Old cunts like me grew up with great music – the Who, Kinks, Beatles and dozens more. There was plenty of crap but you could ignore it. Through the seventies there was great stuff, progressive shite aside. Up until about the time of fucking Kylie etc, leading to the even worse Spice Slags and Fuck That. Dire.
It couldn’t get any worse could it? Oh yes it could.
The rapping, warbling, autotuned manufactured garbage that passes for pop nowadays is now ‘sampling’ music. 1 in 4 releases apparently. Fuck me, the only rap track I remember samples the guitar riff from ‘Every Breath by the Police. And that’s all I remember of it.
Modern pop. Bland, stolen, Cowelised shite.
It’s a fucking disgrace.
Nominated by Cuntstable Cuntbubble.
Its just untalented noise these days perpetrated by fuckwitts like Lilly the mong, garbage ear fucking noise thats only good for scaring cats and old people into staying away from the radio.
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Oh dear CC.
How could you NOT appreciate this?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zGxwMnc-BbM
Morning all.
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Fucking Hell Ron, how did you find that shit in the first place?
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The cunt’s everywhere on ytube, your grace.
I’ve nom’d the shithouse again, which, with the blessing of Admin, will appear at some point.
I want to get the twat on The Wall asap.
It’s been scheduled, Ron. Be about another week or so. Stay tuned – NA.
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Fuck me Ron, you should be banned from this site for that and for even knowing where to find it.
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Ron, can I send you my regurgitated sandwich?
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I appreciate that it’s a double whammy So Long; not only does he look like a complete fucking wally, he also sings as though he’s got an acute testicular torsion.
What a cunt.
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Jesus H Christ, wtf is that sack of shit….?
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There’s a fir tree somewhere missing its fairy.
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Thank fuck I’m too old to be subjected to such awful things.
Give me Motorhead or give me death!
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Morning Ron.
Sam Smith sends my nonce detector into meltdown. What a talentless sack of gay shit.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/N-2Qx5zwj7o?si=S9QCgPmladb9XZWm
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You’ve got to admit it tho, the cunt’s really ripped;
https://metro.co.uk/2022/12/26/sam-smith-lives-their-best-life-in-bikini-bottoms-on-christmas-day-17996646/
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lol, what a beauty, I almost came
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Sirs:
Yes, today’s music sucks.
I will go further. It sucks ass.
I was at our high school yesterday. While I waited for my event to start, a couple of perfectly ordinary kids came out of the building and started loading their sports stuff into a car. The music they played sounded like a robot jabbering with a trip hammer pounding away in the background.
The “lyrics” were something along the lines of “ook ook, eek eek, muthafucka ook ook.”
A steady diet of that would turn anybody’s brain into yogurt. Maybe that’s the plan.
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Let’s break out the real stuff.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx86CxKYtg0&pp=ygUTdW5jaGFpbmVkIHZhbiBoYWxlbg%3D%3D
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Any middle-aged (or older) man who listens to modern pop ‘music’ is clearly a man who likes to frequent Brighton toilets and likes a Marc Almond milkshake.
Proper pop music ended in the early nineties.
But with modern digital radio, there’s an undending stream of 70’s, 80’s and 90’s pop music channels for a fellow’s delectation.
Real men, of course, listen to Motörhead, Pantera, Dio, Maiden, WASP, Machine Head, etc.
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And Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey.
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Don’t forget Vince Hill, Tony Christie, Engelberk Humpercunt, Des O’Connor and Ken Dodd.
Our Shirl tho; definitely would’ve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNWa1H4wTMo
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‘a Marc Almond milkshake’.
Classic, Mr Cunt; I’m stealing that!
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If you like those Thomas, I will make a recommendation of a more modern nature.
Have a listen to Tool.
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Yes indeed, DOC…I quite like Tool if I’m in a progressive sort of mood. To which end, may I counter-recommend Haken, Opeth and David Maxim Micic?
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Thanks for the heads up on David Maxim Micic Thomas.
The others I’m familiar with.
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Have you tried Igorrr, DOC?
A bit extreme for most tastes, but the out-and-out creativity of his weird metal/classical/baroque what-the-actual-fuck? music is undeniable.
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Happy travels?
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It`s quite modern but IMHO opinion, very good. Try “evil Blizzard” on the youtube. Many bassists and a singing drummer – all from oop north. I saw em in the 101 club once. Fuckin mental.
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Luckily there’s still loads of music from years ago that can still be described as music instead of an assault on your eardrums.
I just bought a couple of Caravan CDs.
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I was with the nom until the Beatles were included with The Kinks and The Who.
The Beatles’ early stuff was shit.
Give me the Beach boys any day.
AAndersson and Ulvaeus wrote better pop songs than Lennon and McCartney.
