Bit late but flip it

Joy Division - Wasn't that thing with the lead singer just a publicity stunt that went a little bit too far? If it wasn't for Paul Morley blowing smoke up their arses they would have remained a footnote on the Manchester music scene and as for the songs 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'? Oh I've been in a bad relationship so let's have a whine about it over a bland musical backdrop. 'Transmission'? Nobody will play our records except John Peel, whine, whine, moan, moan.

Soft Cell - Northern soul tribute act. Look at us being edgy by releasing Sex Dwarf! Marc, no-one gives a shit about it, go back to Tainted Love why don't you?

Gary Numan - Let's see, there's the dull, droning, dreary track, the one that dreary, dull and droning and the one that's droning, dreary and dull. Get back to me when you wrote a second tune.

Hayzee Fantayzee - Look, I'm very sorry that 'Welcome to the Monkeyhouse' wasn't a hit, it's a brilliant track that deserved a much better fate but to get your revenge with this shite is a bit much. Two anorexics spew out aural wankery with lyrics that make nursery rhymes look like quantum physics in comparison. "Shiny shiny bad times behind me, Shiny shiny sha-na-na-na. Fuck right off.

Depeche Mode - Four young men with their heads stuck up their collective arseholes become three middle-aged men with their heads stuck up their collective arseholes.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Look at me! I'm wearing a Nazi armband, aren't I daring! When she gets pulled up for doing that shit she has a moan about it. Nowadays it's: Look at me, please look at me! Even though I now look like the goth version of Cherie Blair please look at me as it stops you asking why the music is duff. As for music, a series of dull thudding bass lines as if to compensate for the fact that the bassist has trouble playing more than a couple of chords while the guitarist is still struggling to learn his first. The drummer is hitting his kit randomly as if making a noise is good enough while singer caterwauls about Hong Kong Garden or whatever her favourite Chinese restaurant is.

Better stop there before going onto the triumvirate of teenage student wankery that is Smiths/Cure/Morrissey and brassing myself off even further.
(Chuckman, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 0:20, 10 replies)

i don't like gary newman
because i used to see abloke that looked like him.
love will tear us apart, however, i rather liked.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 0:35, closed)

also, do you need a hug?

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 0:41, closed)

Aw, thanks for the offer SM that's very sweet of you

But just wanted the opportunity to vent that's all and this week's QOTW was the perfect place to do so.
(Chuckman, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 9:55, closed)

Fair play, but...
...do you have an opinion that extends beyond 1982?
(Billy The Fish wants to gargle with Lucy Pinder's bath water, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 6:34, closed)

Not really as I like music from the early 80s
and am finding new bands all the time from the period. Besides, the later stuff has been well covered by other posters on here.
(Chuckman, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 9:57, closed)

Gary Newman
Never liked his stuff (beyond "Cars" which I think the Fear Factory cover blows out the water). Saw him live at Sonisphere last year and he was really, really good. Like one of the better acts I saw the whole weekend.
(ScousersPet, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 9:23, closed)

I was going to say the same
I think working with Fear Factory changed his work for the better
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 9:55, closed)

Just as a matter of interest...
... let's hear some music you wrote.
(gordonjcp, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 9:47, closed)

The QOTW is all about bands on your musical shit list and why

Which people have been answering. Just because I haven't written anything since my award-winning carol (1st prize in a school-wide Christmas carol competition, go me!) doesn't mean I cannot have an opinion on this subject.

Since it seems you're in danger of developing a monomania on the topic, let's hear some of yours.
(Chuckman, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 10:10, closed)

You Sir!
Yes you! You Sir, are the winner!
(Mr.Dog was in love again on, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 13:08, closed)