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peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Mark off of Pop Idol posted on: 11/22/2003 7:55:10 PM I don't think he's actually from Brum, but I don't care. He's got an accent that most outsiders classify as Brummie and that characteristic Brummie self-deprecating sense of humour that you can't help but be attracted to. The boy's got my vote.
rotunda pants villa, but nice with it Rank: Ozzy	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 11/23/2003 8:26:21 AM Please don't vote for anyone. This just encourages ITV to make more shite no-brain programmes. We want more quality telly like Young Eurovision!
liquorlicence likes beer and blues Rank: Chinny	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 11/26/2003 12:21:42 PM Apparently he's a Wolves fan. Still voting?!
peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 11/26/2003 10:27:08 PM Of course. I reckon he might be out this week, though. Is anyone else watching it or am I the only one? Top entertainment.
liquorlicence likes beer and blues Rank: Chinny	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 11/27/2003 11:07:24 AM You may be the only one watching at the moment but I might join you in the voting. It's about time a Midlander got some recognition. I might even instigate a "Rick Waller" type e-mail and get everyone voting for him.
NO PLEASE HELP ME!	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 11/27/2003 2:59:28 PM Just feel i need to through my opinion in here. Pop idol is showing the real way that music is manufactured these days. Most music in the charts at the moment is a product of mass auditions where the contracts, songs, marketing ect are all in place before the artists. its sad and has given us a music chart full of lame rubbish. I dont mind kareoke but it should be kept away from the charts and the record companies should take risks and invest in bands rather than manufacture rubbish soulless kareoke teenagers. British music used to be great and it still is but all the exiting new bands have been pushed out by this lame manufactured state sactioned crap. Bring back real music ban pop idol! if you watch and vote for this rubbish you are helping to kill real music in this country. Would you rather go to a gig to see a stupid poncey teenager sing tired old tunes? or would you prefer to see real bands playing original songs with real feeling? BAN POP IDOL! Rant over.
liquorlicence likes beer and blues Rank: Chinny	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 11/27/2003 4:37:17 PM I agree with what you are saying but Unfortunately decent bands who can actually play or talented songwriters who you actually want to listen to just don't get the air play. Paul Weller, for example, whether he's your taste or not, will always gets a number 1 LP, but he never gets a single riding high in the charts because the records he releases just aren't played on radio. Yet Will Young and Gareth Gates are. It's the way the music industry works and because there's nothing we can do, I'd rather have the bloke from the Midlands win than some other jumped up little tosser.
Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 11/27/2003 5:31:43 PM It has come to something when the older generation (me) have to complain about the futility of the present pop scene, made real by the lilly livered contemporary teenage generation, brought up on a diet of pap TV, soaps, computer games and all worshipping at the foot of the great God Football. Speaking as someone who was sucked into the whole punk and post-punk thing, I can only say that if I hear one more weak voiced, wet, doe-eyed wannabee, I'll feel fully justified in shooting the little runt. To kill. In the head. Where is the anger, the expression, the energy, the bloody bring down the system and gob-at-the-Queen mentality? Anything but what we've got. That twat Waterman is to blame for half of it, he should be strung up on the Brummy Traitor's Gate. NPHM you are quite right in all you say. Very regretably, so too are you Liquor (if I may use your first name), there is no hope and frankly I totally f*cking dispair of the current feeble excuses for teenagers we have today. Not like in my day etc...
peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 11/29/2003 8:15:12 PM I thought the whole punk ethic was that anybody, regardless of talent, could get up and have a go. Football, boxing and music remain the only ways that the working-classes can get out of the gutter. Are you trying to say that the Sex Pistols weren't manufactured?
peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 11/29/2003 9:47:47 PM I was wrong. Go, Mark! The whole of Brum (apart from the traitors on this forum) are with you.
