Justin Hawkins leaves The Darkness

[jt]

:D What the Darkness really did was put Metal back on  the map.  :twisted:

Metal has been going down hill for years, its become toneless, tuneless rubbish, were every band looks exactly the same & sounds the same.  Most of the bands especially those from the states, are really no fun anymore. Its no accident that Metal sales are & have been in decline for the last decade or so. What The Darkness did was put the FUN back into Metal. And as a consequence they sold loads of albums. They don`t look like everybody else & they went out of there way to write descent riffs & tunes. How many guitar players do you hear playing "I believe In A Thing Called Love" a bet they drove Tim & the guys mad with it at the guitar shows !!


 :D  8)

[_tom_]

^I agree with this, but wouldnt call em metal! More like fun rock or something :P Their latest album was really cr@p but Permission To Land had some good songs/riffs.

[Sifu Ben]

To be honest, I thought One Way Ticket was musically a much better album than Permission. Permission had some great songs, but it was much easier to listen to Ticket all the way through. Dinner Lady Arms is a great song, and Bald is just awesome. If only they hadn't put Girlfriend on it............

[Muttley]

It's all a bit cr@p really.  And I agree they blew it taking too long on the second album.  But then, that's always a stumbling block for bands.  I mean, for your first album you have years to come up with the material, and to fine-tune it in the live environment.  Then suddenly you're stuck in the "Must write a new album, rehears and record it in 6 months, and it must be as good as the first one (at the very least)".  It's bloody hard.

His voice did get on my nerves after a few songs... but then so does Axl Rose and I love Guns N' Roses (shame they don't exist anymore ;)).

Still, there is a resurgence of fun rock/metal happening now which I think is a knee jerk reaction to all these miserable emo types.

Check out The Towers of London: http://www.thetowersoflondon.com/ for starters.

Muttley

[_tom_]

I heard Towers of London a while back when they first came onto the music channels etc.. thought they sounded fake, like they're trying too hard to be "punk" or whatever..

For new rock, I quite like a band called The Answer (www.theanswer.ie), have some pretty good songs, launch the pop-up player thing for some decent recordings.. The singer reminds me of a mix between Plant and Coverdale somehow  :lol:

[blue]

Everytime i have seen him he cant hit his high ones.

i've seen them live a few times, and he definately can hit all the notes!  personally i hope this is a temporary thing and they do come back, their records are great fun with some really good songs and they are an absolutely brilliant live band.  also, having had a drink with them once, they seem like nice guys, not something that can be said about all rock stars.

[carlaz]

Speaking of "fun rock", IMO the meisters of this non-genre are Finland's Five Fifteen. I've always thought they sounded like there'd been terrible car crash between Deep Purple, Zeppelin, and ABBA, after which the survivors had formed a new band .... :)

[SamR]

''Ive got a one way ticket... to hell and back'' ... then its not a one way ticket? so silly, this band was'nt going anywhere after their first album.

[HTH AMPS]

''Ive got a one way ticket... to hell and back'' ... then its not a one way ticket? so silly, this band was'nt going anywhere after their first album.

that's called a return ticket were I come from.  that band sucked anyway, I don't think anyone can be missing them (can they? surely not!!!)

 :twisted:

[Transcend]

I actually really miss them,

And it could be a one way ticket if the train doesnt stop.....

Oh well no more HAPPY guitar music about nowadays.... we're all doomed to the drony indie or the whiney emos......

[deg0ey]

I don't understand why so many people didn't like the darkness - They were light hearted and entertaining, and they didn't take themselves too seriously...

[blue]

...and their songs were good, and they put on a good show, and they were good musicians.

people don't like success.  notice how happy most people were to see their demise?

[apmaman]

they were one band i wanted to go see live but broke up just before i could.
They were a good band, glad to see some decent rock and roll on the box.


The Answer are great, heard a few of there songs. Hope they can make it big too

[Crazy_Joe]

If they got a normal singer they would be a great rock band, but with Justin they sound more like a novelty act to me.
Great rock bands are bands like UFO and The Scorpions. For newer rock, bands like Wolfmother or Priestess. They strike me as what modern rock should be like and i have a feeling without Justin that The Darkness could probably fulfill that.
Clearly the success has gone to their heads (or Justin's at least) and has lead to bad things, they have only done 2 albums and have already mucked up.
I don't hate them, i want them to do well, but with Justin they have been more like a one hit wonder.

[deg0ey]

I do agree with you actually CJ, but I did like Justin for a laugh :P

As for your 'newer rock' bands, I'd never heard any Wolfmother until the other day when I watched the highlights of Download on channel 4, and had heard only good things about them. I can't say I was very impressed tbh, although to be fair they only had one of their songs on the show, so I can't claim to be an expert - they just seemed to be lacking something for me