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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:11 PM
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What is this fucking shit I'm watching on CBS?
Edited on Thu Jul-06-06 08:12 PM by Rabrrrrrr
With some dweeb-ass goth fucknut trying to talk about "music" and some other badly dressed poseur-wannabe fake-party-hearty trash trying to be "metal" with their "goth" eye makeup and piercings and leather and attempts at literate discourse?

Jesus Christ, I thought American Idol was for ignorant assholes. I guess I have to raise my opinion of them.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:14 PM
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1. Dave Navarro and Tommy Lee doing what? What's this shit?
Accccccckkkkkkk!!!!! Ripping off Nirvana? Badly, too. Fake posing and everything...

*grabs clicker* This is why I don't watch the networks.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:16 PM
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2. Talk about an asshole trying to "be" something...
She was fucking awful - especially the fake running around at the end, and her hood over her eyes trying to show "suffering" and "a pain that requires her to withdraw from the world".

Added in with the overwrought sophomoric "lyrics of pain" of Nirvana, and it was pure unadulterated fucking garbage.

Who are these assholes? Do any of them have a mind or a brain of their own? Or have they just bought into the whole "metal image" thing?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:19 PM
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3. I, uh, wish I knew...or do I?
That was truly painful. That was 2 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:22 PM
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4. Watching these guys, they have all the "moves" that they associate
with "music", but they don't have any goddamn brains, skills, or talents.

But, by God, they've spent a hell of time practicing "the moves" - the way they sit, the way they look pensive, the way they "emote", the way they carry their heads....

Assholes.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:26 PM
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5. Okay, now some poseur fuckbag is trying to sing "LA Woman"
What heresy. And what an abomination.

The guy totally fucking sucks.

I mean, he really does - his voice just isn't good, not for this kind of music.

And he has no charisma or stage presence - except that he has, as in my post just above this, clearly spent untold hours learning "the moves". Not well, though.

Yeah, you assholes, music is all about "the moves".
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:28 PM
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6. What. The. Fuck.
Edited on Thu Jul-06-06 08:28 PM by GOPisEvil
Val Kilmer was a better Morrison than you, dude... :eyes:

Edit - thanks to you Rabrrrrrr, I'm switching back every time you post a new mini-rant. But I'm done! Back to "First 48".
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:28 PM
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7. And that's setting the bar pretty fucking low, too.
:P
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:29 PM
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8. No kidding.
:P

As I said in my edit, I'm going back to "First 48" on A&E.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:30 PM
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10. And I'm gonna pull out my new "Boston Legal" Season 1
But yet, like a terrible highway accident, I find myself absorbed into the sheer horror of this show...
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:32 PM
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11. This show demands a "MST3K-like" skewering.
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Vyan Donating Member (990 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-07-06 01:05 AM
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38. Val Kilmer
was awesome, particular since he did all his own singing in that film. Too bad they didn't use his vocals for the soundtrack.

Vyan
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-07-06 08:21 AM
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42. (Slight hijack re Val Kilmer)
When I've seen him as "himself"--I don't find him attractive at all. And what I've heard of his personal life makes me dislike him a bit.

But he really throws himself into a part. The Jim Morrison movie was a bit silly, but he DID Jim Morrison. And I fell in love with his Doc Holliday in Tombstone.
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Strawman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:40 PM
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14. It's a "Tinsel Town Rebellion band"
From madam wong's to starwood
To the whiskey on the strip
You can hear the crashing, blasting strum
Of bands that come to be real hip
And get a record contract
From a talent scout some day
They'll sell their ass, their cocks and balls
They'll take the check 'n' walk away....

.....But then again this system works
As perfect as a dream
It works for all of those record company pricks
Who come to skim the cream
From the cesspools of excitement
Where jim morrison once stood
It's the tinsel town rebellion
From downtown hollywood
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:43 PM
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16. So off they go to SIR to learn some stupid riffs...
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KyndCulture Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:30 PM
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9. That sucking hole of crap is "Rock Star"
total dogs asshole of a show.


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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:35 PM
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12. And I guess the judges were chosen because they have sufficient tattoos
and I gues they have "the look". They are apparently a supergroup? Are they a real supergroup, or just a made up group for this show? Have any of them ever read a book? Showered? Written anything better than what an 8th grade heavily-emoting teenage girl would write after breaking up with the boyfriend that was never actually her boyfriend except in her dreams?

Thank you, MTV, for making music all about "the look".
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:36 PM
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13. Damn you, you made me flip back!! Who is this asshat on now?!?!
Dear God, stop with the sucking!!!!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:42 PM
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15. Yeah, this last guy looked more like he should be the organic poseur
the kind that perform in flannel shirts and dockers, or jeans and sweaters, and one of the band guys wears a beret, and another has sideburns, and another has a goatee (maybe a slightly overweight drummer), and maybe there's a vegetarian lesbian playing bass.

