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    I can think of quite a load of Metal, Industrial, EBM, Electro, Goth and Hard Rock bands from Europe that are great, but European "Indie" bands....? I'm struggling......

     

    Alec Empire - he's got his own label (Digital Hardcore), and it's bloody hard to pin him into a specific genre as such (Industrial/Techno/Punk Rock....?), so I'll start us off with him....

     

    ...Mind you, quite a few of the Euro-Metal bands that I listen to aren't on major labels, so going by the original definition of Indie=bands on Independent labels, you could add Moonlight (Poland), The Gathering (Holland), Epica (Holland), Ataraxia (Italy), After Forever (Holland), Gothminster (Norway), Mortiis (Norway).......

     

    Well i wasnt gonna go over to the 'dark side' :lol: :lol: as thats more suited to the other area of this forum

     

    (also mew are danish but hey its near enough to sweden and no doubt they were the same country in something like 1806 :lol: :lol: however the random page generator at wikipedia has taken me to Tristan da Cunha and im not bothering to look at that scandifact :lol: :lol: its all Æ ø ö to me anyway :lol: :lol: )

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    further to the argument that all jangly indie music should be termed britpop and knowing thats its eurovision on saturday (and noone has come up with any decent foreign acts)

     

    does this mean all indie music from europe is rubbish?

     

    (well probably apart from a few acts in sweden :lol: )

    bloody hell!!! were a lot of number ones this year!!!

     

     

    Chef: Chocolate Salty Balls 10

    (well it is from this :lol:)

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/South_Park_into.jpg

    Steps: Heartbeat/Tragedy 0

    Fatboy Slim: Praise You 2

    911: A Little Bit More 0

    The Offspring: Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) 8

    Armand Van Helden: You Don't Know Me 0

    Blondie: Maria 4

    Lenny Kravitz: Fly Away 0

    Britney Spears: Baby One More Time 1

    Boyzone: When The Going Gets Tough 0

    B*witched: Blame It On The Weatherman 0

    Mr Oizo: Flat Beat 4

    Martine McCutcheon: Perfect Moment 0

    Westlife: Swear It Again 0

    Backstreet Boys: I Want It That Way 0

    Boyzone: You Needed Me 0

    Shanks & Bigfoot: Sweet Like Chocolate 0

    Baz Luhrmann: Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) 10

    but only because its from this: :lol: :lol:

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Romeo_and_juliet.jpg

     

    S Club 7: Bring It All Back 0

    Vengaboys: Boom Boom Boom Boom 0

    ATB: 9pm (Till I Come) 0

    Ricky Martin: Livin' La Vida Loca 0

    Ronan Keating: When You Say Nothing At All 0

    Westlife: If I Let You Go 0

    Geri Halliwell: Mi Chico Latino 0

    Lou Bega: Mambo No5 (A Little Bit Of..) 10

    Vengaboys: We're Going To Ibiza! 0

    Eiffel 65: Blue (Da Ba Dee) 0

    Christina Aguilera: Genie In The Bottle 0

    Westlife: Flying Without Wings 0

    5ive: Keep On Movin' 0

    Geri Halliwell: Lift Me Up 0

    Robbie Williams: She's The One 3

    Wamdue Project: King Of My Castle

    Cliff Richard: The Millennium Prayer 0

    Westlife: I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun 0

     

    But if enough people bitch on about it it's probably gonna send the poor girl off to the bloody plastic surgeons to get electrolysis or something....

     

    was a few people arguing on that site saying she will probably end up as one of those identikit blonde orange skin starlets :lol: :lol:

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    Dancer in the Dark was the first film I remember crying in when I became an adult! Love it.

     

    Si

     

    for the great scandinavian (yeah i know she is trying to be czech but ill sidestep that) blub-a-thon watch this then lilja-4ever

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Lilya_4-ever_poster.jpg

     

    great rammstein soundtracked scene at the start as well!!! brilliant

    :lol: :lol:

     

    100% in agreement with you there mate, which is why I see 'em as AOR, rock only without the rawness, energy and guts. Coldplay just remind me of these awful AOR bands of the 70s/80s (you know the types - Chicago, Boston, Foreigner; earnest, big stadium ballads, utterly, utterly fukkin' tedious.....)

     

     

    an article in one of the mags said

    the feeling... just the gay supertramp or not? :lol: :lol:

    09 NE Daz Sampson - Teenage Life

    thank god for downloads!!! :cheer:

     

    17 NE Delays - Hideaway

    19 NE Graham Coxon - You and I

    22 NE Hot Chip - Boy From School

    23 NE Starsailor - Keep Us Together

     

    wow! so all the fans must have rushed out to get these! always thought the delays record should have been bigger, pity it hasnt crossed over into the mainstream downloaders! even with it being played on wogan's radio 2 show this morn :lol:

    points awarded

     

    Aaliyah - Try Again

    Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing

    Alanis Morissette - Ironic

    Alicia Keys - Fallin'

