Because you certainly aren't lumped in with those bands to millions of people, Liam.

He has personally interviewed all 40 million of them. It's like an obsession, or something.

I consider myself somewhat boring these days. Not really ugly, more ruggedly handsome (or so I have been told). Love Radiohead. More or less indifferent to Oasis & Coldplay.

/I must be a rebel!

Do Radiohead and Coldplay really have that much in the way of overlapping fan bases? I wouldn't think so - I would guess that Coldplay would overlap more with Hannah Montana.

For a guy who smashes fruit for a living, he sure doesn't know how to pick a fight.

coming from one of the most boring pub rock bands that ever had the misfortune to get a recording contract, that's a pretty big statement.

And by "big" I mean "I'm surprised he could managed to put the syllables in the right order".

/Agree about Coldplay

Well, I guess not everyone can look like a gorilla knocked up by a Neanderthal, then dropped the baby on it's head from a great height because it mistakenly thought it was flinging a giant poo, eh Liam?

Wonderwall is a lovely song, by the way. Keep up the good work.

He can't just lump those two groups together like that. The Coldplay fans are boring, and the Radiohead fans are ugly.
(I like both, so I am indeed boring and ugly.)

Coldplay and Oasis are two of the most annoying, untalented self-important creations of media panels I have ever seen.

A board room decided "The Beetles are popular. Let's make someone who sounds like them." Now we are cursed with Oasis.

A different board room said "U2 is popular and there are a lot of gays in America." Thus Coldplay was born. (Maroon 5 was also but with less success.)

Hate to say it, he's right. I like Radiohead and Oasis....but Radiohead fans do have a tendency to be a little translucent.

Coldplay fans just need nuts. Its true. I can prove this on an etch-a-sketch.

So, I'm both a fan of Blur AND Radiohead. What does that make me, Liam? Your worst nightmare?

Noel let's Liam speak in public?

Shocking.

I like Oasis, kinda like Radiohead (esp. Greenwood's playing) but Coldplay, meh..

So I guess I'm boring and really, really angry.

(coldplay + oasis)² is less than radiohead

Oasis must have a new album out.

/Yawn

He's right.

So he called them members of Oasis?

Nemo's Brother: Coldplay and Oasis are two of the most annoying, untalented self-important creations of media panels I have ever seen.

A board room decided "The Beetles Beatles are popular. Let's make someone who sounds like them." Now we are cursed with Oasis.

A different board room said "U2 is popular and there are a lot of gays in America." Thus Coldplay was born. (Maroon 5 was also but with less success.)

FTFY.

Neither band was created in a board room. Snarky Farkers might say it was in fact a "bored room." Anyway, neither of them are assembled like boy bands are. I still don't understand the hate these bands receive. Oasis is drunken football hooligan sing-a-longs, which are quite fun. Coldplay is simply a black hole of banality. It's okay when you want to listen to light, adult-contemporary music that is inoffensive to anyone.

Of course, most of us try and avoid the above situations, so there you are.

I just checked myself out in the mirror, proving I have too much time on my hands (= boring) and I've been in better shape.

/love Radiohead
//see them live every time you can

2 cups U2 + 1/4 tblspn Radiohead + 5 gallons pussification = Coldplay

The things is most Radiohead fans are just on the cusp of traipsing over into really great music. I really like Thom Yorke because he's a brilliantly informed music fan as well as a good artist. He loves dubstep and artists like Burial and Scuba. There's new bands like Our Sleepless Forest that aren't getting any radio play but aren't too far from what Radiohead or Sigur Rós fans would love. Radiohead is an awesome primer for deeper listening. Like Nine Inch Nails (no matter what Fark may think of Trent,) there's an unbelievable amount of music that they reference in their work. I just wish more people would bother looking for it.

