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Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Music

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    #32
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    This is the saddest thing you'll read all day. :(
    No, the saddest thing I've read all day was that a guy who was beaten to death by the police in the States a few months ago begged for his life and desperately yelled out for his dad before he was killed. You're just whinging about why some millionaires should be more popular than other millionaires. Who cares.


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    #33
    MungBean
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    RichieC wrote: »
    Rock stars acted like this? my god.. an entire world re-evaluation is on the cards for me :(

    Pretty sure some of them were not thieving paedos though.


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    #34
    earpiece
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    mike65 wrote: »
    You can't actually turn the amps up to 11.

    Lick my love pump.


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    #35
    Littlehorny
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    Are these figures achieved because of itunes? Because in the old days us oul fellas used to have to go out and buy the record. Is the bigger salea figures achieved these days cause its cheaper and easier for the "youth" of today?


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    #36
    phasers
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    Mediocre things with broad commercial appeal make more money than quality niche products?

    alert the media!


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    #37
    Deus Ex Machina
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    Why is this disappointing? I don't want the music I like to be liked by the public, haven't you seen the people out there?


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    #38
    Kidchameleon
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    Let me guess OP, you listen to radio nova and actually think that radio station is good?


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    #39
    starbelgrade
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    Starbelgrade's dissapointing facts about popular music:

    1. Snow Patrol

    2. The Script

    3. The Coronas


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    #40
    robbie_998
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    Kidchameleon wrote: »
    Let me guess OP, you listen to radio nova and actually think that radio station is good?

    repeats after repeats on there !


    2fm and today fm are usually good when their not talking ****e !


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    #41
    Red21
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    These facts aren't disappointing Record/Album sales are no indication of talent and never were, the list of songs that prove this is endless.


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    #42
    K-9
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    Surprised REM never had a No.1. In fairness them and Depeche Mode tended to hit the Album chart No. 1's.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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    #43
    phasers
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Starbelgrade's dissapointing facts about popular music:

    1. Snow Patrol

    2. The Script

    3. The Coronas
    Those aren't facts, they're band names.

    Also The Coronas aren't popular.


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    #44
    starbelgrade
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    phasers wrote: »
    Those aren't facts, they're band names.

    Also The Coronas aren't popular.

    They make me want to pierce my eardrums with a sharp object.


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    #45
    phasers
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    They make me want to pierce my eardrums with a sharp object.
    Now that's a fact.


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    #46
    starbelgrade
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    phasers wrote: »
    Now that's a fact.

    *high five*


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    #47
    Oranage2
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    I wonder in the 60s and 70s were people saying the Beatles were crap and that they were too commercial and that Elvis was much better?


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    #48
    Dotrel
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    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I wonder in the 60s and 70s were people saying the Beatles were crap and that they were too commercial and that Elvis was much better?

    Probably did, but it's much of a muchness. They both still have their fans today.

    I doubt anyone however will still be talking about fatboy or the ginger autotune from X-factor 50 years from now.


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    #49
    Gee Bag
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    MungBean wrote: »
    Led Zeppelin's first album was almost entirely plagiarised. Jimmy Page was a talentless thief who liked to take advantage of kids, Bonham was an alcoholic woman beater and all of em were sexual devients who regularly gang banged groupies, once in a bathtub full of beans and once incorporating a live fish.

    All scummers with the exception of John Paul Jones who just went home to his wife and avoided the debauchery that went on.

    Led Zeppelin, a great bunch of lads!


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    #50
    phasers
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    Who's fatboy and the ginger autotune? Are they worth downloading?


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    #51
    Capt'n Midnight
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    mike65 wrote: »
    You can't actually turn the amps up to 11.
    http://xkcd.com/670/


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    #52
    Twee.
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    They've obviously left out the part about buying music online for relatively cheap on a song by song basis, and that way more people have devices to actually play the music from.


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    #53
    earpiece
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    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I wonder in the 60s and 70s were people saying the Beatles were crap and that they were too commercial and that Elvis was much better?

    Hey Granny, I didn't know you were on boards?



    Ps- I'll be round for my cream 'torpedo' whisk on Sunday.


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    #54
    Twee.
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    MungBean wrote: »
    Led Zeppelin's first album was almost entirely plagiarised.


    Plagiarised? "You Shook Me" is listed on the sleeve as written by Willie Dixon and JB Lenoir, "I Can't Quit You Baby" is Dixon again. All given their credit. On their second album, credit is given to Howlin' Wolf for "The Lemon Song", which samples his song "Killing Floor". It's not like they hid it! Other songs have a distinctly blues sound and riffs, they're hardly stolen, just typical of the genre.


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    #55
    earpiece
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    http://xkcd.com/670/

    Woooooow, 12 is really pushing it.... i think the Hadron collider has way more validity!


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    #56
    Shiner11
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    Arawn wrote: »
    People who produce accoustic guitars at house parties are universally known as twats.

    And carry a plectrum in their wallets.


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    #57
    Dudess
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    Think the OP is disappointed by the trumping of Justin Bieber/X Factor tripe In popularity over good music.
    I just want to know more about the Zeppelin orgy involving the fish! :eek:


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    #58
    Son Of A Vidic
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    robbie_998 wrote: »
    I don't like R.E.M



    am i alone on this ?

    No you are not alone, the are the most overrated, suicide inducing, totally depressing whine bags. The epitome of misery really.


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    #59
    Gee Bag
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    Dudess wrote: »
    I just want to know more about the Zeppelin orgy involving the fish! :eek:

    If memory serves, it involved a bout of S&M with a young wan getting whipped with an octopus!

    "The top spot in Spin magazine's "100 Sleaziest Moments in Rock History" list still belongs to an incident from a 1969 Zep tour of the United States, when, during a stopover in Seattle, a naked groupie was whipped with a live octopus, although years later, bass-player John Paul Jones, a former chorister known as "the quiet one", cast some doubt on the story, saying: "I'm not sure it's true. As far as I can remember it was a dead shark."


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    #60
    pragmatic1
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    MungBean wrote: »
    Led Zeppelin's first album was almost entirely plagiarised. Jimmy Page was a talentless thief who liked to take advantage of kids, Bonham was an alcoholic woman beater and all of em were sexual devients who regularly gang banged groupies, once in a bathtub full of beans and once incorporating a live fish.

    All scummers with the exception of John Paul Jones who just went home to his wife and avoided the debauchery that went on.
    The most overrated band of all time.


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    #61
    Snowie
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    They make me want to pierce my eardrums with a sharp object.

    thast a nice way of saying there fookin shot and they all deserve to be drowned in there own urine


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