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After the BBC ripped WLADITT to shreds with there album review. I decided to look at MFTP review, but after reading it I decided to venture back and re-read WLADITT review. Here are a few quotes into why WLADITT is a bad album.
"But the overall impression is that a lot of this album is filler from a fairly one-dimensional band"
“Technodanceaphobic”, in trying to get a driving drum beat and riff going, just ends up sounding monotonous"
“Happy Birthday Jane” is almost too dreary to mention."
"You get the feeling that the next cliché about being a wage slave is just round the corner."
"The only subject matter seems to be of everyday sulky teens stuck in tin pot towns and rubbish jobs, with chips the size of Gibraltar on their shoulders"
So if you, as an artist or a producer saw these quotes you'd think right, we must branch out and progress the band and we must have guitar riffs and immense drum beats, of course the songs must be upbeat and we must change the subject matter.
But, according to the BBC you'd be wrong. As this is what the boys have done with Music for the People (every point I mentioned above I think has been approached in MFTP). But, alas, the BBC have moved on and now decided all that stuff isn't cool anymore. Here are some quotes from MFTP review.
"All that work won't necessarily be undone by the release of their terrible second album, but it certainly represents a knockback."
"The aforementioned Elephant Song is half Verve, half Led Zeppelin. No Time For Tears, with its baggy-era drumming and gospel-diva backing vocals"
"...ruined with a string and woodwind section and dramatic backing vocals that..."
Now, I don't work at the BBC but I'd assume they must be a general set of guidelines to follow when reveiwing an album, which no-one seems to be following here accusing one album of lacking something, then saying it's crap in the next album. The reviews are only 2 years apart as well, so not like times have changed and we're in a new generation.
Also I can't see how the BBC can write such a review when The Enemy receive frequent airplay across all their major stations. I usually trust the BBC to bring me good quality in anything they do, but I get the feeling this person maybe half hearted listened to the album then looked at the lyric book to see what dirt he could dig up there.
Sorry for the long post, needs must.
If You Hate Me, Then Try And Take Me. Your Words Won't Even Break My Stride.
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I fink they slagged it off because of the lyric "You never get anything for free unless you start sleeping with the BBC" lol
"Theres too many dreams in this wasteland" Tom Clarke, The Enemy, 2007-LEDGEND!!!!
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robmacca (01/05/2009)
LoyalRoyal4 (01/05/2009)
I fink they slagged it off because of the lyric "You never get anything for free unless you start sleeping with the BBC" lol So so true!
I haven't been surprised by the press backlash (as I mentioned in another topic). It does my head in Rob, it really does.......
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jane (01/05/2009)
robmacca (01/05/2009)
LoyalRoyal4 (01/05/2009)
I fink they slagged it off because of the lyric "You never get anything for free unless you start sleeping with the BBC" lol
So so true!
I haven't been surprised by the press backlash (as I mentioned in another topic).
It does my head in Rob, it really does.......
Same.
And too the like "You never get anything for free, unless you start sleeping with BBC", although you mentioned it as a joke, I'm wondering if there could be any bias toward this line although the reviewer never specifically mentions it he does slag off Tom's lyrical ability. If it is true then this guy should be sacked just for being so naive to the band and the indie music scene as a whole.
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| the album was reviewed on five live last tuesday morning and that line cropped up and they were slating them for it, they also commented on the "british steel" line saying "that's a bit stupid cos british steel doesn't exist anymore" i think that is the point of the lyric it isn't it? no jobs for joe public anymore and no industry!! idiots they are!!
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