The problem I have with the current "exciting" crop of new bands (killers, monkeys, hard fi, kaiser chiefs etc) is not that they're good or bad, but just that they're OK and certainly don't deserve the ludicrous amount of priase & critical acclaim they are currently enjoying. It's all been done before and a helluva lot better.
Has it really got so bad in the music industry that this is what passes for fantastic exciting new music? Oh yes I guess it has. Rap, R'n'B and the instant celebrity bandwagon saw to that. Whatever happened to people forming bands just to create good music for their own entertainment and if other people liked it then it was a bonus.
I guess the Artic Monkeys would claim that's what they did, but I'm sorry internet marketing cannot replace months on the road actually working for a living.
God I sound like my dad! That reminds me, I must go and check if my radiators need bleeding.