The 30 Harshest Musician-on-Musician Insults in History

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There's plenty missing, and obviously Buddy Rich would alone disembowel everyone else on this list combined.

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Noel Gallagher on Jack White: "He looks like Zorro on doughnuts." 11
Nick Cave on Red Hot Chili Peppers: "I'm forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?' And the an 10
Anton Newcombe on Eric Clapton: "People talk about Eric Clapton. What has he ever done except throw his baby off a 7
David Lee Roth on Elvis Costello - "Music journalists like Elvis Costello because music journalists look like Elvi 6
Mark E Smith on Mumford & Sons: "There was this other group warming up … and they were terrible. I said, ‘Shut the 5
Boy George on Elton John: "All that money, and he's still got hair like a fucking dinner lady." 4
Elvis Costello on Morrissey: "Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song 3
Richey Edwards on The Levellers: "You could go to any Levellers concert and stand in the middle and shout, ‘Jeremy 3
Kathleen Hanna on Courtney Love: "Where's the baby? In the closet with an IV?" 3
Ian Brown on Bono: "He's such a fake, isn't he? When he did Live Aid, which made them a worldwide group … he looke 3
Richey Edwards on Slowdive: "We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler." 2
Paul Weller on Freddie Mercury: "He said he wanted to bring ballet to the working classes. What a cunt." 2
Elton John on Madonna: "Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay £75 to see them should be shot."2
Morrissey on Brett Anderson: "He'll never forgive God for not making him Angie Bowie." 2
Boy George on Madonna: "A vile, hideous human being with no redeeming qualities." 2
Lily Allen on Cheryl Cole: "Taking your clothes off, doing sexy dancing and marrying a rich footballer must be ver 1
Rick James on Prince: "A little short ego-ed fucker who I had a feeling didn't like people of his own race and wan 1
Mark "E" Everett on The Beatles: "John Lennon sings about peace because he's a woman-beater. Hippies are 1
Robert Smith on Morrissey: "If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I'll eat meat — that's how much I hate Morriss 1
Morrissey on Bob Geldof: "Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever 0
Elton John on Keith Richards: "It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young." 0
Wayne Coyne on Arcade Fire: "I get really tired of their pompousness [sic]… We've played some shows with them and 0
Alan McGee on Coldplay: "Coldplay are the dictionary definition of corporate rock. The singer is about as weird as 0
Noel Gallagher on Kaiser Chiefs: "They play dress-up and sit on top of an apex of meaninglessness. They don't mean 0
Kurt Cobain on Guns N' Roses: "They're really talentless people, and they write crap music, and they're the most p 0
Dave Grohl on Courtney Love: "She's an ugly fucking bitch." 0
Courtney Love on Dave Grohl: "As for that drummer, well, he's hit on me so many times. He's just a very very confl 0
Trent Reznor on Marilyn Manson: "A malicious guy [who] will step on anybody's face to succeed, and cross any line 0
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 0
Tupac on The Notorious BIG: All of "Hit ‘Em Up," really, but particularly this: "I fucked your bitch, yo 0


Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link

Aargh... got cut off, here's the list again:

Wayne Coyne on Arcade Fire: "I get really tired of their pompousness… 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."
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."
David Lee Roth on Elvis Costello - "Music journalists like Elvis Costello because music journalists look like Elvis Costello."
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."
Trent Reznor on Marilyn Manson: "A malicious guy who will step on anybody's face to succeed, and cross any line of decency."
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."
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."
Dave Grohl on Courtney Love: "She's an ugly fucking bitch."
Kathleen Hanna on Courtney Love: "Where's the baby? In the closet with an IV?"
Paul Weller on Freddie Mercury: "He said he wanted to bring ballet to the working classes. What a cunt."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
Elvis Costello on Morrissey: "Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song."
Noel Gallagher on Jack White: "He looks like Zorro on doughnuts."
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."
Mark "E" Everett on The Beatles: "John Lennon sings about peace because he's a woman-beater. Hippies are so full of shit."
Richey Edwards on Slowdive: "We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler."
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."
Robert Smith on Morrissey: "If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I'll eat meat — that's how much I hate Morrissey."
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."
Elton John on Madonna: "Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay £75 to see them should be shot."
Boy George on Madonna: "A vile, hideous human being with no redeeming qualities."
Boy George on Elton John: "All that money, and he's still got hair like a fucking dinner lady."
Elton John on Keith Richards: "It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young."
Morrissey on Brett Anderson: "He'll never forgive God for not making him Angie Bowie."
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?"
Tupac on The Notorious BIG: All of "Hit ‘Em Up," really, but particularly this: "I fucked your bitch, you fat motherfucker."

Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link

elvis costello on morrissey = truth bomb, sadly

debenture banhart (get bent), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link

Noel Gallagher on Jack White: "He looks like Zorro on doughnuts."

obviously

J0rdan S., Friday, 16 September 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link

altho this is a close runner up

Boy George on Elton John: "All that money, and he's still got hair like a fucking dinner lady."

J0rdan S., Friday, 16 September 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link

i like DLR on Costello but it's really more a zing on music critics than Costello

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link

Tom Hawking has literally heard one rap song

James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link

(xxp) jack white is just jon spencer for kids who've never heard of jon spencer

debenture banhart (get bent), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link

"zoro on doughnuts" is so cold

J0rdan S., Friday, 16 September 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link

and has read zero rapper interviews

James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link

also i love the phrase "on doughnuts," which is only something that you would say if, like noel gallagher, you've spent your whole life snorting mounds of cocaine

J0rdan S., Friday, 16 September 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link

whiney also otm

J0rdan S., Friday, 16 September 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link

xp: exactly... as long as you're skinny, any addiction is fine!

debenture banhart (get bent), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link

MES on Scumford & Sons, but Boy George on Elton is a close second.

serve soup without tasting it (snoball), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link

i'm a Costello fan and not a Morrissey fan, but still biases aside i love that quote

some dude, Friday, 16 September 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link

http://popcultureplaypen.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/donuts.jpg

TEN RINGS ON LIKE A BASKETBALL PLAYER

James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link

Twelve rings, I know, but you know how hard it is to GIS exactly ten donuts?

James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link

Zorro and RHCP ones made me giggle, Clapton one is most scathing. I don't get the 75% Jeremys one?

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link

also, Elvis Costello calling Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant, n---er" makes all these "harsh" insults seem like fucking love letters

James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link

dunkin donuts kinda suck, but for some reason i'm mad that we don't have 'em here.

debenture banhart (get bent), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link

daaamn Rick James

sleeve, Friday, 16 September 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link

still gotta go with Hanna here, though.

sleeve, Friday, 16 September 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link

as far as actual anecdotes go, ME Smith's is the funniest

but yeah kinda inclined to go with Kathleen Hannah, cuz that is extra cold

I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link

"He'll never forgive God for not making him Angie Bowie."

LOL

em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link

"I'm forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."

there's something about this one which just cracks me up.

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link

but "zorro on doughnuts" probably takes it.

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link

It's a great image but also essentially a fat joke.

em vee equals pea queue (Michael White), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link

haha yeah it's like nick cave is living in some existential play where he is forever near a stereo that's playing the red hot chili peppers

partistan (dayo), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link

"zoro on doughnuts" is so cold

ha, i was just thinking that it's the least icy out of all of these, but the only one that made me lol. nick cave is my runner-up.

hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link

The donuts one is great but it took me a minute because I read it thinking donuts was code for something.

Hanna one is awesome because, well, she is awesome.

