Entertainment For Lively Minds
Bands expressed in percentage terms
Posted by Prestonia on 19 February 2011 - 2:51pm.
Manic Street Preachers : 30% cellos / 30% ace guitar / 40% sixth form poetry.
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Ramones
33.3% A
33.3% D
33.3% E
Ramones
25% 1
25% 2
25% 3
25% 4
Rush
100% quality
The Beatles
50% dead.
Yep
50% alive too. Is your cup half full or half empty?
Dance Music
95% obvious, repetitive and incredibly easy to achieve. 5% genius.
Maybe that one should be in controversial Music Opinions.
The Pink Floyd
30% Dead dad
20% Hipgnosis sleeve art
15% Slow 4/4 plod
12% Live visual effects
9% Identikit guitar solo
8% VCS3
5% Free stickers and posters
1% Nick Mason
The Fall
50% daft titles
30% daft lyrics
10% Special Brew
7% all the musicians
2% singing ability
1% -ah
Led Zeppelin...
40% drums and bass
20% riffs
10% studio wizardry
10% theft
5% freshly-squeezed lemons
5% "guess my religion" loon pants
5% bustles in hedgerows
5% AAAAEEEEAAAA-AAAH!
But -
No 25%...... (Live)
AC/DC
100% ROCK
made up of:
80% Riffs
20% Sexually suggestive titles & lyrics
12.6742% Mathematical ability
Oasis
25 % Bert Weedon's "Play in a Day"
25 % The Beatles: 1967-1970 (Guitar Tab Edition)
15 % The Bloke doing the producing
10 % Noel
3-5% Liam (see below)
5-7% Chemical "Distractions"
2 % Drummer / Bassist contribution
2 % Ex-Wives Alimony Considerations
2 % Unresolved Britpop aggravations
2 % Working-Class Hero delusions
1 % Rhyming Dictionary (stolen)
0-6% Self-Awareness (depends upon which one's being interviewed)
ZZ Top...
50% beards
50% blues
A Maths Teacher Speaks
33.33333333% Beard
66.66666666% Beards
James Blunt
100% twat
Oasis
40% Interminable, largely pointless, 9 day plod across arid desert. You ask your guide if there are scorpions. He replies: "My friend, this land is too boring for scorpions! Only undeveloped, single-cell organisms dwell in this god-forsaken place."
15% The merciless sun shiiiinning overhead.
20% The head of the expedition breaking off from an argument with his brother regarding what direction they should be travelling in, to inform you that the shimmering mirage on the horizon is the best fucking hotel resort ever.
15% A pile of bleached bones clutching sun-faded copies of albums by The kinks, The Beatles and The Las.
10% A heat-induced sense of deja-vu.
Joanna Newsom...
50% flibbedy-dibbedy whimper whimper la-dee-da meep meep
50% plink plink plink plink plink
Oasis
0% original
100% enjoyable for what they are
The Word
33.3% magasine
33.3% podcast
33.3% website
What percentage
Way of life?
0.1%
Obviously
King Crimson
30% Frippery (20% ability / 5% "Temperament"/ 5% JG Bennett "teachings")
20% Intimidated Secondary Musicians
15% Indecipherable Aphorisms
10% Sitting Down
10% Continuous strained denial of term "Progressive"
2% Coffee
2% Audience Consideration
1% Decent Lyrics
David Bowie
75% Sound and 25% Vision
The Who
100% R'nB
Pixies
50% loud
50% QUIET
ELP
60% Emerson
30% Lake
9% Palmer
1% Carpet
Sonic Youth
100%
Wham
99% George Michael
1% George Michael
Meatloaf
99.99% Things willing to be done in the pursuit of love
0.01% That
The Fall
50 % Mark E Smith
50 % Your granny on bongos
Half Man Half Biscuit
50% Micky Jones and Deke Leonard
50% custard creams.
Duran Duran
60% Taylor
40% Other
The Smiths
50% Morrissey
50% Marr
0% lawnmower parts
Bros
33% Ken
Gabriel-era Genesis
20% widdle
20% acoustic whimsy
20% weird lyrics
10% a flower?
10% fox head
10% slipperman
10% stools
Primal Scream
30% posturing
30% getting a producer to salvage something from the sessions
20% namechecking cool people
10% Bobby Gillespie attempting to sing
10% posturing
Lou Reed...
55% miserable
45% bastard
Ivor Cutler
100% genius
David Bowie
90% Genius
10% Perspiration.
The Smiths
30% best guitarist of his generation
20% the other two
10% gladioli
10% limp quiff
10% 'ironic' hearing Id and NHS glasses
10% 'ironic' racism
10% 'ironic' use of iconic 1960s photography
What percentage
pseudo indie though?
10% Limp Quiff
TMFTL
Sugababes
..you do the math...
