Who's the best out of the 50 worst artists in music history?

lol toad the wet sprocket

torn between Crash Test Dummies, Primus and Manowar

a lot of ppl I like on this list

so glad this tower of shite lost their print edition

what does this list have against the 1990s?

Doors

Keyboard “wizard” and professional cape wearer Wakeman’s diabolical taste revealed itself early, when he elected to join prog-rockers Yes instead of David Bowie’s backing band, the Spiders From Mars. Not content with contributing to Yes’s inexcusably pompous albums, he also spent the mid-’70s releasing a series of baroquely awful solo theme records, including The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. For reasons that are still unclear, he opted to perform that one on ice.

fuck you, blender, and i mean that from the bottom of my heart

Skinny Puppy. What are they even doing on there?

28 CRASH TEST DUMMIES
They said Brad Roberts’s voice was so deep it could be heard only by whales. Not true, sadly
If you want to be recognized as serious recording artists with a whimsical, folksy bent, it’s probably best not to notch your only hit with a daft novelty song based around the world’s silliest lead vocal and title it “Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm.” The remainder of God Shuffled His Feet, this Canadian band’s second album, was much worse. They released I Don’t Care That You Don’t Mind in 2001. No one cared.
Appalling fact They’re Canadian.
Worst CD A Worm’s Life (Arista, 1996)

i read this and voted for CTD, a band far far better than any of you earless hacks

What a stupid article. Plenty of perfectly decent material on that list. Get a proper job, yuo lamerz!

Voted for Kansas, anyway.

Japan

there's a few angles this could have taken and still not been awful: a ridiculous challops massacre (beatles, VU, Hendricks)
a loving ode to things like the Shaggs or a guilty pleasure thing where the twist is they are all actually brilliant. Basically something where they were loving music instead of hating on fairly obscure at this stage 90's "altrock" most of which is okay to great.

hey blender! you just ceased to exist as a print publication! what are you going to do next?

i fucking hate this magazine. and primus rules. eat me.

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^Julia Stiles in Save the Last Dance.

Voted Master P, for being fucking great. The rest is a bit shit though, yeah.

There is a song I like by nearly everyone on this list. Dumb...

19 THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT
10 AIR SUPPLY
7 ASIA
6 KANSAS

Awwww. Seeing these on the list makes me sad.

F--k you, Blender Magazine.

Leaning towards Gipsy Kings over the Doors and Iron Butterfly.

hey blender! you just ceased to exist as a print publication!

karmic retribution for this list!

I'd pick the doors or japan as best of the lot

To be honest, I agree that *most* of these artists are pretty terrible, but the writing here is just painfully bad. Completely pointless.

torn between The Doors and Kansas, though I want to vote for Blind Melon also...

JARED LETO
First rule of the Fight Club star’s group Thirty Seconds to Mars? Never listen to them. Second rule of the Fight Club star’s group Thirty Seconds to Mars? Never listen to them.

see whatcha did there

lots of these people suck! but taking aim at the likes of Howard Jones = cheap shots at easy targets. and no BOB JOVI/no credibility

FWIW i thought Blender was formulaic crap as a magazine. forced "humor" up the wazoo.

I know Arrested Development is looked down upon these days because of the way ignorant critics in the early 90s presented them as an alternative to "stupid gangsta rap", but that doesn't mean they didn't have some tight, groovy tunes. "Tennessee" and "Africa's Inside Me" would be proud pop moments in anyone's career. So them.

blender, lol

voted Alan Parsons Project, one of the most reliable what-to-spin-when-you-don't-know-what-to-spin bands

What happened to number 38?

KEANU REEVES

In The Matrix, he is “The One.” But in his crappy garage trio, Dogstar, he was merely the one who played bass — not very well.

ZING

In Speed, he saves a bus. But in his crappy garage trio, Dogstar, there's no saving his bass.

In A Scanner Darkly, he dons a shapeshifting scramble suit. How he must wish he still has it for his gigs!

I really have absolutely no issue with Jamiroquai up through and including Funk Odyssey.

In Constantine, he battles vampires. But his band are worse than vampires!

what is Oingo Boingo even doing on this list, what an odd choice to single out for scorn

what is Oingo Boingo even doing on this list, what an odd choice to single out for scorn

may your next life find you living in southern California during Oingo Boingo's peak days, you'll be singing a different song

and that song will be "Only a" fucking "Lad"

These are all great:

50 IRON BUTTERFLY
43 MIKE & THE MECHANICS
37 THE DOORS
33 JAPAN
21 THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT
20 HOWARD JONES
6 KANSAS
2 EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER

Voted Japan because, I mean, WTF!!!!!!!!!

