Your 5 most HATED bands/artists of all time.

I should have started reviewing this thread from the beginning. I was getting nervous going through 4 pages without seeing Air Supply.

While they were a one hit wonder, I hold a special contempt for the band Finger Eleven for invading my brain with their ear worm song "One Thing". It is the epitome of the white guy lip biting garbage that pervaded the post grunge 2000s. Google it. It is not a parody. it is a real song that got a lot of radio play for a short period of time. Through them, I can channel my hate for all the uber white frat boy bands that killed off rock music in the aughts (Creed, Nickelback, Train, etc.).

On a similar vein, but with much more of an outgrowth of metal/hard rock, is Evanescence. This encompasses the Axe body spray wearing date rapists' favorite jams and includes bands in the same genre like Limp Bizkit, Lincoln Park, etc. Heavy distortion guitar riffs with white dudes rapping over them is something that should have never happened outside of Rage Against the Machine.

Since Phish has already been addressed, it is necessary to bring up (trigger warning) Jimmy Buffet. What happens when you combine rock, folk, calypso and country? Nothing. But having lived in Ohio in the 90s, every freaking bar that wasn't some chug 'n puke college dive would play Buffet at some point or have a bad Buffett cover band and people would blow a nut over it. Buffet sounds like a middle aged accountant who dreams about leaving it all to go play gigs in Key West.

Taylor Swift deserves a mention just to leave you all with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aLYvZ5sX28

Creed

Creed

Creed

Creed

Creed

The Doors

Toto

Sugar Ray

Train/Nickelback

Beyonce

Soundgarden— I HATE that I don’t like this band. I really like most of the grunge bands all the way back to Mother Love Bone and Green River. I find the history of the Seattle sound super interesting and I am barely old enough to remember Kurt Cobain alive. I like Chris Cornell’s voice. I like the band’s sound. I just don’t like their songs. Like seriously. Almost none of their songs sound good to me.

John Mayer— I respect how talented he is as a musician but his sound is still just like a Dave Matthews Band knock off to me. Also, he doesn’t have a great reputation as a person here in Atlanta where he spent some time playing before he got huge.

Maroon 5— Songs About Jane came out when I was in college and This Love was catchy so I bought the CD. I really wanted to like it but I realized I just didn’t get any joy out of listening to it. Same thing which their later stuff. I mean it has everything you should need and I kind of see why people like it but for some reason it just doesn’t compute with me.

Staind— Bland music for depressed people. Bought an album in high school after a breakup and soon realized if I couldn’t get myself out of that mindset I was going to have bigger problems.

Lifehouse— Consider this a placeholder for The Calling, Nickelback, Third Day and every other band from the late nineties who thought a Vedder-style voice with generic lyrics and melodies were an adequate substitute for creativity.

Red hot chili peppers - never got into them

Leonard Cohen - The hallelujah song, meh

Brand New, except for the end of that one song

Slipknot

"Regular guy" bands. All of them.

I feel like you shouldnt list a band as your "most hated band" because you dont know anything about them? The Crue plays own instruments and are among most respected at doing so, and have been writing hits for decades. despite changing tastes through the early 80s til late 90s.

Imagine dragons

Mumford and sons

Savage garden

The lumineers

Rush

Also any band that will draw mostly white women to red rocks.

ACDC being not good

What???

Kanye may be a nutjob, but he's put out some great tunes.

bfef wrote:

Leonard Cohen - The hallelujah song, meh

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I wasn't a fan of that particular song either, but his first two albums were great. Take a listen to "Stories of the Street," "Bird on the Wire," or "Sisters of Mercy." Like Dylan and Townes Van Zandt he was a great poet.

Janis Joplin..."Summertime."

Radiohead

Pink Floyd

Nickelback

Basically, when they take rock and roll and remove the sounds of black people, it gets very very bad.

I’m as pretentious and well-informed about music as you all are about running. (BTW...I’m not a runner; my rodent collection keeps me too busy for consistent exercise, and my ankles are a little floppy.) After reading all of your posts, one thing is clear: many of you have very inconsistent taste when it come to music. I consistently found myself reading down your lists, giddy with agreement, only to be dumbfounded by a legitimately talented band/artist thrown in the middle.

With that said, there were a couple of lists that totally redeemed the entire running community in my mind. For instance, the person who listed Creed all five times has a solid point. It was also encouraging to see Nickleback consistently make your lists.

Anywho...I’m off to one of my music discussion boards, where I’ll start a thread about the best trail running shoes on the market (which are the Arcteryx Norvan LD, if you ask me).

Schenker and Sons wrote:Phish and every other Dead-influenced jam band: just look up that video on YouTube of what Phish sounds like to people who don't like Phish - that says it all.

This-

Fleetwood

ABBA

Eagles

Grateful Dead (like truckn though)

1. Smash Mouth

2. Linkin Park

3. Dave Matthews Band

4. Goo Goo Dolls

5. Beastie Boys

Honorable mentions: Limp Bizkit, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Creed, Hootie and the Blowfish, Papa Roach, Collective Soul...

placp wrote:

Imagine dragons

Mumford and sons

Savage garden

The lumineers

Rush

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Great list! The formulaic efforts of the first four, and the I-just-can't-find-a-melodic second for the last - even though they're great musicians.

placp wrote:

The lumineers

Also any band that will draw mostly white women to red rocks.

That's funny. I was just listening to a recorded lumineers concert, and thought, "Wow! I didn't know I was such a lumineers fan."

Flagpole wrote:

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.

I feel like Waste has those attributes. Prince Caspian maybe, other than the excellent lyrics and verses. Prince Caspian might have one short verse.

law and order SVU wrote:

1. Smash Mouth

2. Linkin Park

3. Dave Matthews Band

4. Goo Goo Dolls

5. Beastie Boys

Honorable mentions: Limp Bizkit, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Creed, Hootie and the Blowfish, Papa Roach, Collective Soul...

This is a good list. Some actual hot takes here. Beastie boys, very controversial, but I agree they are completely dumb and annoying. Googoo dolls, another great selection. Sappy bullshiz

Tired of the mindless critiques. We all know we are supposed to hate nickelback and creed and limp bizkit. Those are just cultural memes at this point.

The song Bullet by creed is awesome and rocks hard. Limp bizkit is often hilarious and brilliant and catchy.

Keep rolling rolling rolling! These bands are actually interesting cultural artifacts in my opinion, but yeah overall they suck