Those Small Faces options in full
All 50%
Nothing 50%
Johnny Ace
83.33% empty chambers
16.66% bullet
Deep Purple
25% Smoke
25% Water
25% Fire
25% Sky
Scouting for Girls
definitely 100%
but of what?
Let me help out here...
25% guano
25% crap
25% shit
25% manure
Junior Brown
50% Guit
50% Steel
Fifty Cent
Also known as 50% of Dollar.
But where does that leave ...
Nickelback?
According to the statistics
only 5% as good as Dollar.
Country & Western
46% Wife/girlfriend/significant other left me
37% Booze
3% Dog/family pet died
6% Guitars
5% Honky tonks
3% Pick up trucks
Can't be right
No railroad?
No jail?
Sex Pistols
25% Lydon
25% McLaren
20% Matlock
10% Jones
10% Cook
5% Vicious
5% Bill Grundy
James Brown
30% Uh
20% Ow
20% Taking it to the bridge
30% of your concert fee in fines
Elvis Presley
37% Hip swivelling
12% Fried banana sandwiches
36% Gold plated Cadillacs
7% Time spent on the toilet
8% Time spent leaving the building
Chuck Berry...
20% rock n' roll poetry
20% two-fingered guitar riffs
20% perambulation in duck stylee
20% parsimony
20% spying on women in toilets
Mumford & Sons
20% good schools
16% Grandad shirts
10% banjos
20% trust funds to fall back on should this not work out as Daddy warned
34% dewy eyed idea of what it's like to be poor
Mumford & Sons hidden agenda
Well, only partly hidden ... instead of final 34%, 34% religious fervour (read their lips)
The Beatles
25% - Yeah, Yeah, yeah
25% - Beep, beep, beep, beep, yeah
25% -Jude, Jude, Judey, Judey, Judey, Judey, yeah
25% - Ooh, cookie, choo
Boomtown Rats
85.7% - Days Liked
14.3% - Days Not Liked
c.f. Robert Smith
85.7%- Days Not In Love
14.3%- Days In Love
cf The HJH
12.5% per day
I make that
114% of the titular week
Sorry but you're guilty of an assumption here.
Just because they don't like Mondays, it doesn't mean they do like every other day of the week. It could be they don't like Monday, love Tuesday and detest every other day of the week.
Killing Joke
40% fire
40% brimstone
20% being at a loss to explain why the Four Horsemen still aren't visible on the horizon yet.
Lemmy
100% proof. Probably.
So was Tubby Hayes
And 200% proof a few years later
Spinal tap
110% Volume.
AC/DC
50% Angus and Malcolm
25% Bon Scott
10% Brian Johnson and his cloth cap
5% The rhythm section, Phil and Cliff
5% Chuck Berry and BB King inspiration
2.5% Bells, cannons, devils horns, blow-up women, stiff upper lips, runaway trains, & Marshall amplifiers.
2.5% school outfit.
You are VASTLY...
...underestimating one of the finest rhythm sections in rock there, fella. Without Phil or Cliff, AC/DC would be just as compromised as without Angus or Malcolm. Ver 'DC are that rarest of rock bands: one in which every single musician is equally brilliant and equally indispensable.
AC/DC
70% Endless re-arrangements of Free's "Alright Now" none of which is actually as good as Free's "Alright Now"
5% Endless puberty as a lifestyle choice
25% A cockroach like capacity for survival
just curious
but which AC/DC track is a reworking of "All Right Now"?
Sorry. You're right.
When I said "re-arrangements" what I should have said was "poor imitations". And I speak as someone who likes a bit of 'DC...
I stand corrected
Happy to readjust the Phil/Cliff percentage by another 10. But I think I'd have to insist that Angus, and especially Malcolm, have the lion's share of influencing how the band has developed and both essentially call the shots, both in conceiving the songs and riffs and on the business side of things.
Girls Aloud
80% doable
Carter USM
60% Fringe
40% Shaved
Danzig
20% Satan
20% The Son of Satan
20% Satan's assorted relatives, employees and well-wishers
20% Satan's place of residence
20% Women who will never fathom the Stygian depths of Glenn Danzig's tormented soul
Bases Reached Progress Report
1% The Carpenters
100% Sly Fox
Steely Dan
20% Becker
20% Fagen
20% Gary Katz
10% Skunk's droopy 'tache
10% David Palmer's live tambourine playing
10% Persistence in selecting guitarists for the solos
10% Having a guitar player called 'Drew Zingg'
Trevor Horn
50% Fairlight
30% overdubs
10% big glasses
5% kitchen sink
5% original recording artist
The Wall
50% they took my daddy from me
50% tortured artist
5% no education
You can lose the 'no education'
We don't need it.
