A Thread For Sensitive Boys With Guitars or Destroy/Destroy

who do you most want to punch?

"Punch" is not what I think when I look at either of those men.

Unless ILX has moved from "smash" to "punch" in slang in the past 6 months.

Lemmy was so cuet back in the 70s. What happened? I know, drugs. But still.

Your next thread should be sensitive boys with guitars vs sensitive boys with synths : a kate pictorial.

Dudes who abruptly grow bowl cuts and pose with Jazzmasters

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksw8l4lDxq1qzjvpto1_400.jpg

before realising I'd actually rather smang RDJ and consequently sprouting a ginger ponytail and a set of decks?

https://p.twimg.com/AgA0iDhCEAIhWHT.jpg

It's all too much for my poor head.

I sort of like Ed Shee, because he did a song about prostitutes and hard drugs and nobody the majority of his listeners don't seem to have noticed.

I thought that was his "selling point" - look, he is so real he does songs about prostitutes and hard drugs, he's gritty and authentic and down home and in no way a posh boy in a hoodie. Or something. I dunno. I wasn't really paying attention.

Oh, it seems all poetic/flowers to me. I wasn't really watching.

I sort of noticed him because he has a name very like a drummer I usedterno.

yes, the 'realness' is a thing with him - my gf's daughter (13-y-o) seems to like sheeran for that reason. He's also got that other song where he explains how real he is. 'you need me I don't need you'. That's it. It's unusually atrocious.

a modern day ocean colour scene/cast/real people then

So is this discussion done, then? Can I just turn this into a picture thread full of winsome sensitive boys?

http://data6.nightparty.ru/albums/npofficial/00000-000-5096272-696.jpg

You've disappointed me here, Kate. Ed Sheeran? Your taste is usually a lot better than that.

He's ginger, I can't help myself, and don't call me Kate, Tom.

I am powerless in the presence of ginger.

http://data6.nightparty.ru/albums/npofficial/00000-000-5096270-992.jpg

However, you know what is so NAGL? I'm trying to read that article that Chewy posted, and this dude keeps staring me in the face and distracting me:

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CICAgMDO7e_QjgEQrAIY-gEyCOEbo30oh7sn

That is just the RONGest thing I've seen in ages. I don't even know where to start. The scarf. The beard. The topknot. The inscrutably smug look on his face. Sometimes you can just look at someone and know instinctively that you will hate their music.

i do not think I have more to say. i mean I am horrified that these etiolated heirs of jamie t are popular at the mo, but my rage has been tempered by talking to aforementioned daughter of gf - hard to spew old-man cynic bile when chatting with amiable early teen.

In the long run, it often turns out that amiable 13 y.o. girls are right, and cynical old men are wrong when it comes to music.

xpost but he is Offerman! He will offer you things!

Possibly money-off coupons, maybe not.

xpost I have two 13 yr old girls, (although one is 11), and I not a c.o.m.

Will he offer me rekening op? I need an auditor in here bigtime.

I don't know what it is about him, I just experience irrational hatred. So I suppose I understand the punching reflex WRT Sheerham.

See? Mark speaks from experience. If you want to know if a music is of good quality, you would do far better to play it to two early teen girls than to play it to a cynical post-40 man.

One other annoying thing about that pic, the angle he's standing at

Oh yeah, that's the big fail.

Angela: I just like how he's always leaning. Against stuff. He leans great. Either sex or a conversation -- ideally both.

I just like it best when Thom gives in to his inner ginger.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/5597764/Thom+Yorke+thothototm.jpg

I know that his early hennae and bleach abuse is probably responsible for his current bald patch (that or genes) but compare and contrast this smug punchability with Sheerhan above and it becomes evident.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/44030729/Thom+Yorke+thomsquint.jpg

At least he's facing it with less dignity and more raging against the dying of the light than Mark Gardener's follicular experiments. Sigh.

http://i.fanpix.net/images/orig/k/z/kz8e99sa72lt27t9.jpg

Guess none of you are My So-Called Life fans, then?

i am with the 13-y-o on many things, but I am p comfortable in opposition on sheeran.

