The Darkness

[Jesus Christ]

at first I thought these guys were the biggest fucking joke lol
the lead singer wears the spandex and yodels just like Freddie Mercury
I just bought their new album Permission to Land
its so awesome
listen to the song I Believe In A Thing Called Love

[Scottish_Militant]

I've been to see them live twice and they seriously fucking rock, they are also pretty left wing in their beleifs and lead singer Justin Hawkins is doing a Xmas speech today to compete with the Queens one :D

Many people think they are a piss take band but they definatley arent

[truthaddict11]

i think they suck

[cubist]

i hate the darkness but they make me smile i can't help but laugh at there songs

[Misodoctakleidist]

When they fist started doing concerts half of the audience would bust out laughing at them. They've repeatedly had to state that they're not a joke band. They're fucking terrible and i hate that stupid 'belive in a thing called love' song, it was on the radio every day for weeks.

[Intifada]

some people say they are crap, but they are just unique.

[Misodoctakleidist]

Unique?

ever heard of Queen?

[Jesus Christ]

Everybody sounds like someone else
they are great

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I might give these guys try.
Somehow I don't believ taht they're as good as Queen.
Queen is one of the greatest rock bands, and these guys are somewhat obscure, yes?
Perhaps they have potential.
But I find it quite hard to achieve the greatness of Queen.

[FatFreeMilk]

Omigod, I saw the video for the first time yesterday and for the first like 30 seconds, I thought it was a big joke. But I ignored the lead singer ( reminds me of peter frampton :P ), and listened to the song, and you know what, I actually liked it :D

[Purple]

The instrument playing is actually extremly good... specially the guitars.
the lead sing i would say is a bit strange... but doesnt mean that he sucks.. i really havent made up my mind about them, and im not planning to either...

[Pingu]

they so suck man, and they are on top of the pops and mtv, thats bad

i think they are just wannabees


*dives unter the table*

[Purple]

Originally posted by [email protected] 26 2003, 01:37 PM
they so suck man, and they are on top of the pops and mtv, thats bad

i think they are just wannabees


*dives unter the table*
wannabees....? what are they trying to be... they are individuals, they are not anything similar to anything else in the present world of music... they have much inspiration of bands such as Queen, but "wannabees" is a somewhat stupid namecalling...

[honest intellectual]

Of course thy're wannabes, that's the whole idea. You've got all these acts trying to be 'credible' and 'genuine', like 50 Cent saying he's been in jail X number of times and has Y bullets lodged in his body, so he's a real rapper. Then you've got The Darkness unashamedly embracing the tacky falsehood of their image - that's the joke of it.
Of course they're not unique, thaey're the most deliberately derivitive band around.

Having said all that, image, presentation and message, important as they are, mean nothing unless the songs are really good. Once you get over the humour of it, you'll see that The Darkness are actually excellent. The guitar on 'Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)' are fabulous.

[UnionofSovietSocialistRepublics]

They're poo. There nothing like Queen :S. BTW Jesus Christ, if that is your real name, nice avatar, the cure rock:).

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 25 2003, 10:41 AM
i think they suck
I second that motion.

Having heard I belive in a little thing called love, or whatever 100 times on the radio, I want to kill someone.

Listen to a real band, like Queen, or if you want to commit suicide Pink Floyd.

[Scottish_Militant]

They are the finest musicians to grace the TV for over a decade

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2003, 12:26 PM
They are the finest musicians to grace the TV for over a decade
How about no...

Lets make a liost of batter bands, with more complex and skilled music: -

The Manic Street Peachers.
Nirvana
Feeder
100 reasons
Tool


Just five in a few seconds, if I were to sit down for a few minuets and hit my album collection I could find so many more.

[Scottish_Militant]

Nirvana, better lyrically but not technically - also one of my all time favorites.

Tool, not a bad band but nothing special

Manics, Feeder - amazingly average acts

100 reasons, lol my friends band supported them a few years ago, dont make my laugh. They are also corporate whores

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2003, 05:41 PM
Nirvana, better lyrically but not technically - also one of my all time favorites.

Tool, not a bad band but nothing special

Manics, Feeder - amazingly average acts

100 reasons, lol my friends band supported them a few years ago, dont make my laugh. They are also corporate whores
Nirvana, better lyrically but not technically - also one of my all time favorites.

Bugger off :P, Kurt is a great guitarist.


