The Overrated Thread

Things
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs7Ozc6vE3s

4.12 onwards for example

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Ah yes artfoley

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I have 2 gripes with Blue Monday.

  1. It is heralded as a landmark single in music when it is basically just rehashing what had gone before.

  2. I’m not sold on the song itself. I’m not saying its terrible or anything just that I find the song overrated.

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[quote=“artfoley, post: 802617, member: 179”]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs7Ozc6vE3s

4.12 onwards for example[/quote]

Holy fuck. I fear for this world sometimes.

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Conor McGrath
Noel McGrath
Tony Kelly
Conor Lehane
Declan Hannon
Cillian Buckley
Jason Forde

All of these are at the moment of course. A good few of these will become very good hurlers.

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[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 802620, member: 24”]I have 2 gripes with Blue Monday.

  1. It is heralded as a landmark single in music when it is basically just rehashing what had gone before.

  2. I’m not sold on the song itself. I’m not saying its terrible or anything just that I find the song overrated.[/quote]
    It’s class farmer. Disagree.

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i dont know why.

the less fans radiohead have, the likelier the world is to be a better, happier place

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[quote=“artfoley, post: 802617, member: 179”]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs7Ozc6vE3s

4.12 onwards for example[/quote]

Sounds like a domestic dispute between mice.

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You need to get out more Dr Dolittle.

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[quote=“the man himself, post: 802623, member: 1766”]Conor McGrath
Noel McGrath
Tony Kelly
Conor Lehane
Declan Hannon
Cillian Buckley
Jason Forde

All of these are at the moment of course. A good free if these will become very good hurlers.[/quote]

What are you blabbering on about?

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[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 802620, member: 24”]I have 2 gripes with Blue Monday.

  1. It is heralded as a landmark single in music when it is basically just rehashing what had gone before.

  2. I’m not sold on the song itself. I’m not saying its terrible or anything just that I find the song overrated.[/quote]

Maybe landmark in terms of successfully fusing a load of shit together? Or rehashing as you put it. I don’t think the band claim it’s original in the sense that they openly said Blue Monday was specifically influenced by other songs. FAO of Fagan ODowd - a quick google tells me the Kraftwerk song sampled is Uranium.

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ive just figured out where yorke’s voice comes from, it’s not him, its samples of timothy treadwell being savaged by that grizzly

indeed herzog comes up with advice of what to do with all radiohead recordings at the end of the clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUf0QFFi2Mk

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[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 802620, member: 24”]I have 2 gripes with Blue Monday.

  1. It is heralded as a landmark single in music when it is basically just rehashing what had gone before.

  2. I’m not sold on the song itself. I’m not saying its terrible or anything just that I find the song overrated.[/quote]

I think you are missing its significance farmer. While, All music is an evolution/rehash of what went before, That song - which wouldn’t be one of my favourites - was the first mainstream indie/dance crossover and prepared the ground for the whole late 80s indie dance scene.

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just to help people decide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePW52C5YBbA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYH8DsU2WCk

unfortunately for farmer, his beloved radiohead mightnt have made another album had they not lifted from the hollies in an infinitely more wholesale fashion for creep

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[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 802595, member: 24”]It’s basically taking what Kraftwerk had been pioneering 10 years earlier and mixing it with Donna Summer’s disco dance from the late 70s.

Nothing original.[/quote]

+1

Kraftwerk for slow learners

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That wasn’t the Hollies pal.

Also I have drawn attention to the ‘lifting’ on here before.

Finally, we get it. You don’t like Radiohead. You don’t have to post it 20 times.

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Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball

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[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 802648, member: 24”]That wasn’t the Hollies pal.

Also I have drawn attention to the ‘lifting’ on here before.

Finally, we get it. You don’t like Radiohead. You don’t have to post it 20 times.[/quote]

yes it was

also, i’ve never seen you do so, and ocnsidering you dont know where radiohead lifted it from…

finally, when you throw out grand sweeping statements that you fear for the future of humanity (or words to that effect) because people dont like the sound of cats being scalped then dumped in vinegar (radiohead) or owls in a windchime shop (florence and the machine) the oyu can expect some pretty extreme push back

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[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 802653, member: 24”]Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball[/quote]

All your dreams are made
When you’re chained to the mirror
And the razor blade
Today’s the day that all the world will see

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[quote=“artfoley, post: 802657, member: 179”]yes it was

also, i’ve never seen you do so, and ocnsidering you dont know where radiohead lifted it from…
[/quote]

Read that link a little closer mate and you’ll see that the Hollies didn’t write the song. It’s like saying a song ripping off Hallelujah was ripping off Jeff Buckley.

I can’t be arsed digging out the exact post but if you search Smashing Tunes where I referenced a post of Creep by Balbec I think with that exact rip off story.