Are You ******ing Kidding Me?

[Benjamin]

Dappy is going to get a #1. Who is buying this ****?

WoImizvsj5w&ob

[MTVN]

Great song

[Patrick]

Who is buying this ****?

Chavs, Silly Girls, Bellends.

It doesn't surprise me, this year has been appalling for music - and any good music isn't even getting into the Top 5 :bored: ******ing joke.

[DrunkerThanMoses]

Who is this moron?

['Conor]

The UK chart is horrific has been for a while.

[Scarlett.]

The UK chart is horrific has been for a while.

Since around 2007-8 tbh

[Ramsay]

Ahaha Paddy i remember when you listened to N-Dubz:laugh:

[Smithy]

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[Smithy]

Ahaha Paddy i remember when you listened to N-Dubz:laugh:

Yeah, like, 6 weeks ago :joker:

[Jords]

I think its pretty damn good.

[Patrick]

Yeah, like, 6 weeks ago :joker:

Like 2 Years Ago. :idc:

[Patrick]

Since around 2007-8 tbh

2008's Charts were ******ing AMAZING.

Especially that Summer.

[Shaun]

charts having awful songs isn't a new phenomenon. Check the 1980s.

[Stu]

charts having awful songs isn't a new phenomenon. Check the 1980s.
I don't like when people make that comparison. The pop fluff in the eighties was still far better and it's not as if virtually the entire top twenty was absoloutely littered with the **** attack garbage today's charts are. The decent tunes still broke the charts back then because everyone bought singles.

I find it so bizarre that people still follow the charts. And I don't mean looking at the countdown on TV out of curiosity. I mean really following the charts.

Anyway how dare he tarnish this hallowed ground of superior music etc.

[Patrick]

I don't like when people make that comparison. The pop fluff in the eighties was still far better and it's not as if virtually the entire top twenty was absoloutely littered with the **** attack garbage today's charts are. The decent tunes still broke the charts back then because everyone bought singles.


:worship:

[Z]

Yeah I checked iTunes this morning to buy Lucky Day by Nicola Roberts (only down in the 70s?! oh dear...) and was pretty appalled to see him at #1, I'd have thought One Direction would be soaring at #1 still? I take no issue with him getting a #1, I'm genuinely stunned at the support he has, I didn't think N-Dubz were particularly successful? It's surely only through Tulisa's X Factor connection...?!

[MeMyselfAndI]

I like this song D:
Even I've gone off alot of the charts.
Although Collide made top 5:love:

[Smithy]

Yeah I checked iTunes this morning to buy Lucky Day by Nicola Roberts (only down in the 70s?! oh dear...) and was pretty appalled to see him at #1, I'd have thought One Direction would be soaring at #1 still? I take no issue with him getting a #1, I'm genuinely stunned at the support he has, I didn't think N-Dubz were particularly successful? It's surely only through Tulisa's X Factor connection...?!

She was in the 20's in the midweeks, I think she has pretty solid physical sales

[MeMyselfAndI]

She'll be around #30

[InOne]

Yeah the charts are shyte these days, littered with X Factor rejects, and well... Dappy

[Shaun]

I don't like when people make that comparison. The pop fluff in the eighties was still far better and it's not as if virtually the entire top twenty was absoloutely littered with the **** attack garbage today's charts are. The decent tunes still broke the charts back then because everyone bought singles.

Bananarama, Kajagoogoo and Chas and Dave were not far better :nono: and it's a bit pointless saying "oh well this dirge is slightly better than new dirge", it's still dirge, which was my point :hmph:

[Patrick]

I didn't think N-Dubz were particularly successful? It's surely only through Tulisa's X Factor connection...?!

They were - especially 2 years back around the time 'Number One', 'Wouldn't You' and 'Need You' came out.

But they are split up now, which in a way is a shame - because I'd much rather listen to them than Dappy, at least with them we got Tulisa.

[Stu]

Bananarama, Kajagoogoo and Chas and Dave were not far better :nono: and it's a bit pointless saying "oh well this dirge is slightly better than new dirge", it's still dirge, which was my point :hmph:
Of course it's not pointless. Less dirge songs mixed in with lots of great songs > Incredibly dirge songs being near dominant on a constant basis.

One > the other.

