The Strokes
You utter bastards! You ruined Indie music forever!

Allow me to explain...

Indie music used to have good bands, like Radiohead (before they vanished up their own arses), the Manics, Sparklehorse, Mercury Rev, Beck, and other fine artists.

Then a bunch of rich kids from New York practiced 7 hours a day in a futile attempt to make up for their total lack of talent, got their rich parents to blag them a record deal and paid for a mountain of publicity. Congratulations! You are now famous musicians! The music press drooled over them, not because their tunes were very good, but because they wore *such* fashionable clothes!

Cue every shaggy-haired, skinny, no-talent hipster/poser picking up a Gibson ES-335 and bashing at it tunelessly whilst yelping into the mic about nothing in particular. Hundreds of horrible identikit bands started to appear, with really stupid names starting with "the" (The Datsuns, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Kooks, and, in particular, the View, whose smug talentless lead singer needs a short, sharp visit from Chuck Norris's right foot in my opinion). And the poser kids drooled over them, not their shitty music, but their leather jackets and shaggy hair.

And now indie music is flooded with talentless, tuneless rubbish, with no way to distinguish one lot of totally unmusical, lobotomised shaggy-haired automatons from another, apart from the date they appeared on Jonathan Ross's crappy chatshow.

Indie music is dead, good bands like the Kaiser Chiefs and Franz Ferdinand submerged in a sea of market-driven, identical shit bands.

It's all your fault, the Strokes. You started all this. You owe the whole world an apology.
(Axeman Jim, Fri 2 May 2008, 15:05, 6 replies)

I heart the Strokes
'The' Yeah Yeahs Yeahs are actually called Yeah Yeah Yeahs. And are a squillion times better than The Kaiser Cheifs and FF. I agree with your rant though.Until you mentioned you like FF and Kaiser Chiefs.
(BarryChuckle, Fri 2 May 2008, 15:22, closed)

I agree
apart from the fact that non of that indie shit was good in the first place

particularly the manic street preachers. after their one talented member topped himself they become nothing more thana boring whiny collection of wankstains.

Kaiser Chiefs are guilty of a huge amount of arrogance too. the cocks.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 2 May 2008, 15:28, closed)

Well,
At least the Kaiser Chiefs and FF can sing in tune.

And I don't care whether Yeah Yeah Yeahs have a 'the' or not. It's still a stupid name. And they still suck.
(Axeman Jim, Fri 2 May 2008, 15:30, closed)

I saw "the" Yeah Yeah Yeahs once
never has a band been so appropriately named - utterly mediocre (unlike our own mediocre). I think at one point I was moved to shout "Play something good!" and the singer gave me a really filthy stare.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Sat 3 May 2008, 15:11, closed)

back in the day
When I actually read the NME (slightly embarrassed now) the band they hyped just before The Strokes was at the drive-in who actually amazing. Then The Strokes became the thing to like and I lost faith with the whole process.

Although I blame The Libertines far more.
(Bunbury, Sun 4 May 2008, 11:38, closed)

woah woah woah
That guy out of the Kaiser Chiefs can sing in tune? I think not. Also, Chuck Norris related anything is completely lame.
And are The Datsuns really market driven? or similar to The Stroke in anyway at all? No, I don't think so.
You had me interested in pointing out that the strokes aren't amazing, but sadly the rest of your post made you sound like a fool. My biggest complaint is that The Strokes released two albums, which were clearly only one album, split in half.
(woo who?, Tue 6 May 2008, 5:50, closed)