Why I dislike the parlatones (said in a nice tone)

MIKA-the-better-one · 2010-01-05T11:30:55+00:00

In previous threads we have discussed a number of opinions on the parlatones and other SA bands. I realised I never really voiced why I so dreadfully disliked Parlationes and further why they conjured a sense of spit to my mouth (hypothetically of course). So Parlatones to start are a pop rock band, which I find have COMPLETLY ripped off a band in the 80s called "JAMES" Have a look for yourself, or a listen for that matter. Further more past this point I find there music simply a few pop rock songs with the same hooks and tricks througout all 3 or 4 albums they have put out. Just have a look at there album titles which carry with them all the same feel. RADIO CONTROLED ROBOT, A WORLD NEXT TO YOURS, STARDUST GALAXIES. you tell me if you sense the same incanation amngst all these titles. All in all musically there has been no development or progression in sound, whereby in other pop rock bands such as the BEATLES you find they progressed a huge amount from album to album, which earned them respect as musicians despite the simplicity of there music. Consider there image, perhaps someone can see the resemblance between both there make up and a film from the 1970s called "a clockwork orange" (a good film at that). Now consider there vast succes, yes they have a lap top endorsement, they have a wine range, they have cellphone sponsership, THEY EAVEN have a bloody KFC meal named after them!!! But does that show succes as a musician???? Does Paris hiltones small aid work earn her the noteriety as a Aid worker????? NO She is known for what she does best, and thats be a ditsy blonde bimbo. NOw parlotones on a scale of business can be called succesful, because they are, they are what we know as one big endorsing GIANT, but musically they are not all there, and somehow people think that all this endorsed backing earns them a title as succesful musicians. However my opinion is that the more money you get behind you while making music actually makes you more reliant on a higher class of lifestyle and thus has an eefect on ones willingness to take chances and develop ones muic. In short one will be to scared to take chances to possible create new, better music. THEREFORE MUSICALLY I find the Parlatones bad musicians however very good at business thus we can all say "wow, when I own a business I will lokk up to the Parlatones" Musically they are not original, intersting, they are just another po rock band, capatalising on the image of music. The cool thing is not everyone will agreee with this and therefore you will provide them with there bread and butter. This is just my explanation as to why I dislike them so much. Please note this was all said in the nicest of vocal tones to please some of you who find you are offended at the way computers get angry.

DonovanB

PeteM wrote My grandfather had a saying "I don't like that person, I should get to know them better."

what happens when you've known them for years and then don't like them? Its a genuine question cos I'm going through this now. a good old mate of mine has just grown to annoy me so much. I've actually stopped spending time with him lately because he irks me

PeteM

DonovanB wrote
PeteM wrote My grandfather had a saying "I don't like that person, I should get to know them better."
what happens when you've known them for years and then don't like them? Its a genuine question cos I'm going through this now. a good old mate of mine has just grown to annoy me so much. I've actually stopped spending time with him lately because he irks me

Maybe you never really knew him - time to start again.

aubs1

DonovanB wrote I've actually stopped spending time with him lately because he irks me

There's your answer, Don. ?

evolucian

PeteM wrote My grandfather had a saying "I don't like that person, I should get to know them better."

Hi guys, ? so who would like to get to know me?

This is a very good saying Pete... sadly I never looked upon anything in life like this. 2moro's a brand new day I guess

Ray

I went to a parlatones show the other day and so I phoned my buddy so he could also listen and I hadnt held up the phone for 30 seconds and then I saw Inflames heading my way so I put my phone away kweek.

PeteM

Ray wrote I went to a parlatones show the other day and so I phoned my buddy so he could also listen and I hadnt held up the phone for 30 seconds and then I saw Inflames heading my way so I put my phone away kweek.

LOL - how well do you know Inflames? ?

MIKA-the-better-one

DonovanB wrote
PeteM wrote My grandfather had a saying "I don't like that person, I should get to know them better."
what happens when you've known them for years and then don't like them? Its a genuine question cos I'm going through this now. a good old mate of mine has just grown to annoy me so much. I've actually stopped spending time with him lately because he irks me

I think this is where the eye gouging starts. ?

Wizard

Wizard thinks that Mika isn't happy unless he's stirring ...........

MIKA-the-better-one

Mika thinks wizard should refer to the infamous eye gouging post.

Bob-Dubery

DonovanB wrote
PeteM wrote My grandfather had a saying "I don't like that person, I should get to know them better."
what happens when you've known them for years and then don't like them? Its a genuine question cos I'm going through this now. a good old mate of mine has just grown to annoy me so much. I've actually stopped spending time with him lately because he irks me

Maybe you've changed? Or both of you have changed?

