Back in the Christmas of 2005 I bought an album that my friends never let up on giving me grief for, they all shared the same kind of tastes that I did, all the usual hip crap, from the famous to the obscure, but this one album, man, every phone call i got from them, every other text message, every frickin' conversation, they would bring up this one album and slag me off for buying it, as if purchase of and liking this one album had destroyed all my hip album buying credibility.
The album was Hard Fi's , damn i can't recall the name of it, their first album anyway.(edit: 'Stars of CCTV')
I had heard two of the songs from it on a free Cd from Q magazine and on a live performance on Jools Holland, and thought they were great, and yeah, the album was very good, taken as a awhole, with a couple of great tracks, 'Tied up too tight', 'Better do better', 'Hard to Beat'...good, well crafted songs that all sounded very different from each other, but fit together well as an album, conceptually too, they were working class kids singing about things like not having enough money, hanging around in the streets and young offender's institutions, as well as all the usual stuff about relationships and break ups etc, but it did sound like an encapsulation of a young working class kid's life in the 00's, good stuff.
But, because they were touted as the next big thing, on the radio and tv a lot, nme, Q endorsed, and were decidely normal people in interviews and the like, they were not hip in my mates eyes, not to be bought or listened to!
Anyway, 5yrs later, I still hold the same opinion of the album, I listened to it again last month and still enjoyed it. Holy crap, my pals got some mileage out of that album, it was a pretty funny ongoing joke though.
edit: this is the track i got on a free 'Q' magazine cd that made me want to buy the album:
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t: Ha ha - Totally understand
