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German enthusiasm

Wed 23rd Jun 2010 - 1:47pm

Die englische Band Scumbag Philosopher haben ein Musikvideo abgedreht, das unbedingt geguckt werden muss. Der Songtitel sagt schon alles aus. Social Networking Site. Die Single stammt vom Debüt It Means Nothing So It Means Nothing, welches dieses Jahr noch das Licht der Welt erblicken wird. Veröffentlicht wird das Stück über das amerikanische Label Words On Music.

Says this Zu Wenig Zeit blog about the Social Networking Site vid....

Zu Wenig Zeit blog

One of the Great Songs of 2010

Sat 29th May 2010 - 3:53pm

Social Networking Site: "one of the great songs of 2010" says Layer of Chips blog...

Layer of Chips

Social Networking Site vid on Facebook

Italian enthusiasm

Sat 29th May 2010 - 3:44pm

This influential Italian music website says that Social Networking Site is "the first real hit of the spring"...

Happy Days Blog

Social Networking Site vid on Facebook

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tweets

Fri 6th Aug 2010 - 2:08pm

In remix decision hell. New mixes sound like new songs but I liked the old songs. But not enough to leave them alone. Bugger.

Tue 22nd Jun 2010 - 2:31pm

RT @Rosball: The misogyny on Twitter over Harriet Harman's voice is vile. Women have higher voices. Hers not unusually so. You, sirs, ar ...

Tue 22nd Jun 2010 - 2:29pm

Make up a self-pride list of items you have handled well. Influence people in the way that you speak in public. http://bit.ly/scumweb

Tue 8th Jun 2010 - 7:00pm

"How many times did you have to call? You can always fill in a feedback form. We like to dissuade you from what you want." bit.ly/dhdniZ

Sun 6th Jun 2010 - 11:34am

@christt canvassed for Labour in Norwich - overheard Charles Clarke demolishing a racist. Clarke lost by 300 votes. People can be shit.

Sun 6th Jun 2010 - 11:32am

@tom_ravenscroft tweeting from your iPhone?! I think you may be getting the hang of this....

Thu 3rd Jun 2010 - 1:10pm

Scumbag Philosopher - from the school of hard knocks. Graduated 1st class degree.

Wed 2nd Jun 2010 - 5:07pm

@bigstereo #musictip bit.ly/daftvid1 SpaceBook MyFace

archived tweets

"I've got a will to power that's why I don't shower."

"I live with my mum in a chalet bunglalow

And I've read half of Ecce Homo."

"I know what time the buses run

I know where to go to find my fun."

"God Is Dead So I Listen To Radiohead." (repeat, over and over).

You can hear it in 'Album Tracks" (up there on the right).

You can watch the lunatic promo vid too (just over there and up a bit) >>>>>

Download only single to be released autumn 2010.

The Devil Has The Best Tuna (UK)

Tue 4th May 2010

"One of the best tracks I’ve heard this year"

Now this is why I started the blog to bring tracks like this to the attention of a wider audience. It's one of the best tracks I've heard this year, and one of the few (along with The Lovely Eggs 'I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too' and Eux Autres 'When I'm Up') that has been on constant repeat.

With it's angular guitar, metronomic drums and alienated male and female vocals it harks back to a time when indie actually meant something, a time when indie was a badge of honour for bands who stood outside the mainstream not a day pass to the 'C' list, a time when intelligence and experimentation meant more than a diploma from the Brits School. Add in the annoyingly catchy chorus 'God Is Dead So I Listen To Radiohead' which buries itself in your brain and refuses to leave, and you have a cast iron indie classic.

The video, with it's dancing cardinals, ecclesiastical grunt mags, Benny Hill pastiches and Radiohead video spoofs looks as good as the single sounds, and it reveals how Thom did that singing in water thing without drowning.

The Devil Has The Best Tuna

Les Inrockuptibles (France)

Tue 4th May 2010

Ever since The Fall the English have always been good at scumbag philosophy - I'm thinking in particular about Art Brut. Fuck Dress are especially good at this variety of knowing banter with balls. Their single has a vociferous chorus : "God is dead so I listen to Radiohead". Unfortunately, to listen to it, is like getting hit by a saw in the head: it's then impossible to get rid of that mesmerizing chorus - one stays human, too human.

