Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor as your taste in beer...

by DiS News [Edit this content] ▾ 41 comments 13:13 May 31st, 2005

So you drink Carling? Goodie for you - at least that way when you taste a real beer it'll feel like being reborn, or something. But please, sort your lugholes out and switch them on to some NEW and EXCITING music, eh?

You - yes, you, Mr Carling, have voted Robbie Williams the best live solo artist in, like, the world. To add insult to injury, you've also picked U2 as the best live band. Forgive us for calling you a pleb but, well, you're a pleb.

The survey by Carling polled 5,000 'music fans'. Williams beat off (heh) competition from David Bowie and - excuse me while I puke into my own lap - Paul Weller. Also in the top ten for live solo performers were Jimi Hendrix (um, dead?) and Madonna. On the live band front, The Who, the Rolling Stones and Coldplay ranked highly.

A man from Carling said: "It's great to see that current bands like Oasis can sit comfortably alongside rock greats like The Who and Rolling Stones".

Alongside the live poll, the beer also asked people for their favourite albums and singles of all time, leading to the standard The Stone Roses, Definitely Maybe and Nevermind responses for the former, and 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', 'Imagine' and 'Love Wil... Apa... Ag...'... zzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor as your taste in beer...

what did you expect? mainstream, innit

darkpigeon | 31 May '05, 13:22 | X | Reply

Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor as your taste in beer...

"Williams beat off (heh).."

Hah, I choked on my lunch reading that.

kittensgotclaws | 31 May '05, 13:40 | X | Reply

Re: Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor as y

Um, where else do you think most news comes from?
The stuff in your paper?
The items on the television?

You think journalists MAKE news?

Mike_Diver @Bob-ster | 31 May '05, 14:01 | X | Reply

Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor as y

Don't shit on 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. That truly is the greatest single of all time. Up there 'Come Out 2Nite' by Kenickie. Superb.

bagsy54 | 31 May '05, 14:25 | X | Reply

Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor as your taste in beer...

You think journalists MAKE news?

yes. not music journalists as much tho.

will this turn into a 'whats an indie kids favourite booze topic?
yes
okay

either Vodka straight or Fosters. Maybe double amaretto and coke if i want something that has a nice taste

Jordan_229_2 | 31 May '05, 14:26 | X | Reply

Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor as your taste in beer...

The greatest beer in the world (that I have tasted so far) is Hoegaarden. And I'm sure I've spelled that wrong.

brusma | 31 May '05, 14:42 | X | Reply

Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor as your taste in beer...

Carling, whilst not the best beer in the world, is relatively cheap
So it'll continue to be liberally poured down my throat, ta very much

JustJay | 31 May '05, 14:48 | X | Reply

Re: Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor as your taste in beer...

"AND I like U2. So shoot me"

Don't tempt me

xx

alphabetachacharlie @Doive | 31 May '05, 14:55 | X | Reply

Re: Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor as your taste in beer...

yeh, its spelt
F O S T E R S

Jordan_229_2 @brusma | 31 May '05, 15:09 | X | Reply

Re: Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor as your taste in beer...

ah, but can you say it [properly]?

TomA @brusma | 31 May '05, 15:13 | X | Reply

Re: Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor as your taste in beer...

most wifebeaters aren't computer literate

darkpigeon @SoulofNathan | 31 May '05, 15:36 | X | Reply

Re: Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor

I'm pleased to have provided you with a little after-lunch merriment.

'Tho I, too, am a journalist, trained and everything.
But I only have a few minutes per day to add stories to DiS.
So if something reads a little recycled (which this isn't, by the way - only the hard facts are taken from any press release), please do forgive me that.

Dare I ask what you're a journalist on? A paper? A magazine? The radio? I've worked in the national and local press, so hopefully I'm not being looked down upon by someone who's still chasing up stories about grannies being pestered by hoodie-ed 14-year-olds on a council estate in Bromsgrove.

Being investigative is something to be proud of, and believe me when I say that if I had the time and resources to do so myself the DiS news section would be running exclusives every single day. I have contacts enough to ensure that we got the gossip before anywhere else (NME, Playlouder). But I don't have the time. So it doesn't. Apologies there, sir.

But anyway, glad to be of some amusing service on an otherwise dull afternoon back at the 9-5 grind after a prolonged weekend of booze and sunshine.

Mike_Diver @Bob-ster | 31 May '05, 15:45 | X | Reply

Re: Carling drinkers: your music taste is as poor

bitter is awful. it's so bland that you barely notice you're drinking it. (I'm basing this entirely on John Smith's and Bodd's, I'm sure there are some better bitters out there, but these two are poor). 80/- (is that the symbol for shilling?), now THAT's a drink...

kovacs @adam_ant_is_god | 31 May '05, 15:59 | X | Reply