Archive for March 11th, 2004

There is some random band called Darkness that has apparently taken England by storm and is now raging through the US. The claim is that they are “the new Queen” or “the modern Led Zepplin”. Just heard an interview on KFOG: apparently, people either love ‘em or hate ‘em and if they hate ‘em, it is because they saw the video and can’t stand the image. That was the claim of the lead singer and KFOG seems to have bought into it completely.

Uh, no.

I don’t watch videos. From listening to a couple of songs, Darkness does completely suck. Crap production of crap musicians fronted by painful vocals that, all together, make me want to drive rusty stakes into my ears so as to never be subject to such audible torture again.

This reminds me of that band that did Glass Tiger sometime in the mid-80s or so. Hyped all to hell. Turned out that they were a “one hit wonder” and that one hit was only the result of the awesome power of marketing.

If it follows prior over marketing band patterns, it won’t be safe to turn on the radio for at least 6 months…

Thank goodness for the music store.

Update: Yup. I screwed up the name. Fixed. And, yes, I understand sarcasm, I just live in a market that doesn’t and, as a result, I’ll have to listen to this shite band ad-nauseum until the next fad hits the market. That irritates me.