Tool, not a bad band but nothing special

Apart from Maynard Keenan is one of the best singers to have graced rock music.

Manics

Average!!! The Manics?? Have you ever heard the Manics? Ever?

It certainly doesnt sound like it!

Go and download a song called Motorcycle Emptiness, You love us, Love's Sweet Exile, Little Baby Nothing, Slash n' Burn, Spectators of Suicide, Repeat (either version), Crucifix Kiss, Stay Beautiful, Another invented desease, so dead, damn dog, Methadone Pretty, Condemed to Rock 'n' Roll, Archives of pain, yes, etc

Bollocks I cant be bothered to list all their tracks, just go buy the album Generation Terrorists, The Holy Bible and Gold against the soul.

The manics write better lyrics than Nirvana, and play guitar like slash from guns and roses.

If The darkness ever write a song as good as this then it will be a mirical. (and this is a very average manics song)

Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfa llapart

"Images of perfection, suntan and napalm
Grenada - haiti - poland - nicaragua
Who shall we choose for out morality
I’m thinking right now of hollywood tragedy
Big mac: smack: phoenix r: please smile y’all
Cuba, mexico can’t cauterize our discipline
Your idols speak so much of the abyss
Yet your morals only run as deep as the surface
Cool - groovey - morning - fine
Tipper gore was a friend of mine
I love a free country
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
Conservative say there ain’t no black in the union jack
Democrat say there ain’t enough white in the stars and stripes
Compton - harlem - a pimp fucked a priest
The white man has just found a new moral saviour
Vital stats - how white was their skin
Unimportant - just another inner-city drive-by thing
Morning - fine - serve your first coffee of the day
Real privilege, it will take your problems all away
Number one - the best - no excuse from me
I am here to serve the moral majority
Cool - groovey - morning - fine
Tipper gore was a friend of mine
I love a free country
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
Zapruder the first to masturbate
The world’s first taste of crucified grace
And we say there’s not enough black in the union jack
And we say there’s too much white in the stars and stripes
Fuck the brady bill
Fuck the brady bill
If God made man they say
Sam colt made him equal."

In short they are both musically and lyrically better than the darkness is or ever will be.

Feeder, the fact that you call them average, shows you gont have a fucking clue about feeder, and I cant be bothered to go into it like I did with the manics.

100 reasons, you critisise them for being "corporate whores" while supporting the Darkness, LOL!

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2003, 06:21 AM
Listen to a real band, like Queen, or if you want to commit suicide Pink Floyd.
What is that supposed to mean? :unsure:

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by Victorcommie+Dec 27 2003, 06:20 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Victorcommie @ Dec 27 2003, 06:20 PM)
[email protected] 27 2003, 06:21 AM
Listen to a real band, like Queen, or if you want to commit suicide Pink Floyd.
What is that supposed to mean? :unsure: [/b]
Well can you think of more depressing music than say Speak to me or Shine on You Crazy Diamond. Its brilliant music, very smooth, but its got that depressing edge to it...

Dont get me wrong, Dark Side of the Moon is probably the best album I own... but just dont listen to it if your contemplating suicide.

[mentalbunny]

I quite like them actually. They aren&#39;t the most amazing band ever but they&#39;re having a good time, there&#39;s some damn good guitar playing, it&#39;s sooooo good to hear a guitar solo on day time radio, I have to say&#33; I like them, I have no problem with them, but I don&#39;t worshiop them. They&#39;re "fun". There&#39;s nothing wrong with "happy" music.

[Scottish_Militant]

How are the Darkness corporate whores? They have done everything themselves and I hardly think their image is a commercial one&#33;

100 Reasons were pimped by their label for years to try and make their bosses some dosh.

[dannie]

i like them, and they are funny

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 28 2003, 12:43 PM
How are the Darkness corporate whores? They have done everything themselves and I hardly think their image is a commercial one&#33;

100 Reasons were pimped by their label for years to try and make their bosses some dosh.
What appart from the fact thay practically own the Kerrang front page, and I see adverts to buy there album or song every 30 minutes I watch ITV?

[Jesus Christ]

this isnt a fuckin debate
if you dont like them you dont like them, if you like them you like them
all i did was suggest them to you guys

and if you dont like I Believe In A Thing called Love, then check out their song Givin&#39; Up

[hazard]

do you think that these guys actually believe in this "thing" called love?

my first impression was that they were ridiculing the notion, as they are notoriously corporate in both their approach and sound ( to music ).

its the chorus to the song that cracks me up. there is a complete lack of sincerity, but I might chalk this one up to the music style as well as standard dissillusionment to the concept. to these types love might just mean porking a couple of groupies between sets at a concert.

