haha... you've obviously got me there nice to know my musical tastes and posting are so intensely followed and who should i be listening to this week anyhow... jet? the datsuns? the vines? the hives? any of them still in?

I bought the Postal Service album in 2003, doesn't make me a better person, what it does mean is that I'm an insomniac, I heard it on Donal Dineens show on TodayFM one night. I don't read the NME and very little if any of the new music I come across has been discovered through music magazines. I discover nearly all of my music through the net or radio (newer stuff) or from a friend of mine who has a massive CD collection and fantastic taste in music (mainly older stuff) Does it really matter when you discover a band as long as you discover them? Unless we're playing hipster-keepy-uppy. I didn't even get into Captain Beefheart until about two months ago, doesn't make "Safe as Milk" sound any less fantastic!

Good point there Binokular. I'm still only discovering older artists now. Got my first John Prine cd last week but discovered Captain Beefheart last year. It isn't a race and NME certainly wouldn't be the judges if it were. A forum like this is to share musical tastes not to ridicule others who might like someone else or have only discovered them. It's late, maybe I should shut up.

Good review for Bloc Party in the Times today - just thought I'd throw that in there. On another note, long live the NME, I got introduced to so many bands by that publication when I was growing up. Have to admit though that I haven't bought it for years.

Do the Irish Times have a review of the Bloc Party gig that was on Monday?

Cheers.

Its Kevin Courtney though so be warned.

Should be all the more interesting then.

Ohhh can we pre-order copies!!!! PLeaseeee daddy can we? can we?

Maybe it's just because you don't have your finger on the pulse of the contemporary music scene. I mean if you hadn't even heard of the Postal Service until 2004 then you can't exactly be the most clued up person around. It might do you no harm the buy the NME on occassion. That way you might actually hear about new music in the same year that it's released. Actually reading back on this post I have to admit that it is a bit petulant and irrational. First off I want to say sorry to Mick for been so bitchy. It's just that I've been excited by Bloc Party since the first time I heard of them and I've been waiting to see them live and hear there debut album for the best part of a year now. I get really pissed off with the insinuation that I've just jumped on the band wagon because they made the front cover of NME last week. Secondly I do realise that the writers at NME are inconsistent, fickle, unreliable hype merchants. But at least they're dedicated to pushing new music. Uncut managed to omit the Libertines and the Coral's debut releases from their top 70 albums of 2002. They did the same things with the debut albums of Kings Of Leon in 2003 and The Futureheads in 2004. I'm not saying that every band that the NME push are worth listening too, far from it I realise that an awful lot of them are talent less (The Music/The Darkness etc) but they have introduced me to a lot of good bands before any other publications had caught on to the scent. They were recommending early EPs by the Kings of Leon and The Sleepy Jackson a good six months before their debut albums were released. It must have been over two years ago when they first started harking on about the Secret Machines and Their What Used To Be French EP. They seem to be the only magazine that included both Rufus Wainwright and Devendra Banhart in their 2003 end of year poll and the same goes for the Radio Dept last year. Also they gave Franz Ferdinand's Darts of Pleasure single of the week long before anyone else was talking about them. I realise that they ignore an awful lot of great music and they give great reviews to some crap records but the same criticisms can be levelled at Uncut, Mojo etc and don't even get me started about Hot Press and Q. Finally there are countless albums that I love but didn't discover until long after they were released so that point about the Postal Service doesn't really hold much water.

haha no need to apologise dude, you had my number i thought it was some funny s**t. no need to be so uptight folks hi5's all around... anyway back to topic... been downloading alot of bloc party's stuff and for the most part its really excellent imo some stinkers but some gems as well, will defo pick up the album when its out

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Maybe it's just because you don't have your finger on the pulse of the contemporary music scene. I mean if you hadn't even heard of the Postal Service until 2004 then you can't exactly be the most clued up person around. It might do you no harm the buy the NME on occassion. That way you might actually hear about new music in the same year that it's released. Actually reading back on this post I have to admit that it is a bit petulant and irrational. First off I want to say sorry to Mick for been so bitchy. It's just that I've been excited by Bloc Party since the first time I heard of them and I've been waiting to see them live and hear there debut album for the best part of a year now. I get really pissed off with the insinuation that I've just jumped on the band wagon because they made the front cover of NME last week. Secondly I do realise that the writers at NME are inconsistent, fickle, unreliable hype merchants. But at least they're dedicated to pushing new music. Uncut managed to omit the Libertines and the Coral's debut releases from their top 70 albums of 2002. They did the same things with the debut albums of Kings Of Leon in 2003 and The Futureheads in 2004. I'm not saying that every band that the NME push are worth listening too, far from it I realise that an awful lot of them are talent less (The Music/The Darkness etc) but they have introduced me to a lot of good bands before any other publications had caught on to the scent. They were recommending early EPs by the Kings of Leon and The Sleepy Jackson a good six months before their debut albums were released. It must have been over two years ago when they first started harking on about the Secret Machines and Their What Used To Be French EP. They seem to be the only magazine that included both Rufus Wainwright and Devendra Banhart in their 2003 end of year poll and the same goes for the Radio Dept last year. Also they gave Franz Ferdinand's Darts of Pleasure single of the week long before anyone else was talking about them. I realise that they ignore an awful lot of great music and they give great reviews to some crap records but the same criticisms can be levelled at Uncut, Mojo etc and don't even get me started about Hot Press and Q. Finally there are countless albums that I love but didn't discover until long after they were released so that point about the Postal Service doesn't really hold much water.

Typically he hates what I like, I was implying that upon seeing the band he dropped straight to his knees.