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I can't believe that no one has started a topic about maximo park yet!

I really think both their records are amazing and their perfomances are stunnig.

I've noticed a while ago that some of you have them on your playlists. Has anyone seen them live?

nerverise9

i never got into their second album for some reason. same with kaiser chiefs actually.

spy9black

I think both the songs "books from boxes" and "girls who played guitars" are just so different from any other song that they've made, but i still like it!

mayonaise

I'VE SEEN THEM! it was amazing, anyone should have seen paul smith live, it's fantastic! so fantastic actually that I'm going to see them again in a few weeks (note to myself: buy tickets!)

my favourite song is "the coast is always changing". when i had my finals this year i used to listen to them alot and right before my english (or was it math?) exam i sang to myself "i am young and i am lost..." comforting in an odd way

spy9black

ooooh!! i think so too!!!paul smith is so contagious! you can barely stand still with him jumping all around!!

Has anyone voted for them on the EMA's??i think they really deserv at least one...

mayonaise

oh, they're nominated? (omg... where do i live? tha ema's take place in my country and i'm totally oblivious to that....!)

ok, i go check out that ema-thing and vote for pau -er...maximo park!!


Edit:

...i was to vote...for best band or something and was ready to find maximo park when i read ok go... i don't really understand tht system, maybe i should start watching mtv again?? so, i voted for my nominees and clicked loads of bnds and... i think i'm being stupid right now...

spy9black

no, you're not, cause you can vote for many bands, i haven't actually ubnderstood it either...

i've posted in the ok go thread about ok go being nominated. I only knew about this because i was on vacation and the only reasonably bareble channel to watch was MTV. but the when i went to the site to check out the list and i saw some of my favourite bands like ok go, maximo park, bloc party...i sarted to think that MAYBe MTV doesn't suck so hard

don't worry about not knowing about it because when it was in Lisbon, it was so lame that only hip hopers won or something...iuc...

mayonaise

yes, I came to the point when i hated mtv for their taste of music... i never NEVER seen an ok go video on mtv and when i watch mtv it's always like 2 am when they play night videos, because only then i can see maximo park, the view or, if i'm really really lucky, the strokes... even though there's this ad of how mtv has all the good music taht shows like 2 seconds of Damian (YAY)...

i hope this years going to be different, but i know the german general mtv music taste, which is what makes me want to got to i dunno england or so...

but i was amazed, in every category there's at least one artist or band i would vote for...

spy9black

it's because germany rocks

when it was in portugal i didn't like ANY of the artists...and except maybe for gorillaz the performances kinda sucked...

i think germany is getting quite underground when it comes to music. at least you have those amazing summer fests like "rock am ring" right?

mayonaise

yeah, even though the slightly smaller Rock im Park is far better!! The same bands but the stages are close together so one can easily switch between bands plus: it's in a park! That's where i've been this year and that's where I've seen Maximo Park, the kooks, mando diao, kaiser chiefs, paolo nutini, razorlight, and ... so many more
i really hoped OK Go would've been there, too...that would have been...omg unbelievable! They said they would return to europe for some summer festivals and they also said that they would come to austria, which would have been very close to "my" festival, but they only showed up in..spain? FIB, Bennicasim, or whatsit...

Germany certainly has some underground music going on, but germany has a lot of crappy music that's in the charts and so on... Tokio Hotel, Scooter and... wow, germany has it's own hip hop culture, and nobody wants to stop them

veinleo09

oo i like them!
i've only heard a few songs, but i don't have their albums.. but fear not - i'll get them soon!

mayonaise

don't forget their album "missing songs" with demo versions of three songs and other unknown songs!

spy9black

QUOTE (mayonaise @ Aug 31 2007, 10:47 PM)

yeah, even though the slightly smaller Rock im Park is far better!! The same bands but the stages are close together so one can easily switch between bands plus: it's in a park! That's where i've been this year and that's where I've seen Maximo Park, the kooks, mando diao, kaiser chiefs, paolo nutini, razorlight, and ... so many more
i really hoped OK Go would've been there, too...that would have been...omg unbelievable! They said they would return to europe for some summer festivals and they also said that they would come to austria, which would have been very close to "my" festival, but they only showed up in..spain? FIB, Bennicasim, or whatsit...

