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Spackling Compound

04-18-2007, 09:30 AM

Well, I am often mocked (appropriately) in RITAs for my lack of taste in music.

So as a tribute to my lack of taste, this week's theme is

Lame Music

It can be a self confession, as mine is . . . .

Yes, I once bought an Air Supply album.

Good contest theme. Should inspire a few flames here n' there!

The "Air Supply" thing is dead on. One time I was in a market in a Mexican city and one vendor was playing an Air Supply record loud and clear. I asked why Air Supply and he said, "Because all Americans love Air Supply".

I am such a bad American.

Dreadstar

04-18-2007, 09:32 AM

Oh, c'mon...

Just give me the win now.

Ed Cunard

04-18-2007, 09:37 AM

Oh, c'mon...

Just give me the win now.

Hey, I like ABBA!

...

Not that this is surprising.

JeffreyWKramer

04-18-2007, 09:38 AM

Oh, c'mon...

Just give me the win now.

Keep in mind, that stupid ABBA musical has made boatloads of money. Lame is chic these days.

I don't think any of the many forgettable 80s hair bands make for particularly good avatars, unfortunately. Besides, I think we should leave those to Jesse.

I'm calling dibs on Vanilla Ice.

4thHorseman

04-18-2007, 09:46 AM

I call Milli Vanilli

So lame, it wasn't even theirs. Had to rely on looks for the singers to get noticed. With them gone, they were NOTHING!

JeffreyWKramer

04-18-2007, 09:49 AM

I'm in with Mr. Ice Ice Baby.

I find it hilarious that this guy even has a "best of" CD... and even more hilarious that it's classified as a collectable.

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,3727582,00.html

Ed Cunard

04-18-2007, 09:51 AM

SPAfreak

04-18-2007, 09:58 AM

If so, I'm covered like Tom Jones covered Prince's "Kiss."

Tom Jones has covered Portishead. There's nothing like hearing a 60-something Welshman cover trip hop to make you really appreciate music.

Oh who am I kidding? I like Tom Jones. I even kind of enjoyed that cover.

JeffreyWKramer

04-18-2007, 10:00 AM

Tom Jones has covered Portishead. There's nothing like hearing a 60-something Welshman cover trip hop to make you really appreciate music.

Oh who am I kidding? I like Tom Jones. I even kind of enjoyed that cover.

That Tom Jones/Cardigans cover of Talking Heads "Burning Down the House" is bizarrely wonderful.

jessecuster3

04-18-2007, 10:01 AM

Ed Cunard

04-18-2007, 10:01 AM

SPAfreak

04-18-2007, 10:04 AM

I may have to find those.

It's surreal. Plus it's live. I've seen video.

Your Imaginary Pal

04-18-2007, 10:04 AM

http://mrpophistory.com/images/AMPH_arseniohallchunkya.jpg
layer upon layer of lameness.
For starters, it's Arsenio Hall.
Secondly it's Arsenio Hall rapping.
Finally it's Arsenio Hall rapping as his alter ego "Chunky A."
Arsenio Hall Rapping in a poorly constructed fat suit.

Yup music sure was better in the 90s.

JeffreyWKramer

04-18-2007, 10:06 AM

http://mrpophistory.com/images/AMPH_arseniohallchunkya.jpg
layer upon layer of lameness.

"no hotlinking" images are indeed quite lame.

Your Imaginary Pal

04-18-2007, 10:06 AM

As Jeffrey said, after the heat I took for this one, I have no choice...

Monster Ballads, the Plainum Edition Check this track list:
Every Lame Song Ever Made in Modern Music History.
Jesse = Shoe In for the win.

Your Imaginary Pal

04-18-2007, 10:07 AM

"no hotlinking" images are indeed quite lame.
just a place holder feller
all will be well

JeffreyWKramer

04-18-2007, 10:08 AM

Every Lame Song Ever Made in Modern Music History.
Jesse = Shoe In for the win.

It is indeed hard to beat that list. I think I'd rather be deaf than have to listen to that compilation.

Steelheart? Kix?

HomerJay

04-18-2007, 10:09 AM

It's not unusual that I would like things that are absolutely lame. Take, for instance, Tom Jones.
Does it have to be something we actually own? Cause that'd be a neat angle.
If so, I'm covered like Tom Jones covered Prince's "Kiss."
I have you all beat.

I saw Tom Jones perform live.
By choice.
In Las Vegas.
For my 21st birthday.
And I can say without irony, he puts on a great show.

Ed Cunard

04-18-2007, 10:10 AM

I have you all beat.

