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Most annoying member of a band?
Posted by Mr Fade on 1 July 2009 - 9:50pm.
Things are getting so tetchy here with regards to annoying band members I thought it would be interesting to hear what people thought generally was the most annoying position in a band. Traditionally the bassist is surely thought of most fondly - John Deacon in Queen springs to mind - but what with Rhino (Ver Quo, see below) and Alex 'say cheese' James getting a rough ride has the tide turned for our four-stringed friends? Then there's your frontman - Bono? Damon? since Jagger people have loved having a pop at a poncy prancer up top. Drummers have always been widely ridiculed and guitarists are often seen as simply too flash. Which position gets your goat? And are keyboard players too daft to even mention?
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Mike Love
Of The Beach Boys. Still believes it was his lyrics that made Good Vibrations a hit. Embraced Reagan in the eighties. Constantly suing Brian Wilson for - well, anything really - while making a living by touring the music written by Brian.
Instead of suing the hand that feeds him maybe he should come up with a more patetic way of dancing with bikini girls.
The Beach Boys are one of my favourite bands, which obviously makes it even more frustrating. ARRRRR!
...and he ruined a great album
with that Student Protest song or whatever it was called.
Yes
He definitely did. I wonder if he ever apologized to Leiber and Stoller?
Gosh blimey trousers
There's a question.
After giving this some thought and pondering over a mouthful of rather splendid 2007 Cotes Du Rhone Villages, half price in Tesco this week, get some whilst it's hot, might I nominate:
Mark Shaw of Then Jerico
The frontman of an archetypal blink-and-you'll-miss-them, flash-in-the-pan 80's eyeliner-and-tablecloths outfit, he owned an ego of staggering proportions, seeming to believe himself to be both the saviour of rock and the UK's premier object of female lust without any decent evidence to support either proposition. He produced a couple of singles of such bombastic awfulness that I wince even now at the thought of them. Undaunted by failure and still waiting for us all to recognise his genius, the band and he continue to plough a lonely furrow. Were he in the army, I'm certain that, at parades, his mum would be proud that he was the only soldier marching in time.
Yes
I got a case of that from their Cirencester emporium this week.
Very nice it is too.
Wahay!
Is that the Tesco finest one? I've always enjoyed the previous years'. It's a wine for when the nights are drawing in, for me, so I'll check it out this pm and may lay a case down in the spare room for autumn.
Mark Shaw
My friend Mish and I met Mark Shaw at a Then Jericho gig in the mid 80's - Mish HEARTED him and he took rather a shine to her as she was, and remains, rather gorgeous an a Natasha Kinski/Belinda Carlisle kind of way. We were 14 and 16 respectively. Anyhow, they struck up a penpal relationship, but because she was a bit crap at the writing letters bit (not to mention being grossly underage) I - the vastly maturer one - took on the Cyrano de Bergerac role of penning the missives to her object of lust. After about 6 months she lost interest, it fizzled out, and no Bill Wyman style indiscretions took place.
And my point is? Ah, yes - gargantuan ego, terrible bombast, one off Roxy Music cover - fooled, bested and dumped by a couple of Sussex teenagers. A dimwit to boot!
Keyboard players?
20 seconds into this clip I wanted to give the keyboard player a smacking.
Why not...
both of them?
Good point. Maybe...
...Cookieboy is the singer?
While that's an amusing notion
It's not the case.
It's funny how the mind works. I mentally ran together the words "annoying" and "keyboard" and that song was the first thing that popped into my head.
Hard to beat...
I would think, is Einar, the shouting specialist in The Sugarcubes. All you ever wanted to hear was the wondrous Bjork, but there this Einar fellow would be, shouting and occasionally playing trumpet not especially well. The day Bjork went solo was a bad day for Einar, presumably, but a day of celebration for fans of Bjork and, indeed, fans of good music in general.
I'd forgotten about him!
Very annoying but i suppose a byproduct of a band being a bunch of mates.
Annoying shouty one
Good call on Einar, wonder what he's doing now?
You mentioning an annoying shouty one reminds me of seeing The Automatic on some Festival TV coverage (Reading last year maybe?) - they had a guy employed (one of their mates I guess) to stand at some keyboards, jump up and down and shout discordantly every now and then. To make him even more annoying he decided to get off the stage and go down to the barrier to "touch flesh" with his audience - problem is someone touched flesh too literally, I don't think the camera captured the incident but someone either grabbed his meat and two veg or gave him a slap as he got in a right strop and stormed off sulking!
