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Tom Waits - "I work for a travelling circus sideshow, but I've got a heart".

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

JSBX - "I am talking about THE BLUES" x1000000

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Squarepusher - "My funk is useless."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew WK/Har Mar Superstar - "LOOK AT ME!"

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Madonna: "Is that a bandwagon over there?"

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Tatu: "You like to watch."

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Buckethead: "Genre-hopping uber-fusion shmenre shmopping shmuber-shmusion...LOOK HE'S GOT A BUCKET ON HIS HEAD!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Beastie Boys: "Keepin' it OOOOON to the break of DAAAAAWWWN."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Kiss: "Merchandising!"

― hstencil, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this would be about Microsoft Word and Allmusic.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Dannii and Kylie: "Dog chasing a stick"

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon- :)

Now THAT's an idea.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

MBV: "to here knows when"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Pole : "Nothing to see here".

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Don Cherry: the world is a throbbing musical consciousness.

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The Chameleons: *swoosh* (approximate sound of digital delay overdrive)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The Donnas: HI WE WENT TO POWERCHORD UNIVERSTY -- DID I MENTION WE'RE ALL GIRLS?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

David Bowie: oh, he sings as well?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Eno: i have ideas and i am proud of it.

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Beck: "The world is a lonely abandoned garage sale."

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Jay-Z: "Hello, I'm Jay-Z."

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Wilson - "Hello, I'm...?"

― dave q, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Metallica: "We're jerks."

― original bgm, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Primus: "Bass solo!"

― original bgm, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

DMX: "I'm NOT a NICE PERSON!"

― original bgm, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Baltimora - apelike

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The Strokes: Beer, cigarettes, ennui

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Autechre - Oh yeh? Well try and like THIS!

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Kool Keith: "Spanktacular yellow paisley orangutan pelvis girations."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Meatloaf: "Are you gonna finish that?"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Band-a-minute page is no longer?

Bardo Pond: "Check out the pedals we'll use for our next song"
Mars Accelerator: "Check out the pedals we'll use for our next note"

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a copy of the band a minute list saved somewhere if you want it.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonic Youth: "Give us our pedals back you fuckers"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Underworld 'i am a pilled up alky and this amazing world is all too much'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

You guys are doing a splendid job of continuing the band-a-minute legacy, BTW. Being sincere, here.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Kraftwerk 'humans are rubbish except when they invent stuff'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

*nickalicious ignorant*

Band-a-Minute wha??

― This (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Boards Of Canada 'remember that place you never went to? remember that feeling you never felt? we do'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Chili Peppers: "Hey young impressionable ladies, here's my genitals!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Rage Against The Machine 'man, look what those fucks in the suits have done while you're back is turned'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

(ha, RATM crosspost!...stevem clicked 'submit' first)

Tom Morello: "Capitalism is bad, mm'kay? WICKITAWIDDLEEWIDDLEEWROWRWRORRWRAKAKAKAKAKAKAKakakakak...."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

eminem 'i hate my mom but society needs guys like me to cause a stir by pointing out ironies'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

rotterdam termination source 'poing'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Chumbawumba: "Oi Oi Riddim Riddim.. Ah fuck it, here's an ice cream bar... but with ANARCHY VANILLA! FOOLED YA!"

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

the beatles 'hey have u heard that chuck berry/hey have you heard those beach boys/hey have you heard that pink floyd/hey have you heard that phil spector'

― schnell schnell, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus & Mary Chain - "distortion, Phil Spector, heroin"

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Fred Durst: "[bleep] my [bleep] you [bleep]ing [bleeps], fo real do, [bleep]."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Low: "Would you mind keeping it down? Thanks."

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The Wedding Present/Cinerama - "I'm mad that she's dating someone else"

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Sigur Ros: "Mmmmmmmm, shrooooooooms."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

DJ Shadow 'my record collection pisses all over yours'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

britney spears 'i'm just a girl, in the world, asking it to love me'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

NIN: "I've trimmed my claws, and are now as angry as little bunnies"

Kate Bush: "My voice reaches no longer to the heavens, but as far as my ceiling".

No Doubt: "We are so lucky to be working!".

U2: "We rock God, and we know it".

Tori Amos: "Religion is overexposed. I know that, and soon so will you".

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Tori Amos: "Mumbleglurgy. Stiletto. Purple money dishwasher. Meep meep."

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus: without whose influence music would be as it is today.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick WINS!

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Britney Spears: "I'm not wearing any underwear. But if I was, they'd have pink ribbons and lollipops on them. Except I'm not."

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Steve Malkmus: "You liked me in Pavement."

― Sam Jeffries (samjeff), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

(Momus has inadvertantly opened a whole new can of worms.)

Nickalicious: What is that, a kitchen sink?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

50 Cent: "I have been shot quite a lot of times."

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Shakira: "Your ears say no, but that raging boner says yes."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Shaggy: "Raging boner? Did someone call?"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

James Brown: Huh unh step back uh huh yeoooowww

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

(this thread is probaly the funniest I've seen on ILM)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus: "My songs celebrate the marginal, synthetic, and Asian. Also, getting blowjobs."

