Everybody Hurts, well, at least their ears do…

Contructed on 02/02/2010 in Music, Rants and Reviews. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

Listen to it. I dare you…

(5 mins 22 seconds later)

Ahh good, I’m glad you also agree that this is the worst piece of shit since ‘Cascada’ covered ‘Last Christmas’… How dare Simon Cowell even think that this was anywhere near good enough to release to the public… I don’t even know where to start raging… All I can really tell you is that I’m shaking slightly as I type this so, that’s clearly not good.

The 21 “stars” including Leona Lewis, Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey, Take That, Kylie, Robbie Williams, Cheryl Cole, Susan Boyle, Michael Buble, Mika, James Morrisson, Alexandra Burke, Miley Cyrus, James Blunt, Jon Bon Jovi, Westlife and JLS, should all be shot on sight.

The, so called, artists that have been hand-picked by the richest prat in existence have done a thorough job at destroying a great song. I tell you what, if you already ignored the video above, good for you, you know what’s right. Those that didn’t should now rush to the music store/iTunes/Zune Marketplace and BUY THE ORIGINAL! I hope R.E.M. get a lot of publicity for this and NOT the 21 plus people that sing in the charity version.

I hate charity songs, I think in general. There is something inherently wrong with people who get together and do a bad job of a good song and then ruin said song for future people. It’s like what Crazy Frog did for Axel F. I was humming it at work one day and I overheard someone say “I can’t believe people like the Crazy Frog song”. If I were allowed to go mental at kids at the school, this would have been my ideal chance. I know it’s not a charity single but it has the ‘ruin factor’.

Bill Gates can give $28 billion to charity… Why not record labels who make billions in profit? It would save the public being attacked by truly awful music…

Maybe I’m missing the point of charity songs, as the fat man at the end said: “It’s what it’s all about.” Earning money for charity. I say that if you want to raise money, donate generously to charity. I, personally, have made my donation to the unfortunate victims of Haiti, but I don’t want punishment for it…

I’m gonna go have a lie-down before the blood vessels in my face explode…

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Expand and Deliver

Contructed on 02/01/2010 in General Stuffage and Site Related. 0 Comments

Okies, so what I’m doing is upgrading and arsing around with the site entirely. Learning PHP and HTML in more detail to make a much better homepage and making a shed-load of new graphics, are just a few examples of upgrades being made around here. It needed to be done; it was looking tired and outdated like a Ford Cortina.

So, new homepage under-way, that’s about it so far. Oh, some of the more Eagle-eyed of you may have noticed that the banner of the blog has changed, sadly, no prize for seeing that. Not a great deal else to say really. Just trying to make better everything here.

Will write again soon(ish)

Martin

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Happy New Yea…. Oh, just a little late then…

Contructed on 01/26/2010 in General Stuffage. 0 Comments

Hello all, I may have been a little… Inactive on the website over the past few months but I assure you it’s for a perfectly good reason… Actually, what am I talking about… It’s because I’m a lazy bugger who couldn’t be bothered to update in ages. I will have to make a new years resolution, firstly to keep this website up to date a bit more and secondly to get my bloody driving test done. I have people left, right and centre all bugging me to get it done…  It will be done soon. I really don’t want to be messing around with this anymore, I’m bored of taking public transport, especially if it’s nearly an hour late and is full of school kids… This is NOT what I pay my £14.40 a week for. To have to endure the screams and wails of kids as they wind each other up to the high heavens…

So instead of just forgetting about this place and letting it rot like an unwanted piece of fruit, I shall be updating at least once a week from now on. I promise.

- Martin

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Simon Cowell Should be Charged for Murder…

Contructed on 01/23/2010 in Music and Rants. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

Oh dear god. This is truly atrocious. Simon Cowell, in his infinite wisdom, decided that he would release a song in aid of the recent earthquake in Haiti, fine by me, until he announced that he would be doing a cover of R.E.M’s “Everybody Hurts” this song with such meaning should not be used in this way. Obviously, the tragedy in Haiti demands swift action but butchering something which has deep personal meaning for a lot of is a ridiculous and even rather offensive way to do so. This will tarnish the reputation of a much-beloved tune as people see the meaning refracted through this event. If you truly care about the people involved in this, give money directly to charity, don’t humour Cowell’s already-bloated ego as he continues to crucify yet more classics. Simon Cowell will not save the people of Haiti, using this song or any other.

It would be okay if R.E.M were to do another version of the song in aid of the events in Haiti, sure, I’m all up for that. But what the bloody hell was Simon Cowell thinking when he picked the jumped up little shits that form the “band” N-Dubz, relatively unheard of (unless you are a twelve year old girl and) frankly rubbish anyway: Will Young along with Take That, Rod Stewart, Susan Boyle, Alexandra Berk (sorry Burke) and Joe McElderflower/Elderberry whatever his friggin’ name is and other rumoured “stars” to massacre such a classic as this?

Normally after a period of inactivity I would say that I’m sorry to you faithful readers that continually come here hoping for another slice from the everlasting pie, baked in the oven at gas-mark “RAGE!”, but I’m not going to. This is ridiculous and needed to be said. I do feel slightly better after my white-hot blind rage which left me typing this final sentence after, what seemed like seconds, of pure red blur and slightly cramped up fingers.

I need to go and calm down now, think it’s just about time for lunch…

- Martin

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“It’s time…. For the X Factor!”

Contructed on 11/08/2009 in Rants. 0 Comments

No! No it’s bloody not… Turn it over before my sodding ears bleed. I can’t honestly understand why anyone would want to sit down for two nights a week and subject themselves to some of the worst examples of ‘music’ ever created. The one good thing I could say is that occasionally they DO have a good song on, but Jesus Christ on a bike… But don’t those pillocks ruin them…

Okay so before you all think I’m jumping on the ‘I hate X-Factor’ bandwagon let me just say that I have watched an episode of it… I have no problem with anything that’s looking for a viable new act that may be actually good; but they seem to be just churning out the same bloody artists that are stagnating the charts all the time. Why can’t the music industry make anything new any more? This is partially why I like 80s tunes… When you compare it to the ‘chart topping sensations’ of today it really makes you think why on earth are we listening to this crap. The truly good bands of this era haven’t churned out anything good in ages, possibly because they’ve given up under the waves of bile that the public seem to love having poured into their ears all the time.

I think, given enough watching and following of it I could whinge myself inside-out about the X Factor. I think that’s enough for now…

What else can I say… Oh yeah, PMR (PillowMintRadio) is behind schedule, just as I suspected… So don’t get hopes up too much… I wish that I had a room where I can go and sort it all out without constant interruptions… Trying to do it here is like trying to play a violin in a library, you feel so out of place and in the way.

Now that’s out of my system, it’s time to say goodnight.

Speak soon.

Martin

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