Doors

Skinny Puppy was fucking solid pre-reunion crap.

love how this is still getting people heated

Well, I still feel it would be more meaningful if critics devoted more of their time to writing about the stuff they like rather than the stuff they do not like. I mean, generally....

http://thinkpeace.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/world-peace.jpg

Try actually listening to a Manowar album (rather than just scoffing at 20-year-old cover art) and then get back to me. Fuckers.

like, do these idiots not see that if you START an album with a 27-minute song called "Agony, Ecstacy and Achilles in Eight Parts", you are actually awesome

i dont think this list, and blender should be taken so seriously,theyre just trying to be "provocative" and "funny"

there's a few angles this could have taken and still not been awful: a ridiculous challops massacre (beatles, VU, Hendricks)
a loving ode to things like the Shaggs or a guilty pleasure thing where the twist is they are all actually brilliant.

so basically it should have been exactly like ILM

And obviously their core audience is 20-30 year-old American lowly educated white homophobes who are into music that "rocks".

(X-Post, I mean)

I listened to a lot of dan fogelberg growing up, because my mom was a big fan. he's corny, but can be a very solid songwriter and I'm more than willing to defend him. search: netherlands.

don't want to live in a world where elp is the second worst band ever

there's a few angles this could have taken and still not been awful: a ridiculous challops massacre (beatles, VU, Hendricks)
a loving ode to things like the Shaggs or a guilty pleasure thing where the twist is they are all actually brilliant.

so basically it should have been exactly like ILM

― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, April 12, 2009 5:11 PM (23 minutes ago)

haha, I take it back

voted Kansas.

the doors , and celine? can't take this list seriously

This list isn't very funny or very provocative.

yeah, thats why there are " " along with those words

Plus, this list is pretty limited as far as music history goes. No Florence Foster Jenkins? For shame!

^^^played a CD of hers in our classical/jazz/world store recently, fortunately it was the 9-10 pm shift and nobody came in the store

^^ too bad, she is quite impressive! I had a solid few minutes of fun playing youtube clips of FFJ and Joanna Newsom simultaneously. They sound a bit alike.

but only one of them is know as "The Nightingale"

most of the worlds worst music EVER is from the last 20 years...?
Funny people, Blender.

I am sure the one who invented Karaoke must have been a huge Florence Foster Jenkins fan.

most of the worlds worst music EVER is from the last 20 years...?

= the status quo. all kinds of music that everybody knew sucked gets called awesome if it's just given time, cf. how great everybody knows the eighties were now.

may your next life find you living in southern California during Oingo Boingo's peak days, you'll be singing a different song

I can think of a lot of fates far worse than that.

look so are you defending vaughn williams and bobby goldsboro now, j0hn? xp

i understand that people have reactionary feelings towards the recent past but it still seems like an awfully lazy list.

36 98 DEGREES
Harmonies, schmaltzy urban soul and even more saccharine life philosophy

19 PAT BOONE
Back before blue-eyed soul, Pat Boone made a career out of watering down ’50s R&B hits.

3 MICHAEL BOLTON
Otis Redding died for this?

What you'll usually find in brain dead critical evaluations done by magazines like this or by Vh1 pundits trying engage in the aforementioned "funny" is a dislike for modern RnB music but, since they lack the boldness to ridicule any black artists harshly, are always safely directed at white artists playing in in the black realm.

So many of the rockist criticisms that got directed at boy bands and blue-eyed soul singers could have been applied to their black predecessors and contemporaries, but because the critics are gun-shy about being aggressive towards the genre of "urban music" they save their rockist criteria ("Where are the guitars?!?") for the white singers.

"Michael Bolton! Man, that guy was totally ruining the legacy set by, you know, real soul singers, like Otis Redding. He's that black guy the Black Crowes covered."

xp: I still think Air Supply and Dan Fogelberg are awful. Probably not among the 50 worst, but my feelings have not changed 20+ years after the fact.

Skinny Puppy of course. Fuck a Blender (who just deservedly folded).

Not that I'm defending the actual music of all boy bands, Bolton, Boone etc. I'm saying that the reasons for being so hateful about them are usually rockist.

