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32 minutes ago, Fierce Poodle said:

Whatever you think of Queen, I think everyone can agree that Brian May is an absolute bell end.

 

Can we agree on that? Other than Sacha Baron Cohen's comment that one unnamed surviving member of the band wanted the Bohemian Rhapsody film to devote a lot of time to their career after Freddie died (which might not have been him!), I'm not really sure what's so objectionable about him.

 

Politically, I think most of us on this forum agree with his stances against fox hunting, badger culling, and Brexit, right?

 

Him coming back and finishing his PhD after 30+ years away, and finding that the research he did towards it in the early '70s hadn't been rendered obsolete in the meantime, makes a pretty impressive story.

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On 28/12/2022 at 08:34, JamesC said:

You're So Vain by Carly Simon. 

 

I'm sure this one didn't used to get played so much, but for the last 10 years or so it's been totally abused. 

 

When she sings "You had me several years ago" I think "time to get over it then. Jesus Christ." 

 

Bloody hell - I'm watching the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame party, and read this exactly as they started playing it after inducting her. What a coincidence!

 

Not her singing - she's apparently not able to make it. Judas Priest did - lovely blokes.

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On 29/12/2022 at 10:34, Art Vandelay said:


old white man

 

Really

 

On 29/12/2022 at 10:54, Fierce Poodle said:

Whatever you think of Queen, I think everyone can agree that Brian May is an absolute bell end.

 

Absolute bellend. But amazing guitarist, better than Jimmy Page - I said it.

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On 29/12/2022 at 10:54, Fierce Poodle said:

Whatever you think of Queen, I think everyone can agree that Brian May is an absolute bell end.


When I was a lad I worked in Toys R Us in Woking, and he phoned ahead as we were shutting on a Saturday evening and asked us to keep the store open for an extra hour, which we would get paid for (a whole £1.31 for me). He brought his kids in and spent a fortune on them - board games, action figures, a Megadrive and a SNES plus games, outdoor playground type stuff. We were all thinking “Wow, how amazing to have a dad who drops that much money on his kids for no reason.”

 

The following Monday was the day the tabloids ran the story that he was leaving his wife for Anita Dobson.

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38 minutes ago, Hanzo the Razor said:

 

I don't get this attitude toward May. Any time I've seen or read an interview with him he seems like a lovely bloke.


He seemed nice enough on his circuit through the store and he did thank us all for staying late (me especially as I had the keys to the electronics booth where all the consoles and games were kept). But I think he’s made a few missteps recently while being interviewed about various issues like trans rights, gender identity, and the amalgamation of the Brits from separate Male/Female awards to a single ‘Artist’ award; but really it’s mostly just ‘old bloke can’t get his head around current issues’, rather than him being a rabid nutjob like Ted Nugent.

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1 hour ago, Jammy said:

But I think he’s made a few missteps recently while being interviewed about various issues like trans rights, gender identity, and the amalgamation of the Brits from separate Male/Female awards to a single ‘Artist’ award; but really it’s mostly just ‘old bloke can’t get his head around current issues’, rather than him being a rabid nutjob like Ted Nugent.

 

You must be reading different interviews than me.

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8 minutes ago, Hanzo the Razor said:

 

Press hacks bending a celebrities words for a quick buck. Never been heard of.


Well indeed, but as you know there are plenty of people who will take newspaper articles at face value, and that’s when he got a lot of flack, before he issued his statement about his words being subtly twisted. Did you read the actual quote ? It’s a bit “These days…” and he probably just articulated what he meant poorly.

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Nickelback's Rockstar.

 

I'm glad that Lily Allen's music doesn't seem to have survived into posterity.

 

I don't understand why anyone has any affection for Angels. It's the least obnoxious Robbie Williams song but that's a low bar. It's only useful for a guilt-free piss break on karaoke nights, where people you've not previously suspected to be serial killers always, always choose it.

 

Bit of an obscure one but I shared an office for years with someone who would play shite hipstery tiktok indie albums to death (and to be fair a few good ones, the bad vastly outweighed the good though). They'd endlessly play a Stella Donnelly album that unlistenably annoying, droning sing-songy bollocks. Aga doo doo DOO, push pineAPPLE shake the TREE... argh.

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Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley was on release in 1987 just another SAW production, although it was to mark a new more bland era for them. It was number one, natch, but easily avoided, and pretty harmless. Whilst the song did remain in people's memories it wasn't granted 'classic pop' status really, it faded away as any pop ephemera should. All was fine. 

 

Then some bellend created the Rickroll. Probably funny the first time someone saw it, but it soon became intolerable. Worse though the song seemed to take on this ironic classic mantle, all of a sudden it was the epitome of "old pop", most likely lofted to this position by people who weren't born when it came out in 1987. 

 

So now the people who had hoped it had gone from the cultural consciousness forever have to put up with this insufferable record. Enough!

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6 hours ago, Vimster said:

Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley was on release in 1987 just another SAW production, although it was to mark a new more bland era for them. It was number one, natch, but easily avoided, and pretty harmless. Whilst the song did remain in people's memories it wasn't granted 'classic pop' status really, it faded away as any pop ephemera should. All was fine. 

 

Then some bellend created the Rickroll. Probably funny the first time someone saw it, but it soon became intolerable. Worse though the song seemed to take on this ironic classic mantle, all of a sudden it was the epitome of "old pop", most likely lofted to this position by people who weren't born when it came out in 1987. 

 

So now the people who had hoped it had gone from the cultural consciousness forever have to put up with this insufferable record. Enough!

Absolutely agree. I saw an article the other day about how Stock, Aitken and Waterman's influence wasn't just isolated to their glory days but has also had long term impact on the music industry. It's quite an interesting read:

 

https://boulderbugle.com/saw-how-the-80s-icons-change-rbddkcda

 

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6 minutes ago, Vimster said:

I clicked on it, just for you.

Somebody was going to post it so thank you.

 

It hadn't really faded away before being brought back to life by rickrolling. OK, memes shot it into the atmosphere but it was always up there in terms of 80s pop that got played often. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is up to you, but it really is one of those stereotypical tracks that defined that cheesy pop era.

 

SAW were responsible for some right old shite. Most of their catalogue is just bloody awful (Sonia?) but Never Gonna Give You Up is a great pop song.

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Yeah I'm not having it, Never Gonna Give You Up is a good song and Astley had a decent set of pipes on him. SAW were a boil on the arse of music though. Literally the only other thing they did that was any good was Roadblock, and even then it's annoying as it was a smart arse plan to trick the music press into giving them a good review. Yep, you are the best. Well done.

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Art Vandelay said:

Literally the only other thing they did that was any good was Roadblock

 

Mel and Kim, Dead or Alive, and Bananarama say "hello".

 

When people think of SAW, they think of the 1988 onwards identikit production line.  If anyone wants to diss "Respectable", "You Spin Me Round" or "Venus" then I'll see you outside in Mr Smiths car park. Michaela Strachan can referee.

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