Les Inrockuptibles

The Mag (UK)

Tue 4th May 2010

9/10

"God is dead so I listen to Radiohead". "God is dead so I listen to Radiohead". There is no need to remember this simple lyric, because once you have listened to this single it will stay in your head for days. If The Streets (Mike Skinner) decided to use guitars and drums instead of turntables, this is what they would sound like.

The quirky band have created such a hit on the underground scene they are beginning to gain radio air-time already with their much more PC friendly name Bonk Frock, and I am not surprised in the slightest. Madden's tales of the "concerns of a middle aged man living in a provincial town" are a joy to listen to, with his voice reminding me of early Joy Division demos. The rhythm is spot on, and the intertwined male/female vocals fit perfectly into this superb single. It really does have the feel of a summer indie anthem.
'Sunshine Corporation' is again a top tune, although not as catching as its predecessor. The words of wisdom from Madden again fitting perfectly over a neat and catchy beat. The band fits together perfectly in their rant over an imperfect world.

Having reviewed quite a lot of records in the last 12 months, this up there with the best of them, and is quite an achievement in me saying this is one of the most enjoyable singles I have heard in a very long time.

This is the type of band Britain has been looking for.

The Mag

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It Means Nothing So It Means Nothing

The debut album: office tedium, celebrity banalities and wry observations on the hyper-reality of the social networking phenomenon. Two drum abuse, barely in-tune guitar and passive-aggressive soliloquizing Available from Words On Music in late 2010

words on music

Conceived as a sort of situationist prank by a group of Norfolk (UK) based misfits Scumbag Philosopher are a nihilist-baiting mismatch of a crazed girl mauling her two drum kit. a grumbling, misanthropic, borderline aspergers front man and cascading, caterwauling guitars. They make an odd yet still strangely catchy kind of post-punk racket - alienated, knowing and not afraid of wearing its smartness on its sleeve. Lyrical focus is on the absurdity of office life, celebrity and hipness.

Signed to painfully-hip US label Words On Music, Scumbag Philosopher line-up two releases later in the year - the “God Is Dead So I Listen To Radiohead” single (with its crazed companion promo vid) and the album “It Means Nothing So It Means Nothing”. ETA for both slabs of angular yet wry alienation: autumn 2010. Indie obscurantists may notice a similarity between Scumbag Philosopher and sometime Norwich grumble punkers F*** Dress. The latter moniker has been sold, for a considerable purse, to a well known youth fashion retailer who will use it for a new line of edgy urban clothing for the swearier young woman.

Tickbox Exercise

Give me the tools and I might surprise it's a tickbox exercise
Show me the leader who can inspire give me strength before I tire
To grow through my work I need a chance to be empowered in this dance
Give me the tools and I might surprise it's a tickbox exercise
Please do the needful please do the same I'm so tired of this game
Show me that you really give a damn and I'll take part in this sham

It's a tickbox exercise
It's a tickbox exercise
We have a new way
It's just for today
It's a tickbox exercise
It's a tickbox exercise

Give me the tools and I might surprise it's a tickbox exercise
Show me that you care a lot and I'll give it my best shot
You want me to strive to be better but don't follow your own letter
Give me the tools and I might surprise it's a tickbox exercise
Turn out the lights on another day its getting so hard to want to stay
There's an upgradation to prepare let's prepone because we care

It's a tickbox exercise
It's a tickbox exercise
We have a new way
Just right for today
It's a tickbox exercise
It's a tickbox exercise

How many times did you have to call
You can always fill in a feedback form
We'd like to dissuade you from what you want
How many times did you have to call
You can always fill in a feedback form
How many times did you have to call
We'd like to dissuade you from what you want

It's a tickbox exercise
It's a tickbox exercise
We have a new way
It's just for today
It's a tickbox exercise
It's a tickbox exercise
We have a new way
Just right for today
It's a tickbox exercise
It's a tickbox exercise

