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In your opinion whose songs all sound the same?

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    #62
    du Maurier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭du Maurier


    RC88 wrote: »
    i'll admit a few pixes songs are quite good(Here Comes Your Man, where is my mind to name two) but most of em follow the same loudquietload format, either the verse is loud and the chorus is quiet or vice versa, just makes em sound a bit samey to me

    and with morrisseys dreary lyrics makes every smiths songs one big snoozefest for me

    Sounds lazy to me, this comment. Every Smiths song too..you're onto something here of course?


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    #63
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Editors
    I downloaded The Back Room and The End Has a Start and actually started to laugh at one point because so many songs followed the exact same format.
    I don't hate them or anything, just a bit samey.

    U2 and RHCP seemed to get a formula for an entire album and stick to it for the last 15 years. "That last album sold well, let's make one identical"


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    #64
    karaokeman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    U2 and RHCP seemed to get a formula for an entire album and stick to it for the last 15 years. "That last album sold well, let's make one identical"

    I do not believe you've listened in full to every album released by U2 and RHCP in the last 15 years, if you were you wouldn't be making that statement.

    You are talking two bands who experiment on every record here, the only problem is people can't appreciate it. U2's last album was completely experimental. Get On Your Boots is not their typical lead single. It was actually much more dance-orientated than Vertigo, which is more of a rock anthem. The two songs are different as are every other song on How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb and No Line On The Horizon.

    The RHCP have changed their style constantly. In the 1980s they did a lot of rap stuff but that changed with the release of Blood, Sugar, Sex Magic when Anthony Keidis did more singing. I can honestly say Californication is by no means similar to By The Way, Stadium Arcadium or I'm With You.

    Just listen to the three albums in sequence and you will see what I mean and for U2 you can try the albums I listed.

    Bottom line their recent albums are not identical.


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    #65
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    du Maurier wrote: »
    Kasabian.

    ludicrous statement there. how could they when there 4 albums have been completely different in sound and style.

    scouting for girls and linkin park defiantly


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    #66
    du Maurier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭du Maurier


    ricero wrote: »
    ludicrous statement there. how could they when there 4 albums have been completely different in sound and style.

    scouting for girls and linkin park defiantly

    The gospel according to you then.. I'll let you delude yourself into thinking these one-trick, style over substance ponies haven't been throwing out the same brand of song for as long as they've been sucking the pipes off the Gallagher brothers et al.


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    #67
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    du Maurier wrote: »
    Kasabian.

    I always kinda thought that Kasabian were one of the few British bands that are actually trying something new every time. I think they're a great band. Haven't failed to impress me yet.


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    #68
    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    du Maurier wrote: »
    The gospel according to you then.. I'll let you delude yourself into thinking these one-trick, style over substance ponies haven't been throwing out the same brand of song for as long as they've been sucking the pipes off the Gallagher brothers et al.
    Oh the irony of criticising someone else's post while then using a band who are infamous for having departed from their original sound as a retort.


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    #69
    du Maurier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭du Maurier


    Malice wrote: »
    Oh the irony of criticising someone else's post while then using a band who are infamous for having departed from their original sound as a retort.

    Ehm, not really. We know this thread will be subjective. That's a given. I just retorted to the "every song" part of his dismissiveness. And then I retorted to another poster that thought my opinion to be ludicrous. At least that was his opinion and was par for the course (the subjective/differing opinion). So I replied.

    You got your knickers in a twist when someone mentioned the Pixies if I recall correctly. They're wrong of course:rolleyes:


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    #70
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users Posts: 6,012 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    3 pages into the thread and I'm shocked nobody has mentioned the monotone masters, The Script.


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    #71
    The Radiator
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    The Beatles


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    #72
    Blisterman
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    [Band I don't like] /thread


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    #73
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    The Radiator wrote: »
    The Beatles
    Yes, because 'Love Me Do' sounds completely identical to 'Helter Skelter'...

    Fail.


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    #74
    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    du Maurier wrote: »
    Ehm, not really. We know this thread will be subjective. That's a given. I just retorted to the "every song" part of his dismissiveness. And then I retorted to another poster that thought my opinion to be ludicrous. At least that was his opinion and was par for the course (the subjective/differing opinion). So I replied.

    You got your knickers in a twist when someone mentioned the Pixies if I recall correctly. They're wrong of course:rolleyes:
    Apologies. I appear to have quoted and responded your post when I actually mean to quote and respond to this one. Linkin Park were the band I was referring to.


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    #75
    Clanket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭Clanket


    du Maurier wrote: »
    The gospel according to you then.. I'll let you delude yourself into thinking these one-trick, style over substance ponies haven't been throwing out the same brand of song for as long as they've been sucking the pipes off the Gallagher brothers et al.

    Oh right. So the gospel according to you then....


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    #76
    du Maurier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭du Maurier


    Clanket wrote: »
    Oh right. So the gospel according to you then....

    A third party intrusion isn't necessary, thanks:). You take care of the sleights coming your way and I'll try to ignore yours.


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    #77
    karaokeman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    baraca wrote: »
    3 pages into the thread and I'm shocked nobody has mentioned the monotone masters, The Script.

    So you can honestly say "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" and "Breakeven" sound the same:eek:?


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    #78
    Clanket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭Clanket


    du Maurier wrote: »
    The gospel according to you then.. I'll let you delude yourself into thinking these one-trick, style over substance ponies haven't been throwing out the same brand of song for as long as they've been sucking the pipes off the Gallagher brothers et al.
    du Maurier wrote: »
    A third party intrusion isn't necessary, thanks:). You take care of the sleights coming your way and I'll try to ignore yours.

    Intrusion in a public forum? Kasabian Oasis rip-offs?

    Me thinks you talking out your ass....


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    #79
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    The Sawdoctors

    Every fcukin' song.


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    #80
    leggo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    karaokeman wrote: »
    So you can honestly say "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" and "Breakeven" sound the same:eek:?

    Really? Songs about heartache with a big falsetto in the climax of the chorus, released one after the other? Can you honestly say that they don't without being deaf? And I don't hate The Script either.


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    #81
    brownacid
    Registered Users Posts: 484 ✭✭brownacid


    Damien "slit my wrists" Rice, very surprised he hasnt been mentioned


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    #82
    Firetrap
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    Erasure


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    #83
    -Chris-
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    82 posts and nobody's mentioned Chuck Berry?

    For shame... :P:D


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    #84
    magentas
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    Iron Maiden. Not a bad band and it's not that I hate them or anything and I really admire their (very strong) work ethic which I discovered watching a documentary on them one night but I find them very repetitive and didn't know when one song ended and another began!


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    #85
    DarkJager
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    Anything ever released by that ****ing karaoke competition, the X Factor. Seems Simon Cowell is a massive fan of the "truck drivers gear change" in every song released.

    Also The Script. I literally cannot tell the difference between their songs.


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    #86
    flyswatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭flyswatter


    Have to say The Hives spring to mind here. They seem to rehash their formula of guitar riff based songs an awful lot.

    Good riffs though!


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    #87
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Hard Fi.


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    #88
    Rothko
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    AC/DC

    They themselves even admitted that they have been basically making the same album over and over for the last thirty years.


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    #89
    Mindkiller
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    Owl City

    And by extension, Postal Service.

    Postal Service are still fairly good, mind


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    #90
    AhSureTisGrand
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    Radiohead
    Primal Scream
    Aphex Twin
    Steve Reich


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    #91
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,891 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    AhSureTisGrand wrote: »
    Radiohead

    Really? So you think that Pyramid Song, Bodysnatchers, Kid A and The National Anthem all sound the same?


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