Julian Lennon's career
100% Lennon
0% Julian
New Order
75% Joy Division
Maths Teacher Time Again!
Joy Division
75% of New Order
25% some other bloke
New Order
75% of Joy Division
25% the drummer's bird
new order
25% record sleeve
25% dead bloke
10% pernod+black
10% overdraft
15% bass
15% short back and corners
Morrissey
50% past glories
50% self parody
Footballers who have made pop records
110% effort
Ian Dury
Sex: 33.3%
Drugs: 33.3%
Rock 'n' Roll: 33.3%
Edith Piaf...
... Shirley Bassey
Walker Brothers
Midge Ure
0% regrets.
Frank Sinatra - 2% (too few to mention)
Joan Jett
Love of rock - 50%
Love of roll - 50%
Alan 'Fluff' Freeman 49.99%
Not 'arf!
Brilliant!!
.
This one's for Stimpy!
Dr. Feelgood
25% John
25% John
25% John
25% John
Surely they would be
50% milk, 50% alcohol?
Although I'll give you
75% John
25% John Lee
The Rolling Stones
Likelihood of getting what you want: probably no more than 80%
Likelihood of getting what you need: potentially 100%, assuming you try sometimes
Mick Jagger
Satisfaction recieved: 0%
Willingness to try: 100%
The Kinks preferred length of time by your side
Day 100%
Night 100%
Options For The Clash
Stay: 50%
Go: 50%
or
50% death
50% glory
Iron Maiden
50% Common element
50% Good bowling
(Importance of striped Lycra trousers not calculated)
Them/ Hothouse Flowers
0% - Go
100% - Stay
Bros
10% - Famous for six months
10% - Grolsch bottle tops
10% - Ken
10% - Lorraine Kelly 'Oh you're in Vegas now' interviews every three years
60% - Obscurity
100%
0%
Thin Lizzy
33% - Men returning
33% - Whack for my daddy, oh
33% - Probably somewhere near the jail
1% - Wanting to put some Irish in her
Elvis Costello
Dancing - 0%
Action - 0%
Desire to go to Chelsea - 0%
First single ...
... -1 %
Revenge ... 50.5 %
Guilt ... 50.5 %
Original 60s power trios
100% dead - Jimi Hendrix Experience
100% alive - Cream
Ian Matthews
Days You Eat the Bear - 50%
Days the Bear Eats You - 50%
I thought
that was Joan Armatrading.
No:
She can eat you on 100% of days.
The Stone Roses
100% naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids.
Billy Fury
Distance travelled en route to Paradise - 50%
Gargoyles.
% of which resemble Bob Todd 99
% of which resemble anyone else 1
The Pogues
The secret of their success:
Rum - 33.3%
Sodomy - 33.3%
The Lash - 33.3%
Front teeth - 0%
Jerry Lee Lewis
Pumping piano - 50%
Rock & roll longevity 20%
Good ol' boy/redneck factor 10%
Wives who were also his 13 year-old cousin - 10%
Other wives who died in mysterious circumstances - 10%
Led Zeppelin
25% = 0%
Amen Corner
Paradise 50%
Prince
Things that compare to you: 0%
Supergrass
Richard 33%
Junior Murvin
25% Police
25% Thieves
50% to The Clash for the royalties. YEAH MAN!
Birkenhead's Finest
50% Man
50% Biscuit.
10cc
100% spunk, apparently
Apparently ...
... not:
http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/10cc.asp
3cc
doesn't have the same impact, as it were
Florence Welch
45% Mary
40% Mungo
15% Midge.
Bill Bruford circa 1971
Value = 5%
Effort =0%
Biffy Clyro
33.33% recurring Jesus, 66.66% gingers
Eddie Cochran
33.3% You find someone to love
33.3% she falls in love with you
33.3% You kiss and hold her tightly
= 100% heaven
Girl, You Know It's True
Milli Vanilli: 0%
Session singers: 100%
Lady Gagas 'Born This
Lady Gagas 'Born This Way'
33.3% - Gay
33.3% - Staight
33.3% - Bi
0.1% - Unsure
50% - Madonnas 'Express Yourself'
50% - Madonnas 'Vogue'
Or.....
100% Marketing bullshit?
you may well be right
you may well be right
Status Quo
Their only UK No.1
100%
99%
98%
97%
96%
95%
etc
Earth, Wind & Fire
33.33% Ear...oh all pretty self-evident I guess
U2
Songs = 1%
Roland Chorus Delay Pedal = 99%
U2
hard work 60%
tunes 24%
utterly unEnglish ability for grand gestures 12%
lyrics 3%
shamelessness 1%
Led Zeppelin
20% Da-Dang Da-Dang
20% Ch-Ch-Chug Ch-Ch-Chug Ch-Ch-Chug
20% Love needed
20% Fooling needed
20% Oh!