I saw Tom Jones perform live.
By choice.
In Las Vegas.
For my 21st birthday.
And I can say without irony, he puts on a great show.

Did you throw him your tightie whiteys?

jessecuster3

04-18-2007, 10:10 AM

Edit: Damn you Cunard, here's that coke.

Winslow

04-18-2007, 10:11 AM

I have you all beat.

I saw Tom Jones perform live.
By choice.
In Las Vegas.
For my 21st birthday.
And I can say without irony, he puts on a great show.

Did you throw your underwear on stage?

EDIT: crap, I owe Ed a Coke too . .there's no orginal humor on this board

jessecuster3

04-18-2007, 10:12 AM

Ok thats hilarious all 3 of us made the same joke...

Slam_Bradley

04-18-2007, 10:15 AM

Representative of all that was bad about Arena Rock.

REO Piss-Bucket and Hi Infidelity.

http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B000051Y0K.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

HomerJay

04-18-2007, 10:17 AM

Ok thats hilarious all 3 of us made the same joke...
You're all SO predictable. Congratulations to Ed for making the joke first as I predicted to myself.

I also own more than 1 Tom Jones album.

Winslow

04-18-2007, 10:17 AM

. . .
REO Piss-Bucket and Hi Infidelity. . . .

Dang, another album I owned.

This contest may be bad for my self esteem.

Winslow

04-18-2007, 10:18 AM

You're all SO predictable. Congratulations to Ed for making the joke first as I predicted to myself.

I also own more than 1 Tom Jones album.

Don't dodge, answer the question Homer.

HomerJay

04-18-2007, 10:20 AM

I'd go so far as to say that Cunard shouldn't be eligible because IMO, Tom Jones makes GOOD music.

Tom Jones is a musical genius by embracing his own camp value while still secretly making good music. He's the William Shatner of the music industry.

EDIT:
I won't be using Shatner's album for the contest because it's more bad and ill-advised than "lame".

JeffreyWKramer

04-18-2007, 10:20 AM

jessecuster3

04-18-2007, 10:25 AM

You're all SO predictable. Congratulations to Ed for making the joke first as I predicted to myself.

I also own more than 1 Tom Jones album.

Just for the record mine was the best one I even mentioned "soiled drawers" but ed beat me by like 30 seconds.

Slam_Bradley

04-18-2007, 10:26 AM

I am pleased to see that choice, Slam.

That is one of the most unbelievably awful albums of all time. Unfortunately, it was also one of the ones most loved by high school girls around the time I graduated, which means you had to hear it a lot if you wanted even a chance of getting any.

It came out in Junior High for me. But they still played it in to my high school days.

The big nookie album when I was in high school was Bryan Adams' "Reckless". But I couldn't live with that for a week.

Ed Cunard

04-18-2007, 10:29 AM

Just for the record mine was the best one I even mentioned "soiled drawers" but ed beat me by like 30 seconds.

You went for gross out--I was mocking 21-year old HJ's Tom Cruise good looks by referencing Risky Business.

jessecuster3

04-18-2007, 10:29 AM

The big nookie album when I was in high school was Bryan Adams' "Reckless". But I couldn't live with that for a week.

But for you, it really was the summer of '69. huh?

Dreadstar

04-18-2007, 10:46 AM

I saw Tom Jones perform live.
By choice.
In Las Vegas.
For my 21st birthday.
And I can say without irony, he puts on a great show.

I saw Barry Manilow perform live.
By choice.
In Charleston WVa.
For my ex's 18th birthday.
And I can say without irony, he puts on a great show.

Matt Algren

04-18-2007, 10:51 AM

Wow. We have two people who out-woman Ed. Good work, ladies.

Mac Danny

04-18-2007, 10:51 AM

This cover was lovingly reproduced on my Denim notebook back in 7th grade.

Behold.. Quiet Riot! *Now appearing at the Paramus Park Mall

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fi/thumb/a/a8/Quiet_Riot_Metal_Health_CD.jpg/230px-Quiet_Riot_Metal_Health_CD.jpg

jessecuster3

04-18-2007, 10:55 AM

This cover was lovingly reproduced on my Denim notebook back in 7th grade.

Behold.. Quiet Riot! *Now appearing at the Paramus Park Mall

Anyone who covered Slade well is a-ok in my book.

Cei-U!

04-18-2007, 10:57 AM

ABBA? Vanilla Ice? Please. *Nothing* is lamer than The Archies... except maybe the fact that "Sugar Sugar" was the #1 song in America for what felt like three years.

Cei-U!
I summon the bubblegum!

