Inspired by two men named Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson who call themselves HURTS. Visit the HURTS Forum
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The Drums + Hurts = Outstanding Track!
I keep playing this track non stop. What do you think of it? Kinda makes me wish for a remix of a song from Happiness that has this sort of feeling.
The Drums Down by the Water (Hurts Remix)
Monday, January 10, 2011
OUCH!!!
From the Recomender...
HURTS – HAPPINESS: We documented our love/hate relationship with Hurts back with our post about their recent Christmas single, ‘All I Want For Christmas Is New Years Day‘. Suffice to say the relationship was well over before that moment, as we now enjoy more of a hate/hate relationship with them. This album was found at the end of a path that gave us some interesting singles and an image so tightly controlled it had Obama’s team suggesting the President consider holding a comb when making speeches. A large group of Hansel Hipsters and Gretel bloggers were lead along to their lair, as the hype climbed in tandem with the bands well-plotted career hopes. However, what arrived was an album of clichéd pop mulch, that was dripping with desperation. The bubble of their cool image burst like a rain cloud, leaving us drenched in the kind of boy band music that people make for 14 year olds, with the sole aim of making money. You know the sort – a kind of manufactured brand of mid-80s pop that only people with zero shame can sing straight-faced into the TV cameras. Sickly and confusing from the outset, with opener ‘Silver Lining‘ bringing in the synthetic strings and ending with a manly chorus of mens voices chanting “silver” to it’s finish, like a piece of over-dramatic, camp theatre. They don’t seem to have realised that this stuff is done far better by the likes of Clare Maguire and that it’s because she can really sing. Hurts’ lead man, Theo Hutchcraft, simply isn’t good enough and brings the whole set crashing down by constantly singing with a faux yearning. Sure, folk will tell you it’s got melodies and is just a piece of pop, so don’t take it too seriously, but you could explain X-Factor like that and surely most sensible people realise that show is a little embarrassing, especially to all of those real pop stars of yesteryear that they karaoke to with each series. The filler on the album – songs like ‘Sunday‘, ‘The Water‘ and ‘Evelyn‘ – are so terrible and lacking that with cement this thin the walls were always going to come tumbling down. Having been positively excited at the prospect of hearing an album that promised some mature, stylish, classy synth pop, we never imagined that it would get so rapidly shelved next to your mum’s Westlife CDs.
http://therecommender.net/2010/12/27/most-disappointing-albums-of-2010/
HURTS – HAPPINESS: We documented our love/hate relationship with Hurts back with our post about their recent Christmas single, ‘All I Want For Christmas Is New Years Day‘. Suffice to say the relationship was well over before that moment, as we now enjoy more of a hate/hate relationship with them. This album was found at the end of a path that gave us some interesting singles and an image so tightly controlled it had Obama’s team suggesting the President consider holding a comb when making speeches. A large group of Hansel Hipsters and Gretel bloggers were lead along to their lair, as the hype climbed in tandem with the bands well-plotted career hopes. However, what arrived was an album of clichéd pop mulch, that was dripping with desperation. The bubble of their cool image burst like a rain cloud, leaving us drenched in the kind of boy band music that people make for 14 year olds, with the sole aim of making money. You know the sort – a kind of manufactured brand of mid-80s pop that only people with zero shame can sing straight-faced into the TV cameras. Sickly and confusing from the outset, with opener ‘Silver Lining‘ bringing in the synthetic strings and ending with a manly chorus of mens voices chanting “silver” to it’s finish, like a piece of over-dramatic, camp theatre. They don’t seem to have realised that this stuff is done far better by the likes of Clare Maguire and that it’s because she can really sing. Hurts’ lead man, Theo Hutchcraft, simply isn’t good enough and brings the whole set crashing down by constantly singing with a faux yearning. Sure, folk will tell you it’s got melodies and is just a piece of pop, so don’t take it too seriously, but you could explain X-Factor like that and surely most sensible people realise that show is a little embarrassing, especially to all of those real pop stars of yesteryear that they karaoke to with each series. The filler on the album – songs like ‘Sunday‘, ‘The Water‘ and ‘Evelyn‘ – are so terrible and lacking that with cement this thin the walls were always going to come tumbling down. Having been positively excited at the prospect of hearing an album that promised some mature, stylish, classy synth pop, we never imagined that it would get so rapidly shelved next to your mum’s Westlife CDs.
http://therecommender.net/2010/12/27/most-disappointing-albums-of-2010/
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Amazing what people will try and sell or buy.
It is funny to see how many Daggers' 7" Money singles are popping up now. I mean people selling multiples in the double digits and for $8 to $80. I guess some one found some old stock and figured who they were.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)