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Kele Okereke of Bloc Party on Oasis: "I think Oasis are the most overrated and pernicious band of all time. They had a totally negative and dangerous impact upon the state of British music. They have made stupidity hip. They claim to be inspired by The Beatles but, and this saddens me, they have failed to grasp that The Beatles were about constant change and evolution. Oasis are repetitive Luddites."
Deified Data
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Eh, he's hit-or-miss. Broken is likely his most "industrial" album, and it's tiny. I'd say he's matured a bit, honestly. He seems more into ambient stuff now, for better or for worse. I think he's done being a dick.Spectacular Dr Dawg said:
Saw him a few years back and he was alright. He was with Boris, and that was the highlight of the show.
"Mozart died too late rather than too soon."
--Glenn Gould
"Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there also a dropped hammer."
--John Ruskin
"Art is long and life is short; here is evidently the explanation of a Brahms symphony."
--Edward Lorne
"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."
--Charles Baudelaire
"If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning bunches of notes, apparently representing the composer promenading the keyboard in his boots. Some can be played better with the elbows, others with the flat of the hand. None require fingers to perform or ears to listen too."
--Frederick Corder
"In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages."
--Sir Thomas Beecham on Bruckner's Seventh Symphony
"What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about."
--Sir Thomas Beecham on Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Sir Thomas Beecham was once asked if he had played any Stockhausen. "No," he replied, "but I have trodden in some."
"Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside."
--Ludwig van Beethoven
"Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed."
--Edward Abbey
"Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet."
--Bertolt Brecht
"He'd be better off shoveling snow."
--Richard Strauss on Arnold Schoenberg.
"I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony."
--James Sellars
"Exit in case of Brahms."
--Philip Hale's proposed inscription over the doors of Boston Symphony Hall
"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
--Igor Stravinsky
"His music used to be original. Now it's aboriginal."
--Sir Ernest Newman on Igor Stravinsky
"He has an enormously wide repertory. He can conduct anything, provided it's by Beethoven, Brahms or Wagner. He tried Debussy's La Mer once. It came out as Das Merde."
--Anonymous Orchestra Member on George Szell
Someone commented to Rudolph Bing, manager of the Metropolitan Opera, that "George Szell is his own worst enemy." "Not while I'm alive, he isn't!" said Bing.
"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it."
--Sir Thomas Beecham to a lady cellist.
"Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20."
--David Randolph
"One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time."
--Gioacchino Rossini
"I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music."
--Benjamin Britten on Stravinsky's The Rakes's Progress
"Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on."
--Sir Thomas Beecham on an unidentified soprano in Die Walküre
And a non-classical one:
"Her voice sounded like an eagle being goosed."
--Ralph Novak on Yoko Ono
--Glenn Gould
"Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there also a dropped hammer."
--John Ruskin
"Art is long and life is short; here is evidently the explanation of a Brahms symphony."
--Edward Lorne
"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."
--Charles Baudelaire
"If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning bunches of notes, apparently representing the composer promenading the keyboard in his boots. Some can be played better with the elbows, others with the flat of the hand. None require fingers to perform or ears to listen too."
--Frederick Corder
"In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages."
--Sir Thomas Beecham on Bruckner's Seventh Symphony
"What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about."
--Sir Thomas Beecham on Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Sir Thomas Beecham was once asked if he had played any Stockhausen. "No," he replied, "but I have trodden in some."
"Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside."
--Ludwig van Beethoven
"Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed."
--Edward Abbey
"Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet."
--Bertolt Brecht
"He'd be better off shoveling snow."
--Richard Strauss on Arnold Schoenberg.
"I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony."
--James Sellars
"Exit in case of Brahms."
--Philip Hale's proposed inscription over the doors of Boston Symphony Hall
"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
--Igor Stravinsky
"His music used to be original. Now it's aboriginal."
--Sir Ernest Newman on Igor Stravinsky
"He has an enormously wide repertory. He can conduct anything, provided it's by Beethoven, Brahms or Wagner. He tried Debussy's La Mer once. It came out as Das Merde."
--Anonymous Orchestra Member on George Szell
Someone commented to Rudolph Bing, manager of the Metropolitan Opera, that "George Szell is his own worst enemy." "Not while I'm alive, he isn't!" said Bing.
"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it."
--Sir Thomas Beecham to a lady cellist.
"Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20."
--David Randolph
"One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time."
--Gioacchino Rossini
"I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music."
--Benjamin Britten on Stravinsky's The Rakes's Progress
"Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on."
--Sir Thomas Beecham on an unidentified soprano in Die Walküre
And a non-classical one:
"Her voice sounded like an eagle being goosed."
--Ralph Novak on Yoko Ono
FantasticMrFoxdie
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Bwhaahah @ Rick James and Lily Allen.
One of my recent favorites:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/miley-cyrus-snubbed-by-radiohead-vows-to-ruin-them-20090305
"I'm gonna ruin them, I'm gonna tell everyone,"
-Miley Cyrus threatening to ruin Radiohead.
One of my recent favorites:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/miley-cyrus-snubbed-by-radiohead-vows-to-ruin-them-20090305
"I'm gonna ruin them, I'm gonna tell everyone,"
-Miley Cyrus threatening to ruin Radiohead.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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That's irrelevant, it's the benchmark and will forever be thought of first.crimzonflame said:
When you fuck the wife of somebody you hate and then go on record laughing about it, that's the limit right there. Who cares if Nas said pretty much the same shit + Jay has big lips years later?
The list isn't grading quality.
Hit 'Em Up was the precursor to actual disses rather than "you're whack on the mic" type stuff so is more significant than Ether by far.
Count Dookkake
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lol at Zorro on doughnuts.
ILOVEASIANS
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Arcade Fire are a bunch of assholes?
