More filler on the BBC.....

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warren zevon rip wrote:

> So what difference does it really make, surley we listen to the music, not the socio-economic categories...

You're right, of course. It's not where you're from it's where you're at, as someone once said. The point I was making is that The Arctic Monkeys, authentic or not, are working class in a manner so readily identifiable and perfectly acceptable to the middle classes, i.e. very northern, slightly noisy, very nasal, very kitchen sink drama etc. No real insight, nothing contrary, nothing to get people's backs up (as Oasis once did), just a small band who got big because something needed to happen. They stand out only because of the sheer, number of middle class acts predominant in the music industry at present (Blunt, Keane, Coldplay etc). And in their own way they're as equally safe and unthreatening, and likewise slightly empty.

They have every right to be, I suppose. But for all the fuss you think something more substantial should be there, though obviously this is the media's fault more than theirs. As for the actual music, any Fall album puts either Monkeys album to shame.

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Arginald Valleywater wrote:

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That just about sums 'em up perfectly, Arginald.

A quartet of over-hyped, over-rated, up-their-own-arses spotty oiks who seem convinced that they're God's gift to music and think that it's oh-so-cool to be obnoxious to interviewers and to pepper their moronic utterances with liberal doses of the word "fuck".

Over in the UK for a few days to attend a funeral, I was in the Sheffield branch of Virgin only last Wednesday, listening to some utter dross playing over the store sound system. Initially unaware of what it was, it turned out that it was none other than the new Arctic Monkeys album - which was literally flying off the shelves.

Which just goes to prove: Mediocrity sells.

- Eric

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Alice In Blunderland wrote:

> Not being up with all these hip young bands I wondered who the hell the foul mouthed, obnoxious moron entering the Big Brother house was...

The utterly fraudulent Donny Tourette, and yes, Towers of London are about as bad as it gets. Claimed to be a Hackney-slum reared working class rebel, but in reality he's as middle class as it gets.

Just another turd for the celebrity toilet that's all.