Oh, and Coldplay. Chris Martin sings like Prince Herbert from Swamp Castle.
Oh, and Coldplay. Chris Martin sings like Prince Herbert from Swamp Castle.
Billy Joel - by far the worst ever! BLECH.
Bruce Springsteen
Journey
The Eagles
Grateful Dead
So I'm a Deadhead, as well as a 1977 punk. I like to mix it up a bit.
Those who love the Dead and those who hate them are both right. Their live shows could be truly horrible, Jerry nodding out and bumping into the mic.
When Garcia was on, they were utterly fantastic. What I wouldn't give to see the avuncular reprobate walk on stage one more time with Tiger, his custom Doug Irwin axe.
Flagpole wrote:
I honestly don't understand how anyone can hate The Beatles. They were before my time, so I have no nostalgia attached to them.
Their songs span a range of difference. Sad songs, love songs, slow songs, uptempo songs, rockin' songs. I can understand hating some of their songs, but to hate them as a band doesn't make any sense to me.
Yeah, what's with that anyways?!!!
Who couldn't like the Fab 4? Hey, don't bring me down.
-SP
CoachMostert wrote:
These are the bands, that if they come on the radio, I have to switch stations:
1. The Doors (Cheesy Ray Manzarek organ)
2.Tears For Fears (Adenoidal drivel)
3.DePeche Mode (I could add all the other 80's Brit synth-pop here)
4.Creed (And all the other poseur 80 BPM bands from the 90's)
5.Def Leppard (Mainly because of Mutt Lange's over production, not a member of NWOBM!)
Ray Manzerek's organ is like a teaser, very melodic and engaging, to suck you in from the very start. But that's just so Jim Morrison can clobber you with his theatrics and vocal assault. It's like a venus fly trap in the form of music.
You know Jim, the guy arrested on stage, and full of antics like screaming at his audience in the middle of a song 'you're all a bunch of f____'ng idiots!'
Hey, I can understand that some don't like their music, but Absolutely Live was masterful and tremendously influential. And Jim has a voice like no other.
Their music is at it's heart, though, very mundane, and one of the owner's of a venue they commonly played at called it "carnival" music. I think that's a good description. But again, all the better to lure the listener in so Jim can work his treachery.
AC/DC is the absolute worst and worst by a country mile. When one of their songs comes on I can't switch the station fast enough. Absolutely cringe-worthy.
Bootie and the Blowfish
Kansas
Madonna
Michael Jackson - he has a few good songs but the rest he sounds very creepy.
Creed
1. Jay-Z: Self proclaimed greatest rapper alive... and people believed him!
2. Kanye: Pretty much the same as Jay-Z. Should've just kept producing.
3-5: The gravely voice bands of the early 2000s. I don't even know their names. I've seen Nickleback and Creed in this list, and am pretty sure they are what I am talking about.
Sally Vix wrote:
AC/DC is the absolute worst and worst by a country mile. When one of their songs comes on I can't switch the station fast enough. Absolutely cringe-worthy.
Bootie and the Blowfish
Kansas
Madonna
Michael Jackson - he has a few good songs but the rest he sounds very creepy.
Creed
"Bootie and the Blowfish"? Clear to see where your mind is at.
Flagpole wrote:
Ca$hclay wrote:
Flagpole - I'm calling you out on Phish. Not in a bad way as we all have different taste of course. I just get the sense you not that far from where I was with them a few years ago, until ... a good friend of mine had me take an honest look and I started listening in the office as background noise. It was a process for me and while I am not and never will be full on phish head, these guys are simply unbelievable when it comes to improvisation. Have a listen (more than once if you dare) at your leisure sir and get them off your bottom 5 . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQrcvXAZL9MI appreciate the long response along with a video to listen to. Honestly, thanks for the attempt. Sorry though, brother, I just can't get into it. The singing is awful. I like the keyboard stuff at the beginning, but overall it's just long continuous unstructured noise. Most musicians know that improvising is easy. I don't see that they do it in any grand way. What is much more difficult is to create a song with a TIGHT band that plays it well...excellent lyrics, nice build up with solid verses and soaring chorus. This "thing" from Phish has none of that.
If I worked in a place that played music out loud, I think I'd rather listen to the cluckings of a hen house.
+10000
You met a new woman, you want to get laid? NEVER, EVER, take her to see phish.
Flagpole wrote: If I worked in a place that played music out loud, I think I'd rather listen to the cluckings of a hen house.
ROFL. A little drastic you think? To each his own though. I would add that as a very amateur musician, nothing they do during this extended improv is "easy." May your hens find harmony.
no phishing wrote: You met a new woman, you want to get laid? NEVER, EVER, take her to see phish.
