Way too much antipathy there!
Especially for someone that wrote some fantastic songs and lyrics, tried new styles instead of sticking to the ones that 'worked', did that 'Sad little fat loser' song on Extras and didn't really do much harm.

I didn't rate him in 'Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence' but when I saw him at the Milton Keynes Bowl in c1981 on the Serious Moonlight tour - he was completely brilliant.

So...what exactly do you have against him?



Are you bi-sexual and jealous?
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Fri 29 Jan 2010, 14:40, 1 reply)

1. He was a bandwaggoner
who never 'meant it'. Mid 60's r'n'b is 'in' - great, I'll give that a go no problem. Now I'm a solo pop artist. Oops, that isn't selling, now I'm a wacky mime artist. Now I'm a fucking junglist'...for fuck's sake. No integrity whatsoever.

Look at AC/DC or Motorhead - they didn't ditch their style when it fell out of favour, it's a fucking pathetic thing to do. Look at the history of popular music and name a couple of others famous for 'reinventing themselves' - how about Kylie Minogue and Madonna? It's what you do when the style you have doesn't have enough quality to sustain an entire career. The Ramones didn't 'reinvent themselves' because they didn't need to. You can develop your style (like The Who did), but that's wholly different from ditching your previous work because it didn't sell - that's shallow and reveals you to be a fashion-chasing charlatan. The Who still were still opening with their first ever single a decade and more after it was released.

2. The music isn't groundbreaking or original - the only original thing he did was to introduce 'dressing up like a fucking twat so no-one notices how mediocre the music is'. Brilliant. He deliberately courted controversy and headlines by bendering around with Mick Ronson - that's rather sad, isn't it? The sort of thing you'd resort to if your middle of the road pop-rock wasn't selling on its own merits.

3. His shit mix fucked up 'Raw Power' by The Stooges. Now THERE was a band that meant it - they didn't trot out 'The Laughing fucking Gnome' to cash in on Barrett style psychedelia. He also produced 'Transformer' by Lou Reed which is shit, and Lou Reed is a cunt.

4. He called his son 'Zowie'. What a helmet.

5. 'Plastic Soul?' Spastic fucking soul. By naming your limpid, tinny attempt at one of the most emotionally-charged musical forms of the 20th Century a 'plastic' version of it, you are effectively admitting you are trotting out a pale imitation of the real thing. You can at least admire his honesty.

I really don't have the time to go on, but I could at length and in great detail as to why that weedy knob-end does not deserve the simpering adulation that he has garnered over the years, heaped upon him by idiots and people who should know better.

I saw a documentary on 'Bowie at 50' or some shit the other day and his endless fake laughing made me want to drive nails into my eyes.

The idea that I'm jealous of that shirter is the funniest thing I've read on QOTW in years.


EDIT Oh and 6. 'Dancing in the Streets' with Mick Jagger. Christ on a fucking bike how dreadful.

EDIT 2 and 7. I've heard a (reasonably cogent) argument that by inventing the practice of selling shares in his future earnings in the 70s he effectively invented futures trading. DAVID BOWIE CAUSED THE RECESSION. And the Haiti disaster as well, I'll be bound. AND he killed those Chinese cocklers.

PS 'Extras' was excruciating, back-slapping SHIT that a load of luvvie bell-ends jumped over themselves to get involved with because that smarmy, shiny-faced smug cunt Gervais was 'in' - so no surprises to see David Jones doing what he does best and coat-tailing in on the 'action'. Pitiful.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 16:51, closed)

Yeah....
but apart from that he's not too bad :0)
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 17:23, closed)

DO YOU FUCKING WANT SOME AND ALL, MATE?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 17:24, closed)

No thanks.
I'm skinny and feeble.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 17:28, closed)

HULK SMASH!!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 17:30, closed)

Sorry, but you're wrong
How you can prefer the Who trotting out the same couple of songs that were only mediocre in the first place for fifty fucking years because they never progressed past their adolescence...oh, forgot about Tommy!!!

I'm the first to admit that Laughing Gnome could just as well be named Laughing Knob and you forgot about The Little Drummer Boy (Ba-rubba-bum-bum) with Bing Crosby - another low point.

But stack against that tracks like Rock'n'Roll Suicide, Right, Beauty and the Beast, Quicksand, Letter to Hermione, Rebel Rebel and a dozen others...

Motorhead???? Come on!

But, ultimately, it's a matter of taste - what you can't deny, unless you've seen him live and don't agree - is that he has the kind of stage prescence that not many have and that can't be faked.

I still maintain that there MUST be something other than 'musical differences' behind your excessive hatred of a rock/pop singer/songwriter. I mean, I don't like Madonna, but I wouldn't waste time explaining why, especially to someone who really rated her.

But that's just me I suppose.

Kiss kiss!!
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 12:03, closed)