The Beatles were better off going it alone.
As for Prog being shite, Some was but it doesnt reflect well when you disregard the whole movement.
Hip Hop used to be relevant but its watered down commercial crap nowadays.
Modern pop music has been shit since the late noughties, which is about when I stopped listening to it with any regularity.
Funny coincidence that.
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After Beach boys i coukd’ve mentioned ABBA. I didn’t think Andersson and Ulvaeus were in the Beach Boys.
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Out of Liverpudlian pop acts, the early Beatles rank below Sonia for compositional and lyrical talent.
Fucking mop topped wobble-headed cunts.
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Russell Brand went down on Sonia in the late 80’s. He got rather overenthusiastic and ripped out all her pubes with his teeth, before selling them to a prematurely bald Mick Hucknall, who promptly glued them to his head prior to the recording of ‘Money’s Too Tight To Mention’.
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I consider the now-defunct ‘1000 People More Annoying Than Mick Hucknall’ site a natural predecessor to IsAC.
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Prime (till all are one) what abaaaaht Cast?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtP_-knmRqc
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They had to start somewhere i guess ? from ‘A taste of honey’ to ‘Don’t let me down’ is quiet a creative trajectory.?
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Some Indie is fine just to pacife, otherwise its classical music all the way.
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The trouble with any Indie music is so litte if the supposed indie vands you’ve heard off are Independent.
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There’s only one way to cure the problem of modern music……….carpet bomb Glastonbury! It also has the added bonus of wiping out thousands of useless wokie wankers.
Cue Dambusters theme tune.
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Or Ride of the Valkyries from Apocalypse Now
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or Drowning Pool’s Bodies.
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The very worst thing about going to the gym is that this shit is played all of the time. Loudly too! Drives me mad. Informed by my kids, I’ve tried various types of personal music kit but it’s no fun training with ear buds in or headphones on. What’s worse is old fuckers, who I know to be no younger than I, pretending that they like it in the mistaken belief that it somehow makes them more attractive to the opposite sex. I laugh at them, all of the time inwardly saying, ‘Pathetic wankers’ to myself. If I’m ever out with my wife and I see one of them I point him/her out and tell her what a tosser he/she is. The women are just as bad as the men. I’m a lecherous old bastard but I’ve never had an improper thought about even one of those delusional harpies. I wouldn’t touch one, not even with Russell Brand’s.
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Its also embarrassing watching old people dancing to young people’s shite, just as much as the young themselves.
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Have you seen Justin Welby twerking?
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This is why I usually have Disturbed albums blasting out in my own headphones to drown out that crap or Ronnie James Dio singing
“Just hold on!
You can make it happen for you
Reach for the stars and you will fly
You’re hungry for heaven
Hungry for heaven
Hungry for heaven
But you need a little help”
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You need something, mate, otherwise you’d end up going off your rocker and re-enacting a US high school massacre on all of the selfie-addicted gym morons. They wouldn’t even be able to identify the corpses from dental records because they’re all the same, ceramic and made in a Chinese factory before installation in Turkey. The poor medics would have a hell of a job wading through the lip filler.
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The Kinks received a worthy mention in the nom.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EMXNxfkQz2k
This is brilliant and the video is as well.
👌
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Written in 1984 interestingly enough.
“All the wars that were won or lost –
somehow don’t seem to matter very much any more”
Ain’t that the fucking truth as our history is currently being rewritten.
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I enjoyed that, never heard that track before…👍
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I’m a leading expert on music,
And like both kinds
Rock AND punk.
Nowadays there’s no characters,
No Lemmy types
No Keith moons cheerfully blowing up hotel toilets
No eccentrics like Viv Stanshall.
And noone making people cry like J.Rotten.
It’s all turned to shite,maaaaaan..
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Modern music or pop music is absolutely fucking shit.
I had to pack in a fairly decent job opportunity a few years ago because the local commercial radio station was piped out over the tannoy all day every day. There was no debating knocking it off, switching channels or anything – do I fucked off instead to protect my sanity.
There’s still some half decent stuff out there on the periphery but you have to almost actively seek it out.
The odds of another Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan or even a Radiohead equivalent appearing again however- are a very very long distance shot.
I know Radiohead are probably marmite to some but they’re still a brilliant band.
Seems that creativity is dead.
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These lads aren’t bad.
https://youtu.be/x7mOxdEDNn8?si=57z_8Qdr_3Tt_sLW
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You reminded me of “Workers Playtime” in factory’s from my younger days.
Its what started my evil thoughts.
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‘Workers’ Playtime’? Okay, butcouldn’t hold a candle to ‘The Billy Cotton Band Show’ of a Sunday lunchtime.
