Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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I'm listening to a U2 compilation. I'm not complaining. It was my choice.
Joking aside, there are some good things on it, that I haven't listened to in years because, like many, I struggle with the bloke writing the songs being the sort of prat who would fly his favourite hat first class whilst preaching about climate change. I remember a documentary about Bob Monkhouse that said that it's very hard to enjoy a comedian if you don't feel warmth towards them and I wonder whether this may be true about musicians too.
There are quite a few artists that I'd give no time to because, whether fairly or unfairly, I'm turned off by their public persona. However, there are others that I give a pass to, because, to paraphrase Smokey Robinson's You've Really Got A Hold On Me': 'I don't want (them), but I need (them).'
I realise that I've been happy to chuck aside Bono for his foolishness, presumably because the music was never that important to me. Van Morrison seems far more of what Partridge would have called a dwad and a dosser, but I find it easy to divorce his current nutjobbery from the pleasure of for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYqJtqyeilE
So, share your songs that are so good that they force you to overlook the questionable people who may have recorded them.
... Please avoid the Rolf Harris / Gary Glitter gags. I know the question leaves an open goal, but lets be like our attackers and consider open goals as beneath us..
Joking aside, there are some good things on it, that I haven't listened to in years because, like many, I struggle with the bloke writing the songs being the sort of prat who would fly his favourite hat first class whilst preaching about climate change. I remember a documentary about Bob Monkhouse that said that it's very hard to enjoy a comedian if you don't feel warmth towards them and I wonder whether this may be true about musicians too.
There are quite a few artists that I'd give no time to because, whether fairly or unfairly, I'm turned off by their public persona. However, there are others that I give a pass to, because, to paraphrase Smokey Robinson's You've Really Got A Hold On Me': 'I don't want (them), but I need (them).'
I realise that I've been happy to chuck aside Bono for his foolishness, presumably because the music was never that important to me. Van Morrison seems far more of what Partridge would have called a dwad and a dosser, but I find it easy to divorce his current nutjobbery from the pleasure of for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYqJtqyeilE
So, share your songs that are so good that they force you to overlook the questionable people who may have recorded them.
... Please avoid the Rolf Harris / Gary Glitter gags. I know the question leaves an open goal, but lets be like our attackers and consider open goals as beneath us..