― Sam Jeffries (samjeff), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Phish: "Washa oofeezee drahv mee 2 fuhrenzee."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Miles Davis: *while wearing shades in the dark, turns back on audience, says nothing*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Johnny Cash: *gives middle finger*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Floyd: "Crikey, society is full of maladies and ills. We'd better express this awful truth, but beneath a wave of overdubbed guitars and intricate electric piano and post-soul gospel chorus voices to soften this horrible reality to our listeners."

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Atmosphere: "Help! Girls are crazy!"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

El-P: "Motherfucker, did I sound abstract? I hope it sounds a lot more confusing than that!"*

*NOTE: He actually said this

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Henry Rollins: "Christ, you're pathetic."

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Rancid: "We're punk."

― Sam Jeffries (samjeff), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The Ramones: "1, 2, 3, 4"

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Half Japanese: "Sometimes when I look at girls I get a funny feeling in my no-no place"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Jackson: "What happened?"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fall: "Repetition in the music and we're never gonna -- you're all fired-ah!"

― Sam Jeffries (samjeff), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Bjork: "It is *all* like *myoosic*!"

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - "the world is eeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnding....."

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Teenage Fanclub: "We like pop music, and are Scottish."

― Neudonym, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the Mountain Goats: "I saw the light hit your face as the smell of the strawberries wafted in from [random geographical location], but i knew it was over but we wanted to hold on."

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The Mekons: "We enjoy failure and ourselves."

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead: "We don't enjoy anything at all."

― Neudonym, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince: "Dance music sex romance."

(ps probl'y my fav Prince song)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Pulp: Is that the underwear your Mother laid out for you? No? Oh, would you like me to wash it, then? Alright!

― Alexis (Alexis), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Andy Partridge: "Knowing everything in the world isn't much of a laff if your wife hates your guts. Plus, I need money."

― Neudonym, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Ringo Starr: "Kick, hit, kick, hit, sing."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim O'Rourke: "Nanny nanny boo boo."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

John Cage:

― Adam A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

(somebody had to do it, damnit)

― Adam A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Sly Dunbar:"I heet thee drums tah make dem go boom tshhh boom"
(paraphrased from another ILM post that I can't find--something about how Sly explained drumming on a BBC documentary)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Vanilla Ice: "somebody had to do it, damnit"

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Ol' Dirty Bastard: "I'm just up in here lookin' fo' ladies to put my babies in."

NOTE: This is an actual ODB quote.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Elastica: "Think of a number... divide it by the same number... now you got the number... of good albums we made."

― Sam Jeffries (samjeff), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

McLusky: "These microwave chips are shite."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Arab Strap: "Mlurrgh. Cider. Mlurrrgh. Vodka. Where's the wife gone tae? Mlurrgh. Babycham."

Add N To (X): "Drills, they're phallic, they are."

Flaming Lips: "But when I walked into the lamp-post for the second time, there were these bright lights in front of my eyes and suddenly it was all beautiful..."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Groove Armada: "Yeah, funk! That'll show that bastard piano teacher!"

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Scott Walker: "Life's hard even when you're good looking"

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Tindersticks: "what Scott Walker said"

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Belle & Sebastian: "Och, the pencil sharpener's snapped the lead again. I guess I'll just have to colour her blouse in green instead."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Jennifer Lopez: "I'm no longer Jenny from the block. Unless I'm pretending that I am"

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Interpol: "we wear designer suits"

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Ma$e: "My car is THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS much bigger than yours."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Salad: "We're not like Sleeper. We're NOT."

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

King Adora: "Stop laughing at my hair. STOP IT."

The Music: "Zeppelin! Disco! Like, YEAH!"

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Avril Lavigne: "my music is inspired by all those nights spent crying into my hair irons"

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Neutral Milk Hotel: "Jesus cum sister two-chords"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Gay Dad: "Yeah, yeah, laugh all you want, but come back in five years time and... OK, perhaps you were right, then."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The Datsuns: "AC/DC... they were quite good, weren't they?

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(dammit, William just made me laugh out loud here at work)

The La's - "We are happy to report that Mr. Mavers will be making a new album when he finds musical equipment with enough original '60s dust on it and microphones which capture the exact sounds inside his head."

Oasis - "fook"

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(I meant the Gay Dad one)

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The D4: "The Datsuns... they're quite successful, aren't they?"

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster: "Then she drove me down to the lake and she tied up my ankles and she threw me in the lake and I said "WRAARAGHESGSDERDGHDGH!!!!" And the fish smelt my feet and the crabs smelt my nose and then I realised I'd fallen asleep in the frozen food aisle at Kwik-Save again."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Except good.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Me Me Me: "Sorry, who are we again?"

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

MC Hammer: big shiny pants + Rick James sample=~~millions~~ bankruptcy

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Busta Rhymes: "Woo hah get funky and throw your hands up PS the end times are comin'"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The Seahorses: "Look, it's not just about John Squire. OK, perhaps it is. Ah, c'mon, he used to be in the Stone Roses!"

