The grumpy thread

[garycox]

People who say 'brought' instead of 'bought'! AAAAAAAARRGH!!!! IT'S NOT HARD!!!I don't know why I gat so annoyed about this, but it (along with other minor spelling and grammar errors) really winds me up.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby...and any 'music' that i find as depressingly mediocre/safe/middle of the road as this dross.

Coldplay. I would quite happily give Chris Martin & his miserable bint of a wife a good slap.

[chester drawers]

I once worked for a summer on grounds maintenance for the council. Great for getting dog shit whipped into your face by the strimmer cord.

High speed shit - that's grim

[chester drawers]

Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby...and any 'music' that i find as depressingly mediocre/safe/middle of the road as this dross.

Copy that. Include pretty much any clone band found on the front cover of NME. If Mark E Smith so much as stared at Ricky Wilson I think he’d poo his pants and run away.Oh and while we're on, misuse of the term indie. It describes a means of production; not characteristics of sound or style. Jumping on the daft haircut and guitar bandwagon does not make a band indie - journalists please take note. *raw nerve touched*

[Gompo]

Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby...and any 'music' that i find as depressingly mediocre/safe/middle of the road as this dross.

Copy that. Include pretty much any clone band found on the front cover of NME. If Mark E Smith so much as stared at Ricky Wilson I think he’d poo his pants and run away.Oh and while we're on, misuse of the term indie. It describes a means of production; not characteristics of sound or style. Jumping on the daft haircut and guitar bandwagon does not make a band indie - journalists please take note. *raw nerve touched*

I thought indie was short for independent? Whatever it means, i can tend to manage by ignoring any music described as such nowadays.

[Mr H Sceptre]

If Mark E Smith so much as stared at Ricky Wilson I think he’d poo his pants and run away.

Mark E Smith=Living Legend

[chester drawers]

I thought indie was short for independent?

It is. It’s independence from the commercial pressures of major labels and their tedency to compartmentalize and market “productâ€Â, having ripped off and watered down an interesting idea that someone else had first.Sorry I’ll stop ranting now.

[Spottedlaurel]

Back in my NME-reading days of the late-80s, the independent chart was usually topped by Kylie, as presumably whatever label she was on with SAW wasn’t one of the majors.

[j-j]

Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby.

Ditto The Kings of Leon

[AnthonyG]

Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby.

Ditto The Kings of Leon

Duffy. Please kill.

[dollywobbler]

There was something floating around on the radio recently that had something to do with one of the Abba chaps. That was basically incitement to kill.

 

All the whiny, pop-rock shit that's currently eminating from the US is irritating. We just had McFly who were easily ignored.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SuFmZJT ... re=related

 

About 3:20 in sums it up nicely.

[Gompo]

There was something floating around on the radio recently that had something to do with one of the Abba chaps. That was basically incitement to kill./quote]

 

To be honest if it's the one I am thinking of I'd probably prefer to listen to that than most of the awful 'Indie/Rock' that gets on the radio.

 

Kings of Leon? Hmm, I'll admit to liking one of theirs, but they're so over-played even songs that arent that bad begin to grate.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Bono.I hate him so much.

[chester drawers]

Ditto The Kings of Leon

Loved the 1st album, saw them live on the second album tour and was underwhelmed. They’ve lost more of their quirkiness with every release and become just another bland mainstream rock band chasing sales.

[Mr Lobster]

Bono.I hate him so much.

Me too. I'd actually like to club him to death using a baby seal.

[M'coli]

What's the seal done to deserve such punishment? Why not just smother him with his own smugness?I hate most music played on the radio - it's all happy, 'nice', safe stuff or repetitive lovesongs* AND IT REALLY GETS ON MY TITS. Give me some good old miserable minor key stuff anyday, I'm happy.*Ocean FM. What an awful rqadio station that was, forced to listen to it when working in Andover 11 years ago because it was piped throughout the factory/warehouse. "It's 8 o'clock, time for 'The Love Hour.'" Oh, so what makes it different from the previous 23, eh? SFA.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Bono.I hate him so much.

Me too. I'd actually like to club him to death using a baby seal.

So many reasons to despise him. Off the top of my head:-He wears sunglasses indoors.-Despite banging on about chaaaaaaaridy, he stashes all his cash in a Swiss bank account-His music is rubbish-His smugness-That horrific 'Blackberry Loves' U2 advert-He's an egotistical, slimey self-righteous little shit-He thinks he's the bloody Pope or summat (even though the current Pope is a fascist)-He tries to mix music with politics - bad move-He's got one of those awful trans-Atlantic accents (see also Ringo Starr ,Mark Ronson)- A man of his age should not be referred to by a nicknameThe list is endless actually. I'm not wasting any more time on this when I can be looking at pictures of lovely pld cars....

