When you're a famous boy
Jeeeeeesus good lord hellish Christ on a stick with extra raspberry sauce. Have you heard the new Streets single? No? Then count your mercies. Really. It really ranks up there for the least airplay-worthy noise ever created, I mean, it's almost worse than Nelly and Kelly's Dilemma, or anything by Barbra Streisand. If you have heard it, you'll know what I mean: the Casio-keyboard demo beat peep-popping away in the background annoyingly like a small child repeatedly prodding the sound action buttons on a Fisher Price "My First... Beating from Mummy Will Happen If I Play With This Any Longer" toy, and then, on top of that, Mike Skinner's whining, "I'm from the ghetto, innit" voice slurring its way through some of the most poorly written lyrics ever to reach a record. He's reached new lows; we can only hope that very shortly he'll scrape through the last of the crust into the magma layer and be ... well, you can use your imagination in a slightly wicked way.
On happier notes, apart from the new Belle & Sebastian album being deliciously twee, my ears are gorging on the feast of the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!'s self-titled and self-released album. It was out last year I think, and Richard's been nagging me to listen to them, so now I have, and I'm hooked. To begin with, the singer's voice is difficult to get used to, but as soon as the warbling becomes less perturbing and more melodic, the record's a real treat. Go buy it, I know I will be.
Posted: 05-03-06 14:38 :: Permalink: http://ben.corale.co.uk/archive/v1/221.html
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chris writes ACTUALLY, it's well good. And you, dear boy, suck! Commented: 07-03-06 10:44
andy "dear old viking" fordham writes
yeah, but fit but you know it sucked for like the first 6 weeks and now yeah yeah you are fit but my GOSH dont you just know it
so perhaps they're growers in the most backwards sense. they numb your brain into submission
not that ive heard it, well, i heard a little bit and i decided they were taking the piss a bit which made me giggle.
Commented: 13-03-06 12:12
The blog author writes See, I thought the first album was them taking the piss, and they were, but now I'm not so sure if the joke has actually come full circle and they now believe in what they're doing, which would be scary. Mike Skinner believing he's the dog's whatsits. Ouch. Commented: 13-03-06 13:53