[Saph]

I think the charts have only been crappy since 2010, before that was good :D

97-07 was a wonderful era for music :amazed: nowadays its all just 'urrrhh' music.

[Patrick]

Yeah the charts are shyte these days, littered with X Factor rejects, and well... Dappy

Exactly.

The charts are literally ran by little girls thinking with their young pussies.
I don't know why there is barely any Rock, Indie and Punk and aside from that - just normal music, on the charts now?

I say Rock, Indie and Punk because you hear new songs from those genres on YouTube - but never see them in the charts.

I mean today in town I seen a line up outside HMV - for guess who?

That ******ing pussy 'Starboy Nathan' from Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack.
I mean what goes through the minds of people who want to buy his music? And if I hear One Direction's new song again I'll shoot myself.

I'd give anything to go back to about 5 Years ago - there were boy bands around the charts then that actually weren't annoying and had good songs.

Snow Patrol springs to mind easily and that song by The Feeling that was quite big in '06.

[Patrick]

97-08 was a wonderful era for music :amazed: nowadays its all just 'urrrhh' music.

corrected.

[Shaun]

Of course it's not pointless. Less dirge songs mixed in with lots of great songs > Incredibly dirge songs being near dominant on a constant basis.

One > the other.

I didn't say anything about one being better than the other... all I said was that there have always been terrible songs in the charts.

[Black Dagger]

The UK charts have been ****e for years... I think the only songs I've liked that have been in the top 5 this year is Heaven, Jar of Hearts and Party Rock Anthem

[Patrick]

The UK charts have been ****e for years... I think the only songs I've liked that have been in the top 5 this year is Heaven, Jar of Hearts and Party Rock Anthem

I love you.

[MeMyselfAndI]

I love Snow Patrol:D

[Black Dagger]

I love you.

Aww, ta Patrick <3...

But yeah with the music taste I have, I'm not expected to like much that is in the charts... 'HIPSTER ALERT' I like to find music myself, not have it forced upon me...

[MeMyselfAndI]

Heaven, Collide, Moves like Jagger, Don't Hold Your Breath

[Smithy]

PRA is one of the worst songs ever, just ever, LMFAO can go die in a hole for making me have to put up with that song for the summer

[Doogle]

I see the charts being mainly dubstep in the next few years :( I hope the charts get better in a few years though, cos I'm really sick of this **** constasntly being released

[InOne]

Last time I liked it properly was 06 when Indie became a bit popular

[Maia]

The charts have been awful since 2010. I'd say 2009 but 2009 had Pixie Lott and quite a few other gems. Just look at the list of #1s for 2010 and all you can think is "Why the bloody hell?"

1138 Ne-Yo "Beautiful Monster"

I mean seriously how did that EVER get to #1. No one even remembers it.

1126 Usher featuring will.i.am "OMG"
1134 JLS "The Club Is Alive"
1149 JLS "Love You More"

god I mean...why

[Iceman]

Last time I liked it properly was 06 when Indie became a bit popular

Arctic Monkeys :love:

[Black Dagger]

Last time I liked it properly was 06 when Indie became a bit popular

Yeah, it went all 'rocky' for a bit with the Kaisers, Razorlight etc... then an influx of generic pop just swarmed the nation xD.

[Doogle]

I liked some of last year, but the other half was ****.

2006 was an amazing year for music imo. Lots of genres in the charts too

[Stu]

I didn't say anything about one being better than the other... all I said was that there have always been terrible songs in the charts.
I know you didn't. Look just let a man get on with his love for Chas & Dave, alright?

[Ramsay]

dirty hipsters

[Maia]

PRA is one of the worst songs ever, just ever, LMFAO can go die in a hole for making me have to put up with that song for the summer

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[Stu]

It's hard to think looking back that The Bravery were tipped to be quite a bit deal.

[Smithy]

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[Patrick]

Last time I liked it properly was 06 when Indie became a bit popular

LOL I'm on YouTube now listening to loads of Indie Songs I use to like [because of this thread] and on Vevo it just says like '(C) 2006' in every song - no wonder that year was so amazing for music.

PRA is one of the worst songs ever, just ever, LMFAO can go die in a hole for making me have to put up with that song for the summer

I hated it to be honest in like May and June and then on Holiday it was played alot and It grew on me, I love it - it's really catchy.

