Headliners 2015

[Amy Lawn]

Their slot at Glastonbury on the Neon Bible tour vs the slot for the Reflektor tour tells us everything we need to know about when they were at their peak.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

Their slot at Glastonbury on the Neon Bible tour vs the slot for the Reflektor tour tells us everything we need to know about when they were at their peak.

okay maybe i've been proven wrong on Arcade Fire with that point

now what about Kasabian

[dentalplan]

They were more popular on the Reflektor tour and they were on the Neon Bible tour because they were headlining the main stage instead of subbing the second stage. Isn't that obvious?

[Amy Lawn]

okay maybe i've been proven wrong on Arcade Fire with that point

now what about Kasabian

Well their most popular song is AHHHHHHHH-AHHHHHHHHH-AHHHHHHHHH, OI OI OI!, ie every single one of their songs, so their popularity levels must be pretty much static.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

I can't imagine Radiohead will get any airplay on the big stations when they release their new album, will that mean they're not as big, despite the fact they'll inevitably play arena shows that sell out on the day?

Not as big as they once were, no, I don't think anyone can honestly claim Radiohead are?

Not even in my top 10

EDIT: NO LISTS

Sorry, I thought you said best song. Yeah, their best known ones are on Funeral

was dead confused

Edited October 31, 2014 by Zac Quinn

[Rose-Colored Boy]

Well their most popular song is AHHHHHHHH-AHHHHHHHHH-AHHHHHHHHH, OI OI OI!, ie every single one of their songs, so their popularity levels must be pretty much static.

nicely put

[Winslow Leach]

Didn't realise she would play the cabaret tent

Erm... good for you? This is for you...

Thank you. When will it be arriving?

(infact

Winslow Leach seemed to be throwing the insults around about her fans )

Eh? When?

*deletes rambling post and gives Winslow Leach a virtual thumbs up*

Naaaaaw, thanks m8

[Rose-Colored Boy]

That is an oddly interesting concept. How to avoid something you're not interested in.... How do you know you're not interested in it?

indeed

unless you're stereotyping then surely to know you're not interested in something you have to have had at least some exposure to it

and if that's the case then you haven't avoided it

[russycarps]

Not as big as they once were, no, I don't think anyone can honestly claim Radiohead are?

It's been downhill all the way since Creep for them really.

[fatyeti24]

Categorise my hoop, 1,2 or 3?

[stuartbert two hats]

Categorise my hoop, 1,2 or 3?

D

[fatyeti24]

D

Tbf, you'd know.

[TomViolence]

Is Wake Up even Arcade Fire's best known song? Surely the wider population would be more familiar with The Suburbs or Reflektor

[The Placid Casual]

Is Wake Up even Arcade Fire's best known song? Surely the wider population would be more familiar with The Suburbs or Reflektor

I'd class Wake Up and Rebellion as their two most well known

[The Placid Casual]

It's been downhill all the way since Creep for them really.

[kingcrawler]

Is Wake Up even Arcade Fire's best known song? Surely the wider population would be more familiar with The Suburbs or Reflektor

I'd say Wake Up is their best known but Ready To Start must be up there.

[the wonderwhy]

Arcade Fire's best known song is probably We Used To Wait because of the interactive video thing

[Tuna]

last.fm listeners have for the last week: reflektor, the suburbs, afterlife, we exist...

over the last 6 months: reflektor, we exist, afterlife, the suburbs...

considering reflektor came out > 1 year ago i'm quite surprised by that

[Mardy]

That is an oddly interesting concept. How to avoid something you're not interested in.... How do you know you're not interested in it?

Hehe, very good point, Tony. I'll answer it as honestly as i can.

I'm an old man. I've kicked around long enough and listened to enough music to know i'm going to fucking hate anything described as 'rock' or ' metal' or 'guitar based'. I'm not going to enjoy anything featured in Kerrang. I'm pretty much not going to go for anything pre-fixed with the word 'Stadium'. I know which friends to trust when it cones to reccomendations, which ones to treat with suspicion. I listen to a lot of music, but yiu know, after 40+ years of kicking around, i kind of know which things do it for me and which things don't. Is that stereotyping? Possibly. Do we all do it? Yeah, i reckon we do, if we're honest. I've never seen 'strictly come dancing', but i'm willing to bet i wouldn't like it and i'd be better off watching the latest thing from David Simon.

If you dont have some sort of filter you end up thinking all music is equally valid, which lets be honest, is cobblers. Some music, some genres are dogshit. I mean 99% of all art is dogshit, it's a case of finding that breathtaking lifechanging 1% that knocks you off your feet. But i can fucking guarantee that the 1% wont be, for me, found in classical music, or in a mills and boon novel or in religious iconography.

[stuartbert two hats]

Hehe, very good point, Tony. I'll answer it as honestly as i can.

I'm an old man. I've kicked around long enough and listened to enough music to know i'm going to fucking hate anything described as 'rock' or ' metal' or 'guitar based'. I'm not going to enjoy anything featured in Kerrang. I'm pretty much not going to go for anything pre-fixed with the word 'Stadium'. I know which friends to trust when it cones to reccomendations, which ones to treat with suspicion. I listen to a lot of music, but yiu know, after 40+ years of kicking around, i kind of know which things do it for me and which things don't. Is that stereotyping? Possibly. Do we all do it? Yeah, i reckon we do, if we're honest. I've never seen 'strictly come dancing', but i'm willing to bet i wouldn't like it and i'd be better off watching the latest thing from David Simon.

If you dont have some sort of filter you end up thinking all music is equally valid, which lets be honest, is cobblers. Some music, some genres are dogshit. I mean 99% of all art is dogshit, it's a case of finding that breathtaking lifechanging 1% that knocks you off your feet. But i can fucking guarantee that the 1% wont be, for me, found in classical music, or in a mills and boon novel or in religious iconography.

Some Classical music is pretty good. You might be missing out.

[Mardy]

Some Classical music is pretty good. You might be missing out.

I'm sure some if it is good, for some people, just not me, i'm afraid.

I tried it, ive been exposed to it, but unforunately, for any number of factors it just doesnt move me. Music is a pretty instinctive thing for me, the emotional, physical, immediate response is what i crave. Technical vituosity doesnt do it for me. In fact, i was thinking about this the other day, the voices i like tend to be the imperfect ones.

[stuartbert two hats]

I'm sure some if it is good, for some people, just not me, i'm afraid.

I tried it, ive been exposed to it, but unforunately, for any number of factors it just doesnt move me. Music is a pretty instinctive thing for me, the emotional, physical, immediate response is what i crave. Technical vituosity doesnt do it for me. In fact, i was thinking about this the other day, the voices i like tend to be the imperfect ones.

Oh god no, not the vocal stuff.

Have you tried Rachmaninoff?

[Woffy]

She's playing a show in London the same weekend.. Resident charts nutter declares her as headliner because of how many albums she's sold in country-mad US.

She's not really 'country' anymore though, Dental.

[Woffy]

to dismiss all classical music is mad.

In essence I'm not that different to Mardy, but I ignore genre categorising. There's hardly any genre that exists that wouldn't have something I like.

Death metal?

[Boopickledaddy]

The Who are playing Belfast 21st June and then nothing. That looks like a Glastonbury opportunity me. This might be their final Glastonbury moment :-)

Edited November 1, 2014 by Boopickledaddy