I Like Sums

I like sums think of a number, they're mathematical
Add it up divide and subtract, it's multiplication
Triangles squares and rectangles, simple geometry
Take away half from the total, just trigonometry

I like to work things out by counting out the words in sentences against the edges of shapes I see around me
I find it comforting to know how many strokes make up each number on a digital alarm clock face

I like sums think of a number, they're mathematical
38 solutions to our problem, it's all inequalities
You'll find it's a simple process of elimination
Just got to work out all the many permutations

I like sums think of a number, they're mathematical I like sums think of a number, they're mathematical

Heroes At Home

Brandon Flowers has forgotten it's bin day
Chris Martin has a gas bill to pay
Amy Winehouse needs to sort her speeding fine
Will Oldham is looking for insurance online

H E R O

They've got to get the ars*wipe in
And empty out the garden bin
Your heroes at home
(They might be loud but
They're still houseproud)
And the front hedge needs trimming
Got no time for mainlining
Your heroes at home

Jack White is topping up his phone sim card
Courtney Love is fixing a bike in her yard
Paul Daniels is cleaning out the toilet pan
Bono's worrying about his pension plan

H O M E

They've got to get the arsewipe in
And empty out the garden bin
Your heroes at home
(They may be brash
but they like saving cash)
there's letters to be posted out
they can't be getting wasted now
Your heroes at home

17000 celebrities all going to the shops
40000 a listers creating havoc for the cops
60000 movie stars busy with their chores
80000 pop singers wandering round the stores

They've got to get the arsewipe in
And empty out the garden bin
Your heroes at home
(They want applause
and to have tidy drawers)
there's bargains waiting at the sales
no time for going off the rails
Your heroes at home

Isolation

Boredom stalks me now
Isolation isolation
Boredom's with me now
Isolation integration
Boredom stalks me now
Isolation isolation
Boredom's with me now
Isolation integration

Something to do
Fill in my time
As if I'm busy
Make you ignore me

No need for talking there is no need for talking
No need for talking we've is no need for talking
No need for talking there is no need for talking
No need for talking we've is no need for talking

Boredom stalks me now
Isolation isolation
Boredom's with me now
Isolation integration
Boredom stalks me now
Isolation isolation
Boredom's with me now
Isolation integration

Taking things slow
In the background
I'm taking part
Playing my role

This it means nothing so it means nothing
This it means nothing it has no meaning
This it means nothing so it means nothing
This it means nothing it has no meaning

Boredom stalks me now
Isolation isolation
Boredom's with me now
Isolation integration
Boredom stalks me now
Isolation isolation
Boredom's with me now
Isolation integration

Keep my head down
Taking my time
Nothing I want
Leave me alone

I can't stop thinking there's no need for thinking
I can't stop thinking there's no time for thinking
I can't stop thinking there's no need for thinking
I can't stop thinking there's no time for thinking

Boredom stalks me now
Isolation isolation
Boredom's with me now
Isolation integration
Boredom stalks me now
Isolation isolation
Boredom's with me now
Isolation integration

Scumbag Philosopher

Scumbag Philosopher
Scumbag Philosopher
So much has been said
He's not about to stop now

Scumbag Philosopher
Part time pornographer
He loves to be talking
He's just got nothing to say

Crime seeking officer
High rise God botherer
He knows what is right
He can tell you what's gone wrong

Used up all your vitriol now, just settle down and see, see if you were right
Only a few days to go, time for you to move on, a better place awaits
No-one comes to visit, no-one left to hector, he's still got lots to say

Scumbag Philosopher
Scumbag Philosopher
From the school of hard knocks
Graduated 1st class degree

Scumbag Philosopher
Back bar cartographer
70 years of study
Has made him the man he is

Chip shop photographer
Arcade Heidigger
It's not like the olden days
Golden respectful times

Scumbag Philosopher
Scumbag Philosopher
Scumbag Philosopher
Scum scum scum scum scum scum

