[Closed] Doesn't it make your heart swell with pride...

Shame The Libertines didn't want to get back together for it.

Perhaps it is so they can close with Rio?

Shame The Libertines didn't want to get back together for it.

Oh yeah, I could see that panning out with the drugs testing emphasis

Duran Duran. FFS.

How many bands, when asked, replied '**** off!!!', for them to eventually arrive at Duran Duran? Were Chas and Dave next on the list?

Yeti - A fine suggestion. can we start a campaign for the Libertines to reform and do it?
[i]
He knows there's fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
And we'll die in the class we were born[/i]

Indeed!

Paolo Nutini is apparently the best the Scots have to offer...

Not Fish? I'd have gone with Fish.

Who would you suggest in their place then?

NDubz yo. They is a roll moddle.

And this for the inevitable drugs scandal..

Should have got Crass in.

[i]Who would you suggest in their place then?[/i]

Well, the choice of Duran Duran suggests that the criteria is washed-up old has-beens without a hit for years, so in that case you might as well have the Rolling Stones. At least they're 'iconic' whatever that means.

Or you could go for a band/artist with massive, current, worldwide appeal. Coldplay? Take That? Adele?

Don't forget Snow Patrol are on too. Lets hope they're not on first. The entire crowd will have opened a vein before they ever get to Hungry Like the Wolf.

Sterophonics too. Woohooooo. Ambassador - you are truly spoiling us. I'd rather smash my own skull in with a big pointy rock than listen to that lot

Ugggghhh I really can't stand the The Libertines, they suck balls, fact. I mean they sound like a pastiche of the pouges and u2, it's just derivative rubbish..

I like Duran Duran for a bit of fun, but real bands to represent the UK would be The The, Led Zep, Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd.

Or you could go for a band/artist with massive, current, worldwide appeal. Coldplay? Take That? Adele?

Toys - You like Dad music...

Plus I don't think the Libertines care...

TSY, I am your Dad, FACT!

I'm glad they don't care, I'd hate to think my opionion actually counted. I liked their lyrics, but they just sound fliggin awful..

(Plus "Can't stand me now" is the exact representation of what would happen if Bono and Shane McGowan did dry bumming and created a dirty smelly fishy love child)

Motorhead

[i]Adele, while currently succesful, seems to polarise opinion, as almost anyone would.[/i]

I've never heard anyone say they don't like Adele...

Duran (can't be arsed to type it twice) are the shittest band ever. Still, it is [i]the Olympics[/i], about as relevant to music as the Queen's Jubilee concert.

Susan Boyle's probably free.

Haha... I don't think you're quite that old Toys!

[i]And these would all appeal to the Olympic ticket buying public, would they?[/i]

Given that they all have huge, middle-of-the-road, Radio2-esque mass market appeal, yes, I think they would.

[i]Didn't Take That used to be famous in the 90s?[/i]

As opposed to Duran Duran, who were famous in the 80's

These things are always going to have fairly 'bland' line-ups, which is fair enough, but it must be possible to get someone even vaguely 'current'

Can't believe they missed out Napalm Death...

We need a band with a proven history of writing songs for international sporting occaisions:

Sixteen teams are taking part
Sixteen camps of hope
Some contain top, top players
Some are just a crock of shit

Take me where the horns are honking long and loud and true
Paint my face with the red and white and blue
Rotterdam is cock-a-hoop they have the final there
But there’s often more intrigue in the pool games

etc etc......

Sadly, no Korfball at this Olympics 😐

Duran (can't be arsed to type it twice)

(Plus "Can't stand me now" is the exact representation of what would happen if Bono and Shane McGowan did dry bumming and created a dirty smelly fishy love child)

I think there was talk of a campaign up here in York to try and put Let Loose forward for the official band of the Olympics.

I watched them live in '94 or something. They still play, just smaller venues.

What's left of Queen are usually wheeled out for events like this.

In terms of the Olympics providing the rest of the world with "shop window on the UK" (or words to that effect), this concert and a 3 hour wait at immigration is going to have future business and tourism booming.

The Olympics, what a load of shite. Let's celebrate the biggest sporting occasion in the world by building the worlds biggest McDonalds, putting SAMs on tower blocks, and trotting out some 80s has-beens. Yay.

The whole thing is just a massive corporate circle jerk.

Didn;t they try to get The Who to reform their original lineup, including Keith Moon on drums?

*knock once for yes, twice for no, crazy arsed drum fill for loadsa drugs*

Well, if you can't get Keith Moon, you can have the next best thing:

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Animal was actually base on Keith Moon. True fact, fact fans.

Gotta be Quo!!

I would have almost certainly gone for Napalm Death. Would have turned a few heads lol.

Bus Station Loonies would go down well 🙂

Not sure they could pick anyone and achieve a consensus, Duran Duran do seem like a strange choice.

Constant miserable whining about everything? No, doesn't really make my heart swell with pride.

If I'd been in charge of the IOC I'd have vetoed London's bid because I couldn't stand the inevitable incessant whingeing.

A consensus. Surely everybody loves a bit of

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Constant miserable whining about everything? No, doesn't really make my heart swell with pride.

