The Darkness

- Marc Almond may have sung flat at times but he doesn't on "Tainted Love".

- Justin Darkness completely wins the falsetto battle; his tone is much less pinched and forced than Justin T's; in fact, Justin T should really consider singing in his lower register from here on out because it's inifitely more pleasing to the ear.

As we can now see it was a dry run for The Darkness phenom, it must have yielded useful data. The necessity of Paul Young's take on "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is still unrevealed.

The Darkness fucking rocks. There's no way you can fake shit like this. "Get You Hands Off Of My Woman" is way better than any '80s metal (which I pretty much despised then, except for Iron Maiden and Priest, I s'pose). I wish I could figure out who they remind me of. For some really stupid reason the Mission keeps popping up into my head, but that's not right at all. Fuck it.

Two very good examples, thankyou. I don't think The Darkness take themselves any more or less seriously than The Cult in particular, and The Cult've largely been treated as a bona fide "proper" rock band from day one. The Darkness have (at least) three cracking singles, a great schtick and smiles to charm the handbags off grannies. I mean, look at the alternatives...Starsailor? Dido? Meh.

Every time I see The Darkness on telly tho, I think of Buffalo Bill from Silence Of The Lambs and...Terrorvision. I'm sorry, I can't help it.

Rock slut Harry said 'You can't fake that shit' about one of the bands at the Astoria in 'Faking It'. I laughed then.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.