Post subject: Re: Bands/Artists that you hate with a passion!
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 8:04 am
King Street Cat
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Fax Machine wrote:THE SMITHS! Hate them with a passion. They make Leornard Cohen sound happy-clappy.
Ah, The Smiths. You either get them or you don't, and if you don't get them the first time you hear them you never will. Personally, I love their happy miserabilism, it's disco music for masochists.
"Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him."
Post subject: Re: Bands/Artists that you hate with a passion!
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:18 pm
bren2k
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Joined: Mar 24 2010 Posts: 15521 Location: Ossett
King Street Cat wrote:Ah, The Smiths. You either get them or you don't, and if you don't get them the first time you hear them you never will. Personally, I love their happy miserabilism, it's disco music for masochists.
I feel the same way; much like Radiohead, it's easy to label them as miserable - but if you actually listen to Morrisey's lyrics, his arch, kitchen sink writing style contains a fair amount of humour - albeit delivered with an arrogant sneer, which understandably pisses a lot of people off. For me, the greatest lyricist of his generation, if only for this line:
"If a double-decker bus crashes into us / To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die / And if a 10-ton truck kills the both of us / To die by your side, the pleasure, the privilege is mine.”
Post subject: Re: Bands/Artists that you hate with a passion!
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:37 pm
RfE
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Joined: Feb 05 2018 Posts: 1029
The Pet Shop Boys. Morrissey- lite lyrics droned over a sub Giorgio Moroder electo track. Same old schtick over and over again since the mid 80s.
Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number-- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you-- Ye are many -- they are few.'
King Street Cat wrote:Two albums of formulaic, bleeding heart nonsense and a poorly executed Bond theme sounding like Shirley Bassey doing drunken karaoke. It doesn't matter how average 25 will be, the media will tell us all that it's the work of a legendary musical genius.
Post subject: Re: Bands/Artists that you hate with a passion!
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:10 pm
RfE
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Joined: Feb 05 2018 Posts: 1029
bren2k wrote:I feel the same way; much like Radiohead, it's easy to label them as miserable - but if you actually listen to Morrisey's lyrics, his arch, kitchen sink writing style contains a fair amount of humour - albeit delivered with an arrogant sneer, which understandably pisses a lot of people off. For me, the greatest lyricist of his generation, if only for this line:
"If a double-decker bus crashes into us / To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die / And if a 10-ton truck kills the both of us / To die by your side, the pleasure, the privilege is mine.”
I used to love The Smiths, despite taking flak from workmates etc for doing so - but find it very difficult to listen to them or any of Morrissey's solo stuff , not since he came out for Britain First. I always thought he was on my side, and the side of the 'outsider' for want of a better word. Turns out he's a fascist sympathiser. Feels like a betrayal, and personal to boot. He's dead to me now.
Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number-- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you-- Ye are many -- they are few.'
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