Demon Wolf Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Ever polarizing but for me Robbie is mainstream when it is at its best. He is truly a phenomenal entertainer and performer and I am glad he is back, can't wait to check out the new album.The new single Candy is annoyingly catchy. Really nice brass and stringwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Absolute fucking dross. About the biggest wanker in the history of popular music that made fuckin' dreadful songs. A no life phoney fuckin' wannabe that is a joke to any right minded human being.Just a fat dancer from Stoke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzygirl Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 I don't like this new song to be honest but I do enjoy some of his stuff. I think I have a love/hatred feeling for him. But my favourite football team is awesome Lenny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 You don't count as Barca girl no more you Celta Vigo supporting turncoat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzygirl Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 You don't count as Barca girl no more you Celta Vigo supporting turncoat It's almost my hometown team...I just don't want them to fall to the 2nd division again!! And my Barça will win La Liga anyway. But the thread is about Robbie Williams!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Satanisk_Slakt Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 He is really, really great. My favourite song is Let Me Entertain You. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 I always used to wonder exactly who the fuck it was listening to Robbie Williams to make him popular. Thats what Robbie Williams is about, puuussssssssyyy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GivenToFly Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Escapology! I really, really, really love that album, and one of the tracks off it (Me and My Monkey) is my favorite song of that decade. He was phenomenal live around that time too. There are a bunch of other good songs scattered among his releases up to 2005. And the albums are decent. Everything since - I've actually listened to each of his albums at least once - has been pretty bad. He's been touring with that boy band lately, making a gazillion £. Good for him, I suppose, but I don't really care for him as musician anymore. He's doing a few shows at the O2 this month, I might have gone but the tickets were extremely expensive, and coupled with how badly diluted his discography is these days I decided to pass.I thought his persona back around 99-04 was hilarious. He really embraced his success and played the whole "I'm big!" thing beautifully. And he really was massive! He was probably Europe's biggest star at the time. Shame he couldn't maintain it.But anyway - Escapology (all of it), Live Summer 2003 (all of it), Angels obviously, Millenium, It's Only Us, Radio, Make Me Pure, Advertising Space... The version of Come Undone off LS'03 is mindblowing and one of the top live recordings I know of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Drama Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Absolute fucking dross. About the biggest wanker in the history of popular music that made fuckin' dreadful songs. A no life phoney fuckin' wannabe that is a joke to any right minded human being.This. Absolute bollocks for tedious housewives, the local bogans and people with no taste in music that need something to listen to to make sure their ears are working. When I think of how shit music got around the early 2000s, I think Robbie Williams.Just a fat dancer from Stoke. Classic line. And why the fuck is he in a video with Effy from Skins? She was probably shitting her pants when he was big. Ew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Escapology! I really, really, really love that album, and one of the tracks off it (Me and My Monkey) is my favorite song of that decade. He was phenomenal live around that time too. There are a bunch of other good songs scattered among his releases up to 2005. And the albums are decent. Everything since - I've actually listened to each of his albums at least once - has been pretty bad. He's been touring with that boy band lately, making a gazillion £. Good for him, I suppose, but I don't really care for him as musician anymore. He's doing a few shows at the O2 this month, I might have gone but the tickets were extremely expensive, and coupled with how badly diluted his discography is these days I decided to pass.I thought his persona back around 99-04 was hilarious. He really embraced his success and played the whole "I'm big!" thing beautifully. And he really was massive! He was probably Europe's biggest star at the time. Shame he couldn't maintain it.But anyway - Escapology (all of it), Live Summer 2003 (all of it), Angels obviously, Millenium, It's Only Us, Radio, Make Me Pure, Advertising Space... The version of Come Undone off LS'03 is mindblowing and one of the top live recordings I know of.Y'know...i didn't think it was that bad with you, i really didn't. I mean you're a Stones fan, there's gotta be something there...Robbie Williams, really, seriously? OK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zint Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Absolute fucking dross. About the biggest wanker in the history of popular music that made fuckin' dreadful songs. A no life phoney fuckin' wannabe that is a joke to any right minded human being.Just a fat dancer from Stoke.I wasn't even going to open this thread, but when I saw len posted I couldn't resist.As usual, the lad is spot on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Drama Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Absolute fucking dross. About the biggest wanker in the history of popular music that made fuckin' dreadful songs. A no life phoney fuckin' wannabe that is a joke to any right minded human being.Just a fat dancer from Stoke.I wasn't even going to open this thread, but when I saw len posted I couldn't resist.As usual, the lad is spot on. He's known around your way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GivenToFly Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Escapology! I really, really, really