Shirley Bassey
0% things she has.
Dorothy Love Coates
99.6%
X Factor winner
Effort 110%
Approval by Simon Cowell 1,000,000%
Contribution to music 0%
Understanding of mathematics 0%
You forgot some..
Individuality: 0%
Approved by mentor: 25-100% (depending on stage of competition)
Likelihood of getting the Xmas #1: 99%
Likelihood of having a career that lasts more than five years/weeks/minutes: 5%
Chance of winning if a group: 0%
Cream
Red heads - 66.6%
Brunette - 33.3%
or
Structured songs - 15%
Improvisation - 85%
The Three Johns...
errr...you do the maths!
% Twin
Proclaimers 100%
Breeders 50%
Thompson Twins 0%
Aphex Twin
recursive % due to being his own twin, or something
Recycled from a more controversial thread
Bruce Springsteen
Perspiration - 90%
Inspiration - 10%
And....
Bros 66.66%
Aphex 808%
The Fatima Mansions
1000%
Blood Sweat and Tears
33.333333% Red Stuff
33.333333% Perspiration
33.333333% Drops
Das Chip Shop
60% Freekspert, 75% Sukmunki, 100% Das Chip Shop
The Beatles
mean weekly love overspill: 14.285%
Ali Campbell of UB40: Numberically listed at 10%, despite his somewhat paradoxical 0% existence rating.
Eddie Tenpole expressed as unit of swordpower: 0.1%
Contributing artists to Band Aid USA as percentage of world population: 100%
Femininity of Lionel Richie love interest: 300%
Current masculinity rating of Paul McCartney relative to reading given just 24 hours earlier: <50%
Of six unidentified items, the following allocation was identified by both: a) Carl Perkins; and b) Elvis Presley as one which was seen as a suitable alternative to the defacement of brightly coloured male footware:
For the money: 16.66r% (1 unit)
For the show: 33.33r% (2 units)
To assist in the process of getting ready: 50% (3 units)
Latin Quarter
XXV%
richard thompson
99% obscure
1% sleep
bocca juniors
25% football hooligans
49% mdma
11% audrey
10% pony tail
10% humor
Things You Need
according to John Lennon
Oxygen: 0%
Food: 0%
Water: 0%
Education: 0%
Love: 100%
Mastercard: 0%
Religion: 0%
Drugs: 0%
Things believed in
by John Lennon circa 1970
Magic - 0%
I-ching - 0%
Bible - 0%
Tarot - 0%
Hitler - 0%
Jesus - 0%
Kennedy - 0%
Buddha - 0%
mantra - 0%
Gita - 0%
yoga - 0%
kings - 0%
Elvis - 0%
Zimmerman - 0%
Beatles - 0%
John - 50%
Yoko - 50%
Yes
100% No
Gentle Giant
20% Gentle
80% Giant
PFM
33% P
33% F
33% M
1% Cornetto
Minimalism
1% Repetition
1% Repetition
1% Repetition
1% Repetition
.
.
.
x95
.
.
.
1% Repetition
Incognito...
100%
101%
102%
103%
104%... etc.
Oceansize
100 % over.
The Grateful Dead, over their entire lifespan:
46.16% Dead
58.84% Alive and, presumably, grateful
Ben Folds Five
The member called Ben Folds - 33.3%
The supposedly four members not called Ben Folds - 66.6%
Bare Naked Ladies
100% lies.
Talking Heads' subject matter
50% Buildings
50% Food
The Undertones' subject matter
50% Chocolate
50% Girls
EDIT: The (cough) 'Capcha' I had to enter was 'ale' :-)
Qu' est-ce que c'est?
And 10% deranged murderers
Elton John
95% 70's
1% 80's
2% 90's
2% 00's
The Eagles
50% Doolin'
50% Dalton
Julian Cope
10% Teardrop Explodes
80% Megaliths
10% German hat
This thread reminds me of the
Rick Astley pie-chart:
Everything But The Girl
Everything = 100%
Girl = 0%
His Meat Loafness
1/3 = bad
2/3 = not bad
Motorhead
1.887% Ace of Spades
98.113% rest of deck (not forgetting the joker)
25% of The Corrs
who'd feel a bit left out if I popped round to visit.
You don't fancy...
... Sharon, then?
Blondie
83.33333% not blond
Blondie
100% not natural blonde
Spinal Tap
20% fire, 20% ice, 20% luke warm water, 20% Viv Savage, 1.666% John "Stumpy" Pepys , 1.666% Eric Childs, 1.666% Peter "James" Bond, 1.666% Mick Shrimpton,1.666% Ric Shrimpton, 1.666% a drummer who had been accidentally packed with the band's equipment and never seen again, 10% other unnamed drummers.