mannaman
Getting Into It Member
Posts:49
 | | 02 Feb 2006 11:32 AM |
| | Ah c'mon they were wick!
I found it embaressing that these guys have been receiving so much press recently!
They were, as you say, laughable!!
Just a sorry mess of Strokes, Killers, Editors wannabes with none of the substance!! | | | |
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benni
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| | 02 Feb 2006 1:29 PM |
| | See them live - thats my comment! | | | |
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Antistar
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| | 02 Feb 2006 1:46 PM |
| | Are they a novelty act like Sultans of Ping FC? They're hilarious!!! Love the little fella on the bass jumping up and down in his green overalls and naff lyrics repeated ad nauseum. The vocalist plays the keyboards too, really badly, just like Brandon Flowers! A great pastiche of all that is wrong with modern music. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.
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Unicron
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| | 02 Feb 2006 2:46 PM |
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Originally posted by Pilchard
humanzi on other voices was the funniest TV i've seen since the last series on curb your enthusiasm. i dont think i've laughed as much at a band in years. glad to be paying my tv licence for that.
come on folks, tell me it's a joke. did one song really just consist of the line "get your s**t together" repeated over and over again? is this really what all the fuss is over? a bunch of wacky haircuts, a bit of juvenile strutting, rubbish riffs and lyrics which 12 year olds would sneer at? good god, they were rank.
I suspect i may not be alone. this is the emperor's new clothes all over again. forget about this huge "deal", the band are rubbish.
Is that all they got to play? I walked in and turned on the TV just as that started, not my thing. | | | |
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Norman Schwarzkopf
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| | 02 Feb 2006 3:13 PM |
| | They played 3 in a row I think, then they came back to them for the "s**t together" song. They played 3 or 4. Did you see John Kelly's discomfort as O'Maonlai sang in his ear on a cliff? Ho ho! | | | |
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nerraw
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| | 02 Feb 2006 3:23 PM |
| | Apologies Norman for the misquote.
Honestly think they weren't that bad, not to be in fits of laughter anyway. | | | |
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emu
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| | 02 Feb 2006 3:33 PM |
| | i think they might be a cd band cos the songs definitely sounde badf last night | | | |
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jaypers
Posts:99
| | 02 Feb 2006 3:42 PM |
| | no they are al about live to be honest!! They are a stompin band in the right venue. the sound and overall vibe in that church seemed to be brutal altogether!! | | | |
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Norman Schwarzkopf
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| | 02 Feb 2006 3:53 PM |
| | I think a good band is a good band no matter where they play. Even if the atmosphere's lacking, the songs dont change. Most every band sounds better on record. | | | |
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Gar
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| | 02 Feb 2006 4:03 PM |
| | The same thing happened last season for Republic Of Loose, their stage presence just didn't come across in the church or on the TV. Humanzi were pretty damn good in their headline TBMC gig but as with Artic Monkeys and other hyped up bands, the time to judge them is when the album is released. | | | |
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Pilchard
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| | 02 Feb 2006 4:05 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Antistar
Are they a novelty act like Sultans of Ping FC? They're hilarious!!! Love the little fella on the bass jumping up and down in his green overalls and naff lyrics repeated ad nauseum. The vocalist plays the keyboards too, really badly, just like Brandon Flowers! A great pastiche of all that is wrong with modern music. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.
i had forgotten about the bass-player, the poor wee shorty had to keep jumping up and down to make sure he got his mug on screen.
c'mon people, dont give me this crap about "they're better live" or "they're better on CD" or "it was a crap mix cos of the engineer" (obviously someone very close to the band if they know/think that) - they have NO SONGS!!!
thats the bottom line. without songs, they might fool a few fashionistas and the like but that will do until the next bandwagon pulls into town with a new set of diet pills and magazines (another songtitle that has to be someone's idea of a joke) to dish out.
humanzi will be back busking for vodafone without a year or two. there are SO many better bands around than this lot - lets walk on by, nothing to see here. | | | |
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Damien
Very Busy Member
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| | 02 Feb 2006 9:14 PM |
| | Heard off a friend (who incidentally, likes them) that it wasn't great. Said they were up on the RTE site to watch I think.
I disagree Pilchard. As of yet I've heard three songs and seen both the videos and while there is a whack of 'style' or whatever off them I think the tunes stand up. Diet Pills (awfull name I agree) and Fix the Cracks are both stompers, class tunes altogether and the other one (forget the name) is ok too.
Saw them live yonks ago (HWCH 2004), they put on a class show, gave it loads. You won't see many bands round these parts who put that sort of energy into a gig.
Gar's right, its best to judge when the albums out. I'm looking forward to it for one. | | | |
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Repo man
Getting Into It Member
Posts:49
| | 03 Feb 2006 11:19 AM |
| | My god! Explain why Diet Pills is a bad name for a song? That is the dumbest thing i have ever heard.
Also, to annoy ya'll even more, they won the meteor award last night.... | | | |
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Mar
Busy Member
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| | 03 Feb 2006 11:33 AM |
| | i think they're great- i cant understand alot of the bitching i've heard about them, its a terrible trait of the Irish that when someone starts to become successful we are so quick to begrudge them | | | |
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miwadi
Getting Into It Member
Posts:48
| | 03 Feb 2006 11:54 AM |
| | Have to agree, they were crap, sound songs & performance(and lighting did look a house). Liked the Pinky guy though, vocals like Jeff Buckley, guitar like Nick Drake. | | | |
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melvin cokane
Getting Into It Member
Posts:37
| | 03 Feb 2006 12:09 PM |
| | agree with gar, wait till the album...all this bollocks about them being briliant and fantastic etc.. and the other side saying how they're s**te etc etc etc etc .....shut the hell up! until they have an album out you cant really rate them fairly...
personally i've been to humanzi gigs and they put on a great show, add to that they seem like hard working lads...fair dues to them if all goes well...but regarding the hype, crap, stupid cliched spin....
its all nonsence,
the same applies, wait for the album, and then like em or hate em....at least there will be a basis from which a decision can be reached...jaysus....life is good....the meteors however are absolutely irrelevant...............ANGELS OF MONS anyone???
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Damien
Very Busy Member
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| | 03 Feb 2006 12:50 PM |
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Originally posted by melvin cokane
the meteors however are absolutely irrelevant
It'd still be great to win one though, just to wip your arse with it or whatever. | | | |
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Norman Schwarzkopf
Very Busy Member
Posts:428
| | 03 Feb 2006 12:59 PM |
| | I dont think I need to wait for the album. They presumably put their best foot forward on TV when they played. I dont care about their hair, their clothes, the hype, the deal, the engineer. The songs, to my ears, simply aren't good. I'm glad you say they're hard-working cos maybe they'll apply some of that graft to their songwriting someday. | | | |
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dummyrun
Getting Into It Member
Posts:38
| | 03 Feb 2006 1:31 PM |
| | Did 1 of em Humanzi blokes used to be in a band called Listo?... who were on the vodafone add a couple of years ago? and who looked like carbon copies of Oasis? "Sun- Sheiiiiiiine!"
I saw them accept their award at The Meteors last night! They cursed and made a smart remark about Westlife (".)... The naughtys! Thats their chance to be aired on telly blown! Hahahaha | | | |
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sonsofnow
Getting Into It Member
Posts:43
| | 03 Feb 2006 1:33 PM |
| | ireland is a nation of bregrudgers we hate to see other people doing well, its as simple as that!! im delighted a band like humanzi has made it might attract more attention on the music scene in ireland and allow more bands to come through! thats my 2 cents | | | |
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