Oh My. The Mail is really working this one. Sinister Cult?

I very much enjoyed MCR getting the entire Reading Festival crowd chanting "FUCK THE DAILY MAIL"

I don't think anyone can say that enough

Fuck the Daily Mail

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Oh My. The Mail is really working this one. Sinister Cult?

Hmmm... the sinister cult of your children doing something you don't approve of! Yep - that's a new one, isn't it?

Perhaps I'm listening to the wrong songs, but from what I've heard MCR are just shit. I don't know if they're real goths or fake goths or whatever. I don't care. I just think their music is really boring tuneless cacophany.

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I always thought that about Joy Division as well, and the Manics to some extent. Good catharsis if you're just wallowing for a while, and great if you're coping kind-of-OK at the moment, and you need to come to terms with the shit feelings in order to move on, or work something out. Better still as self-expression for the people making the music, listened to in that context. But if I'm really, dangerously low, I'm fucked if I'm going to listen to the most depressing music I can think of... OK, you don't want to stick on "Surfin' USA" or something, but there's plenty of music which acknowleges how shit the world can be and, crucially, meets it head on.

I find that to be the case. When I've been really, really, really down, my music of choice has been Flogging Molly. They make a wonderful racket. As with a lot of stuff in the Irish-American tradition, it's about getting up after getting knocked down (over and over).

Joy Division is ideal me because of my rampant anxiety. The simplicity of it seems to calm my nerves.