bingo bango was okay and jump'n'shout... that's it

nothing like a bit of controversy to get the people talking!!



well mr. acidchildren i didn't have time to discuss this propperly. so i condensed my thaughts into you are talking shit. a very unconstructive view as you pointed out. the way i see it the chems and the current form of the jaxx are polls apart. i like my music thats a bit serious, some depth to it.



to say the jaxx can be better live than the chems is a discrace in my book!! when ever i have seen the jaxx live i find there visiual presentation a disraction to the music. i don't know how live there music is. i think its some deck/live hybrid. it just looks like a carnaval show on their stage. where as with the chems the visuals are so intense and make perfect sense with the music, one complements the other. its a full on audio visual assult course!!!



the thing is with the jaxx these days is they got one foot in the dance world and the other firmly placed in pop world. i thought they were wicked when i first heard flylife. then a few years later remedy appeared and that album was a corker!! definately one of the albums that made up the best year of my life in 99. but after that we had rooty which was fuckin crap!! people have said about 'where's your head at' is a bad tune (also the best tune on that shocking album). that tune was made for those nasty pubs & clubs that play the same music weekend. it was designed to sit between usher 'yeah' and house of pain 'jump around' on a friday night to those burberry wearing chavs on a friday night!!! and i'm afraid i think kish kash has taken off where rooty left off. the day basement jaxx make some propper house music again then i will show some repect to them.



as for the darksessions its just a bit of fun. my makoosa night is just a place for me to mix out loud. i'm really not that bothered about becoming a full time dj. there is a lot of bull shit and crap to go through to get anywhere. just cos i'm small time is not a messure of my skill. i know i am a shit hot dj. my best mate mark is the most successful dj outta all of my friends. i have followed him djing around the south and all the major clubs in london. i know how much effort it is to get nowhere. i know how it can turn you off the music. i play for one person, me. i am happiest playing at home. doing makoosa funds my record buying, keeps me in fresh. if i wanted to start playing turnmills i'd have to sell 50 tickets to do a warm up set to no one in the main room or 100 tickes to host t3 for the night. promotion is shit. you dont have to play to thousands to enjoy the music.

I agree with Basement Jaxx having one foot(maybe one and a half feet..) in the pop world. I'd heard that Kish Kash was their best album and when I first heard it I was kind of disappointed, though it's growing on me now, since I've been listening to it often..



just to go off on a little tangent: I tend to do that, but I'm not sure it's best - kind of play albums I don't initially like and sort of make myself learn to like them.. seems not quite right, maybe, and I should just trust my first instinct on some things, like AONO or Kish Kash..



anyway, as I've mentioned before, I saw Simon do a DJ set here in Hong Kong, and I must say, I was REALLY disappointed.. so he was sharing the decks with a couple people (some friends he brought from the UK or something..) and I don't know if they heard that Asian people (not that I'm one, btw, in case you didn't know :P) like Reggae or Dancehall or whatever that stuff was.. but the crowd didn't really respond all that well until Meat Katie came on right after them - I think I've discovered that HK people really like breaks, in fact.



So I know it's not really seeing Basement Jaxx live (I met the guy who did the visuals and he's just a local guy, so it wasn't the typical Jaxx live experience), especially since I don't think they even played any Jaxx (!) , but...



between that show and the so-so-ness of Kish Kash and it not really being much of a dance record (the way I like it) and something a lot more pop, I've just been disappointed with the Jaxx most recently - though I'm still a fan.

Most of the albums and songs I really love and mean the world to me have been growers. It's only the rare album that I love straight off that stands the test of time.



I think I only truly appreciated Dig Your Own Hole as a holistic entity today, even though I've loved many of its tracks (RBR, SS, Lost in the K-Hole, TPPR) for years. It Doesn't Matter made sense in some new way today.



OK Computer took a while before I really listened to it; Tool's Lateralus took at least six months before I gave it a second listen. Even still, it was only about a year ago that 'Lucky' emerged as the standout track on OK Computer for me.



Among recent pickups, Scissor Sisters' seemed great for the first week but has faded somewhat (though will rotate back to the CD player soon); Franz Ferdinand on the other hand wowed me and continues to do so above and beyond the overwhelming hype.



I've finally given AONO a proper listen or two the last couple days and it's not bad really. Not groundbreaking or mindblowing, but a quite good album in its way.

conclusion= both are good bands. well the chem�s are excellent jaxx is only good. X-D

franz ferdinand are excellent. they're friends of mine 8)



*wishes to have Tom and Ed as friends instead, but that's okay X-D *

Franz Ferdinand arn't excellent! They're strokes wannabees. I don't know how they get away with it. I will tell you, I hate them!