love that album, and one of the tracks off it (Me and My Monkey) is my favorite song of that decade. He was phenomenal live around that time too. There are a bunch of other good songs scattered among his releases up to 2005. And the albums are decent. Everything since - I've actually listened to each of his albums at least once - has been pretty bad. He's been touring with that boy band lately, making a gazillion £. Good for him, I suppose, but I don't really care for him as musician anymore. He's doing a few shows at the O2 this month, I might have gone but the tickets were extremely expensive, and coupled with how badly diluted his discography is these days I decided to pass.I thought his persona back around 99-04 was hilarious. He really embraced his success and played the whole "I'm big!" thing beautifully. And he really was massive! He was probably Europe's biggest star at the time. Shame he couldn't maintain it.But anyway - Escapology (all of it), Live Summer 2003 (all of it), Angels obviously, Millenium, It's Only Us, Radio, Make Me Pure, Advertising Space... The version of Come Undone off LS'03 is mindblowing and one of the top live recordings I know of.Y'know...i didn't think it was that bad with you, i really didn't. I mean you're a Stones fan, there's gotta be something there...Robbie Williams, really, seriously? OK I'm sorry, am I not working class enough for you?I just listened to about 10 minutes of Ramones (57 full songs) and it was alright. Better now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Working class? Are you feeling a bit insecure petal, who said anything about working class? And how would The Ramones make you more working class, they were from the suburbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GivenToFly Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Nah, the two lines are unrelated.I was reading through some older threads (Miser stuff, "what happened to rocknroll, 90s, 70s, 60, so much better!" and you keep going on about the working class roots of the genre and the like). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Swing When You're Winning is an amazing album, one of those ones that kinda captures a time in your life for me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GivenToFly Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Swing When You're Winning is an amazing album, one of those ones that kinda captures a time in your life for me...I don't like that one. At all. I can't stand that genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzygirl Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 My favourite song is probably Come undone... especially live. Let me entertain you, Angels and Millenium are also enjoyable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 (edited) I like how Angels becomes Fool on the Hill by The Beatles, that "she offers me protection" bit is pretty much "and nobody wants to know him" from Fool on the Hill, in terms of the melody of it.Bit of useless information there for ya He robbed the writer of that song too apparently, didn't get his dues on it. Edited November 5, 2012 by sugaraylen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinaski Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 (edited) He robbed the writer of that song too apparently, didn't get his dues on it.Yeah I saw a thing on T.V that mentioned that once. Showed some pretty funny clips of him stammering over how and when he came up with it. Er...I dreamt it!When I was younger a girl told me Robbie Williams was the greatest entertainer on the planet. We weren't like five or something. I'm talking in our teens. That was enough out of her for me. I don't care how well developed you are for our age. Get away from me. Edited November 5, 2012 by Chinaski Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Towelie Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 (edited) He got lucky, with that shitty, saccharine piano ballad (Angels) tugging on the heartstrings of tone-deaf middle aged housewives in the UK. Without that song, his solo career would've faded into obscurity.Besides, Mark Owen's solo music was always better. And he doesn't have a smug face you want to punch either. Edited November 5, 2012 by Towelie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 For some reason he never quite broke through in America except with a couple of hits - maybe he likes it that way. He's good but I don't know if I'd call him phenomenal, up against Elton or Jagger? He's good in the way George Michael's good or Katy Perry's good. I'm sure Katy and Robbie will wind up hooking up at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzygirl Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Besides, Mark Owen's solo music was always better. And he doesn't have a smug face you want to punch either.Disagree. I always wanted to punch Mark Owen in the face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 For some reason he never quite broke through in America except with a couple of hits - maybe he likes it that way.He's good but I don't know if I'd call him phenomenal, up against Elton or Jagger?He's good in the way George Michael's good or Katy Perry's good. I'm sure Katy and Robbie will wind up hooking up at some point.Dalsh man, Elton and Jagger can actually fuckin like, do something, they have a talent, this guy was like 3rd weenie from the right in Englands answer to BSB, he can't sing, he can't dance, he don't play an instrument, he ain't worthy of mention with the likes of Ol' Uncle Mick and Elton (and i don't even like Elton John). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zint Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Absolute fucking dross. About the biggest wanker in the history of popular music that made fuckin' dreadful songs. A no life phoney fuckin' wannabe that is a joke to any right minded human being.Just a fat dancer from Stoke.I wasn't even going to open this thread, but when I saw len posted I couldn't resist.As usual, the lad is spot on. He's known around your way?Not on a "he's a living god" level like some places.We did have to endure his the-whole-world-loves-me phase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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