One f****t ruins for the rest of us
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What about all that rap shit with the B-word in there.
The rap I listened to didn't have words like that. It was better.
"Does all music have to be dumbed-down for numbskulls and sanitized for the humourless? Does every song ever written have to be scrutinized by a committee that tries to guess what might offend someone now, or in the future? And should that be a committee whose very name includes the word Broad?"
The rap I listened to didn't have words like that. It was better.
"Does all music have to be dumbed-down for numbskulls and sanitized for the humourless? Does every song ever written have to be scrutinized by a committee that tries to guess what might offend someone now, or in the future? And should that be a committee whose very name includes the word Broad?"
Red XXX
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If I could rep you I would, loathsome really isn't strong enough :blowjob:Can we please get ALL of Dire Straits musical output banned. Fucking loathsome group!
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
I've noticed over the years that a lot of people from the UK really don't like Dire Straits or Mark Knopfler. With Knopfler's amazing guitar work and the band's smart lyrics, I've never been able to understand the hate.
IMO, "Speedway at Nazareth" and "Telegraph Road" are the shizzle. :clap: But like with everything, to each his own.
And in their honor, I'm going to play "Money for Nothing" right now... LOUD (even though I don't have any neighbors to offend).
IMO, "Speedway at Nazareth" and "Telegraph Road" are the shizzle. :clap: But like with everything, to each his own.
And in their honor, I'm going to play "Money for Nothing" right now... LOUD (even though I don't have any neighbors to offend).
L3ggy
Special Operations FOX-HOUND
Exactly, why would you need to use profanity to make a song good?
But they are not as shit as DIRE Straits!
ukey:good thing i have brothers in arms on cd and don't live in canada...i'm pretty sure they edit it here to tho
(a bundle of sticks)
ApolloBalboa
Was King of the Board for a Day
I've noticed over the years that a lot of people from the UK really don't like Dire Straits or Mark Knopfler. With Knopfler's amazing guitar work and the band's smart lyrics, I've never been able to understand the hate.
IMO, "Speedway at Nazareth" and "Telegraph Road" are the shizzle. :clap: But like with everything, to each his own.
And in their honor, I'm going to play "Money for Nothing" right now... LOUD (even though I don't have any neighbors to offend).
That makes 2 of us. My dad introduced them to me when I was 5 and I've been a fan of theirs since. I can play "Telegraph Road" on my turntable for hours, it's such a great song, especially the guitar solo at the end. But you're right, to each his own, and I feel like it's best for me to stop before all the British users here come after me.
I wouldn't mind someone clearing up the reason for the anger towards them though.
Their music is shit. Bland middle of the road rock. That & the fact that they're homophobes!
This is insane, and I don't understand the Canadian government. After 25 years they are going to ban a world hit (even in Canada) because a one shitty faggot in the country doesn't apply to the words in the song. 
To each their own, right??
This is insane, and I don't understand the Canadian government. After 25 years they are going to ban a world hit (even in Canada) because a one shitty faggot in the country doesn't apply to the words in the song.
Indeed.
larss
I'm watching some specialist videos
I've noticed over the years that a lot of people from the UK really don't like Dire Straits or Mark Knopfler. With Knopfler's amazing guitar work and the band's smart lyrics, I've never been able to understand the hate.
IMO, "Speedway at Nazareth" and "Telegraph Road" are the shizzle. :clap: But like with everything, to each his own.
And in their honor, I'm going to play "Money for Nothing" right now... LOUD (even though I don't have any neighbors to offend).
I like 'em, always have.
*waits for deluge of profanities from mrtrebus*
But they are not as shit as DIRE Straits!
I somehow knew that you wouldn't like them.
Lust
Lost at Birth
The singer is singing from the perspective of a appliance warehouse loader. They got the idea for the song while at an appliance store. Knopfler said he overheard one of the workers talking to another worker about the music videos that were playing on the MTV feed. (Back then MTV actually played music videos.) The worker was saying how the performers were making millions with no talent gay music. The video was When Doves Cry by Prince.
This was in an interview Knopfler did way back when the song came out in the mid 80's, not now when the PC Police are running amuck. That's an important fact cos he wasn't under pressure to just make up a story about the song to protect it, but was just relaying how the song came about.
