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What Have They Done?!


TomR

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I was out shopping earlier as i had a day off work, and Enter Shikari came on whatever music channel was on TV at the time in the shop. Now i stopped following ES when their shows started filling up with 14 year old guys with pink hair who tried to look hard and threaten you when you get pushed into their bird who was standing in the middle of the pit, i know how big they've got as a few mates bands know them well, but what on earth have they done to 'anything can happen...'! Better production for sure, but it really kinda sucks now, that used to be a tuuuune!

I was kinda shocked, they've totally veered off the course i last saw them heading on which is a bit of a shame, but whatever pays the bills i guess. BRING BACK THE GOOD OLD DAYS!

On a side note, please don't turn this into a general ES slagging thread.

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the NME discovered them and turned them into "new rave" (die) superstars, despite the fact they've been playing the same songs for years and years. then their songs had to be suitable for radio play.

album's a bit dissapointing it took so long to come out and there's only really 1 new song and a shit load of filler/crap. couple of the reworks are a bit lame as well :(

Shit band and gay as hell.

i'm sure i've got a trials video of yours which uses a song of theirs...

still, i guess they're mainstream now :shifty:

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Yeah I did, but when I put that in they were pretty much a whole different band, they barely used samplers at all and had some catchy riffs, and Rou didn't do his really stupid grunty thing every 10 seconds.

Now its the Rou show with the whole song backed by some trance sample with guitarrist blokey palm muting open strings in the background.

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they are cocky twats too,

"so how do you feel about being in the charts this week"

"well it's about time some decent music made it into the top 40"

yeh right mate,... go die.

'nu rave' wtf? why does everything have to have a title nowadays? NME has ruined the world.

i wanna fight them.

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They've sold out.

Anyway on the subject of 'New Rave' there is very few bands in that classification atm and ES isnt one.

Klaxons, CSS, New Young Pony Club are new rave.

EDIT: Apparently, i dont agree with all these classifications either

Edited by Has anyone seen my shoe?
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I wouldnt say ES have sold out, its pretty catchy and 'emo' was taking over the world as it was. It'd have been all too easy for them to sign a record deal with all the benefits handed straight over, and jsut play gigs and write/record but they didn't. Admittedly only probably ot make a point and get more publicity, but hell, who didnt dream of being a rockstar when they were a kid?

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ES are good enough guys, they're friendly and they work hard at what they do, i can tell you that much.

^^ was that printed? I wouldn't take it too seriously, it was probably a joke.

no i heard it live in the radio, hence the quote marks.

i don't even care to be honest, if i hate a band i won't listen, i'll stick to what i like ta.

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Anyway on the subject of 'New Rave' there is very few bands in that classification atm and ES isnt one.

Klaxons, CSS, New Young Pony Club are new rave.

EDIT: Apparently, i dont agree with all these classifications either

I'm glad you added the 2nd bit...

None of them are new rave at all. It's total bullshit - the NME just use it as a marketing tool because the Klaxons said it once in an interview as a joke. which they've now lumped ES under because they have trancey synth bits.

The Sunshine Undergound were on the "indie rave" tour - and they're just a straight up brilliant indie band!

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