Amy Winehouse
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Oh dear. Makes Zammo hoovering smack up off the floor look dignified.
I feel more sorry for her backing band who can clearly see that they're going to be out of work in the very near future...
.......anyone who thinks that's bad never saw the mondays in the 80's.....
at least SWR had the sense to have a sheet of his lyrics in his back pocket..........
Grim. Just goes to show what a fucked up "industry" the music biz is. In any other profession if you perpetually showed up to work high on more drugs than a Glaxo factory you'd be sacked on the spot. Instead she's shoved out on a promotional tour to dodder around a stage like a pissed 80 year-old.
The record label are obviously desperate for her to get another album out regardless. If she karks it along the way they probably have several "commemorative" reissues lined up.
Can't stand her music personally.. very contrived.
She is a fucking minging skank with not a single gram of talent in her whatsoever. The fact that she is a role model for so many just depresses and disgusts me. The fact that, thanks to her, the Zutons now have one of the most annoyingly over played songs ever (albeit sadly not done in their style of course) rankles so much.
Her and Pete Cockerty should both have died of whatever their never-ending addictions were, end of story.
Useless wastes of spaces the both of them, fuckers.
I can't say I have ever despised two people as much as I despise these two.
The lyrics of that Cure song "Shiver And Shake" comes to mind the moment I see these two mentioned in the press any time.
As you can see, I have never dispensed with so many smilies in one post - ever......
I hope it's the only time as well.!
amurr586 wrote: So you don't like her then, Eck?
Couldn't figure out which side of the fence you were on.
johnny wrote: Amy Housewine
Best name for a tribute act ever
Oh, I don't know - there are some great Rocket Mick tribute acts out there... Go by all sorts of names... 
Snorri xxx
Snorrimon wrote:
johnny wrote: Amy Housewine
Best name for a tribute act ever
Oh, I don't know - there are some great Rocket Mick tribute acts out there... Go by all sorts of names...
Snorri xxx
and some very BAD ones.
johnny wrote: Amy Housewine
Best name for a tribute act ever
Do they serve in Mils or gallons?
MONTY wrote: I feel sorry for the fans,that's an hour and a half of their life they'll never claim back.
More like six years of gullible fan worship.
Skank!
MY dog's poo looks and smells better than Ms Winoshithouse.
I was in a HMV store today and just inside the entrance in the most prominent position facing customers as they entered the shop was a sort of mini shrine to Amy Winehouse with a poster of her taken back when she looked a little healthier and the dates 1983-2011 printed on it, of course this was surrounded by copies of her cds for any ghouls who felt a sudden urge to purchase them now that she is dead. The fact that HMV are so shamelessly prepared to cash in on her death is disgusting though not surprising but maybe if Amy herself could have realised how her untimely end would have been exploited by such as HMV it might have given her some added incentive to kick the booze and survive just to spite them, not that she planned to die at this age but clearly it was something that her record label were prepared for and probably secretly welcomed. Also a prominent music journalist here was on two seperate radio stations hyping her talent this week and talking about her legacy,I couldn't help wondering he is getting a little backhander off her record company for doing this.
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote: I feel more sorry for her backing band who can clearly see that they're going to be out of work in the very near future...
Fuck! Have you got tonights lottery numbers?
cranelane wrote: I was in a HMV store today and just inside the entrance in the most prominent position facing customers as they entered the shop was a sort of mini shrine to Amy Winehouse with a poster of her taken back when she looked a little healthier and the dates 1983-2011 printed on it, of course this was surrounded by copies of her cds for any ghouls who felt a sudden urge to purchase them now that she is dead. The fact that HMV are so shamelessly prepared to cash in on her death is disgusting though not surprising but maybe if Amy herself could have realised how her untimely end would have been exploited by such as HMV it might have given her some added incentive to kick the booze and survive just to spite them, not that she planned to die at this age but clearly it was something that her record label were prepared for and probably secretly welcomed. Also a prominent music journalist here was on two seperate radio stations hyping her talent this week and talking about her legacy,I couldn't help wondering he is getting a little backhander off her record company for doing this.