A lot of the other best ones already mentioned but I LOLd hard at this because he sounds so bitter:

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."

your mom the burrito (ENBB), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link

yeah there was some bad blood because of Prince upstaging Rick on a tour

I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link

Reznor's 'Marilyn Manson is not a nice person' quite is like uh duh dude

some dude, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link

samuel beckett's the uplift mofo party plan

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link

also lol: Kurt loathed HIM more than anyone else (except a journalist)

hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link

lynn hirschberg?

debenture banhart (get bent), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link

also, Elvis Costello calling Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant, n---er" makes all these "harsh" insults seem like fucking love letters

― James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, September 16, 2011 9:46 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

what is this about

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link

he got drunk one night after a gig in ohio and was mouthing off to classic rock dudes because he was a british tyro with an attitude and shit got out of hand

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link

Wanted to vote Mark E. Smth but Ian Brown about Bono otm.

Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link

xp: this is circa armed forces, so obviously his career bounced back

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link

there's some really good coverage of it in the armed forces 33 1/3 book which i wholeheartedly recommend in general

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link

dag

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link

i couldn't imagine the words "Elvis Costello" being in the People magazine of today unless he was suddenly raising some shitty octuplets and filming it for VH1 Classic

James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link

"Elvis Costello, 24," was also kind of ._.

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link

hmmm you have not looked at People magazine recently have you, Whiney

I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link

don't blame the octuplets, man. they didn't ask to be born.

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link

I have?

James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link

If this list included Miles Davis calling Steve Miller a "non-playing motherfucker" with "only two sorry-ass albums," I would've voted for that.

shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link

https://subscription-assets.timeinc.com/prod/assets/themes/magazines/default/template-resources/images/PE/covers/peoplecover_205x273.jpg

oh wow this week's issue: dumb reality TV bullshit for sad suburban sub-literates, ie, exactly like i was saying

James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link

kids he had with Krall got a story, there are several features from the 2000s written about him

I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link

um dude it's not as if it was publishing "frank sinatra has a cold" shit in 1979 either

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link

it's sick what elvis costello is making those young girls do >:(

the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link

I'm not gonna stick up for the quality journalism of People magazine but Elvis Costello = "bullshit for sad suburban sub-literates" at this point. he is well-known, he's a familiar face, he's been in Austin Powers, knocked up Diana Krall, is always doing middlebrow collabs, putting out albums for the generation that still buys CDs etc.

I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:32 (twelve years ago) link

2002 - feature on marrying Diana Krall
2004 - review: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20145535,00.html
2006 - feature on having twins

I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link

the ones that made me dislike the speaker (even) more: aguilera, weller

goole, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link

here's a review he was mentioned in from this year

Add Lucinda Williams to the list of life's blessings that should be counted on the touching title track of her new album. Indeed, the singer-songwriter shows no signs of slowing the creative roll she has been on since 2007's West. Her latest, coproduced by Grammy winner Don Was, finds the tough-voiced Williams in a tender mood on ballads like the sweetly comforting "Born to Be Loved" and "Copenhagen," an elegy for her late manager. But another death-a friend's suicide-drives her into angry rocker mode on "Seeing Black," one of three cuts endowed with Elvis Costello on electric guitar.

I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link

anyway

I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link

yeah not for nothing but christina's kinda got some nerve for calling people out for looking like female impersonators

strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link

sure, putting down the new jacks is part of showbiz, but inviting tranny wrath seems unwise for someone of her build

goole, Friday, 16 September 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link

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."
Dave Grohl on Courtney Love: "She's an ugly fucking bitch."

Courtney 1 Dave 0 on this one

I love the MES on Mumford one but I think ILM has enough Fall fans to cover that one.

The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link

i voted for Everett on the Beatles, but that's because i hate the fucking Beatles.

also, Elvis Costello has been my enemy for a while. wanna jam those coke-bottle glasses deep, deep into his skull.

