What band would you send into outer space?
Posted by Lucas Hare on 22 April 2008 - 8:05pm.
I heard UB40's cover of Can't Help Falling In Love this evening and was reminded just how awful it is. It sounds exactly like their unforgivably misguided version of I'll Be Your Baby Tonight. I turned to my friends and said, "If there was one band you could send into outer space, who would it be?" Mine would have to be UB40. I mean, I don't even like most reggae (maybe the occasional Dandy Livingstone or Desmond Dekker, but that's it); so it goes that I pretty much despise the entire recorded output of UB40.
Then we talked about Simply Red for a bit.
Who's yours?
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Think I could pack a rocket or two with the following. Perhaps they could all live on a space station together:
The Killers
Snow Patrol
Kasabian
Scissor Sisters
Morrissey
M People
Celine Dion
Not exactly a band, but you can surely justify an exception?
Justify?
I'd pay for the rocket!
Send Celine into space?
Think twice.
Nickleback
Are the only group I can think of in history whose material I don't have to grow to hate, I despise them instantaneously. "Not them, not them, turn it off, turn it off!"
If we can send one man to the moon why can't we send Nickleback!
There's a special place in Hell waiting for the singer of that band.
Razorlight
I think it was that America single that pushed me over the edge.
Easy one...
Coldplay
hopefully their obliteration would make this planet's inhabitants question the unfathomable appeal of their vanilla-tinged dirge, and actually make some shelf and hard drive space for thousands of far more deserving songwriters and artists.
no prizes
for guessing that mine would be the Manic Street Whingers...
Even thinking about them makes me feel hateful.
In defense of UB40
their first three or four albums were full of real crackers, their early TOTP appearances were classics, and even their later, admittedly horrible, but massive-selling work was at least laudible, as they very carefully made sure an awful lot of otherwise cash-strapped reggae musicians got absolutely ma-HOO-sive royalty cheques.
I would say I'd send Oasis to space, but I wouldn't want to give the cynical, stupidity-celebrating* tosspots the excitement of a rocket ride. Bullets in the back of their heads and dumping in a ditch is all those dullards deserve.
*and yes, I know Noel is one of the great wits of our time - that only makes it all the more tragic that he's willing to peddle such tosh.
I'd toss a coin by the launchpad
Heads its Radiohead, tails its Queen (or what's left of them).
That's very nice of you
Brian May would probably be very happy to be sent off into space as he's a bit keen on all that stuff.
How about walling him into a mineshaft instead?
5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
... and bye, bye
U2,
Pink Floyd,
Yes,
Emerson, Lake & Palmer,
Genesis.
I quite like Pink Floyd, but I can't resist saying:
"Set the controls for the heart of the sun".
After being introduced to them last night on Later...
it has to be The Pigeon Detectives. Shockingly awful.
Oh yes quite so
they are the final and absolute proof that the brainless beerboy "nuindiebandz" bandwagon's wheels have well and truly come off.
(although when they backed Dizzee Rascal for a 'version' of his 'Flex' they did a good job)
I can't find the words to describe...
how pitiful I found their performance. How did they end up on national television? Who thought they deserved this exposure?
They represent everything I loathe about 'indie' music nowdays. Brainless, unimaginative, unsexy, tuneless, derivative tosh.
nowadays...
sp, sp, sp.
I blame Fearne Cotton...
...for everything.
Look shooting at the sun
Its Snow Patrol and they are burning up........who's that trying to save them ....its ...its The Kooks....awhhh...woosh...they are gone.
The Cranberries
I'd cheerfully light the fuse myself, just to make sure.
Playing in a work band soon, and I've agreed to play on music by a wide variety of artists, most of which I'm not partial to. I drew the line at 'Zombie', though.
Blink 182
...and any other whiney acts of a similar sound (of which there are many).
And they dare to call it punk!