God is dead so I listen to Radiohead

God is dead so I listen to Radiohead
God is dead so I listen to Radiohead
I live with my mum in a chalet bungalow
And I've read half of Ecce Homo
God is dead so I listen to Radiohead
God is dead so I listen to Radiohead
I've got a will to power that's why I don't shower
I've got a will to power that's why I don't shower

File into the system
Two copies purchased of everything
One to use, one to save
Double entry recording system
Clear plastic folder for all copies
One copy used, one copy saved

God is dead so I listen to Radiohead
God is dead so I listen to Radiohead
I listen to Jet on my Dansette
I listen to Jet on my Dansette

Time wasted now
Time saved later
Time saved now
Time wasted later

God is dead so I listen to Radiohead
God is dead so I listen to Radiohead
I know what time the buses run
I know where to go to find my fun
I know which way the cycle lanes run
I know where to go to buy my fun
God is dead so I listen to Radiohead
God is dead so I listen to Radiohead

Sunshine Corporation

You need to develop self confidence
Let guilt be our teacher and let love be the lesson we learn
Recapture long lost goals overcome inhibitors to your success
Decide what you want to be and strive towards it
Keep a journal for joy and simplify your life
Learn to pat ourselves on the back
Make up a self-pride list of items you have handled well
Influence people in the way that you speak in public

Can I do that tomorrow
I'd rather pass on it today
Can I do that tomorrow
I'd rather pass on it today
I can find something better
There's always something else to do
With our time

Assess improve and maintain your self esteem
Make understanding and appreciating yourself free and easy
Leave the road to solitude and follow in the family way
Join a high performance network
Develop your leadership skills
Work out ways to handle people and use them to make them like you

Can I do that tomorrow
I'd rather pass on it today
Can I do that tomorrow
I'd rather pass on it today
I can find something better
There's always something else to do
With our time

Let guilt be our teacher and let love be the lesson we learn
Keep a journal for joy and simplify your life
Leave the road to solitude and follow in the family way
Stop worrying and love yourself

Social networking site

Let's bang the GUI

I've got a new friend called Tom
He runs a big dot com
He really is a mate
He's top of my top eight

Got some new friends from Brundall
They really make me ROFFLE
Two girls with no clothes on from Brunei
When I message they never reply

Add me facespace my book
Friend me spacebook my face
I'm a newbie so send me a hug
Social Networking Site
Write on my funwall join my new group
Social Networking Site
My avatar's new Tim Berners-Lee
Social Networking Site
Add me but I'm in the same room
Friend me but I'm sat next to you

Friend Request Denied

Relationships and dating
Networking and time wasting
Pimping, stalking, creeping, whoring
This is a getting a little bit boring

I've got a new friend called Tom
He runs a big dot com
He really is a mate
He's top of my top eight

On The Shortwave

Got your ears on your ears on
Got your ears on your ears on
10 3 for a 10 100
10 3 for a 10 100
Got your ears on your ears on
Got your ears on your ears on
10 3 for a 10 100
we down we gone

I still buy records
Can't let vinyl down
Watch them spinning round
Can't let vinyl down
I still buy records
Can't let vinyl down
Watch them turn around
Can't let vinyl down

Sometimes when I see for sale
lps old tapes reel to reel
record players or cassette decks
I feel as if someone else has gone
Moved on to something new
Downloads of mp3s
state of the art now garaged sale
5 pound down from the hundreds

I still buy records
Can't let vinyl down
Watch them spinning round
Can't let vinyl down
I still buy records
Can't let vinyl down
Watch them turn around
I can't let vinyl down

I've got my own call signal
I'm on the shortwave
I'm talking to the Ukraine
I'm talking to the World
I've got my own call signal
I'm on the shortwave
I'm talking to the Ukraine
I'm talking to the World
Please come and talk to me
From wherever you are
I've got my own call signal
I'm on the shortwave
I'm talking to the Ukraine
I'm talking to the New World
Please come and talk to me
From wherever you are

Chat

archived bollocks

Tickbox Exercise

I Like Sums

Heroes At Home

Isolation

Scumbag Philosopher

God Is Dead So I Listen To Radiohead

Sunshine Corporation

Social Networking Site

On The Shortwave