Mittonsmate Rank: Jasper	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 11/30/2003 12:40:47 PM quote: I thought the whole punk ethic was that anybody, regardless of talent, could get up and have a go. The punk ethic is at present being put into practice as never before thanks to the democratization of the means of music production brought about by the recent development of the "soft studio." A software studio such as "Reason," provides everything one needs to produce professional quality electronic music - synths, samplers, drum machine, sequencers, effects, mixer, etc - for less than £300. Even a two-left-handed non-musician like myself can get in on the act by being able to sequence music rather than playing it in real time, and I'm currently developing an entirely new genre of music which I call "blastbeat-techno" (or "speed-acid"). As the name suggests, this is an amalgam of Napalm Death-style blastbeats with acid techno-style overdriven synth riffs - and it bloody rocks! Remember where you heard about it first.
peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 11/30/2003 2:26:04 PM And they say punk is dead. Mittonsmate and Mark off of Pop Idol prove that it is alive and well in the English West Midlands.
Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie This message was updated on 11/30/2003 5:43:00 PM by Gravy Hole	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 11/30/2003 5:38:22 PM quote: I thought the whole punk ethic was that anybody, regardless of talent, could get up and have a go. Football, boxing and music remain the only ways that the working-classes can get out of the gutter. Are you trying to say that the Sex Pistols weren't manufactured? Peaky! GGRRRR! If I didn't know you better, I'd assume you were being serious. Sure the Pistols were manufactured, I guess that was partly the point. But I would seriously question if any of todays exploited youngsters have the sheer nounce and continuing integrity of John Lydon. Don't you remember "Bodies" on Bollox? The lyric started with "She was a girl from Birming-ham, she just had an abor-shan". Hard to imagine Mark covering that one. I will concede it doesn't make pleasant Saturday prime time TV though. Maybe it's time to remake the Pistols film and call it the Great Pop Idle(sic) Swindle? Smarmy Simon Cowell and Waterman (and for the benefit of clarity I mean Pete not Dennis) are the modern day Svengallis to the 70's McClaren. But without the charm. What was not manufactured were the true punk/post punk bands like the mighty Clash, the Damned, Stranglers, Rich Kids, Stiff Little Fingers, the Ruts etc. I have a selection of truly original music in my collection, from the greats above down to some really shoddy efforts from bands such as The Boyz and their epoch breaking "You kiss like a Nun" and "Sick on you". Yes, they got up and had a go. Yes they were crap, totally talent free. But they were original and not just wet karaoke singers. It's all just so damn nice today, unless you are a contestant, whereby you will have your weaknesses exposed, your confidence crushed in public and your failings as a human being pointed out, all in the name of entertainment. I find it really quite prurient, I just cannot see the fun in it. Hell, maybe I'm just too straight laced these days, but I remain angry that this sort of telly prog is allowed. The exploitation is additionally of the saps who phone in too.
peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 11/30/2003 8:06:51 PM "Her name was Pauline, she lived in a tree. She was a no-one who killed her baby, she was a ****ing disgrace." Hardly their finest moment, was it? That's the sort of sentiment I'd expect from the Tory front bench (actually, after Lydon admitted to having a penchant for royalty, I suppose the two aren't totally dissimilar). Incidentally, did you know that when Lydon was asked why he chose Birmingham as the location for 'Bodies', he said: "Because it epitomises northern grimness." Firstly, I'd like to question Lydon's sense of geography. Since when was Birmingham northern? Secondly, I'd like to chastise him for kow-towing to lazy and mindless regional stereotypes. Continuing integrity? I don't think so. Only if you consider living in a plush L.A. mansion having your every whim catered to by brown-nosed sycophants maintaining integrity. I most certainly don't. I call it selling out. The man should have topped himself years ago - I'd have more respect for him now if he had. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? All the time, mate, and Pop Idol is merely continuing the time-honoured tradition.
Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 12/1/2003 3:34:22 PM If what you say is all true Peaky, then the sod has cetrainly sold out. Last I heard he was living in Leytonstone not LA. I suppose it had to happen sometime. Strummer never sold out to his dying day.
racheymaus old hand Rank: Chinny	Mark off of Pop Idol replied on: 12/1/2003 5:27:45 PM Lydon is an embarrassment. He doesn't know the difference between questioning and railing against accepted authorities and being a twat. Disgrace. One Johnny who certainly has gone rotten.
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