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VALIS

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We recently had filmmaker on filmmaker insults, here are a bunch of fun ones revolving around musical artists. Taken from : http://flavorwire.com/200333/the-30-harshest-musician-on-musician-insults-in-history


30. Wayne Coyne on Arcade Fire
“I get really tired of their pompousness [sic]… We’ve played some shows with them and they really treat people like shit. People treat Arcade Fire like they’re the greatest thing ever and they get away with it… They have good tunes, but they’re pricks, so fuck ‘em.”

29. Christina Aguilera on Lady Gaga
“I’m not quite sure who this person is, to be honest. I don’t know if it is a man or a woman.”

28. David Lee Roth on Elvis Costello
“Music journalists like Elvis Costello because music journalists look like Elvis Costello.”

27. Lily Allen on Cheryl Cole
“Taking your clothes off, doing sexy dancing and marrying a rich footballer must be very gratifying. Your mother must be so proud. Stupid bitch.”

26. Trent Reznor on Marilyn Manson
“A malicious guy [who] will step on anybody’s face to succeed, and cross any line of decency.”

25. Mark E Smith on Mumford & Sons
“There was this other group warming up … and they were terrible. I said, ‘Shut them cunts up!’ And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them … I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.”

24. Courtney Love on Dave Grohl
“As for that drummer, well, he’s hit on me so many times. He’s just a very very conflicted guy about me, which is why he continually writes songs about me to hear he ‘hates’ me more than ‘anyone else.’ Kurt loathed HIM more than anyone else (except a journalist) … He’s just sub-mediocre kind of [guy] who does this ‘nice guy’ nonsense.”

23. Dave Grohl on Courtney Love
“She’s an ugly fucking bitch.”

22. Kathleen Hanna on Courtney Love
“Where’s the baby? In the closet with an IV?”

21. Paul Weller on Freddie Mercury
“He said he wanted to bring ballet to the working classes. What a cunt.”

20. Richey Edwards on The Levellers
“You could go to any Levellers concert and stand in the middle and shout, ‘Jeremy!’, and 75% of the audience would turn round.”

19. Kurt Cobain on Guns N’ Roses
“They’re really talentless people, and they write crap music, and they’re the most popular rock band on the earth right now. I can’t believe it.”

18. Nick Cave on Red Hot Chili Peppers
“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”

17. Noel Gallagher on Kaiser Chiefs
“They play dress-up and sit on top of an apex of meaninglessness. They don’t mean anything to anybody apart from their fucking ugly girlfriends.”

16. Alan McGee on Coldplay
“Coldplay are the dictionary definition of corporate rock. The singer is about as weird as Phil Collins. They are career rock personified. EMI should’ve signed Otis The Aadvark instead. At least he only sucks his thumb rather than corporate cock.”

15. Elvis Costello on Morrissey
“Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.”

14. Noel Gallagher on Jack White
“He looks like Zorro on doughnuts.”

13. Rick James on Prince
“A little short ego-ed fucker who I had a feeling didn’t like people of his own race and wanted to be white and taller.”

12. Mark “E” Everett on The Beatles
“John Lennon sings about peace because he’s a woman-beater. Hippies are so full of shit.”

11. Richey Edwards on Slowdive
“We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler.”

10. Ian Brown on Bono
“He’s such a fake, isn’t he? When he did Live Aid, which made them a worldwide group … he looked out and [saw] that black girl in the middle of all them people, and she’s from Hackney or something, and he was like, ‘Here’s a great shot for me around the world to show I’m Mr Africa.’ It’s like colonialist times with a big white hat.”

9. Robert Smith on Morrissey
“If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I’ll eat meat — that’s how much I hate Morrissey.”

8. Morrissey on Bob Geldof
“Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.”

7. Elton John on Madonna
“Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay £75 to see them should be shot.”

6. Boy George on Madonna
“A vile, hideous human being with no redeeming qualities.”

5. Boy George on Elton John
“All that money, and he’s still got hair like a fucking dinner lady.”

4. Elton John on Keith Richards
“It’s like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.”

3. Morrissey on Brett Anderson
“He’ll never forgive God for not making him Angie Bowie.”

2. Anton Newcombe on Eric Clapton
“People talk about Eric Clapton. What has he ever done except throw his baby off a fuckin’ ledge and write a song about it?”

1. Tupac on The Notorious BIG
All of “Hit ‘Em Up,” really, but particularly this: “I fucked your bitch, you fat motherfucker.”
 