Why didn't they go the whole hog and have loads of beer and wine bottles erected around the CD "shrine" like all of those odiously tacky fans did outside her house armed with loads of bottles of booze...... If I were her parents I would have gone out and laid waste to them little twats with an Uzi for not knowing any better. Tossers the lot of 'em!
johnny wrote:
After
People talk about the crack and the booze, but judging by that photo she should really have thrown that ring away and got the fuck out of Mordor.
I think when alls said it done, although it's no real surprise that Amy's life ended so prematurely, it's a stark warning of the dangers of drink and drugs and how they can lead you into a downward spiral.
As the song goes "hey now what you doing? Don't go down the road to ruin"
cranelane wrote: *snip*
Seriously, are you really that shocked? This is what the record industry has done and always will do. A dead star is equally as profitable if not more so than a live one. Countless examples over the years from Elvis to Cobain have proven this, not to mention our very own Ian C.
I saw the same thing in another HMV last week and didn't bat an eyelid. It happens all the time. It's not based around morals, never has been and never will be. I think it's a tad repugnant too but it's a bit late in the day to get precious about it. I also don't think that if she had seen the shrine in advance it would have changed her course of action. She'd already had one or two drug/booze related near-death experiences which would no doubt have been a hell of a lot more effective in changing her mind than a rack of CDs. She was only going one way.
But... people lap it up. Always have and always will hence Winehouse's records re-entering the top 40 this week. The record labels would argue they're only providing what public want. I hate to say it but if Winehouse's family wanted post-death promotion toned down they probably could have demanded the label and/or outlets observe a little restraint. They clearly haven't but the royalties will roll into their bank accounts so I doubt there will be much moaning about some crappy HMV shrine.
Just saying, like.
amurr586 wrote:
cranelane wrote: *snip*
Seriously, are you really that shocked? This is what the record industry has done and always will do. A dead star is equally as profitable if not more so than a live one. Countless examples over the years from Elvis to Cobain have proven this, not to mention our very own Ian C.
I saw the same thing in another HMV last week and didn't bat an eyelid. It happens all the time. It's not based around morals, never has been and never will be. I think it's a tad repugnant too but it's a bit late in the day to get precious about it. I also don't think that if she had seen the shrine in advance it would have changed her course of action. She'd already had one or two drug/booze related near-death experiences which would no doubt have been a hell of a lot more effective in changing her mind than a rack of CDs. She was only going one way.
But... people lap it up. Always have and always will hence Winehouse's records re-entering the top 40 this week. The record labels would argue they're only providing what public want. I hate to say it but if Winehouse's family wanted post-death promotion toned down they probably could have demanded the label and/or outlets observe a little restraint. They clearly haven't but the royalties will roll into their bank accounts so I doubt there will be much moaning about some crappy HMV shrine.
Just saying, like.
But the people lapping it up now are doing so just because she is dead,is that not a bit odd? I am not so naive as to think that HMV would have hid all of her cds in case anyone thought they were cashing in on her demise but the displays they put in their shops were tacky and in poor taste and the fact that it is no suprise doesn't make it any less so. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised but they could have shown a little more restraint. Also,it is a shame that such cynical behaviour is accepted as the norm in the music industry.
cranelane wrote:
amurr586 wrote:
cranelane wrote: *snip*
Seriously, are you really that shocked? This is what the record industry has done and always will do. A dead star is equally as profitable if not more so than a live one. Countless examples over the years from Elvis to Cobain have proven this, not to mention our very own Ian C.
I saw the same thing in another HMV last week and didn't bat an eyelid. It happens all the time. It's not based around morals, never has been and never will be. I think it's a tad repugnant too but it's a bit late in the day to get precious about it. I also don't think that if she had seen the shrine in advance it would have changed her course of action. She'd already had one or two drug/booze related near-death experiences which would no doubt have been a hell of a lot more effective in changing her mind than a rack of CDs. She was only going one way.
