Posted on 01/13/2026 2:47:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
Edited on 01/13/2026 4:13:43 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Stephen King and music. How much of a musical maverick can we consider someone whose wife nearly left him because of his obsession with ‘Mambo No. 5’?
So, I repeat, how much of a musical maverick can we consider someone whose wife nearly left him because of his obsession with ‘Mambo No. 5’? Well, it turns out, a lot of people value the opinion of this horror author when it comes to music. As someone pretty intrinsically linked with the world of rock ‘n’ roll, many consider King a go-to when it comes to head-banging recommendations, and as such, when he was doing interviews for the recent film adaptation of The Long Walk, people asked for his take on some music.
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Black Sabbath asks “Who is Stephen King?”
King is an idiot about everything other than writing books.
No, he’s just an untalented hack, who steals from other writers.
We knew he was sto0pid but come on, Rancid AND Springsteen? Dude has a screw loose. We knew that when he tried to make a movie with John Mellonhead.
Iron Man?
Paranoid?
War Pigs?
Some of the best music of the rock era.
Meh.
I read "The Stand" because everyone kept telling me how great it was. When literal "deus ex machina" is your way of writing your way out of the corner, you are not that good a writer.
Who gives a rats ass what that bonehead commie likes?
BKMK
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Masters of Reality was my first album! Can’t be beat
Butt metal?
No, death to all BUT metal.
He steals that stuff? Who from? Grimm Brothers?
King’s stuff is that simple. Misery is just an extended Twilight Zone episode.
He stole a lot of stuff from HP Lovecraft, who weas bad enough.
No mention of Led Zeppelin....further proof this dope is a brain dead POS...
Agree! Love his books!
“Children of the Grave,” by Sabbath is great, and, of course “Stonehenge.”
Stephen King is the closest living example of the infinite monkeys typing on typewriters.
He can write. But most of his early books were variations upon him rehashing and rewriting how he got bullied in high school in the 50's for being different and weird. He never got over it.
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