George Noory Sucks! - The Definitive Compendium

[NoMoreNoory]

You can hear Coast to Coast (and all their other shows on CKNW and some other Canadian stations) for 10 days in their audio vault section.  However, I'd only listen if you gave me the time it was mentioned as I'm obviously not going to listen to that whole bit of nonsense again.

I was taken aback myself with the comment but I don't recall him passing any judgement ether way except that his comment that homosexuality can be 'prevented'  obviously suggested he thought it was some kind of defect.

You've lost me. How about you go listen to the 30 second clip I posted?

[136 or 142]

Yeah you just described their sound from maybe 35 years ago.  When they were still wearing Kimonos.

To be fair, while Rush has had a few hits in Canada since the late 1970s/early 1980s, I believe they've been entirely off the radar in the United State since then.  Of course, some of their albums have sold well in the United States since then.

[136 or 142]

You've lost me. How about you go listen to the 30 second clip I posted?

Ok, thanks, I played it. I didn't know it was just a thirty second clip.

Yes, at the end of the clip he says "we can save society a lot of misery." As he mentions a whole variety of 'defects' it's impossible to know if he was referring to homosexuality as part of that misery, but, I agree with you, it certainly can be argued he did.

If it wasn't enough that he is making claims about the abilities of his supplements that I've never heard any credible supplement seller make (as opposed to the quacks who make similar claims) this certainly makes him a major league asshole.

That said, I still hold that Noory was likely so taken aback by the comment that he let it slide, or that he wasn't listening.

[nextgen.fm]

does anyone else put george's show on a really big speaker and lay themselves on top of it so you can feel that wine barrel cured voice of his more intimately?

[Jorch Einstein]

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A modern day douchebag
Dumb, dumb shite
Today's Jorch Sawyer
Scared of mean, mean babies

Though his mind does not exist
Don't put him down as Tommy's ex
His reserve a dumb arrogance
Sleeping through Coast's broadcasts
The shit river

What you say about Coast's callers
Is what you say about society
Catch the shit, catch the muck
Catch the mire, catch the cack

The toilet is, the toilet is
Jorch's shite is deep
Maybe as his toupe's lame

Today's Jorch Sawyer
He gets high on pizza rolls
And your airwaves he invades
He gets by on Annie from Alabama and Cornelius

[zeebo]

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Scared of mean, mean babies

Hearing this line with the music behind it is cracking me up.

[DanTSX]

To be fair, while Rush has had a few hits in Canada since the late 1970s/early 1980s, I believe they've been entirely off the radar in the United State since then.  Of course, some of their albums have sold well in the United States since then.

They are one of the highest grossing, highest sell-out audience touring acts on the road when they tour.

Every night they play an arena, everyone with autism and assbergers within 150 miles convenes to hear Rush live.

Their albums sell well.  They underwent a strange and unexplainable renaissance or resurgence over the past ten years, peaking about 5 years ago, where Rush was cool and was popping up all over the map from special guest appearances and cameos to showing up in video games and their clips showing up in commercials and sports promo breaks.  This was refreshing because during my time in high school, rush was the nerd band.  They still kind of are, and I accept that.  The nerds of my youth are now the guys calling the shots and making all the money, while the cool kids peaked before they were out of college.

[DanTSX]

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I fucking LOVE this website



GEORGE YOU SUCK

[136 or 142]

They are one of the highest grossing, highest sell-out audience touring acts on the road when they tour.

Every night they play an arena, everyone with autism and assbergers within 150 miles convenes to hear Rush live.

Their albums sell well.  They underwent a strange and unexplainable renaissance or resurgence over the past ten years, peaking about 5 years ago, where Rush was cool and was popping up all over the map from special guest appearances and cameos to showing up in video games and their clips showing up in commercials and sports promo breaks.  This was refreshing because during my time in high school, rush was the nerd band.  They still kind of are, and I accept that.  The nerds of my youth are now the guys calling the shots and making all the money, while the cool kids peaked before they were out of college.

It seems  "New World Man" was Rush's only top 40 hit in the U.S, and, like I said, their last top 100 was in the 'early' 1980s (1985 to be precise).  However, they've made the Billboard Rock Track Chart as recently as 2007.
http://www.musicvf.com/Rush.art

[Nick el Ass]

I don't believe the 'doctor' said that.  He said something like 'homosexuality can be cured with my supplements."

I agree that homosexuality doesn't need to be 'cured' but I don't believe he said it caused harm to society.

As he is apparently a medical doctor, I believe his liscence can be taken away from him for making the claims he is.

It is so revolting to hear a doctor make such claims as "being able to prevent transgender, gay and lesbian behavior" because he wants  to "save society a lot of unnecessary misery." This doctor needs to lose his license, and Dave his job. Fuck Coast to Coast Am... and if you want to stand by him than that is equally messed up too.