I called this song "hysterical" the first time I heard it, but now I&#39;m not so sure. either they are sincere and I just can&#39;t tell due to my own dissillussionment or they aren&#39;t and their misapropriation of this concept as being only a term with only a shifting, transitory meaning is furthur indication of the corporate contrl of music and mandate to control the population through disarming all powerful ideas and idelogies. be it religion, philosophy, or something as essential and basic as a proper understanding of the tern love.

[mentalbunny]

Well if you read the thank yous in the sleeve notes for the abum you&#39;ll find out that Justin is in love, and I reckon that a long of songs were written with the woman he loves in mind, so I don&#39;t think they&#39;re being ironic or whatever.

[Danton]

They&#39;re a quirky little trend, Tony Blair is apparently a big fan. It&#39;s a throwback to all the glammed up spandex and stacks power pop of the late seventies, stadium rock like Queen or Slade... It&#39;s fun for about ten minutes..

"Get your hands off my woman mother fucker"

For fuck&#39;s sake don&#39;t get talking with Enigma about the Manics - he will bore you to tears...

[Se7en]

Originally posted by Enigma+Dec 27 2003, 07:41 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Enigma @ Dec 27 2003, 07:41 AM)
[email protected] 27 2003, 12:26 PM
They are the finest musicians to grace the TV for over a decade
How about no...

Lets make a liost of batter bands, with more complex and skilled music: -

...Nirvana...
[/b]
hahahahahahahaha :lol: :lol: :blink:

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2003, 12:25 PM
Well can you think of more depressing music than say Speak to me or Shine on You Crazy Diamond. Its brilliant music, very smooth, but its got that depressing edge to it...

Dont get me wrong, Dark Side of the Moon is probably the best album I own... but just dont listen to it if your contemplating suicide.
Some of their music is quite happy.... or not deppressing at least.
Do you have the album Wish You Were Here?
How about Animals?
Both of them are mostly not deppressive.

[honest intellectual]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2003, 06:00 PM
[QUOTE=communist_revolutionary,Dec 27 2003, 05:41 PM] Average&#33;&#33;&#33; The Manics?? Have you ever heard the Manics? Ever?

It certainly doesnt sound like it&#33;

Go and download a song called Motorcycle Emptiness, You love us, Love&#39;s Sweet Exile, Little Baby Nothing, Slash n&#39; Burn, Spectators of Suicide, Repeat (either version), Crucifix Kiss, Stay Beautiful, Another invented desease, so dead, damn dog, Methadone Pretty, Condemed to Rock &#39;n&#39; Roll, Archives of pain, yes, etc

Bollocks I cant be bothered to list all their tracks, just go buy the album Generation Terrorists, The Holy Bible and Gold against the soul.

The manics write better lyrics than Nirvana, and play guitar like slash from guns and roses.

If The darkness ever write a song as good as this then it will be a mirical. (and this is a very average manics song)

Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfa llapart

"Images of perfection, suntan and napalm
Grenada - haiti - poland - nicaragua
Who shall we choose for out morality
I’m thinking right now of hollywood tragedy
Big mac: smack: phoenix r: please smile y’all
Cuba, mexico can’t cauterize our discipline
Your idols speak so much of the abyss
Yet your morals only run as deep as the surface
Cool - groovey - morning - fine
Tipper gore was a friend of mine
I love a free country
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
Conservative say there ain’t no black in the union jack
Democrat say there ain’t enough white in the stars and stripes
Compton - harlem - a pimp fucked a priest
The white man has just found a new moral saviour
Vital stats - how white was their skin
Unimportant - just another inner-city drive-by thing
Morning - fine - serve your first coffee of the day
Real privilege, it will take your problems all away
Number one - the best - no excuse from me
I am here to serve the moral majority
Cool - groovey - morning - fine
Tipper gore was a friend of mine
I love a free country
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
Zapruder the first to masturbate
The world’s first taste of crucified grace
And we say there’s not enough black in the union jack
And we say there’s too much white in the stars and stripes
Fuck the brady bill
Fuck the brady bill
If God made man they say
Sam colt made him equal."