Like this:



Or this - OMG I hit the jackpot with a google search on "organic rock bands"! Here's the ultimate cliche, and NOTE -- I found this AFTER I wrote the above paragraph.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:43 PM
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17. Exactly! Every one of these "singers" is straight out of central casting.
Color me wholly unimpressed.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:45 PM
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18. Okay, this Matt Hoffener guy has a great voice!
He's in tune, and has a real nice smoothness to it, with a little bit of that Dio growl every now and again.

And, unlike most of these metal assholes, he can actually sing a melody with more than a couple notes, and some good sized leaps in pitch.

:applause:
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:47 PM
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19. Notice the judges? They looked unimpressed.
I saw about 10 seconds of him. Compared to the 10 seconds of the others, he was the best performer. He can ditch that look though. It's not him.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:49 PM
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20. But... but... but... the red dyed hairs on the left side of his head
prove that he's "edgy" and that he's a musician!


And yeah, far better than the others. I was wondering if I reacted so well to him because the others were such shit, or if he is genuinely good.

I think, in all honesty, that even outside this show, without the others to compare him to, I would like his voice. I didn't quite like his choice of music - especially that godawful bopbopbopbop shit - but I think he has a voice that can serve him well, and he could do some exciting stuff if he could find some musicians to help train him.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:52 PM
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23. He was one of the ones with the fewest votes, too.
Goodness...

These "hosts"/"judges" are not good. The sychophantic "fans" are the most annoying of all though.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:55 PM
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24. LOL!!!!! Figures he gets cut!!!
:rofl:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:56 PM
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26. Yep!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:56 PM
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25. And of course, he's the one who was bounced out.
Tommy Lee is such an asshole - why is Matt sucking up to him? Matt's the only guy with talent, why isn't be lambasting them and tearing them a new asshole like Zappa (or I) would? Fucker had his chance, and he blew it.

And I'm not surprised at all that they chose him to go.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:58 PM
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27. I would have paid for a, "When I'm famous you'll regret this, assholes!",
rant followed by slamming the mic down and stalking offstage.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 09:12 PM
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29. That would have been sweet! Followed by four minutes of just one
continuous beep and his mouth flailing wildly.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 10:21 PM
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30. OK YOU TWO STOP IT !!!!
YOU ARE TEARING APART A SHOW THAT SUCKS BY......WATCHING IT. THEY'LL KEEP GIVING US THIS F***ING GARBAGE IF PEOPLE KEEP WATCHING IT. STOP IT NOW!!!!!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 10:24 PM
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31. But we're being FUNNY, Skittles.
That counts for something! Besides, I'm not a Nielsen household, so it doesn't matter what's on my toob.
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Vyan Donating Member (990 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-07-06 01:09 AM
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39. The last guy that
tore the judges a new one last year is still being roasted in effigy.

It's not worth it.

Vyan
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Strawman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:50 PM
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21. The tinsel town afficianados come to SEE and not to HEAR
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:51 PM
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22. But then again the system works as perfect as a dream!
It works for all of the record company pricks...
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 08:59 PM
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28. This show is why music is in a coma right now.
A deep, deep coma.
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Vyan Donating Member (990 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-07-06 01:11 AM
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40. Oh no....
Edited on Fri Jul-07-06 01:11 AM by Vyan
this show is just a symptom, music sucking these days has more to do with Nirvana and Radio - not to mention Radiohead - than MTV, which doesn't even play music anymore.

Vyan
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Kajsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-06-06 10:35 PM
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32. This thing was on last night
on the West Coast.

It's called 'Rock Star- Supernova'

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/rock_star2/

I agree, this is one of worst I've seen in a long time.
In fact, I could only take the first 10 minutes of it.

I had to change the channel- the makeup-inability to carry a tune-etc.
I couldn't watch it after that.

Apparently I missed the one guy who could sing and now he's cut.
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njdemocrat106 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-07-06 12:06 AM
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34. I remember catching a few minutes of one show last year...
and decided it wasn't worth my time. A bunch of overly self-concious pretty boys trying to replace Michael Hutchence of INXS (whom I'm sure some would also consider a pretty-boy). But what do I know? I watch American Idol, and I'm a pretty ignorant asshole as well :).
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-07-06 12:24 AM
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35. I don't know, but I have a very strong feeling...
...that reading you describe it is WAY better than
watching it could ever be.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-07-06 12:30 AM
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36. Rabrrrrrr for Moderator!!
:evilgrin:
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liberaltrucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-07-06 12:40 AM
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37. An SNL skit several years ago said it all
I don't remember the entire skit, but at the end,
Adam Saddler's character quipped "CBS is appropritely
named. You see BS".

:rofl:
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-07-06 06:57 AM
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41. worst. show. ever.
except for -- maybe tommy lee -- i don't even like most of the judges{or their music} -- and the singers -- every one of them -- are the quintessential anti-rockers.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-11-06 07:15 AM
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43. They could cut the show in half by having a daytime concert
the ones who ignite were vampires and weren't needed anyway.

BTW My wife and I refuse to get into this this summer but we couldn't figure out who the three "bandmembers" were. I looked it up.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/rock_star2/
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