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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
Oh yeah all those classic lyrics and songs will live long in the memory :rolleyes:
Sorry but seeing as I'm not an internet nerd, I haven't a clue what your MOR/AOR means and don't really give a shíte either to be honest :rolleyes:
Keep to the glue sniffing yourself , obviously helps to appreciate stuff like Where's me Jumper...
S'pose you Galway boys are just as touchy about your own as us Cork boys.Quote:
Originally Posted by JGKyne
But in all fairness like, they are nothing more than a novelty band.
Aslan with their endless regurgitating of that mediocre, tuneless piece of sh*t that constitutes their hit, or is it their entire output?
"it's all right" me boll*x......:mad:
I'm reluctant to get into a fight about music and especially classic lyrics with a self confessed Corrs fan but there's nothing internet nerdy about MOR or AOR. I'm suprised you're not well appraised with both.Quote:
Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse
MOR = M.iddle O.f the R.oad
AOR = A.dult O.rientated R.ock
They certainly will. ...and why is it when people bring up the Sultans the only song mentioned is the classic three chord trick that is Where's Me Jumper. Not only was it not their biggest seller (and things like unit shifting tend to matter to Corrs fans in my experience) -it wasn't even their second biggest seller. (Veronica and U Talk 2 Much both sold more/higher chart positions etc...)Quote:
Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse
two bands -the Corrs and the Sultans -one decided to plough their own furough - one decided to immitate whatever was selling on the CMTV charts. Which is which?
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Originally Posted by razor
With all time classics like the N17 and Joyce Country Ceili Band :eek:
They put Tuam on the map...
Best Irish band of all time :D
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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
Since when does "I don't think they're too bad" make me a self confessed fan :rolleyes: . I think porridge is ok too but I don't go out and buy boxes of the stuff.
Enjoy whatever you're into mate, the Sultans wouldn't be on many people's all time greats list despite what you may think. I'd say outside of Cork itself the vast majority wouldn't have even heard of them (other than hippies and university grads who thought it was all the rage at the time to be into them because they were "different" and feel some strange need now to defend them as if they're legends :D ).
But hey...each to their own as they say.....
How has no-one mentioned "Who's Eddie" :confused:
Picturehouse were (are?) pretty desperate too.
Going into the mists of time, there was Gina Dale Hayes And the Champions, Tweed (latterly The Whole Shebang, I believe) and Two's Company.
I'm failing to see why the debate needed to continue after this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maz
Fair enough -my bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse
But this topic isn't about all time greats ...it's about worst ever. That's where I believe you're doing them a disservice ...to the benefit of some much more deserving candidates- someone just mentioned Who's Eddy for example...Quote:
Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse
Now you have me suspecting again that you're on the Glue. The band had a huge following in Ireland and Britain. They never got the "big breakthrough" -that's true. But they cracked the UK top 30 and had three top 10 singles here in Ireland -so they were hardly unknown outside Cork. They probably suffered from a "novelty act" tag which can be hard to shake -but I suspect they could've rode it out. defend them as if they're legends? No need to defend them on anything ...and yes -they ARE legends :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse
once again -fair enough ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse
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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
A "huge" following!? :D Considering you can get into the UK top 30 and I suspect the Irish top 10 with a couple of thousand sales, now I'd hardly call that huge.
They maybe had a loyal following but I don't think you can call it a big fan base.
I do believe they were "Big in Japan".Quote:
Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse
Okay we're into the semantics of looking for an agreed definition of "huge" now so I'll avoid the use of the term and instead say "considerable".Quote:
Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse
Would you then agree that The Frames, purely for example and illustrative purposes, have a "considerable" following or fan base and would be known outside their own home town? Well Glen and the boys can probably match the Sultans three Irish top 10 singles (well they do have about 10 years more to play with) -but would have to fold when the Sultans raised them a UK top 30 single.
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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
"Huge" to me would be a massive band i.e. U2. If you class the Sultans as having a "huge" following then U2 would have to astronomical!!
I don't think I'd even call it considerable but definately fiercely loyal as you're proving ;)
A couple of top 30 hits doesn't really amount to much in the grand scheme of things.....jaysus the Cheeky Girls can top that one ;) :D
The Rev's - Utter ****e
aye but the cheeky girls probably didn't write the tunes. You don't have to have a massive seller to have a tidy earner for many years after.Quote:
Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse
Wheres Me Jumper and Veronica still turn up fairly frequently on Irish compilations and on Irish Radio (Ironically -their biggest seller and highest chart placed record You Talk To Much doesn't :confused: ).
Add to that the fact that they were bone fide stars in Japan (twice the size of UK) and that's a fair few royalty cheques coming in the door to this day. ...and the nineties revival can only be just around the corner. :D
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Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
True, the Cheeky Girls can barely string a sentence together never mind write a song :D
declan nerney band
the indians :eek:
kaye twins
in tua nua
Anyone remember thre name of a group consisting two girls who made a vain atempt at rapping. One of them was Keith Duffy's sister.