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

(nate: "there's only -3 years left!)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio Iglesias: "Hello? Hey, pretty laydee... no, no Enrique's not home right now. I'll tell him you called. OK, bye.

"Aiii..."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Daniel Bedingfield: "Girl, I just wanna luv u... oh, hang on, I'm missing Robot Wars."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Evan Parker: "breathing is circular, thinking isn't"

Philip Glass: "on and on and on (and on and on and on)"

Abba: "what Philip Glass said! (sorry, changed our minds!)"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Guided By Voices: "We may be chronic drunks, but that hasn't stopped us from releasing 148 albums in the past six years."

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Girls Against Boys: Count 'em, two basses.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus: "My songs celebrate the marginal, synthetic, and Asian. Also, getting blowjobs."

Tis clear that Sam is a fellow Momus fan;>

(As I'm currently within a place of learning, reading this thread was not one of my better ideas.)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Depeche Mode - If Jesus were alive today, he'd be a heroin addict.

Kitchens of Distinction - We're here, we're queer, we've got effect pedals and we know how to use them.

Nick Cave - William Faulkner's rotting zombie fingers thrash all hell over of an electric geeytar.

The Liars, The French Kicks, (ad nauseam) - "Hi! We're from Brooklyn and we like Gang of Four! RECORD RELEASE PARTY!"

Limp Bizkit - With three chords he unconsciously pleads for Darwin to come strike him dead.

― justin s., Thursday, 27 March 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

frank zappa - I would have been presdent if my dick hadn't of went bad

― cr, Thursday, 27 March 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The Blood Brothers: "Piano lessons sucked. Too much TV is bad for you. We're really horny."

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 27 March 2003 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio Iglesias: "Hello? Hey, pretty laydee... no, no Enrique's not home right now. I'll tell him you called. OK, bye.

This made me laugh continuously for five minutes.

― paul cox (paul cox), Thursday, 27 March 2003 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

big black: gentle sounds of sin

― kephm, Thursday, 27 March 2003 07:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Autechre: "Hmmm, I wonder what THAT knob does... Or that. Or that."

Luke Vibert: "I need a pigment operation."

Aphex Twin: "I'm not a genius. Sure, I compose my music while lucid dreaming. And build my own synthesizers. And make twenty-five tracks a day. But me, I stay humble."

Boards of Canada: "Mommy, is it okay to make plasticine cows even though I'm thirty-two?"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 27 March 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

ZZ Top - The beards, the beer and the blues

Sigur Ros - I am a singing whale floating into cosmos with a
spaceship driven by the strings of angels

Status Quo - Rock will never change.

Nick Drake - It's your fault that I'm dead. You bought my records 30 years too late.

Joy Division - Please, don't switch on the light.

My Bloody Valentine - The art of stopping.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 27 March 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Limp Bizkit - 'We're here, we're queer, get used to it!'

― dave q, Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Kevin Shields - "Who knows when?"

― dave q, Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Pavement - "Effort is grossly overrated"

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Turin Brakes - something to listen to while you drive to IKEA

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 March 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Henry Rollins:
YOU LIE TO YOURSELF MOTHERFUCKER! HELP OLD LADIES ACROSS THE ROAD AND DO SOME WEIGHTS!!!!!!! PUSSY!

Atari Teenage Riot:
THE GOVERNMENT LIES TO YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP SMASH THE STATE BY BUYING OUR OVERPRICED MUSIC!!!!!!!!!

Anti-Pop Consortium:
Prevailing apocalyptic negotiations captivating the fortress of my mind. Conformity is a tragedy which is why our lyrics sound like Hawkwind and our music sounds like a broken 808.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 27 March 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Pan Sonic : "... ... a ... ..."

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Springsteen: in the heart of the cold steel city with nothing but a bag of dreams

― ddd, Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Elvis Costello: I am angry and will express my enduring vitriol by collaborating with classical musicians and that easy listening wanker

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 27 March 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Serge Gainsbourg: "Man, je veux å fuck elle tres mal."

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 27 March 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The Locust: "We made you dress like Star Trek characters. Ha ha ha. Ooops, you just missed our song."

― Dave Fischer, Thursday, 27 March 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Kula Shaker: "Whaddya mean you haven't seen A Message To Love?"

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 27 March 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Jamiroquai: "Eh! Aowww! Crazylegs style! Doobedoo! Owww!!!"

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Leaders of the New School: Busta Rhymes: "Woo hah get funky and throw your hands up PS the end times are comin'" and then three other guys

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Friday, 28 March 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Beatles - "publishing royalties are where it's at!"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Elvis Presley - "Sometimes you eat the USA and sometimes it eats you"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Rolling Stones - "Born into a culture of cruelty, hopeless cynicism and class strafication? Make it work for you!"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"strat-i-fuckin'-fic-a-tion"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Grateful Dead - "Born into the most wildly affluent and solipsistic culture in world history? Pretend it's the Depression!"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Frank Zappa - "(x) has ANYTHING good about it? That is impossible. There is a flaw somewhere and *I* will find it."