[DanTSX]

It seems  "New World Man" was Rush's only top 40 hit in the U.S, and, like I said, their last top 100 was in the 'early' 1980s (1985 to be precise).  However, they've made the Billboard Rock Track Chart as recently as 2007.
http://www.musicvf.com/Rush.art

Those are just two data points.

Not trying to argue with you, but if you are trying to make some point that they are unpopular or unsuccessful, it's not convincing anyone.  I realize and accept that their sound is polarizing and attracts a hundred geeks for every woman who doesn't immediately turn the radio station.

[akwilly]

coast to coast is like the women in my town. they are ugly and terrrible but they are all I've go so I don't complain to much, and Art is like a hottie that just keeps teasing me.

[Humilia Lepus Foramen]

^ Hmm that quote pretty much captures my sentiment of why I'm still listening

[NoMoreNoory]

It is so revolting to hear a doctor make such claims as "being able to prevent transgender, gay and lesbian behavior" because he wants  to "save society a lot of unnecessary misery." This doctor needs to lose his license, and Dave his job. Fuck Coast to Coast Am... and if you want to stand by him than that is equally messed up too.

If only Dave's momma could have taken those supplements, we might have been saved from all this unnecessary misery.

[136 or 142]

Those are just two data points.

Not trying to argue with you, but if you are trying to make some point that they are unpopular or unsuccessful, it's not convincing anyone.  I realize and accept that their sound is polarizing and attracts a hundred geeks for every woman who doesn't immediately turn the radio station.

No, I was just stating the whole facts, not trying to make any point.  If I were to make any point though, given that rock radio has always had a lot less stations than top 100 radio and given that I don't know if Rush has even had a song played on top 100 radio since 1985, it's understandable that no American other than Rush fans would be aware that they are no longer Ayn Rand devotees.

In regards to 'just two data points' I'd assume that if any Rush song (not album) had been on any other Billboard U.S chart, it would have been posted there.  There is (or, at least, used to be) both a 'modern rock' chart and a 'rock' chart, but other than they presumably reflect air play on different types of radio stations, I have no idea what the criteria for either chart is.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

George was amazed many Americans can't afford $500 to repair their car when it suddenly packs it in.  He joked that he needed $500 from Ms. Fitts.  Thanks for that demonstration of sensitivity  to millions of Americans, George, and for revealing your level of empathy and connection to the common person.

[DanTSX]

Meh.  Charts are for selling advertising.

Which reminds me....take a look at the loser companies and products that Noory's show books or gets blocked with..,,,

[Juan Cena]

I needed to hear Catherine Austin-Fitz tonight like Miley Cyrus needs a mountain of cocaine in her back yard.

[Juan Cena]

George was amazed many Americans can't afford $500 to repair their car when it suddenly packs it in.  He joked that he needed $500 from Ms. Fitts.  Thanks for that demonstration of sensitivity  to millions of Americans, George, and for revealing your level of empathy and connection to the common person.

I wouldn't expect any less from a right-wing-leaning iHateRadio host.

[Juan Cena]

"I held up the photo to my third eye..."

Snorge  used to hold photos up to his third eye. His mama would spank him whe she caught him doing it, and told him he'd go bling and his palms would get hairy from doing it.

[goldendeal]

Tonight's show is a complete bore-fest"

[Nick el Ass]

If only Dave's momma could have taken those supplements, we might have been saved from all this unnecessary misery.

If only his mom could have swallowed the, dude. Life would be great.

[PB the Deplorable]

No, I was just stating the whole facts, not trying to make any point.  If I were to make any point though, given that rock radio has always had a lot less stations than top 100 radio and given that I don't know if Rush has even had a song played on top 100 radio since 1985, it's understandable that no American other than Rush fans would be aware that they are no longer Ayn Rand devotees.

In regards to 'just two data points' I'd assume that if any Rush song (not album) had been on any other Billboard U.S chart, it would have been posted there.  There is (or, at least, used to be) both a 'modern rock' chart and a 'rock' chart, but other than they presumably reflect air play on different types of radio stations, I have no idea what the criteria for either chart is.

No those are not the 'whole facts', and were indeed just 2 data points

Here are a few more facts:

Studio Album / U.S. Peak Chart Position (Top 10 albums only)

Permanent Waves / 4
Moving Pictures / 3
Signals / 10
Grace Under Pressure / 10
Power Windows / 10
Roll the Bones / 3
Counterparts / 2
Test For Echo / 5
Vapor Trails / 6
Snakes & Arrows / 3
Clockwork Angels / 2

They have 24 gold records and 7 Grammy nominations.  They were more of an album oriented band, and known for their live shows, not for grinding out a bunch of singles.

[Beelzebubbelah]

An open question, Rat-Eating-Haturz......

