White Lies..... Anyone else think they're destined for greatness??

Hunty

I was at Snow Patrol a few weekends ago and White Lies were supporting and I thought they were brilliant!

Anyone heard of them?

I've checked a few more of their songs out on youtube since and I like what I hear!

Give this a listen....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0AFriC7ZM

X-Calibre

Really not a big fan at all. Sound like a mesh of alot of sounds I've already heard before.

Gavin "shels"

Love them, haven't stopped listening to the album. Looking forward to a gig over here soon.

JerryHandbag

I think they're okay, but really just sound a bit like Editors copycats to me

Placid_Casual

Editors with a more annoying singer.

They'll probably be huge.

xOxSinéadxOx

I think they're ****

deisedude

They are hugely derivative but who isnt nowadays. I think they are ok, death is a good song. I wouldnt put them anywhere near the same league as interpol, a band of the same ilk

lordgoat

Another meh band to join the legions of meh bands out there. Recession in music.

joeybloggs

I like them.Perhaps not toe-to-toe with Interpol yet, but better than Editors (a poor man's Interpol )

Orizio

Unoriginal and tedious.

Everyone will love them.

RAMAN

I was going to buy this album but after hearing comparison's to Coldplay and The Editors think I will give them a miss.

MikeHoncho

One of the best new bands ive heard in a while. Some really good songs on the album but as has been said they are no interpol and it is hugely derivative. They will be massive though.

Lola92

Hunty wrote: »

I was at Snow Patrol a few weekends ago and White Lies were supporting and I thought they were brilliant!

Anyone heard of them?

+1
Bought their album the next day, not as good as the live experience but you get that with most good bands!:)

xOxSinéadxOx

also, I saw an interview with them and they sounded really posh and poncy and that put me off a bit too. but they're still crap anyway, maybe if you like snow patrol you'd like them though

trilo

Editors... bad!

White Lies were excellent at the Snow Patrol gig. Great bad IMO

cem

trilo wrote: »

White Lies were excellent at the Snow Patrol gig. Great bad IMO

+1

Lola92

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

also, I saw an interview with them and they sounded really posh and poncy and that put me off a bit too. but they're still crap anyway, maybe if you like snow patrol you'd like them though

Ah yes us snow patrol people and our blandly average musical taste...:rolleyes:

red_ice

i think they have a great energy personally. However I dont really connect them to the editors/interpol like everyone else is saying. I think thats just what people will say these days to someone who speaks in key to a song. I hear billy idol in the music and sorta the same in the vocals. My usual way to review an album(personal review) is to leave it in the car and put it in my CD rotation for a couple of weeks. The album is pretty average... even sub average imo..

They have 3 good songs, the first, second and 8th on the album. Great energy and ideas in them, and a FANTASTIC sound. It just doesn't carry throughout the rest of the album imo. The CD goes in, playes the first two and i end up on track 8, then its out of the cd player into the stack again.

idontknowmyname

I wasn't able to get tickets but my mam (who's 50!) went and she loved White Lies, keeps going on about them, will have to try and check them out sometime

trilo

Lola92 wrote: »

Ah yes us snow patrol people and our blandly average musical taste...:rolleyes:

hee hee
Why are people so posh and poncy themselves about music others like....so many judgements Where has the love gone...

stateofflux

long live blandness... without it there would'nt be donuts, duff, burger king or britney spears....all of which i can't live without....:pac:

Beeinmybonnet

I don't think their sound is hugely original but still is a great album.

sink

Arbitrarily dismissing bands because they don't reinvent the symphony is trying to be pretentious just for the sake of it, and succeeding!! I like to hear something different every once in a while but I also like to hear old familiar sounds played really well, which is exactly what White Lies set out to do and achieved. Bought the album will try and catch them live if presented with the opportunity.

insinkerator

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

I think they're ****

Orizio wrote: »

Unoriginal and tedious.

Everyone will love them.

Just wanted to quote these for effect

qwertplaywert

Just had a listen to the album to see what the fuss is about, pretty poor imo. Another generic, post Libertines indie band. Yawn.

pistonsvox

Albums pretty well produced! Good club floor fillers

Corholio

qwertplaywert wrote: »

Just had a listen to the album to see what the fuss is about, pretty poor imo. Another generic, post Libertines indie band. Yawn.

Because Libertines were the first band ever. :rolleyes:

qwertplaywert

I wasn't saying that. I was simply remarking that most of the 'current wave' of sameish british indie bands came after the Libertines, prob due to the Libertines popularity etc.

F@rrell

there f***ing tops!

first band in a while ive heard to sound a bit different from the mainstream krap...

Placid_Casual

F@rrell wrote: »

first band in a while ive heard to sound a bit different from the mainstream krap...

You really haven't been looking all that hard, have you?