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Doors - "This rock thing's easy, the fans are so much dumber than film students"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Kraftwerk - "I wonder what this button does."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The Streets- Derek Hatton really looked after us Cockneys when they closed down t'pits.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Bloodhound Gang- Pop culture reference pop culture reference pop culture reference 80s keyboard solo tits.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Roxy Music - "Frank, you have utterly missed the point. The worse something appears to be, the better it actually is!"

Alice Cooper - "No, the worse something appears to be, the FUNNIER it actually is!"

David Bowie - "What the fuck are you all talking about? Stuff that's going on outside my own head, obviously, or else I would care about it!"

Bruce Springsteen - "David, get your nose away from the mirror for a second! Alice, try and sober up for once! The stuff that goes on in my neighbourhood is like the whole world in miniature so all you have to do is look out your goddamn window and that's 'outreach' solved! Try it it's fun and makes everybody feel good!"

Iggy Pop - "Your neighbourhood's pussy, you should see my house"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Eels:

Butch: How's your mother?
E: Dead
Butch: How's your father?
E: Dead
Butch: How's your sister?
E: Dead.
Butch: Ah well. I've got some new drum sticks made out of oak, wanna jam?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Ric Ocasek - "See that model over there? I'll betcha two dollars I can get her number."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Violent Femmes: Teenage girls, they're quite nice. Not as nice as Jesus, though.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Lou Reed - "Nah nah, I read books without pictures in 'em"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

John Cale - "Nah nah, I can read music notation. Beat that!"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon Anderson - "Whaddya mean 'milkmen won't whistle this', I WAS a fuckin' milkman so I should know!"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

John Cale - "The agony of effete"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Ian Mackaye - "Let's go to the White House gift shop and NOT PAY!"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

James Chance - "Yo nigga! Whassup nigga! Yo n...OW OW OW OW OW!!! OOOWWWWWWW!!! uuurrgghh...(******)...(resumes consciousness) gee, that was fun!"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Mel & Kim - "Sunblock? Whatever"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Patti Smith - "Clive Davis is tone-deaf? Good, give HIM the tapes!"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Will to Power - "Yeah I go to the audio-engineering school across the street from here. Can I buy you a daiquiri?"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Coldplay - Playing rock music is a nice way to get girls when you haven't got the nerve to ask them yourself.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 28 March 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Dashboard confessional: *tear*

― David Allen, Friday, 28 March 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Styx - "Queen is the greatest! Too bad they're raving faggots"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Smiths - "The Buzzcocks are the greatest! Too bad they're raving faggots!"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Turbonegro - "AC/DC is the greatest! But what's with that ambiguous, cop-out band name?"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Meat Puppets - "Who's funnier, Cheech or Chong?"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Crowes - "Cheech & Chong are NOT funny. They are actually very profound."

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Randy Newman - "My songwriting actually owes a great debt to the comedy of Cheech and Chong. It's about the jokes they're not telling."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

James Taylor - "Randy Newman is SUCH an asshole"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

REO Speedwagon - "We're not just one-dimensional puds, you know. Sometimes we listen to really esoteric, abstract music. Like Styx"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Jackson Browne - "Fuck you James Taylor. I've had Daryl Hannah AND Nico!"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins - "REO Speedwagon were more abstract and esoteric than a lot of people think!"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Don Henley - "I'm going to beat that Jackson Browne at Scrabble one day or die trying"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

REO Speeddealer - "REO Speedwagon were more abstract and esoteric than a lot of people think!"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

John Denver - "James Taylor is SUCH an asshole"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Steven Malkmus - "Did someone say Scrabble??"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Steven Tyler - "Peter Allen gets alot of sex, hmm...obviously I'll have to do SOME minor things differently, but..."

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

David Gray - "John Denver is SUCH an asshole"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

dave q is the king! THE KING!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Nashville Pussy - "REO Speeddealer get all the good gallery openings just cuz they KNOW people"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Le Tigre - "I wonder what this button does. Ow, I broke a nail!"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Courtney Love - "Hey, I learned a new chord! Wanna hear?"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Courtney Love - "See, that's TWO! I told you I was getting good!"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. I knew I could start this thread, disappear for a coupla days and come back to find some gems. Wacky funsters.

The D12 : Eminem comes on stage, curtseys, rapturous applause follows. The end.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Eric Erlandson - "I know three. I'll show you the other one once I've taken out the garbage"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Cowboy Junkies - Could you pass me that joint over a little faster, please?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The Warlocks - "1986, all I wanna do is fly..."

― hstencil, Friday, 28 March 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Firewater: "In the dank heart of the city...KLEZMER BREAKDOWN!"

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Shudder to Think: ANYTHING sounds enigmatic if you sing it in the right mix of falsetto and baritone.

Soul Coughing: Wack-ass rhymes and strange loops, wack-ass rhymes and strange loops, wack-ass rhymes and strange loops, all over killer drums.

