What are you playing tonight?

[boltonboris]

It's not really my thing, so I don't watch it.. That's because I personally, find it boring.

But if it's not social snobbery on this board, it's feckin' musical, theatrical snobbery..

They're obviously (mostly) talented singers.. That's what the shows about.

[CrazyHorse]

people are entertained by it - YES
it is shite - YES

It's not shite. Dr Hotdog said so.

[Lord Kangana]

They're not talented though, are they? I heard that one on the radio the other day that we were all meant to feel sorry for.

I've heard cats fighting hold a better note.

[Gary the Enfield]

It's not really my thing, so I don't watch it.. That's because I personally, find it boring.

But if it's not social snobbery on this board, it's feckin' musical, theatrical snobbery..

They're obviously (mostly) talented singers.. That's what the shows about.

I'm not a snob. I have watched several years of this rubbish. It has unearthed a few genuine stars. Much like you'll find the occasional gold ring if you sift through a town's worth of excrement.

I just find the way it treats the contestants, the 'fans' and the tv audience in general contemptuous. At the end of the day it's product placement with a musical accompaniment.

It's not the kind of shite I like.

[thebish]

They're obviously (mostly) talented singers.. That's what the shows about.

no - it really isn't!

[Dr Hotdog]

people are entertained by it - YES
it is shite - YES

It's not shite. Dr Hotdog said so.

You'd better fecking believe it!

This thread is shite. Full of fecked-up cloggers with shit for brains and mushy ears.

[Dr Hotdog]

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TIME FOR SWANS

[BWFC_Insane]

Thing is X Factor's primary purpose is not to find the next Bob Dylan or Neil Young, or even to entertain folk (though it has to do that in order to achieve its pp), but to make money.

And its very good at doing that. You can argue forever about whether its good or bad for music, TV, young people's minds etc, but it all comes down to something that has been designed and executed very successfully to achieve its aim.

As for the contestants, they can mostly sing, they are essentially glorified karaoke artists, but then so are MOST of the acts that comprise what goes for the top 40 nowadays. So clearly they are not bothered about how generic or manufactured or bland, or even talented their acts are but whether they can compel folks to spend money voting and then ideally (but not essentially) buying their records subsequently.

I don't suppose its any worse/more shite for music, or young people in this country than say the monkees were back in the day!

[TANGODANCER]

A bit of Glenn Miller's cheering up a day that, weather-wise, is determined to make things utterly miserable. Wild wind and haistones, plus rain, isn't encouraging the great outdoors as a prospect at all today.

[2399]

Don't know much of The Cure but I like One Hundred Years. (The Drumming mainly)

The other day for $10 each I bought The Cure 'Pornography' and The Living End 'White Noise'.


At the Market I got 5 Cure cds!

Got told that it's impossible to get the Sitting on a Beach album or whatever.


I play this nearly everynight:
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or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H08EXnT0Pz0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The downloadable version is broken or someting, it still plays though.
I've edited a fixed Windows Media Version, Which I should upload.

[thebish]

A bit of Glenn Miller's cheering up a day that, weather-wise, is determined to make things utterly miserable. Wild wind and haistones, plus rain, isn't encouraging the great outdoors as a prospect at all today.

we have the wild wind but not the rain/hailstones... I set off on the bike for what promised to be a spectacularly tedious meeting in central London this afternoon - but when I hit the A13 I got battered by such a powerful crosswind that I feared for my life - so I pulled off and made my way home through some more sheltered built up areas and phoned in my apologies! RESULT!!

[bobo the clown]

Don't know much of The Cure but I like One Hundred Years. (The Drumming mainly)

The other day for $10 each I bought The Cure 'Pornography' and The Living End 'White Noise'.


At the Market I got 5 Cure cds!

Got told that it's impossible to get the Sitting on a Beach album or whatever.

That album is a singles collection .... so no big deal.

fyi .... the track-list, so you can download it, is

Standing on a Beach/Staring at the Sea: The Singles, The Cure
LP titled: Standing on a Beach - CD titled: Staring at the Sea
Released: 5/6/1986
Label:Fiction

Tracks
1 Killing an Arab
2 10:15 Saturday Night
3 Boys Don't Cry
4 Jumping Someone Else's Train
5 A Forest
6 Play for Today
7 Primary
8 Other Voices
9 Charlotte Sometimes
10 The Hanging Garden
11 Let's Go to Bed
12 The Walk
13 The Lovecats
14 The Caterpillar
15 Inbetween Days
16 Close to Me
17 A Night Like This

[Wandering Willy]

Boy's Don't Cry, Faith, Seventeen Seconds, Pornography are the best. Goes downhill for me after this early stuff.

[boltonboris]

They're obviously (mostly) talented singers.. That's what the shows about.

no - it really isn't!

Well if they don't sing, then what the feck do they do?

[P.O.S.]

Some Stone Roses tonight, obviously!

Not actually that thrilled about them getting back together to be honest but any excuse for a listen

[Gooner Girl]

Ahhh, i quite like X Factor. Not as funny as 'Britains got talent' though

[Il Pirate]

A bit of Glenn Miller's cheering up a day that, weather-wise, is determined to make things utterly miserable. Wild wind and haistones, plus rain, isn't encouraging the great outdoors as a prospect at all today.

Beautiful sunny skies here today, but the temp has dropped from 19/20 to 14 and you can feel the chill. So warmed myself up with The Fall, Ed Sheeran, Laura Marling, Biffy Clyro, Katy b & a bit of a Brass band mix I have. (One of several).

[Il Pirate]

Some Stone Roses tonight,



They're shit....................

[CAPSLOCK]

Don't know much of The Cure but I like One Hundred Years. (The Drumming mainly)

The other day for $10 each I bought The Cure 'Pornography' and The Living End 'White Noise'.


At the Market I got 5 Cure cds!

Got told that it's impossible to get the Sitting on a Beach album or whatever.

That album is a singles collection .... so no big deal.

fyi .... the track-list, so you can download it, is

Standing on a Beach/Staring at the Sea: The Singles, The Cure
LP titled: Standing on a Beach - CD titled: Staring at the Sea
Released: 5/6/1986
Label:Fiction

Tracks
1 Killing an Arab
2 10:15 Saturday Night
3 Boys Don't Cry
4 Jumping Someone Else's Train
5 A Forest
6 Play for Today
7 Primary
8 Other Voices
9 Charlotte Sometimes
10 The Hanging Garden
11 Let's Go to Bed
12 The Walk
13 The Lovecats
14 The Caterpillar
15 Inbetween Days
16 Close to Me
17 A Night Like This

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[clapton is god]

Some Stone Roses tonight,



They're shit....................

Saw Ian Brown at MEN a couple of years ago and he reached a whole new level of shiteness - but I'll be there for this!