In short they are both musically and lyrically better than the darkness is or ever will be.
Fuckin&#39; hell you sound fuckin&#39; exactly like my boyfriend I dumped a year ago today. It&#39;s like he&#39;s come back to haunt me after 365 days.

Anyways, the Manic Street Preachers are boring, tuneless fuckers with contrived pseudo-political lyrics and ear-bleedingly directionless songs - whereas The Darkness are at least a good laugh. I want you all to listen quite carefully to the intro to &#39;I Believe In A Thing Called Love&#39; - people tend to be to busy laughing at the falsetto singing and the pre-Tap image that they don&#39;t realise the music is actually decent.

[hazard]

well if i bought the album, which I haven&#39;t and won&#39;t be, I&#39;m sure I might have read that. yet I think that to place any extra value on a note inside a sleeve missess the point of what I&#39;m saying. my argument is in the sound and presentation. I&#39;m sure Jason might think that he&#39;s in love with somebody, or maybe the note just says he is, but shouldn&#39;t that mean he would believe in that person ( who he is in love with ) and not the thing itself? I dunno.

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by Victorcommie+Dec 29 2003, 06:49 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Victorcommie @ Dec 29 2003, 06:49 PM)
[email protected] 27 2003, 12:25 PM
Well can you think of more depressing music than say Speak to me or Shine on You Crazy Diamond. Its brilliant music, very smooth, but its got that depressing edge to it...

Dont get me wrong, Dark Side of the Moon is probably the best album I own... but just dont listen to it if your contemplating suicide.
Some of their music is quite happy.... or not deppressing at least.
Do you have the album Wish You Were Here?
How about Animals?
Both of them are mostly not deppressive. [/b]
Welcome to the machine isn&#39;t depressing? Shine on you Crazy Diamond (part 1) isnt depressing?

No I dont have animals, but as you can probably tell I do have wish you were here.

[Scottish_Militant]

Anyways, the Manic Street Preachers are boring, tuneless fuckers with contrived pseudo-political lyrics and ear-bleedingly directionless songs

That is so true&#33;


In short they are both musically and lyrically better than the darkness is or ever will be.

That isnt&#33;

:P

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by honest [email protected] 30 2003, 01:32 AM
Anyways, the Manic Street Preachers are boring, tuneless fuckers with contrived pseudo-political lyrics and ear-bleedingly directionless songs - whereas The Darkness are at least a good laugh. I want you all to listen quite carefully to the intro to &#39;I Believe In A Thing Called Love&#39; - people tend to be to busy laughing at the falsetto singing and the pre-Tap image that they don&#39;t realise the music is actually decent.
Anyways, the Manic Street Preachers are boring, tuneless fuckers with contrived pseudo-political lyrics and ear-bleedingly directionless songs

By the sounds of it you wouldn&#39;t know tuneful if John Lennon rose from the grave and sang imagine just for you.

And how many songs have you actually heard from the manics..? 1? 2 maybe?

whereas The Darkness are at least a good laugh.

No Tenatious D or cKy are good for a laugh, the Darkness are just a cheep mix of queen and cat suits, who&#39;s songs are repetative and boring as hell.

The music isn&#39;t decent though, its piss poor, i&#39;ve heard 13 year olds who play better than that. the only differance is they dont write the music.

[Scottish_Militant]

Okay Enigma, i&#39;ll arrange for us to meet up, bring your guitar and i&#39;ll let you play me any solo from the permission to land album...

Any better guitarists than Dan Hawkins in the world right now you could count on one hand.

[CopperGoat]

Did you realize that the lead singer from The Darkness looks like Robert Plant? It looks like him a little bit, and he sings kind of like him

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

The Manic Street Peachers.

The Manics are a good band, some nice lyrics of course.


NirvanaDo you play the guitar? Well I hope not if you think Kurt was a good guitar player, he himself would have admitted he wasnt. Power chords all the way. Check out the tabs to Smeels like Teen Spirit as opposed to I believe in a thing called love and you tell me who is the better of the two.


Feeder

OK.


100 reasons

Em...


Tool

Absolute shite.


The Darkness are a good solid band, they play well. Interesting lively riffs over some enjoyable lyrics.

Pink Floyd are not depressing they are innovative and most of their music is deep psycedelic LSD kind of music, inspired I am sure by technology and the human spirit combined.


I can&#39;t believe this thread. You guys need to listen to more music.