Dismemberment Plan: I'm catatonic since my last relationship failed...but it's sure good for songwriting.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

They Might Be Giants: "Everything is a beautiful joke and that is beautiful in such a profound funny way. Accordion breakdown."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Aphex Twin - "Don't pay any attention to the man behind the curtain."
Ray Davies - "Can anybody get a meal in this place?"
Tom Jones - "I can't fuckin' believe they still dig me."
Cher, Celine, etc. - "Better than Botox in your Corn Flakes."
Bette - "Show me your tits!"
Louis Prima - "Yeah, i've done Keely."
Triumph -- "Now if we could only somehow rig it so all that white trash could simultaneously win the lotto..."
Milli Vanilli - "We'll do you one better, Jan & Dean."
Jonathon Richmond - "Hey, this is a BRAND NEW shirt!"
Bob Dylan -- "JIHAD!"

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Hefner: "Well I can't sing, I got my keyboard from Woolworths, my glasses could well be actual jam jar bottoms, and all the women I meet are evil. But I'm still better at pulling than you."

Camera Obscura (Scots): "Isobel Campbell ha ha ha."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Shriekback - C'mon everyone! Grab your fish skeletons and get down and boogie!

Massive Attack - Just give us a sampler, a doob, and a copy of Mother Jones and we're good to go.

Gang of Four - We've scientifically proven that funk is not bourgeois.

Radiohead - *whimper* That man is... staring at me... *curls into fetal position*

― justin s., Friday, 28 March 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

shaggy
"yeah, you remember this song, but now it's all raggaeish"

Puffy P.Diddy
"yeah, you remember this song, but now it's all hip-hoppish"

Soft Cell
"yeah, you remember this song, because it's the only one we got woahohohoh"

Killdozer
"yeah, you remember this song, you hate it, we do too, but we're making it loud tongue firmly in cheek"

Weird Al
"yeah, you remember this song, only now you get to get sick of an all new *wacky* version, wheeeeee *sticks leg around neck*"

Ringo Starr
"yeah, you remember this so... you don't? shit. I was a Beatle. Honest."

― graiggins kee, Saturday, 29 March 2003 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Stryper: "We're gonna rock, rock, rock, rock, rock with the rock!"

(undying gratitude to whomever gets this)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 29 March 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Super Furry Animals: "Y'know what would be great? If ELO were COMPLETELY FUCKING BONKERS"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 29 March 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Band a Minute owns the vast majority of these. It was a website made by Nick Hennies and some other people which got republished in an issue of Chunklet.

Band a Minute.

― Sebastian, Saturday, 29 March 2003 06:51 (twenty-two years ago)

(nate would that involve a mr. lou siffer?)

― ahem (esskay), Saturday, 29 March 2003 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Elton John - "Jerry Lee Lewis rocked my world! But compared to him, sadly, I'm a grotesquely ugly freak. Best make do with what I've got."

Billy Joel - "Elton John rocked my world! But compared to him, sadly I'm..." etc

Joe Jackson - "Billy Joel rocked my world! But compared..." etc

― dave q, Saturday, 29 March 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

so did jbr and dave q ever get a room already? *ducks*

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 29 March 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

That belongs on the 'autosummarize a thread' thread!

― dave q, Saturday, 29 March 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Green Day- look, I can do that trick where you roll your eyes backwards!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 29 March 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

it was great, blount. we went out for cheese fries afterwards.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 March 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Charlie Daniels Band - "Those better have been 'FREEDOM fries'!"

― dave q, Saturday, 29 March 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave Hussy - "Geri Halliwell rocked my world! (etc)"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 March 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I loooove cheese fries! (ie marry me miss rosen)

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 29 March 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

we have so much in common!!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 March 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Karen Carpenter - "Well Dave, if you'd have stayed off the fries..."

― dave q, Saturday, 29 March 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Mama Cass - "Narcissistic BITCH"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 March 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Kelly Osbourne - "Calum honey I'm home!"

― dave q, Saturday, 29 March 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Calum - "I AM CORNHOLIO"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 March 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Calum - "Blighter tits fucking blowjob Liam Gallagher wanker 100 tons of fecal matter Avril Lavigne!"

hee hee hee...

― justin s., Saturday, 29 March 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Floyd: "I am an acid casualty ... I am a self-indulgent genius ... We are our own cover band."

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Saturday, 29 March 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ricky Martin - La Isla Desmond Child

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 29 March 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Ian Mackaye - "Let's go to the White House gift shop and NOT PAY!"

n.b. Ian Mackaye couldn't visit the WH gift shop - you need security clearance to get to that part of the building (though now there's an off-site shop and you can buy online)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 29 March 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Stryper: "We're gonna rock, rock, rock, rock, rock with the rock!"
(undying gratitude to whomever gets this)

-- Nate Patrin (natepatrin550...), March 29th, 2003.

Mr. Chick, The Hunter.

Im so very proud.

― David Allen, Saturday, 29 March 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Courtney Love: Bitchy whiner.
Curt Cobain : Moaner.
Billy Corgan : Bitchy whiner's Moaner's Boner.

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 29 March 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Rollins : Bonehead whiner.
Oasis : Whine with Bonehead.
Shane mcgowan: Wine, no bone, no head.

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 29 March 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Young MC: I urged people to Bust A Move, and briefly, they did.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Saturday, 29 March 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Fleetwood Mac - "Toilet, doorstep, toilet, doorstep...fuck it, what's the difference"

― dave q, Sunday, 30 March 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Manics 1994: "He likes Gang of Four!" *all point at Richey*

Manics 1997: "We like pie and Oasis!"

