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Unjustified new thread fuelled by crippling boredom and laziness
I heard, although ever since the event I've been trying to deny this, the new Black Eyed Peas single recently. It's called The Time and is unquestionably the single most unarguable instance of an abject creative void I've ever heard. It should be called The Time (if you pay for this you're effectively acquiescing to nothing original or interesting ever being recorded again).

What's got you into a lather lately?

Furthermore, could I possibly have used poncier language to express my distaste above? Not one person who listens to the Black Eyed Peas will be able to read that
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:09, 152 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
fuck off, "Hey Mama" is like my all time favorite song ever
and I like "Rock Dat Body"
and I read that just fine
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:14, Reply)
They were alright when they did Elephunk
But seriously, what the FUCK is that new track about?
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:18, Reply)
The Time, it's sugar pop bullshit. It's the shit my mum would listen to.
I can't say much though, I still rock out to N Sync and Backstreet Boys.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:20, Reply)
I won't hear owt against the Backstreet Boys
Larger Than Life was a crackin' pop song.

But N'Sync can fuck RIGHT off.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:21, Reply)
Look, alright, I didn't really listen to them when I was younger. I like the album Never Gone.
"I Still" is one of my favorite songs in the world. Cried to it LOADS.
/girl blog
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:25, Reply)
A while back, me and a mate discovered the joy of 'chipmunking' tracks (i,e, increasing the speed and pitch 150%)
Larger Than Life was one of the better ones.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:30, Reply)
*gay-ometer explodes into atoms*

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:30, Reply)
I'll be honest, you wouldn't look out of place on the N'Sync line up.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:15, Reply)
+ Black Lace

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:22, Reply)
I actually have "It's Gonna Be Me" stuck in my head right now.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
I now have the Frosties 'they're gonna taste graa-ate' song in mine.
THANKS FOR THAT. NO, REALLY.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:30, Reply)
Why the fuck does his mother serve him Frosties on a plate?

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:31, Reply)
Because they were ghastly povvos
and they were trying to make them last til next Giro day?
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:37, Reply)
This does make sense

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:43, Reply)
I have N*Sync's No Strings Attached
Aww yeah boi.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:58, Reply)
sup homes?
Now that I'm rarely on here during the day I missed how you did against the ginger harridan...
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:22, Reply)
Afternoon sir
I fared OK against Mrs Robinson thank you, although obviously I haven't seen the edit and might still be made to look a DAMN FOOL

But I won the show, so fuck 'er
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:24, Reply)
well played
Can't do much better than beat the cretins they put in front of you.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:30, Reply)
you dropped this
'up'
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:32, Reply)
hey sis
Up to much? Suppose I should think about getting you a birthday present (now that I've finished all my Christmas shopping muh-ha-ha-ha-ha).
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:39, Reply)
damn right
better make it a good 'un as well. To make up for the disappointment of no xmas present from my only brother.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:42, Reply)
blame your new sister
I spent all my money on her.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:48, Reply)
Woah there!
Get in your Honda Discord and sod off!
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:02, Reply)
Thank you kindly
Everyone was really nice actually, no tactical voting or bitterness. Unfortunately I agreed wholesale to the idea that the winner should buy a round when we got back to the hotel BEFORE the show, and the result. £40 that cost me
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)
lucky it wasn't in that London
or it would have cost you £100.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:35, Reply)
Good point
Even at hotel prices I was appalled that drinks for 9 people could cost £40 in fucking Glasgow
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:41, Reply)
I think that about every Black Eyed Peas single
then three weeks later I'm humming it on the way to work.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:23, Reply)
Good, but could do better. Try, for example:
I was recently unfortunate enough to have undergone aural exposure to, and since the event have endeavoured to blot out the tortuous memories from my mind of, the latest recording to be released by the popular beat combo known as 'The Black Eyed Peas.' Their own composition, they have entitled it 'The Time,' and I must say without reserve that it sucks donkey balls and is utterly fucking shit.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:23, Reply)
That's really very good
Except that it is by no means their own composition but rather a "reworking" of Time Of Your Life from Dirty Dancing.

Just take a minute to think about that.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:25, Reply)
I gave up halfway through the first line.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:26, Reply)
that's because you're a big dull rapist.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:29, Reply)
No because I'm not impressed with overly pretentious language
to describe a song I haven't heard and even if I did I would at most ignore it not spend half an hour acting like it's a personal insult like the rest of you pricks do at least 3 times a week.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)
I gave up after no

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:34, Reply)
You can't handle the truth.
www.toddlittleton.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/nicholson.jpg
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:37, Reply)
tl;dr
/ac
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:35, Reply)
I didn't even like that song in the movie. Or the dance scene.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:26, Reply)
I have to say, I'm a big fan of the 'peas.
but even I had to admit that song is a pile of shite. They slaughtered it on the x factor this weekend, and it wasn't even a crime.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:26, Reply)
I have had bowel movements that sounded better than their new song.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
POIDH
Or aural equivalent
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:32, Reply)
4VROIDH?

