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That Kiss

September 26, 2008 | 19 Comments
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If the thought of Liam Fray puckering up makes you queasy, a whole three-and-a-bit minutes of him singing about it is unbearable. ‘That Kiss’ is what used to be called a “lighters in the air moment”, but not now – mobiles, duh – plus you’ll be hard-pushed to find a flame-inducing friend, since NME has swigged the fluid from every last one. Why? Plodding balladry like this.

Camilla Pia

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x---e

Sep 26, 2008

i still like it. hah.

billybigtime

Sep 26, 2008

here we go again...how come, if this track is so bad, it was recommended on the NME stereo bit last week you knobheads? It's a real uplifting anthem - like McAlmont & Butler meets Moz - one of the singles of the year yet some idiots at NME can't see that and instead they persist in attempting to convince us that their 'underground' mates Fucked Up are the future. The Courteeners biggest crime, it seems, is selling a load of albums and tickets - you fat little pigeons.

VanPelt

Sep 26, 2008

damn i can write reviews like this too! just constant complaints about how bad every single song is...i'd rather say that reading the-whole-paragraph from this reviewer is unbearable

chairman how

Sep 26, 2008

The NME is gets sadder and sadder.20 000 readers a week, its not even the second biggest selling rock weekly these days!

ranners25

Sep 26, 2008

All NME politics aside, this is a shite song from a shite band.

willhay

Sep 26, 2008

class song. class band. shit review(er).

Anjil

Sep 26, 2008

I love this song so leave Liam alone he has written some bril songs this one is great too

bobbymurphy

Sep 26, 2008

Camilla sounds like a right larf. According to Amelia's mag she likes "watching Nigella and The Golden Girls, drinking tea and wheat beer or spending ridiculous amounts of money on big accessories and designer toys" zzzzzzzzz... NME'd be better off getting Camille Paglia to do the reviews. Brilliant song by a brilliant band by the way...

Bethlovesnme

Sep 28, 2008

I love this song and Liam Fray...hes a BABE! unfair review like.

WeeHacky

Sep 29, 2008

i hate the dicks at NME, your reviewing the son, it should be nothing too do with the band members you dicks. its a decent song 7/10.

Soundedd

Sep 29, 2008

I think it's a great track, and it's something new to the band playing with a string arrangement.

fakeauteur

Sep 30, 2008

I knew that I shouldnt but I enjoyed vomited my eardrums out after hearing this.

kgpmusic1992

Sep 30, 2008

The Courteeners are such a brilliant band excatly what the indie scene needs. for all the great courteeners fans out there much love.

Slip kid (2nd generation)

Sep 30, 2008

See what really sticks in the craw about this band - well not so much the band but the bleedin' h**e surrounding them, is that anyone would think we'd been sat in a cold grim desert waiting for a heartfelt hewn band with witty, yearning lyrics and a distinct northern bent to take up where Moz and co wisely left off. Yet, and listen up kids, I AM KLOOT have been floudering in the doldrums of obscurity for nearly 10 (yes TEN) long years and you didn't even notice - and they certainly do everything the Courteeners do but with true wit, grace and beauty and a wonderfully distinct northern bent, so what gives huh? Probably cos they don't have easily understandable elements such as a gobby Manc singer and a sub-Libs crunch. Ignore this cultural red-herring from Middleton and go out and support the Kloot instead, IMMEDIATELY!

mr liam fray

Oct 1, 2008

i dont give a toss about no reviewsbig thanks to chris davies from the electric circus band see you at space on the 10th. x x

BIGFATBOB

Oct 2, 2008

Oh well at least everybody else has to suffer this crap aswell now not just Mancunians. Nice try Ryan but not good enough. Oops! did I say Ryan! Sorry Liam thats what your called now just like all the proper popstars. P-ur-lease.

olsen11

Oct 3, 2008

saw them on Monday in Preston - they were fucking amazing - cant wait for next Fridays Apollo show - gonna be legendary!

shedboy82

Oct 6, 2008

A band that would have struggled to get a record deal at the fag end of Brit Pop, when any chancer with a 'Manc' accent and a bowl-cut could get signed. They're fucking awful, the sort of band Simon Cowell would sign if he ever went Indie. Much kudos to the I am Kloot fan.

skimpi

Oct 6, 2008

the courteeners are such a brilliant band just what the indie scene needs! what the f**k! they are shit! what the indie scene needs is something new and different which is what indie is/was about not something boring and shit like everything else out there.