She's had so much free advertising from the BBC, it's unreal.

Her record company had 'Mercy' (see what i did there?

) on us and pulled the plug. 'Warwick Avenue' was better than all Adele's output though.

Never heard him called that before. Niice

Very well-put

Honestly, scary how similar

I despise Phil Collins, but I'd also include U2 I'm surprised Bonehead hasn't tried to sort out the Syrian civil war. Also Take That (Williams & Barlow esp), pit bull, Munford & sons, oasis, Elton John, I could go on for ever.

Take That aren't a band.

I would argue that to qualify as a band, people have to be playing instruments; I realise that Barlow tickled the ivories on occasion, but that's not enough to reach the threshold. So I agree - they're not a band.

'Brand' is a more appropriate word when you consider the current obsession with plastering names all over cheap tat to peddle to schoolgirls.

Most guff post 1975

Simply Red, M People, Happy Mondays.

Genesis first two albums post Peter Gabriel pretty good - Trick of the Tail & Wind and Wuthering. Phil Collins does a fine job.

Not as good as Brian Pern though.

Every single british band of the past 10 years. You know the ones, dress like they are a river island mannequin, can play 3 chords on the guitar and every single song sounds the same. Maybe im just getting old but there is just no originality any more

Regards

King James

I've pretty much lost interest in 'current' music, it's far too accessible and there's absolutely no effort required in hunting it out, obtaining it and listening to it, it's all too throw-away now. Long gone are the days when you'd catch the end of a track on the radio at 1am and then spend the next fortnight trying to find out what it was and where you could buy it, only to find out it was available on import only and would cost you double what you'd normally pay. To me though that was part of the experience and having something physical in my hand at the end of it just made the track feel even more special. Having a downloaded MP3 file sat on my computer or listening to a song that is streamed with no physical presence whatsoever means absolutely nothing to me, it makes me feel empty inside.

I used to keep right up to date with bands and artists and enjoyed being one of the first to hear something new but for the last couple of years my playlists are pretty much stuck between 1979 and 1992, except for the odd glimmer of new hope which catches my ear, and even then, any new band/artist who shows the tiniest trace of having something about them is met with all the adulation of the messiah's birth by the masses, so much so that it feels like it's here this morning, legendary by tonight but gone by tomorrow afternoon. Call me old fashioned, stuck in the past, whatever you will, I don't care, modern life really is rubbish.

Coldplay, U2 and Elbow.

Thread has been dormant for 7 months, so here goes;

Sia.

Generic Gaga-a-like songs, hideous voice which is so bad i can barely make out the words, and is ''kooky'', doing interviews facing away from the camera (oooooo, so cool and edgy!!)

Get the f*** lost

Who?

Like an Englishman (woman in this case) abroad.
If they dont understand you just say it (shout) louder !

After suffering an hour of Capital Radio this morning I've got to question if it's the same man and woman singing all commercial pop music or whether Auto-Tune has just taken over?

I had it for 3 hours on friday... i came close to ending my own life.

Incidentally, has there been a bigger corporate c**k-sucker after finding fame than Ed Sheeran? I really do not think so.

I really don't get Ed Sheeran. His music is a dull mixture of all things cliché, I honestly can't get through one song without wanting to put my foot through the radio. I could understand his appeal to the X Factor generation teeny boppers based on image but he doesn't even look the part! Never underestimate the power of social media and an aggressive PR team.

I tend to only listen to R6 or R Leeds. Am I alone in never having knowingly heard an Ed Sheeran song?

I'm almost with you - I've heard snippets in the background at other people's behest, and it sounded to me like generic whiney pop dribble that gets the attention of those people who don't have any real appreciation for proper music.

I'm an avid 6 Music listener - when my daughter retunes to the car to Capital, I feel like self-harming.

My daughter is at Uni & has been asked to put her 3 favourite songs together to submit to some entertainments committee. She asked me for some suggestions, which is always a challenge. She agreed with me on 'Another Girl, Another Planet'. She also plumbed for Belle & Sebastian & Smiths as her own choices, which made me pretty proud.

I'll give him his due, he seems like a genuine lad, but that's where it ends for me, couple of decent songs to start with in his career ('A-Team' was decent, had an actual story to it), but since then it's been nothing but god-awful, made-for-radio cliched love songs, (i suppose commercial radio stations don't take kindly to songs referencing drugs). Completely ripped off 'Let's Get It On' for 'Thinking Out Loud' but because it was him nobody said anything.The two songs he released simultaneously recently, one was perfect for Capital, the other was Radio X fodder... so, he knows what he's doing. Or his team do. And his very latest song starts with the line 'Girl you're the one and you know that it's true'..... That alone is enough to smash the sh*t out of the wireless..



He's a label stooge basically