The reasons for hating Boone were mainly political.

I'll defend vaughan williams all day! but you miss my point. I think all kinds of music that was pretty mediocre gets called great once it gets coated with a nice patina of nostalgia. third-rate shit gets called GREAT GREAT GREAT as long as it's from younger days. again, cf. the fucking eighties, ripe with now-routinely-praised mediocrity.

I'm unclear on what their rationale was for picking Skinny Puppy. If they wanted to trash an 80s industrial act, why not go for the spandex-wearing Front 242?

They 80s were great then, they are great now, and they were great in the 90s. 80s music has always been great.

If you were a teenager now, you'd later be saying the same thing about the present day, Geir. As much as you'd like to think otherwise, your criteria are only partially aesthetic.

xp J0hn: The thing is that not all third-rate shit from the past gets called great. The hipster reclamation of past mediocrity comes in waves - with different eras and styles being reclaimed at different points in time, as well as returning previously reclaimed garbage into the scrap heap from whence it came. At any given point, there will always be mediocre crap from the past that is seen as mediocre crap from the past.

that's well put and I concede your point sarahel but I still say generationally there's a tendency to elevate stuff whose chief virtues are really their ability to reawaken old feelings of early & intense aesthetic engagement. as true in other forms (literature, painting) as in music except I think most people remember the stuff they read/saw when they were younger as the best, rather than, as in music, the stuff that was current during those days.

def read that as "raekwon old feelings"

i love YES

"raekwon old feelings"

tempted to make this my new screen name

there's a tendency to elevate stuff whose chief virtues are really their ability to reawaken old feelings of early & intense aesthetic engagement.

There's also a tendency for people to not really pay attention to music past their adolescence with their mid-20s as cut-off. Though I don't think they are the same people that write for Blender or do the historical scavenging.

I also wonder whether what's being reclaimed _is_ the mediocre music of their youth. It feels like the pattern is a small amount of time preceding it. I feel like the people reclaiming it were a little too young to have experienced the horror the first time around. cf. American Apparel's resurrection of "bad" 80s fashion.

I think Sara's first paragraph above makes an excellent point--that there is a wide gulf between passive music listeners and music fan(atic)s. As most ILMers probably fall into the latter category, our perspective on what the casual listeners perceive as "the big picture" is skewed.
uUseless personal anecdote: born in the mid eighties, have always hated music of said era (with a few exceptions--byt we're talking about mainstream, Geir-pop here) and though I've revisited certain artists from my preteen years (Nirvana & Pearl Jam primarily, tbh) there ares till dozens of bands I'd admit to owning CDs by back in the day, but would never in a million, billion years think to repurchase--even if they were a dollar (i call this xhuck xddy syndrome.)

sorry i haven't had any coffee today and seem to have forgotten how to be coherent.

xp ian: at least you have the fortune to be young enough so that you can exchange the unwanted music of your youth for money. I don't think I could get anything for that Europe "The Final Countdown" cassette.

Goo Goo Dolls probably made only 1 good record (heck in only heard 3 anyway) but Dizzy Up The Girl is both a great one hit wonder and is actually a very sweet Replacements-lite thing. Broadway is dark tonight A little bit weaker than you used to be

sarahel: I got rid of my Refreshments, Type O Negative & Alice in Chains CDs by the time I was sixteen, it was great, I got so much crappy indie in exchange for my crappy "alternative rock."

also, i still love jane's addiction but i have never stopped loving jane's addiction.

Well, I still feel it would be more meaningful if critics devoted more of their time to writing about the stuff they like rather than the stuff they do not like. I mean, generally....

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, April 12, 2009 9:55 AM

with certain exceptions

I also wonder whether what's being reclaimed _is_ the mediocre music of their youth.

Surely haven't seen a lot of Flock Of Seagulls, The Fixx or Moving Pictures being reclaimed.

there ares till dozens of bands I'd admit to owning CDs by back in the day, but would never in a million, billion years think to repurchase--even if they were a dollar (i call this xhuck xddy syndrome

There are dozens (hundreds, even!) I'd never repurchase, either! But I'm still curious about some stuff I've gotten rid of before (because ears change as time goes on, and reasons like that.)

Anyway, the artists listed above made tons of great music between them (and tons of crappy music too.) Tempted to vote Bob Geldof on the basis of the first couple Boomtown Rats albums, which I love (but with that logic I guess I'd have to go with Jagger instead.) So I'll just be honest and vote the Doors.

haven't seen a lot of Flock Of Seagulls... being reclaimed

http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=a+flock+of

I still like them, too (never stopped, actually.)