And let’s not forget the long gone but never forgotten ‘Savile’s Travels’ and ‘Sing Something Simple’.
Quality radio from the Beeb in those days.
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Whenever this shite is mentioned, I always have the desire to ruin people’s lives who don’t respect decent music. I’d have them tied up for days on end, listening to classical music to make their ears bleed. Being there when release would be truly memorable.
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Whenever this shite is mentioned, I always have the desire to ruin people’s lives who don’t respect decent music. I’d have them tied up for days on end, listening to classical music to make their ears bleed. Being there ON release would be truly memorable.
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Having grown up with it I do have a fondness for noughties pop. But then, I grew up with it – the same way many of you grew up with the 70s and 89s stuff. Music definitely has gotten worse recently but at the same time one’s individual preferences are extremely subjective, and usually heavily dependent on nostalgia and other factors.
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Agreed OC. As I said, I stopped listening to pop in around 2007-8. Since then I really havent bothered listening to much of it. All sounds like shit.
I hear it but I don’t listen. I know various names of artists, but couldn’t name what passes for their songs, apart from those that have been played to death over many years.
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Yup. There’s some great stuff in the earlier part of the decade and even the odd great song in the 2010s but overall the industry has been on a downward spiral for a while.
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To be fair I guess our parents and grandparents thought the same thing when us Boomer and Gen Xers were in our teens listening to the likes of the Sex Pistols, The Prodigy, Guns ‘n’ Roses, The Clash etc.
Modern day music is probably no different to the Stock, Aitkin and Waterman era back in the 80s and 90s – shite! But there’s plenty of good indie music out there that is rather excellent.
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There’s a band called Alestorm I quite like. Their music is completely bonkers but it works because they lean into it.
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Good shout,they are great..the pissed up cunts.
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To this day Captain Morgan’s Revenge is still one of the great rock songs of modern times.
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Shipwrecked and Drink are also great depending on my mood.
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Back in the late 70s and 80s I used to regularly tune into Radio 1’s “Friday Night Rock Show” with the late, great Tommy Vance.
He played a shedload of NWoBHM bands from the likes of Motorhead, Saxon, Judas Priest, Krokus, Iron Maiden, The Scorpions and the regulars from the likes of Sabbath, Zeps, Lizzy, Van Halen and Rush.
Compare and contrast to the formulaic shite that Gary Davis, Simon Bates and Steve Wright used to play on the earlier Radio 1 shows between 7am and 5pm.
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Those twats do as their told, to keep the fat license fee funded pay cheques coming in..💩
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Here’s a band you should look up….Hung Like Hanratty, recently banned by Bristol and Cardiff councils for “homophobia.”
Apparently some poofs cried about their signature tune….”Danny is a Tranny.”
😁😁😁😁😁
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I like that.
Danny is a Tranny, FUCK YOU…!
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That’s disgusting, how dare they ban ‘creativity’ (art, culture, music)😂
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I liked the Macc lads. Brilliantly offensive.
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The awesome lyrics from the Sex Pistols and “Friggin’ in the Riggin'”
“It was on the good ship Venus
By Christ, ya should’ve seen us
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast, a mammoth penis
The captain of this lugger
He was a dirty bugger
He wasn’t fit to shovel shit
From one place to another
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
Captain’s name was Morgan
By Christ, he was a gorgon
Ten times a day sweet tunes he’d play
On his fuckin’ organ
The first mate’s name was Cooper
By Christ he was a trooper
He jerked and jerked until he worked
Himself into a stupor
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
Hold on
Give it some bollocks
The second mate was Andy
By Christ, he had a dandy
‘Til they crushed his cock on a jagged rock
From cumming in the brandy
The cabin boy was Flipper
He was a fuckin’ nipper
He stuffed his ass with broken glass
And circumcised the skipper
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
Ahoy Jimmy
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
The Captain’s wife was Mabel
To fuck she was not able
So the dirty shits, they nailed her tits
Across the barroom table
The Captain had a daughter
Who fell in deep sea water
Delighted squeals we knew the eels
Had found ‘er sexual quarters
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do”
They don’t write songs like that anymore. And even if they did they would be instantly offended by something or other.
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It reminded me of.
In the shade of the shade of the shade, in the shade of the shade of the shade. In the shade of the shade of, the shade of the shade of. In the shade of the shade of the shade.
Couldn’t for the life of me, remember what it was called.
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The Breeders with ‘Cannonball’, Sammy.
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To be fair, “Friggin’ In The Riggin”, while credited to the Sex Pistols, was released after the Pistols broke up and didn’t even feature JR on vocals. So it’s not really a Sex Pistols song in the true sense of what constitutes the official Pistols’ back catalogue.
