I think its really bad that Westlife have beaten some credible acts to the album no1 by releasing an album of totally uncredible cover versions. As if they havent already released enough cover versions!!

Westlife are the 21st Century equivalent of the early 1960s act George Mitchell (Black & White) Minstrels.

 

In 30/40 years time people will recoil with horror as to how an act like Westlife became so popular.

 

 

Not necessarily.

Look at another act from the 50s/60s that performed mainly cover material and never really wrote his own songs.

 

and also i think you should not compare Westlife to the Minstrels as of the racist thing obv.

I think its really bad that Westlife have beaten some credible acts to the album no1 by releasing an album of totally uncredible cover versions. As if they havent already released enough cover versions!!

 

meanwhile in the worst albums of all time list...Westlife realize that they should follow it up with a rap album

 

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and also i think you should not compare Westlife to the Minstrels as of the racist thing obv.

 

I think you are missing the point. Looking back now, of course the Minstrels are/were racist, but back in the late 1950s & early 1960s they were not regarded as such by the 1950s/1960s equivalent of Tesco mums & Asda dads. Even in the 1970s Croft & Perry's "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" and ITV's "Mind Your Language" were hugely popular TV comedies but you will never see them on cable TV now as they are regarded as racist. While in the 1950s/early 1960s, the public was much more narrow minded and horrendously homophobic, compared to what it is now (Thank God).

 

The point about Westlife is that they are the modern equivalent of the Ink Spots, Pat Boone, Jim Reeves, the Bachelors, Val Doonican, Des O'Connor, etc. You never hear any of these old acts songs played on the radio now, because they were of little musical merit, yet they were hugely popular at the time, with the record buying public.

 

As for the Minstrels, they had two chart topping albums spending a total of 15 weeks at number 1, where they stopped both Cliff Richard & the Shadows "Me & My Shadows" & Elvis Presley "Something For Everybody" albums reaching the top spot in the UK as well as the most watched TV entertainment show in the UK (1961 & 1962) so my comparison is very valid IMHO.

and its not only Westlife getting a kicking:

 

the mail said this today of the Oasis album if it gets to #1:

 

"Depressingly this album is expected to be No1 this evening, ahead of U2, The Beatles' Love and George Michael's Twenty Five all of which are in a different league. When a band's best of isnt much good, it says quite a lot.

 

The best of Oasis could be contained on a 7in single, with wonderwall on one side and Don't Look Back In Anger on the other"

 

so if westlife and oasis get the top 2 spaces in the charts is suppose you could say that no ones got any taste.

I don't understand why the Sun are so vitriolic.

 

I like many Oasis songs - I have two of their albums - and I would much rather listen listen to their album than the new Westlife songs.

 

But....

 

the Oasis album is mainly made up of songs that have all been released before. From albums that all sold over a million.

Even the B-sides are from a big-selling album and can be easily downloaded for 80p.

 

The Westlife album is made up of songs that Westlife have never released before. And they released a #1 single ahead of it.

 

It's not surprising they beat Oasis - or a sign that Britain has terrible taste.

WETLIFE SUCK!

Ashes to ashes,

funk to funky...

People who purchase Westlife will generally have no particular interest in music - and because they are not a 'fashionable' boy band, they will have a fanbase made up of a lot of much older people who will remain dedicated... think why people like Daniel O'Donnald manage to sustain such as prolonged successful career. It is baffling!

I think its really bad that Westlife have beaten some credible acts to the album no1 by releasing an album of totally uncredible cover versions. As if they havent already released enough cover versions!!

I don't think Westlife's management bother with them anymore, I mean who would. Thats they they make them sing cover versions. But it's mainly the silly little teenie boppers who buy their records. IDIOTS.

 

They killed every single cover they have sang.

I don't understand why the Sun are so vitriolic.

 

I like many Oasis songs - I have two of their albums - and I would much rather listen listen to their album than the new Westlife songs.

 

But....

 

the Oasis album is mainly made up of songs that have all been released before. From albums that all sold over a million.

Even the B-sides are from a big-selling album and can be easily downloaded for 80p.

 

The Westlife album is made up of songs that Westlife have never released before. And they released a #1 single ahead of it.

 

It's not surprising they beat Oasis - or a sign that Britain has terrible taste.

Westlife appearing on last weeks X Factor might have helped them. I wouldn't at all be surprised in fact if that clinched the #1 position for them. But this is only conjecture.

