Your 5 most HATED bands/artists of all time.

placp wrote:

Imagine dragons

Mumford and sons

Savage garden

The lumineers

Rush

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

Good call on that Mumford stuff. They deserve their own category of pathetic, soulless concert sing-a-long garbage with the Lumineers, and I'd add the BoDeans and douchebag John Mayer. Fake folk. You have to wonder what fans of these bands are hearing. Is it just lack of exposure to decent music?

Mondo Hondo wrote:

placp wrote:

Imagine dragons

Mumford and sons

Savage garden

The lumineers

Rush

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

Good call on that Mumford stuff. They deserve their own category of pathetic, soulless concert sing-a-long garbage with the Lumineers, and I'd add the BoDeans and douchebag John Mayer. Fake folk. You have to wonder what fans of these bands are hearing. Is it just lack of exposure to decent music?

I agree. For me Fleet Foxes are a much more authentic band in this area, and have been around for a while now. Mumford, Lumineers, etc. seemed to piggy back Fleet Foxes in a mediocre manner. My personal eye-rolling part of what they do is that multi-sung anthemic chorus that arises in each and every song.

law and order SVU wrote:

We're on the same page here. While I can't imagine listening to a Limp Bizkit album or take them seriously at all, I'm probably going crank up that "give me something to break" song if it comes on the radio and laugh my ass off. Moreover, I am most definitely NOT knocking the career choices these guys made. Getting paid huge money to perform ridiculous music, hang with groupies, and (if you have any sense at all) set yourself up financially for the rest of your life? Deal me in!

I hated Limp Bizkit when they were big. Now I think they're fun, as long as I don't take it seriously and treat them like the joke band that they are. And if you don't agree, you can stick it up your YEAHHHH!

Flagpole wrote:

Sprintgeezer wrote:

ADELE

That terrible voice will crack the paint on your walls. Sounds like what I imagine a tortured cat would sound like.

Drives me to madness, MADNESS I SAY!

Wow, really?

1) I haven't considered any solo artists as I don't consider them to be "bands".

2) I'm not a huge fan generally speaking of female singers (Ann Wilson is one exception), and I wouldn't say I'm a fan of Adele, but that has to do with the music, not her singing. Her voice is nutso good. Rolling In The Deep is a decent song, but her singing on that song is insanely good.

Her “voice” could be ok, of it weren’t submerged under her melodramatic and maudlin vocal stylings. As a musician you will understand what I mean.

More controversy:

Dylan—boomer c r a p, stick to Joplin or Armatrading

Neil Young—except for Piece of C r a p, he’s worse than Dylan

Van Morrison—sentimental boomer Irish garbage

The Brady Bunch

The Banana Splits

and three more

Springsteen

Dave Mathews

Foo Fighters

9 inch nails - they got into the R&R hall of fame?

motley crew

not a robot wrote:

The Brady Bunch

The Banana Splits

and three more

How about:

Josie and The Pussycats

The Partridge Family

The Monkees

Sprintgeezer wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Wow, really?

1) I haven't considered any solo artists as I don't consider them to be "bands".

2) I'm not a huge fan generally speaking of female singers (Ann Wilson is one exception), and I wouldn't say I'm a fan of Adele, but that has to do with the music, not her singing. Her voice is nutso good. Rolling In The Deep is a decent song, but her singing on that song is insanely good.

Her “voice” could be ok, of it weren’t submerged under her melodramatic and maudlin vocal stylings. As a musician you will understand what I mean.

Ok. Fair point...kind of why I don't consider myself a fan of hers (because of the music like I said), but dude, her voice is insane.

Are there any bands that are IMMUNE to a list like this? So far I haven't heard Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Nirvana mentioned (and of course they SHOULDN'T be mentioned on a list like this cuz they're awesome.) Who else should stay off this "most overrated artist/band" list?

Please, stop with Nickelback and Creed. Obviously. Of course no one likes them, that's not an interesting take though. No one would say they're great bands. Let's get down to it with something a little more controversial than those two. Smashing Pumpkins? Stone Temple Pilots? The Strokes? Chicago? Arcade Fire? Eminem? Sonic Youth?

Bob Dylan

Pink Floyd

The Doors

Greatful Dead

Fleetwood Mac

Precious Roy wrote:

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

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

Thank you for that. My faith in humanity is restored.

Karen fans will love this. What a voice. What a song.

Foghat. I'm not sure why, but I have a visceral dislike for Slow Ride.

People who seek to be "authentic" but are just posers:

Steve Forbert (another bad Bob Dylan)

Lucinda Williams (just a slurring drunk)

maybe Bob Seger (although, I might give him a pass because he's from the 70s, and could he have known any better?)

Billy Joel used to make my list, but when I read an article in the NY Times Magazine in which he compared himself to a chimp holding Christie Brinkley's hand, I had to give him the benefit of the doubt for a huge sense of humor and self-perspective

Good list Sprintgeezer. The thing with Adele, in addition to her annoying voice is that she's a one trick pony. Its the same damn thing every song. Artists like Madonna and Lady Gaga, although not my favorites, at least have creativity and produce a wide variety of material.

I'm sure everyone who reads this long thread will see some musicians that they agree suck and other mentions that are total headscratchers. In addition to Sprintgeezer's list above, I completely agree with Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and U2.

I laughed at the Journey, Foreigner and Guns N' Roses mentions because I think they're all good bands, but that's the subjective nature of this topic.

I know it's a couple years later, but if you are still there, was there anything from your older brother's collection that you liked?

Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, The Band, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen

U2. Never understood how they became global mega rock stars.

Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

any band similar to the Grateful Dead