It was a blatant cash in as it appeared on the B side of an Eddie Cochran cover version of “Something Else”. Which was pretty good to be fair. Vocals by Sid Vicious I think.
Yeah, I’m a nerd but I bought this along with their other ‘cash in’ singles “Silly Thing” and “C’mon Everybody” (another Eddie Cochran cover).
I’ll get me coat.
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Puts Noel Coward to shame.
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Two Steps from Hell are another good modern group. A lot of their stuff is classical/orchestral with rock influences.
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Not keen on them. They just churn out music for trailers. All too generic.
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Am just watching a YouTube vid of The Who playing “Eminence Front” at some live concert in Tampa, USA way back in 2007, and OMG Pete Townsend, despite being an old git, can still play a mean axe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07hoKUrMT5A&ab_channel=BigheadedMuseFan
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Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird.
oh yes!
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Oh no!
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Who wants to hear this lot again?
https://youtu.be/HxsNy4NoZUs?si=5WEWBeZpXQuL1tp5
Bet Freddie the Frog does! 😃
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Nahh…!
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The seventies had a lot of old shit, but it made up for it with some decent acts, unlike now.
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Dead right. The 70 were balanced, Cuntamus.
We’d get stuff like Picketywitch, Mungo Jerry, Kenny and shite like that. But we also had Jethro Tull, the Moody Blues, and Faces in the Top 10 next to them.
Now, it’s all crap.
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Plus Alice Cooper, Deep Purple…
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Remembered a gang of us in the sixties repeatedly playing on a jukebox.
“Get Me to the World on Time”. By The Electric Prunes.
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Then the Prunes worked caught religion and worked with production genius, David Axelrod.
The album they did was mental, but it was also bloody great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1QYJmf9WE
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Bands have been killed off, and there is seemingly no way back for them.
The industry and the modern music fan favours solo ‘singers’, no matter how crap they are. Even if a new Smiths, Joy Division, or The Jam appeared, they would never get through the way things are now.
Even in the late 80s, when Stock Aitken Waterman had all but ruined the charts with their Kylie and Jason led shite, bands like the Roses, Mondays, Inspirals, Charlatans made it and there was hope and still good music. Now there is no chance of that happening.
And even the biggest stars of today are shit. The fuss that is made about Taylor Swift is unbelievable. Not a great voice, double tracks her vocals at ‘live’ gigs, and her writing isn’t much cop. Her last big hit ‘Anti-Hero’ sounded like a pop puppet getting ideas above her station and trying to appear clever. Rhyming long sounding words to order, like narcissism and altruism. I bet she has a book full of them. But she is labeled as a genius and the best thing since sliced bread.
That said, at least she isn’t ugly. Once we Brits had pop stars who were good and who also looked the part like Bolan, Bowie and so on. Now, we have plug ugly scruffbag carrott headed tramps like Ed Sheercunt and pasty fat doughboys like Lewis Capaldi. Rock ‘N’ Roll is dead, and popular music has really hit rock bottom.
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I will never get bored of your attacks on the modern music industry Norm. It is indeed a pile of wank.
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Ed Sheercunt. A huge piece of earwax with stick on Mr Potatp Head eyes.
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You do make a great point though, Norm.
The music buying public have always tended to give an artist some slack musically if they were model material. That’s true in most walks to life to be fair. Gorgeous people tend to get away with stuff that the uglies wouldn’t.
Which does beg the question, how the fuck does Sheercunt and Capaldi have careers? It’s not for the quality of their musicianship, voice, song writing or production know-how. And it certainly isn’t because of their good looks. I think it’s down to saturation marketing. It’s what the kids are forced fed, the MSM bigs them up so the kids go along with it in the mistaken belief it’s great. When actually it isn’t. They just don’t know any better.
I also think it’s part and parcel of the instant gratification mentality invented by the Yanks. If something’s got a good tune and a hooky chorus then it must be great, right? Gone are the days when da yoof would seek out great music, give a whole album multiple listens and then decide what works for them. These days it’s too easy to accept the lowest common denominator bland sing-along crap and call it good.
I always say, when it comes to music there are 2 types of people. Those who hear music and those who listen to it.
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Also, now anyone who writes their own material – no matter how shit it is – is seen as some sort of remarkable rarity and a total genius. Be it Swift, Capaldi, Sheercunt or Jessie fucking J.
Knobheads blurt ‘But… But they write their own songs.’ Only thing is, none of them can do it.
Look at Katy Perry. Nearly 40, yet still doing crappy pop fluff aimed at a teenage audience. Absolutely ridiculous.
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Remember the Four Tops. Now there’s four thousand duighy loads coming each week.
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Not to mention the ones that fall overboard.
The Drifters.😏
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