Re: The Automatic's Keyboardist/Tw*t.
He and the vocalist were brothers, I believe.
Band's with no redeeming features
shouldn't count. As they don't.
I hestiate to say this this but...
Our old friend Bono Vox (the names's a bit bloody presumptious if you ask me - we'll decide whether yer bloody voice is any good mate)
Close second - Jonny Borrell (or however you spell it). A legend in his own mind, utterly convinced of his own greatness which, in comic irony is totally unwarranted.
Agree with Borrell.
Seems oblivious to his own ridiculousness.
that guy who
used to wear two pairs of specs at the same time - was he in Faith No More? He annoyed me - but only in pictures - never saw any footage of them.
Currently I am developing a worrying outright and irrational hatred of the girl from (or who is) LaRoux - seriously. 'I'm moving for the kill. I'm doing it for the thrill. I hope that you understand. And don't let go of my hand.' Worst last line ever. 'I'm a rebel, a hedonist, well dangerous, but hold my hand please, I'm a bit fwightened' - or is that the point? I don't think it is. She looks like a sub-prefect trying to appear wacky and alternative by sellotaping a hen's wing to her bonce. And anyone who saw the NME performance of Blondie's Call Me by her and Franz Ferdinand will know she is a very bad singer. Sorry. Rant over. For now.
In For The Kill
Autotune liberally applied on that one. Sounds like a particularly shrill car horn.
That song sounds a bit Grange Hill
but her new one has something to it. Bulletproof.
You may be referring to
'Big Sick Ugly' Jim Martin.
who was fine actually, certainly didn't take himself too seriously (as evinced by cameo in Bill n Ted's Bogus Journey)
The Alex James conundrum
There's something extraordinarily hittable about him, and he should never, never have been allowed anywhere near Question Time, but... wouldn't we all secretly want to be him?
I can only speak for myself...
but my answer is an emphatic 'no'.
seconded
in all honesty, I can think huge numbers of people I'd rather be. It must have been all the ligging with Keith Allen and Damien Hirst that did it for me. And no, Alex, I don't want any of your twatting cheese.
yeah but
easiest job in the world (playing bass for three weeks every 10 years), catnip to posh birds, well connected in the cheese industry, presumably set up for life on the proceeds of this week... I'd take it. But I'd keep my big old gormless mouth shut, though.
I dunno, I mean
he's got a smart set of gnashers there...lucky bugger.
Fine Young Cannibals / The Beat
Guitarists - perhaps two of them?
Did wobbly legs dance while they played. Annoying as all hell.
I love the wobbly legs
I model my disco-dancing (and wardrobe, were Mrs Path to let me) upon the later 2 men with a drum machine and trumpet.
Yeah, wobbly legs
are hardly crime of the century. Almost suggested the band had a sense of humour.
Ray Cooper
Gurning percussionist to the stars.
Most hittable face in popular music by a country mile.
Cast-iron guarantee that the tune in play is a clunker.
Our Drummer.
.
ha ha
it's always the drummer...our one split the band!
By dying in a
Tragic gardening accident?
Dave Hill of Slade
with the toothy chipmunk grin and weird fringe hair-do!
Bloody great guitarist though...
He is a bit of a prat
without a doubt, but the world have pop would have been a poorer one without him.
It makes me laugh in "Slade In Flame"
where he is portrayed as the cool womanizer of the band...mind you not a lot of competition I guess.
I'd forgotten about that!
I remember thinking the same when I saw it. Wonder if some women did actually fancy him? He went for an ill-advised bald look in the eighties too, before hiding behind some hats.
The bongo player off of
The bongo player off of Spandau Ballet; what a knob:
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The word 'Knob'
Is brilliant. It's not really that rude , but manages to be completely disparaging at the same time.
Cressa - The Stone Roses.
Wisely disposed of swiftly
The winner just has to be..
Joel Gion from the Brian Jonestown Massacre
Im with you on this one
..what a complete tosser !
That bleached blonde one in U2...
Adam Clayton...reminds me of a right know-all I used to suffer at college!!
Rhino
it's all comparative. You may think he's annoying but, to be fair, he's a shedload less annoying than Lancaster, who looked like a brickie with an obsessive taste for Dumpy's Rusty Nuts and face like an evil tempered Pekinese.
And talking of knobs..
the one posing with guitar and gurning has turned into a major Cowell-like figure in Germany
That bloke from the Polyphonic Spree...
....ninth from the left. You know the one.
Does my bloody head in!