressed up like 1950s schoolboys, kind of a St Trinians theme, it'd be hilarious.

special thanks to Dom Passantino for the original concept for this important music video

Ok, I haven't heard this band but as a former resident of Indiana I'm already predisposed to hating their punk asses.

Now I know why John can't hear Eagles Of Death Metal.

I though the thread title was "THE HOOTERS."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKrAeJZj8BE

glad to see Mika is getting down to some proper rock'n'roll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCm6YHU76q0

allegedly this is a different song

upcoming singles: "Pay To Play," "In Loving Memory Of Che," "Bring Back The Autos De Fe" and a cover of Paula Abdul's "The Promise Of A New Day."

I managed 56 seconds of that "mr A" song:

They sound just like that scouting for girls band - awful.

It is a Ripoff of "Mr Blue Sky" by ELO

It sucks

They Suck

The real Mr A ((c)Steve Ditko) would have kicked their asses then givenm them a lecture about objectivism.

I hate piss weak bands like this, they're the worst.

They're a bit like The Wombats.

-- Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 12:03 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

^^^we've gone over this before, The Wombats are pretty great for a British indie band in 2007

The second one is a knockoff of a Sparks tune? Can't remember which one tho.

lasted until about 36 into mr a, then the 'oh o-oh' vocal mannerism forced me to close the firefox window.

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Urgh god, ban humanity.

You guys are taking them way too seriously. They just make fun music that sounds good on the radio!

hi noodle vague

And that's why I don't listen to the radio

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Great band. Like The Feeling. Hopefully, The Hoosiers and The Feeling represent the future of all mainstream pop music. The mid 70s pomp pop era was a great era and should also be the future.

i hope indiana university sues the balls off these motherfuckers.

also someone tell me gier is joking before my head explodes.

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Coming from an ex concert pianist and current world touring drum and bass dj, i am quite widely spread in musical taste, these guys (the hoosiers) have a talent for music production, are excellent practical musicians, real songwriters, and best of all nice people, which is hard 2 find in this industry. maybe i sense bitterness in those with no talents but to claim they have the same name as the character of sex and the city, i dont know...

I'll just brace myself for your reply while polishing my gold records

I'll just brace myself for your reply while polishing my gold records

^^^could be the new "Marcello Carlin may be the big man on ilx"

If the guy is a world touring D&B dj (rofflez @ that being some arbiter of musical superiority) how come a google search on his name yields NOTHING.

Ah, I dunno, I can stand the Hoosiers, they have some sort of roughage in their gruel, as opposed to the Feeling, who are about as water as it gets.

^homophobia

My nieces aged 9 and 13 both love the Hoosiers, and what makes them happy (so long as it's not that bloody Hannah Montana album) makes me happy...

dom: explain?

If the guy is a world touring D&B dj (rofflez @ that being some arbiter of musical superiority) how come a google search on his name yields NOTHING.

-- roffle roffle, Monday, December 17, 2007 10:31 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

actual name: "photek"

The dude came across remarkably well on Buzzcocks last week.

The Hoosiers add weight to my theory that the Magnolia soundtrack is the most influential record of the last decade.

that dude who hardly spoke? Seems a nice bloke I guess.

No explanation from Dom re comment above, so I'll assume someone in the Feeling is gay, of which I didn't know and do not care.

The Hoosiers add weight to my theory that the Magnolia soundtrack is the most influential record of the last decade.

-- Scik Mouthy, Monday, December 17, 2007 10:53 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

what now?

'magnolia' ost is mostly jon brion doing incongruously 'normal' orchestral soundtrack thing, with occasional aimee mann songs.

xpost: The Feeling's super-hot lead singer Dan Gillespie-Sells is indeed openly gay; he came out to Attitude magazine about 18 months ago.

And, yeah, I didn't get that Maginilia OST reference either. How does Aimee Mann connect to The Hoosiers?

(^^^^ Magnolia. Sheesh.)

These guys are getting lots of publicity in the UK. The voice-over guy on their advertisement comes on at the end in an English accent and says "The HOOZ-ee-ers! Out now!"

SUPERTRAMP

They were on T-Mobile Unsigned at the weekend. Does that show not have a thread?

No because it was would just be "FUCK OFF CUNTS" written 4,000 times

Are the ones who were like an even more hackneyed version of Frank (or whatever that shitty Xenomania guitar act were called) still on?

Finalists = Revenue (much arrogance, no tunes) and Envy and Other Sins (The Feeling pretty much).

Why were the Hoosiers were on t-mobile unsigned? I presume they are actually, er, not unsigned?

The unsigned acts get "advice" from top indie names. So a ragtag group of bearded fucks get advice from Roisin Murphy, and four chicks who look like the cast of No Angels get advice from him from Embrace.

It sounds like the worst thing imaginable. Maybe they should get the lex onto the advisory panel? That would be good for a laff.

In this case it was coz the remaining bands were filmed supporting 'em. This has also happened with Kate Nash and New Young Pony Club on the show.

Being told to consider getting singing lessons by Danny MacNamara must hurt.

I saw a single by The Mentalists (the four chicks who look like the cast of No Angels) in Rough Trade! Looked predictably awful.

"endter our unsigned band comp, if you win you can suppoert....the hoosiers" I've got nothing. WTF. Rock is dead (pt#32975)

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Didn't the bands supporting Kate Nash "hilariously" write "show us your tits love" on her dressing room wall?

I thought you did that?

Pretty sure I could pull Kate Nash without needing to resort to such crudities.

I hear it's pretty easy for unattractive internet music critics to lay pipe to female chart indie starlets.

jokes bruv

Dom OTM

Still an incredibly great band and it's a disgrace how their album is still unavailable here in Norway.

Geir do you like Mika?

Of course he likes Mika! Silly.

No, I don't like Mika too much. Mika is too disco, too MOR and doesn't have the 70s prog elements and harmony singing that Hoosiers do. While Hoosiers and The Feeling are heavily influenced by the likes of ELO, 10cc, Supertramp and Klaatu, Mika and Scissor Sister have more in common with 70s Bee Gees. In a way, The Feeling and The Hoosiers are more European, while Mika and Scissor Sisters are more American. And good music should be as completely dominated by European elements as possible.

I'd rather have a singles hitlist dominated by Mika and Scissor Sisters copycats rather than a singles hitlist consisting of R&B and rap though.

if anyone is to blame it is Freheit with their Keeping The Dream Alive, they started the ELO rip -offs, every couple of years a new ELO rip-off surfaces and each one is worse than the one previously.

Freiheit were great too. All "ELO-ripoffs" are great. They represent the way good pop music should sound.

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The point with that hoosiers thing is surely not so much that the band sound like ELO, more that the tune had a straight lift from, actually I forget, was it "Mr Blue Sky"? Pretty tacky, notwithstanding the crappiness of the band.

You're going to love Palladium, Geir.