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brianjones

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18. Nick Cave on Red Hot Chili Peppers
“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”


10. Ian Brown on Bono
“He’s such a fake, isn’t he? When he did Live Aid, which made them a worldwide group … he looked out and [saw] that black girl in the middle of all them people, and she’s from Hackney or something, and he was like, ‘Here’s a great shot for me around the world to show I’m Mr Africa.’ It’s like colonialist times with a big white hat.”


ahahaha
 
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Chichikov

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One of my favorites from recent years -

Alice Cooper on Vampire Weekend -

"I do get a little annoyed that it seems like a lot of bands that come out now that I read, 'The greatest band that I've ever heard,'" he said. "And I see them and I go, 'There's absolutely no testosterone in this band.'
"I heard the title Vampire Weekend and I thought, 'Oh, man, that's gonna be great. I gotta see it.' And there are these guys with little Gap T-shirts on and they're singing about I don't know what, it was so light I couldn't listen to it. And I'm going, 'What happened to the balls in rock 'n' roll? Why are American bands so wimpy?'
"I'm getting a lot of bands that are kind of going, 'Oh, the summer in the rain and aren't lightning bugs wonderful?' And I'm going, 'What kind of drug are you on?' I think if you asked Ozzy, Iggy and all the other people that come from our generation, we're kind of hoping the young guys step it up a little bit when it comes to being guys."​

Word.

teruterubozu said:
Mike Patton on Wolfmother:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKDvJTxZDbA
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I generally not a fan of his music (and that's understatement) but he's spot on there.
 
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Admiral Bone to Pick

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VALIS said:
16. Alan McGee on Coldplay
“Coldplay are the dictionary definition of corporate rock. The singer is about as weird as Phil Collins. They are career rock personified. EMI should’ve signed Otis The Aadvark instead. At least he only sucks his thumb rather than corporate cock.”
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He speaks the truth!
 
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Discotheque

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18. Nick Cave on Red Hot Chili Peppers
“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”


4. Elton John on Keith Richards
“It’s like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.”

hahaha. I like Keith but the monkey with arthritis thing really got me
 
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Ripclawe

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"His writing is limited to songs for dead blondes."
- Keith Richards (about Elton John).
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Keith won with the first crack on Elton.

Full quote.
in 1997 he said seeing Elton sing at Princess Diana’s funeral “did jar a bit — writing songs for dead blondes— but he was a personal friend, after all. I’d find it difficult to ride on the back of something like that myself, but Reg [Elton's real name] is showbiz.”
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Salsa

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Anton Newcombe was always a piece of shit, wich is sad because i quite like the brian jonestown massacre
 
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dvolovets

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Pat Metheny on Kenny G is the best musician/musician insult, hands down.

http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm

"But when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great Louis's tracks (even one of his lesser ones), he did something that I would not have imagined possible. He, in one move, through his unbelievably pretentious and calloused musical decision to embark on this most cynical of musical paths, shit all over the graves of all the musicians past and present who have risked their lives by going out there on the road for years and years developing their own music inspired by the standards of grace that Louis Armstrong brought to every single note he played over an amazing lifetime as a musician. By disrespecting Louis, his legacy and by default, everyone who has ever tried to do something positive with improvised music and what it can be, Kenny G has created a new low point in modern culture - something that we all should be totally embarrassed about - and afraid of.

...if I ever DO see him anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind and (maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.)"
 
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teruterubozu

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dvolovets said:
Pat Metheny on Kenny G is the best musician/musician insult, hands down.

http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm

"But when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great Louis's tracks (even one of his lesser ones), he did something that I would not have imagined possible. He, in one move, through his unbelievably pretentious and calloused musical decision to embark on this most cynical of musical paths, shit all over the graves of all the musicians past and present who have risked their lives by going out there on the road for years and years developing their own music inspired by the standards of grace that Louis Armstrong brought to every single note he played over an amazing lifetime as a musician. By disrespecting Louis, his legacy and by default, everyone who has ever tried to do something positive with improvised music and what it can be, Kenny G has created a new low point in modern culture - something that we all should be totally embarrassed about - and afraid of.

...if I ever DO see him anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind and (maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.)"
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I love Pat Metheny, but he's not exactly innocent of cheezy elevator music either.
 
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dvolovets

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teruterubozu said:
I love Pat Metheny, but he's not exactly innocent of cheezy elevator music either.
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I agree, I think that half of his discography is schmaltz. Pretty funny stuff on Kenny G either way!
 
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brianjones

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sikkinixx said:
seems to me a lot of them are less popular/famous artists bagging on more popular/famous artists. Jealously anyone?
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so you cant have an opinion about someone unless you're more popular than them?
 
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thomaser

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A few classical insults:

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.
- Beethoven to another composer

If he'd been making shell cases during the war it might have been better for music.
- Saint-Saëns on Ravel

Is Wagner actually a man? Is he not rather a disease? Everything he touches falls ill: he has made music sick.
- Nietzsche on Wagner

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes.
- Copland on Vaughan Williams

Of all the bete, clumsy, blundering, boggling, baboon-blooded stuff that I ever saw on a human stage, that last night beat - as far as the story and acting went - all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, tuneless, scrabble-pipiest-tongs and boniest-doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliness of, that eternity of nothing was deadliest, as far as its sound went.
- Ruskin on Wagner

A tub of pork and beer.
- Berlioz on Handel

I can compare Le Carnival Romain by Berlioz to nothing but the caperings and gibberings of a big baboon, over-excited by a dose of alcoholic stimulus.
- Templeton Strong on Berlioz

What a giftless bastard!
- Tchaikovsky on Brahms
 
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N4Us

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Can't find it now but Henry Rollins said some hilarious things about when his band played with House of Love.

someone insulted freddy mercury?
the hell
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I saw Paul Weller live once and it felt like I was at a Christian kid's rock concert.
 
