Music's 25 Most Dastardly Villains
Thursday, May 29, 2008
It's a list that only Blender magazine could dream up: 25 of music's most reprehensible liars, cheaters, scammers, and shysters. Blender.com editor Mike Errico reveals the chief offenders.
Our blog: John Schaefer on music villains
Our blog: John Schaefer on music villains
Comments [12]
Where's Sid Vicious? Heroin addict, murderer, overall disagreeable punk (in the old sense, not the trendy music sense)...
I remember protesting against the PMRC back in the 80's, but now, as the mother of an 11 year old daughter with an Ipod, i am THRILLED to know that the 'explicit' songs can be bypassed for the 'clean' ones....THANKS, TIPPER, YOU ROCK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu52ISQ89e4&feature=related
hey, not that I mind sex romps and booty shaking, I just need more "Art"? - more "Soul"? if you will - and definitely need talent over posers.
It's funny hearing Maharishi mentioned, I grew up in Fairfield, Iowa and attended his school there in the 80s and 90s...today Moby, Donovan, and David Lynch are visiting and playing at Fairfield's prom. Case in point?
Mike Love! Among his more obvious sins, there's "Kokomo." Ugh.
sorry, that was re: ike turner.
the music industry! you, john, you! remember last week. you think we don't listen everyday? own up!
Ahh...white people, they're the worst. ugh, what a clown this guy is.
Here’s a blaring (unwarranted) addition: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The charge that he was taking advantage of female devotees—-which resulted in the Beatles leaving the ashram—-turned out to be a lie feed by a jealous Beatles hanger-on. George Harrison years later apologized to Maharishi. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi#The_Beatles
Get your facts straight, Blender.
Dear John:
[you may not want to read all of this aloud!)
Glad you added Louis (Lou) Pearlman, head of Trans Con - who ruined a lot of people; fortunately our firm (which has provided intellectual property services for the Backstreet Boys and Lou's other bands throughout the world) was less badly dented then others.
Hi, John! I've met you at some Producers' Circle events - I work with Ivan Zimmerman, and I'm the trademark attorney who's been working to protect the SOUNDCHECK trademark (along with my litigation colleague, Cathy Shore).
All the best,
Nancy Dwyer Chapman
LACKENBACH SIEGEL LLP
Intellectual Property Law since 1923
One Chase Road
Scarsdale, NY 10583
www.Lackenbach.com
tel.: +1-914-723-4300
direct telephone: +1-914-723-7930
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e-mail: chapman@LSLLP.com
Dastardly villains? What about MTV, only slightly more despicable than Clear Channel... in that they retooled music from socially conscious talent into a 99 percent image/appearance-driven facebook, then piloted youth culture into a comic descent of juvenile sex romps and booty shaking...
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