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Post by zan01 on Feb 19, 2005 2:31:35 GMT -5
I really hate Keane with a passion. I don't understand why they're that popular. All their songs sound the same and are boring.
It also doesn't help that the lead singer has a fat, punchable, face either.
Most likely no one will remember who they are in a year or so, typical 1 or 2 hit wonder band.
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Post by Tim on Feb 19, 2005 4:01:32 GMT -5
Most likely no one will remember who they are in a year or so, typical 1 or 2 hit wonder band. Right. Despite them having the biggest selling album of last year in the UK. How many bands do you know of who've had the biggest selling album in the UK then been called a 1 (or 2) hit wonder band? And in the next year (or so) they'll have headlined some festivals and have released their second album. An album that will be bought automatically by at least half the people who bought the first even if it's widely regarded as being terrible (which is unlikely). How is it that they won't be remembered? Not liking them is one thing but they are unstoppably successful, I'm afraid. |
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Post by Lith on Feb 19, 2005 4:33:03 GMT -5
i love keane!
and i agree with tim, you cant just call them a one hit wonder band.
...though i do understand how that you may see them as a bit bland
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Post by willpower on Feb 19, 2005 5:03:50 GMT -5
blimey i thought it was against the law not to like Keane!!!
i think from a purely songwriting perspective they are brilliant, but i do see why people dont like them.
the video for Bedshaped is amazing tho, you gotta admit that surely?
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Post by audrey potnoodlehorne on Feb 19, 2005 6:56:21 GMT -5
I am completely baffled as to their appeal. They are dullness itself. The first time I saw their video for Everything's Changing (or whatever) I thought they were "doing a Paul Simon" and having some comedian standing in for the singer.
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Post by Electrobix on Feb 19, 2005 7:02:00 GMT -5
Right. Despite them having the biggest selling album of last year in the UK. How many bands do you know of who've had the biggest selling album in the UK The Scissor Sisters, and I'm 99% sure they sold the highest number of albums last year, Keane were second. |
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Post by browneyedboy on Feb 19, 2005 8:07:03 GMT -5
As of 30th December Keane was the best selling album of the year, but Scissor Sisters came from behind on New Year's Eve.
I like Keane. They remind me of a-ha a little bit, which can never be a bad thing.
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Post by Electrobix on Feb 19, 2005 11:32:44 GMT -5
but Scissor Sisters came from behind on New Year's Eve.. [Insert gay joke here] |
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Post by Tim on Feb 19, 2005 12:15:08 GMT -5
The Scissor Sisters, and I'm 99% sure they sold the highest number of albums last year, Keane were second. You're right. I had in my head that they were the biggest selling British album and made that into just the biggest. But my point still stands. |
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Post by aneza on Feb 19, 2005 15:18:05 GMT -5
Their album was one of the best albums of 2004 for me.
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Post by blokesophie on Feb 20, 2005 11:02:00 GMT -5
I hate that Keane are so fugly. I mean, it's depressing that women have to look *perfect* all of the time if they're in the music industry, then Tom Chaplin gets away with his scabby, monobrowed pudge of a face.
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Post by frightened and aroused on Feb 20, 2005 11:15:35 GMT -5
Surely Mutley and Keisha from the Sugababes are proof that you can be a scarily ugly female and still be successful in pop?
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Post by blokesophie on Feb 20, 2005 11:46:55 GMT -5
Oh come on, Mutya and Keisha are 'individual' and also, you really could walk down the street and see them, provided, not a nice street...but they have an incredibly 'local' image to them. A lot of people consider both to be very pretty. Chaplin though...
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Post by beNcooKe on Feb 21, 2005 8:11:36 GMT -5
while accepting an award (i think a brit) one of them commented that they unlike other bands as they had the guts to be themselves with their own thing...
... which equates to they are proud of their utter boringness, average standard and being the musical equivalent to the colour beige. Wow they MUST be proud.
boring over marketed twats.
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Post by gmac on Feb 21, 2005 11:39:20 GMT -5
I hate Keane too!
They have managed to knock Travis off the top spot for the world's most boring band!
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Post by Debzpopqueen on Feb 21, 2005 13:30:47 GMT -5
I hate Keane too! They have managed to knock Travis off the top spot for the world's most boring band! First of all, *horror* at not liking Travis! Secondly , I like keane and the bedshaped video is amazing, even though the little weirdy man slams the toilet door in the cat's face after the nice cat brings him clothes... The album's a bit samey though. |
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Post by frightened and aroused on Feb 21, 2005 13:36:08 GMT -5
My admiration for Keane shot up when Louis(e) Walsh made his comment, "I like listening to Keane, I just don't like looking at them." How someone as grotesque and objectionable as Walsh can criticise their looks is beyond me (bear in mind he also gave us Mark Feehily).
