Take that on ITV tonight
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Morbyd said:
But that's the thing, Take That weren't a crap teeny bopper band in the sense of all all those crappy American bands and boy bands today - as me and Buckley were on about earlier, we were late teens when Take That were out and ppl who one wkend would be @ the Hacienda or Back to Basics etc would be bopping along to Take That a few days later. You had to be part of the Take That phenomenom to appreciate what they did
Comparing them to the likes of Backstreet Boys..........well you Americans just don't get it 
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No, it's not that Americans don't get it. There are plenty of people my age who had a similar relationship with boy band phenomena like New Kids on the Block or, even earlier, New Edition (which basically created the modern boy band tradition).Barbie said:But that's the thing, Take That weren't a crap teeny bopper band in the sense of all all those crappy American bands and boy bands today - as me and Buckley were on about earlier, we were late teens when Take That were out and ppl who one wkend would be @ the Hacienda or Back to Basics etc would be bopping along to Take That a few days later. You had to be part of the Take That phenomenom to appreciate what they did
I was just into a different thing... bands made up of musicians who could write their own songs 8)
Morbyd said:No, it's not that Americans don't get it. There are plenty of people my age who had a similar relationship with boy band phenomena like New Kids on the Block or, even earlier, New Edition (which basically created the modern boy band tradition).Barbie said:But that's the thing, Take That weren't a crap teeny bopper band in the sense of all all those crappy American bands and boy bands today - as me and Buckley were on about earlier, we were late teens when Take That were out and ppl who one wkend would be @ the Hacienda or Back to Basics etc would be bopping along to Take That a few days later. You had to be part of the Take That phenomenom to appreciate what they did
I was just into a different thing... bands made up of musicians who could write their own songs 8)
A) I think you'll find my mates John Paul and Ringo may have something to say about the New Edition point. Or the Sotnes, or if we're talking manufactured, then well slap me down and say hey hey we're the Monkees.
b) (gary barlow wrote a lot of take that stuff)
Oh, and did anyone see the manager say "Yeah, cos I'd always been a fan of Dan Hartman and that era", and I was like F.R.O. Have your boy bands, but don't start saying you were a disco head PLEASE!
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I said the modern manufactured boy band era. There was a big lull in that trade after the era of the Motown groups (Temptations, 4 Tops, etc.) and the Monkees (and you might even include the Jackson 5, though they were manufactured by the same parentsx-amount said:
). New Edition brought it back after more than a decade of near boyband-lessness, followed by New Kids (same manager), then Take That, and then a lot of crap that followed.
