ggw
Joined: December 16, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
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The Darkness
September 04, 2003 at 02:34 PM UTC
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Anybody heard them?
Their album has sold 200,000 in the UK, went to #2 on the charts and their label pushed the US release from early 2004 to September 16.
They were compared to Andrew WK.
jadetree
Joined: April 22, 2002 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: The Darkness
September 04, 2003 at 02:38 PM UTC
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Anybody heard them?
Their album has sold 200,000 in the UK, went to #2 on the charts and their label pushed the US release from early 2004 to September 16.
They were compared to Andrew WK.
I read something about them and it sounded awful, so yeah, like Andrew WK, but seemed like it would be more like hair metal, so less synths.
Joymonster
Joined: November 01, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
Posts: 701
Re: The Darkness
September 04, 2003 at 02:54 PM UTC
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Anybody heard them?
Their album has sold 200,000 in the UK, went to #2 on the charts and their label pushed the US release from early 2004 to September 16.
They were compared to Andrew WK.
I've heard a few tracks from them on KNAC and they're shit.
http://www.thedarknessrock.com/
markie
Joined: October 15, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
Posts: 13178
Re: The Darkness
September 04, 2003 at 02:57 PM UTC
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Originally posted by jadetree:
I read something about them and it sounded awful, so yeah, like Andrew WK, but seemed like it would be more like hair metal, so less synths.
An unusually good sum-up. If only you would come and see Andrew WK live, perhaps you would see the light.
SPARX
Joined: December 13, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: The Darkness
September 04, 2003 at 03:12 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Anton Newcombe:
Originally posted by jadetree:
I read something about them and it sounded awful, so yeah, like Andrew WK, but seemed like it would be more like hair metal, so less synths.
An unusually good sum-up. If only you would come and see Andrew WK live, perhaps you would see the light.
I highly recommend Ten Benson to any AWK fan.
markie
Joined: October 15, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
Posts: 13178
Re: The Darkness
September 04, 2003 at 03:21 PM UTC
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Originally posted by SPARX:
Ten Benson to any AWK fan.
If I start liking too many guilty pleasures it will mean I just have shit music taste.
A WK's stage presence transcends his music.
kurosawa-b/w
Joined: January 28, 2002 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: The Darkness
September 05, 2003 at 02:12 AM UTC
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I finally heard a Darkness song and wasn't that impressed. It wasn't as bad as I expected it to be but really just not that exciting. Supposedly, they are wacky live. Maybe it's the spandex? It all sounds silly to me.
Jaguär
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Re: The Darkness
September 05, 2003 at 05:38 AM UTC
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Yeah, I'm not impressed with them either. I think they are a short lived performance band. Their album is only about 37 minutes long. My thinking is that was the maximum that people could handle before taking the thing off and flying it out the window. I think they are more a UK festival fad band than anything.
Venerable Bede
Joined: October 16, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: The Darkness
September 05, 2003 at 02:20 PM UTC
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here's the popmatters review:
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/d/darkness-permission.shtml but this review name-drops way too much. . .tiny tim, reef and the scorpions in the same review???
ggw
Joined: December 16, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
Posts: 14237
Re: The Darkness
September 05, 2003 at 02:32 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
here's the popmatters review: http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/d/darkness-permission.shtml
but this review name-drops way too much. . .tiny tim, reef and the scorpions in the same review???
Too much name-checking? Apparently you didn't read their Junior-Senior review today; which name-drops the following:
the B-52's,
T. Rex,
Kool and the Gang,
Chic,
Iron Butterfly,
Bootsy Collins,
the Beach Boys,
the Beastie Boys,
the Isley Brothers,
the Everly Brothers,
Adam and the Ants,
ABC,
Bachman Turner Overdrive,
Sly Stone,
Sweet,
James Brown,
Toni Basil,
Smokey Robinson,
Eddie Cochran,
Donna Summer,
both George Michael solo and Wham!,
Rockwell
the Trashmen
Run-DMC
Kraftwerk
Talking Heads
Electric Light Orchestra
Nancy Sinatra
Lee Greenwood
Sonny and Cher,
the New York Dolls,
Stevie Wonder,
Ray Charles,
the Ramones
the Archies
Cheap Trick
Flying Lizards
Bob Dylan
Eddie Hazel
Pete Townshend
Tupac