A couple of names - Peter Ridsdale, Ken Bates - they are still involved in football clubs, despite their murky dealings, and the fact that Ridsdale has been banned from serving as a company director for 7 years. Where large amounts of money is involved it seems anything goes. For gods sake Blackpool has a sponsor that charges over 4000% interest on loans to people in an unregulated market, although with luck that will change soon.
We are literally back to the old days of Scrooge type money lenders, where people every week had to borrow to pay for the week before. They can dress it up with fancy advertising but it's just the same. Once in this system it's never ending.
What is the thing that has most made you despair over the last month? For me it was reading that Burma has now opened up its borders - and the "charities" are in there with their tear-jerking TV adverts to raise money for the poor starving children .................... and then reading that "Burma" have increased their contribution from £200,000 to £25,000,000 to get the Premier league shown via Sky TV. I give up.
I have just looked in the very lovely Mrs Godders' purse and found that she is even more hard up than me so that last sentence isn't completely true.
I really am starting to feel a if I am reliving my childhood. Real poverty abounds, we have a Scarlet Fever epidemic in the city and their is a dramatic rise in TB cases. There aren't enough houses and people are living in rooms and there have never been so many living on the street. I need a minor but important operation but have been told it is not a priority for the NHS so must pay for it myself. With £127 in the post Office FFS? Pay differentials are reaching Victorian proportions and greed amongst the capitalist classes is destroying the country. What has happened to all those politically active young people who were around when I was young? We need a revolution and the circumstances are ripe for one. To cap it all rickets has also started to appear.
Yep - I was chatting to my sister and we both reached the same conclusion, it's like being back in the 1970s again, but with a car.
The 1970's - 1999 wins on music........I can count the amount of bands on one hand that have made an impression in the last 12 years. Computers have ruined music.
1980-1999 I could possibly agree with. The thing is, a lot of good bands that are performing nowadays started back pre-99: Coldplay, Take That, the Pet Shop Boys, OMD and Sigur Ros for example. Then you get the Killers, they're good and are a 21st century band, Of Monsters and Men, Florence + The Machine, Noah and the Whale. I think the low point for music was about 2001-2004/5. It's been a lot better since. Nowadays, I think there's more in the way of good singers rather than good bands (especially if you don't consider Florence + The Machine a band): people like Amy Macdonald, KT Tunstall, Ellie Goulding, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Will Young, Nelly Furtado, Rihanna, Marina & The Diamonds, etc
My David, don't you worry, this cold world is not for you. So rest your head upon me, I have strength to carry you. Ghosts of the 20's rising, golden summers just holding you.
What a load of old pony, the 80' was dire. Music ended with the last waltz , only Weller and maybe one or two others can stand the test of time, but most stuff post tlw is shiete
So no-one else is into Eminem, Bruno Mars, Jay-Z, Drake, Rita Ora, Will.I.Am, Rihanna, Olly Murs, Labrinth or Alexander Rybak? I guess we all can unite, though, in hating Justin Beiber, and despising those twats in "One Direction"
I'd have to listen to most of them, to know the answer that Stewie! I see where Duckhunter is coming from, we all think the era we grew up in is the best. As time marches on, decades are remembered increasingly fondly. I think he's being a bit harsh on modern music though, there are some recent groups I think are very good. Stereolab have stood the test of time, Le Futur Pompiste, Broadcast and The Soundcarriers I like too. The music that is chart material always seems to hide the real goodies and these endless "talent" (was ever a word used more erroneously) shows will keep that tradition going for a long while yet.
Elvis, Abba, Celine Dione, The Beatles are all people from times gone by that I like. I see what you mean though- "modern" music in the UK is quite often techno/rap material!
Madness are as brilliant today as they were 30 years ago. Saw them at the O2 last Friday - great show.
Eminem has done some good songs (Lose Yourself, Sing for the Moment, Like Toy Soldiers, When I'm Gone, etc) but also some terrible songs. Bruno Mars is good, Marry You is my favourite of his. Jay-Z.... meh. Drake, can't recall any off the top of my head. Rita Ora, meh. Will.I.Am, well I like a couple of Black Eyed Peas songs: Where Is the Love and I've Got a Feeling if that counts. Rihanna is good, I used to dislike her but after releasing California King Bed, I've grown to like her, also like Who's That Girl, Take a Bow, Diamonds (weirdly), her chorus in the song Fly and one or two others although I do think Only Girl In the World is a terrible song. Olly Murs is amazing, he's done some corking songs: Please Don't Let Me Go, Thinking of Me, Heat Skips a Beat and probably my favourite Dance With Me Tonight. Labrinth, meh. Alexander Rybak, well Fairytale is a great song but I honestly don't know any of his other songs. But yes, I certainly don't like Justin Beiber or One Direction, although at least one of my nieces seem to be a big fan of them.
I'm a car and bike man who grew up in the noughties, so this is my kind of music. TURN UP THE BASS!!! [video=youtube;_kgUUmfU-2Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kgUUmfU-2Y[/video]
