Indisputable Facts of Music

[ringo]

Who feels it knows it.

 

[lunatrick]

led zep are the best rock and roll band ever.........fact.

without the gay scene dance music would bever have happened ....fact.

 

[Dubversion]

i'm struggling to find more than one or two actual facts on this thread

 

[ohmyliver]

with music revivals, reviving music from 10 years ago = not good, 20+ years ago = good

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Dire Straites produce musical temazipam

 

[maximilian ping]

i'm struggling to find more than one or two actual facts on this thread

i agree. it's incredibly fact-free for a fact-based thread. maybe a Indesputable Myths of Music thread would unearth more 'facts'

 

[rekil]

Rubbish groups always excuse their lame sounding records by saying 'we're a live band basically' in interviews.

 

[Dubversion]

Dire Straites produce musical temazipam

wrong again. Taking temazipam is pretty pleasurable

 

[ohmyliver]

'wrong again', eh, what?

well the 'pam just sent me to sleep when I tried it, so I was just going by personal experience...

 

[Brockway]

i'm struggling to find more than one or two actual facts on this thread

Here's one for you: Amy Whinehouse is shite but a decent karaoke singer.

 

[Dubversion]

not playing, brockway..

 

[Brockway]

awwwww...

 

[Cloo]

All bands that claim to be influenced by Pavement or Black Flag or anyone quite lo-fi or hardcore etc will actually just sound like Pearl Jam.

Gangsta rap artists will balance up all their chart hits about guns, hos, hating everyone else and conspicuous consumption with one album track about how guns are bad/we should all love one another/you don’t need to by things, really.

the Black Eyed Peas’ single ‘Where is the Love?’ was bought by lots of youths who’d sagely nod along and say ‘Yeah, we need more love in the world, innit?’ before going out on the razz and looking for a fight.

 

[Iam]

Musical "facts" are usually disputable.

 

[Flashman]

Here's one for you: Amy Whinehouse is shite but a decent karaoke singer.

What like Shirley Bassey? Dionne Warwick? Dusty Springfield?

Actually Winehouse writes her own songs and manages to incorporate words and phrases like fuck, Tanqueray, kept his dick wet, lickle carpet burn etc.

Fucks sake Brokers', stick to having a go at the England football team every two years when Wales have failed to qualify for summat.

 

[Brockway]

What like Shirley Bassey? Dionne Warwick? Dusty Springfield?

Actually Winehouse writes her own songs and manages to incorporate words and phrases like fuck, Tanqueray, kept his dick wet, lickle carpet burn etc.

Fucks sake Brokers', stick to having a go at the England football team every two years when Wales have failed to qualify for summat.

It was a light-hearted dig, taken in the right spirit by whasisface. You don't have to get all patriotic just because i wiped the floor with you on a football thread several months ago. Or something. Honestly some people really do bear grudges on these boards....

Oh, and good luck to Ingurland - I'd be bereft without my 2-year piss take of your "golden generation".

And keeping to the thread: Live and Dangerous by Thin Lizzy is the best live album ever. Oft said by people who've never heard any Jacques Brel live material.

 

[Idaho]

wrong again. Taking temazipam is pretty pleasurable

..hang on..

I like a couple of Dire Straits songs.

 

[story]

Roddy Frame was the best guitarist of the 80s, despite Marr, Squire and May's wanks.



(probably bollocks but I have a head cold and a chesty cough)

That is bollocks, I think you'll find, when you've recovered from your head cold and chesty cough

 

[story]

The prettier the girl the more likely she is to make it big in the music business.

And girls think they like a band cos of the music, but it's really cos of the pretty boys in the band.

 

[Meltingpot]

Tracks introduced excitedly on the radio are always a disappointment.

 

[Hi-ASL]

Hidden tracks on a CD are rarely worth the effort of finding them. Most appear to consist of someone heavily under the influence playing a bassoon badly over a hissy tape recording of traffic noises.

 

[Cheesypoof]

The Madcap Laughs - most original album of all time

 

[longdog]

The Beatles are the most over-rated band ever.

John Lennon was a talentless cunt.

So is his son.

Imagine is the worst dirge ever recorded by several light years.

Mull of Kintyre is second worst.

Paul Weller is a knob who records dismal dad rock.

 

[equationgirl]

I just want to know if these facts are tobyjug facts.

 

[Brockway]

Iggy Pop is the godfather of punk.

 

[Hi-ASL]

And Nick Cave is the godfather of goth. He regards it as one of his greatest achievements.

 

[loud 1]

nazi punk singers cannot grasp the art of lyric writing

 

[Flashman]

It was a light-hearted dig, taken in the right spirit by whasisface. You don't have to get all patriotic just because i wiped the floor with you on a football thread several months ago. Or something. Honestly some people really do bear grudges on these boards....

Oh, and good luck to Ingurland - I'd be bereft without my 2-year piss take of your "golden generation".

And keeping to the thread: Live and Dangerous by Thin Lizzy is the best live album ever. Oft said by people who've never heard any Jacques Brel live material.

Ahh sure I was only messin' meself.

Live and Dangerous is brilliant, wasn't it re-recorded though? Or some of it at least.

 

[Julie]

not really, to be honest - there was still a big split between 'white' jazz and black jazz, and in the US 'race music' was still confined to black stations etc. Gigs were still segregated - hence the existence of the chitlin circuit / midnight rambler sets (when whitey went home and the black audience could take over). Course, there were white people listening to black music - but they were fairly rare until the 50s / rock n roll

Furk you know a lot about music!

Indisputable fact: If you don't know the words to Khe Sanh, you're not a true blue Aussie

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Here's where you can list the all-important Indisputable Facts of Music (i.e. simple statements that are universally recognised as being fact whether you like the acts or not).

For example, you may hate ABBA, but you have to concede that they were great pop songwriters.

Here's some more:

James Brown - hardest working showman in the business.
Frank Sinatra - one of the greatest crooners ever
Sex Pistols - massively influential and important band

Over to you....

It's 'hardest working man in showbusiness'

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Geddy Lee: ugliest man in rock and roll.