It makes me ashamed to be British when this is our so called best! I'd rather stick acid soaked hot pokers in my eyes than listen to either Coldplay or Duffy.

Dunk1L: It makes me ashamed to be British when this is our so called best! I'd rather stick acid soaked hot pokers in my eyes than listen to either Coldplay or Duffy.

This.

Don't feel too bad though. Every country has their share of shiat. That is just why I hate shiatty bands going global. No one really needs to import shiat when they produce plenty on their own.

That goes double for Canada

Dunk1L: It makes me ashamed to be British when this is our so called best! I'd rather stick acid soaked hot pokers in my eyes than listen to either Coldplay or Duffy.

No worries. We all know it isn't.

However, we can expect this thread to produce lots of little flamewars because it mentioned Coldplay.

I feel so out of touch though. I haven't heard any of the artists mentioned in the article. Who's Duffy?

I'm rather fond of the experimental dubstep trickling out of the UK at the moment. You guys need to focus on that. Oh, and bring back LTJ Bukem and Good Looking Records, please. :) If you can get Bukem to stop acting like a mafioso that is.

Ruined his own scene. What a div!

I like Duffy and Coldplay. Not love, though.

Duffy is a Brigger, plain and simple. Winehouse, Natasha Bedingfield all of them. I would say it's the drugs that make them that way, but Adele is the worst of them all. And she weighs like 18 stone. Way too fat to be on dope.

I find I like a lot of music coming out of the UK in the past few years; Super Furry Animals, Broadcast, British Sea Power and Dirty Pretty Things to name a few.

Fav. British group
Massive Attack FTW

I had the unfortunate experience of walking past a stage that Duffy was "singing" on at a festival this summer. I was over 100 yards away, but her voice and the sound were so earsplittingly bad that I literally covered my stage-side ear going past. It was horrible. Too bad because that one song is kind of catchy in a top-40 way.

I love Duffy. I hate Coldplay.

What do I win?

Insert_Obscure_80's_Pop_Culture_Reference_Here
I love Duffy. I hate Coldplay.

What do I win?

It's not much, but how 'bout a

Duffy is just another flash in the pan pop artist who'll vanish in a couple of years. As for Coldplay, what really, really bugs me is when they're described as a rock band, WTF? I like rock music, proper rock music, not this coma inducing durge!

Missing from best album of 2008:

busy chillin': Insert_Obscure_80's_Pop_Culture_Reference_Here
I love Duffy. I hate Coldplay.

What do I win?

It's not much, but how 'bout a

Nice! Thanks.

Not one of these stupid threads ever mentions Allan Holdsworth, the greatest electric guitarist of all time.


He's British.

I find duffy super farking hot...extremely farking hot...oh soo soo hot i want to touch...i like when she sings to me, and i am in the shower, and then my hand has soap on it and when i am washing my stomach, my hand moves down to touch my penis, and then...



me likey duffy, me likey duffy...



/best I could do while at work

Come, sit and have a chat about that

Listen to this and tell me Coldplay doesn't rock. I dare you.

/don't know who Duffy is

Necrosis: Listen to this and tell me Coldplay doesn't rock. I dare you.

I'm calling rickroll. And Coldplay doesn't rock, regardless.

00ghost27: Come, sit and have a chat about that

Best live band on the planet. Bar none.

Coldplay is soft rock. Yes, the same soft rock your parents used to listen to that sucked. It's the same shiat as U2, John Tesh, and Yanni. Yes, that is what that music sounds like to me. It's the music I listen to when I want to have a nice easy poop.

Link (new window)

the Brits should know their own music better.

H31N0US: I'm calling rickroll.

Close, but no cigar. You should check that link out, it's farking hilarious.

/no, seriously, it isn't a rickroll

00ghost27: Come, sit and have a chat about that

THIS, THIS, 1000X THIS

Necrosis: Listen to this and tell me Coldplay doesn't rock. I dare you.

/don't know who Duffy is

um...that TOTALLY sucked ass.

Insert_Obscure_80's_Pop_Culture_Reference_Here:
um...that TOTALLY sucked ass.

I can't help but wonder if you got the joke...

/I thought it was funny
//there is a great Sigur Ros one too if you look around

I really like Duffy, but that has a lot to do with the fact that I think Bernard Butler is one of the more interesting guitar players and musicians to come out in the last 30 years (solo work excluded)

Duffy is cute. Her music is very tolerable, because it actually is music. Coldplay sucks, and they ripped off a dude who ripped off Alizee. I mentioned Alizee, and by Imperial Fark law I must now post a photo of her:

Sorry hipsters, take off your Buddy Holly glasses, your corduroy blazers, your satchel bags, quit pretending that you actually like that overrated Vampire Weekend album to impress your friends and admit that this is miles better than your favorite "indie" band.

