OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

i'm reading this as excellent satire on a certain vision of masculinity, surely?

This guy should be chained to a lambretta and thrown in a slurry pit.

"I didn't want to include "best ofs" in this list ­ it's cheating. But if I'm honest I don't know enough about the great John to recommend a specific album."

I ...

Actually, I'd have more respect for him if he said "These are the only albums I own"

Anyway, truth time:

How Many Of These Do You Own?

(you can only answer if you're a MAN mind)

(five)

hmmm, allow me to qualify what i was about to post "only owning 10 obvious churl-rock records is exactly part of that vision of masculinity i was thinking about."

Our Amber owns the Ed Sheeran one, but she's not a MAN so it did not count. (oh, and she's not me obv)

I don't actually think it's wrong to pick a JLH compilation and if I was trying to introduce him to someone, that would be the way I'd go too. This guy is still a bellend though.

Dave Berry needs to know it's okay to not really be into music much. also didn't he put out some records in the 60s?

I am 10% man ("Dummy").

there's some kind of aporia happening around the whole "i need to think in terms of the album so i am ashamed to acknowledge the compilation album as an album even tho i like these songs" waltz that idiots do

Trying to think who this other Dave Berry was but can only remember this guy instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL2t2Pu2Z44

http://www.cryinggame.co.uk/

I don't actually think it's wrong to pick a JLH compilation and if I was trying to introduce him to someone, that would be the way I'd go too.

Nor do I, it was more the "I don't know anything about his albums" bit.

ILM needs a Mike Berry thread stat, wash away the taste of laughing at the unfortunates

Had not heard The Crying Game before, so thanks thread & NV for introducing me to it. Actually I lie cos apparently the Boy George version was used in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, but that somehow didn't make much of an impression on me.

"The Crying Game" is a fantastic record which is why they made a film about it.

Hmm yes, I admit I have not seen that film. Only Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

ILM needs a Mike Berry thread stat, wash away the taste of laughing at the unfortunates

Maybe a big Mike Berry vs Paul Nicholas vs Dennis Waterman vs ??? poll would be the way to go, it's the ILM way

who is the ??? though

said this earlier on top, top social networking website Facebook but I doubt most people who think of themselves as 'serious music fans' could name a John Lee Hooker studio album. most canon blues artists are best served by compilations right?

Paul Nicholas in a heartbeat unless we can find a serious challenger

most canon blues artists released all their best records as singles so it has to be compilations really

David Essex too heavyweight for the 70s Britpop throwdown?

Yeah he would walk it. Was he an actor turned singer though? Thought he was the other way round.

Oh wait, Paul Nicholas was a singer first too, so that doesn't work.

Paul Shane? If we're going down the sing-your-own-show's-theme route.

most canon blues artists released all their best records as singles so it has to be compilations really

True but you would miss out on glorious stuff like Muddy Waters' Electric Mud

Paul Shane is a good call, but then I feel you'd have to add Don Estelle and Windsor Davies and that wouldn't be a fair fight.

mirror straining for the zing:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/going-out/music/move-over-dave-berry-tell-2458656

was just pondering Don Estelle.

as i often do.

On the plus side, new display names ahoy!

i think of Paul Nicholas and David Essex as proper pop artists, whilst accepting they might be perceived as being a shade kitsch

From the Mirror: Weirdly, there’s never been an album called The Very Best Of The Beatles. Probably something to do with Yoko.

No, but there's an album compiling all their No.1 singles, you complete and utter dipshit.

his byline pic is...unfortunate

Pulp Fiction - The Motion Picture Soundtrack
An education. As a 15-year-old boy living in south east London I never expected I'd be blasting Al Green, Kool & The Gang and Neil Diamond out of my stereo.

An education: Neil Diamond is not on that album.

Curious about the timeline for that statement, like when did he never expect this, before he'd heard them? How could this be the case?

Was down to Elton John before I realised for sure that the second article was a piss-take.

well for the first two i think he just meant black people generally xpost

Couple of awesome lines in the Mirror riposte.

http://img2.imagesbn.com/p/9781449437589_p0_v1_s260x420.JPG

"I didn't want to include "best ofs" in this list ­ it's cheating. But if I'm honest I don't know enough about the great John to recommend a specific album."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbMSUQE36us

Over my 10-year career I've worked on MTV, 4Music, and hosted the V, Homelands, iTunes and Isle of Wight music festivals. I've hosted radio shows on XFM and Capital FM, and like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/10/12/paulrobinson_wideweb__470x348,0.jpg

The original Dave Berry has a pretty good reputation, Ray Davies wrote some songs for him in the 60s, I don't think I've ever heard him though

well for the first two i think he just meant black people generally xpost

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this kind of thing makes me want to side with Dave Berry tbph

A response to the response
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10383450/Dave-Berrys-10-best-albums-a-further-thought.html

Being the owner of a powerboat and speaking a little conversational French, I think it's safe to say that I understand a LITTLE BIT about the MUSIC INDUSTRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXCwgHyAgAw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiLw45oAuD0

When Telegraph Men (the men's section of the Telegraph)

pretty sure most of the Telegraph's the men's section of the Telegraph tbh.