A slight retraction
I was up last night watching MTV on cable and was reasonably hash-stoned and they had a mini-special on the Monkeys..They had them performing that song about 'looking nice on the dancefloor'...LIVE they are a totally different proposition, and coz I only heard their - which I stand by - MEDIOCIRE album, they have become slightly more interesting to me..
LIVE they see like a Pommy band trying to get on that quirky arryhthmic-strummy Strokes/Kings of Leon thang, but also sound very similar to the early Jam, even some sort of Oi! band, and of course that quirky fucken Stump doo-dah..Sorry I don't know all those 'how ya goin' luv' type bands/celebs/journo that you Pom know, so maybe you could have better *cough* sonic references to one -up me with.
But their album has all those shitty nu-punk-Foo-Fighter generic commerical production stylings, which as an artefact of a band that prolly won't be much-of-anything in 3-5 years, marks them as still Shite IMHO.
I was up last night watching MTV on cable and was reasonably hash-stoned and they had a mini-special on the Monkeys..They had them performing that song about 'looking nice on the dancefloor'...LIVE they are a totally different proposition, and coz I only heard their - which I stand by - MEDIOCIRE album, they have become slightly more interesting to me..
LIVE they see like a Pommy band trying to get on that quirky arryhthmic-strummy Strokes/Kings of Leon thang, but also sound very similar to the early Jam, even some sort of Oi! band, and of course that quirky fucken Stump doo-dah..Sorry I don't know all those 'how ya goin' luv' type bands/celebs/journo that you Pom know, so maybe you could have better *cough* sonic references to one -up me with.
But their album has all those shitty nu-punk-Foo-Fighter generic commerical production stylings, which as an artefact of a band that prolly won't be much-of-anything in 3-5 years, marks them as still Shite IMHO.