McFly confirmed

[Animaal]

i didnt say they have inspired as many people as those bands, i said they inspired people to start playing guitar which is true.

music is subjective, but mcfly are one of the best pop groups around and i would say that they are a better type of pop group than others such as westlife and girls aloud who barely write their own music and mime constantly.

[tomdsjames]

and McFly do/don't respectively?

not the last I heard...

[Flaminglippy]

Can't say I'm a fan of McFly but give them credit for writing their own music and playing live. saw them at V07 and they weren't as bad as expected.

[Gaaz]

Can't say I'm a fan of McFly but give them credit for writing their own music and playing live. saw them at V07 and they weren't as bad as expected.

[Budweiser]

Just out of interest - who made it illegal, uncool and un-acceptable to like pop music??? Just interested, that's all....

The reason I ask is I am not a big fan of any Heavy Metal music - to me 80% of it is pointless drivel listened to, and watched by, soap dodging loners who had no friends at school - but I don't keep posting it on the Download forum because that would just be looking for a reaction.....

Edited June 10, 2009 by Budweiser

[Adele2]

f**k that shit, last i heard was they are helped by a professional songwriter on virtually every track!

[CopperBlue]

you heard wrong im afraid, mcfly write all of their own music.

[Budweiser]

you heard wrong im afraid, mcfly write all of their own music.

[thetime]

you know what the funniest thing about this thread is that the mst popular thread int he v fest forum is about mcfly. that says everything about this years v festival.

but I think all festivals have weaker lineups than usual this year apart from glastonbury in my opinion. Which is the main problem when festivla book the same bands/artist year in year out.

also it also shows how little imagination there is in music today when people are championing mcfly or try to convince themself they write there own songs. According to whats written down robbiw william and the spice girls wrote there songs also, yeah right!

[thetime]

you heard wrong im afraid, mcfly write all of their own music.

[thetime]

having just dont a little research(yeah im sad), alot of mcfly songsd are written by an ex busted member. Doesnt that say it all?

[Jonny!]

More girls in the crowd. Lads should stop complaining.

[Bunny]

I'm a metal head, i dont have long hair and i wash all the time and have many friends.

[Budweiser]

LIAR! I just looked at your profile - you have one friend.... and he looks like he fits my description!!!!

[Squall Moogle]

The world would be a better place if everyone listened to metal.

[Gaaz]

you heard wrong im afraid, mcfly write all of their own music.

[Bunny]

The world would be a better place if everyone listened to metal.

[Squall Moogle]

No it wouldn't.

[Gaaz]

No it wouldn't.

[Bunny]

You have far too much time on your hands Squall Moogle....... anyway, I think that last picture represents Acid House circa 1988.

[Bunny]

sorry squall but bunnys right

metal music is great from the 70s but its dire these days!

if the world listened to belle and sebastian then it would be a better place

[Carpetburn]

you know what the funniest thing about this thread is that the mst popular thread int he v fest forum is about mcfly. that says everything about this years v festival.

[Squall Moogle]

Dance = a poor mans industrial.

I used to love loads of dance music all through my teens, right up till I hit 19. I used to love disco house, hard house, trance I'd tune into Judge Jules every week and I'd religiously buy compilation cds like the Ministry of Sound Annuals, the early Clubland ones and suchlike. I wasn't just some casual listener, my teen years were kinda awkward so I chose to make up for this by having an encyclopaedic knowledge of the genre and it's subgenres.

These days I wonder how I ever liked such drivel. I know this may sound hypocritical from someone going to V Festival but the genre is just so pedestrian! True trance music can give you a nice feeling of Euthoria but I also feel that with metal music and in particular industrial. It doesn't come close to the raw energy of some decent metal or jumping into a circle pit.

For those who don't know, industrial is kinda a mixup of rock, metal, techno, trance, drum n bass and suchlike. If Prodigy were American or perhaps German they'd come under the industrial umbrella.

Anyhow I digress. There is a lot of modern metal and hard rock that isn't very good. I'd compare it to when I was into dance music; a lot of the stuff they played on popular radio (rather the specialist shows) was pretty bad and tiresome, you'd find the good stuff if you went looking.

There's a lot of good metal out there but you have to actually go looking for it. Scandinavia are producing some top quality guitarwork, I find some of these appealing because a fair few often follow the same religion as me (Asatru). Metallica are still top notch ditto Megadeth and Motorhead. Newer bands like Deftones, Cradle of Filth, In flames and Amon Amarth certainly know how to rock too.

I've been looking through a lot of my cds and I guess a lot of them are from a few years ago. But I suppose thats a testament to their quality. I used to find with dance music that a tracks appeal wore off the more I heard it. With the albums I have now I can pretty much stick in say Metallica's master of puppets when I feel and it'll still sound as good.

[Gaaz]

You speak so much sense for one so young!!!! Rock/Metal peaked at Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous.

As for Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress is one of my all time most listened to albums - always cheers me up when a track pops up on my iPod!!

[thetime]

you belle and sebastian fans shuld also check out reindeer section who released a couple of albums a few years ago. they have member of belle and sebastian, biffy, snow patrol, astrid amongst other scottish bands

the boy with the arab strap is my fave belle and sebastian album.

middle of afternoon sun blazing out a a festival, belle and sebastian would be perfect.