But, Westlife's 'Management' is Louis Walsh - & their Ex-Manager is Simon Cowell! Why do you think that every time Westlife have an Album due, & 'The X Factor' Series is on, some of the Acts suddenly start singing the Covers off the latest Westlife Album? (It has happened in 2006, & it happened in 2005 too). They use the Show to Promote Westlife - and their Covers.

 

Simon signed Westlife to BMG Records - so he has connections with their Record Company too. So, 2 of 'The X Factor' Judges have Westlife connections.

 

Simon also signed Il Divo - & Louis is their Manager - and on the latest Il Divo Album is, 'You Raise Me Up' - just as it was on last Years Westlife Album.

 

Just as Simon Cowell had connections with Robson & Jerome, & Gareth Gates - and got both to release 'Unchained Melody' as Singles. Just as Louis is Il Divo's Manager - and they Covered 'Unchained Melody' on their last Album.

 

That is what you get from Louis & Simon Acts - lots of Covers - mostly Ballads - and they even get the Acts connected with them to Cover what each has already Covered!

 

They seem to think that making loads of cash out of this makes them very clever. It doesn't. It is just that a scary number of people fall for it. They are laughing all the way to the bank - the 2 guys who organise it all.

 

Simon does not even understand any Acts who are in the least bit 'different' - I heard that he says he does not 'get' the appeal of David Bowie or Kate Bush - 2 of the most Creative Acts ever. Simon thinks creativity is a strange thing - his idea of creativity is to use the Guinness Chart Book to choose Covers - it is also what Louis thinks is creativity.

 

Louis reckons that Westlife are the Greatest Group On Earth - he said so in 'The Sun' last week. (He also said that Shayne Ward was going to be, 'Bigger than Robbie Williams', about 11 Months ago).

 

It is a sad World when 2 such men can make heaps of cash out of getting 4 Puppets in Suits to do Covers. Still if that is what some people think is clever, & worth buying then so be it.

 

Most of us would rather pass on it!

Edited November 26, 200618 yr by zeus555

But, Westlife's 'Management' is Louis Walsh - & their Ex-Manager is Simon Cowell! Why do you think that every time Westlife have an Album due, & 'The X Factor' Series is on, some of the Acts suddenly start singing the Covers off the latest Westlife Album? (It has happened in 2006, & it happened in 2005 too). They use the Show to Promote Westlife - and their Covers.

 

Simon signed Westlife to BMG Records - so he has connections with their Record Company too. So, 2 of 'The X Factor' Judges have Westlife connections.

 

Simon also singed Il Divo - & Louis is their Manager - and on the latest Il Divo Album is, 'You Raise Me Up' - just as it was on last Years Westlife Album.

 

Just as Simon Cowell had connections with Robson & Jerome, & Gareth Gates - and got both to release 'Unchained Melody' as Singles. Just as Louis is Il Divo's Manager - and they Covered 'Unchained Melody' on their last Album.

 

That is what you get from Louis & Simon Acts - lots of Covers - mostly Ballads - and they even get the Acts connected with them to Cover what each has already Covered!

 

They seem to think that making loads of cash out of this makes them very clever. It doesn't. It is just that a scary number of people fall for it. They are laughing all the way to the bank - the 2 guys who organise it all.

 

Simon does not even understand any Acts who are in the least bit 'different' - I heard that he says he does not 'get' the appeal of David Bowie or Kate Bush - 2 of the most Creative Acts ever. Simon thinks creativity is a strange thing - his idea of creativity is to use the Guinness Chart Book to choose Covers - it is also what Louis thinks is creativity.

 

Louis reckons that Westlife are the Greatest Group On Earth - he said so in 'The Sun' last week. (He also said that Shayne Ward was going to be, 'Bigger than Robbie Williams', about 11 Months ago).

 

It is a sad World when 2 such men can make heaps of cash out of getting 4 Puppets in Suits to do Covers. Still if that is what some people think is clever, & worth buying then so be it.

 

Most of us would rather pass on it!

 

that's true

 

It is a sad World when 2 such men can make heaps of cash out of getting 4 Puppets in Suits to do Covers. Still if that is what some people think is clever, & worth buying then so be it.

 

same old story of records get played on shows with high reach - records get bought in masses/records get played on radio a lot - people buy records. either way at the end of the day advertisers are happy.

The press is making such an unecessary fuss around it. In fact, it even helps to raise Westlife´s profile. What´s so desperate about it? They had hundreads of #1´s in the past, why do this time around it´s considered a disaster, just because it beat the new collections of old songs from veteran rock bands?