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# pray
tell us why one of the finest rock bands of our age, performing well crafted melodic songs with educated and odd lyrics constitute 'drivel' in your eyes /bee in bonnet now
(I helped save b3ta! discostu oh my, its back, Fri 12 Dec 2003, 15:03, archived)
# You say
"well crafted melodic songs with educated lyrics" as though it were a good thing. Just because you're technically proficient and have spent umpteen thousand quid on your costumes, stage show, fancy guitars etc doesn't mean that what you're doing is good, or even worth doing. They're obvious, tedious, lowest-common-denominator bombast of the very worst sort.

And Ben Elton can cock off and all.
(Wong Fei-Hung - now with added flickr.com (see profile), Fri 12 Dec 2003, 15:12, archived)
# Yes
i think making well crafted melodic songs with educated lyrics (i dont know any other bands who have lyrics about Khrushchev!) is a good thing for a band to be doing really.

Havent a clue how much they spent on costumes, stage shows or guitars (well, brian may spent pretty much watermelon all...) and frankly i dont care. Musicians make music, and theirs i like (as do an enourmous number of people across the world).

I dont decide which bands are good or bad by looking at their frilly shirts and flying v's.

(I helped save b3ta! discostu oh my, its back, Fri 12 Dec 2003, 15:20, archived)
# Oh
don't get me wrong, they'd be arse without the costumes, too. It's the little things like putting "there are no synthesisers" on the early albums.
(Wong Fei-Hung - now with added flickr.com (see profile), Fri 12 Dec 2003, 15:22, archived)
# *shrugs*
many people probably thought thats what they used. After all, no-one had made that particular sound before from guitars (to my knowledge)
(I helped save b3ta! discostu oh my, its back, Fri 12 Dec 2003, 15:28, archived)