Yes, and you may also like being hung, drawn, and quartered - but it's not likely. Go away and take your crappy advertising with you. By the way, if you didn't see the 'Something For Katy' (my god, how sad) review in the SMH on Saturday, feast your eyes my friends. Finally, if the person who posted this actually likes FEL and has simply made a mistake (rather than being an opportunistic parasitic scumbag using someone else's discussion board to push their crappy band) please feel free to contribute something that is not @#%$. Thanks.
AGREED
Too true featherduster.
And another thing, if people are going to clog the board with no better than 'Pop-Up' adverts that pertains to things OUTSIDE of FEL, use the "Everything Else" forum, conveniently housed a click away.
Even Mark Easton Limousine had the courtesy to plug his wares over there...
SFK fans - avert your eyes
Purely in the public interest, the full text follows... No official comment on this material will be forthcoming.
CULTURAL BINGE - Excessive ordinariness is good enough for SFK.
It is said Australians still suffer cultural cringe and consider, deep down, that nothing done locally is as good as that done overseas - despite occasional evidence to the contrary.
There is, however, a perverse side to this cringe. We celebrate the average and the ordinary and cling hard to it, denying the obvious. Why? Because it's ours.
SFK are one of our biggest bands. They have a large and devoted following, consistently earn complimentary reviews from local critics and win national awards. Yet they are a very ordinary band, one with a stunted vision and a limited palette, condemned to circle the same small patch of musical ground (ground well worn by Pearl Jam at their narrowest).
SFK's Paul Dempsey is a songwriter who mistakes earnestness for depth and sonorousness for meaning. Song For A Sleepwalker, for example, yearns to be emotive and nearly gets there, too, but Dempsey doesn't know how to move beyond the pedestrian melody and so real beauty stays beyond his reach. Deja Vu comes close to being a stately pop song but you know the writer has reached his limit and can't lift it from OK to impressive. The other songs are interchangeable and inconsequential.
We don't ask enough of our artists - near enough is good enough. Once they achieve some level of success, they don't ask more of themselves because it's not necessary.
It's only when they leave Australia as stars and find themselves merely adequate in other places that reality smacks them in the head - or should.
SFK need someone to say it's not good enough - go back, push harder. However, even if someone at the record company or their management or even their fanclub were smart/brave enough to do it, would the band listen? It has worked until now, you can hear the band say. Well, actually guys, it hasn't: you've just been allowed to stay ordinary and been rewarded for it.
BZ
re: re.view
In response to BZ'z review: ouch!
He sounds VERY bitter about the widespread phenomena of popularity = mediocrity, especially in the Oz music scene. Whilst I agree with the overall idea that SfK have become more samey as they've become more "popular", I reckon he's being too harsh on them by far. There's very few musical folk who can change their sonic spots very much (Beatles, Bowie, Regurgitator come to mind), and even those often take a few years or albums to do it. The vast majority of artistes the world over (in my opinion anyway) have 'their' style or sound, for whatever reason, and all of their output has it. Even certain Sydney-based Oz-rock quartets have been accused of having the same sound more than once, I'm sure.
And as that dynamic, never-the-same cultural icon Kent Brockman would say: "That's my two cents..."
my two cents
after the loader gig on saturday night we flicked on the tube and it appeard that mibbe SfK had programmed rage (i remeber last time they did it kicked arse, archers, big black, sandpit, built to spill) but sadly we missed that bit and got the 3 hours of SfK filmclips. the word BORING sprung to mind very quickly, does that guy even listen to himself? he kind of reminds me of the guy the lisa simpson marries in the future; y'know the one "we both love the rolling stones, not for their music but their quest to preserve historic buildings" and "when will people learn that eating animals is wrong, so very, very wrong."
sorry if i'm hurting anyone's feelings, but the disparity between loader and SfK was never clearer to me than at that point, and there was no competition.
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