So's mine - that's why I can relate to hers :D

Cheers for the correction, ZEROpumpkins. Yeah, I heard too that any reference to genitalia in Japanese culture is a real taboo.

mediocre annoying shit.

i rather listen to rihanna or katy perry.

Just heard 'That's Not My Name' for the first time while listening to music with my lil cuz yesterday. What a fun fucking song. She actually said, "This band makes the dumbest songs but they're just so catchy!" Awesome.

I rushed to download their full debut... but it turns out that 'Name' is the only tune I really like. The rest left me feelin' hollow.

im fucking off then!

They're awful.

They're fun to listen to. Some songs are pretty good, but some shit too. Overall they're mediocre

i saw them live on friday. i was drunk, i hardly remember anything. except for it was shit.

They deserve all the ironic hatred that they get.

i hate them. especially while doing the ironing.

You listen to the Ting Tings whilst ironing? Good God, I had you down as a Gary Moore-doing-Parisienne Walkways ironer.

I think that everyone here is grimly aware of my etc etc etc.

have they not split up yet? it won't be long before their career will have outlasted [enter name of seminal but very short lived band here].

The Sperm Wails? Bastard Kestrel? The Shaggs?

It won't be long until they'll become 150th band on the bill of some obscure festival that still has The Mission as headliners.

one can only hope

sarram - you've reminded me that the Mission did a wretched version of the Stooges' "1969" on the Tube in 1986. Jesus fucking wept, that was so bad it hurt my teeth.

In my mind they are.

is it on youtube?

come back wendy james, all is forgiven

(assuming there was ever anything to forgive in the first place)

Yes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFzh4z7lTVQ

I'm liking the turn this thread is taking.

It's because of that performance that I'm glad that Big Black pissed on the Mission's amps and stole their beer at a Belgian rock festival.

They're like a pretentious version of The Dogs D'Amour with more echo, on that video. Yeah, it's awful.

i loved the way mission fans had this way of lifting their hands aloft whenever the chorus came in.

And the way their fans would chuck around glittery crap, and generally act like they were at some godawful New Age "empowerment" class. Thank Christ for the lumpenness of Slayer etc.

all i know about this band is that they're a shitty dance band and the only hit i've ever heard is a cover of take me out with fewer words

It's interesting that you say that, Melly, because every time I think of their fans (which is almost never), I imagine them all living somewhere near Stonehenge.

If memory serves, I think the Mission's fans were known as Eskimoes. I like the Stonehenge idea - I imagine the Mission's fans all living in teepees, drinking Blue Nun wine and playing bongoes.

They Call Me Hell!
They Call Me Stacey!

That's Not My Name!