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 30 March 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Gang of Four - "Bling!"

― dave q, Sunday, 30 March 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Van Morrison: Everyone in Ireland owes a fucking debt to me.
Thin Lizzy: What? We got real black people in Ireland, honest.
U2: Van, Van, you are great, but did you meet the Pope?
The Corrs: Van Who?

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 30 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

House of Pain - "How about that Astral Weeks, eh?"

― dave q, Sunday, 30 March 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The White Stripes: "Our bass player thought we were kind of creepy."

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 30 March 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

four weeks pass...

Still think Denis learys summary of Jim Morrisons career was the best:

I'm drunk I'm nobody
I'm drunk I'm famous
I'm drunk I'm dead

(Even if most of his best stuff was ripped from Bill Hicks)

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Sunday, 27 April 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

SLOWDIVE I'M NOT GAZING AT MY SHOES I JUST LOST 10P

― JOHN MANNING, Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

revive dammit.

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Shannon Wright - "Hey watch, I can sound like Mogwai just by myself."

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Public Enemy: "Yo Chuck, we get to be the token rap group even crappy indie kids like!"

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:10 (twenty-two years ago)

John Lennon: "I'm sorry, Momma...and for that matter every other person I've ever met...I didn't want to hurt you, I never meant to make you cry, but tonight, I'm cleanin' out my closet."

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Paul McCartney: "Hi honey, I'm home!"

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Dylan, 1966: "Everybody must get stoned."

Bob Dylan, 1978: "No, no, everybody must get stoned."

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Cyndi Lauper: "I enjoy being a girl."

Madonna: "I enjoy being famous."

Joan Jett: "I enjoy my guitar."

Kathleen Hanna: "I enjoy reading, y'know, postmodernism and shit, and don't make, like, assumptions about me just cos I talk like Moon Unit Zappa, got it?"

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince: "This one time, at band camp..."

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Justyn I kiss you

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The Grateful Dead: "Now sit right back and you'll hear a tale, the tale of a fateful trip..."

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Jonny Greenwood: "See, Thom, if you ADMIT you're paranoid, you're not really paranoid, cuz you still have a foothold on reality."

Thom Yorke: "I guess I'm not paranoid then! Good call."

Phil Selway: "Hey, you guys wanna run through 'Wolf at the Door' first or should we start with 'Life in a Glass House'?"

Ed O' Brien: "How 'bout that 'Android' one? With the 'unborn chicken voices in my head'?"

Colin Greenwood: "HAHAHAHA UNBORN CHICKEN VOICES HAHAHAHA!"

Thom Yorke: "I don't belong here. I don't belong here."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Tricky: "Tracy Thorn? Nicolette? I have Ed Kowalski and Alanis! Watch me lose my mind!"

Massive Attack: "Let's record something, it's been five years since we last showed up Adrian."

Portishead: "Woah, Massive Attack, slow down there."

Kevin Shields: "Amateurs."

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

missy elliot: "my beats are so addictive."
timbaland: "wha?"

― disco stu (disco stu), Thursday, 10 July 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeff Beck: "Hi-ho, baby, you can, hm, drive my cars!"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 10 July 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Belle and Sebastian - " Would you like some tea and cucumber sandwiches while I have a wank?"

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 10 July 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Moby - "I'm all techno. Now I'm all punk. Now I'm scoring films. Now I've recontextualized the blues. Now I've, um, recontextualized the blues again. Now I'm hoping my agent can get me a spot on Hollywood Squares."

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Friday, 11 July 2003 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Wycleff Jean: "Have I introduced you to my new friend?"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Adam/Nordic's JSBX one way at the top still cracks me the fuck up with its OTMness.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Wire: "All right. Here it is, again..."

Pete Namlook:
DAD: Oh, bloody hell. [quack quack quack] [fwump]
BABY: [crying]
MUM: Ohh, get that, would you, Deirdre?

― d.w., Tuesday, 28 October 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

whitehouse/merzbow-"do you like being skullfucked? no? TOO BAD!!!"
Alec Empire-"i'm too prolific for my kickass band to keep up with me...fuck, now i'm all alone. maybe if i step up the production quality a bit noone will notice everyone else is gone"
Hanin Elias-"wanna fuck? too bad!"
depeche mode-"we're so gay..just kidding...no, seriously, we're homosexual...HA fooled you again,...bleep bleep"
Yaz-"ahhh, now i can be as gay as i want without those wannabe wankers keeipn' me down"
coil-"we're gay too..... BOO!!!"

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

R Kelly - "It's Not Unusual"

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 13 December 2003 07:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Nate's Jay Z one still cracks me up.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 13 December 2003 07:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Morrissey - I wear black on the outside because black is how I feel on the inside.

Lloyd Cole - So, I read this book . . .

― bogle, Saturday, 13 December 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Revival time!

― Leee Iacocca (Leee), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Except it's already been revived d'oh.