F@rrell

Placid_Casual wrote: »

You really haven't been looking all that hard, have you?

ha in reference to bands on tele with acclaimed fame with "good" musik

Dub18

Definitely a band to watch out for in the near future.

Carcharodon

Fantastic band, have been listening to the album constantly over the past couple of months, its extremely good in my opinion.
Managed to catch them live a couple of weeks ago and they were brilliant, lead singer has an exceptional voice, really reminds me of Ian Curtis.
Joy Division obviously are one of their biggest influences.

Timmaay

I think they are brilliant! Fair enough they mightn't be orginal, but what new band is these days. From what I've been hearing they put on a great live show, and that really defines a band I think! Can't wait to see them at oxege, eh I mean that big kick ass festival in naas

Orizio

Timmaay wrote: »

I think they are brilliant! Fair enough they mightn't be orginal, but what new band is these days. From what I've been hearing they put on a great live show, and that really defines a band I think! Can't wait to see them at oxege, eh I mean that big kick ass festival in naas

Please tell me you are taking the piss.

stateofflux

Orizio wrote: »

Please tell me you are taking the piss.

lol .. i suppose if people have'nt heard the likes of wire, gang of four, siouxsie, joy division, pil, magazine etc (the good original stuff)...they would think the new nme stuff is great and fresh i suppose..

like the man says...."one of the biggest curses in life is the love of a fine wine"

red_ice

stateofflux wrote: »

lol .. i suppose if people have'nt heard the likes of wire, gang of four, siouxsie, joy division, pil, magazine etc (the good original stuff)...they would think the new nme stuff is great and fresh i suppose..

like the man says...."one of the biggest curses in life is the love of a fine wine"

because it was done 20 years ago doesnt mean it wasnt done before. Besides, joy division were sh1t imo. Only had 2/3 songs, one of which is one of my fav songs. Shes lost Control has to be possibly one of the worst songs i've ever heard, along with most of their other stuff.

Loads of stuff we hear these days is new. Redneck manifesto, Foals, queens of the stone age, eagles of death metal, Haunts. Doesnt mean that the way elements of the band are being played isnt new, but when it comes togheter it makes something new.

Orizio

I doubt anyone would disagree that the White Lies are highly unoriginal, and in my opinion exceedingly boring and formulaic. My problem with Timmaay's post is the idea the White Lies should be excused for their complete lack of innovation because all other bands are similarly unoriginal, which is both wrong and even if it was true, shouldn't stop them being criticised.

Orizio

sink wrote: »

Arbitrarily dismissing bands because they don't reinvent the symphony is trying to be pretentious just for the sake of it, and succeeding!! I like to hear something different every once in a while but I also like to hear old familiar sounds played really well, which is exactly what White Lies set out to do and achieved. Bought the album will try and catch them live if presented with the opportunity.

Have you even heard of the terms strawman and fallacy?

If not, I'd suggest you look them up, as your disinegnous over the top post is full of them.

sink

Orizio wrote: »

Have you even heard of the terms strawman and fallacy?

If not, I'd suggest you look them up, as your disinegnous over the top post is full of them.

Ever heard of hyperbole? Replace 'symphony' with 'genre' and the statement is still just as accurate but with any possible accusation of "strawman" and "fallacy" removed.

Orizio

sink wrote: »

Ever heard of hyperbole? Replace 'symphony' with 'genre' and the statement is still just as accurate but with any possible accusation of "strawman" and "fallacy" removed.

Why would I do that? You had symphony in the post, not genre, but I'm glad you agree that your argument was a strawman. Of course, symphony or genre, its still a strawman regardless, as no one is criticising the White Lies for not re-inventing any genre - which would be absurd - we are criticising them for making such formulaic and unoriginal music, a legitimate and very accurate criticism.

lordgoat

Flavour of the minute, add them to the pile of generic bands we've heard over the last few summers, kooks, the view, the meh. All the same imo.

sink

Orizio wrote: »

Why would I do that? You had symphony in the post, not genre, but I'm glad you agree that your argument was a strawman. Of course, symphony or genre, its still a strawman regardless, as no one is criticising the White Lies for not re-inventing any genre - which would be absurd - we are criticising them for making such formulaic and unoriginal music, a legitimate and very accurate criticism.

Em, anything that is original and not formulaic is by definition either a completely new concept or a reinvention of an old one, for if it wasn't it would follow a formula already invented (i.e formulaic) and it wouldn't be original.

p.s. there is a difference between a hyperbole and a strawman.

lordgoat

sink wrote: »

p.s. there is a difference between a hyperbole and a strawman.

Is it hyperbole (not a hyperbole - this makes no sense) to say the next response that is off topic shall result in a extra super duper really long banny-ban-ban?

Back on topic or go to PM, the only reason i let it go so far is i was hoping it would find it's way back all by itself.