Musical room 101

[Soulmanure]

Coldplay comes to mind as a nonstarter. I agree that Shiny Happy People is a bit like nails on the board, as is Stand.

I'm surprised by all the Smiths haters--a brilliant band in my book.

[Lee Nub]

Come on Boss, you know you would

[Lascaux]

van halen and satriani id add as well
great skill but no soul

[moidoid]

Bon Jovi & Coldplay are just a little too KNOWING if you get my drift. Playing what is required to unit shift.

Mariah Carey covers classics like Without You by Nilsson and butchers them. Evil Dwarf.

Simply Red - Ugly mancunian gibbon-man
Embrace - need to stop whingeing. They sound like life bleeding gently away.
Annie Lennox - the voice of the 80's. Nuff said. Revolver, decent thing etc.

Apart from that I'm pretty easy going as regards music.

[Drewmidorn]

Ooh! Embrace. Good call!

[Robusto]

Peaches and Herb - Reunited

Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong

Because... The... Greatest... Love Of All

A Whole New World


UTTER DRECK

This power ballad stuff - usually coming in or at the end of a film - drives me to despair.

I was in Lidl last weekend for various thrills in seasonal cinnamon and a version of Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong came on. I dumped my Stollen amidst the jars of red peppers and walked out.

In the evening when depping on a well-moneyed gig for revellers from the local harbour board in very gothic surroundings, I found myself smiling like a Sectioned at the keyboard pushing out an unprepared version of

You to me are everything
The sweetest sound that I can sing (approx)
Oh baby
Oh baby

I felt like a fuckwit but paid off a niggling debt through this artistic compromise.

So...

Ban all schlock ballads.
Drop them into a deep hole and bomb them with your excreta.

[nicwing]

As I would expect a well argued and cogent diatribe from Robu'

Can I please include anything by Aled Jones and the Woburn character. Ehhyuk.

[celsis]

Forgot to say that I HATE (with a passion!) what I call Majorca Rock. You know these awful songs that the schemies bring back with them along with their sand filled donkeys. things like "Macarena" and "Una Paloma Blanca" and "Yes sir, I can boogie."

Now don't get me wrong, if this floats your boat, then I promise I won't say anything about your sanity, but please please, PLEASE don't play it in my vicinity!

And that goes for "The Birdie Song" and "Chirpy, Chirpy, Cheep, Cheep" as well!

[Deano]

I liked Coldplay's first album, rest is commercial shite.

[Robusto]

I do love a shite thing that becomes a magnificent thing.
This sort of thing must NEVER be sent to Room 101.

[Drewmidorn]

I do love a shite thing that becomes a magnificent thing.
This sort of thing must NEVER be sent to Room 101.

Absolutely. That is a thing of beauty.... both the woman and the performance! I think she likes a cheeky sherry now and again.

[satch]

Paul Young lives near me, doesn't make him a good singer.

I'm going to sit on the fence on the Smiths, not because of the lyrics but because I love Johnny Marr's guitar.

I never said she's a good singer, although i've heard far worse.
The Smiths were prob the best band to come out of the crappiest music decade.

[nicwing]

Cheeky sherry? Cheeky sherry?

May I be bold enough to suggest a 2 litre bottle of VP (sweet)

[Robusto]

Somebody gave me The Lynne Perry Story (a book by Ivy Tilsley after she had been dumped by Coronation Street for turning up on set with balloon botox lips and frightening continuity.

I have to say it is one of my all-time favourite books. It's up there with my Zolas.

Camp is not the word to describe Lynn Perry's style. She's the kind of Northern raunchy pensioner babe who presumes you're a confirmed homosexual if you don't muck her about in a dressing room door jamb.

Her son was/is gay - very Dame Edna's Kenny but with an AIDS cloud hovering and lots of insight about hospitals - and she mocks her husband with glee about his inability to sustain an erection.... whilst she's shagging some Spanish waiter thirty years younger... and bitching about the other actors and actresses from the soap opera.

I do not want you to think I'm homophobic. I'm not.
Neither am I in the closet. Or out of it.
I just need a bloody good laugh.

I am just a different person since I was gifted this book.

Try one.

[Deano]

Genius.