Liam is just angry that he ripped off the Beatles for years and never had one one millionth the commercial success that Coldplay and Radiohead has had.. Radiohead's "OK Computer" was voted Englands BEST Album by a British Artist a few years back, beating out Abbey Road, and several other Beatles albums.

Looks like Liam is just being Liam. Again.. yawn.

I love all the Coldplay bashers.. so what do all you upstanding pillars of musical taste listen to in stead of coldplay.

Let the list of suck commence.

Drakuun: I love all the Coldplay bashers.. so what do all you upstanding pillars of musical taste listen to in stead of coldplay.

Let the list of suck commence.

British Sea Power is infinitely better than Coldplay.

Ugly you say?



Mr. Pot, have you met Mr. Kettle?

tricycleracer:
British Sea Power is infinitely better than Coldplay.

I'm sure you can show me how they out chart Coldplay then.

waiting...

Drakuun: I'm sure you can show me how they out chart Coldplay then.

Because we all know that popularity is a measure of quality.

By your rationale, Olive Garden is the best Italian restaurant in the world.

Coldplay fans swallow hyena chowder.

I'm going to see Oasis at the end of the month, so I'm getting a kick, &tc &tc.

/Ryan Adams is opening the show.
//this could be glorious or it could be a disaster. I'm going to enjoy it either way.

tricycleracer: Drakuun: I'm sure you can show me how they out chart Coldplay then.

Because we all know that popularity is a measure of quality.

By your rationale, Olive Garden is the best Italian restaurant in the world.

Ahh yes, this old chestnut. Let me toss my own two into the ring, Glen Phillips, and Jeremy Enigk. Look them up. Enjoy.

But such counters are silly because they assume all these small time independent artists that are so great don't secretly pine for the commercial success that all these 'lesser' bands enjoy because they are obviously the products of corporate shills, not a culmination of the talent and ability of the artists to speak to broad audiences with their music, and lyrics.

The hypocrisy in such thinking is that, if any band at the top of the heap are shills for being there, then it inevitably becomes the fate of any such artist that becomes "mainstream".


All winter
We got carried
Our way over on the rooftops just get merry
All summer we just hurry
So come over just be patient and don't worry

And don't worry...

Try
Try
Try

No I don't want to battle from beginning to end
I don't want to cycle and recycle revenge
I don't want to follow death and all of his friends...

ogger: (coldplay + oasis)2 is less than radiohead

This.

/not even a huge fan
//saw them for the first time last weekend
///cant deny their awesomeness
////cant deny the slashies

Coldplay and Oasis are two of the most annoying, untalented self-important creations of media panels I have ever seen.

AGREE!

radiohead were simply god-like this past saturday night at the all points west festival.

OH NO YOU DIDN'T LIAM!!
/radiohead fan

ogger:
Was there Friday.
The were etter than I expected, and expectations were very high.

Underworld, Girl Talk, and the Do Lab djs were also all sorts of awesome, in different ways.

Overall a great time in spite of the crappy beer policy, heavy security presence, NJ Transit snafus, and other corporate asshattery.

I'll take 'truer words were never spoken' for a $1000, Alex.

Drakuun: The hypocrisy in such thinking is that, if any band at the top of the heap are shills for being there, then it inevitably becomes the fate of any such artist that becomes "mainstream".

If it hits the top 40 in the U.S., it probably sucks.

Seriously, find me something good here (new window)

Noel Gallagher is the most hilarious, most quotable rock star since David Lee Roth. Liam, however, is an idiot.

FunkOut: Well, I guess not everyone can look like a gorilla knocked up by a Neanderthal, then dropped the baby on it's head from a great height because it mistakenly thought it was flinging a giant poo, eh Liam?

From a great height?
From a greeeeat heeeeiiight?

Teddy Hopper: Overall a great time in spite of the crappy beer policy, heavy security presence, NJ Transit snafus, and other corporate asshattery.

i totally agree. definitely a ton of hassles, but was easy to look past them and have a blast

tricycleracer: Drakuun: The hypocrisy in such thinking is that, if any band at the top of the heap are shills for being there, then it inevitably becomes the fate of any such artist that becomes "mainstream".

