Stereophonics

stereophonics are great, the new album is one of the best

fav song......gotta say bartender and the thief from performance and ****tails
 
Not everyones cup of tea but i really like these guys. theyve kinda been in the shadows of blur and oasis since they started but with a new album on the way and a brilliant first single "Dakota" they should finally be taken seriously. to all you people who say the phonics are "pop-rock trash" then theres no point replying to this thread. But for others, whats your favourite album and/or song?
 
i think the phonics are great, my fav album has to be word gets around and have a nice day always cheers me up in the morning, my mate absolutley loves them and has aaaall their albums which is great cause shes payed for my ticket to go and see them with her in septeraber... score
 
The Phonics went downhill very quickly, as is often the case. However they were an important part of my maturity musically. In 1997 i'd been slowly but gradually opening my ears to music in general for the past couple of years. I was 13. Oasis and Blur opened the door to more than Michael Jackson and terrible, cheesy 90's dance music and commercial singles which had been all i had shown even a remote interest in previously. A guy in my reg class gave me Word Gets Around on cassette and that album, alongwith Performance and Cocktails became quick favourites. Word Gets Around in particular is still a stellar album in my opinion.

But then what happened? J.E.E.P was appaling, the album after that wasnt much better and even though they were never a groundbreaking band by any stretch of the imagination and far from original they just seemed to fade away into mediocrity. I actually really disliked these guys alot for a while after that second album as i got so bored with them.

Language, Sex, Violence, Other was an improvement from what i remeraber but i never bought it and I didn't hear the album after that either but i have to admit i ended up going to see them again on that tour after a nuraber of years because i got cheap tickets for
 
Word Gets Around was passable
Performance & ****tails had it`s moments (Both of them)

As for the rest , well lets just say if there was a forum entitled 'Dull Pub Rock' they`d be the first band with a thread in it
 
Just again nothing on the old stuff for me, of course the other thing that ruined it had to be Welsh pride. I don't think 'cool cymru' the Welsh scheme did much for the Phonics or The Manics or Catatonia. BastarRAB have to make it about being Welsh. I hate that. As a band I thought they had enormous potential. I was wondering what the Americans thought, 'cause they never seemed to break into that market at all.
 
My knowledge of their albums is quite patchy but passable to have an opinion. For a group that are quite often held in high esteem by many, they are a group with quite a few flaws. The early stuff displayed a real lack of maturity. I especially disliked the J.E.E.P album as well, but the real thing that puts me off this group is Kelly Jones. I think his lyrics are terrible and his voice even worse. At times his voice is so bad that it makes my speakers crackle:) But all is not lost, because I actually really like Language, Sex, Violence.... album and at last he seems to have actually learnt to sing.
 
Performance and ****tails did have the odd few songs on it too, Bartender and the Thief was okay, as were a couple others. Apparantly the new albums supposedly heavier, and they have said their current fans might not like it. SounRAB more promising to me than if they said its their best album yet.
 
I thought some of the lyrics on Word Gets Around were actually pretty good, in a tongue in cheek, playful sort of way. Nothing spectacular but there was a certain charm to some of the lyrics on that record.
 
Word Gets Around and Performance and ****tails were both fantastic albums in my opinion.

The follow ups were poor with one or 2 stand out songs on each, nothing special

The new album is class Language Violence Sex Other is great.
 
Yeah I like the first two albums a lot. One of the only songs I like on JEETP is Mr. Writer which is a great song. I didn't like much of YGGTTCB. However, their new album is very good, there is a good raw sound to it. I feel if they keep their guitar solos and such for the next album it will be even better.
 
they have changed a lot but i still think there good, Jeep and You gotta go there to come back were just mediocre albums but they werent awful i dont think.

This new one is good. Superman is a great intro track.
 
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