But... people lap it up. Always have and always will hence Winehouse's records re-entering the top 40 this week. The record labels would argue they're only providing what public want. I hate to say it but if Winehouse's family wanted post-death promotion toned down they probably could have demanded the label and/or outlets observe a little restraint. They clearly haven't but the royalties will roll into their bank accounts so I doubt there will be much moaning about some crappy HMV shrine.
Just saying, like.
But the people lapping it up now are doing so just because she is dead,is that not a bit odd? I am not so naive as to think that HMV would have hid all of her cds in case anyone thought they were cashing in on her demise but the displays they put in their shops were tacky and in poor taste and the fact that it is no suprise doesn't make it any less so. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised but they could have shown a little more restraint. Also,it is a shame that such cynical behaviour is accepted as the norm in the music industry.
But that's the kinda world that we live in today. Death sells. Diana, the norweigan nutter, the media give it mass publicity and the public lap it up.
Of course, we can use our own instincts and not buy the papers, merchandise. I certainly wouldn't rush out and buy Amy's albums, not because I don't care that a talented lass has gone and her family must be going through he'll, but because I had a download of back to black and didnt rate it.
cranelane wrote:
amurr586 wrote:
cranelane wrote: *snip*
Seriously, are you really that shocked? This is what the record industry has done and always will do. A dead star is equally as profitable if not more so than a live one. Countless examples over the years from Elvis to Cobain have proven this, not to mention our very own Ian C.
I saw the same thing in another HMV last week and didn't bat an eyelid. It happens all the time. It's not based around morals, never has been and never will be. I think it's a tad repugnant too but it's a bit late in the day to get precious about it. I also don't think that if she had seen the shrine in advance it would have changed her course of action. She'd already had one or two drug/booze related near-death experiences which would no doubt have been a hell of a lot more effective in changing her mind than a rack of CDs. She was only going one way.
But... people lap it up. Always have and always will hence Winehouse's records re-entering the top 40 this week. The record labels would argue they're only providing what public want. I hate to say it but if Winehouse's family wanted post-death promotion toned down they probably could have demanded the label and/or outlets observe a little restraint. They clearly haven't but the royalties will roll into their bank accounts so I doubt there will be much moaning about some crappy HMV shrine.
Just saying, like.
But the people lapping it up now are doing so just because she is dead,is that not a bit odd?
Ahem. I would point the good men and women of the jury to the case of one 'Joy Division'. Prior to untimely demise of singer-man = post-punk band with unexceptional sales. After domestic incident with washing line: hit single and bleak album in Top 10 - back when these things REALLY mattered.
You are kidding yourself if you think anyone in 2011 would have even heard of Joy Division if they'd just split up after 'Closer' was released and Curtis had got a job as an accountant.
The same goes for (say) Jeff Buckley, too, who I saw play live numerous times in half-empty venues despite fawning press attention.
No-one really liked him until he was dead. I just remember this pretty boy with and girly voice and some sad songs - ten-a-penny innit. Now he's "Saint Jeff". 
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote: The same goes for (say) Jeff Buckley, too, who I saw play live numerous times in half-empty venues despite fawning press attention.
No-one really liked him until he was dead. I just remember this pretty boy with and girly voice and some sad songs - ten-a-penny innit. Now he's "Saint Jeff".
I guess it depends on the artist,if there is potential to cash in it will happen,whereas when the chap from Boney M died recently there was no great spike in record sales there.. (it helps if you have a good looking corpse)
I wasn't around as a fan in 1980 but from what I have read Factory after the death of I.C. released the single and album and apart from Still the following year they got on with other business and it wasn't until the release of the Joy Division Substance collection that the flogging a dead horse accusations began to stick. However if you gave a music fan unfamiliar with music from that time copies of the 2 Joy Division albums and say music from around the time by Bauhaus or whatever other bands were at the same level as J.D. then and without telling this music fan anything about the history but asked him which band does he or she think have made the greater impact and are still highly regarded I guess the answer would still be Joy Division. Having said that how many bands from the post punk era apart from J.D. have had the movie treatment..?
cranelane wrote:
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote: The same goes for (say) Jeff Buckley, too, who I saw play live numerous times in half-empty venues despite fawning press attention.
