The 30 Harshest Musician-on-Musician Insults in History

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

i thought maybe they played a Pearl Jam cover

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

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

Zorro on doughnuts should walk this

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.

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

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

never got near enough to water to find out iirc

*hi 5*

Gallagher quotes need their own poll.

Gotta go with David Lee Roth. Never forget!

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

it's a quality zing i think

not as witty as Dave Grohl's obv but still

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

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

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.

yes, all gay guys should just get girlfriends

brilliant punchline.

lex's i mean.

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

xp

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

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.”

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

also rollins is gay

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

except he dated liza richardson

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

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!"

ew

http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

i could probably make one up if that wd help

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".

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"

lol, yeah

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

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?

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

how the hell were slowdive polarizing to anything ever?

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!!

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?

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

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...

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