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Can't stand the Darkness - I think they just a pub karaoke band who struck it lucky.
Like Lyle says, they try and be funny and ironic but that will date them and the joke will go stale eventually and they will disappear.
I hate to say it, but it's just possible that that might be the fate that awaits Ill Mitch
ILL MITCH BECOME IMORTAL THROUGH HUGE SUCSESS AND LEGACY OF HIS RAP
I knew that you would post next (!)
They don't "try" they are funny...and they have good music, I dig them they are cool as hell.Quote:
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They don't "try" they are funny...and they have good music, I dig them they are cool as hell.
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Come on, Lyle, this site is all about people with different opinions. If we all agreed on everything, someone would post a thread and the response would be 'Yeah'. Everyone would have a million coolclicks and it would be boring.
I think you are an OK guy, but you sometimes post your responses as if they are written in tablets of stone and there is no argument with you.
I totally, absolutely, utterly disagree with you about the Darkness. Nothong you say will rid me of my primal hatred for this pub band. Every time I hear them, I get an upset stomach. If I saw Justin Hawkins walking down the road, I think I would have to kill him. Not that I would ever go to Lowestoft where they are from (it's our version of Boise, Idaho by the way)
However, I will always defend your right to say what you think, even if you are wrong !!!
What's wrong with Boise? I have a football stadium named for me there! It HAS BLUE ASTROTURF!!!
My opinion on them being 'funny' is that its:
a) Staged by record executives
and
b) their whole hook is basicly just 'tribute' by Tenacious D and that faggot pretending thats he's in queen.
They aren't stagedQuote:
Originally Posted by AdamGB
While I would like them to cover 'Bohemian Rhapsody', they have a pretty original sound and Justin is what Rock'n'Roll is built off of flamboyant, wild, and crazy frontmen.
You can hate all you want, The Darkness rock, and there's nothing you can do about it!
the best thing about it is Sparks 8)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=92mQYENVjEI
Of course not as good as this. Brad was hot in his youth.
:lickish:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o-u86uX4v5E
So I guess it was cold in there hence the sweater
I always thought was about originality and progression... ;)
The Darkness are original in the fact that we have thousands of bands out there now pretending to be 'The Kinks' and any other four letter word with 'The at the start' with an S at the end, they are the only band pretending to be Heavens gate/Queen that I know of.
I wouldn't mind but the 'cover' is practicly identical to the original... ::**
OK, "cover" songs are supposed to sound alike, else it's a totally different song and thus not as good and therefore not worth covering (unless it's in a different genre altogether).
I think it's a perfectly acceptable cover version.
You mean like how AAF 'Smooth Criminal' is exactly the same as the Micheal Jackson one Give a little respect by Erasure is exactly the same as the Wheatus cover?
Come on... your supposed to put your own slant and style into the song... shame the Darkness have none... Even Maralyn Manson's crappy covers are more original, and all he does is play the song in power chords and talk the lyrics on mono tone/occasionally scream...
AAF's cover of Smooth Criminal SUCKED
If you're going to spout about good (but different) cover songs try these on
Ben Folds 5 - Bitches ain't shit
Nina Gordon - Straight Outta Compton
Dynamite Hack - Boyz in da Hood
There are some covers that are very similar and Justin's just happens to be one, that's JUSTIN (British Whale) not The Darkness altogether....just an FYI.
People have covered Elvis' 'I can't help Falling in love with you' and it's absolutely gaddamn awful. If Justin did it as well as The Sparks doesn't it say something about his talent? I mean come on, you just complain about EVERYTHING....listen to The Darkness cover of the Radiohead song, Street Spirit...that's a good cover