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NME Awards 2010
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Thu 25 Feb 2010 09:14
hmmm

Godlike Genius - Paul Weller
Outstanding Contribution To Music - The Specials
Best British Band - Muse
Best International Band - Paramore
Best Solo Artist - Jamie T
Best New Band - Bombay Bicycle Club
Best Live Band - Artic Monkeys
Best Album - Kasabian
Best Track - Big Pink "Dominos"
Best Video - Shitty Clyro "The Captain"
Best Live Event - Blur at Hyde Park
Best Festival - Glastonbury
Best Dancefloor Filler - La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream Remix)
Best TV Show - The Inbetweeners
Best Film - Inglorious Basterds
etc
etc
etc

Weller - fair enough, made some great music with The Jam and Style Council and his solo stuff up to and including Stanley Road.

The Specials did make some amazing music although this reunion minus the bands founder and main songwriter is a bit "Chicken in the basket circuit" for me

Muse/Kasabian/Paramore? - oh dear

Jamie T - Please go away

Thoughts anyone?
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Thu 25 Feb 2010 10:56
Reply to Post 64278 by MarkEMoon in NME Awards 2010 hmmm

Godlike Genius - Paul Weller
Outstanding Contribution To Music - The Specials
Best British Band - Muse
Best International Band - Paramore
Best Solo Artist - Jamie T
Best New Band - Bombay Bicycle Club
Best Live Band - Artic Monkeys
Best Album - Kasabian
Best Track - Big Pink "Dominos"
Best Video - Shitty Clyro "The Captain"
Best Live Event - Blur at Hyde Park
Best Festival - Glastonbury
Best Dancefloor Filler - La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream Remix)
Best TV Show - The Inbetweeners
Best Film - Inglorious Basterds
etc
etc
etc

Weller - fair enough, made some great music with The Jam and Style Council and his solo stuff up to and including Stanley Road.

The Specials did make some amazing music although this reunion minus the bands founder and main songwriter is a bit "Chicken in the basket circuit" for me

Muse/Kasabian/Paramore? - oh dear

Jamie T - Please go away

Thoughts anyone?


I do tend to read the NME every so often and I have noticed a striking percentage of bands they're hyping also mentioned on this forum. Some closet NME readers here protesting too much perchance, or just coincidence...

Loving the way you take shots at Jamie T & Biffy Clyro whilst Paramore get away unscathed?! Plus, we know you have love for Kasabian really. Muse have indeed gone a bit rubbish, but they've notched up some decent albums that wee all over what I've heard by the utterly underwhelming Big Pink.
Thu 25 Feb 2010 11:04
At least something should have gone to Them Crooked Vultures.
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Thu 25 Feb 2010 11:13
With the exception of Bombay Bicycle Club and Big Pink it's still all a bit safe though ...don't you think.
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Thu 25 Feb 2010 11:18
Reply to Post 64338 by brianfantana in NME Awards 2010 I do tend to read the NME every so often and I have noticed a striking percentage of bands they're hyping also mentioned on this forum. Some closet NME readers here protesting too much perchance, or just coincidence...

Loving the way you take shots at Jamie T & Biffy Clyro whilst Paramore get away unscathed?! Plus, we know you have love for Kasabian really. Muse have indeed gone a bit rubbish, but they've notched up some decent albums that wee all over what I've heard by the utterly underwhelming Big Pink.


Paramore are appauling, they sound like Avril Lavigne, Kasabian? meh, Muse were fine up to and including Absolution but have well and truly vanished up their own backsides.
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Thu 25 Feb 2010 12:01
Well, I still like Muse lots so am completely and utterly unbothered.. : )
Thu 25 Feb 2010 13:10
Reply to Post 64345 by MarkEMoon in NME Awards 2010 Muse were fine up to and including Absolution but have well and truly vanished up their own backsides.


I knew there was a reason I liked this guy! Completely agree...however, "Dark Star" is a kicking tune.

Did I just use the term "kicking" unironically? Kill me now!
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Thu 25 Feb 2010 15:18
Reply to Post 64354 by Tom_Himself in NME Awards 2010 I knew there was a reason I liked this guy! Completely agree...however, "Dark Star" is a kicking tune.

Did I just use the term "kicking" unironically? Kill me now!


"Kicking" is a good phrase Tom

Muse were a good band, then Matt Bellamy got lazy and rich.

Always feel they are a band with the potential to be good again and they do have Morgan Nicholls of the Senseless Things playing keyboards with them, they've also bizarrely done a cover of the late great Mega City Four's "Prague" on the b-side of their new single, and it's rather good as well.
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Thu 25 Feb 2010 15:25
paramore have done a couple of good pop singles

but yeah, the list is a load of crap.
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Thu 25 Feb 2010 15:31
Reply to Post 64370 by MarkEMoon in NME Awards 2010 Muse were a good band, then Matt Bellamy got lazy and rich.


Probably true yet, can you really blame the bloke? I admire the band for not churning out the same album over and over again but evolving and doing exactly what they want (and having a good laugh about it) rather than what people think they should be doing. : )
Thu 25 Feb 2010 15:38
Reply to Post 64372 by Dust in NME Awards 2010 Probably true yet, can you really blame the bloke? I admire the band for not churning out the same album over and over again but evolving and doing exactly what they want (and having a good laugh about it) rather than what people think they should be doing. : )


I remember when "Supermassive Black Hole" coming out, really good single which me and you played loads at The Furnace in 2006 time, then the album came out which, apart from that "Knights of Cydonia" and the one that sounds like the theme to "Howards Way" was patchy as hell.

They sound like a Queen tribute band.

Still I'd rather listen to them than Shitty Clyro who ARE the most overrated band ever and seem to own shares in MTV2 as every time I flick over to said channel one of their s**t video's are on.
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Thu 25 Feb 2010 21:35
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Still I'd rather listen to them than Shitty Clyro who ARE the most overrated band ever and seem to own shares in MTV2 as every time I flick over to said channel one of their s**t video's are on.


What were you saying about that first Kasabian album again? : )
Fri 26 Feb 2010 15:50
Reply to Post 64354 by Tom_Himself in NME Awards 2010 I knew there was a reason I liked this guy! Completely agree...however, "Dark Star" is a kicking tune.

Did I just use the term "kicking" unironically? Kill me now!



Did you, perchance, mean 'Dead Star'?
Fri 26 Feb 2010 17:19
Reply to Post 64354 by Tom_Himself in NME Awards 2010 I knew there was a reason I liked this guy! Completely agree...however, "Dark Star" is a kicking tune.

Did I just use the term "kicking" unironically? Kill me now!


Dead Star was released in 2002, before Absolution.

Muse were great at mixing up genres, since Absolution they've stopped doing that, now it's Muse doing *insert genre* and end up thinking there's loads of people doing this and doing it better, why am I listening to Muse doing it?
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Reply to Post 64425 by ophelia1971 in NME Awards 2010 Did you, perchance, mean 'Dead Star'?


Yep. Thanks ; )
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