I'm referring to the endless articles I'm seeing posts by the Guardian over this 'now controversial' song. If people are that ****ing bothered about Bob Geldof and the way he is doing things, then ****ing stop whining and raise funds in some other way. You know, actually do something productive, to further the cause of about something your are purportedly annoyed about.
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I'm referring to the endless articles I'm seeing posts by the Guardian over this 'now controversial' song. If people are that ****ing bothered about Bob Geldof and the way he is doing things, then ****ing stop whining and raise funds in some other way. You know, actually do something productive, to further the cause of about something your are purportedly annoyed about.
Personally I think rereleasing the same song is a bit of a joke. Make a new one for gods sake. If they can't be bothered then why on earth should I.
As far as Ebola is concerned, perhaps if people like Bono paid their fair share of taxes, then foreign aid would be significantly higher and more help would get to the right people at the right time, not singing the same old tune after the horse has bolted.
I've decided I'm not going to be picking this thing with you Castiel. Not in Geldof's topic anyway.
As a self confessed Queen maniac you will of course be ultimately right, even if it clashes somewhat with what Dimple, or I, or Roger Taylor, or Freddie might remember.
As part of peace treaty, I promise next time I'm in Stoke I'll take Dimple out for a beer and refresh his memory, we'll go through few of the milestone records prior to The Works on his ipod - or at least through Flash Gordon and Hot Space - in their entirety. I'm sure afterwards he'll be able to correctly recollect, as I do now, that Queen's career in the first half of the eighties was indeed going just fine, no revival was needed and their Live Aid performance wasn't a surprise to anyone, exactly as you said.
Now, stop moaning folks, the song might be old and played, yes - there are bigger problems in the world or at home, but the cause is still good enough to chuck 99p at. Check out recut of all four Band Aid videos (even the one no one remembers, with Stock Aitken and Waterman stable):
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I don't know about anyone else… but after all this. I find the 1984 version tainted by this recent mess.
Nope. Never. Apart from the one as you said. I could only take to some of their classics. Overall, No.
Nope. Never. Apart from the one as you said. I could only take to some of their classics. Overall, No.
Sarcasm doesn't become anyone. Least of all you. Also no one said Queen's career was as successful in the later part of 80s as it was in the 70s, particularly in the U.S. The 1980s kicked off with The Game, Queen's most successful album in the US, But it certainly wasn't Live Aid that revived it, A Kind of Magic charted worse in the US than The Works and the tour that accompanied remained a European Tour. It was Freddie Mercury's death in 1991 that ironically revived their US fortunes, Their European fortunes were pretty stable throughout the 80s both before and after Live Aid.
Queen made Live Aid, not the other way around. The career of Queen was pretty stable throughout the 1980s with some albums being more successful than others as Queen experimented with different sounds (why Dimple probably thinks they were flagging, him being a hard rock guy rather than the synth pop rock they tried in the early 80s) I can see why the Live Aid performance reinvigorated the band members, but that's not what was said. To say Live Aid saved Queen is balls.
Actually you would be better off donating your 99p directed to one of the NGOs actually working in West Africa. It would then go direct to those who need the money rather than into the pockets of Geldof et al for their administration and organisation cut first.
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I would like that but if you make me listen to Flash Gordon and The Works I will have to kill you.
And yes, Queen made Live Aid, nobody is disputing that.
I'll tell you another band it also revived the careers of - Status Quo.
The year before I was at Milton Keynes watching their final gig (I also have the video) and then Geldof asked them to reform to open Live Aid and now we can't get rid of them.
Quite funny because Status Quo lost it for money when they released Rockin All Over The World (it was awful) but it was the most perfect song to kick off Live Aid.
WHY DID I WRITE THAT, somebody will come along and pick that apart by using Google.
Status Quo circumstances are totally different to Queen however. Personally I think you are attributing criticisms of Live 8 to Live Aid as well confusing the relative success of one or some artists with all of them.
And it's not picking it apart, it's disagreeing with it and explaining why, which seems to be a crime in these parts.
But, the Great Rock God Dimple knows it all. So yeah, Queen were rubbish before Live Aid, and amazing after Live Aid, so they should have donated all their money from A Kind of Magic and record sales after their performance on Live Aid to Live Aid as without Live Aid and Bob Geldof, Queen were dead in the water...
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Even U2 think Rattle and Hum is where they disappeared up their own backsides in the 80s, it's an odd choice for two of you to pick it out as their career highlight.
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Right, let's get this thread back on topic.
do you make a lot of your decisions based on what Bob can be bothered to do?
Only ones that Bob is asking (or rather telling) me to do.
Nice to see that the media focus has moved well and truly from the disease and the suffering of the patients who have been unfortunate to have it and onto the pros and cons of aged musicians.
It was getting a bit tiring though tbh this is hardly the biggest threat that humanity has faced and in the space of almost a year we are still left with < 10000 deaths. I am sure the OcUK google brigade can quickly find out how many died of TB, malaria and malnutrition in that time.
Ebola is pretty easy to solve from a community point of view:
Stop eating bats and monkeys
Don't treat infected people if your skills are a bit **** as you too will get ill
Stop touching dead people who have blood flowing out of every orifice.
It's that simple. To support people who do that is to fight against an evolutionary pressure to remove stupidity.
It was getting a bit tiring though tbh this is hardly the biggest threat that humanity has faced and in the space of almost a year we are still left with < 10000 deaths. I am sure the OcUK google brigade can quickly find out how many died of TB, malaria and malnutrition in that time.
Ebola is pretty easy to solve from a community point of view:
Stop eating bats and monkeys
Don't treat infected people if your skills are a bit **** as you too will get ill
Stop touching dead people who have blood flowing out of every orifice.
It's that simple. To support people who do that is to fight against an evolutionary pressure to remove stupidity.
That was my sentiment.
Surely it's a fight against ignorance, not stupidity?
They have had enough community input and information to have moved it from purely not knowing ie ignorance to just being downright stubborn ie stupid.
Health promotion has come a long way over there in getting the message out gone are the days where you handed condoms out and they hung them above the door to their abode to stop pregnancy (true story).