Your 5 most HATED bands/artists of all time.

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=rQrcvXAZL9M

I 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.

Also, my impression of people who love Phish are people who can't dance but think they can.

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.

Mondo Hondo wrote:

The Eagles - bland, average faux-country band, but their popularity makes them rock's anti-Christ.

Motley Crue - do they even play instruments? They are like KISS without a listenable song.

Queen - excessive prog-geek rock - "Bohemian Rhapsody" is an anthem to really lame people, but in reality its the most convoluted and annoying novelty-gimmick song of all time.

Creed/Nickelback/Coldplay/Radiohead and about a half-dozen other bands that I suspect are really just one bunch of studio musicians cranking out mulch under different names.

Talking Heads/R.E.M. types - I recognize there may be talent, but that attitude that everything is some high-brow intellectual joke that only some people are sophisticated enough to understand is lame as all hell.

Endless more . . . . . . most rock kind of sucks, few artists shine through.

You lumped Radiohead in with Coldplay, Nickelback, and Creed. I’ve never seen anything more stupid on this forum and that is a VERY high bar

Greg wrote:

Nickleback is from Alberta and I enjoy some of their music.

Oh, so you're the one!

Taylor Swift, 1 Direction, Ariana Grande, and country in general.

I'm not really a Phish fan, but I have a couple of their albums (Billy Breathes and Joy) which are pretty good. I would recommend them.

I cannot really listen to them play live, however. I don't get into the interminable jam/improvisation thing. I don't like them enough that I would like what was a 4:00 song in the studio turned into a 10:00 song when played live.

So I would suggest that you listen to their studio albums before you write them off.

Also, this is very relevant and hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTuJsu6IzLS2fbvyEOcwDN4ZAp3nVc_

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U2.

All their songs sound exactly the same. Terrible.

Kansas

ACDC

Motley Crew

a second on Starland Vocal Band

Poison

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.

Yeah, I appreciate your attempt also, but I've listened to the radio-ready stuff from them, and it's just not my thing.

grateful dead

de pogues

anything 'jackson'

bieber, obv

rick astley

1. 30 Seconds to Mars

Fck Jared Leno. Fck his sh*tty acting and fck his irritating, sh*tty attempts at making music. He was the worst Prefontaine.

2. Fun.

I know several people with otherwise acceptable taste who like this band. I just hate the sound of their lead singer's voice. I find the lyrics overly sincere and lame. No edge. I can't stand listening to them.

3. Smash Mouth

Do I really need to explain this? Whoever decided to make this band famous ruined the background music to most of my fourth grade memories. Plus, these guys happily participated at the recent Sturgis Soft-Belly Convention/Super Spreader Event, so fck them.

4. Fall Out Boy

I just really hated these guys in high school. Emo music was not my bag. If they had just disappeared after having their moment, I could forgive and forget, since they weren't really THAT bad. But then they came out with that "you will remember meeeee" song a few years ago. Life-long grudge.

5. Max Martin

I see Max Martin as something approaching an anti-Christ figure in the musical realm. A genius for sure; he knows how to write a catchy tune. But the amount of bad pop music that he is personally responsible for should be considered a crime against humanity.

Strange, but I like very band on here. I;m more of a Gordon Lightfoot Neil Young Paul Simon James Taylor fan. And Linda Ronstadt.

SlipKnot

Grateful Dead

Nickleback

Black Eyed Peas

Janis Joplin

browski wrote:

U2.

All their songs sound exactly the same. Terrible.

Like them or hate them, their music is not all the same.

I was in a rush, and didn't have time to lump them into a new category of wanna-be Oasis/U2/Pearl Jam bands. I suppose they would look better at least striving for that status. But Radiohead still take themselves as seriously as Coldplay does, man.

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!)