Did this thread get beamed in from 2003?

I hate most of these so my butt doesn't hurt as much as most people's here seem to (although I doubt it would even if my faves were up there). And yo clearly the list is provocative without the quotes...look at all the butthurtedness it's provoked.

I went with Color Me Badd for two great singles.

Artist I've never ever heard of until this very moment: Benzino

Benzino = shady dude who secretly co-owned The Source and released rap albums that oddly had all sorts of big name guest stars on them even though he was a total no-name and nobody bought his records; couldn't rap

even though his music sucked, he's probably on this list more for his notorious unethicality than his music

I'm unclear on what their rationale was for picking Skinny Puppy. If they wanted to trash an 80s industrial act, why not go for the spandex-wearing Front 242?

Geography is a pretty good minimal synth album.

haven't seen a lot of Flock Of Seagulls... being reclaimed

"I Run" is so lolworthy.

voted primus.

Perhaps the most tune-free act ever to chart an album in the Top 10 (Pork Soda hit number 7 in 1993)

that's actually kind of cool! this was my fave band in middle school. (when I had no idea what "chops" even were.)

f u, blender.

and jim morrison was kind of a doofus, but hating on him is also kind of doofus-y. and "riders on the storm" is awesome.

I also have no idea why these guys sent me their magazine for about a year. I'm probs why the print ver. got canned.

Fuck blender.. Japan is sick.

generationally there's a tendency to elevate stuff whose chief virtues are really their ability to reawaken old feelings of early & intense aesthetic engagement

Yep. Also, nostalgic attachment to songs from youth is a psychological defense mechanism against aging (e.g., you briefly slip back to a time when you were younger, felt more vital, before life got complicated, when many paths were open).

2 EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER

Japan Japan Japan Japan

tho they are a joke to everyone I know. I hate on any band and wait for someone to come back with, "Why don't you go listen to Ja-PANN then?" Well, why the fuck not? They are the fucking business.

This, from Blender, is unfortunately accurate, however: "Their version of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles’ “I Second That Emotion” might be the worst Motown cover of all time."

2 EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER

Hubris, Hubris & Hubris

Voted for the Doors. I really should pick up the debut and L.A. Woman sometime, been ages.

Am I alone on this Gipsy Kings thing? Their reasons are ridiculous. I'm sure the Blender staff are real connoisseurs of traditional flamenco music.

Have no interest in reading the Blender blurbs, but I always liked the Gipsy Kings' Mosaique and Este Mundo (enough to vote for one of them on a Pazz & Jop ballot once.) Thought of them as disco-flamenco in the tradition of Santa Esmeralda (though not quite as disco, or as good, as SE.)

Dig the Gipsy Kings tbh

Roots is a fantastic album with like 0% synthy gloop.

(if that's even what's supposed to be objectionable about any of it?)

master p i guess

Lol Americans.

Exactly the kind of list that makes me appreciate ILM all the more

Voted Iron Butterfly (evidently Blender's "favourite")

These scum obviously haven't heard "Like To Get To Know You Well".

I like how euro/italo disco is thoroughly rehabilitated now. Ten years ago you would invariably find Modern Talking, Abba, Boney M or basically anything Moroder-like topping these lists.

Nah, no way, not in the States, where Boney M only had one minor hit and Modern Talking never had any, and where almost nobody knows who either band is (I'm not so sure about Modern Talking myself), and where Abba haven't been particularly disparaged for three decades, at least. (Still kinda neat that Milli Vanilli didn't make the list, though.)

Dan Fogelberg does not belong here! He is utterly inoffensive.

xp Which isn't to say American rock writers like Eurodisco/pop; they mostly just ignore it. (Could see Aqua and Ace of Base making a list like this, maybe, but I guess Blender gave them a pass. Wonder how Lady Gaga would do in a couple years.)

Kansas, ELP, Whitesnake, Manowar-tough choice here. Confused by the list, but whatever. They got #1 right, though.

My vote goes to Japan. Clearly the band least worthy of inclusion on this list.

Blender sez: Worst CD Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Virgin, 1980)

I Sez: Best Japan LP Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Virgin, 1980)

idiots....

i dont understand why japan or skinny puppy are on there and i dont particularly care for primus but they dont belong on there either. Its a silly list.

