Listened to Billie Jean while cleaning, wondered what the all time playlist might be.

I imagine Kanye, Clapton, Pink Floyd, James Brown, Ike Turner all make the cut with MJ but I’m curious what Lemmy comes up with!

  • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Austrian Death Machine. The singer (Tim Lambesis) tried to hire a hitman to murder his wife.

    Iced Earth: the lead guitarist (Jon Schaeffer) is a founding member of a right wing militia group and participated in the 2021 storming of the US Capitol.

    • Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      What? Oh no… I just found them :( time to Google and then un-love them

      Edit oh for pity’s sake… That’s awful, why do people do things like that. Damn, I guess I’ll just go ahead and trade in the CD I bought.

      In a strange way, thank you for helping me find out sooner than later. :)

      • Classy@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        I still listen to them. I can separate the art from the artist. Hell, it’s hard to find a clean soul in a good artist out there, sometimes. I can’t deny that You Won’t Get What You Want was one of the most visceral experiences I’ve ever had listening to an album. Sometimes you can listen to something with knowledge of the experiences of the artist who made it and it can change or enhance your experience. Kind of like listening to Manson’s old folk music…

        Regardless, yeah he’s a piece of shit. Doesn’t change the fact that Daughters is damn good music. At least YWGWYW. Hell Songs and Canada Songs are kind of meh for me.

    • girl@sopuli.xyz
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      5 months ago

      Roger Waters is a conservative shitass, the rest are cool as far as I’m aware. I certainly havent let it stop me from enjoying pink floyd, though I have more trouble separating the art from the artist in other situations (lookin at you JK Rowling)

      • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Conservative? I think I’d check your own ass for shit since you’ve got it exactly backward.

      • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Conservative? Last concert I saw with him he was liberal AF. On what do you base his conservatism?

        PF (Gilmour et al) is conservative enough…rich old white dudes.

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Definitely Chris Brown. Also, the rapper who continued his concert while people suffocated to death in the crowd. I forgot his name.

    • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Was anything confirmed, or is this another set of career-ending allegations that people are stupidly accepting without concrete proof?

        • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
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          4 months ago

          To be clear, I’m not commenting on the allegations, just people’s automatic acceptance of them. People need to be heard, but in a situation like this, both parties need to be equally scrutinized. You can’t deny that there are individuals who are taking advantage of recent movements and destroying people’s careers. That can be true even if the majority of allegations made are truthful.

  • fᵣₑfᵢ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    I still listen to Stone Temple Pilots and Red Hot Chili Peppers

    EDIT: oops, i’m tired and may have misread what OP posted. are we supposed to naming the worst POS musicians out there? Because if so, R Kelly should be on the list

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Sinead O’Connor got cancelled for ripping up a photo of the pope. The a wave of paedophile priest accusations hit and hasn’t really stopped since.

      • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        Opposed war after September 11th. Their careers got destroyed for it. One of them released some solo stuff a few years ago and they covered how big the backlash was for their statements.