Post by Cali on Aug 16, 2014 4:35:30 GMT 1
Normally I hate it when bands, singers, and hip-hop artists bitch and moan at each other for some dubious reason or another. Twitter has made coverage of this even more rampant and constant.
Though sometimes it gets so interesting I just can't look away and have a chuckle at it. In this thread I will be listing some of them, though I won't be touching on feuds between fellow/ex band members, at least not anytime soon. I'll be posting more, but here are two of my favorites:
Black Flag vs. The Exploited
American band 'Black Flag' and Scottish band 'The Exploited' were pretty much two of the most influential hardcore punk bands of all time, and practically national mirrors of each other. Both were impoverished throughout their lifespan, living in vans, squatting, eating cheap food, and avoiding hiring roadies whenever they could. Both had local police stake them out, crash their gigs, beat members and fans up, and plant cocaine in their vehicles for dubious reasons. Most importantly, both bands had brutally assailing hardcore rock music and their gigs were crazy and unpredictable as all Hell. So you'd think when touring together, they'd get along, right?
Well, not really. Exploited vocalist Wattie Buchan wasn't too fond of Americans and thus felt obligated to despise Black Flag. Tensions rose when guitarist Gregg Ginn reportedly accused the Exploited of ripping off a riff in one of the band's earlier songs "American Waste" (the Exploited song in question is not known), and Buchan and a few of his roadies tried to steal some of Black Flag's stereo equipment when their members were trying to sleep. To this day Henry Rollins and Wattie Buchan still talk shit about each other in interviews.
Neil Young vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd
Man, Neil Young's songs 'Alabama' and 'Southern Man' sorta backfired when southern rock legend Lynyrd Skynyrd released the diss track directed towards Young, titled "Sweet Home Alabama", one of the most popular and profitable songs in music history. Neil Young's two politically oriented ballads focused on the south's history of slavery and racism, and members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were not in the least bit happy with the way he had painted it. The lyrics in Skynyrd's song "Southern man don't need him around" are some of the snarkiest lyrics in history. Some other lyrics in the song include ominously praising comments about Alabama's then Governor and horrendous racist George Wallace, though lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant claimed that the lyrics "In Birmingham everyone loved the governor (boo, boo, boo)" were sarcastic (and few listeners heard the "boo" part) and that he hated Wallace. Though that's another story entirely, it didn't prove very effective in defusing or countering the political aspect of Neil Young's songs.
The feud had more or less been resolved around 1976 (shortly before Van Zant and many other members of Skynyrd were killed in a plane crash), when Young and the rest of the members hammed it up in an aftershow party and had a few beers.
Though sometimes it gets so interesting I just can't look away and have a chuckle at it. In this thread I will be listing some of them, though I won't be touching on feuds between fellow/ex band members, at least not anytime soon. I'll be posting more, but here are two of my favorites:
Black Flag vs. The Exploited
American band 'Black Flag' and Scottish band 'The Exploited' were pretty much two of the most influential hardcore punk bands of all time, and practically national mirrors of each other. Both were impoverished throughout their lifespan, living in vans, squatting, eating cheap food, and avoiding hiring roadies whenever they could. Both had local police stake them out, crash their gigs, beat members and fans up, and plant cocaine in their vehicles for dubious reasons. Most importantly, both bands had brutally assailing hardcore rock music and their gigs were crazy and unpredictable as all Hell. So you'd think when touring together, they'd get along, right?
Well, not really. Exploited vocalist Wattie Buchan wasn't too fond of Americans and thus felt obligated to despise Black Flag. Tensions rose when guitarist Gregg Ginn reportedly accused the Exploited of ripping off a riff in one of the band's earlier songs "American Waste" (the Exploited song in question is not known), and Buchan and a few of his roadies tried to steal some of Black Flag's stereo equipment when their members were trying to sleep. To this day Henry Rollins and Wattie Buchan still talk shit about each other in interviews.
Neil Young vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd
Man, Neil Young's songs 'Alabama' and 'Southern Man' sorta backfired when southern rock legend Lynyrd Skynyrd released the diss track directed towards Young, titled "Sweet Home Alabama", one of the most popular and profitable songs in music history. Neil Young's two politically oriented ballads focused on the south's history of slavery and racism, and members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were not in the least bit happy with the way he had painted it. The lyrics in Skynyrd's song "Southern man don't need him around" are some of the snarkiest lyrics in history. Some other lyrics in the song include ominously praising comments about Alabama's then Governor and horrendous racist George Wallace, though lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant claimed that the lyrics "In Birmingham everyone loved the governor (boo, boo, boo)" were sarcastic (and few listeners heard the "boo" part) and that he hated Wallace. Though that's another story entirely, it didn't prove very effective in defusing or countering the political aspect of Neil Young's songs.
The feud had more or less been resolved around 1976 (shortly before Van Zant and many other members of Skynyrd were killed in a plane crash), when Young and the rest of the members hammed it up in an aftershow party and had a few beers.