MrDuck

I've met a few of my idols... never asked for an autograph or anything. Just the experience of meeting them has been enough tbh.

5 hours ago, PatrickCousens said:

I'm surprised there wasn't interest from the Championship, but in any case I expect him to do well with a run of games. Probably a good move all round. Bruce relies heavily on wingers and he's not going do enough to start regularly here yet.

Apparently there was, but Bruce doesn't want to help out our rivals

23 hours ago, Chindie said:

 if the Phantom Menace had been focused on a majority black cast with black director etc

Oh god, the internet would have exploded!

Fully onboard with comments about Foo Fighters. Soooooooo bland.

Rodwell signs for Blackburn. What could possibly go wrong?

13 hours ago, Unused Sub said:

Just thinking of 90's goalies, Mark Crossley had a great reputation for saving pens.

Only keeper to ever save a LeTissier penalty!

21 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

It's like arguing over your favourite colour.

 

Red is completely overrated.

21 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Joy Division

Aye

5 minutes ago, VILLAMARV said:

Was it The Beach Boys?

That's the one.

9 minutes ago, VILLAMARV said:

Who were the 6 in the poll in the wiped OP?

U2
Pulp
The Beatles
The Stones

were 4 of them I think. There were 2 more and I can't remember

Oasis and... someone else.

Good to see him back and scoring... wasn't sure he had it in him anymore.

27 minutes ago, KHV said:

The Stone Roses

Totally.

Their first album is one of the most insipid, weak as piss albums I've ever heard, popular with a bunch of people so E'd up you could have sold them Cliff Richard records and they'd have loved it.

8 hours ago, bickster said:

Ziggy, Aladin Sane, Low,, Station to Station, Diamond Dogs and Heroes. Those are his only decent albums. Anything from Scary Monsters onwards is dreadful and there are decent songs on other albums before Scary Monsters but only a few

And up until this point, I was agreeing on everything you said

I actually think his Berlin albums that you include above are overrated. And his work from there onwards to the late 90s is at times awful. Hunky Dory is a masterpiece though.

But his 21st century output is of a really high standard. He stops pissing about and hopping between genres and just knocks out a run of albums full of top quality songwriting - Hours, Heathen, Reality, The Next Day, Blackstar.

13 minutes ago, Shropshire Lad said:

Do you mean Guns & Roses or rodders0223? 

Doh

4 minutes ago, ozvillafan said:

 

 

That said: The Doors. Overrated tosh.

Always thought The Doors were underrated - Morrison's reputation as crazy wild rock star overshadowing what fantastic musicians they were.

45 minutes ago, Shropshire Lad said:

Guns & Roses

@rodders0223

Yep, good call. Briefly exciting for about half an hour in 1987.

1 hour ago, bickster said:

Best thing they ever did is a Bowie cover version

Bowie's comments on this were great -  "kids come up afterwards and say, 'It's cool you're doing a Nirvana song.' And I think, 'F_ck you, you little t0sser!"

The Ramones had an ear for a good pop melody that most bands would kill for.  Sold sod all records though. I was lucky enough to see them once, albeit in the early 90s, way past their best. They were breathtakingly brilliant.

3 hours ago, mjmooney said:

I think we need to distinguish between 'overrated by the public' (i.e. big sellers) and 'overrated by the self styled cognoscenti' (or at least vociferous fanboys). 

Hence my suggestion of The Velvet Underground. There's some famous quote along the lines of "Their first album only sold 500 copies, but everyone who bought it went out and formed a band". Quite possibly true - trouble is, they nearly all formed utterly crap bands. 

I feel the need to stand up for the Velvets here... artistic, innovative, individual, hugely influential. They wouldn't make a dent in my personal favourites list but I can appreciate what they did. I'm not sure they can be overrated, given that the majority of people outside of yer music afficiandos have never even heard of them.

I reckon Trump would rather nuke the entire planet than suffer the indignity of impeachment.

Nice to see Buttler and Stokes actually bat sensibly. They were never going to save the game, but perhaps the top order can at least learn something from watching them.

Cook is busted, has been for a couple of years. Only in the side because we have nobody to take his place.

Moeen I think is a brilliant cricketer, but he seems very much a confidence player, and the last Ashes series destroyed him. Good to see him finding some form again, at his best he definitely improves the team.

Only a fan of the Stones and Pulp on that list, but I'm not sure any of them are particularly overrated. All pretty important bands in the overall scheme of things. I'll vote Oasis though, cos whilst Noel certainly knows how to write a tune, his lyrics are usually utter shite.

1 hour ago, villa4europe said:

 spectre was garbage

Yeah, I watched Skyfall and Spectre a week or two back - really enjoyed Skyfall but Spectre was crap.

4 hours ago, Withnail said:

Henry Rollins in a roll that is suited to him.

<pictures Henry Rollins in a ham salad roll>

12 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

It's not been all bad from there.

James had his calamitous moments but I think he was a good keeper for us overall.

Friedel as well was a good keeper during his time here.

 

It's true though that we've lacked a great keeper that you can rely on for years.

Forgot about Friedel, he was pretty solid.

In retrospect James was good, just seemed like a downgrade after Bosnich... which I suppose anyone would.

10 hours ago, lapal_fan said:

Yea, sometimes.

Listen, the game has moved on from Aggers and Boycott.  If you're on about trying to "get in" and grinding out a 200 ball 50.. well Cook tries but is out of form. 

Everyone in our squad from Root down are great One Day players who take games away from the opponents.  These guys aren't going to get a 200 ball 50. 

And the hyperbole about losing (we haven't even lost yet).. Well the last 2 tests we dicked the worlds best team.. Why SHOULDN'T we be able to lose a game without every former English cricketer/media losing their minds?  We're losing against a great team with the best batsman in the world.. Get over it (not you, everyone). 

It just seems to me that 2 weeks ago it was "THIS IS TEST CRICKET AT IT'S BEST!!!!!!" and now it's "ENGLAND ARE A SHAM AND WE'RE NEVER COMING BACK!!!!!!" - it's seesaw, reactionary nonsense.  We're gonna win the series, who gives a flying **** if it finishes 3-2? 

It was "test cricket at it's best" because it was exciting, not because England were performing brilliantly with the bat.

Of course we should be able to lose (we're very good at it!) and take it on the chin. But there's no denying our batting has been woeful for a long time now. I think we've passed 500 just 3 or 4 times in the last 4 years? We desperately need a player like the Cook of old who can bat all day. Root had that potential, but these days he converts very few 50s into 100s. On their day all our batsman can be superb, but we disintegrate as one so damn often, we're like a sandcastle when the tide comes in. It's just so horribly predictable!