THE DARKNESS
 

what do our friends across the pond think of the darkness?

do you even know who they are?

They appear to be on the rise in the States as well, since they're getting radio play... although their album's sitting at around #55 on the US album charts, so they're not doing anywhere near as well as they are over here.

i can't wait for the brits i think they will bring the ****ing house down

what do ya think it'll be

i believe in a thing called love
or
growing on me

i would say the later

Don't especially like them, so I don't care. :p

i think what you meant to say is that you don't like them YET

because you will

Can't see it happening.

who ya listening to at the moment?

Nothing remotely like the Darkness. :p

oh now it makes sense i've just checked your profile

your a jock you must be listening to bagpipe music and watching braveheart

FREEDOM

haha have you seen the directors cut when we come come back and whip that candy ass all over jockland

only funnin

Four words: fu</>ck off and die.

i have'nt heard of them are they rnb or hip hop?

:roll:

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to The Destroyer again.

ROFLLL :'(

The Darkness suck.

<font color=teal>I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE.

Damn, that guy needs to learn how to sing.</font> :nono:

5000th forum post :shifty:

i hate his voice.

<font color=#33ffff>I like The Darkness.
Very catchy music, Permission to Land is a top album.</font>

I didn't like them.... I saw them at Reading and they were fantastic, I got into them a little, now they've been shoved down our throats for the last 6 months I really couldn't give a sh</>it about them

I think they're ok. I got the album off Napster a while back. Some of the songs have good guitar in them.

You consider that's where both of the first 2 Godsmack albums settled (upper 40s...), and how big they were...So it's not that bad. May not be as great as in Europe, but it's pretty good for a non-boy-band act...

I'd like them a boatload better if not for their vocalist. He reminds me of Tim Staffell, if Tim forgot how to sing.

And the vocalists twin brother on bass guitar

Same here

The singer is the man. Any interviews I've seen with him, he's been really funny. You think the way he acts in videos and the spandex unitard outfits he wears, he'd act all wacky, but he doesn't. Just a normal guy, comes across as very intelligent.

Besides, his crazy singing is the whole point.

Me like the Darkness.

Er, no, the bassist is the Scottish guy.

All's I know is that they dress funny, which is :y: in my books.

(P.S. I don't have any books :()

He is the man.

He was born not too far from me as well...

Yeah, if I Believe in a Thing Called Love gets played one more time over here, i'm going to have a seizure.

I think they just released another single too.

They are annoying, IMO. Yet that's what the radio thinks people like these days :'(

i think they'd be a really generic boring band if it wasn't for his crazy singing.

Enough people do to give them that impression...

I actually think they've learned from Advertising agents.

<font color=969696>I do not like The Darkness.</font>

To be an annoying cu</>nt?

The Darkness paid to record their own album, they were a music industry joke, apparently, prior to eventually hitting it big. No one would sign them. The lead singer took a pretty big risk to get the album out and heard.

I'd say they're pretty much a great example of a band making it through their own initiative and hard work, and off the strength of live performances. They were well known as an incredible live band before they gained wider exposure.

They deserve their success, in my opinion. I'd love to see them live too, their shows look amazing.

Some of you people need to lighten up a bit.

My God, they PAID FOR THEIR OWN RECORD?????

:eek:

That changes everything.

:lol:

You missed my point. I'm not saying you should like them because of it, I mentioned it because of the aspersion that they became popular because people were told they should like them. They became popular off the back of their own hard work, and thus deserve fully what comes their way. Maybe it's different stateside, but fu</>ck it, I don't see anything wrong with a good band making a name for themselves.

They've also got an album full of good songs, rather than just a couple of catchy singles.

And by paid for their own album, I don't mean the young band newly signed type of paid, where the record company pays for it and they pay it back. I mean re-mortaging the house type of thing.

Neither do I. But this ain't a thread about one. :p

There's no accounting for taste, I suppose.

Awwwwwww...Lighten up, chum...

You'll see.

<font color=969696>What about me? Will I see?</font>

You all will.

See what, exactly?

Oh you'll know, when you see it.

<font color=969696>I don't look at music related things often, so I doubt that I'll see it.</font>

You're probably still feeling vaguely threatened.

And if I don't?

<font color=969696>By what? I've never felt threatened before, so I doubt that an undefined force will threaten me.</font>

It's happened before. One time myself and another fellow spent 3 months telling each other we would see, but when the time came, neither of us did. It leaves you feeling empty.

i don't begrudge them any success they have. they seem cool people to me. i just don't like their music particularly.

I like even less drunk people trying to hit the high notes in the pub :(

I don't mind a drunken pub singalong. It's better than being in a club full of e-heads with bloodshot eyes, chewing on their own gums.

That Franz Ferdinand song seems to be taking over as the pub favourite.

I don't think I could take that kind of rejection. :(

diopete hooked me up with that

and also, you are correct.

i still prefer my blue oyster cult and byrds though :shifty:

GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY WOMAN MOTHER ****ER

The hair thing has GOT to go. The vocalist is acting like the gayest man alive in that I believe in a thing called love video. I dunno, not really anything special, but the chorus of it is catchy. Other than that, I'm not really into them.

To quote the gods of rock Nigel Tufnel and David St. Hubbins, "There's a fine line between stupid and clever." I'm not sure which side of the line The Darkness are on.