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Nope, all clear on that front. My non cash carrying mate did however ask him if he accepted Apple Pay.

Is that an unpopular opinion? Some Status Quo songs are enjoyable.

I have a music opinion that I bet is more unpopular than that. Until his health stopped him from being able to play drums anymore, Phil Collins was a brilliant musician and he too has some good stuff on his albums. (And I found his autobiography Not Dead Yet a thumping good read). And Genesis were an excellent band that don't get the credit they deserve.

Actors who like telling us how they’re riddled with insecurities, terrified every time they have to perform, crippled with stage fright etc. Apparently they’re saying that despite ‘hating’ what they’re doing they will carry on doing it at a huge personal sacrifice ... for us.

Don’t bother.

If that’s how you feel either keep it to yourself or step aside and let someone who actually enjoys the job to take your place.

It's not really an opinion as such, but with several comments about different bands and types of music recently, I have to ask...

Am I the only one who just doesn't "get" the different genres of music? I was on the fringes of a conversation about grunge yesterday, and I have absolutely no idea what grunge is. I have no idea what any of these genres are. There's loads of music I like from just about every style that has ever existed, but out of the hundreds of singles I own there's probably only two or three where I could say what genre they are. I can name hundreds of artists whose work I've bought but if someone asks "Do you like [genre] music?" I can only answer "I have no f***ing idea".

I think I mostly get what the genres mean but I'm not fussed about them. I don't usually tend to define my tastes in music by genres.I just like... stuff.

Recently someone said a band were "maths rock". I had no idea what this was. The person who said it is genre-obsessed.

When once asked what type of music one of my favourite bands is, all I could think to say was indie-trance-gaze-electro-pop-rock.

I hate it when you say you didn't like a show or a performer, then someone else says it/they won an award in order to prove you are wrong I guess (see the Heathers thread). Awards mean nothing to me these days. Yes, I'm happy when my favourite show or actor wins one, but it doesn't prove anything; most are just a popularity contest.

Probably not an unpopular opinion, but it needed to be said.

I can’t tell the difference between grime and garage.

In layman's terms grime has rap vox and garage has sung vox.

Related to this: those who do it to 'prove' they are intellectually superior. (see Spice Girls thread). 'Oh I'm not wasting my time on that, I'm ignoring it in favour of this, because clearly you people are idiots and I am far, far more intelligent'

Ugh. 

Lol brilliant tonyloco

I reproduce Mr Coward’s lyrics below...

Why Must The Show Go On?
Noël Coward

The world for some years
Has been sodden with tears
On behalf of the Acting profession,
Each star playing a part
Seems to expect the 'Purple Heart',
It's unorthodox
To be born in a box
But it needn't become an obsession,
Let's hope we have no worse to plague us
Than two shows a night at Las Vegas.
When I think of physicians
And mathematicians
Who don't earn a quarter the dough,
When I look at the faces
Of people in Macy's
There's one thing I'm burning to know:
Refrain 1
Why must the show go on?
It can't be all that indispensable,
To me it really isn't sensible
On the whole
To play a leading role
While fighting those tears you can't control,
Why kick up your legs
When draining the dregs
Of sorrow's bitter cup?
Because you have read
Some idiot has said,
'The Curtain must go up'!
I'd like to know why a star takes bows
Having just returned from burying her spouse.
Brave boop-a-doopers,
Go home and dry your tears,
Gallant old troupers,
You've bored us all for years
And when you're so blue,
Wet through
And thoroughly woe-begone,
Why must the show go on?
Oh Mammy!
Why must the show go on?
Verse 2
We're asked to condole
With each tremulous soul
Who steps out to be loudly applauded,
Stars on opening nights
Sob when they see their names in lights,
Though people who act
As a matter of fact
Are financially amply rewarded,
It seems, while pursuing their calling,
Their suffering's simply appalling!
But butchers and bakers
And candlestick makers
Get little applause for their pains
And when I think of miners
And waiters in 'Diners'
One query for ever remains:
Refrain 2
Why must the show go on?
The rule is surely not immutable,
It might be wiser and more suitable
Just to close
If you are in the throes
Of personal grief and private woes.
Why stifle a sob
While doing your job
When, if you use your head,
You'd go out and grab
A comfortable cab
And go right home to bed?
Because you're not giving us much fun,
This 'Laugh Clown Laugh' routine's been overdone,
Hats off to Show Folks
For smiling when they're blue
But more comme-il-faut folks
Are sick of smiling through,
And if you're out cold,
Too old
And most of your teeth have gone,
Why must the show go on?
I sometimes wonder
Why must the show go on?
Refrain 3
Why must the show go on?
Why not announce the closing night of it?
The public seem to hate the sight of it,
Dear, and so
Why you should undergo
This terrible strain we'll never know.
We know that you're sad,
We know that you've had
A lot of storm and strife
But is it quite fair
To ask us to share
Your dreary private life?
We know you're trapped in a gilded cage
But for Heaven's sake relax and be your age,
Stop being gallant
And don't be such a bore,
Pack up your talent,
There's always plenty more
And if you lose hope
Take dope
And lock yourself in the John
Why must the show go on?
I'm merely asking
Why must the show go on?

Songwriters: Noel Coward / Noel Pierce Coward
Why Must The Show Go On? lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

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