Sorry molgrips, let's all skip through the fields together holding hands, chasing rainbows under gumdrop skies, singing the national anthem.

Anything else would be unpatriotic.

Iron Maiden, they could have done The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

Sorry molgrips, let's all skip through the fields together holding hands, chasing rainbows under gumdrop skies, singing the national anthem

Mmm.. taking someone's arguments to extremes just to ridicule them.. still not making me feel proud, sorry.

😉

Does knowing that we wil have the worlds biggest McDonalds swell your heart with patriotic pride? Quite an achievement I think.

Let's celebrate this massive sporting event where we keep ****ing on about how its going to encourage sport and being healthy, by building a huge shrine to literally the worlds most unhealthy food, and making coca cola the official drink.

In a country with a looming obesity/diabetes crisis.

Surely Joe Dolce could have freed up his busy performing schedule?

How about Weller doing an accoustic version of That's Entertainment.
On a slightly aside note, my mate is involved in the local running scene in Exeter and he was initially part of the planning for when the olympic flame came through, but he pulled out because he said it was nothing to do with promoting sport, just politicians doing the "me, me".
I am losing the will to support this olympics.

The Olympics, what a load of shite. Let's celebrate the biggest sporting occasion in the world by building the worlds biggest McDonalds, putting SAMs on tower blocks, and trotting out some 80s has-beens. Yay.

The whole thing is just a massive corporate circle jerk.

This should be the official slogan. I love the olympics, I get really into it, I get really excited about it (the winter olympics too).

This time I just can't be arsed. Maybe its just because its local so I get to see all the whinging, moaning, corporate rubbish and political soggy biscuit games, but isn't it meant to be about the best sportsmen and women in the world, doing the best in their chosen sports? Maybe I'm naive, maybe I'm getting old and cynical but I'd rather not be a part of a pre decided demographic that a focus group decided was ripe for meeting sales targets. I just like to watch people playing sports.

Marianne Faithful or her mum Vera lynn.

I am losing the will to support this olympics.

Start from the point where the rest of us miserable buggers are. If you think its all a cynical tax-payer fleecing, corporate ****-fest, then you're unlikely to be disappointed

The whole thing is just a massive corporate circle jerk

There's that, but there's also some sport.

I want to see sporting heroes do their stuff, and I can ignore the rest of the shite.

And remember the organisers did ask if Keith Moon would be interested in a Who re-union.

But as said you can stuff the Olympics where the sun don't shine. Never been a big sport fan so never of great interest but after seeing people being evicted at night by armed "police" to make way for Beijing it just came home that it really is morally corrupt w"*k.

As said before we should have flogged it to the French when we won it, we could have paid off/not increased the national debt further, but then Lord Seb would cry wouldn't he? And we must keep that vile little g*t happy.

Duran (can't be arsed to type it twice) are the shittest band ever

Now Dez, we've been through this all before and I've already told you who the shittest band ever are, haven't I?
😈

And you were wrong 🙂

No. Look, I'm right and you know it.

Plink plonk plink plonk monotone drone no talent

That's them that is.

the sad thing is seb coe/alan partridge probably thinks that duran duran are down with the kids anyway

Hardly matters.

music for mums isn't it?

edit:[i] Plink plonk plink plonk monotone drone no talent[/i]

that could be loads of bands...

Should have been Roni Size and Represent

Oh and please watch Seb Coe related video content

I've never heard anyone say they don't like Adele...

Pie eating troll with much less talent than she thinks she has. A triumph of middle of the road blandness.

Frankly, its all been rubbish since Busted broke up.

Wahay! I have now. Noted that it's your first (sort of) musical opinion ever aired on STW, so no idea if you actually have a clue, or not.

I'm not a big Adele fan, but she is credible, and massively popular all around the world - I know someone who was in Brazil recently and all the kids there were obsessed by her.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-%26-entertainment/adele-created-by -'shit-women-go-on-about'-brainstorming-session-201104073699/

Truthfully I know nothing, my actual favourite band is Green Day, but I genuinely don't mind a bit of Busted.

Its all been crap since S Club 7 Broke up anyway.

Iron Maiden, they could have done The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

And Run to the Hills.

And Run Silent, Run Deep.

And These Colours Don't Run.

And given Dickinson is/was a very good (Olympic standard I believe) fencer: The Duellists and Flash of the Blade.

8)

I've genuinely never even heard of this Adele of which you speak.

Fortunately, it would seem...

[i]The Sanity Assassin - Member
I've genuinely never even heard of this Adele of which you speak.[/i]

I guess you wouldn't care if it was Duran Duran or the Hollies playing then...
(not that I do)

Sneaky - Does that include the output of strangely asexual android strumpet Rachel Stevens?

Surely Joe Dolce could have freed up his busy performing schedule?

[i]I've genuinely never even heard of this Adele of which you speak.[/i]

And how is it in the cave in which you live?

Sneaky - Does that include the output of strangely asexual android strumpet Rachel Stevens?

Was never a fan of her solo efforts, they were much stonger as a whole. Besides, I think I had moved on to Sophie Ellis Bextor by then.

I have been told that some of them toured last year as S Club 3, a sadder concert than that I simply can't imagine. Could not get anyone to go with me.