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This is the complete list to prove my point: Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart • Kate Bush Wuthering Heights • Queen We Are The Champions • Robbie Williams Angels • Will Young Leave Right Now What exactly Will Young is doing in there I don't know, what a silly list to choose from. |
'Angels' - Best British Song Of The Last 25 Years... Apparently. • Page 2
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StixxUK wrote:
Nirvana aren't British!
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warlockuk 19,519 posts
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Registered 17 years agoWeird... That song gives me the rage. Years ago when I worked in a warehouse it was on the radio all the time, and to stop my brain eating my ears I invented alternate lyrics in my head to drown out the "voices"...
...but I find it hard not to mention "F**K ROBBIE FU**ING WILLIAMS UP HIS FU**ING C**TING ARSE, THE F***ING COKE-ADDLED CUNTWART"... *cough*. That's very toned down, but y'get the drift
Thankfully, I have little dealings with that sorta pop bollocks. I only just found out who "Keane" are. It's been a fair few years since I dated anyone who listened to anything as shit as that crap (She listened to R Kelly for fuck's sake.). The worst I have to deal with is now HiM or Linkin *fucking* Park.
...I guess what I'm saying is If they want to vote Anals, er, Angels as best song evvah it won't affect the people who hate it most because they won't be around wherever it's likely to be played... -
Decoded 4,426 posts
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Registered 18 years agoDiscoStu wrote:
Decoded is clearly far more miserable than I am, christ he's got Joy Division AND New Order on his list.gif)
Nah not really, though I do have a thing for miserable music. There's more joy in a graveyard than in my record collection.
/considers starting "miserable music appreciation thread"
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Mr Sleep wrote:
This is the complete list to prove my point:
Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart • Kate Bush Wuthering Heights • Queen We Are The Champions • Robbie Williams Angels • Will Young Leave Right Now
What exactly Will Young is doing in there I don't know, what a silly list to choose from.
So if this is the best of the last 25 years, why are two of them more than 25 years old? We Are The Champions is from 1977, Wuthering Heights from 1978. Love Will Tear Us Apart, fantastic tune that it is, is ony just in the running (it was released in early 1980), so that leaves Will Young (shite) and Robbie that are really only from the last 25 years.
I dispair - all of the fantastic music the UK has given in the last 25 years and this is the choice... -
fergal_oc 2,764 posts
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Heh, wasn't there a similar thing for the most influential musicians of all time or something?
Robbie Williams featured quite highly then I think, alongside Motzart and Beethoven - yeah right.
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Wobbler 181 posts
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Registered 20 years agoIt's since the first Brit awards, rather than the 'last 25 years'. But there was a 3 year gap, IIRC before the second Brits, so it's actually the best song since the Silver Jubilee (1977).
I listen to Radio 2, and after hearing the shortlist I was disheartened; Robbie (with maybe a chance of Queen) was always going to be the winner. Joy Division was the best out of that lot, IMHO, but aren't really "Radio 2 Friendly".
Terry Wogan thought that this "Best Brits" was silly too, so that's OK.
/gets pipe and slippers
[Edit: Couldn't add up]
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posh_geordie wrote:
I hadn't really thought about it in that way, very good point. Perhaps it was supposed to be part trick question?
So if this is the best of the last 25 years, why are two of them more than 25 years old? We Are The Champions is from 1977, Wuthering Heights from 1978. Love Will Tear Us Apart, fantastic tune that it is, is ony just in the running (it was released in early 1980), so that leaves Will Young (shite) and Robbie that are really only from the last 25 years. -
Xensor 1,054 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI'm noticing a theme amongst all your musical choices This is my list of candidates:
Orbital - Halcyon
Soul II Soul - Back to life
The Chemical Brothers - Block Rocking Beats
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Goldie - Timeless
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up Look Sharp
FSOL - Papua New Guinea
Radical and no doubt will be scorned by others but i don't care cos this aint a popularity contest -
\m/ Angels RAWKS! \m/
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Frankypanky 932 posts
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Registered 18 years agowarlockuk wrote:
...If they want to vote Anals, er, Angels as best song evvah...
"I'm loving..."
Ah yes. Very well done, Warlock..gif)
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warlockuk 19,519 posts
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Registered 17 years agoFrankypanky wrote:
Strange... He's loving angels... but aren't they supposed to be asexual?
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAh-HAH!
Gottit, the Beeb did a bit of an ANAL-ysis of this particular piece of voting nastiness and conducted their own straw poll out on the streets.
90% of blokes that were asked said "Fucking load of crap, piss off before i cram that mike up your dartford"
90% of women said "Oooh yes, that lovely Robbie...such a cheeky chappy. My, I'd like to do something unspeakable to him whilst riding him like one of those bucking bronco bull things at the fairground whilst whispering obscenities in a reedy voice"
Conclusion : It's da chicks wot did it!
