Ender 8 Posted August 12, 2005 Good Lord. I have a couple friends who like Coldplay and I don't know how they can stand that crap. I listen to it for 5 seconds and I'm starting to drift off to sleep. Coldplay is the most boring band I have ever heard. Even more boring then Moby. And their bleeding music videos are like their songs...all the same. It's just the lead singer wandering around looking like he's half asleep. I'm amazed that anyone can listen to them for the whole length of a song without drifting off to sleep let alone standing for a whole frickin concert. Coldplay (aka Crapplay) = Worst. Band. Ever. ← Oh, what it must be like to live such a shallow life... I think it's funny that INSANELY crappy bands like Linkin Park are angry just for the sake of being angry. I mean, what are their songs about, Drake? "I'm angry because I'm an angsty man and my dog ran away?" Gimme a break. Coldplay has much more talent and substance than Linkin Park EVER will. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ender 8 Posted August 12, 2005 And in other news... "Over There" SUCKS. This review was written by Michael Fumento, a former paratrooper who was embedded with the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq and is also a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. "Peace at any price" purveyors are going gaga over the new FX Channel series "depicting" the Iraq war, "Over There," produced by Steven Bochco of Hill Street Blues fame. "Wow! Anybody else watch Over There last night?" gushed a writer for the heavily-read antiwar blogsite, Daily Kos. "Within a few minutes . . . it was obvious that Iraq was Vietnam all over again." How a fictional show shot in La La Land could make anything about Iraq policy "obvious" is hard to fathom. But the series does tout its realism, as have some reviewers who�ve never gotten closer to Iraq than filling their gas tanks. Further, Bochco claims it's politically neutral. Unfortunately, "Over There" puts reality in a body bag and is as unbiased as if scripted by a guy named Allen Queda. If "Over There" has a true military advisor, he deserves the firing squad. In the first episode a squad is pinned down while besieging a terrorist-filled mosque. The unit remains for about 36 hours with no air support, because "Air is dedicated to another area." Never mind that planes or choppers are always available within minutes. They request artillery, again to no avail. There's no armor. In order to include women, two females from a transportation unit just happen to join the siege. In fact, they just happen to tag along for the rest of the series! Reality is sacrificed to the God of Diversity. Why didn't Bochco also include a Klingon? Towards the end of the show a troop transport pulls off to the side of the road, an idiot thing to do since that's where improvised explosive devices are almost always buried. Naturally they roll over a powerful IED, even though the bombers have kindly marked it with little white flags. A horribly wounded soldier is then evacuated in a type of chopper not used in Iraq. Clearly this is a military that can't even tie its bootlaces and in the immortal words of Pogo: We have met the enemy and he is us. The terrorists are downright chummy compared to U.S. commanders. The besieging squad repeatedly suffers because of the idiotic orders of a general 75 miles away. Another off-site officer orders the troops to move forward from a relatively safe ridgeline to a completely open area. In another scene, a GI declares he'd rather risk being blown to bits than tell a sergeant he's wrong. Particularly appalling to me was a slam against Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD). It simply fails to show up to disarm a vehicle packed with enough explosives to blow up Rhode Island. I was embedded with the EOD unit of the 8th Engineer Support Battalion at Camp Fallujah. They react to calls with the speed of firefighters (or Domino's pizza) and coolly and professionally carry out some of the most dangerous jobs of the war. The GIs ARE depicted as both brave and dedicated, as they must be in order to be proper pawns. Conversely they're also hot-headed; they constantly bark at each other like obnoxious poodles and there's a knife fight by the second episode. Do the soldiers beat and torture prisoners? Do you have to ask? Meanwhile the terrorists, who in reality favor "soft" civilian targets, are braver and tougher still. They make the Viet Cong look like pansies. One literally has his torso blown off and yet his legs incredibly keep marching forward. A metaphor, perhaps, for the invincibility of the terrorist Jihad? As for American policy, that's depicted in a dream sequence in which a capture GI is given a litany of reasons for why we're over there such as wanting to steal Iraqi oil, and then asked, "Your masters are liars and thieves, and yet you obey them. Why?" He doesn't deny it, rather providing the pawn answer of "Because I'm a soldier!" There have got to be a thousand true inspiring stories of courage and kindness by coalition troops during the war, but don't expect to see them on "Over There." The wealthy Mr. Bochco certainly had the resources to tour Iraq before slandering our military and turning FX into the Al Jazeera Channel. But he didn't. Perhaps he was afraid of seeing what the real truth is over there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Radioactive Isotope 29 Posted August 12, 2005 Good Lord. I have a couple friends