A kung fu fighter in a disco

Total bafflement!

I've hijacked the office radio and put it on Radio 1 (it was on Magic) in the hope of hearing at least some of these. I wd have done your youtube thing yesterday but FM2006 got in the way.

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you can use iTunes to preview most of these as well - i recommend that if it's viable.

quite a few good tracks but nothing really exceptional perhaps - 'Say I' isn't quite up there with '1 Thing' etc. for anthemic status.

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I haven't heard this but want to tick Kurd Maverick just for his terrific name.

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I've not actually heard the Ultrabeat song I ticked either but I ticked it on trust cos "Feeling Fine" was so good.

I think when you factor in consistency of output, mass popularity, and pan-media playlist credibility the Red Hot Chilli Peppers are surely the worst band in the world.

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Yes you are probably right. I feel some shame for liking RHCP as much as I did up until and including 'Scar Tissue'.

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I bought her album yesterday - it's terrific. 'So Amazin', which I assume is the next single, might be even better than 'Say I'!

I don't understand why some people aren't ticking her? She is the greatest living artist of our generation after all.

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They are usually dreadful yes but they can be listenable or at least ignorable in ways that have so far completely eluded Stereophonics, Oasis and Rhyming Slang Blunt!

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They are worse than all of those except Blunt, I think, just because of the way Kiedis sings, which is the sonic equivalent of a gurn.

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OTM on both points actually. I was expecting to be underwhelmed by "Elysium (I Go Crazy)" but it's rather fine.

P.S. stern graph reminder. If youi can do this before you go on holiday I'd really appreciate it.

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(Sorry the "!" is shock at you defending the "Chilis" in any way at all, obv.)

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I assume everyone's heard the mental nine-minute mix with basically everyone of note in it (three-minute radio version not to be bothered with in comparison). I like Mary J Blige and Ne*Yo best!

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No, you see, this is the other thing about them - nobody you actually talk to would ever defend Blunt etc but the RHCPs seem to bring weak-minded apologists out of the woodwork. Also it's surely more painful to hear people with a notion of what a beat is relentlessly churn out porridgey ones, than to hear people who never even attempt them.

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that bloke off of panic! at the disco sounds JUST LIKE martin rossiter from them genes.

preston and sov are going to win this aren't they?

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And the way they PLAY is the rhythmic equivalent of a gurn too.

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I always liked Busta until the video for "Touch It", when I was suddenly overwhelmed with a desire to punch him repeatedly in his big face.

Is it me or do they announce Sean Paul in the video and then never have a verse from him?

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I've been bored and annoyed with RHCP but never physically repulsed by the mere sound of them compared with the people I listed - I find it very easy to tune RHCP out, I don't think his voice is particularly noticeable in any way at all.

Actually this is all re the more laidback 'Scar Tissue' type stuff - I've just remembered how abominable they were early on in their career. Still not as vile as others though.

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Yes - also a recent Barbelith thread about them led to lots of "this place is full of uber-cool music fascists" nonsense (akshually it is full of Tool fans), just because there dared to be a consensus that they were shit in a forum where - compared to rest of internet - the regulars are quite live-and-let-live...

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I mean, is it some kinda of post-modern irony that "OMG BUSTA ONLY DOES GUEST VERSES", so they get 497 people to do guest verse, including noted mic-shredders Mary J Blige and her what did Girlfight who's name I've forgotten.

Papoose fucking sucks as well.

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Blunt somehow has more public presence though - I assume RHCP still sell bucketloads but no one would think to write a news article about how important they are to the UK (or US I guess) economy. And no one I talk to would defend them either!

People have tried to be apologists for both Oasis and Stereofuckwits to me in person, though.

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"Country Girl"??? Dude.

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Yes that confused me too!

Busta is on a real roll right now - 'What It Is' and 'I Love My Bitch' are terrific too, prob better than 'Touch It' actually. I don't understand why anyone would want to punch him?

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Is this not a cultural thing though? Those three worse alternatives you mention are worse because they represent Bad (and often hard to avoid) Things about the culture we currently have to live in. I think if you had to live in the USA or were a bit older in the very early Nineties (same diff) you might hate them more.

You're right about the earlier stuff being worse though, 'Give It Away' = shudder!

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Right, watch the video. Watch the bit where he looks up from the newspaper and pulls a big cheesy grin.

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Hang on what BROOKE VALENTINE did a guest verse?! That's not on my mix!

Guest verses rule. At some point I want there to be a song with EVERYONE (good) in hip-hop and r&b doing a guest verse.

Best we have so far is that 10-minute 'In Da Club' megamix of Beyoncé, Mary J and the original.

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