ManBearPig Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 48 minutes ago, BTFD said: I never got the Stones thing. They've got a couple of tunes I like, but generally, nah. Always perplexed me a bit as my mum used to slag the Beatles when I was wee and talk about how much better the Stones were. Think she just liked bad boys personally. Even if you don't like the Beatles, it's almost certain that your favourite bands cite them as an influence, or that their influences were fans of them. But here's an unpopular opinion - Paul McCartney's Wings had some really good songs and were unfairly slagged for being shite. The band the Beatles could have been. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, BTFD said: I never got the Stones thing. They've got a couple of tunes I like, but generally, nah. Always perplexed me a bit as my mum used to slag the Beatles when I was wee and talk about how much better the Stones were. Think she just liked bad boys personally. Even if you don't like the Beatles, it's almost certain that your favourite bands cite them as an influence, or that their influences were fans of them. But here's an unpopular opinion - Paul McCartney's Wings had some really good songs and were unfairly slagged for being shite. Other way around for me. I'm into 50's rockabilly, so the stuff that influenced the stuff that influenced the Beatles, and I think it's for that reason that when I hear the Beatles' early stuff it just sounds to me like a piss-poor pop take-off of the RnR stuff that they cited as early influence. I don't like their early sound, and I don't see any merit in the music itself because being a fan of much earlier stuff the actual songs themselves just sound to my ear like a shite commercialised version of pre-existing RnR. Bad plagiarism, basically. I'm a Carl Perkins fan, but the Beatles covering stuff like Perkins just sets my teeth on edge. It's invariably awful and an insult to the original. The later Beatles stuff I have no opinion on because it's a style of music I have no interest in, but they sold a fuckton of records so I suppose they must have had something going for them. I don't actually mind George Harrison, some of his solo and colab stuff, Wilburys etc, but the Beatles themselves, nope, and McCartney is a talentless walloper. Edited August 14, 2023 by Boo Khaki 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMoore Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 Lewis Saunderson is the best actor of this generation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 Laurence Olivier was a shite actor. Never even won an Olivier award. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE THEME SONG IS PISH AND SHOULD GET IN THE OCEAN. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 2 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said: THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE THEME SONG IS PISH AND SHOULD GET IN THE OCEAN. Lasagne!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 The Duke of Edinburgh never won a Duke of Edinburgh Award in his lifetime. Fucking poser. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 9 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Laurence Olivier was a shite actor. Never even won an Olivier award. 1 minute ago, Richey Edwards said: The Duke of Edinburgh never won a Duke of Edinburgh Award in his lifetime. Fucking poser. See also: Novello, Ivor 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 Britt Ekland should have won a Brit award for Willow's Song. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 King Charles has never won the King Cup Annie Potts has never won the Potts Cup Cheryl Tweedie has never won the Tweedie Cup However Oscar Hammerstein did win an Oscar 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 3 hours ago, Richey Edwards said: THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE THEME SONG IS PISH AND SHOULD GET IN THE OCEAN. George Frederic Handel found 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delicate Flower Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 On 14/08/2023 at 18:25, Boo Khaki said: and McCartney is a talentless walloper. That's... quite the take. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 8 hours ago, tamthebam said: King Charles has never won the King Cup Annie Potts has never won the Potts Cup Cheryl Tweedie has never won the Tweedie Cup However Oscar Hammerstein did win an Oscar Sue Ryder never won the Ryder Cup. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWL Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Stellaboz said: Sue Ryder never won the Ryder Cup. But Ally McCoist did Ryder (allegedly). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 7 minutes ago, PWL said: But Ally McCoist did Ryder (allegedly). That was Sue Barker, surely? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWL Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Rugster said: That was Sue Barker, surely? DOH. In my haste to crowbar in a bad joke I got my Sues mixed up. Edited August 23, 2023 by PWL 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 5 minutes ago, Rugster said: That was Sue Barker, surely? Cliff Richard's sloppy seconds? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thistledo Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Drowning a Sunday roast in too much gravy is fucking pointless man, might as well have had anything and just put gravy all over it to kill the flavour. You want just enough gravy on the meat and potatoes to enhance the flavour, wee bit in the yorkie as well if you're having them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 1 hour ago, thistledo said: Drowning a Sunday roast in too much gravy is fucking pointless man, might as well have had anything and just put gravy all over it to kill the flavour. You want just enough gravy on the meat and potatoes to enhance the flavour, wee bit in the yorkie as well if you're having them. Not sure I fancy chocolate and gravy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Soapy FFC said: Not sure I fancy chocolate and gravy *** sees opportunity to make a smutty comment *** thinks it could be construed as offensive to the LGBTQ+ community *** *** thinks better not *** *** realises it's the Unpopular Opinions Thread *** ***stuff it *** Edited August 23, 2023 by jimbaxters made slightly less "gammony" 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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