No-one really liked him until he was dead. I just remember this pretty boy with and girly voice and some sad songs - ten-a-penny innit. Now he's "Saint Jeff".
I guess it depends on the artist,if there is potential to cash in it will happen,whereas when the chap from Boney M died recently there was no great spike in record sales there.. (it helps if you have a good looking corpse)
I wasn't around as a fan in 1980 but from what I have read Factory after the death of I.C. released the single and album and apart from Still the following year they got on with other business and it wasn't until the release of the Joy Division Substance collection that the flogging a dead horse accusations began to stick. However if you gave a music fan unfamiliar with music from that time copies of the 2 Joy Division albums and say music from around the time by Bauhaus or whatever other bands were at the same level as J.D. then and without telling this music fan anything about the history but asked him which band does he or she think have made the greater impact and are still highly regarded I guess the answer would still be Joy Division. Having said that how many bands from the post punk era apart from J.D. have had the movie treatment..?
U2 is the only one I can name.
You could play this game all day - think how (even more) deified The Stone Roses would be if Ian Brown had been run over by a tram in 1990 (and think how easily those movie titles write themselves: "I Wanna be Adored" , "I Am the Resurrection" etc.) Or if Noel Gallagher had snorted his way to oblivion circa "Wonderwall" (biopic title: "Live Forever").
Hell, there'd probably be a film about Jesus fucking Jones if Mike Edwards had electrocuted himself in 1989.... 
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote: You could play this game all day - think how (even more) deified The Stone Roses would be if Ian Brown had been run over by a tram in 1990 (and think how easily those movie titles write themselves: "I Wanna be Adored" , "I Am the Resurrection" etc.) Or if Noel Gallagher had snorted his way to oblivion circa "Wonderwall" (biopic title: "Live Forever").
Hell, there'd probably be a film about Jesus fucking Jones if Mike Edwards had electrocuted himself in 1989....
Pity ALAN BRADLEY couldn't sing as good as RITA
Exactly! If Bob Wratten from the motherfucking Field Mice had been dragged into his dual cassette player and chewed up in 1991 whilst making a lovelorn compilation tape for a girl he held hands with once in school 15 years before we'd all own the blockbusting film on fucking Blu Ray.
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote: ...there'd probably be a film about Jesus fucking Jones...
Somebody always has to take it too far 
I wonder has casting for the Winehouse biopic commenced yet,to be titled "The Amy Winehouse Experience"? Any suggestions?
cranelane wrote: I wonder has casting for the Winehouse biopic commenced yet,to be titled "The Amy Winehouse Experience"? Any suggestions?
Don't even get me started.
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote: Exactly! If Bob Wratten from the motherfucking Field Mice had been dragged into his dual cassette player and chewed up in 1991 whilst making a lovelorn compilation tape for a girl he held hands with once in school 15 years before we'd all own the blockbusting film on fucking Blu Ray.
When Mo(u)rning Comes to Town...
Snorri xxx
Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote: Exactly! If Bob Wratten from the motherfucking Field Mice had been dragged into his dual cassette player and chewed up in 1991 whilst making a lovelorn compilation tape for a girl he held hands with once in school 15 years before we'd all own the blockbusting film on fucking Blu Ray.
Can't agree with you about Joy Division vanishing into obscurity without Ian's death, though. To be sure, the myth had a powerful effect, but those two albums (and accompanying singles) are still genius: thirty years later none of their countless pale imitations has been able to touch them. There would've been no movies, sure, but there haven't been any Velvet Underground biopics either.
But...... it's fucking Amy Winohouse we're talking about here and the sad reality of the matter is that we will now NEVER be able to escape her drecky muzak piping out wherever we go cos everybody's gone arse over tit over buying up as much of the skank's records as they can to keep her at number one forever - and possibly for even longer than fuckin' Adele has been sat up there.
A truly frightening prospect.
It's almost like Lennon being shot all over again judging from some people's overhysterical reactions to her premature passing.....
The South Wank Show special surely is just around the corner....
