The Darkness - ALL OF IT!!!
What better way to open than with a bold and sweeping statement? In my opinion, The Darkness are truly one of the most underrated bands of all time. They deserve far more attention than their career has drawn. Perhaps at least they could have had their attention better levelled out, rather than having such a massively bright peak followed by such a swift descent into the relatively unknown... You may not know it and you may not care, but The Darkness deserve better than that. Very solid musicality all round, combined with bizarre but brilliant falsetto vocals, puerile humour, homages to some of the greatest rock acts of all time, and some surprisingly decent song-writing - with tongue firmly in cheek all the way. It's all rather reminiscent of a real-life Spinal Tap. THAT is The Darkness; not just some generic and irrelevant rock 'n' roll band fronted by that English dude with the dodgy hair, questionable sexuality and silly voice. Well, that too... Other than the 'generic and irrelevant' bit. Arguably. I absolutely adore this band, seriously. I have no shame in this fact, and I can't stress enough just how important it is for you to at least give just the one of their 3 albums a full play-through. Knowing of I Believe In A Thing Called Love and Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) just isn't enough. It's not fair to only ever hear their music at cheesy discos and suchlike. Honestly, it gets so much better than that. They're actually comfortably two of my least favourite songs of theirs anyway...which reminds me, I should probably add the latter to my aforementioned (#27) 2-strong list of Christmas songs I like. There we go, now 3's a crowd. The fact that Justin Hawkins and company hail from local Lowestoft only sweetens the deal. For me, anyway - not for the poor members themselves! I mean, have you ever been to Lowestoft?
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