I don't 'get' The Mighty Boosh.

Or Vic Reeves.

Or Father Ted.

but I haven't seen a single minute of "The Wire", and so I feel unable to comment.

I hired out The Wire, but struggled with the first episode of the first series. Perhaps I should give it another go.

but millions of British citizens think it's the dogs bollocks. Is it me or is it them?

...seen 'The Wire'!

I never got 'Little Britain'...friends liked it a lot but I got the feeling even they felt it overstayed its welcome. I always found it smug, self-satisfied and repetitive.

season 1 of 'The Wire' and I think it may be the new 'best TV series ever made'. Start again all you naysayers and have another go. If you're not addicted by the scene, in about episode 3, in which a murder scene is investigated by two cops only using the word 'fuck' then I feel a liitle sorry for you.

It's really, really good.

And I have no confession. I like Richard Thompson and that's pretty much all that counts around here isn't it?

Wire is great - give it 2 shows in a row and it should start feeling like the best TV around.

Confess to also liking Coldplay - whats not to like? And quite like Keane as well.

Corrie and the apprentice about does Mrs Path and I.

I'm not trying to be contrary, Honest. I just Don't get all the Fuss surrounding Richard and Linda Thompson's" I want to see the Bright lights Tonight " Album. Was ok nothing more.
Better phone Salman Rushdie for Advice.

We know where you live........

I will be unavailable to answer any mails or calls for the foreseeable future. Anyone know any good hiding places?,Sounds like a Danny Baker catergory. Is this a Folkwah or have i made people slightly cross ? Beware of men bearing Real Ale.

Heretics should be celebrated as seers. One mans sacrilege is another mans sausage.

why? do? people? listen? to? this? crap?

Why do they call it R'n'b anyway,as the only rhythm I can hear is of the cash till?
It would be like Devendra Banhart labelling his music as folk, fer chrissake!

I can't stand The Apprentice.
There, now kill me. I don't understand all the fuss and palaver that the likes of BBC Breakfast News 'not revealing the identity of who was fired in case you missed it last night' and usually quite sane national publications go to the lengths of blogging it 'live'. Isn't it recorded some time in advance anyway?
It's all bollocks.

with particular disdain for BB and the Jungle one.
However, I do enjoy The Apprentice. Honestly think it is good, entertaining TV, albeit overhyped.
At least the contestants are doing something, though I'm not comfortable with the recent trend for the losers to attempt to become "celebrities" (that dreadful horse-faced one from last series springs to mind).

As for "The Wire" I agree with other posters that sustained exposure for at least a couple of episodes will win most people over to it's brilliance. I'm following it on FX, so am half way through series 4 and the standard is still extremely high.

Episode one of The Wire.

I also think Gavin and Stacey is a load of old cock.

The Mighty Boosh is embarrassingly bad.

Russell Brand is a shitwizard.

And Spaced is shite too.

I feel much better

...I'm no fan of Brand either. Intensely irritating.

struggle with every tom, dick & harry these days being called a celebrity, in fact it's about time we banned the word.

Right I'm sure I'll be shot down in flames here but can't get along with Miles Davis and alot of Pink Floyd.

My confession is I like certain Girls Aloud records - one of the plus points with an iPod is you can put certain songs away without fear of being found out....unless you own up on one of these threads

On another note The Wire is possibly the best TV series of all time

I'll own up to being a minority on here by standing up proud and admitting I live Radiohead :)

On the subject of the Wire. It took me 2 or 3 episodes to get into it but once I did, Oh Boy Oh Boy. One of the finest TV series ever made ! On par with the Sopranos, The Shield, The West Wing, Deadwood. It´s dark ,involved, complex,brilliant, frustrating , just like real life. I ran out and got me season 2 and 3

Never got Seinfeld and I guess I never will.
The Mighty Boosh is pants and so is R.Brand.

Hands off Richard Thopson and his lady (ex) wife.