I have no idea what The Hooters sound like....perhaps this is as great an offense as any other.

never heard of them either

Dan Fogelberg does not belong here! He is utterly inoffensive.

Dan Fogelberg was cited because he's a ridiculoulsy easy target, but he could just as easily have been replaced by Bread or Don McLean or Seals & Crofts or America, etc. etc. Lambasting him in the same list you're taking swipes at Skinny Puppy and the Hooters makes zero sense.

The Hooters? Imagine Cyndi Lauper's band without Cyndi. Boom. There ya go. "All You Zombies" wasn't a bad song, despite the faint whiff of "oooh, they're Bible-readers, aren't they!"

Also, they regularly used a melodia! How many rock bands can say that?

Excellent point, Chuck.

Is that a plus or minus?

^^^^^They sound like yer basic '80s AOR band, but with prominent use of the melodica. Backed Cyndi Lauper on She's So Unusual; had a coupla moderate chart hits in '85-86.

Yeah, those Hooters chart hits were idiosyncratic enough. "Zombies" was weird bombastic reggae-metal with mandolin backbeats and Old Testament sermons on top.

(Didn't mean to post twice)

i dont understand why...skinny puppy are on there

Because they suck? Just kidding. (Actually I'm not, but whatever.) Anyway, Blender clearly needed a token band to piss of the goths, and Skinny Puppy have a funny name, right?

Can't figure out why they didn't also include a token band to piss off the emos, though. (Almost no '00s bands at all, come to think of it. How long ago was this list compiled, anyway? Or were they justifiably worried about losing advertising dollars from the labels? Guessing it must have at least been published before Fogelberg died -- including him so soon would just be in poor taste otherwise, right? -- but I'm still too lazy to bother with that link.)

Well, they do take a shot at 30 Seconds to Mars.

"Keyboard “wizard” and professional cape wearer Wakeman’s diabolical taste revealed itself early, when he elected to join prog-rockers Yes instead of David Bowie’s backing band, the Spiders From Mars. Not content with contributing to Yes’s inexcusably pompous albums..."

Fuck you Blender. Glad you're dead.

For some reason I had thought Dan Fogelberg did schmaltzy duet ballads that were featured in 80s movies, but I had him confused with Joe Cocker.

i remember loving The Hooters 'Satellite' when i was 9.

I dont care for skinny puppy at all but i just find it a strange choice.
multiple xposts to chuck

Whoever was posting the snide paragraphs, could you post whatever it was that Blender had to say arguing for the awfulness of Skinny Puppy?

"Zombies" was weird bombastic reggae-metal with mandolin backbeats and Old Testament sermons on top.

excellently summed-up.

Why Joe Cocker is not on here is beyond me. Totally worthless.

The 50 worst uncool artists in music history since the 1970s.

"and we danced
like a wave on the ocean
romanced
we were liars in love"

^such a beautiful lyric

this is an incredibly stupid list even if they did get #1 correct

There are worse artists than ICP, not that they aren't awful. ICP is probably the easiest to make fun of. My ex-boyfriend was actually quite fond of the Riddle Box CD that was in the free bin of the college radio station. He went to an ICP show, and was seriously depressed and embarrassed, and any fondness quickly evaporated when faced with actual Juggalos.

i value my friend's story of attending the gathering of juggalos more than a whole bunch of albums i love so i don't think ICP is the worst by a long shot

the Skinny Puppy blurb:

The audience rarely sang along to “Dogshit”

And so it came to pass in the 1980s that two Canadian Kevins changed their names to cEvin and Nivek in order to make themselves more interesting, hired a singer named Dwayne (who would die of a heroin overdose) and spent almost a decade making ear-torturing industrial music. The sound of whiny students on drugs sampling Timothy Leary — as scary as Mannheim Steamroller.

Appalling fact On the Head Trauma tour, cEvin sliced open his stomach with broken glass and performed a vivisection. Relax, everyone — he was only pretending.

Worst CD Too Dark Park (Nettwerk, 1990)

haha I actually still unironically like Riddle Box and The Ringmaster, I was just being shitty towards ICP

Too Dark Park isn't that great. Still though, not any worse than a mediocre Psychic TV album, and then Blender could have been "LOL Cross-dressing!"

I've heard at least two of the albums Live has released since Secret Samadhi and no way is that the worst of the bunch.

Manowar don't belong on that list.
Blender are pussies.
NICKLEBACK should be at #1.