That's disappointing.
That's disappointing.
brianjones
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ILOVEASIANS said:
the lead singer looks like a tool
Fernando Rocker
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Nick Cave is one of the worst representations of rock music in the history of mankind.winter said:
Khalifa Jayy
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I was going to come in here and post hit em up... But it's in the fucking op. ... 
Treefingers
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Whose face did Trent Reznor step on to succeed?Spectacular Dr Dawg said:
And yes he did make industrial music.
Charmicarmicat
Banned
Buzz Osborne is always good for insults (both slightly paraphrased from memory).
On Pearl Jam: Jeff Ament thought the song was too repetitive, which is funny because he went on to play repetitive music in Pearl Jam.
On Courtney Love: I'm the only person in the world she hasn't slept with, and coincidentally the only person in the world who doesn't have scabies.
On Black Metal in General: Id like to think. Look, if the Devil has nothing to do other than hang around with people like that, then we really have nothing to worry about with him, do we?
On Pearl Jam: Jeff Ament thought the song was too repetitive, which is funny because he went on to play repetitive music in Pearl Jam.
On Courtney Love: I'm the only person in the world she hasn't slept with, and coincidentally the only person in the world who doesn't have scabies.
On Black Metal in General: Id like to think. Look, if the Devil has nothing to do other than hang around with people like that, then we really have nothing to worry about with him, do we?
elrechazado
Banned
28. David Lee Roth on Elvis Costello
Music journalists like Elvis Costello because music journalists look like Elvis Costello.
So true
Music journalists like Elvis Costello because music journalists look like Elvis Costello.
So true
Devolution
Member
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?
So fucked up.
People talk about Eric Clapton. What has he ever done except throw his baby off a fuckin ledge and write a song about it?
So fucked up.
close to the edge
Member
Yeah, what the fuck. The guy (who I had to look up) looks like a douche as well.MrHicks said:
Hahahaha. The Classical music ones are pretty good too.jbueno said:
"In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages."
--Sir Thomas Beecham on Bruckner's Seventh Symphony
"What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about."
--Sir Thomas Beecham on Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Sir Thomas Beecham was once asked if he had played any Stockhausen. "No," he replied, "but I have trodden in some."
"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it."
--Sir Thomas Beecham to a lady cellist.
"Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on."
--Sir Thomas Beecham on an unidentified soprano in Die Walküre
I like this guy.
--Sir Thomas Beecham on Bruckner's Seventh Symphony
"What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about."
--Sir Thomas Beecham on Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Sir Thomas Beecham was once asked if he had played any Stockhausen. "No," he replied, "but I have trodden in some."
"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it."
--Sir Thomas Beecham to a lady cellist.
"Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on."
--Sir Thomas Beecham on an unidentified soprano in Die Walküre
I like this guy.
teruterubozu
Member
Compared to everyone else, classical musicians seem to be the biggest elitist pricks in the world.
ZedIndyLil
Member
Joni Mitchell on Bob Dylan:
"Bob is not authentic at all: Hes a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I."
"Bob is not authentic at all: Hes a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I."
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Deified Data said:
He never classified himself as Industrial. The music industry did. He became the "Radiohead" of Industrial Metal, and by that I mean he was/is way different than what other Industrial Metalists are doing and consider them his inspiration, not his driving force. Hell, you won't find any nineinchnails disc on the "Industrial" section of music stores.
That said, everyone who worked with Manson agreed he's a douche and have stopped working with him sometime in their career (some came back for the "monies"). Trent used to be/might still be an asshole when he was on coke, but that doesn't change the fact that Manson has become a bigger prick.
Also, that quote is WAY out of context. Read the entire thing:
http://www.spinner.com/2009/06/01/trent-reznor-slams-marilyn-manson/
Misanthropy
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teruterubozu
Member
VALIS said:
Mitchell is her married name and JOan is her middle. Better than Robert Zimmerman to Bob Dylan. LOL
Calling him a plagiarist is a step too far. He may have unfairly appropriated Woody Guthrie's style and voice but he's a brilliant songwriter who, unlike Joni Mitchell, continued to make meaningful music long after the 60s folk music scene died out. He'd be just as famous as Robert Zimmerman.DBebm5 said:
Bono insult is the best. That guy deserves heaps of eye-rolling scorn.
HammerOfThor
Member
Every Eminem diss track is amazing!
teruterubozu
Member
Stet said:
Really? Joni Mitchell's jazz phase in the 70s with Charles Mingus, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Wayne Shorter, etc. was pretty prolific. Dylan never left the 60s.
Pachterballs
Banned
VALIS said:
If Elton can get through a show like madonna doing that much cardiovascular work maybe he'd hav a poin. Plus she sang. The confessions tour DVD was kind of amazing - especially the syncronised jump rope segment.
"We refer to them [Foo Fighters] as 'rape rock.'"
- Brian DeGraw (of Gang Gang Dance)
- Brian DeGraw (of Gang Gang Dance)
Kai Hansen on Kurt Cobain and the reputation of Heavy Metal in the 90's:
"It was like classic metal was seen to be like something very uncool thanks to Kurt Cobain maybe. What a guy, he destroys the metal scene then he shoots himself, thank you! He should have done it earlier, before releasing the album (Nevermind)"
http://youtu.be/encc6loMgv4 at 09:50
This one is funny since Hansen is always a very nice, positive guy. Well, almost always.
"It was like classic metal was seen to be like something very uncool thanks to Kurt Cobain maybe. What a guy, he destroys the metal scene then he shoots himself, thank you! He should have done it earlier, before releasing the album (Nevermind)"
http://youtu.be/encc6loMgv4 at 09:50
This one is funny since Hansen is always a very nice, positive guy. Well, almost always.
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