People do change in response to powerful forces in their lives. My own family has a substantial rift in it because some converted to a specific church denomination and some did not. I have friends who I like less the more they drink, and whose excessive and increasingly unedifying behaviour is moving me to drink less - which just makes things worse in some ways. This is saddening, but it's also life.

Maybe the bonds weren't strong enough. Maybe we weren't really friends. Friendship is built out of shared experiences, so maybe those people and I don't DO enough together anymore.

They think I've changed since I started playing guitar.

DonovanB

You are right Bob, I think we both grew in different directions.

X-rated Bob wrote They think I've changed since I started playing guitar.

Funny thing that, very few of my friends are musicians or are interested in music outside of what they hear on the radio. (ie what they are made to listen to) so it's tough talking technical with them I get blank stares all the time

PeteM

DonovanB wrote You are right Bob, I think we both grew in different directions.

X-rated Bob wrote They think I've changed since I started playing guitar.
Funny thing that, very few of my friends are musicians or are interested in music outside of what they hear on the radio. (ie what they are made to listen to) so it's tough talking technical with them I get blank stares all the time

Yeah, often I'm so engrossed in my music and come across as the self-professed expert that I become the social bore.

Bob-Dubery

DonovanB wrote
X-rated Bob wrote They think I've changed since I started playing guitar.
Funny thing that, very few of my friends are musicians or are interested in music outside of what they hear on the radio. (ie what they are made to listen to) so it's tough talking technical with them I get blank stares all the time

I don't bother with that kind of talk unless I'm asked directly. I was enough of a pain in the backside when I wasn't playing guitar - convinced that I knew what sucked and what didn't ?

A lot of my friends take rugby seriously in a way that I never could. I am always happy when SA win, but I can't regard it as some kind of sacrament the way that some folks do (this seems to happen a lot with soccer too).

But there are always other things to talk about - plenty of them.

Some of my friends have actually been quite supportive of my attempts at TJs, coming to cheer me on. But they always wish I'd play more songs "that everybody knows". They were also the only people to get the deeply Freudian joke that comes at the end of Loudon Wainwright's "White Winos", which they had never heard before, when I played that at TJs so I know that they do actually listen.

vic

Our old friends are normally also our golden friends. Towards the end of last year I played a gig with musos who I hadn't seen in MANY years - one came as far as Cambridge UK. Not much has changed, we only grew older and hopefully also a lot wiser. We spent 2 days together- rehearsing, talking,etc. These guys were still the same, on the surface at least.
They say it takes two to tango...so it could be that you have also changed, that's why your pal is now irritating you and visa versa.? The great thing about our species is that we can adapt ourselves to many circumstances......maybe that's the answer...adapt and let your friendship blossom again ?

PeteM

As the blues song goes, "Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself"

singemonkey

It's easy folks. Best thing is to have a best mate who plays guitar and is obsessed with music. I must admit that it caused a bit of a wobble when I didn't put enough practise in when we were playing in a band together. Now though, we won't play in a band together - even though I've become a lot more responsible in that way - but we can still collaborate on projects, yack about gear, complain about SA bands like the Parlotones, and laugh at morons on gumtree.

I think friendship once you're an adult is ultimately about common interests. It's hard to maintain friends just through random socialising once you get past 25. If you want to maintain them, you've got to have shared activities - even bitching about mutual pet hates on email can do the job. But if all they want to do is dress up like a medieval knight, or inject low-grade heroine into their inner-thighs, and all you want to do is play guitar, it's going to be a struggle.

But aren't we getting off the topic of whether the Parlotones suck, or whether MIKA is a charming rebel, or a social deviant?

Jack-Flash-Jr

PeteM wrote As the blues song goes, "Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself"

No YOU take a good look at yourself ?

PeteM

Jack Flash Jr wrote
PeteM wrote As the blues song goes, "Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself"
No YOU take a good look at yourself ?

I have done, and you're wrong. ?

vic

singemonkey wrote
But aren't we getting off the topic of whether the Parlotones suck, or whether MIKA is a charming rebel, or a social deviant?

MIKA may be neither.....but he IS very passionate about his music. And sometimes he would call a spade a f......n' shovel.... ? as the saying goes. I really like his new attitude on this forum... he still gets his message over in no uncertain terms. ?

MIKA-the-better-one

BLUSHING :-[

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