Though we have Noory foisted on us tonight, it has been wonderful to have three successive weekends almost free of his half-witted mumblings and bumblings. One thing that stands out for me, listening to Knapp and Syrett, is their bumper music. Carefully chosen, interesting and commented on. That is in the starkest possible contrast to Noory who plays the same stuff in rotation. He apparently only knows one Tony Bennett song, for example. So much of it is dreck and/or stolen from Art. And he never has any original choices, and never has illuminating comments to make about the music, as both K & S do. It put me in mind of this Shakespeare quotation..... (Lorenzo, The Merchant Of Venice)

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

And now the open question. I was struck by something over the last few weekends. Last night, Syrett played us out with Oh! Happy Day (in a version I didn't know if anyone can illumine) and back in with Dr John. Knapp was playing Marvin Gaye last weekend, and other examples of black artists who slip my memory. I was suddenly and uncomfortably struck by the thought that I really can't remember Noory playing any black music. Can anyone put me right? Please.........

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'Allo,Bull_Gabbers!!
Still with you in this den of inequity.
Been cogitateing about why i'm feeling actually some and then empathy for mr.noory.
i have decided that,the flaws you all excoriate in this particular forum thread are an product of some kind of long-term genetic disorder that is not discussed on the air for obvious reasons by mr.n.
i think that mr.n.actually has been deceased and then re-animated.
i wonder now,if he's an substituted puppet/cyber-noory simalicra that is being operated via cables from an krewe in another room of the complex like those audio-animatrons of disney's frontier-land,ie,'young mr.lincoln'.
Thus,the long pauses,filler vocal sounds,mis-pronounciations,and general sloppy voice and thought mannerisms.
Und zo,i've relegated the noory-calypse to an back burner for a few months whilst i look for the beings that are literally pulling his strings.
Perhaps,the stories of mr.h.p.lovecraft,for example,are relevant here.
Additionally,i'd like to state for the record that,in reference to mr.noory not playing any'black'music,is that meaning by non-caucasian races performers,or as in 'black'=negative or anti-normative in the sense of,say,'black mass' or equivalent dark type music???
"B_B"

[Juan Cena]

Les Baxter was a highly underrated composer. I primarily know him from his movie work with Roger Corman and AIP.  He composed a wonderful score for the Corman/Poe/Lovecraft pastiche, The Haunted Palace with Vincent Price.

Baxter's experiments with African, Polynesian, Asian, and Latin/Caribbean rhythyms predate similar dabblings by The Beatles, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, etc. Of course Baxter never got any real credit for that until recently, even though Exotica albums sold very well in the 50's and 60s.

[PB the Deplorable]

And PS, look who does have high ranking singles:  Jennifer Lopez, Brittney Spears, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Psy, just to name a few 'stars'. 

So, you know, I wouldn't put much stock in using music statistics - especially 'singles' - to determine quality

[136 or 142]

And PS, look who does have high ranking singles:  Jennifer Lopez, Brittney Spears, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Psy. 

So, you know, I wouldn't put much stock in using music statistics to determine quality

1.Taylor Swift is enormously talented, I agree most of the rest of those aren't very good.  Of course, there are also many good artists who have high rankings singles.

2.It was more than '2 data points', as I said, that site would certainly have mentioned if any other Rush song had been on any other Billboard chart, so it includes
all the other charts that Rush wasn't on as well.

3.As I said at the time, my post was to show the extent to which non Rush fans would have been familiar with Rush music, and except for fans who listen to the "Rock Track stations", beyond the mid 1980s hardly any music listener would have heard a Rush song.  So, my point was to prove that hardly any  non Rush fans in the United States would have had any reason to be aware that the band were no longer Ayn Rand devotees, and I believe I've shown that rather conclusively.

Being in Canada, the band still does receive a fair amount of airplay on pretty much all non top 40s stations and they probably had top 40 singles on the Canadian charts after 1985, especially "Roll the Bones", so I was aware that 1.they were no longer Ayn Rand fans, 2.they had become among the most active humanitarians in the country.

[PB the Deplorable]

I needed to hear Catherine Austin-Fitz tonight like Miley Cyrus needs a mountain of cocaine in her back yard.

Cathy Fitz was on again - if this continues Linda is going to be jealous.


Marcy Playground - Sex And Candy

[PB the Deplorable]

1.Taylor Swift is enormously talented...

Well, enjoy enjoy

Given your posts in general, I think you tend to be overly impressed with statistics you read (and tend to believe them without question).  Miss Swift is more of same - sure, she has talent but do you truly want to listen to that? 

[136 or 142]

Well, enjoy enjoy

This reminds me of Elvis Costello who defended the Tiffany (Darwish) ("I Think We're Alone Now") song "Radio Romance" saying something like "You should show her some respect, she's singing her heart out." and then adding "Music is meant to be enjoyed and it really is kind of pointless to criticize anybody's taste in music" right before ripping apart Led Zeppelin.