The line "I should have learned to play the guitar" should be the dead giveaway that it is not Knopfler's POV but the fat bellied cigar chomping redneck worker at the appliance store speaking in the song. Read the lyrics below and you'll see he is just a jealous simpleton who condemns the success of others saying they have no talent and calling them names. (something that's actually happened in this thread - life imitating art I guess)
The band is not endorsing the worker's sentiments, they are simply relaying them in a song and saying hey this is how some people view us and our profession. And apparently now, our response is to say well we ban your song then to protect you from oppression due to our inability to understand the reality of it all!
If we are going to start banning works based on the dialogue of a fictional character then there are a lot of movies and other songs that better watch the fuck out!
There are some very disturbing and controversial works in film, music and art where the artist used some disturbing perspectives in society to help define a character helping us to understand that character more. the artist is not endorsing the character's attitude but is simply exposing that ugly side to give their work some teeth and depth. The audience should then use that perspective to see how even more pathetic the antagonist is.
By actually reading, listening or looking at the artist's works we are expected to learn who the real enemy is but instead we kill the messenger. Whether you like or dislike Dire Straits is irrelevant because today it's Dire Straits but tomorrow who knows who it will be?
It amazes me how in depth some of the PC groups go to ratify truly trivial matters like this when real discrimination towards individuals is happening on a daily basis and interrupting their quality of life and then the media follows suit on lambasting the non-story so they can sell more ads and we the sheeple follow along obediently.
Helen: "Hey did you hear about James getting fired from work on a trumped up charge of tardiness when really it was because he was gay?"
Mark: "Fuck that story, the word Fagot is in a song, we must rally the troops to ban it!! Oh and Helen did you just say the word gay? I'm going to have to report this...."
here are the actual lyrics which once read it is more than obvious the appliance warehouse worker is doing the talking as I'm pretty fucking sure during the heyday of Dire Straits popularity they weren't so destitute as to have to go out and install microwave ovens.
Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and chicks for free
Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb
We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour TV's
See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he's a millionaire
I shoulda learned to play the guitar
I shoulda learned to play them drums
Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera
Man we could have some fun
And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises?
Bangin' on the bongoes like a chimpanzee
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Get your money for nothin' get your chicks for free
This was in an interview Knopfler did way back when the song came out in the mid 80's, not now when the PC Police are running amuck. That's an important fact cos he wasn't under pressure to just make up a story about the song to protect it, but was just relaying how the song came about.
The line "I should have learned to play the guitar" should be the dead giveaway that it is not Knopfler's POV but the fat bellied cigar chomping redneck worker at the appliance store speaking in the song. Read the lyrics below and you'll see he is just a jealous simpleton who condemns the success of others saying they have no talent and calling them names. (something that's actually happened in this thread - life imitating art I guess)
The band is not endorsing the worker's sentiments, they are simply relaying them in a song and saying hey this is how some people view us and our profession. And apparently now, our response is to say well we ban your song then to protect you from oppression due to our inability to understand the reality of it all!
If we are going to start banning works based on the dialogue of a fictional character then there are a lot of movies and other songs that better watch the fuck out!
There are some very disturbing and controversial works in film, music and art where the artist used some disturbing perspectives in society to help define a character helping us to understand that character more. the artist is not endorsing the character's attitude but is simply exposing that ugly side to give their work some teeth and depth. The audience should then use that perspective to see how even more pathetic the antagonist is.
By actually reading, listening or looking at the artist's works we are expected to learn who the real enemy is but instead we kill the messenger. Whether you like or dislike Dire Straits is irrelevant because today it's Dire Straits but tomorrow who knows who it will be?
It amazes me how in depth some of the PC groups go to ratify truly trivial matters like this when real discrimination towards individuals is happening on a daily basis and interrupting their quality of life and then the media follows suit on lambasting the non-story so they can sell more ads and we the sheeple follow along obediently.
Helen: "Hey did you hear about James getting fired from work on a trumped up charge of tardiness when really it was because he was gay?"
Mark: "Fuck that story, the word Fagot is in a song, we must rally the troops to ban it!! Oh and Helen did you just say the word gay? I'm going to have to report this...."
here are the actual lyrics which once read it is more than obvious the appliance warehouse worker is doing the talking as I'm pretty fucking sure during the heyday of Dire Straits popularity they weren't so destitute as to have to go out and install microwave ovens.
Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and chicks for free
Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb
We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour TV's
See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he's a millionaire
I shoulda learned to play the guitar
I shoulda learned to play them drums
Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera
Man we could have some fun
And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises?
Bangin' on the bongoes like a chimpanzee
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Get your money for nothin' get your chicks for free
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