'Sup?
Those purveyors of shite, Coldplay are playing a gig at Exeter Castle for 500 mugs who want to pay £50 each.

It hurts me that that twat Chris Martin claims Exeter as his home town.

The fact that they are so popular is almost as baffling as U2 being massive.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:13, 61 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I find them generally inoffensive,
I don't understand the mass hatred for them, I wouldn't turn the radio off if one of their songs come on.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:17, Reply)

Exactly..
'Inoffensive' pap is what they peddle, and that, is a terrible thing.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:19, Reply)

JLS are worse.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:20, Reply)

Who?
/gets all his music off the internet
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:41, Reply)

they're a kind of musical Milton Keynes

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:10, Reply)

I don't think I've heard them
but a couple of weeks ago, I hadn't heard of them, and yet they were mentioned every few minutes on TV. Was quite odd.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:44, Reply)

^This is me pretty much all the time when it comes to "Entertainment news"
it's quite a nice feeling really. It must be a bit like how the Swiss felt during the war. They knew something horrible involving lots of people was going on, it just didnt concern them.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:49, Reply)

after giving it some analysis
I find that the bands that I really hate, like U2 and Coldplay, are ones that I hate because they are inexplicably huge and raved about. I wouldn't say that either of them produce bad music (except Vertigo by U2) but it is completely average and dull and not worthy of the huge amount of adoration and press that they get.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:29, Reply)

I haven't seen much about coldplay in the Media for ages,

(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:31, Reply)

there were enough comments in the article I read this morning to revive my annoyance

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:42, Reply)

Mindpiss for the masses
They do have a function though, as a handy barometer for a persons intellect and overall worthiness. If the Nazi's were a modern day phenomenon, they would gauge whether a person lived or died by their musical tastes. Coldplay fans wouldn't even get to go for a shower, they would be forced to throw themselves into a mincer, which was working at half speed.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:18, Reply)

and I would be camp Kommandant
unt would rule viz an IRON FIST, JA?

Coldplay and their ilk are just musical wallpaper, music for people who don't really like music but don't want to sit in silence. People like my sister, who likes everything but isn't really into anything either. '£50 man', the sort of people who go to DFS and wash their Ford Tediums of a Sunday, wearing their Next jumpers...

So inoffensive it is actually offensive. The soundtrack to insipid dullness. Middle Britain - ugh.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:31, Reply)

Right on brother,
lets focus our energy on the real problems of our society: people who music taste we consider boring and people who wear Next jumpers.

ffs.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:38, Reply)

ffs indeed
I find some music that is being discussed dull, so I've said so.

You're suggesting I should have turned the conversation around into one about 'the real problems in society', right?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:41, Reply)

Erm,
the last time i checked, this was a forum for venting spleens and generally floating the bullshit that enters our minds, amongst other things. If it's kittums your after, you know where to look. Lets not self moderate, for that is the death knell of internet forums.

ffs
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:42, Reply)

I'm with chomp, it's a bit of a non-issue for me, nothing to get worked up about.
I bet you get angry when someone orders a steak that isn't medium-rare.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:49, Reply)

OK then
let's talk about 'the real problems in society' then. Sounds much more fun.

You first.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:51, Reply)

Milton keynes grid and roundabout layout
An inspired example of urban design or a labyrinthine network of piss alleys leading in ever decreasing circles to hell?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:54, Reply)

^ THIS SORT OF THING, PLEASE

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:57, Reply)

Well...

I find that while the grid and roundabout style can make naviagation easier by making the transport network a regimented and logical layout, it does mean that a certain charm is lost.

No one ever popped down a little sidestreet in MK and found a brilliant little pub that they never knew exsisted, they got in their car and drove around and around and aropund until the crushing enormity of the fcats that their life never quite worked out as they wished, the car they drive is the base model, the girl they married is from the middle shelf and the house they live is identicale to every other on the road and stuffed full of identikit Ikea crap that they never needed anyway, "WE ONLY CAME IN FOR A LAMP AND NOW WE HAVE A SNORDLEIVK MASSAGE TABLE" until the ineviatbilty of it all consumes them and they deliberately crash intoa concrete cow ina fit of ironic suicide, that no one in MK will understand anyway.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:03, Reply)

*applause*
That made me slightly want to die, but in a good way.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:11, Reply)

There's two 19th century pubs about 15 minutes walk from the town center,
down footpaths and along the great union canal.
The area where milton keynes now is has been inhabited since saxon times and there's an medieval abbey and Roman ruins around. Just because a modern city was built around them doesn't mean they don't exist.
I actually prefer that general traffic is kept away from them.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:23, Reply)

hmmm I think you may have missed the point...

