Apologise to Artists Whose Work You Enjoy But Whose Ideology You Don't Share

I'm a fairly unrepentant meat-eater and I like 'Meat Is Murder' more than most Smiths songs I've heard

― Cap.Obv (acoleuthic), Sunday, 5 December 2010 14:36 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dear Ian MacKaye, love your work but not as much as I love beer and cigs and burgers. Soz.

Dear Manowar, I was really into you when I was a teenager but I must admit I am partial to a bit of False Metal now and then. Soz.

Dear Evelyn Waugh, you are racist but quite funny.

Dear X-Clan, you know you're tremendous heroes but imo polar bears and gorillas should bro down at any and all opportunities. Soz.

<3 phil spector
h8 yr ideology of death

dear mark helprin, i *really* liked winter's tale and a soldier of the great war but damn you are kind of a fascist

Dear Brian Eno, kudos on being involved in many great pieces of music but you can stick the Lib Dems right up your smug arse. Soz.

Dear Bryan Ferry, actually enjoy you in part *because* of the wrongness, so, well, ain't life confusin'

http://i.imgur.com/Jsxdf.jpg

ofwgkta, i dont really like rape

Dear Robert Wyatt, you are amazing but I can't really get behind the whole Stalinism thing. Soz.

<3 jlg
h8 petainism tho

Hi Varg - you are a black metal pioneer bordering on genius, but your ideas are clearly those of a complete wackjob

Why would you apologize unless you're some dull pc twat who won't listen to something strictly because of ideology? Fortunately nazi skinhead bands have no talent so I don't have to feel bad about not listening. Frank Zappa was a libertarian, who gives a *$^&.

Dear Ted Nugent, the "Free-For-All" riff never fails to stop me dead in my tracks, but your political views (yeah, pretty much all of them) make me want to do to you what you claim your guitar can do to a charging rhino. At 60 paces.

Dear Vincent Gallo, I love your faceless music textures and you getting your dick sucked on camera, but your crazy right-wing bullshit is sickening to me.

Dear Christian Vander from Magma
You are a genius, but can it with the Goebbels crap already*

*allegedly

Dear Wagner
etc

dear god/church music people, your voices sure are pretty.

Who cares what musicians 'think' about anything?

Dear Wagner
etc

yeah OTM.
and...

Dear Prince,

You're a musical genius and brilliant showman whose influence can not be overstated. But seriously, you became a Jehovah's Witness?! Those guys are more whack than Mormons! Good luck when you eventually piss off the elders... Sorry!

Dear Vincent Gallo, I love your faceless music textures and you getting your dick sucked on camera, but your crazy right-wing bullshit is sickening to me.

― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Sunday, 5 December 2010 16:17 (4 hours ago) Bookmark

wait... thought he was just trolling with that stuff

Pantera - not keen on Anselmo's open racism.
Prince - not keen on his hatred for the internets.
Mozart - not keen on his cropophiliac interests.
Lou Reed - not keen on... well nothing in particular he just seems like a douche.

Was Mozart really into wheat or something?

I can understand why any pro musician would hate the internet. It is like a big sign saying "bye bye, your income."

recording artist musician anyway

Dear Stravinsky,

Fascism didn't turn out so well in the end, did it? Well, we live and learn! Tootles!

Dear Louis-Ferdinand Céline,

You're pretty much an all-around asshole, but an amazing writer.

— C.

Was Mozart really into wheat or something?

― patrick NAGL (corey)

lol I'm sorry for the typo. Meant coprophiliac.

Dear Robert Wyatt, you are amazing but I can't really get behind the whole Stalinism thing. Soz.

― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Sunday, December 5, 2010 10:08 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Pretty sure Wyatt's a Trotskyist.

daer ben rofflesberger i appreciate your work for the pittsburgh steelers and i suppose that you have been convicted of nothing (other than being a long-term well-known asshole around the city) but i wish the steelers had traded you as they did santonio holmes, who was only a pothead, not an alleged rapist

Pixies-you are my third all times greatest band. not coming to my country was realy pathetic-fuck off.

was not going to yr country an ideological decision do you think?

oh shit lets not drop an I/P bomb in a joke letter thread.

only third all-time greatest band, everyone chill

it was a business decision based on on lame political assumption and cowardness. i still love pixies anyway.

Dear Peter Hook,

Mani was right.

Dear Kelsey Grammar,

You're a funny, erudite man, but you rly *are* a motherfucker with some dark secrets a bit too right wing for my liking.

Dear Arthur Rimbaud-

Your writing continues to inspire and provoke me. I even have your face tattooed on my bicep. But did you really have to do that whole colonialist/slave trade thing? Kinda pissed me off.

thx
ttitt

wait why should i apologize to varg? shouldn't i apologize to the family of the dude he killed, the communities with the churches he burnt, and all the people he openly hates for not being "odalists" or w/e?

u guys r doin it rong

Dear Nazis,

I'm really sorry for thinking you were disgusting savages. But hey, at least your uniforms were snappy!

wtf

in that vein...