[atlanticche]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30 2003, 07:02 PM


Tool

Absolute shite.

dont get me wrong but the darkness are a good band but theyre nothing in comparison to Tool


and Nirvana fucking rule

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I think Nirvana is rather mediocre and Tool is probably below that.
Not my bag, really.

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30 2003, 02:45 PM
Okay Enigma, i&#39;ll arrange for us to meet up, bring your guitar and i&#39;ll let you play me any solo from the permission to land album...

Any better guitarists than Dan Hawkins in the world right now you could count on one hand.
Hmm a challange... a shockingly easy one of course, but lets have a go shall we, you want six who are still "in the world"?

Eric Clapton,
Slash,
Brian May,
James Dean Bradfield,
David Gilmour,
Tom Morello.

Easy.

bring your guitar

Unfortunatly i&#39;m a drummer not guitarist, but I could take about 10 mins walking round my school and find about 30 people who can play music by Jimi Hedrix and Eric Clapton, I doubt they will find the Darkess a particular challenge.

And if you want to put it that way, when you can play the Guitar solo from a song called "You Love Us" then I will be impressed.

Well I hope not if you think Kurt was a good guitar player, he himself would have admitted he wasnt.

Tell me when you looked at this thread did you bother to actually read the words or just what you wanted to read? I said better band, not necessarily better guitarist. Nirvana are infinatly better, better lyrics, better style... but mostly because they are not just a sick cross between Queen and Cat from RedDwarf.

I can&#39;t believe this thread. You guys need to listen to more music.

The same goes to you mate, if you think that Tool suck, the guys got the voice of a perfect Tennor, and write lyrics which you could publish as poetry.

[Jesus Christ]

Nirvana and Kurt Cobain are so god damn overrated
i hate their music

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I listened to Thing Clled Love and I think that Dan Hawkings is a great guitar player that can be compared to Jimmy Page and Brian May. The song is great. Slightly heavy, yet very lively. A good band, indeed.

As far as those guitarists, Enigma, I must disagree with you about Slash.

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

Compared to Jimmy Page, are you fucking insane man&#33;

No way, sorry.

Nice list man, love a bit of Clapton, Classical Gas and Wonderful Tonight are beautiful solos.

But all these arguments well music is subjective.

Tool arent absolute shite to you but to me they are. If everyone thought like me obviously nobody would buy their records&#33;

Slash is an excellent guitarist man, do not doubt him&#33;

[hazard]

here&#39;s the latest on these clown&#39;s

they have a difficult time understanding language

its their song "I believe in a thing called love"

first of all, love is not a thing. a thing is an object. like a pencil or a piece of paper. one cannot find an object called love. one cannot pick up a pencil and call it love, because it is called a pencil. one cannot write the word love on a piece of paper with that pencil, hold up that paper, and call that piece of paper love because it has the word written on it. love is an ideal, an emotion, or a form. to call love a thing is one of the most idiotic m,issapropriation&#39;s of language ever known to the history of humanity.

second off, one does not believe in things. one does not look at a pencil and say that they believe in it. the pencil exists, regardless of belief.

so the DORKness gets it so screwed up here it isn&#39;t funny. they call love a thing, which it isn&#39;t, and even if it was, it wouldn&#39;t be believed in because it is a thing, and things exist regardless of belief.

now, if these DORKS ever got down to thinking about their lyrics and not their cock rock hair styles and cheesie guitar riffs, they&#39;d have gotten this right. they can "believe in love", for what it is. this would make linguistic sense. that is all they can say about this. or, they can call their song "a thing", without specifying that thing, because there is no need to inquire about whjetehr belief need not be applied to it. one must naturally assume that if something is properly identified as "a thing", it necessarilly exists at default.

my belief is that the DORKness is a no talent, forty year old throw back that may appeal in a nostalgic way to the type of people that have neither any taste in music, appreciation for it, understanding of it, or the type of person that puts no thought into lyrical analysis and linguistic structure. both types are no-nothing, think nothing, are nothing, be nothing, nothing type who know nothing. in short, stupid imbecile dimwit moron peons.

[Hampton]

Love can be a noun or a verb.