    All Saints - Never Ever

    All Saints - Pure Shores

    Anastacia - Left Outside Alone

    Beyonce ft Jay-Z – Crazy In Love

    Britney Spears - Toxic 1 point

    Cardigans - My Favourite Game 19 points

    Christina Aguilera – Beautiful

    Christina Aguilera - Dirrty

    Coldplay - In My Place 11 points

    Coldplay - Yellow 12 points

    Daniel Bedingfield – If You’re Not The One

    Darius – Colour Blind

    DJ Jurgen ft. Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone

    Eminem ft. Dido - Stan 2 points

    Evanescence – Bring Me To Life

    Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out 20 points

    Fugees - Killing Me Softly

    Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood 14 points

    Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. 13 points

    Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams 10 points

    Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) 9 points

    Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For? 3 points

    Jamelia – Superstar

    Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone

    Killers - Somebody Told Me 15 points

    Kylie Minogue - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head

    Macy Gray - I Try

    Madonna - Beautiful Stranger

    Madonna - Frozen

    Madonna - Hung Up

    Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 5 points

    No Doubt - Don't Speak

    No Doubt - It's My Life 6 points

    Oasis - Don’t Look Back In Anger 8 points

    Outkast - Hey Ya

    Pink – Just Like A Pill

    Robbie Williams - Feel 7 points

    Shakira – Whenever Wherever

    Spice Girls - 2 Become 1

    Stereophonics - Dakota 16 points

    Sugababes – Freak Like Me

    Sugababes – Hole In The Head

    Sugababes - Push The Button

    Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony 17 points

    Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 18 points

    Will Young – Leave Right Now

     

    It really wasn't as dire as I'd feared it would be, but yeah, the bits you mentioned were pretty bloody dopey it has to be said. The problem with this film is that the trailer just totally gives away the "twist" (ie, that the killer is already in the house making the calls), now, for people who'd never seen the original, the whole point of seeing it is kinda rendered null and void by that trailer... :lol:

     

    But obviously, it's nowhere near as suspenseful as the original. By the way, did you ever see a little-known 1971 Canadian horror with a similar theme called "Black Christmas" which came out about two or three years before the original of this.... (starring a young Margot Kidder no less...)? It was set in a Sorority House and had pretty much exactly the same twist in the plot....

     

    the reviews have been terrible. however i might go and see it just for Camilla Belle. wanted to see jack and rose but we didnt get that at the cinema.

     

    have you got the original? where is it from/what distributor?

    I decided to do a poll on which of the five recently released single that peaked at #40 but in your opinion didn't deserve to make the top 40 at all.

     

    Hope you like my first poll thread ever. :thumbup:

     

     

    well it would have been better if you had put the records that were at 41,

     

    or better still just did number 10 and 11 as 40 doesnt really get that much press and the top of the chart is more important, (think the bbc only starting there as its roughly half way and to do the full 75 would take longer)

     

    or what no76 should have become a hit (and got in the hit singles book not to be lost forever :lol:)

     

    then again for record that doesnt deserve to be top 40 this week i choose daz sampson :lol: :lol:

    I think most of what's called indie just means 'soft-rock guitar bands'. I suppose guitar based pop bands is the most suitable label, but 'pop' has connotations of bubblegum all-dancing-and-a-couple-singing acts so perhaps the guitar bands don't want to lumped together with them.

     

    But guitar based pop band is such a mouthful, like a vocal version of a blocked toilet :lol: indie is much easier to drop in conversation. and people would think your a tit if you kept putting in the phrase well i like the new guitar based pop band tune by the :lol: :lol:

     

    Grimly Fiendish is spot on about it being daft to purely blame The Spice Girls- Stock Aitken Waterman started it if anything. That said, they certainly weren't the first hit 'factory' full of acts which had songs written for them. Motown for example was established way before that (although that was quite a bit different I guess).

     

    think it went back further than that to the birth of teenagers :o when guys called colin were reformulated as rock n roll stars called billy fury and marty wilde and similar extreme names for the time (dont quote me on dates though)

     

    old bloke in office keeps going on about a bloke who had a gimpy leg. probs gene vincent or billy fury. cant remember at the mom ent

     

    anyway he had this gimpy leg that he dragged around so they dressed him all in lether and put him on stage with loads of boys on bikes and so he turned into someone who looked cool rather than a disabled person

    All Saints: Never Ever 0

    Oasis: All Around The World 7

    Usher: You Make Me Wanna 0

    Aqua: Dr Jones 8

    Celine Dion: My Heart Will Go On 0

    Cornershop: Brimful Of Asha 10

    Madonna: Frozen 0

    Run DMC v Jason Nevins: It's Like That 0

    Boyzone: All I Need 0

    All Saints: Under The Bridge 0

    ll Saints: Lady Marmalade 1

    Aqua: Turn Back Time 0

    The Tamperer: Feel It 0

    B*witched: C'Est La Vie 0

    Billie: Because We Want To 0

    Another Level: Freak Me 0

    Jamiroquai: Deeper Underground 5

    Spice Girls: Viva Forever 0

    Boyzone: No Matter What 0

    Manic Street Preachers: If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 10

    All Saints: Bootie Call 0

    Robbie Williams: Millenium 5

    Mel B/Missy Elliott: I Want You Back 0

    B*witched: Rollercoaster 0

    Billie: Girlfriend 0

    Spacedust: Gym & Tonic 0

    Cher: Believe 0

    B*witched: To You I Belong 0

    Spice Girls: Goodbye 0

     

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    anyone interested in playing an alternative eurovision from saturday? with decent chart bands from europe rather than the dodgy musical delights of the proper show?

     

    if you want to, decide how you would like to play it (scoring like eurovision, rate out of 10 or survivor)

     

    and nominate chart bands for each country in europe (just so i dont chose random ones from wikipedia)

     

    then the most popular ones i will post for you to do :cheer: