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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: on February 23, 2004, 10:08:00 am
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Who get's your vote for the luckiest woman &/or or man in music? Who got an impossibly good break? What talentless hack just happenned along at the right place and at the right time to stumble into super stardom? Who scored an embarrassingly sweet deal that they didn't rightfully earn?
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A really good case could be made for Fred Durst.
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Adam Clayton
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Avril Lavigne maybe. Although I think her success is more due to her shrewdness in marketing than in total luck.
I might say Good Charlotte, but I don't want ThatGuy to be mad at me...
Kelly Osbourne is a pretty obvious answer. Even ignoring that she's an Osbourne, no label would touch her with a ten-foot pole if she didn't have the reality show to get known from.
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<img src="http://www.thei.aust.com/tssmusic1/images/courtney.jpg" alt=" - " /> <img src="http://www.omelete.com.br/imagens/musica/artigos/resenhas_musica/david_grohl.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Dupek - f*** you :p Courtney you can have (though I think she's talented, but a complete screw up); Grohl is wildly talented.
Random -- I think you hit it with Durst.
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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
A really good case could be made for Fred Durst.
Yeah...I can't think of a better choice than this. I hate that guy.
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Nirvana. Curt Cobain in particular.
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Mank, come on, Cobain's a talentless hack?? You don't have to love him or even like him, but I don't know how you can say talentless.
Kelly Osbourne is talentless, but I don't list her because I don't think musically she's achieved any fame or 'sweetness' -- she's a simple celebrity for being a celebrity.
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Art Garfunkel
Ringo Starr
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Definitely Courtney Love
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the pogues - shane mcgowan in particular
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Originally posted by allmy$to930:
Ringo Starr ?
Ringo wrote "It Don't Come Easy". A kickass song, IMO.
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<img src="http://www.britneyfreak.com/justin-timberlake/pictures/pics/justin-timberlake81.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Biz Markie
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Biz Markie?!?
Pop music fans only know, "Just A Friend", but "Vapors" and "Nobody Beats The Biz" are bona-fide hip-hop classics.
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got to be durst. went from being a tatoo artist and having to pay a radio station to play a limp bizkit song to being a filthy rich rock star.
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Originally posted by Rick James:
Biz Markie?!?
Pop music fans only know, "Just A Friend", but "Vapors" and "Nobody Beats The Biz" are bona-fide hip-hop classics.
Of course Rick James would know this.
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If he can remember...cocaine's a helluva drug! :D
Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:
Of course Rick James would know this.
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the pogues - shane mcgowan in particular
huh? or are you just trying to get mankie going?
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http://www.hellomagazine.com/music/2004/02/24/carlabruni/ (http://www.hellomagazine.com/music/2004/02/24/carlabruni/)
oh i wonder why her concerts are selling out.............
i can't wait to see tyra's video........i'll bet she is great at the whole music thingy too.............
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
the pogues - shane mcgowan in particular
Who knew?? Kosmo has a drug problem.
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Chris Martin.
Very lucky.
Very.
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Originally posted by Bags:
Mank, come on, Cobain's a talentless hack?? You don't have to love him or even like him, but I don't know how you can say talentless.
Cobaine was a talentless hack...YES YES YES!
Had he not killed himself and Nirvana had split up.....we'd still only be hearing about Grohl, Cobaine would've disappeared like the other one has.
What was he good at for crying out loud? His singing made Tom Waits sound like Charlotte Church, his lyrics could've been written by Forest Gump and his guitar playing could've been done by a Taliban shoplifter. His wife is more talented than he ever was...and that's saying something.
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:
Originally posted by Rick James:
Biz Markie?!?
Pop music fans only know, "Just A Friend", but "Vapors" and "Nobody Beats The Biz" are bona-fide hip-hop classics.
Of course Rick James would know this. [/b]
Obviously, Guiny didn't know this.
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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
If he can remember...cocaine's a helluva drug! :D
Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:
Of course Rick James would know this.
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Fuck your opinions, Random! (http://poststuff.entensity.net/021904/media.php?media=rickjamespt2.wmv/)
:D
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<img src="http://pages.prodigy.net/indianahawkeye/newpage09/13.gif" alt=" - " />
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Originally posted by Rick James:
[Obviously, Guiny didn't know this. [/QB]
Obviously Guiny didnt wanna know this.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
the pogues - shane mcgowan in particular
All the members in The Pogues are excellent musicians.
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Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:
Originally posted by Rick James:
[Obviously, Guiny didn't know this. [/b]
Obviously Guiny didnt wanna know this. [/QB]
Well,....you're entitled to your opinion.
Rawk on, dude!
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Originally posted by Barcelona:
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
the pogues - shane mcgowan in particular
All the members in The Pogues are excellent musicians. [/b]
especially the one who plays the beer tray.
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How about all the kids from American Idol that have their crap all over the radio now? They had meteoric rises to fame, and they certainly didn't spend much time working hard to get there...eff all of those bastards!
