Keane VS Coldplay

i dont like this kind of music that much but the reason i started the thread is kuz i think, eventhough keane is a new band that is bearly getting started they play very well thats why i am comparing them with coldplay because they use a similar way to sing just as Coldplay but i am not saying that keane are better than cold play its just that they play and sing very well
in conclusion i think that if they could reach fame in least than a year just as Franz Ferdinand did, Then what could we expectin their (both keane & Franz) next album

Keane make me sleepy, sorry - far too boring

They sld the most ablums of last year, where are all the fans that bought them?

They're not on here. Lets face it, the majority of people who like Keane are well...old, or older than the most of us in the music forum anyway. They're a boring easy listening band who are only successful because they've flown in on the back of all these other sub-Radiohead ''indie'' rock bands. Same applies for Snow Patrol, The Libertines, Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand etc etc. They all have the same basic set up and they are all just as boring in their individual ways.

In my humble opinion the only British bands around at the moment that are actually worth listening to are Porcupine Tree and The Wedding Present.

Why do people continually refer to album sales?

Keane are lame. Coffee table, retirement home music.

Def, when you're on MSN send me a message. I have a British band worth listening to for you.

-AC

you really have chip on your shoulder dont you AC?

Multiple.

I know that answer is gonna annoy you, you knew that too. Yet you still asked, so you have no right to complain if it did.

-AC

i asked what question?...certainly wasnt me who posted the thread...

and it takes considerably more than your humerous ranting to annoy me

Goodie 🙂

-AC

yippeeeeeeeee 😄 😉

Originally posted by Deathblow
They're not on here. Lets face it, the majority of people who like Keane are well...old, or older than the most of us in the music forum anyway. They're a boring easy listening band who are only successful because they've flown in on the back of all these other sub-Radiohead ''indie'' rock bands. Same applies for Snow Patrol, The Libertines, Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand etc etc. They all have the same basic set up and they are all just as boring in their individual ways.

In my humble opinion the only British bands around at the moment that are actually worth listening to are Porcupine Tree and The Wedding Present.

Ok, well im sorry but radiohead were not the first indie band, the smiths were around along time before radiohead. Dont compare new bands to them its pretty much been done before.

Oh and i like how you name all the 'well-known magazine cover' bands, and prefere the bands that have not yet hit it really big. Hmm thats strange...

Let's not confuse hitting it big with being good.

Prime example: Franz Ferdinand are superstars, Coldplay are superstars, Snow Patrol are doing well in the States it seems.

All these shit indie bands (our version of the Emo-Clone wars in the States) with the same sound-different name adage, don't get mentioned here because they're shit. Just because you're on your own liking The Libertines near enough, doesn't raise their credibility.

-AC

Radiohead arent even Indie are they? neway doesnt matter.
my opinion, Indie has been sucked into the fad-machine... itll be sucked in, bastardized and churned back out with a million more exact copies, if u wanna like them...then so be it, but recognise that there is alot more worth listening to out there

says the metal fans...the genre that has been churning out the same shit for 20 years and giving different sub genres in a futile attempt to make them seem original

Why do you assume that because we don't like the oh-so dull British music scene right now we are all know nothing metalheads?

Metal makes about 30% of my musical preference, maybe less. And if you think newer metal is shit and unoriginal, you obviously haven't heard Dark Tranquility, Opeth, Meshuggah or Sevendust to name but four.

Originally posted by Libertine
Ok, well im sorry but radiohead were not the first indie band, the smiths were around along time before radiohead. Dont compare new bands to them its pretty much been done before.

Oh and i like how you name all the 'well-known magazine cover' bands, and prefere the bands that have not yet hit it really big. Hmm thats strange...

Did I say Radiohead were the first? Nope. Don't put words in my mouth. I said all these bands today are sub-Radiohead, sub meaning similar to, but inferior. Understand?

The Wedding Present are the only band in history to have had a single in the top 40 every month for one year, and had multiple songs in John Peel's festive 50's. They are big. Porcupine Tree aren't big because they are too creative and unique-sounding for the mainstream. If only they were to dress up in matching suits and ties, grow their hair into a matted mess, start taking cocaine and playing monotonous retro-rock, they'd become big. Silly them.

we can all play the stereotype game

metal...long haired black wearing headbangers who disguise their lack of talent by sticking the distortion up full

not particularly accurate and just as pointless as your stereotypical image of indie bands

ive never seen oasis in matching suits...

the british music scene is better now than it has been for years...its just pity that where i live , the pubs are choked up with absolutely pish metal bands with very few bands making it out into a wider scene...snow patrol being one of them...and in fact formed no more than a stones throw from my front door

the cream always rises to the top...

you can also blame the clone wars that every music genre has on the record company bosses...

one company sees a band make it big and all the other companies want a nice big fat slice of the pie

Originally posted by jaden101
we can all play the stereotype game

metal...long haired black wearing headbangers who disguise their lack of talent by sticking the distortion up full

That would do nothing but prove how little you really know.

This so-called ''indie'' is stereotypical in itself. As I said before it's all the same sub-Radiohead boredom fests, if there were some exceptions, and some of these bands were attention grabbing, I wouldn't say that. But there aren't. It's all so despairingly, depressingly dull. And I know, I have friends who listen to nothing but The Libertines and this other band with a female lead..I forget the name now. I've seen shows in various bars and it's flatline music.

why is is "flatline" music...cause it isnt 300bpm talentless power chord shite

Originally posted by Deathblow
That would do nothing but prove how little you really know.

would it now...well lets test that theory...i'll google image some of the metal bands that have been brought up an img them onto this post

meshuggah

iced earth

amon amarth

shadows fall

opeth

dark tranquility

it has to be said...some of your choices are hardly dispelling any myths or destroying any stereotypes of the metal genre

this is the reason ive always found it pretty sad that people who listen to metal continuously take the piss out of "fashion victims" for always being dressed the same...when they all look the same as well

stereotypes...yes there are bands in the indie scene that fit the image you described...but dont try and defend metal based on a holier than thou image crusade and preach about them being all the same

first time I heard Keane - I thought it was the band Travis 😐