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Apple Wumble wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:46 pm Ed Sheeran will be looked back on and cringed like we do with some of the cheesy poo poo from the 80s.

He's terrible.
Though I think most recognise that already.

Admin wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:12 pm
Blur. One or two tracks aside, really couldn't grasp what anyone got from them. Country House particularly is an utter abomination that deserves to be never heard again.

One of the biggest steaming piles of poo ever (Country House). Again one or two tracks aside, their music has not aged well.

O my gawd wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:05 am

Apple Wumble wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 9:56 pm

Admin wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:44 pm

How long would you like your ban to be?

Five years

COYOs proving his music knowledge is about as in depth as his football knowledge
Can't we round it up to 10?

Tbf i think you missed the joke

The Who. Not the health bods.

There are many ok to decent bands/ singers, who get a good album or two out and a number of likeable songs, but can be a bit of a struggle to listen to the bulk of their work.

Never really got the following full stop:
Oasis (good call Scuba Diver)
Prince
U2

Scuba Diver wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:13 am

Apple Wumble wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:46 pm Ed Sheeran will be looked back on and cringed like we do with some of the cheesy poo poo from the 80s.

He's terrible.
Though I think most recognise that already.

I think that the 8.8 million people who saw him on his last tour don't.

As i always say to my mates if everyone liked the same sort of music their would be 3 bands on the radio and it would be poo poo.

As i've posted on the other thread RadioHead (Thom Yorke sounds like he's having a tooth pulled when he sings) Pink Floyd (self indulgent bollocks).

On an aside I had a barman in my local who refused to serve me cos of my opinions about Radiohead. His rationale was that they're all technically brilliant musicians mine was they may well be but they can't write songs and TY can't sing apart from that they're brilliant.

Scuba Diver wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:11 am My shout is Oasis. Not 'sh!t', as such, that's not fair, but ludicrously over-rated: they're a pub band.
I find them however utterly, utterly, mundane. The lyrics are appalling nothingness. Vaguely Beatlesy, vaguely hippie-ish, vaguely 60s - there is not a shred of originality to their work.
With the hundreds of bands out there, Why would you listen to Oasis?

Captured the zeitgeist of the 90s well though

U2 for me, just never got what people see in them.

ContrifibulatoryFred wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 4:30 pm Here's a biggie to kick this off with

Mumford & Sons

I have no clue why this terrible act have ever managed to acquire any semblance of kudos. To me their tunes are one step away from listening to fingernails scraping across an old blackboard

Others who have flown high, but to my mind are utter bilge

Maria Carey - (awful caterwauling and a horrible person to boot)
Coldplay (needs no explaining)
Eminem - (very close to impersonating black people, like a modern day minstrel - and just as offensive)

Agree on all of these. The Mumfords got found out very quickly.

Would add The Stereophonics to the list too.

Definitely U2, seen them a few times and thought they were great. Last time at Twickenham I was sober and was surprised that all their songs actually sounded the same.

Muse - modern day Queen wannabes

Dulplay - agree with earlier post, the first album was great but Chris Martin is an annoying little f***, a bit like Bono

Bit of a theme.

Really wanted to like Muse, but eventually I realised they were crap.

Disoriented wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:43 am Really wanted to like Muse, but eventually I realised they were crap.

Origin of Symmetry is a great album. They should have given up after that.

Bowie. Good shout. Turgid nothingness.

Faces
Bros
Wizard

Not sure bros were ever rated?

10 CC

Has to be T-Rex, I defy anybody on here, who can come up with the sensible meaning of the lyrics of anything they ever recorded.

Apple Wumble wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:47 am The Who. Not the health bods.

How long a ban did you want?

Apple Wumble wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:47 am The Who. Not the health bods.

Agree.
It's all subjective, of course: They seem to be regarded as 'cool', but for me , the songs just aren't "good enough" to warrant any further inspection

JimbO wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:24 am

Scuba Diver wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:13 am

Apple Wumble wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:46 pm Ed Sheeran will be looked back on and cringed like we do with some of the cheesy poo poo from the 80s.

He's terrible.
Though I think most recognise that already.

I think that the 8.8 million people who saw him on his last tour don't.

As i always say to my mates if everyone liked the same sort of music their would be 3 bands on the radio and it would be poo poo.

I hear ya, Jim: but, on that rationale (that being many people have sucked it up, so it must be "good"), so I assume you'd also similarly rate on the same basis:

Spice Girls
One Direction
Westlife etc. etc.

Agree wholeheartedly with your second point though...

LeytonstoneRed07 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:48 am

Disoriented wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:43 am Really wanted to like Muse, but eventually I realised they were crap.

Origin of Symmetry is a great album. They should have given up after that.

Sunburn was okay too. Post these; they simply became a parody, and should have long since thrown it in....

Scuba Diver wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 11:25 am

LeytonstoneRed07 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:48 am

Disoriented wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:43 am Really wanted to like Muse, but eventually I realised they were crap.

Origin of Symmetry is a great album. They should have given up after that.

Sunburn was okay too. Post these; they simply became a parody, and should have long since thrown it in....

Sunburn was a single from the first album, called Showbiz. I think the first 3 albums are terrific, but they lost their way spectacularly after that. Shame, because they’re a brilliant live band. Their Glastonbury set in 2004 is still probably the best thing I’ve ever been to.

Re: Bowie. I can accept that people may not rate him, but his Blackstar album was sublime. What a way to go.

Scuba Diver wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 11:24 am

JimbO wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:24 am

Scuba Diver wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:13 am

He's terrible.
Though I think most recognise that already.

I think that the 8.8 million people who saw him on his last tour don't.

As i always say to my mates if everyone liked the same sort of music their would be 3 bands on the radio and it would be poo poo.

I hear ya, Jim: but, on that rationale (that being many people have sucked it up, so it must be "good"), so I assume you'd also similarly rate on the same basis:

Spice Girls
One Direction
Westlife etc. etc.

Agree wholeheartedly with your second point though...

didn't say it was my opinion but several million people obviously think he's ok.

I personally can take or leave him wouldn't pay to see him but if somebody offered me a ticket I'd go.

I saw him at Glastonbury and he was dull. I understand why he is popular and has some decent songs but I just think his music will age incredibly badly. It's cringe-worthy.