Mac Danny

04-18-2007, 10:59 AM

Anyone who covered Slade well is a-ok in my book.

Crap and I just thought of a good one.. Man I have to give my self 5 min to think sometimes.

Spackling Compound

04-18-2007, 11:03 AM

Representative of all that was bad about Arena Rock.

REO Piss-Bucket and Hi Infidelity.

http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B000051Y0K.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Y'know...that was the last of the REO Speedwagon records that actually could qualify them as a group of guys.
When "Can't Fight This Feeling" came out, they had all but become my mother.

Spackling Compound

04-18-2007, 11:05 AM

I'm in with Holly Hunter from
"The Piano". She was lame.

JerrBear81

04-18-2007, 11:24 AM

Nothing says lame like Kids singing the hits of today:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/9/9e/200px-Kidz_Bop_Cover.jpg

Chris Nowlin

04-18-2007, 11:25 AM

I call dibs on Creed.

Damn you!

And what the hell is wrong with Tom Jones, Ed??

Matt Algren

04-18-2007, 11:26 AM

I have four, and I can't decide which one.

This sucks!

Dreadstar

04-18-2007, 11:32 AM

I have four, and I can't decide which one.

This sucks!

I had the urge to go for the snarky "statement" kinda choice. But then I remembed that those Barbra fans can be real touchy.

JerrBear81

04-18-2007, 11:33 AM

I had the urge to go for the snarky "statement" kinda choice. But then I remembed that those Barbra fans can be real touchy.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChainofFlowers/sp6.jpg

borateen

04-18-2007, 11:34 AM

That Tom Jones/Cardigans cover of Talking Heads "Burning Down the House" is bizarrely wonderful.

I blame the Cardigans for that. They're just wonderful.

borateen

04-18-2007, 11:36 AM

I have you all beat.

I saw Tom Jones perform live.
By choice.
In Las Vegas.
For my 21st birthday.
And I can say without irony, he puts on a great show.

My sister beats even you. She saw him live a couple of years ago, PLUS she has two Tom Jones charms on her charm bracelet. Of course, I guess that says more about her than the music.

Agent Helix

04-18-2007, 11:37 AM

I'm in with the very first album I ever bought with my own money, back when I was 13.

Ugly Kid Joe.

http://www.rockdetector.com/assets/resized/img/covers/31137-0-300-0-300.jpg

Dreadstar

04-18-2007, 11:39 AM

Did I ever tell you guys the uncomfortable moment when my mom described her trip to vegas and a Tom Jones show, including the detail that you could see his schlong in those skin-tights and the fact that he was hung like the proverbial shetland pony?

No?

Nevermind, then.

Matt Algren

04-18-2007, 11:42 AM

move along...

Chris Nowlin

04-18-2007, 11:43 AM

I am pleased to see that choice, Slam.

That is one of the most unbelievably awful albums of all time. Unfortunately, it was also one of the ones most loved by high school girls around the time I graduated, which means you had to hear it a lot if you wanted even a chance of getting any.

But... but... he was in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II! The Secret of the Oooze!

Singing Go ninja, go ninja, go...

Ed Cunard

04-18-2007, 11:43 AM

Slam_Bradley

04-18-2007, 11:45 AM

Yes, you have. Multiple times. All ending the same way.

He does tend to ramble in his dotage

Michael P

04-18-2007, 11:47 AM

Just one of many songs I have no excuse for owning: Dreamy heartthrob Patrick Swayze's hit single "She's Like The Wind." The entire 1980s is condensed into this one song.

HomerJay

04-18-2007, 12:54 PM

I once read a light-hearted interview with Tom Jones where the interviewer actually asked him if there was any truth to the legends of him being "very, very well-hung". He replied with, "Well..very, but not very very."

Perry Holley

04-18-2007, 01:36 PM

Okay, I gotta go with what is probably the most gawdawful hair metal band ever, Warrant.

JerrBear81

04-18-2007, 02:12 PM

Okay, I gotta go with what is probably the most gawdawful hair metal band ever, Warrant.

There's another band worse than Warrant but I can't mention it because it may be someone else's idea for an avatar. Let's just say that it's also a hairband.

Spackling Compound

04-18-2007, 02:41 PM

Whoa..ok.
So are we talking LAME MUSICIANS or music cuz...someone could claim the genre "Hairmetal". Not me, you understand but just someone. You know. Someone who is rokken like...y'know.

Ed Cunard

04-18-2007, 02:45 PM

Whoa..ok.
So are we talking LAME MUSICIANS

Had that been the case, I'd have taken Hermen Hesse's Gertrude.