who like Coldplay and I don't know how they can stand that crap. I listen to it for 5 seconds and I'm starting to drift off to sleep. Coldplay is the most boring band I have ever heard. Even more boring then Moby. And their bleeding music videos are like their songs...all the same. It's just the lead singer wandering around looking like he's half asleep. I'm amazed that anyone can listen to them for the whole length of a song without drifting off to sleep let alone standing for a whole frickin concert. Coldplay (aka Crapplay) = Worst. Band. Ever. ← Oh, what it must be like to live such a shallow life... I think it's funny that INSANELY crappy bands like Linkin Park are angry just for the sake of being angry. I mean, what are their songs about, Drake? "I'm angry because I'm an angsty man and my dog ran away?" Gimme a break. Coldplay has much more talent and substance than Linkin Park EVER will. ← could we please not start this again? and Mr Drake modly type should know better ;) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy 60 Posted August 12, 2005 Coldplay is just as awesome as Linkin Park. :roll: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drake 53 Posted August 12, 2005 (edited) I've learned that Ender's hard-headedness will never change. Trying to get him to lighten up on his heated opinions is folly. So if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Plus, I just hate Crapplay and decided to use this thread to voice my opinion of them. Isn't that what it's for? Edited August 12, 2005 by Drake Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Radioactive Isotope 29 Posted August 12, 2005 hate is such a strong word, though. detest is better. :p Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drake 53 Posted August 12, 2005 I guess I should give them a grade then. Coldplay = F Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GI_Admiral 2 Posted August 13, 2005 Ive only seen 1 or 2 episodes of "Over there" dont r4eally have an opnion. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tsl 7 Posted August 13, 2005 Well, I don't think Coldplay and Linkin Park are very comparable as the music is too different. They're both good to listen too, though Coldplay's music is prettier and softer if you're in that kind of mood. Linkin Park are better writers, so the lyrics are better. In the end, it sort of........doesn't matter Now then, you want some bands that totally suck... umm... Beastie Boys, Rob Zombie, anything gangsta rap, and the empty headed sort of fluffy pop/dance.... Discuss :p Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GI_Admiral 2 Posted August 13, 2005 Classical/Soundtracks > All :p Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ender 8 Posted August 13, 2005 Yeah, Tsl, those are bad, but emo is definitely included among them for badness. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tsl 7 Posted August 13, 2005 I don't really know what classifies as emo, so I can't say. In fact, most classifications make no sense to me. Rock is rock is rock, damnit. None of this neo-metal, punk, euro-whassit. No! It's just rock. lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy 60 Posted August 15, 2005 Hey Ender: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4144458.stm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ender 8 Posted August 15, 2005 (edited) Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day... such a great time, when rock bands still acted like rock bands... and Liam Gallagher caused more trouble than a litter of pitbulls... Edited August 15, 2005 by Ender Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GI_Admiral 2 Posted August 15, 2005 TSL I still have no idea about Emo bands. Someone sent me a link describing it but it was pretty useless, saying emo bnds play with emotion. Don't most bands do that? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy 60 Posted August 15, 2005 Emo bands generally sing about sad things. lol from what i've heard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ender 8 Posted August 15, 2005 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tsl 7 Posted August 15, 2005 The only name I recognized in there was Jimmy Eat World, lol, and they're not the best band in the world, but they have a couple good songs. Seems to me from the general description that "emo" is used to describe any band the name caller dislikes and has lyrics to do with either anger, sadness, or failing relationships....which is nearly every song ever written from country to rap, lol. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ender 8 Posted August 16, 2005 It's the style. Bands like My Chemical Romance and Underoath are self-described emo, as is Fall Out Boy. And other bands like Good Charlotte are headed in that direction. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GI_Admiral 2 Posted August 16, 2005 I agree with TSL :p Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander 0 Posted August 20, 2005 How many emo kids does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None, they'd rather sit in the dark and cry. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ayingel 24 Posted August 20, 2005 I agree with TSL ← yo tambien. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy 60 Posted August 20, 2005 How many emo kids does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None, they'd rather sit in the dark and cry. ← Oooooooold. :p Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