Main Entry: 2love
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): loved; lov·ing
Date: before 12th century
transitive senses
1 : to hold dear : CHERISH
2 a : to feel a lover&#39;s passion, devotion, or tenderness for b (1) : CARESS (2) : to fondle amorously (3) : to copulate with
3 : to like or desire actively : take pleasure in <loved to play the violin>
4 : to thrive in <the rose loves sunlight>
intransitive senses : to feel affection or experience desire

Main Entry: 1love
Pronunciation: &#39;l&v
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English lufu; akin to Old High German luba love, Old English lEof dear, Latin lubEre, libEre to please
Date: before 12th century
1 a (1) : strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties <maternal love for a child> (2) : attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers (3) : affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests <love for his old schoolmates> b : an assurance of love <give her my love>
2 : warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion <love of the sea>
3 a : the object of attachment, devotion, or admiration <baseball was his first love> b (1) : a beloved person : DARLING -- often used as a term of endearment (2) British -- used as an informal term of address
4 a : unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another: as (1) : the fatherly concern of God for humankind (2) : brotherly concern for others b : a person&#39;s adoration of God

[mentalbunny]

"I believe in a thing called Love" makes perfect sense as a sentence.

"A thing called Love", for me at least, signifies that love is difficult to describe and explain, it highlights that different people may see love as slightly different, according to their lives and experiences.

"A thing" is just a way of saying an object, idea or concept, it doesn&#39;t have to be concrete.

and the belief part is about asserting a positive attitude, belief is more powerful in knowledge in many ways. if you know something it seems to be more passive, at least the connotations are. Whereas belief causes people to do things, start wars, give to humanity, stuff like that.

[hawarameen]

the darkness are great, nirvana are overated, kurt is dead, i am the authority on music, everyone else shut up

thank you

[The Children of the Revolution]

&#39;The Darkness&#39; are the best thing since sliced bread.

They are here to save British Rock Music. And they are doing a wonderful job. Music - wonderful. (Love On The Rocks With No Ice - genius) Vocals - Justin Hawkins rivals Freddie himself; possibly the highest accolade one could hope for. Lyrics - awesome: "Octoped, you&#39;ve got six hands too many / And you can&#39;t keep them to yourself..." And best of all, they can perform. REALLY perform... I have only seen live acts on TV but they were quite enough.

&#39;The Darkness&#39; are the Greatest Rock Band around at the moment. Bar none.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

hazard, &#39;love&#39; can be a thing.
I assume you know it&#39;s a noun, since you defined it as an emotion.
It&#39;s obviously an abstract noun, not a concrete noun, which is probably why you assert that it can&#39;t be a thing.
But it can.
Or maybe it&#39;s metaphorical.
Either way, it&#39;s a song, so they have what is called &#39;poetic license&#39;. This means that he can sing wahtever the fuck he wants because it&#39;s an art.
Believing in love is also perfectly reasonable.
The existance of love as it is often described is not always accepted.
He is simply saying that he believes in it.

The guitar riffs are not cheesy, by the way.
They&#39;re excelent.

And perhaps I exagerated by saying that he can be compared to Page or May, but he is very good nonetheless.

[Penguin Chariot Archer from Hell]

I love the Darkness. Very AC/DCish riffage. Tool is a great band, Nirvana likewise.

I won&#39;t try to debate here.

[hawarameen]

right now, any band that doesnt involve a competition on television, attending auditions to become band members i will support whole heartedly.

a music band in the traditional sense is a breath of fresh air in todays &#39;music&#39; market. the fact that they can play instruments, write songs, perform on stage and sing are all the elements i need to like a band. if i dont like the music/lyrics etc i wont buy the CD but ANY band is better than the current state of affairs in the music industry

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Don&#39;t be so cynical, hawar.
There is plenty of good contemporary music.
You just don&#39;t know where to look.

[hawarameen]

im talking about all the manufactured bubble gum music thats around.

[The Children of the Revolution]

a music band in the traditional sense is a breath of fresh air in todays &#39;music&#39; market. the fact that they can play instruments, write songs, perform on stage and sing are all the elements i need to like a band.


Hahaha, wonderful&#33;&#33; Join my crusade against "pop", comrade&#33;&#33;
A couple of people took it the wrong way and got a little overexcited, but the message is clear: Manufactured Trash Is Wrong&#33;&#33;&#33;

My Crusade&#33;&#33;&#33; (http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=10&t=19505&st=60)

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

A few people, comrade?
If I recall correctly, Riley was the only member who agreed with your crusade, and I assume hawar will also see the silliness in making such a blanket statement as "all pop music is bad", even though there is no musical characteristic that is used to define pop music as &#39;pop&#39;.

[The Children of the Revolution]

A few people, comrade?


Well, two&#39;s company, three&#39;s a crowd...



