Robert Plant demanded a London bar stopped playing Radiohead, branding it ''rhyming crap''.
The Led Zeppelin rocker dislikes the melancholy five-piece so much he asked staff at Camden's Fifty Five Bar to change the record because it was ruining his night.
A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: ''Robert was drinking with a woman and didn't like the choice of tunes playing.
''Radiohead was on and he started complaining. He said, 'What's this rhyming crap?' ''
However, when staff put on the Red Hot Chili Peppers instead, the 59-year-old was still unimpressed.
The insider added: ''The staff were obviously keen to please so they changed their music. They put on the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who they thought might be more up his street. But he didn't like their stuff either and said it was like a 'nursery rhyme'.
''He then said he wanted to listen to Captain Beefheart, an American musician who was famous at a similar time to Zeppelin from the 60s to the early 80s.''
Captain Beefheart, whose real name is Don Glen Vliet, was a musician and singer known for his surreal lyrics and harmonica skills.
He is best known for Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's 1969 LP 'Trout Mask Replica'.
see this is why you have clear title threads jimmy.
i always thought his name was Don VAN Vliet? what's this Glen business?
not jimmy, johnny,
here
you're right beefcake.
''Don GLEN Vliet''? Do some research, you reporter you.
My hatred of Robert Plant has just diminished verrrry slightly.
interesting.
never understood Beefheart myself.. not that I gave it much of a chance..
Oops. Too slow.
Plant also dislikes RHCP, like every other right-thinking person
yay, i'm not wrong!
i'd rather listen to beefheart than radio head or red hot chilli peppers myself
Perhaps if Robert Plant liked rhymes more, he might be a better lyricist.
Ditto.
''..go walking through the park every day''... ?? yeah.. baby.. yeah.. babe babe babe babyyyy
To arch, that is.
You can take my Tolkein sex blues from my cold dead hands...
Go Bobby, the man has taste.
Gollum, the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her, yeah
a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous.
got me?
I dunno but i've been told devil woman ain't got no SOUL
SOUL OF A WOMAN WAS CREATED BELOW
oh yeah
its perfect!
I like that song. In fact Trout Mask Replica is the only album of his I have. I still don't like the rest of the album
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I don't really understand how this is news.
Robert Plant Enjoys RHCP would make a good Onion article
frenk said 2 minutes ago: Can we all agree to hate RHCPs? Yes. Yes, we can.
nope
i love - uplift movo party plan, freaky styley, mothers milk and blood sugar
I don't understand how it's discussable.
heck modi - at least its somewhat music related
As opposed to your and Alex's 3 volume tome?
not a shock that plant's not into radiohead is it. at least the 3 or so most recent albums.
I reckon the Radiohead song must have been ''Idioteque'' or something. There's barely any rhyming on ''Karma Police''.
I imagine planty is a bit of a tool but seriously who plays radiohead in a bar unless it is closing time and you are trying to make people leave.
i'm seeding with plant.
It's London, remember. They're like royalty amongst a certain sub-species over there.
The worst thing about this whole debacle is that it's got us all discussing the relevant merits of Radiohead and Robert Plant when neither of them have got many.
oh dear.
'root for plant'? no?
All great albums at the time, but I won't defend them as a band.
as opposed to? Where aren't they like royalty?
My house and my friends' houses.
its quite often that i think a pub is playing shit music.... its a pub.
hillsonghoods said 3 hours ago:
Perhaps if Robert Plant read less Tolkien, he might be a better lyricist.
fixed.
Radiohead vs Zeppelin... Who would have thought?
onya rob
They were almost certainly playing ''Creep'' so I'm siding with Plant.