The Fratellis

How SHITE are this mob? Cheesy, uninspiring pub-rock that's shifting barrowloads of "units" at the moment. Who is buying this pish? To answer my own question I'd hazard a guess that the typical purchaser has a CD collection including plenty of Oasis, Primal Scream, Cast (!!), Arctic Monkeys and similar pleb-pop suspects.

The lead singer was in the paper last week being asked how it felt to have the second best selling album of the week behind Justin Timberlake. He made some comment along the lines of not wanting to be jusdged alongside "pop crap" like Mr. JT. That quote made me laugh out loud. Timberlake might be another annoying wee fanny but the production on that last single of his was more inventive than anything the greasy Glaswegians are ever likely to produce.

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: never heard of them...does that mean I'm sheltered...or LUCKY???

For anybody not familiar, here's the full horror

fucking shite!!!!!!!!

great thread glas vegas

glad someone feels the same

[brown]Ally[/brown] wrote: Haven't heard The Fratellis yet but does anyone else hate that "Never Be Lonely" single by The Feeling? It manages to provoke a violent mood out of me every time. Perhaps I've just been overexposed to it but the shitey soft rock underpinning the hellishly soppy lyrics "People in lurve get everythang wrong but at least they're not loooonely" make my skin crawl.

That's doing my head in along with the new Killers & Scissor Sister singles One's a horribly aborted U2/Meat Loaf/Brooce Springsteen hybrid and the other's just an even camper (if that were possible) reworking of Elton John's 1970s output.

Sod all originality left in the music biz.

That Feeling track has to be one of the most overplayed, irritating songs of all time

And yes, the Scissor Sisters song is camper than a row of pink tents

Shite, shite, shite... If only NO'd released Turn... It's all be so different then...

Snorri xxx

COR BLIMEY

never heard of them. something to avoid then.

Sad thing is every shop in glasgow is pumping out the album over the speakers it was unbearable when i last went, my house mates bought Paulo Nuttinis(?) album, what a pile of shit that fucker is.

Never heard of 'em. But I did click on the link and you're right, a bunch of tedious sods. Is it brit-pop? Or is it glam rock they're playing?

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote: Sad thing is every shop in glasgow is pumping out the album over the speakers it was unbearable when i last went, my house mates bought Paulo Nuttinis(?) album, what a pile of shit that fucker is.

It aint exclusive to Glasgow mate. It's the type of music that would sit well in Top Shops and Burtons up and down the country, and I'm sure it already does.

It's the big cheesy sing-a-long bits that give it that "shop" factor. Almost as cheesy as the feckin Kaiser Chefs.

If you look at them in that video I posted they're all 30+ as well which makes it even sadder. As I said, lowest common denominator pub-rock.

Shug wrote:

GlasVegas wrote: Who is buying this pish? To answer my own question I'd hazard a guess that the typical purchaser has a CD collection including plenty of Oasis, Primal Scream, Cast (!!), Arctic Monkeys.....

You say that like it's a bad thing ;)

Mrs Shug is a big fan. They have a T-Rex vibe about them, they have grown on me an all......and I'm sure they're Tims.

Go wash yer mouth out wi soap! I can undersatnd yer missus liking them as they're a burds type band.

And Tommy the drummer out a Wet Wet Wet is a Tim. They're still UTTER GASH though

interesting new video though...

Do they make good ice cream?

GlasVegas wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: never heard of them...does that mean I'm sheltered...or LUCKY???

For anybody not familiar, here's the full horror

Oh ,that's them.Yep ,its a song i've caught a second or two on some of the music channels and i always flick channel straight away.Hate that kind of crap