The 30 Harshest Musician-on-Musician Insults in History

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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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

anyway

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

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

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.

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.

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)

"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 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.

"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?

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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.

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)

"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.

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

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

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'

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

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.

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?"

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

that is totally the harshest line

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

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

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

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

RIP NME

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"

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

Johann Hari wrote that article.

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

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

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

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

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

lol

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

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"

, really!

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

elton john, yesterday

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