Time to scrap the 'Brits'....
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nme said:
Former Creation Records chief Alan McGee has called for the BRIT Awards to be scrapped.
In an interview, the Scottish music mogul blasted the awards questioning the way they are run.
"They should get rid of the Brits," McGee told The Daily Record. "[They should] start again with 20 music journalists who actually care about music getting together, instead of a bunch of self-interested record company people who just vote for their own acts."
Slamming some of this year's nominees in the process, McGee blasted Coldplay's nomination for 'Best Album Of The Last 30 Years', for 2002's 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head'.
"Coldplay are a dilution of a dilution of a dilution," he commented. "Chris Martin makes me want to eat someone else's earwax rather than listen to his records."
McGee, who discovered bands such as Oasis, Primal Scream and Glasvegas, also found time to take a shot at former Beatle Paul McCartney.
"McCartney should retire," he insisted. "John Lennon is probably firing bullets from another dimension as we speak."
He added: "Music should be like football. Once you turn 40, you should become a manager or get lost. It's for kids. You lose perspective. You don't have 66-year-old football players. There's a reason for that."
Personally I have always thought the Brit Awards were a bad joke - but I hate pop music...In an interview, the Scottish music mogul blasted the awards questioning the way they are run.
"They should get rid of the Brits," McGee told The Daily Record. "[They should] start again with 20 music journalists who actually care about music getting together, instead of a bunch of self-interested record company people who just vote for their own acts."
Slamming some of this year's nominees in the process, McGee blasted Coldplay's nomination for 'Best Album Of The Last 30 Years', for 2002's 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head'.
"Coldplay are a dilution of a dilution of a dilution," he commented. "Chris Martin makes me want to eat someone else's earwax rather than listen to his records."
McGee, who discovered bands such as Oasis, Primal Scream and Glasvegas, also found time to take a shot at former Beatle Paul McCartney.
"McCartney should retire," he insisted. "John Lennon is probably firing bullets from another dimension as we speak."
He added: "Music should be like football. Once you turn 40, you should become a manager or get lost. It's for kids. You lose perspective. You don't have 66-year-old football players. There's a reason for that."
Let's be honest, our parents were right.
The majority of popular music (and by that I mean rock, pop, jazz, reggae, soul, funk, punk, hip-hop, rap, grunge, country, and even opera) isn't. Isn't music, I mean, it's just a bloody awful noise. And it's up to each of us to decide which small part of it he/she DOESN'T consider to be a bloody awful noise, and listen to that.
Trouble is, pop is so fragmented now in that there are so many different kinds, so most people hate most of it. With the result that nobody agrees on anything any more!
(I quite like Coldplay for instance.)
[Eddited four crapp spelyng]
The majority of popular music (and by that I mean rock, pop, jazz, reggae, soul, funk, punk, hip-hop, rap, grunge, country, and even opera) isn't. Isn't music, I mean, it's just a bloody awful noise. And it's up to each of us to decide which small part of it he/she DOESN'T consider to be a bloody awful noise, and listen to that.
Trouble is, pop is so fragmented now in that there are so many different kinds, so most people hate most of it. With the result that nobody agrees on anything any more!
(I quite like Coldplay for instance.)
[Eddited four crapp spelyng]
Edited by Evangelion on Thursday 28th January 19:28
useyourdellusion said:
They have always been a load of complete b
ks IMO!
Look at the way they usually shoehorn an award in somewhere for Robbie 'karaoke' Williams (I don't know about this year, but I know they have before).
It's comical.
It feels wrong to quote myself but - as I predicted - he's up for the 'outstanding contribution to music' award.ks IMO!Look at the way they usually shoehorn an award in somewhere for Robbie 'karaoke' Williams (I don't know about this year, but I know they have before).
It's comical.
What a joke!!
Sorry, was unable to link it.
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