Germany certainly has some underground music going on, but germany has a lot of crappy music that's in the charts and so on... Tokio Hotel, Scooter and... wow, germany has it's own hip hop culture, and nobody wants to stop them

I'd love to go to Rock im park also!!it must have been awesome this year... well, i can't complain much because this year summer fests were also amazing

have you ever heard of any of the portuguese summer fests?

I know about the crappy german music...how I hate Tokyo Hotel!!!!!! first of all, it took us (me and my friends) WEEKS to find out if they were boys or girls (it's so hard when you see that drag queen/emo lead singer) and then we saw the HUGE underaged fan club and just realised what that was all about...

It's just too bad that the real good music from Germany doesn't arrive here...

mayonaise

i've always been quite oblivious to the portugese music scene... never heard of anything i must say...

yeah, this has been a great year for music, new bands and old bands with new songs and they're all together at most of the festivals... i'd love to go to a festival in GB, T in the Park or Glastonbury (which was critisised (sp?) highly this year, the weather and all...) and it sucks really that those festivals are that expensive... my dad gave me my card as a present for me finishing school and i guess otherwise i wouldn't have gone ...

ha, we all needed some time to figure out if that's a boy or a girl,... but it was like three years ago when they started over here and then the newspapers were full of intimate storys of him and that's really really gros i think...

spy9black

yeeessss!!it's so unfair the price of the gigs! this year i could only be to one (and maximo park and bloc party were on another one) because i couldn't afford more...And still, there are some more bands comming in september...too unfair for a music lover!

I'm so sick of all the little girls with high hormones voting for them on the charts!! enough of tokyo hotel!!!

mayonaise

yeah but i read in the nme that they're planning on lowering the prize... or at least that they should do so or nobody will be able to go or something... so, i really hope that i can go next year... but i also like those smaller concerts... and i only really started going to concerts this year...

whom have you seen live, yet?

spy9black

me too!! only this year I could finally het to a summer festival.

I've seen Pearl jam, linkin park (not that good, honestly), the used, blasted mechanism (portuguese band), the rakes, the gift (portuguese band) and a few more even less known.

the only one that i REALLY wanted to see was pearl jam.the rest of them i would trade in a minute for bloc party or maximo park, or white stripes...

it was kind of crazy for me to go to this summer fest because I went by train (since I don't have driver's license, yet but i'm working on it ) but i had no idea how i was going to come back. In the beggining of the last show (pearl jam) me and my friends started to chat with too girls next to us. They were very nice and we started asking each other where did we live. Turns out that one of them (who owned a car YYEEEESS!!) was my neighbour!!!!!!And i didn't even knew it!! So they gave us a ride to home!! Thank God, because i just had no idea how to come back...i had to wait for the first train in the morning (6 a.m.).

So my first summer fest was pretty random

How about you? you went to rock im park right?? How amazing was it? Which bands were there besides maximo park?

mayonaise

This is the order of the bands I have seen:
Paolo Nutini, The Kooks, Wir sind Helden (german band), Little Man Tate, Gogol Bordello, The Hives, Maximo Park, Razorlight, My Chemical Romance (not that good), Arctic Monkeys, White Stripes, Enter Shikari, The Fratellis, 30 seconds to mars, Wolfmother, Under The Influence Of Giants, Tele, Kaiser Chiefs, Mando Diao, Charlotte Hatherley, Beatsteaks, Long Blondes and Sugarplum Fairy and Zoot Woman.


It was really really great, our tent was built on a hillside and it wasn't that easy to sleep and the weather was not the best but all in all it was great.
so, how amazing was it? Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat amazing... *holding out hands at the side of my body*

i don't know when i'm going to have an internet connection, my system broke down and i'm writung from a friends computer, but thanks for the friend-having-thing and till next time, hopefully soon

bye

spy9black

ooooooooh!!mando diao, sugarplum fairyyyyy, OMG lucky girl

hope to see you soon to

veinleo09

I think I'm going to see them open for Travis on Thanksgiving weekend!! yaay!

spy9black

really??

they're sooo awesome live...you'll love them!