Nominations please for Biggest Act of Musical Treason.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

We're talking the lot here, folks. Sellouts, Whores, Traitors all.
My nomination goes to Feargal Sharkey. In the Undertones he was a pop-punk poet. As a solo artist? A Good Heart may be hard to find, but clearly bland, watered down soul-pap is not.

Oh, and as for Liz Phair? You weren't that good to begin with, and you know what? You're thirty-six, Liz. Ever heard of the term age-appropriate dress?

[GumboYaYa]

1. IMO there is no greater musical treason than the BeeGees doing

Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.

[mac56]

3. That was the first thing I thought of when I read this headline.

Don't absolve Peter Frampton from blame, though.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Yeah, I think we need a Rock and Roll Nuremberg for that abomination.

[mac56]

11. Oh God! George Burns as "Mr. Kite"?!

Yank out my eyeballs right now.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

19. Mean Mr Mustard. Frankie Howerd.

Terrifying.

And as for Aerosmith....

[GumboYaYa]

12. Please forgive me for excluding Frampton and all others

involved in this gross abomination. My scorn extends to them as well.

[mac56]

14. Forgiven, and forgotten.

Go and sin no more.

;-)

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Anybody Involved In That Train Wreck. . .

. . .deserves the same scorn. Not just the BeeGees. All of 'em.
The Professor

[PVnRT]

2. Chicago

Started out as a decent, avant-garde, good band, then turned into super-wuss sellouts in the early 1980's.

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. The other members of Dead Kennedys suing Jello Biafra

because he wouldn't license "Holiday in Cambodia" for a Dockers commercial, then once the courts granted their record catalog to the three other members, went on tour with Brandon Cruz as the singer but advertized it as a reunion tour.

Heretics! Treasonous bastards!

[vi5]

9. Yeah, that's pretty bad....and the Butthole Surfers suing

Touch and Go Records, which is by all accounts one of the most fair and decent independent labels in existence.

Musically speaking, Brian Baker's days in Junkyard were pretty treasonous.

[Fenris]

16. GRRR! Yes! Thanks to those assholes, I can't by DK CDs.

'Cuz if it's on Manifesto, I won't buy it. I won't support Klaus Fluoride. I don't care how much I want those CDs. I'll stick with my tapes. FUCKERS!

[BigMcLargehuge]

20. check used stores

I've always seen a couple of the Alternatice Tentacles released kicking around

[GOPisEvil]

21. Yeah...come up to Cheapo in Austin...

Buy stuff used.

Let me know when you do - I'm always up for a Cheapo trip! :D

[Fenris]

26. I hear good things about Cheapo

I'll let you know when I come up. :D

[Loonman]

35. eBay

DKs discs on AT pop up on eBay as well.

[Burma Jones]

7. Rod Stewart (n/t)

[Loonman]

8. Bowie in the 1980s

Utter crap.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. I can narrow that down to four words. Never Let Me Down.

Most Ironic Title Ever.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Scary Monsters Was Crap?!?!?!?

Huh? That album has an astounding array of styles, almost all of which were clearly not intended for mass consumption.

Let's Dance, i'll grant you. That's a little mainstream for David, but i don't buy the pre-Let's Dance 80's stuff was crap.
The Professor

[Screaming Lord Byron]

23. The Shark was jumped with Tonight, and was continued to be jumped

until The Buddha of Suburbia / Jump They Say.

[Loonman]

24. "Let's Dance" and post

Bowie himself even apologized for it.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. That, I Can Accept

I agree that he went off the rails for a while. He was no longer in the avant garde.

But, the stuff pre-Let's Dance was still was he was trying to be David Bowie. Must have gotten lazy for a while.
The Professor

[MissMillie]

13. Natalie Cole polluting her dad's amazing voice and style

As someone here put it last week: "Unforgiveable"

[Richardo]

43. We're on the same wavelength, MissMille ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

...that was my thought when I saw the thread title.

BTW that may have been me who used the "Unforgiveable" line ;-)

[underpants]

15. How about every third song on the radio being a cover?

Counting Crows cover of "Paved Paradise" is waaaaaaaay up there too.

[mac56]

18. Especially on country stations.

Lame-ass colorless covers of pop tunes abound.

[TOhioLiberal]

25. I agree...

Most country music 'artists' wouldn't know an original tune if it bit 'em on the ass!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

28. I, for one, cannot wait for the Country Version of Chic's Le Freak.

Or Play That Funky Music.
You KNOW it's gonna happen.

[underpants]

29. "New Country" is just bad pop music with a steele guitar

It is not country music as most would identify it.

[BearFlagDemocrat]

17. Metallica, circa "Napster"

One minute they're doing a "Behind the Music" and talking about how they used to swap mix tapes of their favorite songs when they were kids, and then they're lining up to sue Napster.

Hypocrites all.

[jayfish]

37. The Release Of "Load" Was Worse IMHO. -NT-

Jay

[henslee]

30. Some folks are just trying to make a buck in a tuff biz.

Yeah, some are guilty. But some gotta pay the bills. And they gave you some good times when they were on their game...

Hey I heard that Elton John has licensed all his songs to a prod. company make a TV show based on them.... Something sci-fi.... rocket man.... etc.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. Hey, it's The Lounge, it's not Screaming, more of a disinterested shrug.

Elton sold out in 1972, though.

[henslee]

32. Ha! I re-edited but you caught me first! i only said screaming because

it is your name Byron! Oops. Hey doesnt George Jones have a dog food or something.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

33. So, do we have consensus on SPLHCB The Movie?

I think we do.

[lapislzi]

34. Anything with a voice-over by William Shatner or Leonard Nimoy

although they deserve a special award for lifetime achievements in the "Cheesy" category.

[FredScuttle]

36. "Let It Be...Naked"

Paul McCartney continues to piss on Lennon's grave and the Beatles legacy. Why can't we get a Mark Chapman on the case here?!!

[terrya]

38. Ray Stevens doing his hick country version of "Misty"

It's a beautiful song...and I couldn't stand the fact that it was turned into a twangy thing that could have been heard on "Hee Haw"

Terry

[Whitacre D_WI]

39. Paul McCartney.

For chrissakes, dude was in the BEATLES.

He's not allowed to suck as bad as he does.

I mean, don't get me wrong -- he pretty much sucked after 1965, but the rest of the band was able to prop him up. After the breakup, though: ugh.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

40. Don't you dare diss the Frog Chorus, bitch!

[Rabrrrrrr]

41. REM and Paul McCartney and Phil Collins come immediately to mind

Maybe even Billy Joel, but I'm not sure he was a traitor so much as his earliest stuff was actually just accidentally good.

[blindpig]

42. The Wall, Pink Floyd

from Atom Heart Mother & Meddle to the lame, juvenile whining. The only Christmas gift that I even gave back!(brother-in -law)