... I assume hawar will also see the silliness in making such a blanket statement as "all pop music is bad" ...


What would you have preferred? "All manufactured, popstars, made-for-radio, instant-fame, no talent music is bad"? Doesn&#39;t quite have the same ring to it...

Blanket statements have an impact, they provoke a reaction... "Imbeciles unite&#33; You have nothing to lose but your dignity&#33; You have a World (Idol competition) to Win&#33;" It certainly got people thinking, didn&#39;t it? And sensationalism seems to work for the tabloids&#33;

The Darkness rule.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

What would you have preferred? "All manufactured, popstars, made-for-radio, instant-fame, no talent music is bad"? Doesn&#39;t quite have the same ring to it...

Well, yes, I would have prefered that.
Pop music encompases all music that is sold well and requested often from radio stations.
Lot&#39;s of good music is pop.
The Darkness is pop.

[mentalbunny]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2004, 03:23 AM
The Darkness is pop.
Ooooooooooooooooooooh, contraversial&#33;

[The Children of the Revolution]

Ooooooooooooooooooooh, contraversial&#33;


Well, The Darkness are certainly popular. And for good reason, they are without doubt the greatest Rock band around at the moment. According to RedZeppelin&#39;s definition of "Pop", they are guilty as charged. However, they are quite blatantly NOT "manufactured, popstars, made-for-radio, instant-fame, no talent musicians". As I said, a couple of people got a little excited about the words I used (I will be extremely careful in future) and forgot to comment on the point I was making... All manufactured, popstars, made-for-radio, instant-fame, no talent music IS GARBAGE.

[Ortega]

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2004, 10:23 PM
The Darkness is pop.
Yes.

[hazard]

how can LOVE be a thing?

thats like saying SAD is a thing, ANGRY is a thing

this noun verb stuff is senseless

like, both describe LOVE for what it is

except for the reference as LOVE being slang for COPULATION, it is nowhere near a thing

AND, the sentence still makes less sense if it was a thing mostly because one does not BELIEVE in things. things exist regardless of belief. thats what makes them a thing.

[Pingu]

listen to jimmi hendrix and you compare them to him and you see that they arenot that good, you people claim.


(and a lot of other bands/artist have better gutair play)

[The Children of the Revolution]

Hey man, I love (which can indeed be given "thing" status) Jimi Hendrix and His music&#33; And it is fantastic. BUT... who were the last great Rock band? Queen?

My generation hasn&#39;t had a decent Rock band yet, this is our chance&#33; No longer do I have to trawl through the Rock A-Z section to find great music; I can look in the charts&#33;&#33; This is wonderful news&#33;&#33;&#33; Also, it means that I can think about going to see some Live performances&#33;&#33;

The Darkness Rule.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Children, at first I thought you were a douche for your crusade, but I see that you are a fan of classic rock.
Good to see. :)

[The Children of the Revolution]

Children, at first I thought you were a douche for your crusade, but I see that you are a fan of classic rock.
Good to see.


Hey man, I&#39;ve always been a fan of classic rock&#33; Which is why I&#39;d like to see more of it in the mainstream rather than manufactured trite&#33; So we&#39;re on the same side? Hooray.

What&#39;s a "douche"?

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

There are actualy some good bands these days that carry on the torch of good rock:
The Rolling Stones
David Bowie
the Doors of the 21st Century
Neil Young
Tom Petty
Crosby, Stills, & Nash
=D

[The Children of the Revolution]

The Rolling Stones? = The Strolling Bones&#33; (Too old)
David Bowie? He hasn&#39;t written anything good in ages&#33; THE example of "fading away"...
Pearl Jam are reasonable, but do not (in my book) achieve CLASSIC status...

Never heard of the others&#33;

What about Guns &#39;n Roses? They&#39;re pretty good&#33;

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

It was a joke, comrade.
All of those bands are classic rock bands from the 70s that are still around.

Guns &#39;n Roses were good only in the very begining and now suck.
Bowie and the Stones always rocked.
I take that back.
The Stones were good in the 60s and the 70s. Then they started making real shitty music.
The music they make now is good again... for the most part.

[The Children of the Revolution]

Ah, I see... A joke... Sorry, it&#39;s late - my caffiene levels are low and I need several hints before I get anything&#33; <Rubs Eyes and Yawns>

"Appetite For Destruction" is a cracking album, I love it. We need more Rock&#33;