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Who shall we discard from the history of music?
Posted by Steve Turner on 12 May 2011 - 7:29pm.
The John Martyn post got me irritated. Now that I have calmed down a bit lets have some fun. Let's each name one undesirable musician that should be erased from our musical history and see if we can get to 100.
I start with Johnny Cash.
Drugged up and violent - treated his first wife like shit and from time to time his second wife too.
Strike him off.
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John Lennon
could be irritable at times ( or so I´ve been led to understand )
that's harsh..
coming from his biographer!
Bob Marley
He shot the sherriff (apparently there were mitigating circumstances though)
Sonny Curtis and, for that matter, The Clash.
I remain disgusted by their sick insistence on fighting the law. Apart from anything else, it's just so futile.
Not only that
But their Daddy was a bank robber. Crime obviously ran in the family.
And frankly...
...I'd be very surprised indeed if he really "never hurt nobody". All this equivocating about crime: it's just Broken Britain, isn't it?
Double Neg
Never hurt nobody = sometimes hurt somebody.
For shame.
absolutely right
No wonder he had the Police on his back
Keith Richard(s)
Can't play a monkey beat apparently. Useless c***.
Jon Bon Jovi
He gives love - and music for that matter - a bad name.
Elvis Costello
nothing but a jive ass racist cracker
Some of Be Bop Deluxe
For accepting money that wasn't theirs.
Toto Cuelo
Even as late as 1982, this disgraceful act got to the top ten with "I Eat Cannibals".
As far as I can make out, it was little more than a sordid glorification of a vile practice that should have died out years ago.
The last recorded incident of cannibalism in the UK was, I believe, at the Scarborough Cricket Festival in 1968. So why on earth did the authorities allow Toto Cuelo to peddle their foul omniverous propaganda?
'Strike them from the record' is what I say.
One of Toto Cuelo's members
was Ros Holness.
Her dad played sax on Baker Street.
So she stays in.
Go pick on The Reynolds Girls instead, Ike.
a well known heavy metal singer called "Rose"
he has reportedly and allegedly made a career out of being an obnoxious, self serving, bad tempered, unreliable, violent, delinquent, reclusive, controlling, women beating t**t.
Can I question the use of the word 'singer'?
Screecher, Cat In Heat impressionist, Frightener of children, Copier of sonar emissions perhaps, but singer?
But there's no question that he goes on the list: good call.
Plus
Using a nom de plume (de ma tante) that is clearly an anagram of a dangerous sex act.
Rola sex.
More than one dangerous sex act, Bob
Lox arse.
But I doubt that would have been kosher.
Sex Cauldron?
Didn't they close that place down?
Mr Punch, the metal
Mr Punch, the metal years!
That's the way to do it! That's the way to do it! In a Paradise City!
St. Winifred's School Choir...
For gawd's sake, do I need to give a reason?!
Sally Lindsay
was counted in there number. Ergo free pass!
Gary Numan - his friends were electric, by definition unearthed and a clear health and safety danger to other members of the (possibly illegal militia) Tubeway Army.
Always wondered why Gary needed to tell us he felt safest
"here in my car".
Obviously, sat inside with the windows rolled up he knew the car's body would act as a Faraday cage.
Once his "army" had all been electrocuted (as remembered in his touching tribute "I die, you die") he was free to go solo rounding off every evening by taking mystery to bed..
Kid Creole
Not only was he not Annies daddy but he wrote an up tempo song about it and cavorted around with his coconuts revelling in the fact. I just hope social services were informed, bastard.
Henry the Human Fly
...OBE
'thwack'
Nana Mouskouri
Crap specs.
Kenny Rogers
Lacked bravery .
Memo to Turner
That should read "Whom.."
Kid Creole
refused to assume his parental responsibilities
Elton John
For instigating weekend bar room fights
All of NWA
For instigating sexual assaults on innocent law enforcers. Just because their uniforms are quite sexy doesn't mean they are inviting harassment from miscreants and n'er do wells.
Jedward
Two off-key talentless prancing singing haircuts, and can they please take Beth Ditto with them?
Jimi Hendrix – Disregard for Health and Safety in the workplace
Arthur Brown – As above
Iggy Pop – Setting a bad example
Bono - Setting a good example
Nick Lowe's mindless vandalism
in smashing windows.
It's as if he gets some kind of perverted gratification out of it.
And don't get me started on
And don't get me started on his wanton sadism, in the pursuit of so called "tough love"
Was going to say Madonna
But then I saw the word 'musician'.
So I won't say Madonna now.
Paul McCartney in domestic violence admission shock!
"I used to be cruel to my woman
I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved"
Let's hope It's Getting Better for Macca 3rd time around.
No one.
Nice, nasty or normal, they've all played their part. Anyway, I'm no saint so does my vote count?
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
So I suggest Mick Jagger
But..
...who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
was it?
Pete, Roger,John and Keith. Sorry I'd read it as a statement not a question.
William Rees-Mogg
via the Bible.