Come to think of it, I should have.

Spackling Compound

04-18-2007, 02:49 PM

Had that been the case, I'd have taken Hermen Hesse's Gertrude.

Come to think of it, I should have.

Bwahahahaahahahahaha!

Good one...and that sort of gives me a WHOLE new idea...

Holly Hunter from "The Piano".

JerrBear81

04-18-2007, 02:52 PM

Whoa..ok.
So are we talking LAME MUSICIANS or music cuz...someone could claim the genre "Hairmetal". Not me, you understand but just someone. You know. Someone who is rokken like...y'know.

Are they rokken with their cockken out?

Spackling Compound

04-18-2007, 02:54 PM

Are they rokken with their cockken out?

Their cokkers out of their dokkers

JerrBear81

04-18-2007, 02:56 PM

Their cokkers out of their dokkers

With their long hairband hair lokkens flowing in the wind I bet!

Mike Smash!

04-18-2007, 03:03 PM

Dibs on fictional lame musician, Rick Jones! His two albums shot right to the bottom of the charts...

He's since gone back to his day job of professional sidekick to the stars.

http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2006Images/Day12RickJones.jpg

Spackling Compound

04-18-2007, 03:24 PM

Dibs on fictional lame musician, Rick Jones! His two albums shot right to the bottom of the charts...

I remember an old issue of Captain Marvell that featured Rick singing some song he wrote about "Gary, Indiana".
I always wondered where I could get a copy of that song. I thought he would sing it sort of like John Denver would sing it.

I was 10. Wish I could blame drugs.

Cei-U!

04-18-2007, 03:32 PM

Dibs on fictional lame musician, Rick Jones! His two albums shot right to the bottom of the charts...

Hey, at least he got a guest gig on Saturday Night Live the week Stan Lee guest-hosted. That's more than the Archies ever did.

Cei-U!
I summon the attachment!

Bouncing Boy

04-18-2007, 04:31 PM

I give you the Original Broadway Cast Album of the Superman Musical, "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!" There's a couple good songs on it, but most of it is LAME!

K'Nort

04-18-2007, 06:20 PM

My sister beats even you. She saw him live a couple of years ago,

So did I. And it was great.

K'Nort

04-18-2007, 07:05 PM

So it's easy enough to use a joke band. But I've decided to go with an act who was extremely popular with my friends and on the stations I listened to (I really have no clue how they did beyond that) but I could absolutely never stand them.

http://cache.umusic.com/images/local/500/2f50ca71-53bc-47f7-9316-3904c5aaa8be.jpg

Counting Crows

Adam West

04-18-2007, 10:59 PM

There's so much to choose from, especially in the 80s :D.

I'm in with Color Me Badd

Fish Sauce

04-19-2007, 03:31 AM

When I found this in HMV I couldn't decide whether it was the most awesome thing ever or the lamest thing ever.

Yes, Steven Seagal has an album.

There is one other option I thought of, wonder if anyone will use it.

Tages

04-19-2007, 04:21 AM

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your-band-sucks/terrible-covers.php

In an extreme miscalculation of what any sane person would be willing to accept out of him, Fred Durst decided to cover "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who. The song was self-absorbed and whiny enough coming from an artist who the whole world didn't desperately want to stab with a pitchfork, but coming from Durst, it's unbearable. The problem is not necessarily that the cover is terrible (which it is); the problem is that when one is hanging by a mere thread in the consciousness of a public who has lately come to realize that one is as annoying a twat as is ever likely to exist, and when one is facing a backlash of Milli-Vanilli-like proportions, the best move is probably not to perform a song which whines about how misunderstood one is; furthermore, if one does happen to perform a song whining about how misunderstood one is, it's an even worse idea to ineptly cover a song written by a band that is in most people's eyes about a light-year out of one's musical league. Perhaps Fred Durst was unaware that he had done absolutely nothing in his entire life to earn even a shred of artistic credibility; perhaps he failed to anticipate the fact that anyone who had any amount of taste or historical perspective would have no choice but to hate him even more for butchering a Who song. Whatever the case may be, his breakthrough single, a cover of George Michael's "Faith" and his current single (clearly fated to be his last hope of airplay) provide fitting bookends to a truly pathetic career.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r210/Kobages/durst.jpg

(shrink, s'il vous plait?)

Perry Holley

04-19-2007, 04:41 AM

(shrink, s'il vous plait?)Here you go...

Dreadstar

04-19-2007, 04:43 AM

Here you go...

Wow. I didn't think you could get pussy that small...

Tages

04-19-2007, 04:48 AM

Here you go...

