Bob Geldof says "I am responsible for two of the worst songs in history."

[METALPRIEST]

Bob Geldof says he's sorry for writing one of the worst songs in the world.
"I am responsible for two of the worst songs in history. [One is] 'Do They Know It's Christmas? The other one is 'We Are The World,' he tells Australia's Daily Telegraph. "Any day soon, I will go to the supermarket, head to the meat counter and it will be playing. Every [expletive] Christmas."

The Irish singer, who wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?" with Midge Ure for Band Aid in 1984, says he also gets irritated when carolers perform the charity hit in front of his home during the holidays.

"They think 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' is as old as 'Silent Night,'" Geldof says. "Sometimes I think that's wild because I wrote it. Or else I am thinking how much I want them to stop because they are doing it really badly."





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[Canadian Air Force]

I have a soft spot for Do They Know It's Christmas?

 

[Death on Credit]

I would like to call for the bastard to be hanged for crimes against humanity...But I think that the pain of having to live with himself after writing those terrible, terrible songs is probably punishment enough.

 

[That 70s Guy]

He is right.

 

[METALPRIEST]

 

[METALPRIEST]

I always thought this didn't get the media attention it deserved....it was really a GREAT sounding recording and song. The singers were all spot on, delivered their message, sang their asses off and ROCKED THE HOUSE!!

 

[Lynch]

Bob Geldof has always rubbed me the wrong way, at least since the whole Live Aid thing. He seems very much like a "hey look at me" sorta guy. Live Aid, as a concert, was pretty cool. As a charity-type event, I have no clue how succesful it really was. Live8 bothered me but I won't go into that here.

Anyway, as a singing career, wtf did this guy ever do? The Boomtown Rats? C'mon. You're WHO? Other than the charity things I mentioned and playing "Pink" in the movie The Wall, which was only memorable because of the soundtrack which he had nothing at all to do with... this guy hasn't done ANYTHING worthy of remembering. So, now he's opening his mouth saying "hey looko at me" again.

 

[Lynch]

I always thought this didn't get the media attention it deserved....it was really a GREAT sounding recording and song. The singers were all spot on, delivered their message, sang their asses off and ROCKED THE HOUSE!!

MUCH MUCH better than We Are The World.

 

[Lynch]

By the way, that christmas tune that geldof was involved in....

YouTube - Band Aid - Do They Know its Christmas 1984

Am I the only one looking back at that video and saying "why is it that NONE of them could find a freakin' comb that day" (well other than Phil Collins and he has the least amount of hair of anyone in the video)

 

[METALPRIEST]

Bob Geldof has always rubbed me the wrong way, at least since the whole Live Aid thing. He seems very much like a "hey look at me" sorta guy. Live Aid, as a concert, was pretty cool. As a charity-type event, I have no clue how succesful it really was. Live8 bothered me but I won't go into that here.

Anyway, as a singing career, wtf did this guy ever do? The Boomtown Rats? C'mon. You're WHO? Other than the charity things I mentioned and playing "Pink" in the movie The Wall, which was only memorable because of the soundtrack which he had nothing at all to do with... this guy hasn't done ANYTHING worthy of remembering. So, now he's opening his mouth saying "hey looko at me" again.

Although I do like I Don't LIke Mondays...