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Worst Rock Band Of All Time

Not sure if this is strictly applicable to this thread but a friend gave me this as a very belated birthday present last weekend. I don't know why but it just cracks me up completely, it is probably the funniest book in the world. It is exactly what it claims to be; a list of all known metal bands, around 51000 of them. If more than one band has used a name that name is included more than once, i.e. 'Salem' is in nine times. 'Valle Crucis' is only in once, which fills me with an almost indescribable joy.

Tony.
 
g0rf said:
Awful thread...
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I thought this was quite an amusing thread and I don't think anyone really got upset if their musical taste was slagged off.
These threads are bit like a pub discussion where blokes will argue for ages about who's mate has the fastest car or the most irritating dog or whatever. Nobody really cares about the outcome, it's just banter.


Just like in a pub, there's always a regular or 2 who know it all.
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g0rf said:
Awful thread. Anyone slagging off anothers taste in music is basically just a snob, whether that band, artist etc has sold millions or 10's of records. If someone likes it, then it has merit.
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Snobbery is a seriously under rated quality. And it is foolish to suggest popularity immediately equals quality. The Sun is the best selling paper in the UK, the Daily Mail second. I'm happy to snobbishly suggest they are not the best newspapers.

Bryan Adams Everything I Do.. single is one of the best selling of all time. Case rested.

Now Bryan Adams .... anyone make the case for the defense? GOrf?

Kevin
 
kjb said:
Snobbery is a seriously under rated quality. And it is foolish to suggest popularity immediately equals quality. The Sun is the best selling paper in the UK, the Daily Mail second. I'm happy to snobbishly suggest they are not the best newspapers.

Bryan Adams Everything I Do.. single is one of the best selling of all time. Case rested.

Now Bryan Adams .... anyone make the case for the defense? GOrf?

Kevin
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I quite like Bryan Adams - Into The Fire is a great album; it reminds me of a holidy I had in the US, when Heat of the Night was getting massive airplay. Everything I Do is a good song too, but was obviously over-played. The thing he did with Mel C was fun.
 
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i like bryan adams too- the summer of 69 one cassette reminds me of 1st hormonal ragings, so ive a soft spot for it- or hard spot in my case.
 
Being the hip young thing that I am, I like to keep up with the latest sounds in the hit parade, and of course to get down with the kids on the bus of a morning...
Leona Lewis: Not really my cup of tea, but one of her recent songs had that nagging habit of getting stuck on a loop in your head - probably the sign of a "perfect" pop-by-numbers song. A bit like a lot of McCartney's stuff. I will say this (having just watched the Olympics thing) - Ms. Lewis has the most extraordinary voice I've heard for a very long time. And it was hysterical to see Jimmy Page gurning away like a tramp in a strip club.
All of this is In My Opinion, to which I will add: The Feeling. Are. Awful.
But the worst band I've ever heard was A Plague of Dead Haddocks. A Hawkwind tribute band I was in before tribute bands were popular, the line-up consisted of the first people to arrive at the gig with their kit. Two people were "sacked" for the crime of rehearsing, and the band split because we couldn't agree on the plural of haddock...I have a cassette of a gig which never fails to put a smile on my face.
Cheers,
Mort
 
very amusing post mort :) "..Jimmy Page gurning away like a tramp in a strip club" that's a class description! that WAS hideous, wasn't it? I mean JP miming & gurning with an X-factor winner ontop of a fake london bus?.. its the stuff of a rock madman's dream ffs!!

Music snobbery should be actively encouraged Imo, or bands like oasis will musically mate with bands like the feeling, to sprout more bands like razorlight.. so they must be stopped/ sterillised/ musically castrated by unadulterated vitriolic snobbery.
 
Captain,
Don't get me wrong, from my early teens Page was/ still is to a degree my all-time hero. He's always pulled faces while playing, it just seems to have got more exaggerated as he (or is it me) has got older...
I'm not sure it's strictly necessary while miming, though. It just looked a bit pervy.
Ms. Lewis was singing live, I believe. I stand by my assertion that she has one hell of a voice. Just get her some decent songs/arrangments and we'll be away.
Cheers,
Mort
 
I think Leona Lewis is a good singer - well, she is CLEARLY a good singer, but the problem with X-Factor products is that they just do love ballads with piano with the singer doing full-on crying with cod-sincerity. I never knew all these kids thought so highly of the 80s Michael Bolton style.
When Leona lewis is allowed to develop and mature as a singer away from the production line, she might be something good.
 
Rasher said:
I think Leona Lewis is a good singer - well, she is CLEARLY a good singer, but the problem with X-Factor products is that they just do love ballads with piano with the singer doing full-on crying with cod-sincerity.
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It's just karaoke in front of a lowest common denominator TV audience. I see no musical value to it at all.

Tony.
 
I was mesmerised by Leona Lewis chunky legs! they where like tree trunks from the knee up.

Pete
 
Mort said:
(Page) always pulled faces while playing, it just seems to have got more exaggerated as he (or is it me) has got older...
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I spotted a picture of Gary Moore on the front of a guitar mag - he looks like he's taking a crap!
 
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Nickelback needs purging. Truely awful rock music on many levels.

Is Leona Lewis all we have to look forward to? She is just a utility singer, very good for disposable pop/urban music, but if she was good on an artistic level she would have shown some glimpses of it by now, instead she carries on being the british Mariah Carey/Whitney Houston package, clearly she's got no problem with this as with everyone on X-factor, they are there to be famous and make a living from it - nothing else.

The so-called artists like Amy Whine-house and some of the other recent names just appeals to the sub-30 pseudo-intellect, South-African peace crisp munching, "fair trade" coffee sipping, Mac-Book inter-web-blogging guerillas. Commercialised pap with a patronising "This is Alternative music" pitch to it - the big record labels are making plenty of album and download sales.

There hasnt been any outstanding british female artists since Kate Bush.

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prowla said:
I may have an update in a couple of months, as I'm taking three teenage schoolkids to see Slipknot...
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:eek: Whoa! I take it you know what you are in for then?
It's the shitting & vomiting on stage and extreme stuff that would put me off going.
Brave man!
 
sideshow.

you would have a hard time as a youngster in canada, were one of the rights of passage and early intellectual awakening involves asking your high-school english teacher if you could write an essay on the lyrics of neil peart instead of a more conventional poem from the textbook.

vuk.
 
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