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Morning Parade

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Fair play to the people for having the ability to craft a reasonably good pop song, but music like this strikes me as cynical. There's nothing to it - it's just 'samey'; a bit ordinary maybe - designed to fit into a corporate void populated by other shit bands who make music that appeals to a mass demographic rather than has any real artistic integrity, or ambition. It's neat, it's tidy, it's clean, it's safe; girls will want to kiss the cute guys and guys will want to hum the cute tunes - mix these together and you have a recipe for every manufactured boy band that ever existed.

It's just another case of a band plucked from the wilderness and put into the corporate meat grinder, with some out of touch EMI A&R rep pressing the puree button. If this is the future, we're all f**ked.

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That deserves a reputation boost, Kev.

It's true though. The music is there - small pockets of underground bands are still playing music that hits you like a ton of bricks but it's dwarfed by all of the kind of thing featured in this thread. To me, I think a vindication of all this crap is a band like Vampire Weekend, or Foals maybe - just sort of safely safe Pop Rock that you could take home to your mum and she'd sit down with you one evening and listen to it with you after you've just got done watching Michael McIntyre together. I just can't stand this crap anymore - now is a time for Noise and a little revolution!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg5D-CqDoI8

Listening to bands like this angers me so much in a positive way though because it encourages me to make the music I make, and I can't wait to get it done and smash people in the face with it.

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I can see where your coming from Dave. Everything thats 'new' that's being released at the minute sounds samey. As if were not already oversaturated with this sort of stuff already.

I'm not taking anything away from the band or the song, it just seems a lot that is being pushed at the minute lacks edge and and the grunt of a heavy riff or change in lyical direction. Nothing is hitting the mainstream with a little bit of distortion, or feedback or little things like that that get in your face and say 'look at me, I'm a guitar don't forget what I can do.

I've seen a few local bands doing the circuit where I live (when following my mates band) that have hit me in the face and said this is what music should be and has proved to me that music is not dead, its there in every small live venue on the local circuits brimming with talent that is just wasting away because its not what the industry is pushing as the main stream. It is a little hard to judge a band with your mates in it because of your bias towards them, and the fact that after hearing them live about 100 times you know all the songs word for word. But when a band that are playing alongside them blow you away thats what musics about.

The shame is music is cyclic and in a few years when it all changes again, these types of bands that were being different and unique are no longer around anymore after giving up, settling down or moving on. These are the types of bands that would be at the forefront of the new cycle had it happened earlier, and the industry will once again be pushing the mediocricy that is left behind because its catchy or it fits with whats cool. Its happened before in every era of music and sadly will happen again.

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I wish we had some decent local bands. A few lads I know have recently started a band and have 'recorded a demo'. The demo consists of three songs, Radioactive by Kings of Leon, Club Foot by Kasabian and I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor by Arctic Monkeys... Lazy work, void of any originality and ambition, and just boring. If that's the future then I want no part in it

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We have no local bands here that are any good - Burton on Trent, arsehole of the midlands. We have Paddy Considine (the actor) and his band Riding the Low and that's about it. The only decent export this town has is Carling, Branston Pickle and maybe Marmite. So we'll feed you and get you pissed, but we won't turn you into fans of music. I'm actually considering leaving here because of how dire the situation is with bands.

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The thing is - if you move to the city, you just get lost in the crowd, don't you? I was always advised when getting into bands that if you stay exactly where you are or move to a place where there's no competition, you should do your own thing and wait for the city to come to you... then tell it to f**k off and then move in the opposite direction. If somebody tells you to go to London, go to Manchester, etc.

A lot of new bands makes the mistake of listening to bands that exist now, today, in the 00s and 10s - and I don't mean to sound nostalgic but things haven't been great in music since about 1997 whenever TFI Friday was on, The Big Breakfast woke us all up, Top Gear didn't have Richard Hammond and summers seemed absolutely brilliant. If bands now take influence from a load of bands that are, let's be fair, a load of shite then that's unfortunately all we're going to get in the end. Nobody is setting any standards now or trying to change the way we think about music and the problem I have with a band like Morning Parade is that they're part of the problem rather than the solution.

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Kasabian is a whole other can of worms - really ambivalent about them.

Strange as it sounds but I just don't believe them. I like Club Foot and I thought that was a great way for the band to put their stamp on pop music but otherwise everything they play might as well be a BBC advert. Also, I admire their apparent influences but part of me thinks their whole 'thing' is contrived. They seem as if they're trying way too hard to impress. It's as if - when they formed, they made a concerted effort to rob a vinyl shop armed with a piece of paper that had all of the bands John Peel ever liked written down on it, and then decided to mix all of this together through the medium of pop music in the hope that the Mercury Prize would take them seriously, all the while remaining conscious that if they fail to name the first song The Fall played in a Peel Session, all of the critics will spot them for the phonies they really are.

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I quite like the name actually, it has some meaning.

IT refers to coming home after a night out and people are going to work, kind of crossing paths with them being the Morning Parade,end of the day I like them, many other people like them, they are talented and will hopefully do well. If you guys don't like them that's that.

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