They made bewitched look good :eek:
the reynolds girls wasn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Neish
well said Although, I guess you wouldn't be as fond of "The green and red of mayo" :eek: Sawdoctors are a band I only started listening to a few years back, but they've quickly become one of my favourites. Equally can't believe that anyone would name the Sultans (a bit mad, but highly entertaining) or Ash (IMO, one of the best bands around) in this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eire06
as for the worst- anything involving louis walsh, obviously, but the Corrs get my vote. pure unadulterated pap from start to finish. I nearly went on strike from the bar I worked in in Germany over them, if I ever hear that Unplugged album again....... sweet baby jesus and the orphans* :mad: Horrible wailing sellafieldian banshees the four of them :mad:
* prize for the first one to tell me where that came from (except ruairi)
id say this is who you are talking about , buffalo g.Quote:
Originally Posted by exiled_gufc_fan
Saints Preserve Us!
As well as Shanes utterly kicked little sister doing a mean line in sub blazing squad high pitch low brow knack rap in the afformentioned Buffalo G -there was also an equally kicked but much, much, much older sister in a failed "girl"* band who's name avoids me.
* the four "girls" involved had a combined age of about 135-140. :D
paddy casey(tripe) revs (just ****) Westlife (*******!!) Damien Dempsey,hate his voice!!!
:eek: No no no.Quote:
Originally Posted by SligoRoversfan
was that buffalo g? or am i confused with somebody else?Quote:
Originally Posted by Neish
Glad to see I'm not the only Doc's fan on the forum ;)
Obviously all the boy/girl band thing is crap, but Paddy Casey and Damien Dempsey are awful too.
Thats the one.Quote:
Originally Posted by gustavo
Did anyone see the time they were on Adam and Joe. They just let them play the musical intro into the song and cut them off. :D
I'd ride the a**e off them though.
No Dad I consider myself quite sane. I remember going to see U2 in Cork City Hall in 81 or 82, support the same night was an atrocious Cork hardcore band The Unknown Wrecks and even they were better than U2 and their pompous,overblown codology. You have OTT down as your worst, you may be right, but I couldn't possibly comment as all I know absolutely nothing about them. On another note surely Virgin Prunes and their arty, "aren't we completely mad" rubbish should be on worst band list.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roo69
Jeez man a bit harsh on three of the few actually attractive women in Ireland! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Conor74
Here is the key to finding the answer to this question....
If they were not Irish would the media here say they are sh1t?
And that applies to some of the bands listed here so far.
As regards the most overrated band of all time I nominate the Hothouse Flowers... because they were so hyped around 1986 and 1987 that not even the Beatles could have lived up to that. To be fair they were not completely crap but nowhere near as good as they were made out to be.
Their best album was produced by David A Stewart of the Eurthymics and was largely ignored by the Great unwashed Irish public. Cannot remember the title now come to think of it! :p
bUFFALO WHO? :confused:
u2 post 1996
I'd like to say The Frames, just to make some arteries pop, but I'll go with Six
There are many bands hailed for these shores that have come on stage, redefined the definition of tragic and faded away. To those, I say thank you, because be it down to commercial failure or the self realisation that were muck, they left us never to reappear. Some bands never got the hint. I'd say the following:
The Revs - Donegal lads that for a period of time around 2000 I think seemed to appear everywhere. I saw them in Tower for the first time, and got an album for free. I subsquently lost it in the bin.
Bands like The Hothouse flowers are not the worst band ever. They are bands that suffered from single exposure and never produced the radio hits to back their success up. (Don't Go)
I hate Aslan. I hate Aslan for who they attract, for the fact their album seems to reappear more times than Tracy Chapman and that I just don't care about whether they can blast the roof off the Hartstown Inn. I know a coverband in Galway that would be better, but I don't go claiming they are superstars!!
Boy bands, girlbands, novelty bands I will not waste time listing.
I do not knwo HOW someone can say Whipping Boy are the worst band ever and no one to say they are mad. Whipping Boy Heartworm is a superb album. Have you got the album, why do you say they are the worst Irish band?
On the U2 question, I don't like them for their albums are substandard in my opinion. They had great albums (which are overplayed to death) but I could forget them the last 10 years or so.
it's got to be aslan so bad they sometimes make me want to be from cork but then i hear that langer song and i'm back to being a proud DUB again.
Heh heh, brings back bad memories... anyone remember the name of the girl band in the mid nineties that Liz Bonnin was part of? dont think they even released a single, they just took space in newspapers most days... now they were nice!Quote:
Originally Posted by Neish
The Frames. ****e, absolute ****e.
That is fair enough I guess. I agree that all bands that keep to their roots have to be admired for that. I still don't like their music and I think their singer is a bit of a ponce though! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by pronane
it was to be an OTT or Six type band, all between those two I can't quite decide. Probably OTT since I feel bad for terrorising the Cork girl from Six with my mates on a drunken night in Cork one night