h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I may be a sad old bat, but:

Robbie Williams appeared twice in the thread on Musicians to lust after; not only does he emphatically NOT do it for me, but he strikes me as a nasty self-centred smug little b*****d.

It was looking into his cod-piece and smirking which was the ultimate "I dont think so" for me.

So what pin ups do you want to tear down?

an aging rock chick with standards called Ben

U2 - sorry if this offends any believers out there - but through the 80's when everyone thought they were Gods, I thought they were a bunch of self-important navel-gazing W*****s. More people seem to agree with me nowadays...

Well there was once this drummer in a band that I used to play in. Seemed to incapable of counting to 4. 3 yes, 5 yes, even 3 1/2 and 4 1/2, but not four.

PP

Wasn't called Ringo, was he?

Well no but by reputation he might have been.

BTW since the common view of Ringo was / is that he is nothing too special as a drummer, how good was Pete Best?

PP

Don't ask me, I wasn't born!

Oh God, how sobering, I was! But only just - and I hadn't heard of the Beatles (whoever they were!)

PP

About to leap into the pit...
Maralyn Manson, So what's so special about someone who gives himself a girls name, wears lots of make up and plays music that'll shock parents. That's not been done before has it
(It's also probably a sign of me getting old!)

How about l0ocking Alice Cooper and MM in a room together, and see which one comes out? Any bets?

Phil Collins! The tightest man in 'rock'! A man so stingy he doesn't even get a round of lemonades in down the pub!

95% of all current chart music. I used to enjoy TOTP a few years back, as at least there was a little variety, and a genuine feeling that there were underground or minority scenes that actually seemed to matter to people, such as baggy, rave, britpop etc - all of which were seized upon and done to death by the mainstream.

'Garage'. Absolute utter s***e of the worst variety. Can't stand it. Ooops, sorry, that's a genre, not a particular musician, but I'm sure you could chuck out whole lot of 'em.

Eric Clapton. Boring.

Sting. Ditto.

I could go on, but I'd risk exhausting my bile...

after my own heart, as per usual

I've said it before and (to a choprus of yawns) I'll say it again: REM are dull.
1st - the lyrics are meaningless. They just sing lists of unrelated nouns then repeat one line over and over and call it a chorus.
2nd - They only have one tune. Take any REM song and spead it up or slow it down a bit and you can make any other REM song.

hear hear hear!!
Let me add the perculiarly American boring old f**t, BOB SEEGER.
In my workplace we generally listen to the "classic rock" radio station UNTIL they play BOB SEEGER, PHIL COLLINS, or anything by ERIC CLAPTON from after 1975. Then someone must run screaming to change the channel.
Life is too short to let creepy old guys with no charm take up your time....
Also, Marilyn Manson bores me to tears with his satanic posturing.
"ooohh scary"

>>>I've said it before and (to a choprus of yawns) I'll say it again: REM are dull.
1st - the lyrics are meaningless. They just sing lists of unrelated nouns then repeat one line over and over and call it a chorus.
2nd - They only have one tune. Take any REM song and spead it up or slow it down a bit and you can make any other REM song.<<<

How can you even say that??? R.E.M. is the great group ever, they RULE...

The lyrics may seem meaningless to you, but maybe your brain just can´t grasp the higher meaning of what Michael "God himself" Stipe is trying to tell you. Tell, me... do you even listen to their songs or just the commercial ones that are played on the radio. Do you really want me to start qouting lyrics and pointing out the deeper meaning of them... Cause I can do that if you keep insisting that there isen´t any...

And oh please... I´d like to see you take "It´s the end of the world as we know it..." and slow that down so it´s the same as "At my most Beautiful."
In fact everything you said was completely untrue and without merrit. If you don´t like R.E.M., fine, I can´t change that. But why not just say that and leave it at that, instead of spitting out a s**t load of lies about them...

Dax
*the ultimate and very R.E.M. fan...*

>>>Robbie Williams appeared twice in the thread on Musicians to lust after; not only does he emphatically NOT do it for me, but he strikes me as a nasty self-centred smug little b*****d.<<<

You go girl, couldn´t have said it better myself, I agree completly. He may be a good singer, but I don´t care for him as a person...

I keep having this dream...

It involves Jennifer "Look, I'm Acting, No, Really, I Am" Lopez and Mariah "Sings With Dolphins" Carie wearing massivley heavy lead boots trying to run away in a drained swimming pool whilst I have at their heads with an impressivley large polo mallet.

I hope to make this dream a reality. For all our sakes.

I am glad someone else dislikes U2 (now we can be lynched together). Phil Collins bores me senseless and seems to have a permanently smug look on his face.

However, if we are on the subject of groups who use the same tune for every song, I feel the need to mention Status Quo - even ardent fans must admit they do somewhat lack variation.

Manic Street Preachers anybody? (ducks back behind parapet)

Absolutely. Irritating beggars who try and flog their passé angsty-angry 'Student Grant' cack about the bleedin' Spanish Civil War, fer Chrissakes! And the did a gig for Castro in Cuba as they're just *so* right-on and uber-socialist. Bah. Rick from the Young Ones was a better political agitator.

Anyone for throwing so-called 'nu-metal' off a cliff? Limp Bizkit suck, I'm afraid to say. Fred Durst's increasingly annoying 'squeaky/growly' thing is simply awful. Let's face it, fellas; better bands than you were doing better stuff that you've ripped off and are forcing down our throats years ago.