Sophomore subs are the new Smith lesbians. (the table is the table), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link

I always hated Alan McGee on Coldplay because apart from this quote he goes on about how they're wimpy music for bedwetters and I'm like you signed the Razorcuts/Jasmine Minks/etc etc you twat (and I love the Razorcuts but c'mon now)

The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link

"I was glad [when Elvis Presley died]. Just another one out of the way. I mean, Elvis this, Elvis that. All we hear is Elvis. What the shit did Elvis do except take dope that I couldn't get ahold of?" -- Jerry Lee Lewis

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link

the paul weller to freddie mercury one doesn't seem right to me. i seem to remember the story going that freddie mercury said in an interview with nme, which totally slated him, that he wanted to bring ballet to the masses. queen and the sex pistols were shortly afterwards recording in the same studio, sid vicious popped his head in and said "oy, freddie. you still bringing ballet to the masses" or something like that.

you've got male (jim in glasgow), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link

"Queen and The Sex Pistols were recording albums in London's West End when Sid Vicious wandered into the wrong studio to find Mercury alone at the piano. 'Ah, Freddie Mercury, still bringing ballet to the massses are you?' hissed Vicious. 'Oh yes, Mr Ferocious, dear,' Mercury bit back. 'We are doing our best.'

this is totally made up

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Sid's dead, Freddie's dead, and they were alone together - who's doing the quoting?

― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, June 28, 2010 11:09 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link

i seem to remember seeing it on a documentary about queen that i was half watching a month or so ago round at a friend's bit, will drinking a lot of booze. in this version of the story freddie wasn't alone.

you've got male (jim in glasgow), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link

maybe it's on tape -- they were in a recording studio

(i don't really believe it either: you see it routinely in queen and mercury biogs, but that doesn't make it true)

mark s, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:11 (twelve years ago) link

"will drinking a lot of booze".

i am consistently illiterate on ilx.

Yeah, it doesn't ring true does it. The actual quote from NME about bringing ballet to the masses is however verifiable.

you've got male (jim in glasgow), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link

yeah it just seems really apocryphal, the details (time, place, phrasing) change constantly in various retellings

I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link

"hippies are so full of shit" is an eternal truth nuke

I'm Passing Open Fistulae (rip van wanko), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link

I remember reading this article a while back, lolling and the quotes, and then seeing no. 1 was such out of place. for me, it's either Gallagher on Kaiser Chiefs, or MES on M&S. Grohl on Love looks hilarious too, but only in context of the Courtney's comment that preceedes it.

btw - isn't this thread more ILM than ILE? jus' sayin'

V79, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link

Gallagher on Kaiser Chiefs may as well be Kaiser Chiefs on Gallagher

conrad, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link

i kinda hope that Robert Smith quote about Morrissey doesn't get lost in the shuffle ... it's a nice targeted bit of contempt that's on target without being puerile or vulgar.

soul ma cosa nostra (Eisbaer), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link

One horrible but very harsh one that's missing is Courtney Love's quote when Kurt Cobain went into a coma in Rome: "Why couldn't it have been Eddie Vedder?"

master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link

e-i-h-t, should i continue?/
you left out the g, cuz the g ain't in you

President Keyes, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link

poll could use pat metheny on kenny g, though it's not too succinct

mookieproof, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link

One horrible but very harsh one that's missing is Courtney Love's quote when Kurt Cobain went into a coma in Rome: "Why couldn't it have been Eddie Vedder?"

lol that just makes me think of Dead Rock'n'Rollers by Detention the whole lyrics of which might as well be in this poll

The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link

i can't bear the thought of the adulation for a dead/martyred Eddie Vedder esp. since i can barely stand the adulation that constipated yak gets while he's still alive.

soul ma cosa nostra (Eisbaer), Friday, 16 September 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link

quote about costello is one of music's classic truth bombs, but voting for

"People talk about Eric Clapton. What has he ever done except throw his baby off a fuckin' ledge and write a song about it?"