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DeadTrees

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Flea, liner notes from Entertainment:

"It made me laugh to hear the guy from U2 talk about his guitar influences being old bluesmen. I thought, 'Hey, you dipshit, what about Andy Gill?' I hear [Gang of Four's] influence on really great bands, too, like Fugazi and Jane's Addiction."

Most of these are tame compared to the Eminem/Moby catfight, or pretty much any rapper-vs-rapper beef.
 
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Deified Data

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26. Trent Reznor on Marilyn Manson
“A malicious guy [who] will step on anybody’s face to succeed, and cross any line of decency.”
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Trent Reznor complaining about crossing the line of decency? Grow a pair, Trent, you used to be an industrial musician. There is no decency. (Manson sucks, but come on)
 
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thomaser

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VALIS said:
20. Richey Edwards on The Levellers
“You could go to any Levellers concert and stand in the middle and shout, ‘Jeremy!’, and 75% of the audience would turn round.”
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I don't understand this one, but it's fucking funny!
 
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Broder Salsa

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Greg Puciato on Jared Leto was pretty amazing:

How much of a fucking dork is Jared Leto? That guy’s shtick is revolting. BIGGEST FUCKING POSER. Makes Fred Durst seem like Jim Morrison. Anyone in this industry who has any pride should be ashamed if they work with in any way that absolute fucking poser. Get out of here, dork. If you disagree with me than take that as insight that on a core cellular level we have NOTHING in common. Stop acting, THIS ISN’T A MOVIE.

STOP FEEDING & PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS MONSTROSITY so it will go away. HAVE SOME FUCKING RESPECT FOR YOURSELF AND ROCK AND ROLL. Fuck!!! I mean I try to be posi & shed light on people/bands/shit that’s rad, but now & then you gotta be like HEY LOOK OVER HERE THIS GUY SUCKS. I love you all. I’m out before I get too worked up. Hey @jaredleto fuck off & take your pink mohawk haircut poser bullshit back to acting.
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timetokill

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18. Nick Cave on Red Hot Chili Peppers
“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”
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Best one, and so fucking true.


Also, I think you could easily put together a long ass list of just people ripping on Courtney Love. Who deserves it, of course.
 
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Hixx

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N4Us said:
Can't find it now but Henry Rollins said some hilarious things about when his band played with House of Love.



I saw Paul Weller live once and it felt like I was at a Christian kid's rock concert.
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Go and listen to the Jam, lad, before saying anything about Weller.
 
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Meier

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HixxSAFC said:
Go and listen to the Jam, lad, before saying anything about Weller.
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I saw Weller a few years back..not really a huge fan but enjoy a few of the Jam's hits. Anyway, The Rifles were supporting and that's the only way I could see them in America so I went.

The old people were having the fucking time of their lives! I'd never been to a concert with nothing but boomers and it kinda weirded me out.

He played two encores and was on stage for nearly 3 hours apparently (I left after about 90 minutes of his set). Not really a fan of dad rock but the man is obviously a legend.
 
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shuri

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It's well known that the bandmembers of Arcade Fire are total fruitcakes, a few of my friends had to deal with them for professional reasons and they REALLY REALLY REALLY bought into their own hype and they are really superhardcore trying to be indie and artistic. It's like almost over the top.
 
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Hexadecimalt

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VALIS said:
21. Paul Weller on Freddie Mercury
“He said he wanted to bring ballet to the working classes. What a cunt.”

14. Noel Gallagher on Jack White
“He looks like Zorro on doughnuts.”

12. Mark “E” Everett on The Beatles
“John Lennon sings about peace because he’s a woman-beater. Hippies are so full of shit.”
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Not only are these stupid, but they don't make any sense whatsoever; especially the Paul Weller comment. What the fuck?
 
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Deified Data

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brianjones said:
she talks a lot of shit

richey hating on slowdive makes me sad :(
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She gets alot of shit dumped on her.

If you were to ask who started it, it becomes a game of he-said-she-said. Alot of people dump on Love for no other reason than other people doing it.
 
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Prez

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I didn't know that Rick James hated Prince :/

timetokill said:
Best one, and so fucking true.


Also, I think you could easily put together a long ass list of just people ripping on Courtney Love. Who deserves it, of course.
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I don't think you've ever heard RHCP's early work then. Blood Sugar Sex Magik is a great album, some of the best modern funk-rock. It went downlhill after that album.

Also Nick Cave is fucking horrible.
 
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timetokill

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Stabbie said:
I don't think you've ever heard RHCP's early work then. Blood Sugar Sex Magik is a great album, some of the best modern funk-rock.
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Of course I have, and I did enjoy that album.

But it's been 20 fucking years since that album, you know that, right?
 
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Spectacular Dr Dawg

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Deified Data said:
Trent Reznor complaining about crossing the line of decency? Grow a pair, Trent, you used to be an industrial musician.
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No he didn't. He made bad synth-pop and butt-rock. That quote is hilarious though since Feznor is exactly the same.
 
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