{"id":639,"date":"2007-07-06T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2007-07-06T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T17:03:00","slug":"the-enemy-well-live-and-die-in-these-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"the enemy – we’ll live and die in these towns"},"content":{"rendered":"

well this was a first. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
a few weeks ago i received a cd. nothing too exciting about that you lucky b*stard, you may say. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
well to gain entry to the digital pleasures i had to tear a strip off, underwhich there happened to be lots of legal mumbo jumbo advising that if i tore the strip and opened the cd i accepted 45 pages of legal small print and would be putting my life, and those of people i loved, at risk should i allow my kids to hear the album in the house at the same time as me. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
a little intimidating to say the least. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
but as i’m made of sterner stuff, i pushed on with my need to listen to the album. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
then a quick glance over the actual label on the cd.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
‘589 mark emsley – i really love music’<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
the fragger was totally personalised !<\/FONT><\/DIV>
i know of the rules of watermarking, but this had my name on it. <\/FONT>cool or not ? i have yet to decide.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
so, what of the music ? <\/FONT><\/DIV>
well i won’t pretend its anything new and fresh thats going to set off the hype machine buzzing a la arcade fire<\/STRONG> or the latest electro’d up nu-rave wannabes, instead it’s rock solid punked up pub rock with hooks aplenty. after all, this is a band who helped relaunch the stiff records <\/EM>label in 2006. a fact that validates the pub rock tag if nothing does. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
to do the old and easy comparison game, take old forgotten brit-punkers 60 ft dolls<\/STRONG>, and mash them up with the jam<\/STRONG>, and bingo, you get the enemy<\/STRONG>. <\/FONT>nothing more, nothing less. and before you think that’s a diss, think again. i happened to love the 60 ft dolls<\/STRONG>, and of course the jam<\/STRONG> are a band who soundtracked many a fine moment in my earlier adrenalin fuelled days.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
hipsters and shoreditch haircuts are going to avoid any such assosications with these young whippersnappers as the band have absolutely nothing cool going on with their gameplan, but i cant deny that the snappy post brit pop album has a passion, a vibrancy, and a certain addictive charm hidden within the brain storming tunes, that have been beefed up by oasis<\/STRONG>‘s old mucker owen morris, <\/EM>a man who knows more than most on how to make guitars rip up a storm, while controlling the all essential melody.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
no pretence at being this years clever clever arty types with a notebook and guitar, the trio just give it their all with straight to the point riffs, a chorus to get the moshers pumped up and we’re off.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
sometimes, its the simple pleasures that are the most enjoyable, and to have an album that hits the ground running as opposed to have to absorb and get it <\/EM>makes for a very welcome refreshing change.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
more detail<\/EM> : here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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