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Joe Dolce

 

No contest

 

 

Amongst his other crimes this song kept (at the time) Ultravox's classic Vienna off the number one spot

 

If we're counting novelty songs, I'll see your Joe Dolce and raise you a Mr Blobby.

 

Crazy Diamond

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

 

Doing covers is fine, but making a career out other's people music is not. Neither is covering 'Going Underground' when you're playing in Woking, hometown of Paul Weller.

 

Bunch of ****s.

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Joe Dolce

 

No contest

 

 

Amongst his other crimes this song kept (at the time) Ultravox's classic Vienna off the number one spot

 

I love Joe Dolce for this alone. I hate the song 'Vienna'

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The Beatles.

 

I used to like you, wash your mouth out.

 

Hope alls well mate, can you tell mrs l.s that Monday is my last day, I'll be in touch.

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Scissor Sisters.

What they did to Comfortably Numb warrants the return of public execution

 

A very good shout, that.

 

And to answer the question: the work of The Lighthouse Family has always had a way of boiling my **** in record time!

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To go with the 'Best Band' thread.

 

For me worst band ever - PULP!

 

 

You've clearly never heard this then:

 

 

In spite of this crime against music, he's still a bit of a hero of mine.

 

 

Here you go, you can both be happy now -

 

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Jillyanne

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You are so predictable!!! I knew damn well you would pipe up and say that!!!

 

No you didn't, you clearly don't have your own opinions and type what Ess says, SAD!

Crazy Diamond

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If we are talking of overrated then for me The Who are right up there.

 

Blasphemy. Plain blasphemy.

 

Scissor Sisters.

What they did to Comfortably Numb warrants the return of public execution

 

Yes, and yet David Gilmour said he liked it. Then went back on his word to tour with them.

 

Covering Pink Floyd is up there with treason.

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If we are talking of overrated then for me The Who are right up there.

 

Soloists? Diana Ross, cannot stand the woman's voice.

 

Man, you are way off today!

 

The Who was one of the greatest singles bands ever.

 

Get the album Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy. It was their first compilation of all the classic 60s singles. Brilliant!

 

And Who's Next - a superb album.

 

You're just being silly - or you've never really listened to them!

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No but these threads are based on opinion!

 

Ok I know they are, but I can still disbelieve as people are full of **** on here as well.

 

I take on board your opinion and say that you are in the minority that think they are the worse band EVER!

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REM are f**king sh*t.

 

Spitting Image had it right when they did a spoof of "Shiny Happy People" called "Whiny Cr*ppy Music"

 

All about opinion as someone else said..... But again I whole heartedly disagree, one of the greats.

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REM are f**king sh*t.

 

Spitting Image had it right when they did a spoof of "Shiny Happy People" called "Whiny Cr*ppy Music"

 

Shiny Happy People is undoubtedly a horrible song, but REM aren't crap, their early stuff up until Green is decent, and even after that they have written some good songs.

 

I mainly have issues with bands that I believe are hideously overrated such as Abba, Queen and Oasis.

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Arctic Monkeys.

 

Inspired a whole cult of morons at my college. They're everything I despise about modern music. They're not funny, they're not clever, and they're certainly not entertaining.

 

Was a bit wary of this lot on account of the hype, but I disagree with you, at least on their first album.

 

Don't really think that they're trying to be funny as such, more like trying to capture what its like to be twenty-something in England.

 

However, there's nothing more offputting about a band than fans who are nobs, so I have some sympathy for your position. As someone who just listened to them on his iPod, I really liked them.

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There's obviously a pile of crap out there and always has been. Freddie and the Dreamers anyone.........

 

But the most over rated, and therefore in my eyes the worst "serious" band of all time has to be Queen. I just dont get the hero like status they seem to endure. Slade were 100 times better,so even in their "peak" they were shiete.As for bohemian rhapsody, dont even get me started, the most pretentious load of ******** ever written and people study it like it's some sort of great work of art.

 

Dont like U2, but can see why people do.

 

Worst artists;

 

Jackson-Cant understand how he's got away with it. Should have been locked up years ago, in the Glitter file in my opinion.

Kylie-Nice arse, but no talent.

Sting (last 10 years) A complete and utter plum..........

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No you didn't, you clearly don't have your own opinions and type what Ess says, SAD!

 

Hmm. I do have my opinions just couldn't be arsed to type anything when cut n' pasting a perfectly good sentence was all too easy. Duh!

(BTW - what did I say that Ess had said?)

 

Are you still upset with Cocker’s cheeky upstaging of Jacko when he was ‘performing with children’ at the Brits all those years ago?

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Was a bit wary of this lot on account of the hype, but I disagree with you, at least on their first album.

 

Don't really think that they're trying to be funny as such, more like trying to capture what its like to be twenty-something in England.

 

However, there's nothing more offputting about a band than fans who are nobs, so I have some sympathy for your position. As someone who just listened to them on his iPod, I really liked them.

 

Indeed, when it inspires teens in New York to put on Yorkshire accents, that's when I feel sick.

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Indeed, when it inspires teens in New York to put on Yorkshire accents, that's when I feel sick.

 

That's actually pretty funny. Fake Tales of San Francisco, a song on their first album, is all about people who pretend to be from somewhere else.

 

He talks of San Francisco, he's from Hunter's Bar

I don't quite know the distance

But I'm sure thats far

Yeah I'm sure thats pretty far

 

And yeah, I'd love to tell you all of my problem

You're not from New York City, you're from Rotherham

So get off the bandwagon, and put down the handbook

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Man, you are way off today!

 

The Who was one of the greatest singles bands ever.

 

Get the album Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy. It was their first compilation of all the classic 60s singles. Brilliant!

 

And Who's Next - a superb album.

 

You're just being silly - or you've never really listened to them!

 

Maybe so but I don't like their sound, to my ears a faux angry noise penned to please. No prob with that as I guess every artist needs a formula, just not my cup of tea. I have no problem with others liking them though.

 

When they Played the Rose Bowl I won tickets and in all honesty took 7 phone calls to mates before I could offload them!

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Maybe so but I don't like their sound, to my ears a faux angry noise penned to please. No prob with that as I guess every artist needs a formula, just not my cup of tea. I have no problem with others liking them though.

 

When they Played the Rose Bowl I won tickets and in all honesty took 7 phone calls to mates before I could offload them!

 

Granted - but I'm talking about the 60s/early 70s-era band. They were an early pioneer of the power-trio format - no rhythm guitar, just drums, bass and lead guitar. But what a trio - the free-form, manic drumming of Keith Moon, the assertive bass-playing of Entwhistle, and the flailing, in-your-face guitar of Pete T.

 

As far as the material goes, I would hardly refer to Pete's writing as "faux-angry". And certainly not designed to please. He did want he wanted. His stuff is intelligent: sometimes angry, sometimes sensitive. And back in he 60s (before the the dominance of the LP), the band focused primarily on the singles market and produced a variety of very distinctive 45s.

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