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Old 27-11-2010, 21:52
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Two years, two laughable excuses for 'rock' music on the rock night. No Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Muse, Motorhead, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Muse, Oasis, Red Hot Chili Peppers,...I could go on.

They seem to have a crazy idea that just because a band/artist fall under the bracket 'rock', every song they write falls into that bracket! So as a result we had a couple of U2 dirges with no guitar, Wand Erection singing Joe Cocker's laughably cheesy 'You Are So Beautiful', and Cher singing Avril Lavigne.

Only songs on the night anyway resembling rock were Creep, I Love Rock N' Roll, Walk This Way (albeit a bastardised version) and Satisfaction (with brass replacing the guitar)
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Old 27-11-2010, 21:58
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cheryls song choices were mostly awful. wtf was that 1st song cher did????
1D were pathetic.
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Old 27-11-2010, 22:08
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Yeah. I mean I fully get that rock music spans many different genres - although I personally think that 'soft rock' is a blatant oxymoron - but X-Factor never breaks out of the mould of safe, radio rock. I actually got excited for a brief moment when it was rumoured that Matt would be doing Welcome to The Jungle :sleep:
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Old 27-11-2010, 22:09
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It also can't do Elton John, The Beatles, Guilty Pleasures, or anything else.
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Old 27-11-2010, 22:10
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i want to be your girlfriend,
is that a rock song, of course it is
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NOT
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Old 27-11-2010, 22:11
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Old 27-11-2010, 22:17
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They want to make it as palatable for the viewing public as they can. Hence the insipid song choice. Playing it safe in other words.
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Old 27-11-2010, 22:18
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Yeah. I mean I fully get that rock music spans many different genres - although I personally think that 'soft rock' is a blatant oxymoron - but X-Factor never breaks out of the mould of safe, radio rock. I actually got excited for a brief moment when it was rumoured that Matt would be doing Welcome to The Jungle :sleep:
Me too, I was tremendously excited by that prospect

I think we should have Gn'R week

Matt : Welcome to the Jungle
Wagner : Nightrain
One Direction: Mr Brownstone
Cher : Back off Bitch
Katie : Rocket Queen
Mary : You Could Be MIne
Rebecca : Paradise City (that should take her out of her comfort zone)

NO-ONE is allowed to do Sweet Child.
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Old 27-11-2010, 22:22
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Some songs you can get away with cutting to shreds but not a classic rock anthem.
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Old 27-11-2010, 22:23
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JessTheCat you made me laugh so much I thought I would have to dash to the loo - I would LOVE to hear Wand Erection do Mr Brownstone - I would pay to hear that!

Personally I would like an industrial and death metal themed night - a spot of Minstry, NIN, Slayer and Cannibal Corpse would be smashing.
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Old 27-11-2010, 22:25
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Me too, I was tremendously excited by that prospect

I think we should have Gn'R week

Matt : Welcome to the Jungle
Wagner : Nightrain
One Direction: Mr Brownstone
Cher : Back off Bitch
Katie : Rocket Queen
Mary : You Could Be MIne
Rebecca : Paradise City (that should take her out of her comfort zone)

NO-ONE is allowed to do Sweet Child.
Wagner would HAVE to do Sweet Child O' Mine (for Wagbo)
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Old 27-11-2010, 22:30
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Wagner would HAVE to do Sweet Child O' Mine (for Wagbo)
No, sorry, can't allow it - that poor song's taken more than it's fair share of punishment!!!

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Old 28-11-2010, 00:32
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Two years, two laughable excuses for 'rock' music on the rock night. No Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Muse, Motorhead, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Muse, Oasis, Red Hot Chili Peppers,...I could go on.
I was at a friends watching this years 'Rock night' (we weren't planning on this, she got a text saying that Wagner had done Creep and I was just about ready to RAGE). We were discussing Glee's Two-Birds-One-Stone approach to butchering The Beatles and AC/DC in one episode. I decided that they couldn't do much worse on X-Factor.

I needed the loo, so I went and washed my hands and had a look in the mirror.

When I returned, my friend said I looked ill. I had noticed that through my yellow jumper, I was wearing a Muse T-Shirt. I soon decided that "they couldn't do much worse on X-Factor", wasn't true.
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