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Life is making me sick. With shows such as X Fxxcktor and Plop Idol churning out robotic clones singing songs others made great is sickening. The hosts go home rich while the public are led to believe that THIS is what good music is. Sharon Osborne judging such people is ironic in as much as that her own daughter has ZERO singing voice and ZERO persona for television yet that has not stopped her releasing a pile of cancerous plop and presenting TV shows in the style of Day Of The Dead. Excuse me Ray Quimm X Factor runner up!! Since when could you do a better job of Sinatra than he could? What's that? You can't ??!! Well then what gives you the right to record it and re release it while at the same time neither doing it better or attempting to bring anything new to it! Because of these rich louis walsh type idiots who try to tell us what good music is we have them to thank for the fact that kids today believe that Westlife are actually a really good heartfelt bunch of musicians.
There is SO much wrong with the music scene if you can even call it that these days.

You have people like Lilly Allen telling Corinne Bailey Rae how cxxp she is. Excuse me miss one album piece of sxxt your new single sounds like the Mr Blobby single from years ago (yes it really does) and just because you put a few swear words and drug references in the lyrics doesn't make it acceptable. Who are these people that as soon as they get an album out feel the need to bash others efforts when their own albums are TERRIBLE !! Since when was Lilly Allen's record a piece of literary artwork. Just because we're not all singing about track suits and spliffs anymore doesn't mean we're out of touch. The Beastie Boys were doing it when you were just a scratch in your dads pants !!

I am sick of certain handfuls of people trying to tell us what's right and what our ideas should be on things. Terry Wogan the face of Children In Need already worth an estimated 20 million pounds rams down our throats to GIVE GIVE GIVE to children in need while at the same time being paid a staggering £1300 AN HOUR to host the BBC charity show. So any donation you make of even £100 will not come close to the money that greedy idiot makes off of telling YOU the people with NO money to GIVE YOUR MONEY. Bono another person ramming his message down our throats while at the same time donating NO money from the U2 Ipod to any charity. If these people are going to tell us what to do they need to lead by example instead of telling the rest of us to give to charity in order to make them feel better and give themselves Jesus Christ syndrome.

I am sick of certain handfuls of people trying to tell us what's right and what our ideas should be on things.

You shouldn't be sick at them, you should be sick at the people who let them.

Better out than in?

For what it's worth, I pretty much agree with you.

Sorry its a big rant, but I guess the only positive thing about such a bad current music scene is that it makes you appreciate bands like the Sisters even more. Thank god for Mr Eldritch and his merry men !!

Stop the world, please. I want to get off.

Unreleased Jimmy Page Guitar Riff To Save Rock And Roll

Unreleased Jimmy Page Guitar Riff To Be Retrieved From Secret Vault To Save Rock And Roll

Calling it the planet's last, best hope for saving rock music, the Guardians of the Protectorate of Rock announced Monday that they would take the extraordinary step of unleashing a never-before-heard Jimmy Page riff, hidden for decades in a mythic, impenetrable vault.

"We who believe in the immortality of rock took a vow 30 years ago that we would never release this incredibly powerful force unless we faced a Day of Reckoning—and that day has come," said Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, one of the chosen few who helped forge the Secret Vault to Save Rock and Roll, at a press conference in the Welsh highlands. "Just look at the pop charts, and you shall know I speak the truth."

"Let's give rock and roll its f**king balls back," he added.

The Guardians said recent developments in the music world, such as the unaccountable popularity of the Dixie Chicks and Sufjan Stevens, have created a "perfect storm of lameness" from which rock might never recover. While Iommi refused to say when the vault would be opened, hard rock sources believe it will take place just prior to next month's Fall Out Boy–Honda Civic tour, which many fear will suck the remaining lifeblood from all that still rocks.


"Citizens of Rock, we refuse to stand idly by any longer," ZZ Top founder and Protectorate High Elder Billy Gibbons said. "When a puss like James Blunt is allowed to rule the airwaves, we must respond by exposing this monster riff, and blowing minds into the stratosphere."

The Protectorate, devoted to the preservation of badass jams and blistering guitar solos, was reportedly formed in the 1970s during the rise of adult contemporary music. According to legend, the riff, played only once by Page and recorded on a special cobalt record, contains the raw power, mind-blowing skill, and unbridled passion of all the Guardians combined. Recently translated parchments from the era describe it as a soul-searing power-chord progression faintly resembling a cross between "Smoke On The Water" and "Living Loving Maid," but "basically defying all description."

It is believed that, upon the riff's release, even those who claim that the genre is dead will have no choice but to pump their fists, bang their heads, and bow down to the gods of rock for all eternity.

"May God have mercy on our souls for what we are going to set loose upon the world," proclaimed Queen guitarist Brian May, dressed in druidic robes and bathed in the rising blue smoke of a nearby fog machine. "Will it save rock or destroy mankind? We have no way of knowing—yet we have no other choice."

Members of the Protectorate were each given only partial information about the location of the vault, which they were instructed to open in unison only in the event of a total Rockopalypse. While some believed the vault was buried in Boston, Chicago, Kansas, Europe, or Asia, others claimed it could be found in the Court of the Crimson King.

However, after piecing together clues hidden in Yes album covers and Pink Floyd liner notes, rock historians now believe the riff is locked away deep beneath the Welsh countryside house known as Bron-Yr-Aur, at rock-grid coordinates SH735026. British weather satellites have also photographed an enormous cloud, shaped like a hybrid of an upside-down question mark and cross, forming above these exact coordinates.

The vault's Key, regarded as too staggering a burden for any one man to bear, was divided in two parts, with half entrusted to Eddie Van Halen and half to David Lee Roth, shortly after Roth left the rock supergroup Van Halen. The two men, who have refused to work together for 20 years, recently announced plans for a historic reunion tour.

"Before we shake Heaven and Earth with the vicious power of this riff, we of the High Council of Elders of the Guardians of the Protectorate of Rock ask you: Are you about to rock?" AC/DC guitarist Angus Young said. "If so, we salute you."

When asked to comment on the possible dangers of using the riff, Sir Paul McCartney seemed surprised.

"There's a secret vault to save rock and roll?" McCartney said. "This is the first I've heard of it."

Source : http://www.theonion.com/content/news/un ... uitar_riff

Dr. Moody wrote: The Guardians said recent developments in the music world, such as the unaccountable popularity of the Dixie Chicks and Sufjan Stevens, have created a "perfect storm of lameness" from which rock might never recover.

I actually quite like Sufjan Stevens

in the Court of the Crimson King.

And the main rant? Ach, just ignore it, works good enough for me...

Dr. Moody wrote:Unreleased Jimmy Page Guitar Riff To Save Rock And Roll
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Source : http://www.theonion.com/content/news/un ... uitar_riff

You know, I guessed that would be from the Onion.

I do not have answer to that but I do agree with every word. Vote with wallet and your feet.

Gotta love how from now on, the once-coveted "Christmas Number One" will be dictated by Simon Cowell.

Seriously, why bother anymore?

Release the riff.