| Playlouder |
Can it really be five years? Why, it only seems like yesterday that the famous five sashayed into a world where Westlife were invincible and Fred Durst could be the toast of Reading, and made everything that big bit better....full text |
| SoundsXP |
| It’s easy to bash the Strokes. They’re too damn good looking, the front man can’t really sing and occasionally their influences and pilfered riffs are maybe a tad easy to recognise. Worst of all, their Swiss finishing school childhoods and Manhattan zipcode residences mean every critic sporting one of Harry Ramsden’s finest on his or her shoulder can gleefully pop an inky cap in the skinny five piece’s collective ass, for the crime of services to the silver spoon industry....full text |
| Bullz-eye |
| It’s hard being a ‘The’ band these days. A few years ago, of course, ‘The’ bands (the Hives, the Vines, the White Stripes, the Datsuns, the Stills, the Thrills, the Kills, Mike Mills, the Rakes, the Brakes, the Jonathan Frakes) were the height of fashion, once the record buying public burned out on the ‘Number’ bands (Matchbox Twenty, Stroke 9, Eve 6, Marvelous 3, Maroon 5, Nine Days, Blink 182, 3 Doors Down, Five for Fighting, Seven Mary Three, Red 5)....full text |
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Can it really be five years? Why, it only seems like yesterday that the famous five sashayed into a world where Westlife were invincible and Fred Durst could be the toast of Reading, and made everything that big bit better.