I have disregarded whole swathes of potentially fine music due to my own prejudices, conservatism and sheer laziness.

Never seen The Wire but I like Wire a lot.

.. again. I thought we'd agreed to not give monkeys what other people like or dislike and just get on with enjoying the stuff that appeals to ourselves (once you've given something a fair chance that is).
Ps. this still allows you to take against something because you can sense from the off it'll be bobbins no matter how much hype, chatter and blather it enjoys.

I can't say with certainty that I've ever heard anything by Girls Aloud. My expectation would be that I'd hate them, but hey, I loved a couple of All Saints records, who I imagine aren't so very far from GA.

I would like the following similar offences to be taken into consideration:

The cover star interviews on Word are generally the least interesting pieces in the magazine, certainly the last few, with the exception of Nick Cave.

Having seen a thoughtful interview on BBC4 with Russell Brand, where he talked about his inspirations and influences, I think he's A (Quite) Good Thing.

Mike Leigh, for all that he's made a few great films, is now monstrously overrated, to the extend of being a sacred cow. Career Girls and All Or Nothing are mostly dismal works. His much vaunted working method seems to me to lead to the actors becoming so identified with their characters that they can't see how unlike "real people" they actually are. And I'm not the only one who sees a real contempt for the lower middle classes for whom he purports to have such affection.

was a crock too

I took one look at it and thought "Hmm, the chance to have my preferences tracked online, never be able to delete my details, to play scrabble with friends and to find out that they're 'really hungover' at the click of a mouse". It never really took off for me.

I saw Bill Hicks in Edinburgh in the early 90's, and thought he was crap. A 2 hour show, I think I laughed about three times. I don't understand the posthumous plaudits..... is he comedy's James Dean?

It's not that special a film really apart from Helen Mirren's performance, which is brilliant. I didn't come away from it feeling great sympathy for the Royal Family. Though I always thought the public grieving thing was excessive. The film is quite ordinary and shows us mostly what is already very familiar.

I have watched episode one and was instantly annoyed by too much mumbled dialogue. I will persevere but we have approx a backlog of 50 movies/tv series to watch and we dont even like watching "regular" TV. So I 'm not sure if it will be worth the effort.

Why does anyone bother to listen to commercial radio in their cars?

Led Zep records are cack after Led Zep 1.

Richard Thompson needs to drop the beret.

Ry Cooder needs to get back to basics.

Ringo is my favourite surviving Beatle.

Most Prog is still crap.

Bob Dylan, why doesn't he sing like he used to?? Is it a physical problem or a badly calculated affectation??

Curtis Mayfield needs to be elevated to music's best soul singer.

Sooty was Britain's best ever silent comic.

Andy Partridge is a genius.

The Bonzo's in retrospect are not really funny.

Tom Petty's records are generally more fun than Bruce Springsteen's.

but was forever thwarted by the man in the Big Red suit.
Having took matters into my own hands last Yuletide and provided my son with "his" set, I have to put the "realistic" car racing set down as massively over rated.

LIKES

Robbie Williams (so sod you all!)
Red Dwarf
Pushing Daisies
Mock The Week
(I also like plenty of stuff that's not so controversial with you lot)

HATES

Coldplay, Radiohead, Sigur Ros.
Celebrities of any stripe.
TV in general
Jeremy Clarkson in particular.
Radio programming

NEVER HEARD/SEEN/READ (and couldn't care)

Sopranos
The Wire
Peter F Hamilton
Richard Thompson

I have a particularly sharp dislike for this becuase I hunted, and hunted, and hunted, for a copy as I had been told repeatedly it was the definitive book on the Beatles. I finally tracked one down. Well....

Its full of everything you never wanted to know about the band. Recording dates etc. He lost me when he canned Across the Universe because it didn't have "a contrasting middle eight" Who could possibly give a toss about that!

It had zero insight just a lot of facts that didn't add up to anything interesting. It should have been called "A Trainspotters Guide to the Beatles."