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pjmaybe wrote:
He's quite clearly gay, maybe all these middle age women think they can "turn him back"? One of the ladies here in work said exactly that. I think his whole rebel image really plays well too. Shame that his image is even bigger than his music but then without the image there really isn't anything there.
90% of women said "Oooh yes, that lovely Robbie...such a cheeky chappy. My, I'd like to do something unspeakable to him whilst riding him like one of those bucking bronco bull things at the fairground whilst whispering obscenities in a reedy voice" -
pjmaybe wrote:
Ah-HAH!
Gottit, the Beeb did a bit of an ANAL-ysis of this particular piece of voting nastiness and conducted their own straw poll out on the streets.
90% of blokes that were asked said "Fucking load of crap, piss off before i cram that mike up your dartford"
90% of women said "Oooh yes, that lovely Robbie...such a cheeky chappy. My, I'd like to do something unspeakable to him whilst riding him like one of those bucking bronco bull things at the fairground whilst whispering obscenities in a reedy voice"
Conclusion : It's da chicks wot did it!
Peej
....ANAL-CYST...
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoWhat gets my goat about the fucker is :
1) He's minted.
2) He's shagging the main bird from the "Call on me" vid
3) He's minted.
4) He tubbed Anna Friel back when she was tubbable
And the c*nt's STILL miserable
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RubyRed 4,303 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI can only apologise for that 90% of my gender. I am deeply ashamed and can reassure you that not all of us are that lame, sad and pathetic. -
RubyRed wrote:
/slightly suspicious
I can only apologise for that 90% of my gender. I am deeply ashamed and can reassure you that not all of us are that lame, sad and pathetic. -
mixed 94 posts
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Decoded is clearly far more miserable than I am, christ he's got Joy Division AND New Order on his list
since when have New Order been miserable music?
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erniewhatbert 3,131 posts
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Registered 18 years agoDecoded: very good selection.
I'd possibly try to put 'Every day is like Sunday' by Moz in there too.
Love Will Tear Us Apart would be my #1 -
Badass 110 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI too was extremely pissed off when I heard about this, and can think of entire back catalogues that are better than the aural filth peddled by snobbie williams.
here are just a few:
Anything by Radiohead (street spirit anyone?).
Anything by U.N.K.L.E
Anything by Ian Brown/The Stone Roses
Anything by Oasis (and I didn't really like them at the time)
Anything by Massive Attack (unfinished symphony particularly)
Common People - Pulp
Breakin' the Law - Judas Priest (I just had to get that one in) -
warlockuk 19,519 posts
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Registered 17 years agoBreakin' tha law, Breakin' tha' law!
(Prefer Victim of Changes, though) -
JaysonG 830 posts
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Registered 20 years agoNo So Solid Crew? -
kdsh7 1,273 posts
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Registered 19 years agoif fucking Knobbie Williams can get into the fucking UK Hall of Fame then is it any FUCKING wonder he's won this as well? I mean he beat Oasis/Blur/Pulp/Nirvana/Radiohead to be the UK's official best act of the 90's!!!
For me he'll always be that fucking fat prat who danced in front of Liam Gallagher's house in a fucking tiger costume, when he knew Oasis were touring Japan.
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pistol 13,018 posts
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Registered 19 years agospeedjack wrote:
Suprised no one has started a thread about this yet.
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW :-
1. The man is a talentless oaf.
2.Angels is a song so poor that Celine Dion would probably turn it down for being 'a bit too slushy and over sentimental'.
3. The Brits are voted for by woefully out of touch record execs who had to give Williams some kind of award in the hope of giving him some extra publicity to justify the £80,000,000 advance they paid him (approx $150M) - yet the jackass has still to break America.
4. The one good thing about the Brits this year is they started rewarding interesting acts who actually play their own instruments and write their own music (The Streets, Franz Ferdinand, The Scissor Sisters)...
5. ...Apart from Robbie Williams whose song angels was actually written for him by Guy Chambers...whom he no longer speaks to.
6. 90% of Mr Williams fans are '30 something' women who beleive that being 'a bit cheeky'+'a bit sexy'+'being able to dance...sort of'= major musical talent.
7. Guess what ? They're wrong.
8. Williams is now so desperate to break the US that he's started appearing in movie cameos. Seen any of them ? Thought not.
That is all.
I agree to a certain extent but I have to say he did put on an amazing 3 day performace at Nebworth last year. I went under sufferance really but one of the girls we went with is a huge fan and the day was really for her, but I enjoyed it alot. He's a twat but a good showman. What annoyed me was the fact he had Kelly (no fuckin talent) Osbourne as a support act. Moby was also there and they were excellent but Kelly was really really bad. At one point she was getting booed. -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoecosse_011172 wrote:
Nothing from The Blue Nile...
Crikey, now there was a band. You've just reminded me to go digging for vynil this weekend in the loft now!
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