Creed is deemed to be less awful/somewhat better than The Alan Parsons Project on this list?

What a stupid list.

The list partly feels like a set-up for the punchline of Insane Clown Posse at number 1.

I have a secret soft spot in my heart for le Goo Goo Dolls.

sarahel OTM

Too Dark Park isn't that great.

I think it is. Too Dark Park and Last Rights have some pretty cool production work imo. These dudes were like way better than most their genre imo. I'll stan for 'em.

xp circa: Too Dark Park isn't as great as some of their other albums. Agreed that they were way better than most in their genre.

easy on imo

xpost to self

wth SP whatever they got up to are absolutely nowhere as scary as mannheim steamroller

I got a soft spot for Mannheim Steamroller.

I used to have a freaking Mannheim Steamroller mug.

"whatever they got up to are absolutely nowhere as scary as mannheim steamroller"

this is kind of true. i'd totally take that as a compliment.

Isn't this list six years old?

When you link to the article, it says "posted 04.01.09."

When I bought the issue of the magazine the list appeared in, it said "2003."

the DOORS

that website is the magazine now, rip : /

Appalling fact: Morrison is widely believed to have suffered his fatal heart attack while masturbating in the bathtub.

^^ I refuse to consider this appalling! I mean, I'm not sure about the bathtub as a great venue, but I feel like someone needs to glare at whoever came up with that and give a whole "let he who has not had plenty of opportunities to drop dead with streaming video on the computer with his pants half-down cast the first stone" sort of speech

Really, if you were going to die while masturbating, a bathtub would be one of the more dignified places for it to happen

Every time you masturbate, god kills a Jim Morrison.

"dignified" and "masturbating" don't belong in the sentence imo

i am currently working on a counterexample

fleshlight with a monocle and top hat

warm lindzer torte

that lotion with the gold flakes in it

i am currently working on a counterexample

here's one: "dignified" and "masturbating" don't belong in the sentence

I don't want to know what it is that LJ can type and "counterexample" at the same time.

"sure, you can ask if you can watch me masturbating, but your question won't be met with a dignified response."

^^^this

LJ, that's someone else's example! Do your own work! So glad I'm not a schoolteacher ...

"I dignified the five-minute period immediately following the termination of our phone-call by masturbating furiously"

no

"with furious masturbation" would make more grammatical sense but you specified the participle...can only work with the tools I'm given ^_^

lol ok can we get back to Insane Clown Posse now

That is possibly the worst way to dignify masturbation.

Insane Clown Posse is the worst way to dignify ANYTHING

juggaLOL

Good list of bad bands. I went with Whitesnake for that 'Here I Go Again' song. Utter genius.

Wait a minute. Wait just one mother$%^&*# moment! Where the bleep's Chicago (the band)????????

Alright I know I haven't read this whole thread, but I would like to say my peace and that is this:

I have many times told people how much I detest Primus with every fiber of my being, one of my most hated bands in the entire world and always people seem surprised and defend them. I'm delighted to see them get a kicking at last.

Also, Oingo Boingo need a kicking as well, although on a much lesser scale than Primus. John D. I remember that song "Only A Lad".

But to put Japan on this list is an absolute tragedy. Whatever sins they might have committed on their first two albums were surely made up for by the quality of what came after. And here, they get my vote.

But really, Primus can suck great big donkey dicks in the sky, man. That is honestly some of the worst music I've ever heard in my life.

caveat: I've never actually heard Insane Clown Posse but I know their reputation is bad enough that I should probably avoid them at all costs.

LOL at Kevin's suggestion of Chicago. I can hardly blame him. I have one, I repeat ONE Chicago song on my iPod, and even for that, I'm ashamed.

street player by chicago is one of the best songs ever.

I count 8 artists who actually thoroughly suck... mostly the obvious ones.. ICP, Bolton, Kenny G, Lee Greenwood, Yanni, Benzino, 98 Degrees, Celine (even though I'm okay with 1 of her songs which is enough to redeem any artist IMO)

At least half the artists on this list have at least 1 really good song that I can think of that redeem them and make them completely unworthy.. Perhaps most of these are songs that lots of people hate (I like ELP's "Lucky Man" a lot but dislike most of the rest..)

Starship have that one kinda awesome song that was in Crank.. I forgot the name..

When Yngwie was in Alcatrazz with Graham Bonnet, they were pretty good. Howard Jones had some good hits. I'm looking for someone I truly don't like on the list. I really don't like Pat Boone and Kenny G.

