The Reverend Bear wrote:If you are going to outdrone deebank, you really have gotr your work cut out Mike
Good luck with that!!!!
Another drone who didn't read the post but jumped in with both feet it seems - no surprises there then
The Reverend Bear wrote:If you are going to outdrone deebank, you really have gotr your work cut out Mike
Good luck with that!!!!
The RightGraduate Profile wrote:Maybe the main difference as I see it is that the Jam made the most of their limitations, the Police didn't do enough with their strengths. For a band as musicianly as the Police, it's surprising how 'streamlined' they sound. Like I said before, they're not exactly Roxy Music or even Talking Heads in terms of wierdness, are they?
Ted Maulled Wine wrote:The RightGraduate Profile wrote:Maybe the main difference as I see it is that the Jam made the most of their limitations, the Police didn't do enough with their strengths. For a band as musicianly as the Police, it's surprising how 'streamlined' they sound. Like I said before, they're not exactly Roxy Music or even Talking Heads in terms of wierdness, are they?
Agreed.
Wolfie's Big Bulging Sack wrote:Ted Maulled Wine wrote:The RightGraduate Profile wrote:Maybe the main difference as I see it is that the Jam made the most of their limitations, the Police didn't do enough with their strengths. For a band as musicianly as the Police, it's surprising how 'streamlined' they sound. Like I said before, they're not exactly Roxy Music or even Talking Heads in terms of wierdness, are they?
Agreed.
Yer balls!
Hole In My Life, Masoko Tango, Deathwish, Shadows in the Rain, Voices Inside My Head (to name a few, I'm not going to get all Moddie on your arses and include error-filled lists from Wikipedia) are from clearly left-field and show how imaginative arrangers they could be.
...and why are the Jam exempt from a comparison to Roxy / the Heads? Reverse-fucking snobbery.
yomptepi wrote:Good post, but a horribly deluded piece of writing. Zenyatta regatta de blanko, or whatever other fucking gobbledegook it was called, was lamentably poor. You might enjoy it if you were a complete imbecile..All the de doo da keoooooooh bullshit made me ill. Lazy inconsequential and totally disposable. Music for drones and taste free students.
To compare any any album the police made with any Jam album is just stupid. They were not even trying...it was just sellling a cakky white boy reggae...an insult to anyone who heard it. And the fact that they were good musicians only makes it worse. A wicked and unforgivable oportunity to make great music was wasted. The one time they did try, it was already too late, and they hated each other too much to finish it properly.
To compare a few pop singles with the sucstancial and worthwhile work of the Jam is a digrace.
How fucking dare you.
modernist del presidente wrote:Deebank wrote: They were supposed to 'mean' something which the Police never did and never tried to.
Well we can agree The Police were meaningless then. I'm glad we've reached a consensus after 17 pages!
Clippernolan wrote:There's currently an "x" beside the Police choice. Have some of you revoked your votes?
Pretty Boy Floyd wrote:
THe Jam - ... six fantastic albums.
Pretty Boy Floyd wrote:
THe Jam - 20 odd superb singles, some great b-sides and six fantastic albums. And Sting isn't in the band.
The Jam are in a completely different league to the Police. The Police are decent enough, but Sting isn't fit to be in the same room as Paul Weller who is a true legend for his work with the Jam.
Sting is a second-division player to Weller's Ronaldo.