Re: (TV) Finally a TV comparison that holds some water?

[Michael Cross <mike-tv@mjckeh.demon.co.uk>]

In message <68a8ea5e050330095446f5c89a@mail.gmail.com>
   Rex Broome writes:
> Thesis:  from what I've heard so far, among the dozens of (good) new
> bands band being compared to Television (but usually actually owing
> more to Go4 or the Jam), Bloc Party might actually be worthy of the
> comparison.  Some nice twin guitar stuff.  Anyone heard the album yet?

All I've heard by them is the track "Helicopter", that appears on the 
cover disc "Rule Britannia!: 40 Years of Great British Music" for the 
April 2005 issue of Q.

On that, admittedly brief, exposure, I'd agree with you. Mind you, I 
think, again based on just one track, a couple of the other new bands 
on that disc are also worthy: Kaiser Chiefs, and The Departure.

PS A question for those of you who write/perform music... why is it 
that people write tracks which contain oft-repeated phrases/refrains, 
and then use some other phrase, which may not even be sung once, as 
the title?

cf: Bloc Party's "Helicopter", and Kaiser Chiefs' "Caroline, Yes" 


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