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

Hunty · 14-03-2009 01:04PM #1

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 · 14-03-2009 02:42PM

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

Gavin "shels" · 14-03-2009 03:53PM

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

JerryHandbag · 14-03-2009 05:54PM

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

Placid_Casual · 14-03-2009 06:00PM

Editors with a more annoying singer.

They'll probably be huge.

xOxSinéadxOx · 14-03-2009 08:09PM

I think they're ****

deisedude · 15-03-2009 12:33AM

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 · 15-03-2009 12:59PM

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

joeybloggs · 15-03-2009 01:08PM

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

)

Orizio · 15-03-2009 02:12PM

Unoriginal and tedious.

Everyone will love them.

RAMAN · 15-03-2009 03:47PM

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 · 15-03-2009 08:15PM

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 · 15-03-2009 08:22PM

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 · 15-03-2009 11:41PM

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 · 15-03-2009 11:42PM

Editors... bad!

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

cem · 15-03-2009 11:44PM

trilo wrote: »

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

+1

Lola92 · 15-03-2009 11:45PM

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 · 16-03-2009 11:19AM

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 · 16-03-2009 09:35PM

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 · 16-03-2009 09:35PM

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 · 17-03-2009 01:55PM

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 · 17-03-2009 07:03PM

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

sink · 18-03-2009 04:21AM

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 · 18-03-2009 02:30PM

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

I think they're ****

Orizio wrote: »

Unoriginal and tedious.

Everyone will love them.

Just wanted to quote these for effect

qwertplaywert · 18-03-2009 06:35PM

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 · 18-03-2009 07:29PM

Albums pretty well produced! Good club floor fillers

Corholio · 18-03-2009 08:01PM

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 · 18-03-2009 11:42PM

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 · 19-03-2009 10:26PM

there f***ing tops!

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

Placid_Casual · 19-03-2009 10:33PM

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 · 19-03-2009 10:39PM

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

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

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