Who are the best new guitar band?

[MattBackHome]

Longview and Interpol for me

Agreed - Longview are absolute MINT

 

[Squiggsy]

Saw Longview support Elbow at Corn Exchange last year, where imho they blew Elbow away.

Was looking forward to them at V but they were a bit....hmmm....dull really this time around. Shame.

 

[Raphael Meade]

Razorlights second release (video with lead singer in phone box) hasnt seemed to made such a mark as Golden Touch did.

its their 4th single i think... sorry to be pedantic (and probably wrong!)

 

[sully]

I feel so old.

I've only heard of one of them, and couldn't tell you if they're any good or not, as I only know the name, not a tune they've done.

To think my mates used to rely on me for all the latest music gossip!

 

[Juan Albion]

Gotta be these boys:

 

[zefarelly]

JET . . . . piss on all of those

 

[tinx]

Saw Longview support Elbow at Corn Exchange last year, where imho they blew Elbow away.

I was at that gig and personally thought that Longview were one of the most unoriginal naff indie pop seen it before bands I'd seen in ages, trying to drag out the early nineties sounds again utter pap. Elbow ion the other hand were pure class from start to finish even though they did lose power half was through the gig.


Of the list Razorlight for me. I really don't understand the hype around the ordinary boys, very average and uninspiring if you ask me.

Really love the Zutons album as well.

 

[JJ McClure]

I left my Franz Ferdinand phase during the summer, and have now moved on to Razorlight and Rooster.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I absolutely loved them when I got sent their promo and couldnt get enough of listening to them, but once a band gets 'adopted' by The NME I tend to get a bit fed up of them. I like bands when not many people know about them.

You are joking aren't you?

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I saw Funeral for a friend, The Rapture, Franz Ferdinand and The Von Bondies all play on the same bill at the Refectory in Leeds. Franz Ferdinand were the first band on and only allowed to play about 5 songs. About 40 people watched them.

How quickly things can change.

I absolutely loved them when I got sent their promo and couldnt get enough of listening to them, but once a band gets 'adopted' by The NME I tend to get a bit fed up of them. I like bands when not many people know about them.

Ah the music snob. I used to be one of those, forever searching for stuff no-one else knew about, getting sniffy about bands that had received daytime airplay, attanding gigs in crappy pubs where the audience was me and the bands girlfriends.
I woke up one day and realised my record collection was unlistenable shit and people didn't think i was the zenith of musical taste but a pretentious tit.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Ah the music snob. I used to be one of those, forever searching for stuff no-one else knew about, getting sniffy about bands that had received daytime airplay, attanding gigs in crappy pubs where the audience was me and the bands girlfriends.
I woke up one day and realised my record collection was unlistenable shit and people didn't think i was the zenith of musical taste but a pretentious tit.

My music collection is not far off that.
But it's underpinned by my delight in basic melodies. I have to admit that i don't really like belonging to a "scene" so when things become popular, some of the gloss is taken away. Just like the beginning of a relationship when everything seems so exciting and you only spend time with one another learning all you can. Then you get used to each other and spend time in larger groups to avoid the discomfort. You still love them, but you're not as excited any more.

I seem to be babbling again.

 

[Hungry Joe.]

Do British Sea Power qualify in this catagory? If so it's them for me by a very English country mile.

 

[MattBackHome]

*PRETENTIOUS TIT ALERT*

Keep an eye out for 'The Koreans' whose debut single "Still Strung Out" was dead good.

I'm of to listen to some Ghanaian Pan-Pipe Acid Folk (the white label remixes) etc.

 

[REDLAND]

For me Funeral for a Friend are the best from the Poll, 36 Crazyfists are at the mo by far the best guitar band around IMO off course

 

[Kylies Stunt Arse]

From that list I've gone for The Killers. They're album really is superb. Longview had a cracking album out last year, as did Mew, and hopefully they'll be able to produce again.

Franz Ferdinand can still f*** right off.

 

[Hungry Joe.]

Franz Ferdinand can still f*** right off.