Liking bands you're not supposed to like

[Jemble Fred]

Well I've never cared for Snow Patrol, but I have to listen to them right now because they're on Chris Evans' show on Radio 2 this minute, and so is Paul McCartney. And he is my favourite man.

[Part Chimp]

How is 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me' not one of the ultimate 90's anthems?

Christ, I'd forgotten about that milksop cunt of a singer from Travis.

Why does it always rain on me?
Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?
Why does it always rain on me?
Even when the sun is shining
I can't avoid the lightning

That's one of the anthems of the 90s is it? I think it falls more into the class of song that people listen to now, thinking they like it, but are in fact horrified to discover what shit taste their younger selves had.

[Jemble Fred]

Well it's not a personal favourite on a par with Flowers In The Window or Tied To The Nineties, but it still beats anything from these bands that have rushed into Travis' footsteps. And seeing as I always felt Travis were a sort of cut-price mix of Oasis, Dodgy and Radiohead, it's little wonder that so much mainstream 21st century rock sounds so diluted.

[purlieu]

Well yes, Fran Healy has always been a second rate lyricist.  I still reckon "in the hearse/going through your purse" is possibly the worst lyric I've ever heard, other than maybe Damon Albarn's phenomenal "the road is hot and dusty/the desert needs a beer/if we go and blow it up/we might disappear".
But he can write a fantastic pop melody, and there's never been anything pretentious about them, other than the 'political' promotional campaign that came with 12 Memories.  Which is why I rate them above the rest of these bands.  Who were the others?  Starsailor and Athlete.  Oh, and Idlewild when Roddy decided he preferred folk music to punk, but didn't realise he couldn't actually write it.

[trotsky assortment]

In a hearse / going through your purse?

Had he borrowed Noel Gallagher's copy of 'My First Ladybird Book of Rhyming Words'?