BCB Hall of Suck: Dare - The Human League

[Sneelock]

are you suggesting that girls are the only ones who like to get dressed up and bounce around to catchy music?
Sexist!!!!

[The Modernist]

are you suggesting that girls are the only ones who like to get dressed up and bounce around to catchy music?
Sexist!!!!

I want you to get in touch with your feminine side Snee. It's not too late, just a daub of eyeliner is all that it will take!

[The Modernist]

Nominated by Moddie

Has he had a bump on the head or something?

Just Davey's little joke.

[Sneelock]

I want you to get in touch with your feminine side Snee. It's not too late, just a daub of eyeliner is all that it will take!

are you kidding? I'm wearing ladies underwear!

[clive gash]

They’re supposed to go under the trousers.

[Sneelock]

[fange]

never mistake subjectivity for objectivity, Davey x

Dare is brilliant. While there's always the odd cloth-eared cretin who might want to dispute this, they are clearly wrong.

Only someone completely tone deaf could have nominated this one.

Does not "suck" in any right-thinking person's world.

You know i was just having a laugh with the cretin part, right?

[clive gash]

He meant galah.

[fange]

Drongo.

[fange]

ugly sounds

U-g-l-y, you ain't got no alibi...

[naughty boy]

STOP BEING PLAYFUL

[clive gash]

C’mon, Davey don’t dig Celeste, he prefers the honest sound of an acoustic guitar.

[Davey the Fat Boy]

Come now Davey, your blind devotion to anything Beatles related is well established. The fact that for years you were using Kraftwerk as a BCB meme for 'shit and overrated' tells me everything I need to know about your attitude to synths. I doubt there's much that would get your approval, although I'm sure we can find a Dylan song which uses a synth which you can use as evidence of your broad-minded appreciation of the genre.

Boy...you really are a piece of work!

I’m perfectly capable of saying exactly what I mean without your help. So yeah - I DO think Kraftwerk is ridiculously overrated, and I DO love the Beatles. Guilty as charged.

But my opinions on the synth as an instrument are fairly complex. Just as you don’t love every act that ever put an acoustic guitar at the center of their music, I don’t have to love every synth act to prove that I don’t have an irrational prejudice against an instrument.

What I’ve generally not liked is a lot of the musical choices often made by synth acts. I DO like how McCartney uses them more than The Human League. Not because I’m more comfortable with McCartney or am unwilling to criticize him (don’t get me started on Press to Play) - but because I generally like his musical instincts more than the folks in The Human fucking League.

Now stop being an asshole.

[fange]

Easy, tiger. Let's not get het up under the collar.

Remember, synthhole is as synthhole does. A synth in the hand is worth two up yer tush.

[Polishgirl]

It's got the singles. It's got Seconds. It's got I Am The Law. It is fabulous.

[Polishgirl]

I Am The Law is a bit daft

[The Modernist]

Come now Davey, your blind devotion to anything Beatles related is well established. The fact that for years you were using Kraftwerk as a BCB meme for 'shit and overrated' tells me everything I need to know about your attitude to synths. I doubt there's much that would get your approval, although I'm sure we can find a Dylan song which uses a synth which you can use as evidence of your broad-minded appreciation of the genre.

Boy...you really are a piece of work!

I’m perfectly capable of saying exactly what I mean without your help. So yeah - I DO think Kraftwerk is ridiculously overrated, and I DO love the Beatles. Guilty as charged.

But my opinions on the synth as an instrument are fairly complex. Just as you don’t love every act that ever put an acoustic guitar at the center of their music, I don’t have to love every synth act to prove that I don’t have an irrational prejudice against an instrument.

What I’ve generally not liked is a lot of the musical choices often made by synth acts. I DO like how McCartney uses them more than The Human League. Not because I’m more comfortable with McCartney or am unwilling to criticize him (don’t get me started on Press to Play) - but because I generally like his musical instincts more than the folks in The Human fucking League.

Now stop being an asshole.

Well I'm not trying to pick on you so calm down. If you prefer McCartney's synth songs to The Human League then great. It is a bit like saying Rod Stewart made better disco records than Chic, but whatever floats your boat.

[Davey the Fat Boy]

It’s my boat. No Human League allowed.

[fange]

[Samoan]

I wouldn't say it sucks, and it definitely brings back a moment in time. But I never really liked it much.

I like synths fine. The singing and the lyrics always just seemed so stilted and drab to me. It felt like overhearing yuppies having a conversation.

"I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar. That much is true." It just felt too boring to be really good.

"When you're in love, you know you're in love. No matter what you try to do." Good God.

I'd go along with that and as dance music, it ain't up to much.