Sleaford Mods

connect_icut

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Anyone else a fan? At first I thought it was the worst thing I'd ever heard. But I kept wanting to hear it again. Now I think it's genius. Bits of The Fall, John Cooper Clarke, The Streets, Half Man Half Biscuit and - weirdest of all - Le Tigre.


 

mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
some bits are really brilliant, really, really brilliant. they dunarf go on a bit tho, and some of the choruses are fufu but they get a win for "donkey" alone, best sampling of an animal since Missy Elliott's elephant.
 

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
That's definitely a thread-in-waiting. Cypress hill and morrissey, together at last.

Sleaford mods are pretty good an' all. Im waiting for the krautrock-style remixes.
 
Judging from the youtube videos I've seen the perfomance job in the band of the guy with the hat seems to be: head nodding beer drinking.:D

 

matt b

Indexing all opinion
They were utterly brilliant last night.

1. Amazingly, given the high swear count in the songs themselves, extra off-mic swear words were added.

2. In addition to drinking about 3 cans of lager, Andrew Fearn also checked his texts and took a photo.

3. Audience sing-a-longs (Job Seeker- now an anthem)

4. They're a complex proposition.

5. My wife's new favourite band! She was visibly shocked by how good they were.

6. Fuck off. Cunt.
 
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connect_icut

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Also loved this review. Points 4 and 6 alone trump K-Punk's entire Wire piece (I don't disagree with anything he says "but it's all so fucking boring").


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Also loved this review. Points 4 and 6 alone trump K-Punk's entire Wire piece (I don't disagree with anything he says "but it's all so fucking boring").


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He's showing what can be done by standing up and saying stuff bluntly then pulling faces and staring. As someone who spent time on top decks of buses in Nottingham as a kid, I can honestly say there was so much gobby fuckery about this had to happen.
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
sometime dissensus person Phil Blackpool wrote a pretty thorough exegesis of the Mods here

in addition to points of reference mentioned here he also includes things like: the Beats, Terry Callier, Sex Pistols, Crass (MC does come across a bit northern Steve Ignorant), Sham 69, IAN DURY, Exploited, Happy Mondays and Petshop Boys (in the singer + underemployed looking musician model) as well as (early) the Streets and, like Mike Skinner, Wu Tang. personally it makes me think The Streets (but bitter rather than melancholy) via Wu x Ian Dury x (It's Grim Up) North x the various UK youth tribes ca. 77-85 or so x the saltiness of encroaching middle age. but yeah bit of a complicated proposition.

this is my favorite. aside from the general brilliance of sampling Road Runner's proto-motorik, he just sounds so freaking exasperated by it all.
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padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
undoubtedly my favorite Sleaford Mods lyric is

"the fookin ills ave eyes"

cult 70s indie horror retransmuted into like, Danelaw Shakespeare
 

connect_icut

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These two videos are amazing and say a lot about the band's appeal, I think. You have to watch each to the end to really get it. That look on his face at the end of the "Donkey" vid... what does that say to you?


 
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