I also liked On The Floor, for the same reason - use to hate it, was played in Summer, grew on me because of the sheer catchiness of the tune.

I only listen to 'On The Floor' if it's a Solo Version though without that wanker Pitbull.

[GypsyGoth]

The song isn't bad, it's well crafted. It's got a very american style.

[Z]

I don't think music has gotten any worse than it was years ago; I think it's just your perception changes as you get older - I look back on the mid 2000s fondly as it was when I was growing up as a teenager; whereas I look at the last few years in a pretty negative way whereas the trend I've noticed is that the younger members who've posted in this thread seem to like the music from the year that they were early teens... idk, maybe that's just coincidental. There is still good music out there being released, it's just a little less obvious where you have to look in order to find it.

[Scarlett.]

I don't like when people make that comparison. The pop fluff in the eighties was still far better and it's not as if virtually the entire top twenty was absoloutely littered with the **** attack garbage today's charts are. The decent tunes still broke the charts back then because everyone bought singles.

I find it so bizarre that people still follow the charts. And I don't mean looking at the countdown on TV out of curiosity. I mean really following the charts.

Anyway how dare he tarnish this hallowed ground of superior music etc.

I agree, 80's chart pop music actually had some soul to it, nowadays every song is either Tiny Tampon wittering on about LYF In Da Hud, JLS wanking over underage fans or some slag like Ke$ha singing about going out and having sex with everyone in the club. It all just feels heartless and ruthlessly manufactured in every single aspect.

[MTVN]

I don't think music has gotten any worse than it was years ago; I think it's just your perception changes as you get older - I look back on the mid 2000s fondly as it was when I was growing up as a teenager; whereas I look at the last few years in a pretty negative way whereas the trend I've noticed is that the younger members who've posted in this thread seem to like the music from the year that they were early teens... idk, maybe that's just coincidental. There is still good music out there being released, it's just a little less obvious where you have to look in order to find it.

I think you're probably right there, really it's not like there's been a huge sudden decline in the quality of music being produced in the space of just a couple of years, I think it's more to do with people's perspectives just changing

[Saph]

Number ones this time since 95...

95 - Shaggy 'Boombastic'
96 - Fugees 'Ready or Not'
97 - Spice Girls 'Spice Up Your Life'
98 - Mel B Feat Missy Elliot 'I Want You Back'
99 - Eiffel65 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)'
00 - Modjo 'Lady'
01 - Kylie Minogue 'Cant Get You Out Of My Head'
02 - Pink 'Just Like A Pill'
03 - Black Eyed Peas 'Where Is The Love'
04 - Eric Prydz 'Call On Me'
05 - Pussycat Dolls 'Dont Cha'
06 - Scissor Sisters 'Dont Feel Like Dancing'
07 - Sean Kingston 'Beautiful Girl'
08 - Kings Of Leon 'Sex On Fire' (I absolutely hated this song)
09 - Taio Cruz 'Break Your Heart'
10 - Alexandra Burke 'Start Without You' (Ive never even heard this song)
11 - One Direction 'What Makes You Beautiful'

You can clearly see the last 3/4 years, number ones have been declining rapidly - all the ones from 95-08 are actually worthy of getting number 1

[Stu]

Yeah sure they are.

Anyway re : what Zee is saying I think great music is more plentiful and easily available today than at any other point in history obviously due to the power of the internet as a platform it's just - a cliche I know - the mainstream stuff that is gack.

I don't think music is as exciting though. The thing is until very recently music was always going somewhere new. Each new decade brought new technologies and styles of music. Right now we're at a complete saturation point. Everythings been done and becoming harder to invent new ways of making music. All you can do is make it faster and in increasingly absurd subgenres.

You're not going to get the birth of rocknroll again. You're not going to get the dawn of synthesizers and explosion of electronic music again. That's all been done. We're now here in 2011 and we have everything. We have all the available genres and all the available technology. Music just lulls about now being either dreck, decent or somewhere in between.

[Marc]

Dappy is my hero

[Marc]

YOOOOURRR SEX IS ON FIRREEEEeeeEEEE

[Patrick]

I agree, 80's chart pop music actually had some soul to it, nowadays every song is either Tiny Tampon wittering on about LYF In Da Hud, JLS wanking over underage fans or some slag like Ke$ha singing about going out and having sex with everyone in the club. It all just feels heartless and ruthlessly manufactured in every single aspect.