Danke.....

Tages

04-19-2007, 04:52 AM

Wow. I didn't think you could get pussy that small...

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/6775/boobkittycr4.jpg
http://www.whitless.com/BrianMeKittensSmall.jpg

borateen

04-19-2007, 05:39 AM

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your-band-sucks/terrible-covers.php

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r210/Kobages/durst.jpg

(shrink, s'il vous plait?)

Color Me Badd was my first choice, and Durst was my third (but the one I really wanted to go with). And y'know what, I really, really, really liked Limp Bizkit's first album, Three Dollar Bill Y'all. Then Durst bought into the fame, and he became a joke.

So now I'm going with Kenny G. I played sax in high school and college, and my instructor in high school, when forced to say something nice about Kenny G, could only come up with, "He plays in tune."

JeffreyWKramer

04-19-2007, 05:55 AM

Oh, good choice, Tages.

Voting is going to be tough this time around.

Fish Sauce

04-19-2007, 07:05 AM

Haha, good choices. Funniest thing is that after reading that bit on Durst, Behind Blue Eyes by The Who came on on my iTunes. Out of a possible 2176 songs, that's quite a coincidence.

Stranger With Candy

04-19-2007, 07:45 AM

Ill go with death metal. Some of the lamest and most repetitive music i have heard
http://i11.tinypic.com/34y8wbb.jpg

Matt Algren

04-19-2007, 08:01 AM

Haha, good choices. Funniest thing is that after reading that bit on Durst, Behind Blue Eyes by The Who came on on my iTunes. Out of a possible 2176 songs, that's quite a coincidence.
HOW DID I NoT THINK OF STEVEN SEAGAL?!?!?!?

HomerJay

04-19-2007, 08:52 AM

EDIT:
Scratch that.
I'm going with the Grandfather of Emo and all manner of whiny music, Morrissey.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/HomerJay64/morrisseyG0901_468x669.jpg

Spackling Compound

04-19-2007, 08:59 AM

I'm going with Folk Music and the man who had his guitar smashed by John Belushi in ANIMAL HOUSE, Stephen Bishop (not necessarily a folk musician himself).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/HomerJay64/splash.jpg

Waitaminit! Folk music isn't that bad. But, yes, Stephen Bishop music is lame. His glasses are lame. His beard is lame. His butt cut hair do is lame. And the dentist office that plays his music is lame.

HomerJay

04-19-2007, 09:15 AM

Waitaminit! Folk music isn't that bad. But, yes, Stephen Bishop music is lame. His glasses are lame. His beard is lame. His butt cut hair do is lame. And the dentist office that plays his music is lame.
Already changed it, so anyone else is welcome to Mr. Bishop & his ilk.

jessecuster3

04-19-2007, 09:24 AM

EDIT:
Scratch that.
I'm going with the Grandfather of Emo and all manner of whiny music, Morrissey.

No freaking way is he lame! His Smiths catalog alone disputes his lameness.

Spackling Compound

04-19-2007, 09:28 AM

No freaking way is he lame! His Smiths catalog alone disputes his lameness.

It is said that Morrisey's sings at a frequency that makes his songs only attractive to gay men, fat pensive girls and ducks.

HomerJay

04-19-2007, 09:44 AM

It is said that Morrisey's sings at a frequency that makes his songs only attractive to gay men, fat pensive girls and ducks.
Howy digest-worthy.

Despite knowing that this selection would ruffle some feathers, I stand behind it.
My college sophmomore year roommate would always leave his damn Morrissey CDs in my player as I was ejecting it to put in AC/DC or Ice Cube. He was exceedingly lame and dorky. His fondness for Morrissey was merely the sprinkles on his sundae of lameness.

jessecuster3

04-19-2007, 09:56 AM

It is said that Morrisey's sings at a frequency that makes his songs only attractive to gay men, fat pensive girls and ducks.

how can you deny song titles like:
The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
You're The One For Me, Fatty
We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful
Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself

The irony you are missing is that he makes fun of his own fans and they do not see it.

Matt Algren

04-19-2007, 10:29 AM

In with David Brent singing Free Love Freeway. [audio (http://www.wernhamhogg.co.uk/sounds1/freelove.mp3)] [video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JitDWQI9qc)]

http://www.wernhamhogg.co.uk/images/guitar/brentholdguitar.jpg

Free Love Freeway

Pretty girl on the hood of a Cadillac, yeah....
She’s broken down on freeway nine.
I take a look and her engine’s started,
I leave her purring and I roll on by....bye bye

Chorus:
Free love on the free love freeway,
The love is free and the freeway’s long...
I got some hot love on the hot-love highway
I ain’t going home ’cause my baby’s gone

Little while later I see a cowboy crying,
“Hey buddy, what can I do?”
He says “I lived a good life, had about a thousand women.”
I said “Why the tears?”, he says “‘cause none of them was you.”

