The 30 Harshest Musician-on-Musician Insults in History

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.

xpost

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'

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

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'"

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

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

blud sandwich

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"

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

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

these insults are shit, i want my money back

"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.

no wait, Richey on the Levellers was funny

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

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

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."

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

flea is australian tbh

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

wanna do an interior dialogue of cockney steve tyler now