[Mr H Sceptre]

............& then of course there's Madonna, breaking all adoption procedures to snatch a couple of kids from Malawi. Unless it was all a mistake. maybe she went on a car photographing mission, but customs said it wasnt a valid reason for entry to the country, so off the top of her head she told them she was there to adopt, & then somehow had to go through with it or else she would be banged up in a Malawian jail. Maybe.

[Justin Case]

Marketing-bollox. The decrepit furniture warehouse up the road has been knocked down and in its place has appeared 'A development of luxury apartments' Oh no it hasn't you gormless cretins; you have put up a cheap and nasty block of flats on a site far too small. No one would want to live there, but some have got no choice because your greediness has priced a proper home out of their reach, so don't take the p*iss you barstewards.

[dollywobbler]

Don't get me started on property developers. There used to be a lovely music venue in Birmingham - proper nice pub with a tradition of really, really good music.Then what happens? They put up some luxury flats opposite. Oafish residents move in, don't like the noise and complain. Place ends up losing its licence. I think the licence people should have said "you moved there, live with it."Like the twat in a village we used to live in who used to complain all the time about the bells from the church.Hold on - the church has been there for centuries. If you don't like it, fuck off!

[M'coli]

^^^Or people like those who moved into a house close to a farm near Clitheroe - complained to the council about the noise of the farm animals and the smell of cow shit. Apparently that wasn't what they moved to the country to experience...

[Negative Creep]

What I love is new apartment complexes built right in the middle of town with blocked off residents parking. Then they wonder why we won't deliver to them if they won't meet us at the entrance

[j-j]

-He tries to mix music with politics - bad move

-dunno, it worked for Rage against the machine.Sorry to backtrack folks.

[outlaw118]

Rage against The Machine......shouty shouty shouty, without any recourse to either quality or variation of topic. I saw them somewhere in London (Brixton?) and was seriously underwhelmed.

 

Everyone should listen to The Cardiacs at least once in their lives.....

Heres one of their more "normal" tunes fron 1988/9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUDLA1LAzDo

 

or some new footage of older stuff

[FredTransit]

I spent AN HOUR on the phone to stupid fookin orange today, trying to aquire some service for the mobile broadband modem. Spoke to half of the Bombay call centre, in six dept, nothing. Why don't they rain these people better? Just reading off the script only works if you are talking to somebody who wants to buy something,.....

[Pete-M]

Another thing that makes me piss boil is the habit of some people who profess to like old cars to think that anything that's more than £500 is some sort of rip-off tax.Number of forums I go on where any old mainstream car advertised for more than tuppence and a half sucked Werthers Original gets slagged off to death for being "Scene taxed" or whatever.Sorry, but if I spent a year cleaning polishing painting and generally fettling an old car then I'm going to want at least some of the money back. I'm not gonna sell it for what I paid for it when it was a shagged out old wreck needing 600 hours of labour.Arghh. Winds me up, that does. Having said that, it's normally the ones with no money who make such comments and they're unlikely to be buying anything...

[Pillock]

I dunno, there's some obvious chancers out there who seem to think that because their vehicle is suddenly fashionable, they deserve a 1000% profit regardless of condition. I hate to bring them up but the obvious examples are rusty, dented, incomplete Split Screens and Mk1 Escorts being sold for many thousands, because a mint one might be advertised at £25k or more.

 

But I'd never deny anyone who's genuinely spent the money on making a tidy car a worthwhile profit. It costs a lot to take a rusty Mk1 Golf and turn it into something worthy of the tag 'restored', panels are rare and decent bodyshops are expensive so you want a good couple of grand more than a knackered one

 

It just pains me when I see eBay adverts where the owner has totted up what they've spent over the years, often including servicing and consumables, and expects to make every penny back. Nothing works like that in life with the possible exception of property.

[mattblack]

People who think that if a old car's seats are not cloth or velour, they're leather... NO YOU FUCKWIT, THEY'RE VINYL... MARINAS, HUNTERS, VIVAS ECT DIDN'T HAVE LEATHER SEATS!!!!

[pbottomley]

People who think that if a old car's seats are not cloth or velour, they're leather... NO YOU FUCKWIT, THEY'RE VINYL... MARINAS, HUNTERS, VIVAS ECT DIDN'T HAVE LEATHER SEATS!!!!

even better when they stick nose in car and say ahhh the semll of leather....no you twunt its farts and sweat

[Mr H Sceptre]

Rage against The Machine......shouty shouty shouty, without any recourse to either quality or variation of topic. I saw them somewhere in London (Brixton?) and was seriously underwhelmed.Everyone should listen to The Cardiacs at least once in their lives.....Heres one of their more "normal" tunes fron 1988/9http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUDLA1LAzDoor some new footage of older stuff

Myself & Mr Leyland are big Cardiacs fans!