Starship were the first non-club concert I saw as a kid. Even though the hits are obnoxious, the individual members were cool at some point. I just checked their track listings at RYM, I guess I never liked anything they did after the name change.

I voted The Doors as best though.

street player by chicago "The Bomb (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)" by The Bucketheads is one of the best songs ever.

fixed

Yeah, I really don't understand why the fuck the Doors are in here at all. That's just crazy, and I'm not even that much of a fan of them.

I heard "We Built This City" in the grocery story the other day. Starship can suck my dick, but at the end of the day I decided they're mostly harmless.

Kevin, what the hell are you talking about with this Bucketheads thing?

I voted for 'em, but a lot of people REALLY hate the Doors, including a lot of people here if you check the threads, and I think that's what this list is actually about.

For my $, the worst performer on that list is the unspeakable Michael Bolton.

(I even gave xhuxk benefit of the doubt and checked out Blackjack: 3rd-rate Whitesnake. The man's finest moment is still his "betting on the dreidel" anecdote.)

The Doors obviously. But why are Japan on it???!?!

Good to see some Manowar lovin on this thread.

IRON BUTTERFLY, muthafuckerz!!!

people hate the idea of the doors (ie, Morrison) WAY more than they hate any of the actual music--i've been there...and back. they are probably one of the 50 GREATEST rock bands ever.

(may this thread must never die.)

mustly...

street player by chicago is one of the best songs ever.

I wouldnt go that far, but a great song it is. From an otherwise not so great album though. But Chicago, at least until the mid 70s, were generally mostly great.

The Starship song I was trying to think of is "Miracles." Not bad for a Marty Balin track..

Thank fuck this poll was going long enough for me to drop another suggest ban.

KJB stop hating, Street Player is LIVE.

they are probably one of the 50 GREATEST rock bands ever.

dude makes a case

I dont understand Japan being in here. Even if I didnt like them (and I do), they've never ever, to my mind, been a band of mirth or mockery. There's no "lol that shitty band" meme about them. I mean they're not fucking Genesis or something.

Are they basing this on "Adolescent Sex"? On Sylvian's poncey hairdos? Has the 80s just fallen out of favour with Blender kidz?

Also baffled abt Skinny Puppy mainly because the kind of audience that wouldve come up with a list like this, I've doubts they would even KNOW who SP are. And if they dont like that kind of music why did they not also vote for NIN or Ministry.

Trayce I heart you but whichever band you chose to insert into "they're not fucking [BAND I DON'T LIKE] or something" would be doomed to have some smartarse twat like me say "they're better than Nine Inch Gothing Nails", right?

Hahaha I know, I know. Caveat: I like Genesis and dont much care for NIN, I was just flailing fr examplars anyway =)

ELP and The Doors are the obvious choices imo. But I know a lot of Japan fans for reasons I don't understand.

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Too Dark Park listed as the worst album by the amazing Skinny Puppy?

EPIC...FUCKING...FAIL!

agreed; many a DOOM/Quake session spent with that blasting in the background

I have this bizarre urge to insert "dork" into every artist name above. I will resist.

I dont understand Japan being in here. Even if I didnt like them (and I do), they've never ever, to my mind, been a band of mirth or mockery. There's no "lol that shitty band" meme about them. I mean they're not fucking Genesis or something.

No kidding. They were great. But of course not as great as Genesis used to be at their best a little less than 10 years earlier ;)

ELP got the boot.
Songs like Lucky Man, From The Beginning, Jerusalem, Still You Turn Me On, Trilogy, The Endless Enigma Part One.. seem like songs that just about everyone would enjoy. I would argue that my favorite ELP song is better than my favorite Doors song. I think a lot of people would say the same when comparing their favorite ELP song with their favorite Doors song.

ELP are definitely not among the worst, but not as obviously wrong to list as some of the others mentioned here. ELP at their best were very good, but they were also very bad at their worst. Genesis and Yes were both lots and lots better.

Personally glad to see some love for Alan Parsons Project. A lot of great prog-pop concept albums there.

It's hard to take this list seriously - buy yeah, obv. it should be Doors, who were pretty great.

I think I voted Air Supply.

Starship can suck my dick, but at the end of the day I decided they're mostly harmless.

This is how I feel about most people - "guys, you're alright. But if you wanted to suck my dick, that's alright too."