So boring I forgot what I was going to type | the collected Facebook War On Drugs vitriol
This one started quite innocuously. A simple and well-liked comment on Facebook,
Fuck man. Has anyone actually listened to The War On Drugs? Christ, they’re bad.
- I hear Mark Kozelek is a big fan.
- I think Kozelek is probably jealous cos they’re the only band alive more boring than him.
- Saw ’em at the Zoo, put me in a sleepy cranky mood!
- You damn kids and your jungle music.
- War On Drugs, suck my cock. Go fuck yourself, Sun Kil Moon.
- They’re why Philly needs to stick to making cheesesteaks.
- Dull as fuck.
- They the ones that sound like Dire Straits?
- Dire Straits were a lot better.
- Fucking adult cockrock for deaf hipsters.
- Their second LP was Tom Petty vs Simple Minds, quite interesting really. And then they started the Dire Straits revival.
- Red Eyes is a masterpiece.
- Cockrock needs bigger balls.
- Better than both (I’m not joking).
- Dire Straits – Telegraph Road
- I may (but doubt it) be missing out but I don’t listen to bands with stupid names as it’s an indicator of potentially facile lyrics.
- Bruce Hornsby & the Range – The Way It Is
- The indie Springsteen on mogadon.
- They’re not a million miles away from this…
- I dislike The War On Drugs because their music reminds me of Dire Straits.
- I dislike them because of their ironic (and, therefore, utterly dumb) name; the beards (if they don’t have beards, they sound like they do) and the dull and ubiquitous John Congleton-esque production style.
- Not a hater but don’t believe the hype.
- I like them because they make interesting music in an era of dross. They are no Goat though.
- The War On Drugs are so boring that I just forgot what I was going to type.
- Who?
- Their music is dull dull dull….for me it lacks the passion and excitement that I need from my music…like is dull and grey enough without having this as your soundtrack. and it’s shit.
- You heard this song?
- It’s a waste of public money, it’s primarily a health issue.
- They taste like denim and sound like an M shaped balding hairstyle.
- With my 40 odd years as a music critic I feel justified in putting it this way: cos they fucking blow chunks man.
- When I heard them on the local ‘indie’ music station I thought they were playing a bad Bruce Springsteen song. They are okay but overhyped.
- They stole my tricycle.
- Definitely over hyped. It’s listenable but not memorable.
- I don’t even know who they are. Ignorance is bliss perhaps.
- Every. Single. Hipster. Band. Is. So. Boring.
- Never heard ’em. Let me guess….is it one of those The Eagles As Indie Rock sort of deals?
- That fucking picture. Its all I ever saw on Facebook suggested posts for a year. Fuck The War.
- Norman Phay I’ve thus far managed not to knowingly hear them. I’m inclined not to like them because “the war on drugs” is a terrible name for a band.
- A man in a pub told me to listen to them, and that they would change my life. I listened to them the next day and my life got ever so slightly more dull.
- There are moments I enjoy them over other crap on the radio. Though when I tried to listen to a whole album it did bore the hell out of me. Can’t understand a single lyric, so have no idea if he’s saying anything important or interesting. And yes, a bad band name. The kind of music that is forgettable, but when the hit comes on in a few years I’ll probably be excited and check them out again and will probably be disappointed again.
- “Bossgaze”.