The 30 Harshest Musician-on-Musician Insults in History

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

feel free

I don't get the Levellers one. Explain?

someone named jeremy is a certain type of person as distinct from say someone named richey

all of their fans are trustafarians

jeremy is a nicer name than richey imo

it's at least partly a class thing

the manics on the other hand, as an authentic punk voice, had a fan-base that definitely contained no middle-class people whatsoever

bloody trustafarians

someone named jeremy is a certain type of person as distinct from say someone named richey

― conrad, Saturday, September 17, 2011 6:50 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

here is sad flea btw: http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/chili-pepper-hurt-by-caves-opinion_24_05_2006

is it possible flea started talking british after hanging out with thom yorke the last couple years?

i actually thought of the lou reed quote on frank zappa. i think that the quotes are from a compiled list and the lou reed quote didn't make the cut for whatever reason, though.

it's at least partly a class thing

― zvookster, Saturday, September 17, 2011 6:54 AM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

So a child named Jeremy can call his mother "mummy", whereas Richie has to call his mother "mum" or else she'll box him about the ears?

it's basically about middle class people being butthurt