Last Of Our Kind

anyone heard this yet??? the new album by The Darkness, that is......there's a preview of it available on their website, for the next few days, at least......it's just freakin excellent really :D

yeah. and it's "ok"...there's one or two decent tunes, but i think they've "lost" something

ffiw - i wonder if the newly sober/clean Justin is a little "dull"?

certainly Permission To Land and One Way Ticket were much better albums - if a little cliched, and Hot Cakes was, well more like Steaming Turds

I actually thought Hot Cakes was better than One Way Ticket myself!

interesting - but i suppose horses for courses eh?

I was going to give it a listen but decided to scoop my inner ear out with a shoe horn instead. It hurt like hell and I am now deaf but I really do think I did the best thing.


Pardon?

I really do think it's their 2nd best album to date, behind PTL....

The new album sucks big time. I know it's not much of a critique, but it sums it up as best I can.

Thistleboy1980 wrote:

The new album sucks big time. I know it's not much of a critique, but it sums it up as best I can.

^^^ - and i was being nice. but on second and third listen, i doubt i'll give it much more time
least PTL and OWTTH had lots of humour and self-deprecation ...this has none of that....and it's a bit late in the day to start asking people to take you seriously, when you've been "Spinal Camp" for ten years!!!

at least the new drummer saw the light....didn't even stay for the tour eh? she saw the writing on the wall

isn't Rufus their new drummer?

Thistleboy1980 wrote:

isn't Rufus their new drummer?

Most certainly! I saw the footage from a show they did the other day.......he sounds pretty damn good! But I think the 'new drummer' he mentioned was Emily Dolan Davies, who joined to record the new album, then left....

Roger himself was at that show, btw :D

Really, though, there's only one song on Last Of Our Kind I kind of dislike....that being Roaring Waters, the tempo-change thing in the middle sounds kinda sloppy...Barbarian, Open Fire, Hammer & Tongs, Conquerors (with their bass player on vocals!) and Last Of Our Kind are all great....Mighty Wings is really interesting, sounds like Flash Gordon-era synths :D

brENsKi wrote:


least PTL and OWTTH had lots of humour and self-deprecation ...this has none of that...

Maybe there's less of that now, but they still don't take themselves totally seriously......cmon, there's a song about a barbarian invasion, and another with the line "gimme a hug on a sheepskin rug" :D

The King Of Rhye wrote:

brENsKi wrote:


least PTL and OWTTH had lots of humour and self-deprecation ...this has none of that...

Maybe there's less of that now, but they still don't take themselves totally seriously......cmon, there's a song about a barbarian invasion, and another with the line "gimme a hug on a sheepskin rug" :D

lots of big bands have recorded songs about invasions...ones that spring to mind are Zep, Queen & maiden

take your point re: the "rug" lyric tho

Wait a minute, what was the Queen song about an invasion?

OH never mind, White Man, right? lol, forgot about that song somehow.....

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