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Dinner for shmucks (2010) : 7/10

It's kind of sad. In my opinion V Festival was the best of the lot I have been to.

I hate bad artwork. It just screams LAZY. So 8

Shame. I won't be gong. I think most people kind of forgot about them.

Is this a dig at Oasis? Manics release deluxe editions of their albums with a whole extra CD of the entire album demos

NO WAY. Keep those, you might turn them into brilliant songs one day. Only publish demos of released tracks.

The other things I got from his tweets is that he's pretty much finished the album, he's got the sound engineers mixing and mastering it. So we could have this out pretty soon.

I agree with this order of preference. I forgot about an acoustic. They can be quite easy to produce, too. I'd add demo to that list too, possibly at #3. Sometimes demo versions sound quite different.

Ok. Interesting question. Expectations these days are quite different than what they used to be, and it depends on a number of factors. I think these days there are no expectations on any b-sides at all to go with singles, because it's mostly digital releases (coldplay are your classic case). There are very few bands doing b-sides, I know Liam Gallagher wants to 'bring them back' with his new band Beady Eye, Manics do them, and so do Editors. I think to have B-Sides is a very british thing, and you have to have the fans who are willing to buy them. Arctic Monkeys also do them, just b-sides, no instrumentals or remixes, but they are released on 7" and 10" vinyl exclusively. But they can only do that because a large proportion of their UK fanbase is willing to buy them. So it depends on what audience you're targeting. If you have a radio edit on a single it might be a bit different to an album version (obviously for songs that need cutting down), but for instrumentals I reckon they're a waste of time. If you're going to do singles, plant a couple of b-sides or remixes on there but only if they're decent. If the single is strong enough to stand on it's own, just release it digitally through itunes! It shouldn't matter thesedays whether or not you have b-sides, remixes or instrumentals if the single is strong enough. Plus it leaves more material for you to work on for an album. But releasing a single with an instrumental isn't worth it for me. Remixes i'd say yes, because if you get someone decent to remix it it could end up in a club somewhere. Hope that helped. Our band's been thinking about this a lot lately.

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Right, so he's pissed off according to recent tweets.... lol at people not just being able to accept things for free released properly...

Kanye would be INSANE. I'm loving 'Power' so much atm and his new GOOD Friday stuff. It's a shame I wasn't in the country when he toured Oz with U2 in 2007.

Their new single performed acoustically in Oz (they're over here touring atm) http://www.novafm.com.au/video_the-wombats-vampires-and-wolves-acoustic_107091

No this is good, I am slowly crossing off the last few bands I haven't seen and want to see live: Arcade Fire Babyshambles Bloc Party Blur Crowded House (Nov '10) Flight of the Conchords Kanye West The Kooks Manic Street Preachers (Nov '10) Mystery Jets (Summer '10/'11) The National (Summer '10/'11) Noel Gallagher Solo Radiohead The Thrills U2 (Dec '10)

Yeah, I spend too much on CDs lol. I'm not rich, I just believe in valuing the work of good artists. RAGE. :veryangry2: It was too. Crap, I didn't put in my 2009 list. This upsets me. I usually do a top 50 so I can have a top 25 easy! :D

lol where do I start. My 2010 CDs, YES CDS NOT DOWNLOADED up for judging: Apparatjik - We Are Here Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Basement Birds - Basement Birds Best Coast - Crazy For You Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws Brandon Flowers - Flamingo Broken Bells - Broken Bells The Cat Empire - Cinema Chemical Brothers - Further Cloud Control - Bliss Release The Courteeners - Falcon Crowded House - Intriguer The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards Delphic - Acolyte The Drums - The Drums Foals - Total Life Forever Fran Healy - Wreckorder* Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks The Futureheads - The Chaos Gorillaz - Plastic Beach Hungry Kids of Hungary - Escapades* Interpol - Interpol Jack Johnson - To The Sea Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy* Keane - Night Train Kele Okereke - The Boxer Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown* Klaxons - Surfing the Void Little Red - Midnight Remember Manic Street Preachers - Postcards from a Young Man Mark Ronson & The Business Intl - Record Collection MGMT - Congratulations Miami Horror - Illumination Midnight Juggernauts - The Crystal Axis The Morning Benders - Big Echo Mystery Jets - Seratonin The Naked and Famous - Passive Me, Agressive You The National - High Violet Ok Go - Of The Blue Color Of The Sky Operator Please - Gloves Owl City - Ocean Eyes Paul Smith - Margins* Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard* RPA & The United Nations of Sound - United Nations of Sound Sky Sailing - An Airplane Carried Me To Bed The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack The Sunshine Underground - Nobody's Coming To Save You Surfer Blood - Astro Coast Tame Impala - Innerspeaker Teenage Fanclub - Shadows The Ting Tings - Kunst* Tired Pony - The Place We Ran From Tokyo Police Club - Champ Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History Vampire Weekend - Contra Wild Nothing - Gemini * indicates that they aren't released yet, but I will buy.

Just got to put on the twee! National sideshows leaked. Syd 8th Jan Mel 9th Jan VERY happy, looking forward to seeing them, they're on my list!

My bad. But those guitar parts on that album are NOT hard.

First one, I purchased in 1997: Last one, I purchased last week:

Life in technicolor? Speed of light? These names sound TOO much like Coldplay. But nice work for starting up a band!

Fingers crossed for ya, eddie

Melb laneway holds 8000. Line up is announced oct 12. Tix last year were 120. Yeah arcade fire were a long shot... Just really want to see them. And the drums are still alive grace they have a new temporary drummer filling in for them on this debut album tour.

Wow. This is so true. I dont know what is more shocking, this or the BDO. Except this is obviously a good shock. Now for my Laneway predictions (from): Local Natives Menomena Arcade Fire Foals Two Door Cinema Club Ra Ra Riot Cut Copy Beach House Boy & Bear Washington Best Coast Pulled Apart By Horses The Drums Bombay Bicycle Club Hungry Kids of Hungary Tokyo Police Club The Kooks Caribou Wild Nothing Wavves Freelance Whales

This lineup is just isn't BRIT enough for me. I am 1000% going to Laneway festival regardless of the lineup.

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