[It's not gay. The cowboy's holding a photograph of his girlfriend. The video would've shown that.]

Free love on the free love freeway,
where the love is free and the freeway is long...
I got some hot love on the hot-love highway
I ain’t going home ’cause my baby’s gone.

jessecuster3

04-19-2007, 11:00 AM

Matt you so have my vote, I LOVE that episode.

K'Nort

04-19-2007, 04:01 PM

Ill go with death metal. Some of the lamest and most repetitive music i have heard

I saw a thing last night about a Saudi Arabian death metal band. I'm half-tempted to pull up their website.

Tages

04-19-2007, 04:34 PM

What I find irritating about Morrissey is that he sang "Paint a Dirty Picture," which is a damn good song about how fans and their objects of worship relate to one another. Later, he wailed out a song called "How Can Anyone Understand How I Feel?"

Uh, I thought the first song did a good job explaining how people understand exactly how he feels.

Spackling Compound

04-19-2007, 04:38 PM

Matt you so have my vote, I LOVE that episode.

Kudos to Matt for the first British Office avvy. Sure everyone's talked about it but no one's actually done it.

Good form, man.

Adam West

04-19-2007, 09:27 PM

HOW DID I NoT THINK OF STEVEN SEAGAL?!?!?!?

lol!
Exactly my thought when I saw Fish Sauce avatar

drunkentiger

04-20-2007, 12:58 AM

lame = Hanson
http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/4457/hansonht3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Fish Sauce

04-20-2007, 01:05 AM

In with David Brent singing Free Love Freeway.

Hah!

You didn't get Steven Seagal, but you sure as hell got my other option! Great minds and all that.

thehod

04-20-2007, 01:33 AM

How this shower of shit ever got the red carpet treatment in my country I'll never know.

Kids From Fame. Arse, if you ask me.

http://www.lp-cd.de/8/B1087_01.jpg

hulahulk

04-20-2007, 11:29 AM

http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/pop_albums/1/4/c/d14404yg5c6.jpg

"Heartbeat...I'm lookin' for a heartbeat..."

Uhhh, Mr. Johnson, you should be looking for some talent.

Matt Algren

04-20-2007, 11:32 AM

http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/pop_albums/1/4/c/d14404yg5c6.jpg

"Heartbeat...I'm lookin' for a heartbeat..."

Uhhh, Mr. Johnson, you should be looking for some talent.
Heh. That was one of my other ones.

Stranger With Candy

04-20-2007, 01:29 PM

HOW DID I NoT THINK OF STEVEN SEAGAL?!?!?!?

I was going to go with Steven Seagal... But i was to late.:(

GloryQuest

04-20-2007, 05:39 PM

Okay, I'll enter this week with Starship. Not only were they lame, but they were "ultra-lame"!

Blender says...

They built this city on rock & roll. And crap!
In 1985, Starship rose like a phoenix from the ashes of once-mighty psychedelic overlords Jefferson Airplane/Starship — but only if, by phoenix, you mean “ultra-lame, MTV-pandering purveyors of MOR schlock.” Best remembered for “We Built This City,” they were also responsible for unleashing the Diane Warren–penned “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” a song bad enough to appear on the soundtrack of the diabolical Andrew McCarthy “comedy” Mannequin. And its sequel!

Your Imaginary Pal

04-24-2007, 05:48 AM

My Vote
JWKramer and his Vanilla Ice.
Word to your mother!

Spackling Compound

04-24-2007, 06:07 AM

Jerrbear wins this week. That's like audio kiddie porn....

Agent Helix

04-24-2007, 06:09 AM

Fish Sauce with Seagal.

HomerJay

04-24-2007, 06:14 AM

JerrBear gets my vote.
As a father, I would light myself on fire if I ever had to listen to those CDs.

Cei-U!

04-24-2007, 06:37 AM

I'm voting for JerrBear too. That album is the best argument possible for the virtues of deafness.

Cei-U!
I run away screaming!

Merey

04-24-2007, 06:39 AM

My vote goes to K'Nort.

