Name your lame duck artist........

TT: I am the only troublemaker on Gon who had the brass balls to nominate Midleton Whiskey as the best of bourbon under the Best Bourbon posting. Please join in.

Darkmoebius

Caught your comment over on the "rap" thread. I agree.....but, for me at least, what makes a good thread is disagreement and fighting words or it all gets a little boring after we have our initial say. Props to Macdad for losing it over on the rap thread and to Bongo for responding - loved it! Just shows we are all adults and can disagree, have words and dust it off and be friends again. I almost went there with Martykl on Leonard Cohen but he was such a nice guy ( I wished he wasn't) I just couldn't do it.
There has to be plenty of people who have a favorite that even they know is crap, but just like dating that ugly chick and justifying it by something as bizarre as her having great personality it would be great to see some some defense of "lameness" to provoke a bit of controversy.
Not trying to start anything, but why will Beethoven's Fifth never live up to, say, the creative genius of 2Pac's "Wonder Why They Call You Bitch." or Mahler's 4th Symphony (or Miles Davis' Kind of Blue for that matter) never reach down so deep in our souls as Notorious B.I.G. with "Hypnotize" ???
I am sure very many, (actually most) people on here LOVE hip-hop and will be happy to tell us why.
While I was at the mall I saw a used John Tesh CD for $1.99 and couldn't resist (how can you claim to have eclectic tastes if you don't have at least one JohnTesh CD in your collection). I brought it home and popped it in for a laugh and he started the track off with "take a deep breath, take a deep breath" I thought the next line was going to be "this is going to hurt", but no - it was brilliant - so uplifting. Now John and Vanilla Ice are my two favorite all-time artists. And just to think I could have wasted that $1.99 towards my $15.99 slutfest pay per view bill at Motel 6.

I nominate the Who for yesterday's amazingly bad performance. It is always nice to see two old codgers sing off key, motionless on stage.

Other people who continue to dial it in are Aerosmith, Clapton, Sting and Phil Collins. Every dog has their day, but these guys just need to rest by the fire place.

TT: Notorious BIG's "The Ten Commandments of Crack" was on heavy rotation at the Bongo House over the weekend, along with Ice Cube's "Had a good day." Some really good tunes came out in the 1990s.

Bongo

Agree - I saw Robert Plant perfoming at a Queen/Freddy tribute concert concert. Looked like someone had loosened the valve and let the air out of a blow-up dummy - really dreadful. Yes, the whole trick is to hang up your badge before it gets to that.
Mark Knopfler is another guy I had respect for but after hearing his solo stuff it was like he was saying "hey guys, look how much I suck now". It becomes hard to separate that image form the original.

Biggie and 2Pac had the right idea - get shot while you are on top.