Thngs that are vastly over rated

[SeanMacGabhann]

everything Brendan said!

Except the Britpop era came later and wouldn't have overlapped. But the first 2 Pixies albums are fantastic.

Never "got" the Stone Roses either. In fact bands that I'm "meant" to like generally put me off

[Brendan]

I?m probably getting brit-pop confused with the whole Stone Roses, Manchester indie scene.

[david_carnell]

Ahhh...bands/singers that you're "meant" to like but just can't. That could almost be a whole new thread.

For me:

Velvet Underground

Bowie

and yeah, I'd go for the Stone Roses as well.

[Jah Lush]

Re: The Stones Roses, it wasn't just the music it was the scene that evolved from that period along with the Happy Mondays (another overated band IMO) that they are so revered but one half decent first album and a piss poor second and a singer who can't hold a note does not a band make. But, having been very much around the rave scene at the time I can honestly say I had it LARGE! :))

[giggirl]

Radiohead

[louisiana]

giggirl Wrote:

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> Radiohead

Like the woman said.

I wasn't in the British Isles during the 90s (came back in Jan 00), so there wasn't any overshadowing to be done.

For me, Kim Deal was hyper important to the Pixies, and she came into her own with The Last Splash. Tomboyish not macho. Saw them in the Basque Country in the 90s - nothing like it! (even though the floor almost collapsed)

None of Britpop measured up to that (and I saw everyone from Suede to Stone Roses to Elastica to Oasis to....).

Radiohead, of course, surpasses anything that Britpop ever did. They live alongside Slowdive and Ride (OX4 anyone?) in my collection. Yes, the shoe-gazers have something to be proud of!

[mockney piers]

I'd agree with Jah, Stone Roses doesn't stand up to close analysis in the same way that Star Wars doesn't, but if it was the whole fabric of right sound, right place, right time, and now it's so interwoven into special memories.

Along with Acid House it quite literally blew my socks off!

[cdonline]

Manchester in general.

Love the place, was a student there, but they could certainly talk up the town.

It was a bit of a shit hole in the late 80s. The Hacienda was a big dump masquerading as a club, full of drunks pretending to be e'd off their heads.

[mockney piers]

Ooh missed your shoegazers reference there Louisiana. This is an overrated thread, but if ever a movement was more underated or hated. Slowdive have a special place in my collection.

Incidentally Radiohead do not.

[Keef]

Brendan I believe that "ere" was known as Madchester :-S

Okay, Pixies, Radiohead, Franz f**king Ferdinand, Pink Floyd (except wish you were here / shine on you crazy diamond).

[Brendan]

Sonic Youth

[atila the gooner]

The cult of "Celebrity" and celebs as a whole

[Brendan]

Yeah but if it wasn?t there all those talentless fuckwits would be on the dole.

[giggirl]

atila the gooner Wrote:

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> The cult of "Celebrity" and celebs as a whole

YES - ABSOLUTELY - WHAT ATILA SAID

Who are these people - most of them are famous for nothing. At least actors and musicians have done something (albeit sometimes not much); but there are people out there claiming to be celbrities for nothing. This is partly the reason that I don't have a TV; the cult of celebrity is just so invasive; reality TV is everywhere (except my house obviously). I once asked a friend's little girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said "famous". I nearly cried.

[bon3yard]

Bum fun. Rubbish.

[jollybaby]

Lord of the bloody rings. Have tried both book and films several times and arggggghhhhh. Actually think the Hobbit is even worse so maybe I should just say JRR Tolkien full stop.

[Guest]

Coffee

Bacon

Being young - much happier now I'm older thank you

Going to the gym

Live music in restaurants

Holidays abroad

Heston Blumethal-style ingredients - irony and food do not go together

Am thinking of volunteering for next series of Grumpy Old Women, before anyone asks... You're quite wrong about Pride and Prejudice, though. V amusing, though not quite as funny as Persuasion.

[mockney piers]

Bacon, are you mad?

[Brendan]

Environmentally friendly knives and forks.

I just had a takeaway fried breakfast (including bacon) and it came with wooden knives and forks which are better for the environment than plastic ones. Problem is they make your food taste like wood.

[wee quinnie]

Ms B Wrote:

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> Coffee

> Bacon

> Being young - much happier now I'm older thank

> you

> Going to the gym

> Live music in restaurants

> Holidays abroad

> Heston Blumethal-style ingredients - irony and

> food do not go together

>

> Am thinking of volunteering for next series of

> Grumpy Old Women, before anyone asks... You're

> quite wrong about Pride and Prejudice, though. V

> amusing, though not quite as funny as Persuasion.

Yes - I told you I was out of step with 99% of the population on P and P. But COFFEE??? OMG! To echo Mockney...ARE YOU MAD?

[louisiana]

Ms B Wrote:

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> Coffee

> Bacon

> Being young - much happier now I'm older thank

> you

> Going to the gym

Sport

Football

Team sports

Competitive sports

Winter sports

Skiing

Jogging

Marathons

(but cycling is great)

> Live music in restaurants

Live music in any location that is not a live music venue.

> Holidays abroad

Package holidays in increasingly bizarre locations.

Holidays where the sole purpose seems to be to travel across the world just to be surrounded by people from your home town. Including overseas hen parties, stag parties etc.

And on that subject: weddings, white weddings, expensive weddings, wedding dresses

[Guest]

Coffee and bacon both smell lovely but fail to live up to their promise (unlike tea and sausages, two of my favourite things). Plus I can't handle stimulants - for me there's not much difference between an espresso and a panic attack!

[Cassius]

When I gave up meat everyone told me I'd miss bacon but I didn't as agree the smell was always divine but the actually was always a let down.

[Ant]

I'm with you on soggy rashers of limp pink back-bacon stuff. Especially when it's fried, and ends up poaching in the water that was injected into it to make it look all plump.

But proper streaky bacon grilled until it's nice and crisp... now there's a truly wonderful thing.

[Keef]

What Ant said!