Sometimes, you can strike lucky.
Usually, I hate new music. Can't stand it- if it isn't the syncopated trivia you get from 3 Berks with Guitars™ or the latest piece of commercialised drivel courtesy of Capt Codpiece Cowell, it's usually I Can't Believe It's Not Music! compilation CDs. So far, so dull- we all know a lot of commercially released music is 100% Grade A Pap. But every now and then, something comes along that whilst not changing my opinion, it serves to remind me that sometimes, there is hope.

And that is the artist more commonly known as Frank Turner. A musical artist that truly speaks my language, and I understand every single damn one of his songs. The loneliness, disenchantment, occasional navel-gazing, and occasional raving at the world that characterises his music chimes right down to the very heart of me. He reminded me that it is important to hold on to your dreams, not accept that the 9-5 ratrace is the only way to live your life, and that even if things have been ruined by idiot fucking hippies in 50 different factions, who're locked in some kind of 1960s battle re-enactment, that sometimes it is important to shout that I won't sit down, and I won't shut up- and most of all, I will not grow up.

Nice one Frank.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 29 Jan 2010, 14:11, 6 replies)

Of all the things that she did
Thatcher Fucked The Kids.
(LickOutTheJamsMotherfuckers!, Fri 29 Jan 2010, 14:20, closed)

I'm still waiting for my turn

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 29 Jan 2010, 14:47, closed)

No doubt with a giant, pulsating diesel-powered strapon.

( jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 29 Jan 2010, 15:50, closed)

Why would I need to wear a strap-on?
Oh right, I see what you mean.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 29 Jan 2010, 16:06, closed)

I was born in middle England, not in Nashville Tennessee, and the only person in my band is me...

His old band Million Dead were good too.

Sometimes he's a tad arrogant though. And for someone who hates Americana, it bugged me when I saw him live and he said "like" before lots of sentences ... "And like, that's pretty lame"- nopenope didn't sound quite right.
( awayfromthenumbers, Fri 29 Jan 2010, 14:30, closed)

I get your point
but saying "usually I hate new music" is pretty stupid.

there was some very very good stuff put out last year for a start.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jan 2010, 14:35, closed)