(rage/bile might be a bit strong - i def don't find sheeran punchable; he seems a decent enough sort. It's just the music bores me)

One of these days I will actually listen to Sheerhan. I admit the only thing of his I've heard was that video with Rupert Grint in it, which I was too busy marvelling at how funny the video was to pay much attention to the music, which I suppose is evidence of exactly how unmemorable it was (something Dan was complaining about on another thread - even something objectively bad is at least memorable, but I struggle to recall even how the tune of Sheeran's song went.)

Still, I'm with the 13 y.o. because the tickle of irritation at punchability is a precursor to the itch of lust.

This is just obscene.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/13835011/Thom+Yorke+p.png

And I like it!

Right, enough procrasturbating, I have business plans to write. Me, writing business plans. This is why private healthcare in this country will fail. Because I don't even understand why I get given these jobs. But at least there's a new Sonic Cathedral mix-cast thing today. Tra la la.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IeVEawIpC_k/S7Gzvko_JzI/AAAAAAAAKGw/JnS3dLuYft4/s1600/NoelGallagher01.jpg

EW.

I've spent the past 24 hours pretty much on a solid cheesecake binge and you harsh-buzz me with that? Without even The Traitor Andy Bell to make up for it?

andy bell is in liam's band i think, not noel's.

Is Liam's band any better than Noel's? Or is that like asking if cat shit smells better than dog shit? ;-)

Well, I think Liam's band is better than Noel's.

I was in a shop and "If I had a gun" Noel came on. He has this habit of having half a decent idea for a song, but never getting round to replacing his placeholder lines or even finishing writing it.

Ha ha, maybe I'll look them up on YouTube because there's no way I'm getting either of them on my Spotify/last.fm stats heh.

Yes, I have standards. I don't care how much Cher Lloyd gets on my last.fm stats but I draw the line at Gallaghers.

(My colleague is trying to annoy the shit out of me by singing glam rock christmas singles at me, but at least he's moved on from Wizzard to Slade. God I wish I'd had more than 5 hours of sleep last night, I am completely slap happy and laughing my head off at everything.)

Is five hours a "good" amount?

My normal amount is six thesedays...

the noel song i heard was a lot better than liam's. but im not sure id give it any higher praise than "it was ok and i didnt turn the radio off"

OMG no, I need at least 8 hours or I go seriously crazy. Me not getting enough sleep for several nights in a row is like manic episode on a stick.

But it's OK, we're bouncing around the office to Ballroom Blitz now and he's threatening to torrent the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack. (This may be my fault bcuz he was laughing at me making crush with eyeliner my new wallpaper.)

Need more bubbleglam in my life. Are you ready Steve? uh-huh. Andy? YEAH.

TS: Ballroom Blitz vs Blitzkrieg Bop

(let's ask Amber and Alice)

they will choose 1 each

Now that's a tough one!

Obviously they have emotional attachment to BzBop (Amber rewrote it for herself as "5th Street Pop" in honour of their NY visit)

But I know they'd love Ballroom Blitz.

xpost dunno about that.

you must let them decide during the school run tomorrow by playing both

ah, school run is a thing of the past, they both Secondary School now.

Which involves walking up and meeting friends on the way.

I know, where does the time go, etc.

the end of the grout school run saddens me. It was truly one of the earths great wonders.

oh and just for fotherington thomas Doom Folk S/D (mumford and sons to make a 'doom folk album')

Bleurgh. Do not want.

you were complaining sandbox was down yesterday so you couldnt post about it!

I wanted to see you get really sputtery about how awful it was, I didn't want the actual album made!

well that thread is for posting good doom folk

I just wanted to say that this

I have two 13 yr old girls, (although one is 11)

Is beautiful

Is the truth! (thx)

Was it in Select or Melody Maker, back in the 90s, where they ran an article which asked a bunch of schoolchildren their opinions of the Records Of Today with predictable results (they hate Suede! and Oasis! they love the Smiths! and Blur!)...

...until the inevitable punchline that the schoolchildren were actually Stephen Street's kids and a couple of their classmates.

Oh, Tom. You had to piss on our chips.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/dec/15/drake-bon-iver-james-blake

tom likes that stuff?