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I won't tell anyone where I got it. Mostly because I know I'll buy it myself and some people-well- they just don't care about the band really. But it is very good. Not sure whether people will like it compared to other albums, it's so very upbeat at times. But I personally think it's amazing.

For those who do care the promo is found on the supplied link

I am simply posting on this again to inform of the new promo... no-one seems to care anyway but it hasn't stopped me before

No doubt that this will be in my cd collection in February. One excellent album by Idlewild.

If you get accused of being gay what you gonna do? Certainly not kill yourself :\ That was such an over-reaction

Perhaps it was to do with their refreshing talent and good music?

Insomnia is generally ok. It's worrying if you don't sleep for three days which was the case for me once. You could always just do nothing and see if you get bored enough to just drift off

Possibly Hanson's Mmmbop... it's so very patronising

im female you tit

How embarassing. Please accept my apologies

a link would be nice

cunt.

How could you ever call him that? Just look at his avatar...

I always visit the White Ninja page and constantly type in absurd web urls and see what comes up... also livejournal.com, this, my reviews on amazon, hotmail and google.

i got red highlights through my hair yesterday and my employer has told me to take them out. the managing director says its not open for disscussion but im going to push on anyway. i need someone to help me format a report. also someone with a digital camera to spend a day with me in town. i want to take pictures of employees across town with coloured hair to show them how dated their policy is. if anyone would like to pitch any ideas in or give me advice it would be appreciated.

Unless you are conractually obliged to have "normal" hair then they can piss off.

My LJ is working... and I protest at being called emo

Black Francis!

I like the Killers. I heard Mr. Brightside and immediately bought the album. It's not that I think their music is exceptionally good, but it's still exceptional. And what is "cock-rock-metal"? I don't even understand that concept. The Killers aren't even a metal band (notice the synth and poppy gleam on every song). No, not metal. I like the Killers... I don't know whether I'd like a new album but they've kept playing on the cd player since last summer so I'm guessing for me they hold some sort of exceptionality. Let's just hope they don't release an album, don't get radio-time and I can listen to Hot Fuss without having to put up with the bitterness.

Happy Song: At The Bottom Of Everything, Bright Eyes

Sad Song: Killer Cars, Radiohead

Yeah but thats a whole different minefield' date=' it covers current sales not current acts. At which point does an artist not become current, is Cliff Richard current, he's still releasing new music, was the number 1 Elvis had a few years ago current because it had never been released before, or does it have to be from an act who has been around for less than 5 years ?

Cheers

Stuart[/quote']

That was very patronising...

Yeah but to many people of a certain age Elvis is relevant to what they like today' date=' certainly much more relenvant to the likes of the Libertines. I think it's challenging the assertion that the charts is for young bands etc, it's not, it's just a marker of who has sold the most copies. Elvis is as entitled to sell lots of records as any other band is. Pretentious ? No, Cash in, most definitely, but if people like it so what. I think Elvis wouldn't be number 1 if many people didn't think he made better music than many of the younger bands. What you seem to be forgetting is its a target for a completely different audience and buying single isn't just the domain of the 12-30 year olds anymore. I would guess the demographic buying the Elvis singles is very different from those buying the Libertines, which in turn is often very different from those buying r'n'b stuff, no-one is right its just that people like different things.

One of the ongoing biggest problems with this website is that its based in a specific type of music or a small genre and it often has problems understanding why other genre's music is popular. Just because you and your friends don't like it doesn't mean that the rest of the world doesn't have a reason to like it. Elvis undoubtedly ushered in a new era of music by being the first to sell to the masses, he certainly deserves some respect for what he acheved, and the fact he' still selling shows that there are a lot of people out there who still love and appreciate what he did. The bigest mistake here is the assertion the charts mean something in new music it doesn't, its as simple as a marker of who, that week, was the most successfull in music not who's best or most original, and as such everyone has a right to be number 1 if they sell the most. If Elvis does, then good, i wonder if the reaction would be the same if the bands challenging for the number 1 spot were Westlife or is it because its a more indie/rock orientated challenger ?

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Stuart[/quote']

It's not Elvis selling the single this time though, don't you understand this? His name should not keep coming up when he had his time to blow us all away, what, decades ago.

Bloc Party's album's released that month isn't it?

How on Earth could the phrase "Elvis is King" be a ploy to sell more records' date=' that's like the saying the crux of the Beatles success was the fact they were called the "Fab Four". Elvis is referred to as "The King" as he, as much as can be credited, invented Rock and Roll. He walked into the studio in 1954 and sang a mix of Gospel, Country and Rockabilly, mixed black and white music and created something new and it became Rock and Roll. And from that sound we got the Beatles, then the Stones, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Sex Pistols, Nirvana...and all the stuff you listen to today. Elvis is the "Big Bang" in the world of Rock music.

Buying his single instead of the Lost Prophets or some other piss shows respect to the fact that if Elvis hadn't recorded the music he had you wouldn't have the music we listen to today.

Download "Trouble" by the man himself, Punk-Rock 20 years before safety-pins were cool.

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That above comment was in reply to this

Very interesting, yet still sentimental and out of touch with anyone here I would assume. People here are more likely wanting to hear new music. "Jaihouse Rock" has been on everyone's radio before and it's been overplayed. By re-releasing his singles it seems to provoke the idea that no-one has made better music than Elvis since his reign, hence the smug assertion that he'll get the number one spot. I don't think Elvis' music deserves such acclaim nowadays. I believe, perhaps, that if a greatest hits album with his singles went to the number one spot it would be fair. But there is other music out there struggling to be recognised whilst our charts are polluted, not only now by Topman rock and uneccesarily profane "R&B" or rap, but with the overly-sentimental mush for Elvis' re-released singles.

Quite frankly, I couldn't care less because I know that if Elvis' singles weren't re-released his place would probably be taken by a re-re-mix of "Call on Me". Even though this is the case I don't like to think that it's in people's minds that Elvis made better music than those who are making it today (I refer not to Franz Ferdinand or Snow Patrol but the much more raw talent of Bright Eyes or, say, the Libertines. These people pour their hearts into music and they don't get recognised for it.) I guess I'm saying that this Elvis thing is just pretentious drivel.

If it wasn't for the brutality, and the fact that it interrupts my 2am Bright Eyes time then I might enjoy it more

This thread is unjustifiably popular

what a waste.

I had to blink several times after seeing your avatar. Let's hope I don't have epilepsy

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