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Originally Posted by Stu
We've had this very same thing before with a list i made of bands on the Hardcore forum, pretty much you citing every band i listed as generic, derivitive crap, passing your opinion off as fact etc etc etc. Your superiority complex is irritating to say the least. I'm well aware that Les Inc broke up a couple of years back, as i said earlier, the list was based on bands that have been or were about within recent years. They wrote infectious, slightly off-kilter pop songs that appealed to my ears. Lamenting them as Libertines rip offs is just lazy. Great you know a drummer, indie cred to you, sorry for ever crossing you. Please, i suggest you stop passing off your opinion as the unchallengeable truth. You going through listing the reasons why you hate or love every band on the list isnt going to alter my opinion a jot, i dont value your opinion THAT much im afraid.
How you can label the Wilkommen Collective as terrible alone is bewildering. Twisted Charm, These New Puritans, Foals, Youthmovies, Dartz!... all fresh and exciting. And i really dug the Colourful Life, so deal with it. I' dont care if you're English and 'in with the scene', so am i, so what?
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Dude, I never tried to put my opinion above yours. You're perfectly entitled to like all the bands you choose.
My point was simple. You mentioned a few bands who have earnt some reputation, and an overwhelming number who have not. Most of those bands who have failed to gain any attention in the wider indie community have failed to do so for a good reason: they're just not making particularly interesting music (or if they are, then they lack the songwriting dexterity to pull it off). Most of them are, and I'm sorry to say it, far more than substantially
derivative. Both the claims in this paragraph have objectivity in them. I'd wager my bottom dollar that you are more than well aware of the basis for the claims I'm making. If you listen to those bands, you can easily see what I'm talking about. Again, bro, I'm not trying to make an argument. You're welcome to enjoy what you like. I only don't like claims that the British indie scene is all well and good when, to put it simply, it's evidently just not the case.
And for the last time, yeah, some of the bands you mentioned are pretty good. Just don't pretend that the whole lot answer to that description.
Peace.