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Opinion on Calvin Harris

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  • #52
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,136 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Whatever about Calvin Harris if someone can sit there with a straight face and tell me they actually like the pure ****e Avicii makes they actually deserve a smack.


  • #53
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    I think his stuff is very good for the type of stuff it is. Excellent melodies. The rest of that crowd: Avicci, Smegma or whatever, Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta (although he's not the worst of them)... Calvin Harris is clearly in another league as a song-writer compared to them.

    Works with some good artists too. After Acceptable In The 80s and the one with Dizzee Rascal (great tunes) he started doing the dance "anthem" thing which is quite different to the previous stuff, but I guess he saw a moneyspinner, and he's damn good at it.


  • #54
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,960 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    Ok let's take a specific example - "Wake Me Up (When It's All Over)" - decent guitar progression, lyrics which resonate with a lot of young people, really nice vocals, what exactly is crap about it?
    Well who ever buys that song or likes it I feel sorry for. It's just not my cup of tea.


  • #55
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Music in general is ****ing awful now a days there's nothing out there now id want to turn a radio on for.
    <snip>
    seriously, when was Irish radio EVER listenable anyhow?

    2fm went from chart crap to Irish crap, aside from Larry Gogan who just played crap.
    local stations went from country western crap to a couple of hours of chart crap in the evenings.
    atlantic 252 was high rotation chart crap.

    I had the luck to live near the border so got BBC R1 so evening listening was brilliant with John Peel and the likes, but from having friends from down the country (pre mp3 days) you'd see how the lack of decent radio has scarred them music-taste wise.

    BUT - those days the chart meant old style Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Scooter, Wet Wet Wet and other abominations.
    Calvin Harris is far more listenable than those "artists".


  • #56
    dont bother
    Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭dont bother


    i miss fleetwood mac!


  • #57
    Remmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    He seems to be very controlling of the missus, If I'm thinking of the same guy


  • #58
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    dont bother wrote: »
    i miss fleetwood mac!

    They are still around, I only seen them a few months back.

    They aren't great at EDM, mind.


  • #59
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    doesn't make me want to strangle the radio, which I can't say for Hozier.
    obezyana wrote: »
    I fcuking hate Hozier.......pure dreadful sounding music. :mad:
    What's so bad about Hozier? Not very exciting I'd agree (although I like that church song - reminds me of Yellow Brick Road era Elton John) but hardly horrific and not the only one to do that kind of stuff.
    Is it because so many people like him?


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