Comments on: The Ting Tings – Great DJ

By: extremelisteningmode

extremelisteningmode — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:35:29 +0000

Swinseshead, you know I love you and all, but that is a cracking l’il song.

It’s got beats! It’s got a shouty chorus! Come on Man!!

Still a shite name for a band, right enough.

By: wally bazoom

wally bazoom — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:19:48 +0000

In 1992 I bought a compilation casette tape from the Lincoln branch of Woolworths in the newly opened Riverside shopping centre called Reading – The Indie Album, as advertised on TV. The attraction was an exlusive Wonder Stuff song, Room 512, and a fine tune it was.

But who was that, towards the end of side 2? It was Thousand Yard Stare. What business had they on a fashionable indie compilation alongside The Wedding Prersent, The Sugarcubes and The House of Love? None that my childish eyes could see. Fortunately, that end of the tape also featured The Mission, and was hardly ever ventured into. In fact, it rarely made it past the aforementioned Stuffies track.

Now I see the truth, I thank my lucky charms that that which nearly came to pass was so narrowly avoided. To think that by simply listening to poor quality alternative music I would end up manacled to some pointless, soul destroying job for the rest of life makes me near pass water in terror.

Wait a minute that face it’s my face MY FACE etc.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:55:13 +0000

Have you not heard about the conspiracy to bring back the workhouses using indie / alternative music as bait?

The workhouses will be part of a secret industry to enforce manual child labour – thus lowering carbon emmissions and making the government look like they’re good at hitting targets. Bands like the Ting Tings play gigs attended by children and then the youngsters get rounded up and put to use in factories.

I’m surprised you didn’t know about this.

It happened in the 90s as well, but the plan fell at the first hurdle when the government realised that Thousand Yard Stare weren’t nearly as popular as calculated, so no kids turned up at the gigs.

By: wally bazoom

wally bazoom — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:45:22 +0000

Why do the NME and Jo Whiley want to enslave children? Have the authorities been called? And more to the point, how does this system work?

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:42:14 +0000

Wrong, for the Ting Tings are an invention of the NME and the Jo Whiley radio show, designed to enslave children.

By: wally bazoom

wally bazoom — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:37:28 +0000

Your mind has become enslaved by the vicious jackboot of the facist bullyboy state. Only the Ting Tings can free you.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:38:03 +0000

Kafka didn’t ever exist. His novels are an invention by libertarians attempting to incite revolution.

By: wally bazoom

wally bazoom — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:33:49 +0000

You enforce them though, don’t you, like some unthinking bureaucrat! It’s like Kafka never existed! Honestly.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:46:22 +0000

a.) I disagree
b.) You can only make this sort of music if you are under 8 years old. I don’t make the rules.

By: wally bazoom

wally bazoom — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:40:27 +0000

It’s alright this, but I’ve heard better songs by them.

Just out of interest, how old must one be to make this kind of music? And what are you supposed to perform at which age?

By: Napoleon Cockaparte

Napoleon Cockaparte — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:25:15 +0000

I like Mars Bras. And Lilt. And Dr. Pepper.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:04:48 +0000

I’ve been recommended their new album. I’ll reserve judgement till I get home. Besides, everyone knows you only like American things, Medlo, you bloody twerp.

By: Dave Medlo

Dave Medlo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:59:19 +0000

’tis truly terrible, although not quite as monstrously awful as the Mystery Jets new song – Young Love. In every way the sound of the impending apocalypse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz-FoGp3p0s

By: John Q Wagonwheel

John Q Wagonwheel — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:46:12 +0000

They are appalling.

And you’re a pair of jugs.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:28:28 +0000

John is a boob.

And Ting Tings are bloody awful.