Everything is Overrated

Top 15 most overrated bands…

• The Rolling Stones
• U2
• Coldplay
• The Libertines
• Radiohead
• The Beatles
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Fall Out Boy
• The Eagles
• Foo Fighters
• Nirvana
• Green Day
• The Killers
• Lostprophets
• Paramore

That is all…

RIAA sue single Mum for £108,000

In a bid to make themselves even less popular the RIAA (Recording industry of America) have just sued an American single Mum for £108,000. They claim that she shared just 24 songs online using Kazaa, making the fine seem rather excessive.

As far as i am concerned the RIAA can go and fuck themselves.

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Death of the Album?

At last months Isle of Wight festival, Ash announced that there upcoming album, “Twilight of the Innocents” was to be their last. However the band are not splitting up, they just don’t plan on releasing any more albums. Instead they intend to release individual songs available for download from now on.

Ash frontman Tim Wheeler reasoned that “the way people listen to music has changed. With the advent of the downloads, the emphasis has reverted to single tracks”. In a way I can understand his thinking. Downloads now command a major part of the music market, so it will no doubt be of benefit to the band (and the record company).

However, I really hope that this isn’t the way the music industry goes. I don’t know about other people, but I always look forward to new albums. An album is something you can physically buy, something you keep and in some cases something that defines a generation. An album has to be listened to the whole way through. You shouldn’t just think of it as individual songs, but one great piece of music. If we lose albums, we lose everything that goes with them and will no longer be able to have debates about “which is Muse’s best album?” or “why is Smells like Teen Spirit so iconic?”.

This change to downloading shouldn’t be blamed on technology. For advances in technology can surely only be a good thing. If albums do die out, the blame should be attributed to bands like the View, the Caesars and the Fray. These are bands who do one or two good songs which get released as singles. They get a lot of radio play, and everyone thinks “oh thats quite a good songs, i’d better download that”. The band scores highly in the charts and follow up this success by releasing a mediocre album and playing at one of the summers major festivals, where all the fans can sing along to “How to save a live”. This is all very well and good, but in a way its destroying the music industry and undermining bands who really work hard at their albums.

In 19 days time…

Its just over 19 days until Muse play their first gig at the new Wembley stadium. Unfortunately the Streets are one of the support acts, which is going to ruin if for everyone [except Chris who claims to like the Streets].

Anyway, whoever booked the Streets needs his/her head looking at because the sort of people who like Muse are NOT going to like the Streets [except Chris]. Has the world gone mad!

They should have booked someone good to be the support act like Wolfmother, Klaxons or Bloc Party.

Can you have a wrong opinion?

Whilst reading through Ceefax this Tuesday evening, i came across an article which said that “Rolling Stone magazine has voted Crazy by Gnarls Barkley the best song of 2006″. My first though was that this was a joke, and i was struck with horror when i realised they were in fact totally serious.

Crazy is not the worst song i have heard this year, but it is a long way from being the best. Anyone who believes it to be the best of 2006 clearly has no taste in music whatsoever, and should have their opinion taken away from them and destroyed.  In addition to this, they should recieve a heavy fine and be banned from purchasing any music for at least 6 years.

Just the idea that anyone could even think “Crazy” to be the best song of 2006 is actually quite offensive. Sure, its a pretty catchy song, but there is no talent or thought behind it. Everything about the song is far to bland to be good.

So, can you have a wrong opinion? I think i have answered this question already.