Matt Algren

04-24-2007, 06:39 AM

High School saxophone players unite! I vote for borateen's Kenny G.So now I'm going with Kenny G. I played sax in high school and college, and my instructor in high school, when forced to say something nice about Kenny G, could only come up with, "He plays in tune."I have yet to talk to a saxophone player who has anything good to say about Kenny G. One of our running gags in school was that to play like Kenny G, you just had to mash your fingers on random keys really fast and blow really hard*. Also, he's Jewish and he released a Christmas album. Technically it's a 'Holiday' album, but it's got Silent Night, The Little Drummer Boy, and Away in a Manger. That's just lame.

Here's a review of said Holiday album, from Amazon.com. "Don't buy this. Please, please, don't encourage this. The way Kenny G "writes" is to take an old song, play it at half tempo, and add a grace note, trill, or turn every measure. So basically, purchase of this album could be entirely circumvented by playing a Christmas record on 45 at 33 rpms, and occasionally hitting the turntable."

In conclusion, Kenny G is ridiculously lame.

*It's funnier when you can give a demonstration.

Dreadstar

04-24-2007, 06:42 AM

Borateen.

Even my kid thinks he's lame, and he's a High School sax player.

Slam_Bradley

04-24-2007, 06:46 AM

Borateen. I cringe every time I talk to someone who says they like jazz but mean they listen to Kenny G.

jessecuster3

04-24-2007, 06:48 AM

As promised, Matt Algren gets my vote.

HomerJay

04-24-2007, 07:00 AM

Also, he's Jewish and he released a Christmas album. Technically it's a 'Holiday' album, but it's got Silent Night, The Little Drummer Boy, and Away in a Manger. That's just lame.

Here's a review of said Holiday album, from Amazon.com. "Don't buy this. Please, please, don't encourage this. The way Kenny G "writes" is to take an old song, play it at half tempo, and add a grace note, trill, or turn every measure. So basically, purchase of this album could be entirely circumvented by playing a Christmas record on 45 at 33 rpms, and occasionally hitting the turntable."
One of my favorite Norm McDonald bits:

"So now Kenny G is releasing a Christmas album.
Happy Birthday, Jesus! Hope you like CRAP!"

Typo Lad

04-24-2007, 07:01 AM

Kenny G gets my vote. Jewish Musicians who do Christmas albums are double-lame.

Dreadstar

04-24-2007, 07:05 AM

Kenny G gets my vote. Jewish Musicians who do Christmas albums are double-lame.

Neil Diamond is NOT lame, you bastard!

...waitaminute...

JeffreyWKramer

04-24-2007, 07:08 AM

Tages gets my vote. There are musicians more lame than Fred Durst (though not many), but nobody else managed an av which so effectively captures the lameness of the music/musician in question.

Lots of good entries this week, though.

thehod

04-24-2007, 07:18 AM

I can't agree that ABBA were lame, as they came up with some of the best music of the seventies (in comparison) and both of the ladies were hot.

I can't really vote for actors releasing records either, cos you kind of expect them to be lame.

However, the one that nailed it for me was the guy who release one decent track, which only got to be decent by nicking half a Queen and Bowie track, and then thinking he was the greatest thing to hit music since John met Paul.

Mr Kramer gets it with the flat topped moron who named himself after an ice cream.

Stranger With Candy

04-24-2007, 07:48 AM

Fish Sauce gets my vote. Damn you for choosing Steven Seagal before i did.

borateen

04-24-2007, 08:02 AM

Tages gets my vote this week. I'm still disappointed in Durst's slide into lamocity because their first album was really pretty good.

And thanks to those who gave funny quotes regarding my Kenny G av. They made me laugh.

Tages

04-24-2007, 08:32 AM

I vote for Cei-U!.

I summon the incomprehensibly lame 60s nostalgia!

(And thank you for the compliments, bora and Doc)

Adam West

04-24-2007, 08:47 AM

Fish Sauce get my votes too.
Seagal rules the lame-land for me :D

Mac Danny

04-24-2007, 09:12 AM

Homer Jay gets my vote. Morrisey is how college kids show that they care about you... before the date rape.

Winslow

04-24-2007, 09:20 AM

I vote for Cei-U for an entry that included the theme and comics.

Although I liked The Archies as a kid

. . .sugar . . . doo doo doo doo doo doo . . . C'mon Honey Honey . . doo doo doo doo doo doo . . you are my candy girl, and you got me wanting you . . . .

Michael P

04-24-2007, 09:24 AM

Not that anyone's voting for me, but I have to withdraw from the contest. No image editors for a while.

Oh, and I vote for drunkentiger. Once again, on behalf of Oklahoma, I apologize.