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:32, Reply)
I just want to hear berk shit please

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:36, Reply)
I'll admit, I have some strange things in my CD collection
But I'm afraid I can't help you with that particular request.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:38, Reply)
Well, you can
And without recourse to your CD collection at that. But perhaps hunting down a fellow B3tan and pressing a dictaphone to her stomach is too much effort for you
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:42, Reply)
NOW I get why you're so het up.
Pissing on cherished memories, eh?

NO-ONE PUTS DF IN THE CORNER.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
*bullying laugh*

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:29, Reply)
I wish I could deny this
But the fact is that it's absolutely true. The song would be shit anyway, and represents all that is wrong with creativity-devoid modern pop, but as a cover version it's beyond the pale. Cover something BAD!!! Abba is right there for the raping!
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:30, Reply)
Next thing you know it'll be
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7flrwE-bZVo&feature=fvst
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:40, Reply)
Oh god...
The most depressing thing about it is that it will no doubt pour a small fortune into the pockets of those wankers, as well as the already-doubtless-very-wealthy wankers who created Dirty Dancing.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
Well at least they haven't tried to ruin
a tune that wasn't already shit, unlike their efforts with Misirlou by Dick Dale. It's like when Puff Daddy made a tune interpolating The fucking Police: not a problem. Start fucking with Kashmir and I get upset.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
What's hardest to believe about the latter
is, if my sources are reliable, he managed to convince Pagey to play guitar on that abomination.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:31, Reply)
Yes he did
It was billed as "Puff Daddy feat. Jimmy Page", as opposed to the more accurate "pathetic covers artist Sean Combs somehow allowed anywhere near the godlike presence of Jimmy Page"
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:35, Reply)
Well, I don't know if I'd go so far as to call Page 'godlike'
But I'd certainly rate his musical merit and influence a lot higher than that of Mr Coombs.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:36, Reply)
As guitarists go, he takes some beating
Although I may have overegged the pudding slightly. I'm intrigued to know which musicians you would confer an honourary deity's title to, like some cheap polytechnic masquerading as a university who wanted Stephen Fry to dignify their existence with his presence but could only get Nick Hancock
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:38, Reply)
I love his records but he's actually quite a sloppy, scratchy player.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:41, Reply)
For my own ha'porth
Guitarists: Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Alan Mostert (Quintessence)
Edit: I agree with Monty's point above - the man could play, but he was a chronic widdler with a second-rate guitar tone. For that style of playing I prefer Ritchie Blackmore, and the guitarists I've chosen are the ones who could really make the thing sing.

Keyboards/Piano: Oscar Peterson, McCoy Tyner, possibly Ray Manzarek
Drums: Moon, Baker, Mitchell, John Densmore, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich
Bassists: John Entwistle, Lemmy, JPJ, possibly Geddy Lee, Monk Montgomery, Stan Clarke and that bloke Lianne Carroll's married to
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:43, Reply)
Buddy Rich was superb when he went on The Muppet Show

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:43, Reply)
Haha! Should I add Animal to that list?

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:44, Reply)
Definitely
Have you seen their drum-off?
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:45, Reply)
Booker T Jones surely must make your keyboard list, no?

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:44, Reply)
A very good point.
This list is by no means exhaustive and mostly derived from a quick scroll through the albums on my work hard drive. (I am still debating whether to include Ian Paice in the drummers list.)
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:47, Reply)
Drums: Danny Carey, Josh Freese, Dave Grohl, Joey Castillo, Brian Viglione

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:45, Reply)
Ahem
You seem to have missed out Dave Lombardo
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:47, Reply)
Yeah he's good.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:48, Reply)
Santana is decidely average
You are right about Blackmore. That man knew how to play.

Page is great, but for the ideas rather than the technicality of it
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:47, Reply)
How much Santana have you heard?
If you only know the famous stuff then I'd be a little surprised but would understand. If you still hold that opinion after hearing Caravanserai (or at least Song of the Wind from the same) then I will be forced to furrow my eyebrows in a very suspicious fashion.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:49, Reply)
I've heard a cross section
Mrs V's dad is into it.

his playing just doesn't do it for me.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:52, Reply)
Their first LP is amongst my favourite records ever
and their performance of 'Soul Sacrifice' at Woodstock remains the only drum solo I have ever heard that didn't make me want to die.

But he is quite 'safe', technically, I grant you.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:55, Reply)
I really, really rate Billy Gibbons.
Also Wilko Johnson, Wayne Kramer, Jeff Beck, Steve Cropper and even for sheer precision and aggression Johnny Ramone.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:52, Reply)
Apparently Wilko is still touring
A friend of mine admitted he'd been trying to muscle his way into playing harp for him. Doesn't look like he had much luck on that front.

/shameless namedropping
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:54, Reply)
He is - he played in Winchester the week before I last went down.
/gutted


RIGHT I'M OFF TO THE CINEMA. GOODBYE.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:56, Reply)
Enjoy the film!
Cheerio.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:56, Reply)
I've heard fuck all Jeff Beck
also, just thought I'd mention that I dislike Eric Clapton. As a person and for much of his music.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:56, Reply)
You're in good company there.
I can think of few guitarists who I've similarly admired for their ability to play the instrument but still though most of their recorded output was risible shit. (And he does come across as a total helmet.)
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:58, Reply)
he's a cunt. A shit cunt.
But Cream were brilliant.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:58, Reply)
that's my view

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:00, Reply)
Cream were great, and I quite like some of his stuff the Yardbirds and the Bluesbreakers
Sadly this only represents probably eight or nine LPs out of a 40-odd-year career dominated by turgid wank.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:02, Reply)
the song Bad Love is the worst
fucking awful crap
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:03, Reply)
Bringing this vaguely back to the original topic
Worse than his reworkings of Swing Low Sweet Chariot or I Shot the Sheriff?
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:05, Reply)
there's a few of them about certainly

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:59, Reply)
Jeff Beck is the most technically impressive guitarist I have ever heard.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:59, Reply)
He made that Kashmir riff PHat with a capital ph.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:32, Reply)
Phuck off.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)
Hasn't there been 2 tracks that do this?

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)
what fuck with Dick Dale, or Kashmir?

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:39, Reply)
Kashmir

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:42, Reply)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_(song)#Samples_and_copies

"Jimmy Page, who endorsed Combs' adaptation...."
My respect for the man has just wilted
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:23, Reply)
Eloquent yet insulting
Standard Crow Procedure. How was Reading?
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:26, Reply)
Not bad. Meeting was pleasantly informal and ended earlier than planned.
Only drawback was the temperature. Reading was, as expected a degree or two colder than London, and not only was the heating playing up at the Uni, but we missed a train by a couple of minutes and therefore ended up waiting for half an hour on a freezing platform at a station called Earley. Which is ironic.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:30, Reply)
Oh dear!
Surely your flaming homosexuality should have kept you warm...
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)
I don't think my colleague was really in the mood for a bumming...
We had to make do with polite conversation.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:34, Reply)
It's a shame
the burning of your ring radiates throughout your body, giving a nice glow.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:37, Reply)
Better than he did at Arithmetic but he still needs to work on it.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:39, Reply)
AFternoon, Boycemaster General.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:41, Reply)
Pears shower gel.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:25, Reply)
I use Flying Fox
Honey and jasmine.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
snow fairy all the way

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:29, Reply)
Original Source Pear and Avocado ftw

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:30, Reply)
I find it a little too sickly
though I do have the powder that is sister to Snow Fairy, it's got sparkles in and smells of candy.

I need to get some more Big, it smells lovely and was great for my hair.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:31, Reply)
I used to like curly wurly
but it was too expensive to keep buying.

This weekend I have mostly been buying the stardust gift box. For me. mwah hah ha.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)
Curly Wurly? Never used that
I'm using the cinnamon solid shampoo at the moment. I have a bad habit of buying the gift boxes and using them all up myself...
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:35, Reply)
you lot have the most interestingly named products
like something from a fairy tale
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:41, Reply)

www.lush.co.uk

It smells lovely too.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:42, Reply)
oh lush
Mykeyboy sent some soaps and bath balls to me, they made me itch.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:45, Reply)
we don't have a Lush here in my corner of the west country
so while I was in York this weekend, I went a touch mental.

But the one thing I literally wouldn't do without is Coal Face. Keeps my skin clear and soft as a baby's wotsit.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:45, Reply)
It's truly horrendous.
Apparently it didn't meet with as much popularity they were expecting. Well if you give us shit...
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
the first black eyed peas album was amazing
then fast forward 10 years and they're back with some white bird and have turned into spastics?
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
No it wasn't.
I have a signed advanced copy if you have record player you're welcome to it, it's a a heap of shit.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:32, Reply)
Well as a 12 yr old or whatever I liked it. But no ta, don't really listen to hip hop these days.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:35, Reply)
If you think the Black Eyed Peas are or ever were hip-hop that probably explains why you have little regard for the genre
When you were 12, if I have my sums right, you should have been listening to Enter The Wu-Tang.

