Post by CrisItalia on Jun 25, 2005 7:24:53 GMT -5
Noel Gallagher is a musical genius, but this not why I'm posting this. Here are some brutally honest quotes about his brother, HIP HOP and the state of music.
What struck me was that the boy bands of the day such as Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran could all play their instruments. It's so far removed from the bands of today like Westlife and Boyzone, who are utter crap. I am not a fan of Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet, but now there is pop music and alternative music and there is nothing in between the two.
I f**king despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is a f**king idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. It's so negative. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff. I'm not f**king having that.
I'm not saying they're directly responsible but that's how you end up with these f**kin' gangs of youths with hoods stabbing people. I'm not saying they need to sit around listening to 'All You Need is Love'. But kids are so f**kin' thick these days that they are very easily influenced, aren't they?
I didn't want to go into the studio without a producer. When I've co-produced I've got sick of being sat at a mixing desk and the rest of the band being sat on the couch behind you being half-pissed. I thought: 'I want to be in a band. I can't be arsed being a producer any more.' Liam hates producers but he had worked with Death In Vegas on one of their records. So it was like something out of Star Wars - we had to get Liam to think that asking them to produce the record was his idea.
He did once say that to me. In my mam's front room. He was talking in a Scouse accent for three days. He told me I should refer to him as John (Lennon) and I was like, 'I just prefer c*nt, man.'
We were never really big communicators anyway. We're northerners. You know what they're like. They suffer in silence. This is the closest I ever got to him. Over lunch in Paris two days ago. There's about 20 of us there, including people from the record company. I'm eating my French onion soup and out of the f**kin' blue, he's shouting: 'Noel! Noel! Have you ever had Viagra?' I said: 'No, I'm only 38, have you? 'Yeah.' 'When?' 'I f**kin' snorted a line once.' All the crew have stopped eating and are going ... What a weird thing to say. He's tucking in to his steak. How does the brain send a message to the mouth and go: 'I am going to ask our kid if he has ever had Viagra'?
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Just thought some of the stuff rang true and other comments were funny. Hope anyone reading this gets a chuckle at least.
What struck me was that the boy bands of the day such as Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran could all play their instruments. It's so far removed from the bands of today like Westlife and Boyzone, who are utter crap. I am not a fan of Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet, but now there is pop music and alternative music and there is nothing in between the two.
I f**king despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is a f**king idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. It's so negative. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff. I'm not f**king having that.
I'm not saying they're directly responsible but that's how you end up with these f**kin' gangs of youths with hoods stabbing people. I'm not saying they need to sit around listening to 'All You Need is Love'. But kids are so f**kin' thick these days that they are very easily influenced, aren't they?
I didn't want to go into the studio without a producer. When I've co-produced I've got sick of being sat at a mixing desk and the rest of the band being sat on the couch behind you being half-pissed. I thought: 'I want to be in a band. I can't be arsed being a producer any more.' Liam hates producers but he had worked with Death In Vegas on one of their records. So it was like something out of Star Wars - we had to get Liam to think that asking them to produce the record was his idea.
He did once say that to me. In my mam's front room. He was talking in a Scouse accent for three days. He told me I should refer to him as John (Lennon) and I was like, 'I just prefer c*nt, man.'
We were never really big communicators anyway. We're northerners. You know what they're like. They suffer in silence. This is the closest I ever got to him. Over lunch in Paris two days ago. There's about 20 of us there, including people from the record company. I'm eating my French onion soup and out of the f**kin' blue, he's shouting: 'Noel! Noel! Have you ever had Viagra?' I said: 'No, I'm only 38, have you? 'Yeah.' 'When?' 'I f**kin' snorted a line once.' All the crew have stopped eating and are going ... What a weird thing to say. He's tucking in to his steak. How does the brain send a message to the mouth and go: 'I am going to ask our kid if he has ever had Viagra'?
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Just thought some of the stuff rang true and other comments were funny. Hope anyone reading this gets a chuckle at least.
