I went to the launch of her first album at Bloomsbury Ballroom, 2009, was a great gig tbf. Cheered me up no end after Man Utd lost the CL final to Barca earlier that night.
On a similarly musical note. Is rock’s greatest secret that nearly all Foo Fighters album tracks are shit? Consummate singles band, among their many traits.
Fender is good on the way things from childhood linger, stay with you. eg the bit in Seventeen Going Under about the boy who beat up his friend, or possibly little brother, and how he was too scared to do anything then but would still love to exact revenge with a good smack now, years later. Resonant.
The clappy rhythm and yappy vocals of that song are very very Joel. And the “woah-oh” stuff. It’s generally quite eighties in terms of arrangement.
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Is Billy Joel a good or a bad thing?
I am seeing Sam Fender soon and want to check (by inverse reference to your contrary opinions) whether I'm going to enjoy it.
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Florence started in around 2009
That was nearer the prime of Dido than it is to today.
Your claim is somewhat dated
Fender reminds me somewhat of Springsteen and it is a novelty to hear an unsoftened Geordie accent in song
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What’s your point in your first three lines gaga? The point is she reminds me of Dido.
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I personally like Billy Joel. I can see the Springsteen comparison with Fender. Springsteen and Joel ofc similar in certain ways.
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My point is she's not the Dido of our times .. she's more like another Dido in Dido's time.
But yes she is a bit like Dido and also some shades of Kate Bush
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Florence is of our time. Dido is not. Not as a recording artist anyway.
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FATM were way better than Dido.
I went to the launch of her first album at Bloomsbury Ballroom, 2009, was a great gig tbf. Cheered me up no end after Man Utd lost the CL final to Barca earlier that night.
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I was more into Vampire Weekend around about then.
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Has any band ever sounded less like their name than Vampire Weekend?
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Vampire weekday
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On a similarly musical note. Is rock’s greatest secret that nearly all Foo Fighters album tracks are shit? Consummate singles band, among their many traits.
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She writes dreadful boring bilge and her most famous single is an inferior cover version.
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and Billy Joel ofc
in the melodies
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Speaking of Fender Sr, I know a couple of people who know him.
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Fender is good on the way things from childhood linger, stay with you. eg the bit in Seventeen Going Under about the boy who beat up his friend, or possibly little brother, and how he was too scared to do anything then but would still love to exact revenge with a good smack now, years later. Resonant.
The clappy rhythm and yappy vocals of that song are very very Joel. And the “woah-oh” stuff. It’s generally quite eighties in terms of arrangement.
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Roger Federer and the Blands would have been a better name for Vampire Weekend
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For Foo Fighters that rule only applies firmly from One by One onwards. And tbh it often applies even to the singles later on.
A few hidden gems on Nothing Left to Lose and Colour and Shape for sure
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'The Colour and the Shape' is a good album, their best, for me.
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