Personally I think she is the best pop act out of England right now:

Glitchwerks: Dunk1L: It makes me ashamed to be British when this is our so called best! I'd rather stick acid soaked hot pokers in my eyes than listen to either Coldplay or Duffy.

No worries. We all know it isn't.

However, we can expect this thread to produce lots of little flamewars because it mentioned Coldplay.

I feel so out of touch though. I haven't heard any of the artists mentioned in the article. Who's Duffy?

I'm rather fond of the experimental dubstep trickling out of the UK at the moment. You guys need to focus on that. Oh, and bring back LTJ Bukem and Good Looking Records, please. :) If you can get Bukem to stop acting like a mafioso that is.

Ruined his own scene. What a div!

Problem is, no one actually buys that shiat, so of course it's not going to get a look in at a commercial music awards event.

/Muse FTW

Portishead
Massive Attack
Doves

miles better that Coldplay and Duffy

Radiohead

I'm rather fond of the experimental dubstep trickling out of the UK at the moment.
I have been enjoying dubstep quite a bit over the last few months.

You know that scene in American Beauty where the filming kid explains how he's so overwhelmed by all the beauty around him?
That is how I feel about music recently. For a long time actually. Everywhere I turn there is another whole genre, with a bunch of awesome people dancing to the soundtrack.

Beatle_Matt: Best live band on the planet. Bar none.

They're definitely right up there.

My only complaint is that I damn near lost hearing for a day or two after seeing them. Apparently my ears are quite sensitive to Bellamy's penchant for distortion wankery.

Necrosis: Listen to this and tell me Coldplay doesn't rock. I dare you.

/don't know who Duffy is

I truly hope you were kidding. I'd get better results giving instruments to retarded kids.

Try reading the rest of the thread, downtownkid.

Berlin

No Doubt

downtownkid: I truly hope you were kidding. I'd get better results giving instruments to retarded kids.

Key in on the word "shred".

/assuming you have some familiarity with teh yoootubes

and of course, diVINYLS how many of you douches even know the babe from this band?

Longtime Lurker: Link (new window)

the Brits should know their own music better.

Greatness, thanks.

danduran:
Problem is, no one actually buys that shiat, so of course it's not going to get a look in at a commercial music awards event.

/Muse FTW

Nope! It's kind of sad but it's how it is at the moment.

It's not like I expect that to ever change though.

Teddy Hopper:
I have been enjoying dubstep quite a bit over the last few months.

You know that scene in American Beauty where the filming kid explains how he's so overwhelmed by all the beauty around him?
That is how I feel about music recently. For a long time actually. Everywhere I turn there is another whole genre, with a bunch of awesome people dancing to the soundtrack.

Yeah, there's a ton of music if you're open and receptive to it. Most Farkers just sit around and whine about their lawn and Rush or something. ;)

I caught Duffy on Saturday Night Live a few months ago and thought she was terrific. Bought her CD and while it's not all gold, a large chunk of it is really quite good.

The retro-soul movement is FAR fom a bad thing.

///Nicole Williams & the Soul Investigators (new window)
///Check 'em out

And why did Fark just tell me my post was stupid? WTF?

The Boxer Rebellion.

That is all.

I still don't see the problem with Coldplay. "Rush of Blood..." is one damned fine album. I guess I can't be a hipster if I enjoy music on my own terms, eh?

Let's see. Billboard claims that the top 10 tracks is currently being performed by The All American Rejects, Britney Spears, Kevin Rudolf, Jason Marz, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, T.I., Kanye West, Beyonce and at number one Lady Gaga.

If I had to choose between the performers of the most popular songs in the USA and Coldplay, I'm pretty sure I'd go with Coldplay.

Stay Cool Babylon: I still don't see the problem with Coldplay. "Rush of Blood..." is one damned fine album. I guess I can't be a hipster if I enjoy music on my own terms, eh?

I think my problem with Coldplay is that they're doing nothing that wasn't done in the early 90s, but those bands were virtually ignored by the mainstream. Now Coldplay does the same thing, albeit very watered-down, yet they're huge. Coldplay is the new Nirvana, except at least Nirvana seemed to be modest.

Paul McCartney is rolling in his grave

You all suck.