― Leee Iacocca (Leee), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Autechre: "The current climate for electronically composed music is alarmingly insufficient in its hermeneutic aesthetics, most specifically in regards to its lack of postmusic idiomatic connotations vis-a-vis the problematized presence of human composers within the presentation of compositions; ergo, our manifesto states that our brand of algorhythmic techno (that is to say, a computer program) subsume human participation in said composition of music, resulting in postmusic; furthermore, linguistic units are obsolete: /][]={\;'^%#|`+~@"

― Leee Iacocca (Leee), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

...or Autechre - "Bleep bloop bleep WWEEEERR"

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Arab Strap - "I've pissed myself, will you still love me?"

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Aphex Twin: "Hullo luv, how'd you like to come back to my bank and let me shag your tits? I can say that because I'm a cranky genius."

Boards of Canada: "Orange."

― Leee Iacocca (Leee), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Sneaker Pimps, Mono, Olive, Moloko, Crustation, Monk & Canatella, Alpha, Morcheeba, et al: "Thank god for Portishead!"

Lamb: "Uhh, we're not with them."

― Leee Iacocca (Leee), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Cat Power: "I'm sad."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Junior Senior: "I'm exuberant!!!!" And clever!!!!"

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 December 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew WK : "Being stupid is the smartest idea anyone ever had".

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 December 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 December 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

LCD Soundsystem: "yeah yeah yeah yeahyeahyeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeahyeah yeah"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 15 December 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Lida Husik: stoned former club kid makes sublime pop infused with a nagging awareness of mortality

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

the kills: we like boss hog and fucking each other

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Fleetwood Mac: we like catchy melodies and fucking each other.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

(Ok, so that doesn't sum up their entire career. No one sentence could.)

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, I wrote that Jay-Z one back when I didn't like him that much. Now that I'm ultra-belatedly on his nuts it works even better.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

desaparecidos: grrr whine i hate suburbia

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Stereolab: Marxism can be beautiful.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Ivy - Je pense que cette mère de Stacy est très bonne regarder.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Is the echo of "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" intentional?

― rgeary (rgeary), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Liz Phair:

I feel sad now
I will let you
Sorry I teased you
I will let you
This time I mean it
I wil1 let you
Anything you want
You can trust me
I really want to
You can trust me
How would you like it
You can trust me

Sucker.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

cat power: *sigh*

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

BUMP

Editors: We sound like Interpol

― Shame Shame Shame (Col Tom Blue), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Drive-By Truckers: Redneck music for blue staters

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Three 6 Mafia: "We worship Satan and the Motion Picture Association of America"

― Rodney's motives are beyond the comprehension of men (R. J. Greene), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

RZA: "Have you met my good friend Jim Jarmusch?"

― Rodney's motives are beyond the comprehension of men (R. J. Greene), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Aimee Mann - "there really is enough blame to go around"

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

MIKE JONES.

― friendship7, Friday, 31 March 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Jessica Simpson: Better to keep your mouth open and be known a fool than to close it and add doubt.

― musically (musically), Friday, 31 March 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Rollins band: "i hate the world that i think hates me" (taken from the 1st song in "Life Time").
or:"if you could see the you that i see when i see you seeing me you would see yrself so differently" - complicated? not at all.

― shadows of, Friday, 31 March 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

2nd quote from "Low Self Opinion", rollins band.

― shadows of, Friday, 31 March 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Nick Drake: if you want to succeed even if you don't know how to write songs, kill yrself and wait 20 years"

― somebody put something, Friday, 31 March 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Bright Eyes: "By taking pills, I can numb the pain AND have a convenient excuse for being called a genius. Geniuses did pills, right? Fuck Bush!"

DC Talk: "Who are we kidding? Jesus is more than just alright with us."

Ghostface: "Language is pretty cool, eh?" or "Look what I can do!"

The Smiths: "I just FEEL so much."

Kanye West: "Old soul records sound better on 45 RPM than 33."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 1 April 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

Joy Division: "I tried to get to you./You treat me like this."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 1 April 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Throbbing Gristle: "This is a concept."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 1 April 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Aimee Mann - Are you done with me yet?

― bendy (bendy), Saturday, 1 April 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

Fleetwood Mac: we like catchy melodies and fucking each other.
-- Kenan Hebert (edito...), December 15th, 2003.
:)
-- the surface noise (electricsoun...), December 15th, 2003.

(Ok, so that doesn't sum up their entire career. No one sentence could.)
-- Kenan Hebert (edito...), December 15th, 2003.

Any sentence would have to involve lots of mirrors and fat mountains of primo coke.

