Top ten twats in rock and pop.

[Guy Profumo]

Tony Blair

[E10 Rifle]

Cheese-addled Tory and 90s relic Alex James out of Blur surely worth a nomination?

[anton pulisov]

While Kanye is an arsehole, he will forever have the "George Bush doesn't care about black people" moment going for him.

Can I perhaps mention Joe Elliott of Def Leppard. The ultimate twat. The Alan Partridge of rock.

[Duncan Gardner]

Lennon was a self-confessed bastard who receives a free pass too often even from biographers

"He was three-quarters of the Beatles' [criminal record]"? (Philip Norman)

[Satchmo Distel]

Pharrell Williams (doing benefit gigs for the IDF. The IDF! Not only a brutal racist force of cunts but already one of the most heavily funded organisations on the planet)

Plus his writing credit on the Robin Thicke song that was both rapey and plagiarized.

I am tempted to add Elvis Costello but I think Top 10 is too harsh. He's in the lower reaches of the Top 40 for this, when there is so much competition from Roger Daltrey, Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, etc.

On the point of where we draw the line between twat and actual evil, I would contend that twats break informal norms of behaviour whereas evil is crimes of assault against people. Many twats may of course have assaulted partners and friends who chose to stay silent. Lennon was a self-confessed bastard who receives a free pass too often even from biographers.

[Jah Womble]

I think it's fair to say that the likes of R. Kelly, Phil Spector, Michael Jackson and their likes exceed the definition of "twat".

Okay - good point, well made.

Swap 'R Kelly' for 'Mark Morrison' on my earlier post.

[Duncan Gardner]

After my time possibly

I do remember the local magistrate mother of a then-teenage Ash member telling the NI media that yes, he could go on tour to Japan with Megadeth (or whoever), as long as he first finished revising for his A Levels and helped her prune the rose garden

[Sits]

Van Morrison has Asperger's apparently. But I'm not just routinely defending hometown and childhood heroes: John Fogerty is a surly fcuker,Sir Nodwald a Tory wankah and Jake Burns hasn't bought a round since the Anglo Irish Agreement etc etc

Amazed there was no mention of the bassist from Ash.

[Sits]

Oh no, that’s Human Nature. How, oh how could I possibly confuse them?

[Sits]

I think Westlife do Vegas now.

[G-Man]

I think it's fair to say that the likes of R. Kelly, Phil Spector, Michael Jackson and their likes exceed the definition of "twat".

[Jah Womble]

Former Westlife member Brian McFadden spent a few years in Australia after leaving the Irish no-part-harmony stool-disembarkers; he recorded a single called Just The Way You Are (Drunk At The Bar) featuring lyrics that appear to glorify date rape.

The single was withdrawn after somebody pointed out that all this might not have been the greatest idea.

"I like you just the way you are
Drunk as shit dancing at the bar
I like it and I can't wait to get you home
so I can do some damage
I like you just the way you are
Jump in the back seat of my car
'Cause I like it and I can't wait to get you home
So I can take advantage"

Hoo-ha.

I mean, I know he isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but what in Christ's name made him think those lyrics represented an okay sentiment to hold - let alone express in public?

[Snake Plissken]

Irish no-part-harmony stool-disembarkers

*applauds*

[Auntie Beryl]

Former Westlife member Brian McFadden spent a few years in Australia after leaving the Irish no-part-harmony stool-disembarkers; he recorded a single called Just The Way You Are (Drunk At The Bar) featuring lyrics that appear to glorify date rape.

The single was withdrawn after somebody pointed out that all this might not have been the greatest idea.

[Duncan Gardner]

Van Morrison has Asperger's apparently. But I'm not just routinely defending hometown and childhood heroes: John Fogerty is a surly fcuker,Sir Nodwald a Tory wankah and Jake Burns hasn't bought a round since the Anglo Irish Agreement etc etc

[3 Colours Red]

An incredibly leftfield shout and certainly not on the level of notoriety of most names already brought up but for the shamelessness of his grifting relative to his success as a musical artist, SouljaBoy deserves a mention. Google it if you don't know what the fuck I'm going on about.

[Jah Womble]

Not Meat Loaf levels of twattishness but rapper B.o.B is a Flat Earther. In the following link he talks about launching a gofundme page to be able to launch satellites to try and bring back images that will disprove all the round earthers. What a twat.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-41399164

Interestingly, the Flat Earth Society had all but disappeared until about 20 years when, you guessed it, the internet came along.

Great - let's let these oxygen-wasting twunts needlessly spaff their own money to prove their own stupidity.

Didn't Kanye come out in support of Flat Earth as well? (I know that Andrew Flintoff did, but he's not a musician and has always come across as a bit dim anyway.)

The theory I always enjoy is the one that invariably comes up at the mention of air travel - which would clearly be completely skewed by a flat map. Apparently, all passengers are drugged (or similar) to give them the illusion that less time has passed when up in the air: this then presumably extends to hundreds of destinations across the world, where all clocks have to be altered on a more-than hourly basis in order to maintain this illusion, while millions working in the travel industry must, I imagine, be 'in' on said massive global deception. And that's before you get to what there could possibly be to gain from such a deception in the first instance.

Anyway, 'R Kelly'.

[Benjm]

Mike Batt?

The Wombles guy?

By coincidence, I saw Mike Batt in Arundel on Saturday. Out and about, not in a performance setting, I hasten to add.

He seemed fine, just minding his own business and quietly stuffing Dalmatian puppies into a sack.

[ad hoc]

And not forgetting Phil Spector

[ad hoc]

Pharrell Williams (doing benefit gigs for the IDF. The IDF! Not only a brutal racist force of cunts but already one of the most heavily funded organisations on the planet)

[G-Man]

We had a knock-out on this theme some years ago. I recall Kid Rock as the winner, with Fred Durst putting up a strong challenge.

Mike Love is a more than merited nomination for this thread.

And then there are Nick Cave and Thom Yorke, whose comments suggest that they play in Israel on ideological rather than economic grounds. Fuck the pair of them.

[RobM]

Glen Danzig is a notorious twat apparently.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Mike Batt?

The Wombles guy?

Franchise cunt.

[Patrick Thistle]

I'll also nominate Kanye West.

[Patrick Thistle]

Mike Batt?

The Wombles guy?