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« Thread Started on Jul 31, 2002, 2:16am » | ![[Quote]](http://s2.images.proboards.com/buttons/quote.gif "[Quote]") |
Just wondering what everyone thought of them??
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| | Re: Anyone catch The Nation Blue last week?
« Reply #1 on Jul 31, 2002, 8:30am » | |
Did'nt go so could'nt say but I heard on decent authority they were shit... yeah like I said did'nt go so dont know myself.
I also heard (from same source) that MDirt were pathetic in the extreme- now this I belive, MD should get off the piss and actually listen to their last album to see what it sounds like. Its good- they'e not, lately.
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« Reply #2 on Jul 31, 2002, 9:35am » | |
wow. I don't of course know what makes the person you spoke to a "decent authority", but I saw The Nation Blue a few weeks back and thought they were fantastic. I actually enjoyed them more than GVSB who were the far more anticipated act on the bill, and am looking forward to seeing them again next week. Did your source give any explanation for why they said they were shit, maybe it just wasn't their thing? Different strokes for different folks I guess, but going in with no prior knowledge of the band, I walked out a fan.
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« Reply #3 on Jul 31, 2002, 8:09pm » | |
TNB own your sorry spock asses.
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« Reply #4 on Aug 1, 2002, 12:31am » | |
I saw them a couple of times in Melbourne and gotta say that if there is one thing this band owns, Heath is right, it is peoples' arses, cos they certainly won't get any closer to the ears than that...
I can't wait to see next year's band bios, and see how many bands try to palm off the emo / screamo tags they so feverishly adopted this time around. Not TNB specifically, they haven't really been overly keen to hold up their generic title like a flag for all to see, but a lot of bands have. By this time next year, those words will be as embarassing as the word 'punk' and funnily enough, the bands that will make these words embarassing were the same ones to made punk embarassing.
Amusing.
Deathno is coming people......prepare thineselves! Or something.
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« Reply #5 on Aug 1, 2002, 12:57am » | |
Me thinks TNB was deffinately not my (usually) decent authority's thing so I hold personal judgement until I catch em myself.
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« Reply #6 on Aug 1, 2002, 1:07am » | |
C'mon Mike, you can't throw TNB in with all the label like folk, they are trying to get away from all that scene themselves. They remind me more of Shellac than all those wanna be ATDI types.
Rock is the new Rock. Aha.
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« Reply #7 on Aug 1, 2002, 2:08am » | |
Yeah, that is why I made mention of the fact that this doesn't overly apply to them....they are one of those rare bands (these days at least) that just lets the music do the talking.
The first 5 or 10 minutes of their set I always enjoy, as they have a great energy, but I always got bored after that.
Still, I'd rather have that than ANOTHER band that plays garage revival / detroit revival rock.
With all of these genres coming back up, getting a blast of hype, then carking again, coupled with every over-zealous rock journo throwing the 'saviour of rock' / next nirvana bullshit around, it is obvious that clutching at straws is all that is happening.
My prediction is that it won't be a re-revival that will breathe life back into the dwindling live music universe, more so a new genre (which will of course be a mutated version of one already in existence). But of course, no one thing will 'save rock', cos as long as labels are still employing the 'alternative as commercial' retards that have been there since the Seattle thing, nothing new will get a look in. Bands like TNB and Fantomas should be setting the benchmark for refreshing, but ultimately more marketable, new rock, not early 90s alterna-slop like Creed.
I should be an A&R guy I swear, all of these rad bands would get signed! Of course, none of them would sell and I'd get fired, but hey.
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« Reply #8 on Aug 1, 2002, 3:39am » | |
HHMmm.....
I was at this gig...(cause some mutha fuckers pushed in front of me in the blackalicious cue).....And I had a damn good night.....looking round I think everyone else did too..It was more than sardine like by the time Magic dirt hit the stage and they were a breath of fresh air. Gone were all the dumb ass rock wankery moves that they had been busting the last few times I saw them,, those that were there were treated to a one long wall of inpenetrable sound...I just hope they recover themselves for their next album effort....and cleanse that bubble gum gloss shit right off.
The Nation Blue?? I was well hyped when they came on paying close attention to their setup....then B O O M their assault began....unrelenting for the duration of their set
I've gotta say straight up that they were without doubt one of the hardest acts I've ever tried to find the groove to. Not that's a bad thing,,not having heard the album(heart is a phantom limb being the exception) almost every timing change took me by suprise.....
I even asked a few strangers what they thought later....'need the Vox up',,'Not my thing', 'Yeah loved em, reminded me of Drowning Man'
The crowd as a whole I think was more in shock at just the simple lack of melody. And I gotta agree what sets them apart from Screamo is the absence of melody in the voices, the addition of mathy rhythm and off kilter drumming..and the unpredictable structure of the songs themselves.
Not hardcore, not screamo, not emo, not straight rock,no sign of pop or anything remotely radio friendly.
I give 'em one thumb up,, with my other thumb waiting til their next gig. Hell at least they sound completely different to everything else perth has to offer...which can't be a bad thing
That's my 2 cents or more like 10 bucks worth
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« Reply #9 on Aug 1, 2002, 8:13am » | |
Taken way too seriously...shit, it aint Rocket Science- as bad as they were.. Being hard and unrelenting isnt the only prereqisite to making good music. Feedback should be an additional instrument to producing an overall effect, not the main content of most songs themselves. You know noise and music are often hard words to separate literally at the best of times. The Nation Blue may have just straddled themselves fair and square on the line that separates the two.
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« Reply #10 on Aug 1, 2002, 7:22pm » | |
Likewise, they remind me more of bands like Shellac and Drive Like Jehu, neither of which I really got into that much but I liked the albums that I heard.
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« Reply #11 on Aug 1, 2002, 8:08pm » | |
So no-one on here actually saw this gig?
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« Reply #12 on Aug 2, 2002, 5:06am » | |
playing off time and sporting a fringe is not the future of rock and roll...
i can think of two bands that are similar to the nation blue. gyroscope and our lasting loss.
blah blah it was cool to see them!
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« Reply #13 on Aug 2, 2002, 6:55am » | |
wow I wonder who actually posted the last S.O.A.UP piece cos it certainly was'nt me. Pissed mates pinching my computer me thinks...
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« Reply #14 on Aug 3, 2002, 4:38am » | |
How are Gyro's and nation blue in any way similar?
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