The 30 Harshest Musician-on-Musician Insults in History

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."

elvis costello on morrissey = truth bomb, sadly

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

obviously

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."

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

Tom Hawking has literally heard one rap song

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

"zoro on doughnuts" is so cold

and has read zero rapper interviews

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

whiney also otm

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

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

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

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

TEN RINGS ON LIKE A BASKETBALL PLAYER

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

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

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

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

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

daaamn Rick James

still gotta go with Hanna here, though.

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

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

LOL

"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.

but "zorro on doughnuts" probably takes it.

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

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

"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.

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."

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

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

samuel beckett's the uplift mofo party plan

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

lynn hirschberg?

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

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

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

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

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20073464,00.html

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

dag

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

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

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

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

I have?

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.

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

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

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

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.

(RA is clearly not the rock jesus)

(who is the rock jesus)

(jesus jesus)

(jesus)

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

Another hero gone ;_;

jesus jones is the rock jesus fyi

Coyne really is surprisingly unchill

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

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

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

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)

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elton john, yesterday

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