Hard-fi "Cash Machine" Bassline

Morrigan

I heard the lastest single from Hard-Fi - "Cash machine"- on the radio the other day, and the bass line immediately reminded me of another song... I get the feeling it's been "heavily inspired", i.e. outright nicked, from another song. I guess it's from a tune from the early nineties... maybe Sting (????)... Anyone recognise the bass line from this otherwise uninteresting song?

Rollo Tamasi

terrible song, terrible lyrics, terrible band....so i wouldn't be surprised if they nicked the bassline tbh.

BrianD

Would it be a Clash track??

I have mash-up of Hard-Fi v The Clash ... bass line its in perfectly.

DerekD Goldfish

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

terrible song, terrible lyrics, terrible band....so i wouldn't be surprised if they nicked the bassline tbh.

Agreed

Legend_Killer

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

terrible song, terrible lyrics, terrible band....so i wouldn't be surprised if they nicked the bassline tbh.

Brilliant band, brialliant lyrics, brilliant song..

Rollo Tamasi

prove it. Post up some of his lyrics. Lets have a gander.

KnifeWRENCH

Legend_Killer wrote:

Brilliant band, brialliant lyrics, brilliant song..

agreed

Rollo Tamasi

square_igloo wrote:

agreed

PROVE IT!!!

here is some lyrical bliss from hard-fi,

"I try to phone a friend
My credit's in the red
I try to skip the fare
Ticket inspector's there"

"What am I gonna do
My girlfriend's test turned blue
We tried to play it safe
That night we could not wait"

"i got my hair just right.....i might go out tonight"

thats jibberish man! i could have written those lyrics while i was in primary school. Not exactly what i would call a top class band in fairness. The words
flavour and month come to mind......that month has long gone too.

blu_sonic

Ah but their imagery is very good, every time i see a cctv sign i think of them, its quite annoying

SprostonGreen

Very much a band who were in the right place at the right time. They're not bad, but not brilliant.

I cant imagine album number 2 and 3 being very good and nothing else beyond that.

mise_me_fein_V2

I don't see the bass line as a rip off. Even if it is, it's not the main part of the song - like a town called malice by the Jam is just taking the p!ss.

Anyway, Hard Fi are a great band.

Depends what you're looking for in your tunes.
It's not often that you can relate to a band and we're there coming from, but
I can relate totally to a band like Hard Fi.

No money in his bank account. Def been there.
Got on a bus without paying and dodging the inspector, done that too.

I don't think you need to disect the lyrics, it's just the situation.
Much better than crap like the Kaiser Chiefs or any Irish crap like Bell X1

Nimrod's Son

mise_me_fein_V2 wrote:

Much better than crap like the Kaiser Chiefs

In all fairness, I don't think there's a whole lot to choose between them and Kaiser Chiefs. Stars Of CCTV is average, ditto Employment.

radioman

Originally Posted by Rollo Tamasi
terrible song, terrible lyrics, terrible band....

"she love me yeah yeah yeah, she loves me yeah yeah yeah, she loves me yeah yeah yeah yeah"

now tell us all the Beatles were sh1t too... come on... :rolleyes:

blu_sonic

but if they hadn't grown as a band we'd never have known the beatles, well not as well as we do anyway. this band (hard-fi) are a case of right sound right time

anti-uncle

"i got my hair just right.....i might go out tonight"

Sorry I just thought that needed to be repeated

Rollo Tamasi

radioman wrote:

"she love me yeah yeah yeah, she loves me yeah yeah yeah, she loves me yeah yeah yeah yeah"

now tell us all the Beatles were sh1t too... come on... :rolleyes:

i'm not a great fan of the Beatles but that line you quoted is timeless whereas Hard-Fi will be soon forgotten....do you remember the Futureheads? same boat as Hard-Fi.

I could probably list off some more bands that have appeared out of no where in the past two years but the majority have disappeared and look no where capable of returning to a music scene which has never before seen so many new bands becoming the next big thing. Its Bollix i tells ya.

I wrote before on my own site that reality tv shows and boy bands and the like are leaking into indie music, you only have to look at a band like Busted, and now Hard-Fi, to see how fake the "new vegetarian" rock genre is becoming! its gone to pants for the large part. But of course some good bands have come out it...such as the Coral and The Zutons but for the most part all these bands sound alike for me.

Hopefully the singer songwritter field won't become too contamenated and we will get more gems like Jim Noir in the near future. Love that guy like a gay man

dalk

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

do you remember the Futureheads? same boat as Hard-Fi.

Well i would have to disagree with you. Yes i remember the Futureheads.. no, i don't think they have been 'forgotten' and i think there is no comparison to Hard-Fi. (Futureheads have a new album out in May apparently). Personally i think they are in a different league and i find them far more interesting than their more popular "contemporaries" such as the already mentioned Kaiser Chiefs. Maybe its because the Futureheads remind me of a cross between Devo and Wire.. i dunno, but i like them.

Anyway i digress. I agree with whats been said about Hard-Fi. The lyrics are best not looked at too closely. The album is so-so...nothing too radical or offensive (ie its not really bad or really good). Not my cup of tea really but its a solid pop album, and i don't think it has any pretensions beyond that.

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

I wrote before on my own site that reality tv shows and boy bands and the like are leaking into indie music, you only have to look at a band like Busted, and now Hard-Fi, to see how fake the "new vegetarian" rock genre is becoming! its gone to pants for the large part. But of course some good bands have come out it...such as the Coral and The Zutons but for the most part all these bands sound alike for me.

I would disagree with the idea that Busted (a boy band marketed to pubescent girls) and Hard-Fi (an 'indie' band marketed to early twenty-somethings suffering from club culture nostalgia) are somehow from the same 'scene'? Busted are/were Indie? I know Indie is a much abused catch-all, vague and fairly meaningless term, but describing Busted as being Indie is bizarre. And the Coral and the Zutons are somehow connected as well? They came out of 'it'? I'm not following your argument. The only connection i see there is that they are all English and released albums in the last few years.

If you are talking about record company marketing strategies, music bandwagon-jumping and music press hype (and their love of genre category creation and lumping bands into 'scenes')... well that's certainly not a recent phenomenon.

If you are saying that at any given time, there are some crap popular bands and there are some good less popular bands, well that's hardly much of an insight, now is it?

Morrigan

So no one has heard the bassline in another, earlier song, then?

oneofakind32

Hard Fi are sh*t!!!!

mise_me_fein_V2

you are sh!t

John

You are both banned!