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Post by Lucy on Feb 21, 2005 13:43:43 GMT -5
...and Brian McFadden.
I don't think Keane are as unattractive as people make out. So they may not be pretty, but they're not the worst I've seen. Besides, they gave us 'Somewhere Only We Know' so who cares what they look like?
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Post by blokesophie on Feb 21, 2005 15:10:01 GMT -5
I do. Chaplin needs to go back to his church choir rehearsals, and let the pianist do something more...from the little I've seen of him he's fairly attractive.
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Post by SuperFunTastic on Feb 21, 2005 17:06:04 GMT -5
Yeah, what is it with bands' singers called Tom having ugly chubby faces? Chaplin does have an amazing voice though so can be forgiven (unlike some).
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Post by windyquim on Feb 24, 2005 9:07:34 GMT -5
It pains me that I like Keane. I should hate them in the same way that I hate Travis, The Stereophonics, fucking Snow Patrol etc as they tick many of the same boxes, AND they're all the vicar's son type.
My sister in law also confessed to playing the album a lot to my new niece whilst pregnant, and last weekend I caught her singing Somewhere Only We Know to the baby whilst breast feeding it. This is clearly WRONG as it could cause the child to grow up to be Jo Whiley. The horror! etc
HOWEVER. I just can't get over the fact that they write really intelligent, fresh melodies. And it's that which keeps me liking them. I do wish their sound varied slightly more, as listening to the whole album is a bit grating - there's only so much wobbly piano I can take in an hour. Maybe in fact they should write a whole album and have a selection of artists perform the tracks on it. This would obviously be quite naff, but Keane are inherrently naff themselves, and it would mean that we wouldn't have to look at old trisomal's face the whole time.
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Post by Cultureslut on Feb 25, 2005 7:59:55 GMT -5
Tom Chaplin - or Famer Barleymow as he's known round these parts - has a rather strange effect on the ABW's - he has the face of a cherub and yet from the shoulders down there's some strange body-moving-hip-rocking-mike-stand-humping thing going on that makes us go wibbly. Go figure.
They now have two videos that make me emotional if I've had a drink - Somewhere Only We Know with it's ghosty-man and Bedshaped with it's goblin-man. It has the same effect on me as watching Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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Post by windyquim on Feb 25, 2005 8:05:46 GMT -5
Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame makes me nauseous whether I've had a drink or not.
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Post by blokesophie on Feb 25, 2005 12:27:10 GMT -5
Same as the Music World's Hunchback of Keane. You just want to wallop him with a piglet.
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Post by veryjammy on Feb 25, 2005 20:05:19 GMT -5
It's lazy when people say all Keane songs sound the same, it's as lazy as indie types saying that all Steps songs sounded the same. Of course all the music is going to be of a particular type, it's called creating a cohesive album.
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Post by darkcrystal on Feb 26, 2005 8:14:30 GMT -5
I can't get over the fact they don't have a guitarist. It's just odd.
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Post by Tim on Feb 26, 2005 13:05:29 GMT -5
I don't have a guitarist. I'm not odd.
Oh.
Hang on.
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Post by Jen on Feb 27, 2005 14:25:47 GMT -5
...and Brian McFadden. I don't think Keane are as unattractive as people make out. So they may not be pretty, but they're not the worst I've seen. Besides, they gave us 'Somewhere Only We Know' so who cares what they look like? Exactly. I think its also worth noting that their drummer is actually rather fit. I don't understand this anger at Tom for having a chubby face. It doesn't make him evil! Horrible fatists. |
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Post by veryjammy on Feb 27, 2005 14:35:07 GMT -5
The drummer is indeed rather nice looking. And while I've just defended their music, I have to admit that the singer is rivalled in the chubiness stakes only by our dear Sam. It's bizarre, he doesn't look very fat body wise, but he has the widest pudgiest face I've ever seen, no wonder they always try to obscure his face in their videos.
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Post by blokesophie on Feb 27, 2005 15:50:51 GMT -5
I don't understand this anger at Tom for having a chubby face. It doesn't make him evil! Horrible fatists. Here's why I hate fat people (unless they're like...medically fat), and anorexic people, and bulimic people, and big corporations that put shit in food: There are kids in Africa...who don't have a lot of food. To treat food like it's worthless is just a manifestation of all Western greed. Everytime I see a person who abuses food, I get pissed off. Food is nice. Treat food with respect. |
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