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Thngs that are vastly over rated

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Keef

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Pixies had some good tunes, but I hate the way people talk about them like they were something amazing... They're also one of those bands that a lot of people (and I don't mean you MP) like because they're the band to like, same as Stoned Roses, and that makes me like them less!
atila the gooner

atila the gooner

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i-Pods i-Phones, and blackberries they seem to be everywhere. Every morning I commute into work and a scary number of passengers seem to depend on these things as if without them thier lives wouldn't be worth living or the world would end!!!
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Keef

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I do think it can depend, sometimes overseas travel is a bit naff, but I would love nothing more than to be going back to Australia, or Africa, or India, or many many other places right now!


Citizen, I agree RE Catherine Tate. I do think she's very clever, and has made some good characters, but they are all far too reliant on their catchphrases. Whereas the Fast Show used to have characters with catchphrases that would be used to support an otherwise still funny sketch, CT's sketches will more often than not be totally reliant on the delivery of the big catchphrase.


"What a f**king liberty"

"How very dare you"

"Am I bovvered"


And so on.

louisiana

louisiana

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Keef Wrote:

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> Pixies had some good tunes, but I hate the way

> people talk about them like they were something

> amazing... They're also one of those bands that a

> lot of people (and I don't mean you MP) like

> because they're the band to like, same as Stoned

> Roses, and that makes me like them less!


The Breeders are/were much better. Check out their old and new albums.

citizenED

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But is the Mighty Boosh over-rated in the first place? Don't know of many people who rate it - well Sean and Brendan claim to, but then....exactly. Harry Hill has been lauded all over and I've never found him very funny. Nevetheless I find him likable. Unlike Catherine Tate.
Brendan

Brendan

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Re. The Pixies. As a teenager I got my hands on Trompe le Monde just after it was released. I had never heard anything like it. Within a week I had their entire back catalogue and became a bit obsessed with the band. So much so that I had to ration myself to only listen to 1 Pixies album a day.


In my opinion they were the most innovative of the underground American ?alternative? bands of the late 80s early 90s before the whole thing exploded into the monster that was Grunge.


You probably experienced it differently here as the whole thing was kinda overshadowed by Brit-pop. Or at least that is the impression I get.


Funnily I never liked the Stone Roses. I always thought they were overrated and I couldn?t see the point of 5 minute long intros. Over the last few months though there has been a ?best of? album on my ipod and I have actually started to get into them.

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