I mean...

iatee, Friday, 16 September 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, that's just mean and defamatory ... and i don't even like eric clapton or his music.

soul ma cosa nostra (Eisbaer), Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link

that is totally the harshest line

still voted nick cave, tho, because it's truer

mookieproof, Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link

i only just saw the Nick Cave quote ... shit, it's a beauty.

soul ma cosa nostra (Eisbaer), Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:04 (twelve years ago) link

in Aguilera's defense, she said that back when Gaga was barely famous, and was arguably less known for her music and more for a) looking like Christina and b) being speculated to have really been a dude

some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link

nonetheless, flea loves him some Nick Cave so no hard feelings (or they haven't heard what Mr. Cave said about their music).

soul ma cosa nostra (Eisbaer), Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link

RIP NME

The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link

that's kind of tragic, RHCP as the puppy looking up at Cave with nothing but love and admiration while he scowls down at them in disdain

what's more likely, that Flea actually said "rubbish" because he was talking to a British interviewer or that the interviewer misquoted Flea as saying "rubbish"

some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link

cave on rhcp ix good but i love the angie bowie line so that

talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link

Johann Hari wrote that article.

xpost

The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link

don't know who 1/4 of the shit talkers are.

President Keyes, Saturday, 17 September 2011 00:59 (twelve years ago) link

Igor Stravinsky on Antonio Vivaldi: "Vivaldi didn't write 500 concertos. He wrote the same concerto 500 times."

der dukatenscheisser (Sanpaku), Saturday, 17 September 2011 01:42 (twelve years ago) link

The boy ain't shit. I chew him in tobacco and spit him in shit.

James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 17 September 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link

Voted Elton because it seems like he only befriends celebs for the purpose to hold pissing contests with them later.

Square (MintIce), Saturday, 17 September 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link

what's more likely, that Flea actually said "rubbish" because he was talking to a British interviewer or that the interviewer misquoted Flea as saying "rubbish"

I can attest that even if you are a person who would never in a million years use the word "rubbish" in conversation, if you talk to the English press they will occasionally claim that you said something was "a bit rubbish" and you will scratch your head when you run across it years later

pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 17 September 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link

lol

some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 02:39 (twelve years ago) link

were you in fact 'slagging' something or was it entirely invented

mookieproof, Saturday, 17 September 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link

I think what I'd said was that something "didn't really work for me" and I was quoted as saying it was "a bit rubbish" - same thing happened another time with "a bit crap, really!" which I laffed my ass off, I think we were all in the van together and I was like "guys guys here's this interview with me, stop me when you figure out why I'd wanna read it out loud"

pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 17 September 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link

, really!

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 September 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link

steven tyler and our noel agree -- college kids radiohead are 'a bit rubbish'

mookieproof, Saturday, 17 September 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler: "WUTS ALL THIS THEN?"

James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 17 September 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link

dude seriously you would have been apoplectic, we were riffing on it in the van for quite some time: "hey guys I said 'I have to admit the other side has a point' and it came out 'fair play to them then at the end of the day'"

pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 17 September 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link

the sandwich you were eating during the interview became a blood sausage, etc.

some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link

"Mr. Tyler popped 'round for a bit of tea and a wee chat Thursday last."

pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 17 September 2011 03:13 (twelve years ago) link

blud sandwich

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 September 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link

crazy thing is i actually saw an RHCP interview on TV recently where i vaguely Flea said something that struck me as more highfalutin and possibly anglicized than i would've expected from him, so i'm honestly not sure if he did say "rubbish"

some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link

did he weigh in on the gravity of the situation facing the home counties

pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 17 September 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link

i love the mental loop i have of flea saying "the sustain on this is A BIT ROOBISH"

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 17 September 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link

these insults are shit, i want my money back

Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 09:08 (twelve years ago) link

"Everyone's going on about Blur being the new Beatles and us being the new Rolling Stones. We're the Beatles AND the Stones, and Blur's just Herman's fuckin' Hermits." -- Noel Gallagher

deserved to make the cut.

Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 17 September 2011 09:11 (twelve years ago) link

no wait, Richey on the Levellers was funny

Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 09:12 (twelve years ago) link

like all of these:

David Lee Roth on Elvis Costello
Mark E Smith on Mumford & Sons
Nick Cave on Red Hot Chili Peppers
Elvis Costello on Morrissey <- truth bomb
Noel Gallagher on Jack White

went with MES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 17 September 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link

nonetheless, flea loves him some Nick Cave so no hard feelings (or they haven't heard what Mr. Cave said about their music).

― soul ma cosa nostra (Eisbaer), Friday, September 16, 2011 8:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i definitely read some thing a while back where flea was qqing that cave didnt like rhcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 17 September 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link

Lou Reed on Zappa: "He's probably the single most untalented person I've heard in my life. He's a two-bit pretentious academic, and he can't play rock'n'roll, because he's a loser. And that's why he dresses up funny. He's not happy with himself, and I think he's right."

mark s, Saturday, 17 September 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link

did he weigh in on the gravity of the situation facing the home counties

flea is australian tbh

robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Saturday, 17 September 2011 10:07 (twelve years ago) link

Richey on the levellers wasn't even a diss, that's just reportage

civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Saturday, 17 September 2011 10:31 (twelve years ago) link

wanna do an interior dialogue of cockney steve tyler now

talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 September 2011 10:39 (twelve years ago) link

feel free

conrad, Saturday, 17 September 2011 10:44 (twelve years ago) link

I don't get the Levellers one. Explain?

rustic italian flatbread, Saturday, 17 September 2011 10:44 (twelve years ago) link

someone named jeremy is a certain type of person as distinct from say someone named richey

conrad, Saturday, 17 September 2011 10:50 (twelve years ago) link

all of their fans are trustafarians

civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Saturday, 17 September 2011 10:51 (twelve years ago) link

jeremy is a nicer name than richey imo

i asked for "HALF" a glass of wine, because i am TEMPERENT (lex pretend), Saturday, 17 September 2011 10:53 (twelve years ago) link

it's at least partly a class thing

zvookster, Saturday, 17 September 2011 10:54 (twelve years ago) link

the manics on the other hand, as an authentic punk voice, had a fan-base that definitely contained no middle-class people whatsoever

civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Saturday, 17 September 2011 10:54 (twelve years ago) link

bloody trustafarians

conrad, Saturday, 17 September 2011 10:56 (twelve years ago) link

someone named jeremy is a certain type of person as distinct from say someone named richey

― conrad, Saturday, September 17, 2011 6:50 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 10:58 (twelve years ago) link

here is sad flea btw: http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/chili-pepper-hurt-by-caves-opinion_24_05_2006

is it possible flea started talking british after hanging out with thom yorke the last couple years?

some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 10:58 (twelve years ago) link

i actually thought of the lou reed quote on frank zappa. i think that the quotes are from a compiled list and the lou reed quote didn't make the cut for whatever reason, though.

soul ma cosa nostra (Eisbaer), Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:02 (twelve years ago) link

it's at least partly a class thing

― zvookster, Saturday, September 17, 2011 6:54 AM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

So a child named Jeremy can call his mother "mummy", whereas Richie has to call his mother "mum" or else she'll box him about the ears?

rustic italian flatbread, Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:33 (twelve years ago) link

it's basically about middle class people being butthurt

Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:35 (twelve years ago) link

on the reg

Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:35 (twelve years ago) link

altho the "Jeremy" thing has a slightly less blanket application than that. see also: the Housemartins "Five Get Overexcited"

Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:36 (twelve years ago) link

i thought maybe they played a Pearl Jam cover

some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:39 (twelve years ago) link

Obviously name doesn't have the same resonances in the US

Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:41 (twelve years ago) link

it's a cheap, lazy zing and not worth making but y'know it was at least half funny which puts it ahead of a lot of the list. and the point is that it's aimed at the Levellers who at the time was busy claiming Friedmanism and never having a bath as The Most Radical Gesture so

Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:41 (twelve years ago) link

Zorro on doughnuts should walk this

rustic italian flatbread, Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link

yeah but consider the source, i think when the zing is made by somebody clearly less talented than the zingee it weakens the blow a little. it's a great line tho.

Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:55 (twelve years ago) link

oh yeah, i mean, i don't care much for either of them, but gallagher far less.

rustic italian flatbread, Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:56 (twelve years ago) link

Say what you like about the Levellers, but at least they could swim.

master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Saturday, 17 September 2011 12:03 (twelve years ago) link

never got near enough to water to find out iirc

Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 12:05 (twelve years ago) link

*hi 5*

zvookster, Saturday, 17 September 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link

Gallagher quotes need their own poll.

Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Saturday, 17 September 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link

Gotta go with David Lee Roth. Never forget!

Gavin McLayoff (u s steel), Saturday, 17 September 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link

DLR has said so many clever and bizarre things over the years that "lol nerds" really just doesn't rate

some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link

it's a quality zing i think

Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link

not as witty as Dave Grohl's obv but still

Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link

it is, and he's not wrong -- i totally had a "i'm gonna check this guy's music out, he has GLASSES like me" kind of reaction to EC as a teenager

i'm just saying in a list of DLR quotes it wouldn't make the top 20

some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link

it's got a focus that lifts it above 'lol ur kid died' or 'lol u ugly' tbf

talking heads, quiet smith (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link

one of my all-time favourites is henry rollins on morrissey - “get a girlfriend, get a James Brown CD, get some vitamin C, get some fucking clean air and some sunlight, go outside for a walk. get over it!”

i still don't know who rollins is but that is otm.

i asked for "HALF" a glass of wine, because i am TEMPERENT (lex pretend), Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link

yes, all gay guys should just get girlfriends

iatee, Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link

brilliant punchline.

lex's i mean.

Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link

i'd reword it to "get laid" but the idea is the same

xp

i asked for "HALF" a glass of wine, because i am TEMPERENT (lex pretend), Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link

it's funny cause henry rollins is exactly as moody as morrissey really, and it's not like his music is particularly james brown-influenced

iatee, Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link

genuine irl lol @ “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”

7 Crazy Chinese Mothers (will), Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link

In the early 1990s, I'm pretty sure that Morrissey was on record as being "asexual". Plus Rollins very publicly supports gay rights.

rustic italian flatbread, Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link

also rollins is gay

I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link

what's that rumbling i hear off in the distance?

Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link

except he dated liza richardson

debenture banhart (get bent), Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link

lex charging towards rollins after a google image search (xpost)

some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link

I can't remember where I read it, but one of my favourite quotes ever was Randy Newman on Rattle & Hum: "Black people love U2!"

clemenza, Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link

ew

caek, Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/

debenture banhart (get bent), Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link

Love on Grohl kind of reads like a M*rissa post

the wrong terry to fuckwit (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link

Not to dwell on something said one hundred and fifty years ago but...this idea that British people are pale, miserable and sickly (i.e. "gay") and don't listen to James Brown was kind of tiresome at the time.

Chez Dahmier (Mount Cleaners), Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link

i don't think Rollins was speaking about "British people"

Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link

he was singing about a gay bloke who wrote a lot of songs about being pale, miserable and sickly tho

Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link

I'd like to hear a Rollins song written from the point of view of Morrissey after taking some Vitamin C and getting some sun.

Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link

still love roth's clash diss - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbdMvOwf22M

balls, Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link

Please, I have nothing against Rollins, I often respect him, but I could probably find a quote somewhere about the lame British people and their homosexual sickly bands!