Yer the chems does have more depth to it than the Jaxx, but the jaxx is still very fun. Not over keen on Siccor Sisters at first but have grown on me some of the tracks, i think they maybe a one minute wonder like Junior Senior last year.

Good god man, scissor scisstors are unbelievably poor! I HAD to see them live at creamfields because my mate was a fan, I felt ill. And for some reason the 'female' member of the band kept going on about giving nadia a break for being a transexual, that in itself is suspect!

i thought that when the sissor sisters play cricket they all bat for the other team

scissors sisters = crap

omg! I can't believe what I'm reading! I'm a HUGE Jaxx and Chems fan, and I just can't get over people saying the Jaxx are rubbish Live! I've seen the Jaxx Live twice, and the Chems Live twice, and the Jaxx beat them hands down. Don't get me wrong, the Chems rocked the house both times, but like someone said, when the Jaxx play it's like a carnival, fookin' awesome, the atmosphere just can't be beaten. When I saw them at Somerset house, it was the best gig of my life.

Am I reading this right :? It's not possible to get better than a chems live gig! It's beyond words, if I were a poet, i'd be able to describe how It made me feel, but unfortunatly i'm not, I'm just a man.

iguanapunk Escribi�:

Franz Ferdinand arn't excellent! They're strokes wannabees. I don't know how they get away with it. I will tell you, I hate them!

my friend, you should listen to both strokes and ff. their music is completely different. as i like the strokes as well (and have liked ff from the first beginnings on, long before the hype started) i just can say, both the bands are great. and they do not make the same kind of music plus their backgrounds and scenes are totally different. sorry, punk, you really should give me arguements for ff being strokes wannabees }:-@

When I first heard Franz, I looked like this: :o



Do you know why I looked like this? :o



I looked like this :o because I was shocked. Shocked at their style, so very simular to the once unique strokes (who everybody in the world likes because they make some fuckin good music).



I think you're not seeing the picture clearly boy who's in need of glasses for his golden eyes because you are friends with Franz Ferdinand.



I HAD to see these bastards live to because my friend wanted to see them (i'm to afraid to venture off on my own a festivals, I have the knack of getting lost) and they were awful.

I wouldn't expect Scissor Sisters to be any good at all live, but their album is very good if you're into a mashup of Prince, the Beegees, Parliament Funkadelic, 'Yellow Brick Road'-era Elton John, and Pink Floyd. It's honestly a very good gay disco album and we all know that there's nothing better than gay disco. X-D (or a term more redundant than gay disco, I suppose. :P



Franz Ferdinand, on the other hand, I can't compare them to the Strokes because I've only ever heard one or two Strokes songs. I completely passed that hype machine by. Still, their debut album is quite simply gorgeous from front to back. Songs that carry the whole range of emotions yet all remain dancey. Lyrically, Alex Kapranos is remarkably poignant in this era of ridiculous and nonsensical lyrics. I HATE liking bands that are the current rage, so you can rest assured I'm not kissing their ass for the sake of being in the current "cool crew". Nevertheless, their debut is quite possibly the best album I've purchased in a long long while. Now if only they'd stop being popular I'd be happy.

punk }:-@ i can understand if you ain't friend with all bands. i neither am. but: ff are not the strokes and you are the first ever person i met comparing them with the strokes. the strokes have some dirty 60s background while ff are to be located somewhere in the 80s. if you listened to shopping for blood, b of darts of pleasure - the strokes would never make a song like this one. as well, ff don't just play one style of music, neither do the strokes though their song are more similiar to each other. and - the strokes come from a fuckin rich background, born with a golden spoon in their mouth while the franz guys come from a common people social background. and they've never tried to be as "cool" as the strokes. it's not me needing glasses, mate - i don't like their music as they are friends of mine. i like their music as it is excellent. as well, i like the strokes. you just seem to hate ff while lovin' the strokes. maybe it's you who needs glasses??? :?

My vision has been rather blurry lately, but I think that's due to the radiation from my monitor. We wont agree on this, but i'm not the first one to hear the strokes connection.

iguanapunk Escribi�:

When I first heard Franz, I looked like this: :o



Do you know why I looked like this? :o



I looked like this :o because I was shocked...

Hahaha, you crack me up! X-D



excellent use of emoticons

:o