WHY WHY WHY....WHYYYYY!

it's so awful.


Even Bono singing his infamous line again..."Thank god it's them..."-it's so wrong...and so...WEAK!

I feel like they brought in Chris Martin, Dido and Bono to sing next to people trying out for AMerican Idol or something....i'm so salty. Interested in what you think...you can download it here: http://www.stereogum.com/

FOREVER 1984 version....
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[Edited 11/17/04 14:51pm]

They actually remade the song?

Those bastards!











I wonder what Sir Bob Geldof has to say about this?

NWF said:

NWF- I warn you.. DO NOT LISTEN TO THE REMAKE. I think Geldof actually led this whole remake initiative.

The original was bad enough!

I'm having a hard time deciding whether this one, or the feeble 1989 remake with Kylie, Matt Goss (from Bros), etc, is the blandest of the two remakes....


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I knew it would suck before they even attempted. Just another lame attempt at trying to recapture a feel good moment in 80's nostalgia for the benefit of musicians careers...er um the needy. I don't understand why they just don't try to do their own thing...make their own mark. That would be more note worthy and artistic.

And here's an even better question...will more money be generated from this effort when all is said and done and gift basketed...or couldn't they do a better turn and make more money by reaching into their own pockets collectively and give the money to whatever charity they are supporting? Shoo...have Babs, Cher and Madonna on stage for the "Plastic Reinvention Forever Tour" and charge like 1000.00 per ticket? Seems easier and more entertaining. Ten again the 3 of them would kill each other...probably.

I think the remake is a great modern version!

Better to try something new than repeat.

SquirrelMeat said:

No...it's better NOT to mess with a good thing.

I know what you mean. But they shouls appeal to the modern generation...and old!

It should be a double A-side with the original....plus a 12" Fat Boyslim remix!

I expected this shit to hit the stores this last weekend, not just have been recorded.. I've already bought my "Christmas" music for the year.

This was posted on a Duran Duran list I'm on...this reporter just wrote everything I wish I had said when I created this thread. Great article!

Band Aid - Then and Now
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Copyright 2004 Associated Newspapers Ltd.
DAILY MAIL (London)

November 18, 2004

LENGTH: 878 words

HEADLINE: SORRY, BUT TODAY S BAND AID STARS ARE MERE PYGMIES COMPARED
TO THE REAL ROCK GODS

BYLINE: ANNABELLE THORPE

BODY:
JOHN TAYLOR. Now there was a man. How my 14-year- old heart lurched
whenever his highlighted, bouffant hair bounced on to the TV screen.

Bass guitarist with Duran Duran, he of the blond fringe, leather
trousers and naughty grin; less pasty than Simon Le Bon, less effete than
Nick Rhodes, 6ft of dark-eyed, rock star handsomeness.

My heart was won -- until you put him in a room with the equally
leather-trousered Tony Hadley, and the equally bouffant George Michael. My
allegiances were challenged. Who did I love the most?

Quite possibly the only time these three came together was Band Aid,
when they were joined in that tiny studio by just about everyone who was
anyone in the 1980s pop world.

Sting and Phil Collins and Boy George and Bono -- everyone knows the
cast list of that seismic day in 1984, when Bob Geldof and Midge Ure put
together a charity record for Ethiopia.

I bought the single of course, as did virtually everyone else, but it
was the video that entranced me. Twenty years later, it still does. So
much rock 'n' roll glamour in one room, in so many different
incarnations.

Sting looking messy and diffident; Bono all long hair and attitude;
Paul Young clutching his headphones, shooting the camera the odd twinkly
look; Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi from Status Quo behaving like
naughty boys at the back of the class.

Fast forward 20 years and I feel rather sorry for the generation of
teenage girls who will be buying the BandAid20 charity single.

Did the gathering of young popstrels that took place on Sunday set
hearts racing in the same way the original did two decades ago?

If you're 14 now, do you really lust after the likes of Daniel
Bedingfield and Will Young, in the way that we adored George Michael
and John Taylor? I can imagine Bedingfield asking me if I want help with
my maths homework, but I can't picture him in a behind-the-bikesheds
snog scenario.

WHO do you fancy now, if you're a 14-year-old girl? Where are the
pin-ups? Pop stars used to play a huge part in a girl's formative years.
Your first serious crush, the beginnings of sexual desire, your first
forays into sexual fantasies -- all safely directed at some wildly
unsuitable chap leering down from your bedroom wall.

These days there just isn't anyone unsuitable. Sex and drugs and rock
'n' roll are all off the menu, replaced by the kind
of 'niceness' personified by Will Young, the living, breathing
incarnation of beige. Is it really possible to have impure thoughts
about Busted?

The line-up on Sunday looked more like an advertisement for Clearasil
than a snapshot of the UK's hippest musical talent; Geldof kept
referring to it as a 'school choir', and it certainly seemed to be about as
edgy.

The days of glamour and excess are clearly over in Popworld. In some
ways, that's a good thing. I've never under-stood why it was considered
cool when immensely talented people destroyed themselves through drink
or drugs.

But somehow the antics of the original Band Aid boys added to the myth.

Particularly the tale of Bob Geldof telephoning Boy George in New York
and yelling at him to get on Concorde to join the recording, his
arrival late in the evening and images of him swigging brandy from the bottle
as he sang his lines.

This time, the only Coke being passed around was of the diet, liquid
kind (logo to the front in case any cameras were around), and the only
bottles swigged from were doubtless water, to keep those blemish-free
complexions squeaky clean.

Ironically, those who still have a little rock 'n' roll about them --
Robbie Williams, Bono -- recorded their lines away from the gathering on
Sunday, possibly to avoid being tarnished with the 'school choir' tag.

All this can be dismissed as the rantings of a thirtysome-thing; a
reinvention of the 'don't all policemen look young these days' type of
line. And, of course, Busted, Daniel Bedingfield and Will Young aren't
supposed to appeal to me; and the fact that I'm old enough to be Mum to
Busted's youngest member (sigh) may go some way to explaining why they
remind me of overexcitable puppies rather than sexy young chaps.

But age isn't always a factor; Justin Timberlake is only a couple of
years older than Busted and I could idle away a couple of hours with that
young man.

The Darkness were there, all chest hair and arched eyebrows. But while
they're endearing and amusing, they're hardly sex on a stick.

Music is just too corporate these days, too safe, and the truth is that
I doubt we'll ever see a collection of individual
egos, styles, addictions and attitudes come together in the same way it
did 20 years ago.

None of which makes BandAid20 any less worthy or its cause any less
just -- it just makes it a little less exciting.

There was no orange-haired, brandy- swigging cross-dresser, no leather-
clad poseurs, no spiky-haired girls who looked like they had just
fallen out of bed.

Even the sweaty, swearing Irishman seemed to have rein-vented himself
as a rather benevolent father-figure. Everyone looked bright-eyed and
bushy-tailed and blond and beautiful and utterly, utterly bland.

Buy the BandAid20 single but watch the original video. And keep an eye
out for John Taylor. You'll see what I mean.

LOAD-DATE: November 17, 2004

SquirrelMeat said:

I've heard it twice today, and I don't really like it... Funny part is that Bono sings his original lines, but at the end the guitar solo really screws up the whole song!! I don't know who is doing the solo, but it sucks...

Nice bunch of artists (and than I mean Bono, coldplay, Damon Albarn, not the crappy ones), but a little cheap to use the same song (the magic was in 84, not now)


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this is complete and utter horseshit.