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    Trendy NME/MM/etc type groops that actually sound good NOW!

    As it happens, no, they didn't. They got to #11. My mistake, then. But I remember them having quite some Smash Hits coverage at the time. Only natural, being that the oldest member was roughly two/three years into his 20's and they had dress sense. ;)
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    Trendy NME/MM/etc type groops that actually sound good NOW!

    Mmm, I seem to remember Menswe@r had Top 20 singles and their debut album entered at #1.
  3. J

    Trendy NME/MM/etc type groops that actually sound good NOW!

    Continuing on my vicious circle/eternal return theory: don't you all think Editors are Whipping Boy for 2005/6, but with real commercial success?
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    Trendy NME/MM/etc type groops that actually sound good NOW!

    I know MM or NME really didn't try to push them to the forefront, but does anyone remember Goya Dress? And is anyone here following Astrid's solo work of late? I have a feeling that the MM of yore (not the Britpop-MM of '95/'96 onwards) would have really backed them all the way. Their sound was...
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    Trendy NME/MM/etc type groops that actually sound good NOW!

    I know this may sound devilish to many here, but I think Menswe@ar, in some ways, invented Franz Ferdinand almost ten years prior!
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    Trendy NME/MM/etc type groops that actually sound good NOW!

    I have a memory of Marion's "Toys For Boys" playing a lot in the late morning slot at this now defunct Alternative music station here in Portugal (funnily enough it was called XFM, and it ended its run just as London's XFM was going legal), and I even remember the chorus going something like...
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    The Red Hot Chilli Peppers thread (not much love to be found here)

    Hello, all. First post here. Actually, there are already flying accusations that "Dani California" rips off Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance" instead. http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=17507
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