JerrBear81

04-24-2007, 09:56 AM

JeffreyWKramer

Perry Holley

04-24-2007, 01:30 PM

Gotta vote for Jerrbear81... not only is the Kidz Bop concept exceptionally lame, but some of the song choices are rather disturbing, to boot.

Matt Algren

04-24-2007, 02:01 PM

Gotta vote for Jerrbear81... not only is the Kidz Bop concept exceptionally lame, but some of the song choices are rather disturbing, to boot.
What you gon' do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
I'ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps

Chris Nowlin

04-24-2007, 02:07 PM

Gingold, who is a bastard. And I hate him

JerrBear81

04-24-2007, 02:10 PM

What you gon' do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
I'ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps

Holy shit, their rendition is horrible! I wish Kidz Bop would just die!

Matt Algren

04-24-2007, 02:49 PM

Holy shit, their rendition is horrible! I wish Kidz Bop would just die!
It's the video that really killed it. Come on girls, you gotta sell the lady lumps.

Typo Lad

04-24-2007, 03:59 PM

You're lying. No way did they cover that.

Gingold

04-24-2007, 04:00 PM

Gingold, who is a bastard. And I hate him

Mission accomplished.

Stellar

04-24-2007, 04:09 PM

One more for Tages.

Fish Sauce

04-24-2007, 04:18 PM

High School saxophone players unite! I vote for borateen's Kenny G.I have yet to talk to a saxophone player who has anything good to say about Kenny G.

Haha, my sax teacher couldn't stand the guy.

I'll give my vote to you, though, Matt Algren, cause I can't believe it hasn't got one yet.

Gingold

04-24-2007, 04:21 PM

Tages gets my vote.

Mike Smash!

04-24-2007, 04:40 PM

JerrBear. Those KidzBop commercials make me want to put a gun in my mouth.

GloryQuest

04-24-2007, 05:17 PM

Well, I would've went with 4thHorseman (Milli Vanilli), but the avatar never appeared, so I'll vote for the second one that came to mind, Mr. Ice by JeffreyWKramer.

dougputhoff

04-24-2007, 06:00 PM

I have to go with Michael Pullman and Patrick Swayze. A radio station here in Evansville plays that song incessantly (playing in ONCE is incessantly).

drunkentiger

04-24-2007, 06:10 PM

Tages gets my vote.

Once again, on behalf of Oklahoma, I apologize.
I would really like to accept this apology ,but
Hanson are still around so the pain continues.
They must die before I accept lol.

Michael P

04-24-2007, 06:48 PM

I would really like to accept this apology ,but
Hanson are still around so the pain continues.
They must die before I accept lol.

I can make that happen.

Tages

04-25-2007, 03:49 AM

And the results...

1 vote apiece: K'Nort, Homer Jay, drunkentiger, Gingold, Michael Pullmann

2 votes: Matt Algren, Cei-U!

3 votes: Fish Sauce

4 votes: borateen, JeffreyWKramer

And tied for first place with five votes apiece...

Tages and JerrBear81

Next vote decides!

Spike-X

04-25-2007, 04:44 AM

Tages.

I just regret being too late to enter this week's contest:

http://www.traffick.com/uploaded_images/nickelback-2005-pic-3.jpg.w560h559-746594.jpg

Tages

04-25-2007, 04:49 AM

If someone else would be so kind as to do his or her own independent count of the vote to verify, I shall post this week's contest!

Spike-X

04-25-2007, 05:01 AM

Kramer - ****
JerrBear - *****
Fish Sauce - ***
K'Nort - *
borateen - ****
Matt Algren - **
Tages - ******
Cei-U - **
Homer Jay - *
drunkentiger - *
Gingold - *
Michael Pullman - *

Tages ftw!

Tages

04-25-2007, 05:11 AM

I rule!

In your face, Space Coyote!

Oh, and the new contest is up (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=172982).

Matt Algren

04-25-2007, 07:00 AM

You're lying. No way did they cover that.
Not yet, but don't put it past them. They've already (http://www.amazon.com/Kidz-Bop-Vol-6-Kids/dp/B0002JUVYE/ref=sr_1_14/102-9274112-9138563?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1177508474&sr=1-14) covered Toxic (http://www.elyrics.net/read/b/britney-spears-lyrics/toxic-lyrics.html). Also (http://www.amazon.com/Kidz-Bop-Vol-7-Kids/dp/B0007CNY6S/ref=sr_1_9/102-9274112-9138563?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1177508474&sr=1-9) Lose My Breath (http://www.lyrics007.com/Destiny's%20Child%20Lyrics/Lose%20My%20Breath%20Lyrics.html).

I really thought I had a shot at it this week. I'm a sad panda.