LOL and reminds me of suffering through a Janet Jackson concert for that very reason. In the end, not sure it was worth it. Phish females are definitely ... different.
Bored at work wrote:
1. AC/DC. L-A-M-E
2. Taylor Swift. Why I gotta be so mean.
3. U2. You too? No, not me. Pretentious Bono.
4. Motley Crue. What's worse, the hairspray or the heroin?
5. REM. Oh how Michael Stipe is annoying!
ACDC????? What is wrong with you? How can you hate those guys?
1. Metallica
2. Nickleback
3. Guns and Roses
4. Coldplay
5 Radiohead
If you want to go into individuals that list could go on for days.
Primo Numero Uno wrote:
Bored at work wrote:
1. AC/DC. L-A-M-E
2. Taylor Swift. Why I gotta be so mean.
3. U2. You too? No, not me. Pretentious Bono.
4. Motley Crue. What's worse, the hairspray or the heroin?
5. REM. Oh how Michael Stipe is annoying!
ACDC????? What is wrong with you? How can you hate those guys?
1. Metallica
2. Nickleback
3. Guns and Roses
4. Coldplay
5 Radiohead
If you want to go into individuals that list could go on for days.
AC/DC is THE WORST. I can scream too but no one is paying me big money to scream. They are just screaming. Nothing more. SCREAMING. They are awful.
I gotta go with all the Styx votes. I hated them in hs. Couldn't stand the guys voice and the theatrics of their videos....Domo Arigato Mr Roboto....Tu tu tu tu too much time on my hands.....etc... I'd go to a real theatre and watch King Lear or Die Fladermause if I wanted bad acting from local hacks but I guess people liked them.
Many years later I had a kid come to practice wearing a retro STYX t-shirt. I stopped mid sentence giving team announcements to about 60 kids and looked right at him and told him to NEVER wear that damned shirt to practice again. EVER! He proceeded to wear it every day for the next couple years! Kinda funny "running joke that fewer people got but found out about later.
Then one 4th of July celebration the Chamber of Commerce or whomever decided it would be great to have STYX play before fireworks! I boycotted but could still hear them from a distance. To this day, they make me lurch when I hear them. Probably conditioned at a young age and so much saturation on the radio.
Sally Vix wrote:
Primo Numero Uno wrote:
ACDC????? What is wrong with you? How can you hate those guys?
1. Metallica
2. Nickleback
3. Guns and Roses
4. Coldplay
5 Radiohead
If you want to go into individuals that list could go on for days.
AC/DC is THE WORST. I can scream too but no one is paying me big money to scream. They are just screaming. Nothing more. SCREAMING. They are awful.
Agreed. There's a reason AC/DC is only played as entrance music at college football games.
I actually met Janis Joplin when I was running. She was a fan of high school cross country, so let's give her a break RIP
Old Ag wrote:
I actually met Janis Joplin when I was running. She was a fan of high school cross country, so let's give her a break RIP
I was going to chime in that i have spent a lot of time digging on her music, esp. the Cheap Thrills album, with Big Brother and teh Holding Co.
She would be towards the top of my list of fav. bands and albums rather than the bottom, for what that's worth.
seattle prattle wrote:
Flagpole wrote:
I honestly don't understand how anyone can hate The Beatles. They were before my time, so I have no nostalgia attached to them.
Their songs span a range of difference. Sad songs, love songs, slow songs, uptempo songs, rockin' songs. I can understand hating some of their songs, but to hate them as a band doesn't make any sense to me.
Yeah, what's with that anyways?!!!
Who couldn't like the Fab 4? Hey, don't bring me down.
-SP
HATING them, as in one of the top 5 bands to HATE is much different than just not liking them.
Again, they have a wide variety of sounds, moods, tempos. Seems hard to believe that someone could HATE them as a band.
Since pretty much all of these "artists" mentioned in this thread are millionaires many times over, not everyone apparently hates them. Listen to those you like and ignore the rest, that works for me
Say it aint so!
Ca$hclay wrote:
Flagpole wrote: If I worked in a place that played music out loud, I think I'd rather listen to the cluckings of a hen house.
ROFL. A little drastic you think? To each his own though. I would add that as a very amateur musician, nothing they do during this extended improv is "easy." May your hens find harmony.
Well, I am not an amateur musician. I have played keyboards in paid gigging bands for 30+ years, done solo gigs and played as a session musician. I can easily do what their keyboard player is doing. Super easy.
I really do appreciate the link to the "song" though. I am very open-minded about new music.