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Please don't laugh at my dreadful tastes. >_> In no particular order: Pulp Fiction The Fellowship of the Ring Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Gladiator The Da Vinci Code The Prestige Anchorman The Empire Strikes Back Moulin Rouge Atonement Pride and Prejudice The Lion King Bean Love Actually The Reader The Two Towers Coraline Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory Gran Torino Back To The Future Ratatouille Empire Of The Sun

Fuck off are they ridiculous. Look at any popular music press - the likes of NME - and chances are you'll see them ripping it out of Paul McCartney or Sting. I mean, what do you think it was that made me start this topic in the first place?

1. Paul McCartney Thought of as the lesser member of the Lennon/McCartney songwriting partnership despite contributing the likes of Eleanor Rigby, Fixing A Hole, Lady Madonna and many others. Afterwards thought of as being a far worse solo artist than Lennon (McCartney will alwaya and forever be compared with Lennon and I'm not going to stop that here. Just for the record, I do like John Lennon. Just not that much.) for preferring to live on a farm and be vegetarian rather than court a lot of publicity; go on about world peace; stay in bed with Yoko Ono; ultimately die. On purely musical terms Paul McCartney wins for me by a landslide. John Lennon's solo career consisted of two reasonably good albums, a few excellent singles, several dull albums and finally his death and subsequent martyrdom. "OH IF ONLY PAUL DIED INSTEAD THERE WOULD BE WORLD PEACE AND WE WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD TO HEAR EBONY AND IVORY" Admittedly, Paul McCartney is culpable for 'Ebony and Ivory' and 'Mull of Kintyre' - both of which are fairly dreadful. However, during the 70s when both were releasing music, Paul's music was actually of a much higher calibre .'Back Seat of My Car', 'Maybe I'm Amazed', 'Band On The Run' and 'Let Me Roll It' are just a few of the relatively high number of wonderful songs Paul McCartney wrote in the 70s. Despite a few rubbish albums - which can happen to the very best of artists releasing material over a number of years - his standards have remained relatively high. 'End of the End' was released just two years ago and is a fantastic tune, with 'Too Much Rain' - my all time favourite McCartney tune - Beatles or otherwise - being released in 2004 (I think). The Fireman is awesome too. 2. Sting People make fun of him and call him a pompous git. A pompous git he may be, but between leaving the Police and about 1994ish he released some excellent music - most of which was far better than anything he did in the Police. Turned shit afterwards however , though I will still check out his album that's released next month. In all seriousness this is one of my favourite songs ever. 3. Oasis The drummer was alright. So with my musical credibility at this here forum considerably reduced, I put it you to make your own suggestions! (This topic is not just an excuse for me to be a Paul McCartney fanboy.)

Alex Ferguson's autobiography is an obvious one. It's fantastic. Roy Keane's autobiography is really good too. Nick Faldo's is wonderful. My favourite sports book however is 'A Season With Verona' by Tim Parks. It's all about the hooliganism and craziness of Italian fans as he follows Verona about for a season. It's an excellent book. I also like those books that are just lots of random funny stories. Can't remember any off the top of my head though.

KOL headlined Glastonbury a couple of years ago and were fantastic. However, back then they didn't really have any shit songs in their catalogue of course.

I am disappointed in you Baddar.

10 on Liverpool to beat Sunderland 3-0 5 on Aston Villa to draw 5 on Tottenham to win Everton 2 - 1 Wolves

I actually quite like watching what the other countries get up to while I'm having quiet periods on the game. Because I'm a saddo. >_>

Europa Universalis III

Don't worry about it. It is an alternative to everyone posting "omg I can't believe dis i just listened to father and son rip", which is always welcome. But you shouldn't take any offense. Stephen Gately was pretty much my girlfriend's first love () yet she doesn't mind my dreadful, tasteless jokes. Well she doesn't complain about them at least. She doesn't laugh either though. >_>

Stephen Gateley's family have requested that no flowers be sent to the funeral, as they expect enough pansies to show up on the day.

nooooooooooooo He also had the second most successful post-Boyzone solo career. :|

I liked episode 2 better. Rhod Gilbert and Noel Fielding were wonderful as expected and Gabby Logan was a nice surprise too. Inbetweeners headmaster guy was good too.

YOU'RE ALL JUST COPYING ME Oh and good album Ollie! I like that one too!

this looks fun

Oh that is a wonderful album!

to be fair I made that comment about halfway through the episode. he did improve afterwards. it's a shame though because no matter how much shit corden does (horne & corden) I will always him because of Gavin & Stacey.

Oh my God. James Corden is a bloody dreadful host. The way he clapped like a mad man after every awful Tom Clarke joke. Argh

That is actually the first time I've seen the GT3 intro. I remember watching it for about a minute, assuming nothing at all happened and just proceeded to skip it every time I started it up. It's really good though. Brings back so many memories despite me never actually watching it all the way through! There's so many I know I like but can't remember. However, I did like: Civilisation IV - this was absolutely enthralling - I really like the song too. - It was cool to a 7 year old >_> - funny. I loved this game and I want a sequel.

Actually, now that I've thought about it it's not that stupid. Didn't lego Bowie come somewhere in between thin white duke Bowie and Berlin era Bowie?

That's supposed to be David Bowie? lol.

Lovefool is awesome.

I've pretty much lost track of what's going on at the moment. I knew I'd so something stupid like that sooner or later. :|

Oh that's a shame. He's nice. I tell him my life story and he shows me the odd band every now and then. It is a nice arrangement.

yeah...dedication.