Album Rating: 4.5

This album came out when I was a man confused. I didn't even know what music I was into; the Strokes garage scene and London coolie-cool indie scene had just exploded and I hated both equally with a blatant sense of prejudice. Somehow these guys escaped my all-encompassing scrutiny of 'new music' and I was able to give 'em a chance. What an album!

Album Rating: 4.0

Six months before the Arctic Monkeys took the world by storm, another English quartet also delivered an excellent debut LP. Comprising a diverse range of musical styles, Hard-Fi's 'Stars Of CCTV' is catchy in a pleasingly unorthodox manner. More than that, it includes some authentic & relatable working class storytelling, which cleverly combines serious social commentaries with fun lad exploits. And while it contains 5 UK Top 15 singles, the album's main strength lies in its consistency, with practically each of the 11 tracks being worthy of release. Recommended Tracks: Tied Up Too Tight, Better Do Better, Cash Machine & Move On Now.

Too much undeserved hated, This album is pretty damn good.

Got some money to spend
Living For The Weekend

Good football music

Hard to Beat came on in the bar last night. Had to jam this today for old times...

Album Rating: 1.0

more terrible post-Oasis dirge, these guys were amongst the absolute worst of them & probably only surpassed by The Enemy



Interesting that you mentioned the NME, it had become such a god-awful publication by this point

This album is still so freakin catchy

Ooh la la, we meet again Demo...

Album Rating: 1.0

Ah yes one month into my Sput reign, where I thought bashing rubbish like this was necessary, haha.

It's a dead scene, no one cares anymore...except me lol

I do like Cash Machine and Hard to Beat still

Album Rating: 1.0

I can’t stand the lyrics, they’re so shallow & dumb. It’s about the most surface level ‘guitar music’ I’ve heard, made for people who don’t even like indie (except bloc of course).



The aesthetic is all wrong & unfortunately these guys are in the 5% of artists where that actually matters to me, I can’t even just ‘hear the music’, I find it culturally offensive.



It’s essentially how I feel about Oasis but with worse music (somehow).

Hahaha, dude they're so fuckin funny though. I especially love Cash Machine. I mean, the lyrics are far from being poetic but I can imagine a lot of people can relate to them in some way.

I love how much you hate British music sometimes though, makes me laugh.

Album Rating: 1.0

I detest bad British music with a prominent ‘common British bloke’ aesthetic, most definitely

Album Rating: 1.0

Having said that my dig is British enough & it’s swell so far

Hahaha, yes I know exactly the type of music you are talking about. The debut Arctic Monkeys album comes to mind lol

Album Rating: 3.0

Tied Up Too Tight is a jam - about 4/5 good songs on this tbf

Yep and that's all I ever need from albums like this

Shite

C'mon man, aren't you working for the cash machine??

Album Rating: 3.0

He's certainly not Living For The Weekend