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 1 April 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

Simon Le Bon: "I wonder how I can score more groupies. I know! Let's reunite the Fab Five lineup and pretend the '90s never happened!"
Nick Rhodes: "Oh you sad, sad man. Whatever happened to evolution, looking forward? Oh never mind. I'll just go gaze at this Picasso with Warren and Stephen."
Stephen Duffy: "Hey, remember me? I was the band's ORIGINAL lead singer! Simon my arse!"
Andy Wickett: "Hey, remember me? I was not only the band's SECOND lead singer, *I* was the one who performed with them when they recorded their demos! Suck that, Simon!"
Warren Cuccurullo: "No one outside the loyal fan base and Nick appreciated my attempts to bring something novel and new to the group, so I'm going to funnel my extreme dismay via online porn and having my manhood plaster casted."
John Taylor: "I don't know what happened. One day I was happily strolling down Venice Beach and the next I'm in London with Simon staring at me. And with THAT gaze. Where are Gela and Patty?"
Roger Taylor: "Please help me. I'm scared. Someone hold me. Do you have a stuffed sheep doll anywhere?"
Andy Taylor: "Yeah man. Yeah. Man. I look good in these sunglasses. I think I'll keep them on all the time. Ha ha ha, try to stop me! Look at my guitars! I'm a shredder, man."

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 1 April 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

David Sylvian: "I hurt, the universe is full of hurt and pain and sadness, and I'm going to sing all about it using whatever native instrumentation I can find."
Steve Jansen: "Mmmm hmmm, brother, sure. I'm listening. Whatever you say."
Mick Karn: "I'm sick of all this talk about sadness, death, demise, and decay. How about some funky bass action?"
Richard Barbieri: "Oh! Let me accent that with some synth! No? I've got more instruments! Take your pick!"
Rob Dean: "..."

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 1 April 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ryuichi Sakamoto: "David, why don't you utilize some of the native instrumentation from my fair and lovely country? And here are some ideas about what you can do with this album. Really, they're lovely!"
Mick Karn: "Yeah, man. Listen to him."
Steve Jansen: "You want me to do the percussion, bro? Serious, here. I can play anything and everything so long as you have to hit it to play it."
Burnt Friedman: "I have this lovely idea, you guys...."

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 1 April 2006 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

Pearl Jam: "Our only songs are written by Neil Young. The rest is shit"

― Elwyn Chow (I say we take off and nuke the), Monday, 3 April 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

charalambides: "What's that? You're peaking? Quick, hit record and hand me the lap steel."

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 3 April 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

kelly clarkson: "i would like alanis' lyrics better if they weren't so, i dunno... sparse"

― bald mommy is sure to fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

Stevie Nicks: I took so much coke I started hallucinating witches and unicorns, and that's not the even the least of my post-feminist appeal.
Lindsay Buckingham: I took so much coke I even started freaking out Stevie Nicks, and that's not even the least of my cult artist appeal.
Christine McVie: Relatively speaking, I was always the sexy but sensible center of the band, and that's not even the least of my rockcrit appeal.
Mick Fleetwood: I have always been out of my fucking gourd, and that's...uh...
John McVie: Who of you did I fuck again?
Jeremy Spencer: Forget Elmore James, I like it missionary style now.
Peter Green: Hey, over here!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

did we do a golden girls/satc comparison with fleetwood mac? did we agree that christine mcvie was bea arthur?

― bald mommy is sure to fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember us doing it but boy did it ever cross my mind.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

THERE'S one for the out-of-context thread...

― bald mommy is sure to fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

John McVie: I don't remember us doing it but boy did it ever cross my mind.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

Morrissey - "Will sombody ever love me?"
Saint Etienne - "We're lovely"
Pet Shop Boys - "We don't do summaries of our careers"

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

Butthole Surfers: Poop as art

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 3 April 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

Dee's are genius!

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 April 2006 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

Have you ever tried it that way? (I haven't and maybe never will, but I need material) - Suede

― dr x o'skeleton, Monday, 3 April 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Barclay James Harvest did a perfect description of their music in one song title. The song was called "Poor Man's Moody Blues"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

The Go-betweens: we like reading books and fucking each other. Actually, these days it's just reading.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ed Kuepper: You're a part of my world yeah, you're the water I urinate in.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

Kurt Cobain: "I hate myself, I want to die."
Gene Simmons: "I love myself, I want to bang groupies."

― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, thanks Tracer! ("Tracey"? Heh.)

Kurt Cobain: "I hate myself, I want to die."
Gene Simmons: "I love myself, I want to bang groupies."

I LOVE THAT. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Mouse on Mars: "Wheep whoop pup pip pip pup... rock? ROCK!"

― Tuomas, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

FLEETWOOD MAC
Lindsey: DON'T TRY IT CUNT
Stevie: CUNT OFF YOU CUNTIN CUNT
Christine: Oh heavens you chaps I'm trying to kip
Mick: Um Ah Yes Boy George Um Ah Four Tops Yes Um Ah What Year Is It Again Sam Um Ah Yes
John: *Out Of Office*

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

haha

― admrl, Friday, 18 April 2008 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

twelve years pass...

This thread is a gem that needs to be revived.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 21:01 (five years ago)

did you get authorization from Neanderthal?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 21:58 (five years ago)

Bruno Mars - hasn’t released anything new as he’s deciding carefully whose sound he rip-offs next.

The 1975 - they do not decide carefully whose sound they rip-off next.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 23:15 (five years ago)

Wizkid: what’s Made in Lagos stays in Lagos

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 09:13 (five years ago)

The XX - their most popular song is the 2 minute instrumental intro to their first album.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 15:04 (five years ago)

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