it's basically about middle class people being butthurt
― Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
on the reg
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 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought maybe they played a Pearl Jam cover
― some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:39 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
Zorro on doughnuts should walk this
― rustic italian flatbread, Saturday, 17 September 2011 11:53 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
never got near enough to water to find out iirc
― Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 12:05 (thirteen years ago) link
*hi 5*
― zvookster, Saturday, 17 September 2011 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Gallagher quotes need their own poll.
― Corn Maze to the Dark Side (Eazy), Saturday, 17 September 2011 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Gotta go with David Lee Roth. Never forget!
― Gavin McLayoff (u s steel), Saturday, 17 September 2011 14:36 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a quality zing i think
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
not as witty as Dave Grohl's obv but still
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:17 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, all gay guys should just get girlfriends
― iatee, Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
brilliant punchline.
lex's i mean.
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:21 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
what's that rumbling i hear off in the distance?
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
except he dated liza richardson
― debenture banhart (get bent), Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
lex charging towards rollins after a google image search (xpost)
― some dude, Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:41 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
ew
― caek, Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/
― debenture banhart (get bent), Saturday, 17 September 2011 16:50 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think Rollins was speaking about "British people"
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:22 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
still love roth's clash diss - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbdMvOwf22M
― balls, Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:23 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
i could probably make one up if that wd help
― Louis Jaha (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:25 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, yeah
― your mom the burrito (ENBB), Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i knew so many chicks that invested alot of hope in that asexual claim
― balls, Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:55 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link