Comments on: Today’s Most Dubious Statement From The Microblogging Arm Of A British Music Tabloid

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:56:21 +0000

I hate the Foo Fighters also.

By: KurticusMaximus

KurticusMaximus — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:34:14 +0000

This is false.

The most popular band in existence is the Foo Fighters.

See, while very few people love the Foo Fighters, absolutely nobody hates the Foo Fighers. Everybody just likes the Foo Fighters.

They are the single most universally well-liked band on the planet.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:30:39 +0000

oh, i used to be a huge fan of the cure. then i met robert smith backstage at the end of the 2004 tour, and uh, yeah...he was really really really lame. the experience kinda ruined them for me.

that and the fact he has become a self parody and hasn't put out a decent album since 1992.

By: fakehardcore

fakehardcore — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:01:14 +0000

i feel like the cure gained a lot in popularity a few years ago, around the time that curiosa tour took place, if only because a lot of the popular younger bands were citing them as a influence. i’ve always liked them, and always taken a lot of shit for it, especially during most of the 90s. 4:13 dream is actually a good record, much better than anything since wish. but sales are horrible, and this is the 3rd trip they’ve made stateside since the release (tour, a spate of tv appearances in december, coachella.) those god awful remixes certainly didn’t help matters.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:08:07 +0000

@relaxing: Hey now that you mention it I hate Christgau. And I dont't like the Cure and Christgau doesn't like the Cure. If the enemy of my enemy is my friend does that mean I really like the Cure or Christgau. I'm so confused

By: Homage

Homage — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:37:55 +0000

By this definition The Cure are merely the least unpopular band in existance, which is a funny thing to be a part of.

By: JohnOO

JohnOO — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:21:24 +0000

@Chris N.:
Er, I don't hate "The Band", but I'm not too fond of them either!
Anyway, take a huge pinch of salt with anything the NME writes, I gave up reading it years ago when they had an article on how women were the worst thing that could ever happen in successful bands. They gave Courtney Love and Yoko Ono as examples of the worst offenders, and then a few pages later they had a huge ass kissing interview with Yoko Ono about how misunderstood she is, and how we are all bad people who say she is the the reason the Beatles broke up...

By: Ned Raggett

Ned Raggett — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:47:30 +0000

@relaxing: Ah, thank you for quoting that, because I knew it would come up, and because I am profoundly irritated by Achewood and its cult. (It doesn't help that they have posted defenses of Bruce Springsteen, my hatred for whom makes everyone's complaints about the Cure here seem like mere pinpricks.)

By: Chris N.

Chris N. — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:46:18 +0000

My new theory is that The Band is the most well-liked … er, band ever. Nobody hates The Band.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:22:18 +0000

@Whigged: Store clerks who had to put the latest Motorhead album on the racks, only to have to remove them from the racks 6 months later would probably fault Lemmy for rehashing the same Motorhead formula every album.