LMFAO :joker::joker:

But yeah Chewy, VERY well said.
I've been listening to the OST of Vice City for about 2 hours now, you know the radio station CDs?

So it's funny you mentioned about 80's music having alot more meaning to it, because it did - the lyrics behind every song made sense, and every single song aswell made use of real instruments - not silly autotuning and sound effects like music now.

It makes me jelaous when I read comments on YouTube about how great it was to live in the '80s when that music was popular and everyone appreciated real music.

[Patrick]

Very good point Stu.

Number ones this time since 95...

95 - Shaggy 'Boombastic'
96 - Fugees 'Ready or Not'
97 - Spice Girls 'Spice Up Your Life'
98 - Mel B Feat Missy Elliot 'I Want You Back'
99 - Eiffel65 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)'
00 - Modjo 'Lady'
01 - Kylie Minogue 'Cant Get You Out Of My Head'
02 - Pink 'Just Like A Pill'
03 - Black Eyed Peas 'Where Is The Love'
04 - Eric Prydz 'Call On Me'
05 - Pussycat Dolls 'Dont Cha'
06 - Scissor Sisters 'Dont Feel Like Dancing'
07 - Sean Kingston 'Beautiful Girl'
08 - Kings Of Leon 'Sex On Fire' (I absolutely hated this song)
09 - Taio Cruz 'Break Your Heart'
10 - Alexandra Burke 'Start Without You' (Ive never even heard this song)
11 - One Direction 'What Makes You Beautiful'

You can clearly see the last 3/4 years, number ones have been declining rapidly - all the ones from 95-08 are actually worthy of getting number 1


Exactly.

[Z]

I think a lot of the best music, or at least my favourite songs, are social commentaries. I don't necessarily mean politics, I mean that the lyrics comment on something meaningful and cause you to think about what the songwriter might mean by their choice of words. That's why songs like Someone Like You capture the public imagination and are a roaring success - because people can relate to songs that they have to think about - hearing Red One being name checked and listening to songs about being ~in da club~ over a thumping bassline with a dubstep breakdown do nothing to make people think. I think that's the problem with the music scene at the moment, what's popular is not making people think. For that reason, I therefore think that we'll soon see a new fad pop up that people get behind (like the Indie wave from a few years ago) to counter the current trend of mindless noise. If you look back; music styles flare up in popularity fairly regularly, so I expect that it won't be long before we're complaining about something else and pining for the days when the charts were filled with David Guetta...

[Harry!]

Number ones this time since 95...

95 - Shaggy 'Boombastic'
96 - Fugees 'Ready or Not'
97 - Spice Girls 'Spice Up Your Life'
98 - Mel B Feat Missy Elliot 'I Want You Back'
99 - Eiffel65 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)'
00 - Modjo 'Lady'
01 - Kylie Minogue 'Cant Get You Out Of My Head'
02 - Pink 'Just Like A Pill'
03 - Black Eyed Peas 'Where Is The Love'
04 - Eric Prydz 'Call On Me'
05 - Pussycat Dolls 'Dont Cha'
06 - Scissor Sisters 'Dont Feel Like Dancing'


I like all of them songs <3

[Z]

Number ones this time since 95...

95 - Shaggy 'Boombastic'
96 - Fugees 'Ready or Not'
97 - Spice Girls 'Spice Up Your Life'
98 - Mel B Feat Missy Elliot 'I Want You Back'
99 - Eiffel65 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)'
00 - Modjo 'Lady'
01 - Kylie Minogue 'Cant Get You Out Of My Head'
02 - Pink 'Just Like A Pill'
03 - Black Eyed Peas 'Where Is The Love'
04 - Eric Prydz 'Call On Me'
05 - Pussycat Dolls 'Dont Cha'
06 - Scissor Sisters 'Dont Feel Like Dancing'
07 - Sean Kingston 'Beautiful Girl'
08 - Kings Of Leon 'Sex On Fire' (I absolutely hated this song)
09 - Taio Cruz 'Break Your Heart'
10 - Alexandra Burke 'Start Without You' (Ive never even heard this song)
11 - One Direction 'What Makes You Beautiful'

You can clearly see the last 3/4 years, number ones have been declining rapidly - all the ones from 95-08 are actually worthy of getting number 1

This post pretty much sums up my point about how it's not that the quality of music has gotten any better or worse; people are just nostalgic about certain periods of music because of the age they were when they were released. Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Be Dee), more deserving of a #1 than the likes of Taio Cruz/Alexandra Burke/One Direction? Really? I like the song, don't get me wrong, but it's essentially a heap of ****. Most of the songs on that list are crap, just our perception of them depends on when we grew up.