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Originally posted by Sweetjoy:
How about all the kids from American Idol that have their crap all over the radio now? They had meteoric rises to fame, and they certainly didn't spend much time working hard to get there...eff all of those bastards!
The current luckiest manorwoman in music is The Bucket of Slime (TBOS), aka Matthew Rogers, that inexplicably became a finalist on last weeks American Idol. TBOS embodies all that is repellant about Americans. As a singer he channels Bruce Willis and no one else. He's loud, obnoxious, wholly insincere, and he feels that he is entitled to advance.
I thought that it was completely unlikely that TBOS would advance. Now that he has, I can't discount the possibility that he may eventually win the competition. [your personification of faith / idol here] help us all.
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
Originally posted by allmy$to930:
Ringo Starr ?
Ringo wrote "It Don't Come Easy". A kickass song, IMO. [/b]
And Photograph,great song,and the campy No No song.
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Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Originally posted by Sweetjoy:
How about all the kids from American Idol that have their crap all over the radio now? They had meteoric rises to fame, and they certainly didn't spend much time working hard to get there...eff all of those bastards!
The current luckiest manorwoman in music is The Bucket of Slime (TBOS), aka Matthew Rogers, that inexplicably became a finalist on last weeks American Idol. TBOS embodies all that is repellant about Americans. As a singer he channels Bruce Willis and no one else. He's loud, obnoxious, wholly insincere, and he feels that he is entitled to advance.
I thought that it was completely unlikely that TBOS would advance. Now that he has, I can't discount the possibility that he may eventually win the competition. [your personification of faith / idol here] help us all. [/b]
Is this an admission that you actually watch that crap?
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Originally posted by mankie:
Is this an admission that you actually watch that crap?
Yes. I study music culture. I had seen occasional episodes of the first two seasons. This time I will probably torture myself with the whole sha-bang (pun intended).
One question that I have about AI is what can one infer from it about music education in the USA? So much tone-deafness.... Did you see the guy who the judges challenged to find five people on the beach who thought he was good? One of the five chumps told the judges that the singer was hitting all his notes but then admitted that he himself was tone-deaf. With that admission the judges (even Paula) laughed his ass out the door.
Another interesting aspect is the hatred of Simon, despite the fact that he is almost always dead on with his comments.
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Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Originally posted by mankie:
Is this an admission that you actually watch that crap?
Yes. I study music culture. I had seen occasional episodes of the first two seasons. This time I will probably torture myself with the whole sha-bang (pun intended).
One question that I have about AI is what can one infer from it about music education in the USA? So much tone-deafness.... Did you see the guy who the judges challenged to find five people on the beach who thought he was good? One of the five chumps told the judges that the singer was hitting all his notes but then admitted that he himself was tone-deaf. With that admission the judges (even Paula) laughed his ass out the door.
Another interesting aspect is the hatred of Simon, despite the fact that he is almost always dead on with his comments. [/b]
I'm confused, explain to me what the heck American Idol has to do with music?
It should be required watching as part of a marketing course.
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
<img src="http://www.thei.aust.com/tssmusic1/images/courtney.jpg" alt=" - " />
hmmm...I actually like that Courtney Love photo.
It's almost as flattering as the soft-core sketches on her new record.
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Originally posted by mankie:
I'm confused, explain to me what the heck American Idol has to do with music?
It should be required watching as part of a marketing course.
As I said, I study music culture. Every culture has its definition of music; AI's is different from yours and mine. If I only studied music itself then AI would be worthless to me because it offers nothing new to music and the performances are amateur. But as a social phenomenon it offers much to study.
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Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Originally posted by mankie:
I'm confused, explain to me what the heck American Idol has to do with music?
It should be required watching as part of a marketing course.
As I said, I study music culture. [/b]
Don't mess with culture (http://twadzilla.com/fun/lebowski/jesus.mp3)
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Honestly surprised nobody mentioned Kid Rock.
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Was Sweetjoy and early version of Sweetcell?
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The Clash
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wait, is the Clash a woman and/or a man?
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Their pronoun is they.
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He's the one I always say is luckiest. I wonder how much $$ per quarter note played he's made over these years. I think I could play his bass parts. That being said, he is one cool m'f'er.
Adam Clayton
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Any child of a celebrity has it lucky, but I always thought Rockwell was pretty damn lucky within that group. Being Berry Gordy's son, he got the backing of Motown, but also gets his childhood friend Michael Jackson to sing the hook of your song in the prime of his career.
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Good topic! I'll have to think about this one.
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Is beetsnotbeats now Justin Tonation?
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The second drummer in Pavement
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The second drummer in Pavement
To be a broke second drummer from a 90s indie band doesn't seem very lucky to me.
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Ok how about the dude with the megaphone from....Pavement
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Is beetsnotbeats now Justin Tonation?
For a few years now, yes.