but "Critics should not make records" - as usual, Neil Tennant and Chrissie Hynde to thread.
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 July 2005 08:26 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 21 July 2005 08:50 (nineteen years ago) link
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― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 July 2005 08:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Thursday, 21 July 2005 08:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 July 2005 08:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Thursday, 21 July 2005 08:54 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 21 July 2005 08:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:01 (nineteen years ago) link
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― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― doomie x, Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― doomie x, Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link
UTTERLY FUCKIING TASTELESS.
seriously this is fucking awful. the whole article was so FUCKING tasteless.
― doomie x, Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― snotty moore, Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link
i just did. i urge others to do the same!
― DOOMIE X, Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Just kidding, London folks. Stay strong.
― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 29 July 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 29 July 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Smith, Monday, 1 August 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 August 2005 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Perhaps his knowledge of ILm is limited to Geir's contributions?
― The Jive Session (elwisty), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Jive Session (elwisty), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link
This is the most cuntish thing I have ever read. Apart from werenotafraid.com, of course.
― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
CUNT!!!
― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Just see the video.
― Tim Smith, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link
In this case, sitting on his fat arse and saying nothing does more to help.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link
We heard this record by a guy called Neil McCormick, and it really brought home the horror of what we were doing. If only more of you smug decadent infidels had tried to, y'know, do something. And that video...wow.
― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 05:42 (nineteen years ago) link
And for those of us who haven't seen the video could you please tell us what happens in it?
― The Jive Session (elwisty), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link
hey, perhaps our "friend" "tim" should learn to "speak english"!
and i speak as a sometime fan of the badly drawn boy.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― doomie x, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:03 (nineteen years ago) link
IS THE BIG ONE THIS AWFUL FUCKING IDEA OF A SONG? IF SO I HOPE I NEVER BITE THE BIG ONE ON THAT CUNT OF A SONG.
― doomie x, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:06 (nineteen years ago) link
NEIL MCCORMICK IS A MESSENGER OF WHAT? 'I'M DESPERATELY TRYING TO BE FAMOUS ... 'OH LOOK PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN A TRAGEDY ... I'LL USE THAT AS MY SPRINGBOARD TO FAME AND PUT MY PRESS RELEASE IN MY PAPER'
i hope that song is a superficial joke and then maybe i'd get it.
no i havent heard jerusalem....!
― doomie x, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― doomie x, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:11 (nineteen years ago) link
By Thursday, mistimed journalistic punchline Neil McCormick?s opportunistic pre-cum of a song touching memorial to the recent attacks in London ('People I Don't Know Are Trying To Kill Me') was racing up the charts.
It was looking set to break all chart records and stay at number 1 forever as a nation fell under the spell of The Ghost Who Wanks? coupling of a melody that would make your pubic hair grow back inside your skin in horror and disgust and lyrics that would make Rick Allen laugh his other arm off lovely tune and an Important Modern Political Message. HOLD ON A MINUTE..! It?s only sold eight copies!!
Even people I know haven't bought my record :(
Wonder if Neil's 'bezzers', Sting, David Gray and Bono, have bought their copies yet.
Now perhaps we can see an end to people using their publishing platform as a completely shameless plug for their hidden agendas. TSK!
(The Holy Moly Rules of Modern Life Vol.1 is out in all good bookshops on October 21st.)
People I Don't Know Are Trying to Kill Me
MeatLoaf-style Subtitle: ....And People Who Have Known Me For Years Are Telling Them Where I Live.
― doomie x, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link
And I'm betting he is almost certainly a mate of Neils.
Surely though, beyond the sarcasm and screams of 'cunt' any reasoned individual can see that in plain terms (and forgive me for stating the obv), writing a song/making a video concerning these events, going public and releasing a single into the commercial world is entirely inappropriate and given Neil's past credentials are you really that surprised at the overall tone of this thread Tim?
Would be great if Tim from Cardiacs posted here (ILX) as he is a stand up fellow, but sadly it's not.
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Umm, maybe Bono was being nice? To his friend?
Neil: "Hey bono, wanna hear a song I did?"B: "umm, ,..... sure..."(after)B: ".. yeah... people should hear it... oh my phone's on vibrate..."
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 August 2005 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link
"He’s the walking joke that doesn’t know its own punchline. He’s “good friends” with flag-waving hair-weaving stadium pygmy Bono (by the way, is the new iPod Nano named after him?). People he doesn’t know are trying to kill him. He’s Neil McCormick.
At the Robbie Williams album playback this week, our man with an ego the size of Kettering and a self-awareness the size of his grey, maggoty little cock, was stomping around, yammering on and on about himself.
Neil hijacked (isn’t hijacking a ‘form of terrorism’, Neil?) the whole event to talk about HIS OWN SINGLE, plus his book. He concluded - to Robbie and a flabbergasted studio - with the following quote tumbling uninvited from his leprous lips:
"Well Robbie, at least I've had a track on an album featuring Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.""
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 10 September 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link
I remember this.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Who was "Tim Smith" then?
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Used to live with a guy called Tim Smith, he was hallucinated an entire conversation with Mr Scruff while on acid.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Worst Zing Evah? What's the opposite of "pwned" ?
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Emancipated.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 18 October 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
If memory serves this McCormick was the bass player in a late-period line up of, I think, 18 Wheeler. Seriously.
― everything, Thursday, 18 October 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Or maybe it was (Perspex) Whiteout, now that I think about it. One of the two anyway.
― everything, Thursday, 18 October 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh blimey, Whiteout. Nearly forgotten them completely...
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 October 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Apologies for preventing that from happening.
― everything, Thursday, 18 October 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Another year and it would have. Never mind. Accepted.
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 October 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
He was in a terrible 'power pop' outfit called Yeah! Yeah! - love those exclamation marks - in Dublin in the early eighties and wrote tweely for Hot Press.
― sonofstan, Thursday, 18 October 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
"Whiteout? Are you sure you don't mean Whitehouse?"
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 October 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
This guy vs The Guardian.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 19 September 2008 09:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Geir vs ILM.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 19 September 2008 09:33 (sixteen years ago) link
the title would be good if it were by Wesley Willis
― Shushtari (res), Friday, 19 September 2008 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Neil has opinions!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/11192852/Why-none-of-these-albums-deserves-to-win-the-Mercury-Prize.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
the People I Don't Know Are Trying To Kill Me video doesn't seem to be on the internet anymore ;_;
― soref, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
You keep waiting for Gorillaz to storm the studio and stick a rocket up his posterior.
so we just repost every line of this piece in italics one bit at a time then?
― The Falun Gong Show (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
Scott Walker & Sunn O))), Soused: 'self-absorbed'CD ReviewsThis collaborative release should be reserved for masochistic listeners only, says Neil McCormick 1 out of 5 stars
― soref, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Taylor Swift, 1989: 'full of American fizz'CD ReviewsScratch beneath the shiny surface and you'll find Swift hasn’t moved so far from her country roots, says Neil McCormick 4 out of 5 stars
Aretha Franklin, Sings The Great Diva Classics: 'reeks of fakery'CD ReviewsFranklin's first album in 13 years proves she is no longer the powerhouse of her time, says Neil McCormick 2 out of 5 stars
― soref, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga, Cheek to Cheek, review: 'harmlessly engaging'CD ReviewsTony Bennett and Lady GaGa's album is throwaway fun, says Neil McCormick 3 out of 5 stars
― soref, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link