Now go and sit in the corner and think about what you've done.

(Thank you again for the DVDs)
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:40, Reply)
I love the Wu, still do.
Isn't that rap? I never bothered to define the genres I liked rock and metal too much to care really. Now it's electronica mainly.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:53, Reply)
THAT'S not fucking hip hop.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:40, Reply)
what do you consider hip hop?
I missed that whole argument.
For the record, I don't consider BEP to be hip hop.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:47, Reply)
No,
THIS is hip hop.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:52, Reply)
:/

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:55, Reply)
What?
It even says it's hip hop, what more do you want?
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:00, Reply)
Oh BURN
Yeah', I suppose monty _is_ so old that he was in his mid-30s when they asked the world where the love went.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:30, Reply)
ebay it

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:39, Reply)
got bought lots of molton brown shower gels for my birthday
and spunked a horrifying amount on shu umera shampoo. neither of them lather up properly in bastard hard london water though.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:32, Reply)
molton brown sounds suspiciously like someone has done a runny shit and put it in a bottle for you

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:41, Reply)
Say it's healthy and charge £20
sorted.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:44, Reply)
it's not vitamin water

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:45, Reply)
When are people getting to the bash on Sunday?

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:42, Reply)
About 3ish I reckon?

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:47, Reply)
sounds good
trying to persuade my mrs to come. It is more likely that she will either drop me off and go to Ikea, or not come at all, in which case I will get hopelessly lost driving into Bristol and not make it to the bash.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:49, Reply)
Excuses ALREADY?
You sicken me.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:53, Reply)
haha
I didn't even think that would get seen as an excuse.

Last two times I drove into Bristol on my own I got lost and it took me like an hour and a half to get where I was going.

I will be trying not to let this happen again.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:55, Reply)
You would have to be a bit of a spacker
to not be able to find the gloucester road (where the pub is). If you get hideously lost I can meet you in the centre of Bristol/give you directions (or indeed so can CHCB as she lives there but I will probably be more sober than she is)
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:07, Reply)
I can't believe you've managed to ditch the wife and didn't even tell me
that's the only reason I wasn't coming.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 18:03, Reply)
liar
it transpires that she is coming, but will go to ikea and may join us later
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 18:21, Reply)
There is a bash this weekend?
Why didn't anyone say?
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:52, Reply)
Because I'm not going so it's going to be shit.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:56, Reply)
That means you're going?!
Holy shitballs!
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:49, Reply)
I've told you all along I'm going

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:54, Reply)
You kept saying you weren't sure if you could

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:55, Reply)
that is not the case
I'm only going to be able to stick around for a couple of hours, but I've been planning to go for months.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:57, Reply)
I'll accept a couple of hours
It'll be good to meet you.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:00, Reply)
likewise
and Al if he is there.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:01, Reply)
touch Labs up for me

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 18:03, Reply)
fuck that
it's going to be all for me
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 18:18, Reply)
touch Vipros up for me

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 18:03, Reply)
I'm gonna try and come in for a pint before the Godspeed Gig but depends on if real life friends fancy it
and I don't feel up to telling them that I want to meet some spackers from the web.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:54, Reply)
tell them that you want to meet a better version of yourself
they'll understand that
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:55, Reply)
hahaha they fucking will as well
My lecturer today saw me cringing in the creative development session and made me sit at the front and answer questions that would make me feel better about myself. I wanted to cut her eyes out it was so excruciatingly awful.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:57, Reply)
hahaha

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:58, Reply)
Couldn't agree more Bob.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:56, Reply)
we're a bit too cool for all this bullshit.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:01, Reply)
And now you've spoilt it.
Of all the things we are, 'too cool' isn't it.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:02, Reply)
that was joke belmer.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:04, Reply)
I was being kind.
Clearly, I'm way too cool for such social events, I was just implying you are too much of spacker to be accepted by these people.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:11, Reply)
that works too my lovely

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 17:20, Reply)
I donno what some of those words mean, but I saw them on X-Factor last week and thought they've actually become a parady of the black eye'd peas.

(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:46, Reply)
Over moments that made me laugh
When the granny was doing her first song, some people helped her up, so I said "Aww, they've bought on her careworkers"
When the bitch did that Eminem song and broke into a rap I thought it was an advert for scitzophrinia.
(, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 16:49, Reply)

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