Dear Mr. Vikernes

I am sorry I ever bought your records.

Dear Subways,

I am sorry, but you are delicious.

Dear Earl Sweatshirt,

I am sorry I made your thread corny.

gbx OTM

I want these people to apologize to me.

Dear Dennis Miller,

Your Weekend Update was my favorite part of SNL for years and the first couple years of the Dennis Miller Show were terrific. Why did you have to turn into such a dick?

dear kipling,
you sucked as a human being.
yours, &c. &c.,

Dear Rolling Stones,

Oh, how I love your songs. There are no words, really, for how much they mean to me in this lifetime. But gentleman, your conduct toward others, oh never mind, I can't do this. Sorry.

you're all fucking doing this wrong

dear l0u1s jagg3r,

sorry

apologise for your own deficiencies in their eyes, not theirs in yours

oh haha

Dear l0u1s jagg3r,

some of your posts are quite entertaining and erudite, however, can it with the thread police act

apologise for your own deficiencies in their eyes, not theirs in yours

oh haha

let go

Dear Kelsey Grammar,

You're a funny, erudite man, but you rly *are* a motherfucker with some dark secrets a bit too right wing for my liking.

― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Monday, December 6, 2010 1:04 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark

I used to be crazy in love with Kelsey Grammer and Frasier was my favorite show growing up. He has been through some nasty crap in his lifetime and I don't exactly approve of his women issues. Also, I never liked Camille. Never. Something seemed golddiggerish about her. For some reason his Republican standpoint never bothered me but I guess I never thought about it much.
It's old as hell but I do have a copy of his autobio "So Far..." from 1995 and let's just say, damn. Those are dark secrets, son, damn.

Dear Sir VS Naipaul

I would not want to have you over for dinner but your novels & non-fiction are equally superb

Dear Mick Jones and Joe Strummer: You made a couple of excellent rock'n'roll albums, and I can even support some of your socialist ideology. But punk was never a good idea.

Dear Sun Ra:

Your music is truly cosmic but in reality Saturn is uninhabitable.

Dr Mr. Blackmore:

You seem to be one of the most despicible people to ever exist. And the hats you wore were really stupid, as were the ludicrous hairpieces. However, you really kicked ass up through Long Live Rock and Roll.

Dear KLF,

You were a'ight I guess, but DAMN I could have used that.

More Kelsey Grammer drama in this ILM thread, well that didn't take long. I mention him this morning and by the end of the day he's engaged to that chick that miscarried his baby.

http://www.usmagazine.com/healthylifestyle/news/kelsey-and-kayte-2010612

This thread has been properly derailed by Grammer-ing. Although if we stretch it a bit, he did sing Frasier's theme and is featured in the soundtrack to A Christmas Carol: The Musical.

Man, it is fucking wrong that I now want to read a Kelsey Grammer autobio, esp. one from before "Girlfriends."

It better have like Satanic ritual abuse in it.

Dear Douglas P.,

So, uh... what exactly is going on here?

With care and control,
----

Dear Sun Ra:

Your music is truly cosmic but in reality Saturn is uninhabitable.

― hubertus bigend (m coleman), Monday, December 6, 2010 2:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

<3

Dear Deathspell Omega, Your music provides a unique, mind boggling one of a kind experience,

But I don't care much for human sacrifice or satanic worship.

Kthxbye

Dear Mick Jones and Joe Strummer: You made a couple of excellent rock'n'roll albums, and I can even support some of your socialist ideology. But punk was never a good idea.

damn them for thinking of it

http://www.emotty.com/images/emoticons/509.png

lol doesn't seem those emoticons are all that 'free' if you can't hotlink them...

freedom isn't free

damn them for anti-hotlinking their emoticons

>:(

Dear Christian music by white people,

Admittedly, it's prejudiced and hypocritical to find black gospel kind of stirring but white gospel creepy and bland. But I do.

Happy Holidays,

Hideous "You Know It's a Myth" Lump

ITT: Don't Apologise to Artists Whose Work You Don't Enjoy

dear deej,

i am sorry i will never be as hip as u are ;_;

Dear Geir Hongro,

Punk and techno were the best popular musical forms that came out of the last century. Please shove Godzilla dick up yr popist arse.

love
ttitt

You like Geir's music?

Dear Momus,

Japan called. They want you to stop hanging on their balls. But Tender Pervert is still a great album.

Arigato,

Dear Malcolm McClaren,

Oh jeez I don't even know where to begin... Your solo stuff, Bow Wow Wow, your involvement in 8-bit music... just incredible. But you unleashed the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls into the world and all that came with it... completely unforgivable!! Also you were a big S&M freak so that's kind of icky. Sorry you died from one of the worst, most painful cancers, tho, no one deserves that.

Yours Truly,
I. Haight Puhnck

Dear Malcolm McClaren,

who dat

oops McLaren...