Can you grade them on a curve please?
Where Westlife are shit.
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Do I have to? Can't you make Chappers do it?
Quote: Aaron @ July 14 2008, 12:41 AM BSTDo I have to? Can't you make Chappers do it?
you started it all.
Quote: zooo @ July 14 2008, 12:38 AM BSTCan you grade them on a curve please?
Where Westlife are shit.
Well Westlife ARE shit as well as Take Twat. I mean - boy bands. What is the point - except for girlies to look at and wet themselves over.
You judging all 'boy bands' the same without listening to them is even more ignorant than someone saying the Beatles are shit.
I'd say Take That are closer to the Beatles in this lovely curve I've got going than Oasis are.
And I've actually listened to all the bands involved. 
Quote: zooo @ July 14 2008, 12:44 AM BSTYou judging all 'boy bands' the same without listening to them is even more ignorant than someone saying the Beatles are shit.
Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
The DNA version.
And no, that's not Douglas Noel Adams. 
Quote: David Chapman @ July 14 2008, 12:33 AM BSTI can't see the comparison with James Brown though. He may have influenced and triggered a lot of things in black music but not to the extent that the Beatles were internationally renowned.
I wasn't comparing the popularity of J.B. to that of the Beatles - I'm talking about music, output, talent, influence, showmanship, and longevity. I don't know how many people on here are really familiar with his music, but it was really phenomenal. Most people I meet only really know 'I feel good', and 'Sex Machine, but there's so much more to him than those two songs. He actually claimed to have written 5,500 songs, he Produced all his own music, as well as that of many other artists, and he even ran his own label. As for his hair, yes, it was often disturbing.
Check out this short, funny clip, of J.B., looking rather like a black Mario Brother, busting some of his favourite dance moves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdz88MBWomo
By the way, a lot of people say Brown was actually 5 years older than he claimed to be, throughout most of his career. If that was true, it's amazing to think that he was still touring the world, and still dancing, just before he died, and he was almost 80.
Oh, is he dead?
I found out today that Charles Manson is still alive!
Who knew!
(everyone except me I expect.)
I am listening to Orbital, 'Chime'.
Quote: zooo @ July 14 2008, 1:26 AM BSTOh, is he dead?
I found out today that Charles Manson is still alive!Who knew!
(everyone except me I expect.)
James Brown died last year, IIRC.
Manson was a proper mentalist.
There was an urban myth that Manson auditioned for the Monkees. He did actually come close to signing a record deal, with a Producer, called Terry Melcher, who was famous for working with the Byrds. Apparently he recorded Manson singing, in a studio, and liked what he heard. He soon changed his mind, though, when he saw Manson, who had been in and out of Correctional Faciities since he was 9, lose his temper, with a female friend/relative, and decided he was nuts. This must've really upset Manson, as the massacre that he and his followers are famous for, happened at the former home of Melcher. Although Manson apparently knew he'd recently moved out, he did claim to have ordered the killing of the new residents, as a way of scaring Melcher. Manson is not known to have ever killed anyone himself. He just gave out orders to kill.
Didn't he hang around with the Beach Boys a lot? I seem to recall seeing that on a documentary or something...
I don't think so. I've just been reading about him, and didn't see anything about the Beach Boys.
Hm. Maybe it was someone else. Ah well. Aaaanyhoo.