[Omah]

Yeah sure they are.

Anyway re : what Zee is saying I think great music is more plentiful and easily available today than at any other point in history obviously due to the power of the internet as a platform it's just - a cliche I know - the mainstream stuff that is gack.

I don't think music is as exciting though. The thing is until very recently music was always going somewhere new. Each new decade brought new technologies and styles of music. Right now we're at a complete saturation point. Everythings been done and becoming harder to invent new ways of making music. All you can do is make it faster and in increasingly absurd subgenres.

You're not going to get the birth of rocknroll again. You're not going to get the dawn of synthesizers and explosion of electronic music again. That's all been done. We're now here in 2011 and we have everything. We have all the available genres and all the available technology. Music just lulls about now being either dreck, decent or somewhere in between.

Absolutely true ..... ;)

"Rock musician" is just another career path nowadays ..... :bored:

[Doogle]

If Blue (Da Ba Dee) was released this year, it'd be dismissed as more dance ****. But loads of people grew up when it was big and the chart wasnt completely filled up with dance **** (well it mightve been around the late 90s/early 00s actually but still) and that makes it seem better than it is. I agree with your points about liking music from when we're younger, Zee. The main reason probably being nostalgia

[Z]

If Blue (Da Ba Dee) was released this year, it'd be dismissed as more dance ****. But loads of people grew up when it was big and the chart wasnt completely filled up with dance **** (well it mightve been around the late 90s/early 00s actually but still) and that makes it seem better than it is. I agree with your points about liking music from when we're younger, Zee. The main reason probably being nostalgia

I imagine in 5 years I'll hear Sexy Bitch - David Guetta somewhere and think "aw yeah this was a tune" but it still doesn't make it any less crap, I'll just be able to tolerate it more. It's the same with anything that is over-exposed; when it finally disappears out of the public conscience it's actually not that bad when you remember it in the future. I could have picked on most of the songs on that list and made the same point. What was so special about the Pussycat Dolls, for example? I could go on...

[Stu]

That list is just a list of number ones. Again the difference between now and then is that great music still cracked the top twenty routinely back then because everyone bought singles. The charts were better in years gone by. Let's broaden our scope a little from 'yeah but Eifel 65 was a number one back then!'.

[bbfan1991]

I don't like Dappy but i'm glad One Direction are knocked off number 1 straightaway:D.

I love the 90's era of music, era I was born in and the charts were great but now they are crap. I've liked songs that are from the 80's etc and I imagine what growing up in those eras would have been like e.g. experiencing Beatlemania.

[InOne]

Eiffel65 :worship:

[Chuck]

Eiffel65, Modjo and Shaggy are amazing.

[CaraRawr]

oh for CHRIST'S SAKE.

[Jords]

Yeah sure they are.

Anyway re : what Zee is saying I think great music is more plentiful and easily available today than at any other point in history obviously due to the power of the internet as a platform it's just - a cliche I know - the mainstream stuff that is gack.

I don't think music is as exciting though. The thing is until very recently music was always going somewhere new. Each new decade brought new technologies and styles of music. Right now we're at a complete saturation point. Everythings been done and becoming harder to invent new ways of making music. All you can do is make it faster and in increasingly absurd subgenres.

You're not going to get the birth of rocknroll again. You're not going to get the dawn of synthesizers and explosion of electronic music again. That's all been done. We're now here in 2011 and we have everything. We have all the available genres and all the available technology. Music just lulls about now being either dreck, decent or somewhere in between.

Ive often thought this but didnt know how to explain it as well as this.

[Beastie]

Dappy is going to get a #1. Who is buying this ****?

WoImizvsj5w&ob

We might as well make a thread every week about the **** that gets to number 1.

Nothing is going to change!! :bawling:

[Benjamin]

We might as well make a thread every week about the **** that gets to number 1.

Nothing is going to change!! :bawling:

Most I can tolerate, but this is bloody awful.