Does make sense to route trafiic away from the ancient centres of towns and cities, much nicer to wander traffic free, donkeys should be allowed though.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:29, Reply)

Donkeys, bikes, horses and people are all alowed on the redway system
which is a sort of network of cycle paths through the whole of milton keynes and some of the surrounding villages.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:31, Reply)

Thank God we got away from boring old music
and onto THE TOPICS THAT MATTER TODAY.

NO-ONE could ever say THIS ^ is dull. No siree.

EDGE OF THE FUCKING SEAT STUFF.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:33, Reply)

*applauds*

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:47, Reply)

Both.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:04, Reply)

I don't care what people talk about, I just think people who get worked up over Coldplay or U2 are getting themselves worked up over nothing.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:55, Reply)

Exactly the original point they are nothing

Honestly though music, art, films anything subjective is surely a classic example of a good topic for discussion.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:58, Reply)

this is just it
it's about discussion. I don't get so angry about it that it prevents me from acting like a normal rational person.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:00, Reply)

Maybe once in a while but the amount U2 & Coldplay are mentioned on here is getting silly.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:01, Reply)

I'll grant that I talk about U2 quite a lot
it's an easy topic to fall back on, particularly as I like to talk about music generally, whether it's things I like or dislike.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:02, Reply)

STEAK IS A SERIOUS MATTER!
and rhythm is a dancer
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:52, Reply)

I don't even really like steak.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:56, Reply)

that's just weird

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:00, Reply)

Neither did I for the first 31 years of my life
then I had one prepared correctly
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:00, Reply)

Anything and everything
can be classed as a 'non-issue'. Your mum having cancer, global warming, war casualties and child mortality in the third world are all 'non-issues' as far as I am concerned. My bus running 6 minutes late, no 20p beef Space Raiders in the shop next door, someone stealing my pen are all 'issues' as far as I am concerned.

Point of observation, it's brilliant.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:54, Reply)

My Ford tedium has lichen growing on it
I think I have washed it 3 times in 6 years
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:40, Reply)

It's stinky Martin and his smugness I can't stand

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:37, Reply)

Someone should buy him a notepad
All that writing on his hand, he might get ink poisoning.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:43, Reply)

Here's hoping

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:52, Reply)

And....
...didn't Michael Stipe do that years ago?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:11, Reply)

People have been doing it all over the world, for years
I even did it myself once - 'PE kit - don't forget!' it said.

When will this madness end???!!!11??////??
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:13, Reply)

meh
Coldplay are alright, I have no issue with M.O.R. stuff, if i'm working away on something i'd rather have coldplay on in the background than Lamb of God or Portishead.

If this gig is a once in a lifetime chance to see your favourite band in an up close and personal venue then its worth it, I wouldn't, but then I think anyone who spends silly money on a ferrari is an idiot (you should buy a lambo or Aston Martin instead)
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:00, Reply)

it's not really up close and personal
it's outside a ruined castle.

get your point though. I paid £50 to see Metallica in the O2 earlier this year.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:03, Reply)

But Metallica are awesome!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:05, Reply)

that is true

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:06, Reply)

\m/OvO\m/
Metal owl loves metal
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:07, Reply)

....
good....
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:13, Reply)

mmm almost
Metallica were awesome until 1993.
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 11:15, Reply)

M.O.R. ?
Menopause Oriented Rock?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:04, Reply)

Middle of the road

(Halfy By light alone, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 11:15, Reply)

I love Lamb of God

Not great backround music though.

The Shins are quite good background music
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:04, Reply)

Zowie and Rolan, Satchel and Moon-Unit - come on down!
The sign of a true self-important 'celebrity' is to call your kids some ridiculous name to ensure they get battered at school.

Coldplay is music for people who don't really like music but feel they ought to have something to play in case 'someone comes around'.

And once again - and for the record - Bono is the biggest cunt in the World.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:03, Reply)

Point of case.
Geldof and Yates - good job with the offspring. Well adjusted people to say the least
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:10, Reply)

Does anyone listen to The Bronx?

Awesome band, 1,2 and 3 are all great albums, has anyone heard the mariachi album?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:14, Reply)

Yes - the are fantastic.
I was staying at the Columbia in late August and they happened to be there at the same time - they were rehearsing in Hyde Park and the kids and I sat down and had our own private show.

The album is great too.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:19, Reply)

I've not, but will investigate.
But what about the REAL problems of society?

How does this band address them? It's just a noise - why are you even mentioning them?

You ARE allowed to mention JLS though.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:21, Reply)

They address the issues...
...through the medium of mime.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:27, Reply)

Funnily enough

they do cover such burning issues as prostitution, cociane abuse and the joys and dangers of sex with inebriated women
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:30, Reply)

Ha! AS I THOUGHT!!
No mention of Milton Keynes cycle paths.

NEXT!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:34, Reply)