Chez Dahmier (Mount Cleaners), Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link

i could probably make one up if that wd help

Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link

am I right about morrissey being "asexual" though? I had a friend who worked security detail on moz's hotel room after a merriweather show in the early 1990s, and he reported that morrissey "only wanted hugs".

rustic italian flatbread, Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link

Morrissey used to make that claim on the reg iirc, doesn't mean it was true. Always read it as code for "unwilling to come out yet to the notoriously open and tolerant indie boy community"

Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link

lol, yeah

your mom the burrito (ENBB), Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link

i knew so many chicks that invested alot of hope in that asexual claim

balls, Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link

still love roth's clash diss -

Christ, that was interminable. "Who likes rock 'n' roll?!" Um, we do. Any chance you'll be playing some in the next 20 minutes or so?

shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 17 September 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link

Richey Edwards on Slowdive: "We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler."

how the hell were slowdive polarizing to anything ever?

the island badger is an ageless pirate (Pillbox), Saturday, 17 September 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link

think he might have been going for an 'unexpected angle'

everyone probably expected him to hate Phil Collins the most but he came right out of leftfield!!

the wrong terry to fuckwit (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 17 September 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

also: when, in the estimation of you guys, did 'worse than Hitler' become a thing that people said in the way Richey is using it here?

the wrong terry to fuckwit (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 17 September 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

Slowdive hate is down to the NME's shoegaze coverage and Richey deciding they were a bunch of apolitical schnorrers

Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link

When Wayne Coyne said everyone he'd met in showbiz was pretty cool, except for Richard Ashcroft who was a massive dick, I thought ok, Wyane Coyne is a super nice guy and Richard Ashcroft is obviously a massive dick. When he said Arcade Fire were pricks I thought that was unexpected, but he's a super nice guy so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. If I hear him mouth off about one more rock star though...

ledge, Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link

Christ, that was interminable. "Who likes rock 'n' roll?!" Um, we do. Any chance you'll be playing some in the next 20 minutes or so?

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, September 17, 2011 2:06 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

everything about that video was rock n roll dawg

look out honey, 'cause I'm using ayo technology (crüt), Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link

When I met Richard Ashcroft he was super-friendly & shared his spliff & kicked a soccer ball around w/ my friends & I. Of course, that was back in the days when Verve were a space-rock band & RA had not yet decided that he was the rock jesus.

the island badger is an ageless pirate (Pillbox), Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link

(RA is clearly not the rock jesus)

the island badger is an ageless pirate (Pillbox), Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link

(who is the rock jesus)

mookieproof, Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:50 (twelve years ago) link

(jesus jesus)

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link

(jesus)

the island badger is an ageless pirate (Pillbox), Saturday, 17 September 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link

When Wayne Coyne said everyone he'd met in showbiz was pretty cool, except for Richard Ashcroft who was a massive dick, I thought ok, Wyane Coyne is a super nice guy and Richard Ashcroft is obviously a massive dick. When he said Arcade Fire were pricks I thought that was unexpected, but he's a super nice guy so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. If I hear him mouth off about one more rock star though...

― ledge, Saturday, September 17, 2011 6:26 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/10/15/beck_i_was_shocked_by_coyne_attack

some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link

Another hero gone ;_;

ledge, Saturday, 17 September 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link

jesus jones is the rock jesus fyi

master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Saturday, 17 September 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link

Coyne really is surprisingly unchill

some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 23:33 (twelve years ago) link

always thought those 2 guys weirdly looked alike. maybe not tho...

Mordy, Saturday, 17 September 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link

these insults are a bit rubbish, i want my money back

― Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Saturday, September 17, 2011 2:08 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Leee, Lord of Wtfomgham (Leee), Sunday, 18 September 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link

that Beck "attack" is like the limpest, weakest attack ever and Beck hardly even seems phased by it

sick yr finger up his butt (DJP), Sunday, 18 September 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link

well yeah, but i was just offering it up as more evidence of Coyne running off at the mouth about other musicians (in this case someone he did a whole tour playing in the backing band for)

some dude, Sunday, 18 September 2011 01:58 (twelve years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link

what's a dinner lady?

some dude, Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link

Lunch lady
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boxall, Friday, 23 September 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link

elton john, yesterday

http://i.imgur.com/yuWpS.jpg

manatee is forever (electricsound), Friday, 23 September 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link


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