If it hits the top 40 in the U.S., it probably sucks.

Seriously, find me something good here (new window)

Wow, that was a sad list to look at.

tricycleracer: Drakuun: The hypocrisy in such thinking is that, if any band at the top of the heap are shills for being there, then it inevitably becomes the fate of any such artist that becomes "mainstream".

If it hits the top 40 in the U.S., it probably sucks.

Seriously, find me something good here (new window)

You win. The entire Top 40 does indeed suck. Thanks, I have a headache just looking at that list.

Nemo's Brother: Coldplay and Oasis are two of the most annoying, untalented self-important creations of media panels I have ever seen.

A board room decided "The Beetles Beatles are popular. Let's make someone who sounds like them." Now we are cursed with Oasis.

A different board room said "U2 is popular and there are a lot of gays in America." Thus Coldplay was born. (Maroon 5 was also but with less success.)


Actually, Maroon 5 is the bastard spawn of Steely Dan and The Archies.

/Similar meeting
//Different boardroom

DontMakeMeShushYou: tricycleracer: Drakuun: The hypocrisy in such thinking is that, if any band at the top of the heap are shills for being there, then it inevitably becomes the fate of any such artist that becomes "mainstream".

If it hits the top 40 in the U.S., it probably sucks.

Seriously, find me something good here (new window)

You win. The entire Top 40 does indeed suck. Thanks, I have a headache just looking at that list.

Except for "Paper Planes" of course.

Doc Strange: DontMakeMeShushYou: tricycleracer: Drakuun: The hypocrisy in such thinking is that, if any band at the top of the heap are shills for being there, then it inevitably becomes the fate of any such artist that becomes "mainstream".

If it hits the top 40 in the U.S., it probably sucks.

Seriously, find me something good here (new window)

You win. The entire Top 40 does indeed suck. Thanks, I have a headache just looking at that list.

Except for "Paper Planes" of course.

I didn't see that MIA was on the list...that does make it a bit better. But not much...Why does popular music have to be crap?

/hates Oasis
//liked "Wonderwall" but they refused to go away after that one good cover song

I hate Radiohead, but I don't know that I'd call their fans ugly - at least the female ones. I've known a few really hot chicks who like Radiohead.

Male Radiohead fans, on the other hand, tend to be complete dorks. I'm talking ponytail-wearing, Starbucks-sipping, Macbook-using, angsty wannabe-intellectual hipsters.

Radiohead's "OK Computer" was voted Englands BEST Album by a British Artist a few years back, beating out Abbey Road, and several other Beatles albums.

Which once again proves that it's a stupid idea to try to declare any album by any artist objectively "the best".

Oh and just because Coldplay sells records doesn't mean the music is any good. It just means a lot of people like it. I can't fault people for the music they like, even if I don't like it.

tricycleracer: Drakuun: The hypocrisy in such thinking is that, if any band at the top of the heap are shills for being there, then it inevitably becomes the fate of any such artist that becomes "mainstream".

If it hits the top 40 in the U.S., it probably sucks.

Seriously, find me something good here (new window)

Generalize more plz.

If it were one of your favorite artists, you point out how there are exceptions, I'm sure.

You can build up straw men all day, I got lots of matches and lighter fluid.

Every artist takes up their trade to sit in obscurity for artistic integrity. Sure thing.

RoxtarRyan: For a guy who smashes fruit for a living, he sure doesn't know how to pick a fight.

Winner.

Radiohead and Coldplay are, in my estimation, really solid bands.

Oasis, on the other hand, seems really pretentious and the d-baggery is strong in those Gallagher brothers.

Are Brits suffering from lead poisoning? ALL those bands suck, and make The Beatles seem like gods from Mt. Olympus. Do they not care about quality?