Bands that enrage you

inspired mostly by the neverending Pomplamoose discussion on the Hyundai thread and the offhanded mention of The Dresden Dolls, a band that does a bazillion different things that, on paper, should be total catnip to me, but manage to do every single one in a manner that seems almost tailor-made to make me wish instead that I could shoot hammers out of the palms of my hands that would bludgeon them until they stopped.

I'm not necessarily talking about acts like Burzum who are repellent/repugnant on a basic social level; this is more about those bands who musically hit your aversion circuits through no particular fault of their own.

not a band but Joanna Newsom is this person for me, particularly re: should be total catnip but instead hammer-shooting-hands thing.

Three Doors Down. Not just because they're horribly generic and had a career that was undeserved, but for their idiotic Citizen Soldier song/video

every band Apple has used in their ads.

I should narrow that down: Every band who has done a song which Apple has used in their ads for iPhone, iPod, and iPad.

DJP: cosign on Dresden Dolls. Bands that get Brecht-rock right: Antifamily, Agent Ribbons.

andrew bird singlehandedly ruined pre-war american music for me

I love the Dresden Dolls/Amanda Palmer/Evelyn Evelyn stuff, now DJP and I can't be friends anymore ;_;

LCD Soundsystem obv

Stuck Mojo because not only dp they sledgehammer you with "get off my lawn" paranoid neo-conservative politics in the liner notes and lyrics, all you get in return is a collection of half-assed songs and an occasionally cool riff.

Also band name is stupid

the two that come to mind for me are Moldy Peaches and Rabbit Rabbit, but I always worry about bringing that up because somebody got all aggro at me in my early ilx days for one of them in a way that made me kinda think they might have been in the band or knew them or something so

like that time i said i hated the Gay Dad album and DJP didnt talk to me for a month

Oasis, just thinking of them makes me actually mad.

although I guess they are repellent/repugnant on a social level.

Yeah, I'm the same with Oasis.

although I guess they are repellent/repugnant on a social level.

― EDB, Wednesday, January 5, 2011 6:27 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark

Eh, nothing too wrong with writing catchy throwback rock anthems. Many bands do it and piss me off less than Oasis.

steve miller band drives me ape shit

phish too

Fogging Molly, my complete history with them is having to sit through a live DVD in a restaurant, but that was enough for total and utter - probably lifelong in fact - hatred. And the main dude used to be in Fastway so they're only one step away from both Motorhead and UFO, which enrages me even more.

Flogging Molly, sorry

i was going to say the eagles but i like "one of these nights"

i was going to say steve miller but i like "abracadabra"

As a huge follower of Phish in my late teens/early twenties, String Cheese Incident and Disco Biscuits would have me frothing at the mouth in anger. I don't think anyone I went to shows with felt the same.

xxp: ANY "Irish" punk band! Ooooooohhhh they piss me off.

Fucking IRA music innit

No, it's not! It's Bennigans music.

i don't know where to start w/this thread. cosign oasis and moldy peaches.

the smiths

pulp

animal collective

ke$ha

los campesinos

New Order

i've always hated jokey nerdy type music like they might be giants or barenaked ladies

i was gonna say andre rieu but that's more like bemused contempt

oh i also really really hate meshuggah

and that dude that does piano versions of radiohead songs

Ween

Jack Johnson

Evelyn Evelyn is the most unforgivable horseshit ever attempted.

Gorillaz

It is actually worse than the Dresden Dolls stuff because at least there is a nugget of something I could conceivably enjoy and respect underneath the neverending layers of DD douchebaggery; EE is basically someone masturbating into a microphone and telling you it's the best symphony ever recorded.

nd that dude that does piano versions of radiohead songs

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 6:51 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Oh yeah, he's a total hack.

bah i dig it, sorry man. xpost

btw if yall want some ouroborus action on the last amanda palmer album she does a song that is about sending fan letters to Oasis. also rape.

tbh I can get behind sending rape to Oasis

both black rebel motorcycle club and placebo drove me insane with how suck ass they were live but i've never bothered with an album of either of them. funny that i throw them together, but they seem like kind of the same bullshit to me.

oh I also really really hate meshuggah

how dare u hide behind ur mod powers for this I wld sb you, rsrrct u, then sb u again u gt me so mad I got deej dsease n abbrvting evrythng

the fact that millions of people continue to anticipate, and then either download or, worse, BUY red hot chili peppers albums, fills me with a mix of both gobsmacked fascination and utter RAGE

if you love nu http://camaholic.net/emma.gif but spend lots of time enjoying art fair drum circles, meshuggah is totally the band for you

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

aw

BOO HUMORLESS MOD

hahahahaha

ok fine ill undelete it.

anyway if you love nu m3t4l but spend lots of time enjoying art fair drum circles, meshuggah is totally the band for you

I'm not as rage-filled as I used to be since, thank goodness, "post-rock"'s popularity has died down some, but I used to harbor a lot of it for Mogwai and Slint and the hundreds of others that people would praise to the heavens for doing the most rudimentary, boring bullshit rock I'd ever heard.

steve miller band drives me ape shit

― cocklamoose (chrisv2010), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 1:36 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

"I remember one time - it might have been a couple times - at the Fillmore East in 1970, I was opening for this sorry-ass cat named Steve Miller. Steve Miller didn't have shit going for him, so I'm pissed because I got to open for this non-playing motherfucker just because he had one or two sorry-ass records out. So I would come late and he would have to go on first and then we got there we smoked the motherfucking place, everybody dug it." -- Miles Davis

Depeche Mode, Queen, Nick Cave, Black Sabbath...

but I don't mind these bands as much as the praise they get.

Owl City is the real answer

just spent about 30 seconds trying to figure out a portmanteau for "challops" and "sledgehammer" but i failed

there are friends of mine that still go to steve miller every year. They shouldn't be my friends.

oh and JIMMY BUFFETT....his music and his fucking stupid fans enrage me.

"sledgeallops"?

actually that sounds like a carnival ride

or a super cool dinosaur

post-plane-crash Lynyrd Skynyrd

chledgehallop

oh i like that

pomplamoose chledgehallop

im getting a malware warning from the image jjj posted fwiw

pomplamoose chledgehallop

in a balsamic reduction

xp: hmm, probably there is something sketchy about the site hosting it; the image itself is harmless

thats what the chick from pomplamoose calls her snatch

post-plane crash Skynyrd OTM
Nickleback -- spent a long time ignoring them and not caring but that stupid Rockstar song comes out and my bro in law is making me watch the video and being all "lol the words are REALLY good" NO THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT WHY WON'T THEY GO AWAY
And now they have the WWE Raw theme song RRAAAGH.

Black Eyed Peas - same reason. Happily ignored them for the longest time (actually didn't mind them 15 years ago) but now people are being all "Oh Fergie has a great singing voice she's really underrrated" HOW CAN SHE BE UNDERRATED WHEN SHE SINGS AT THE OPENING OF EVERY DAMN ENVELOPE ON THE PLANET. She sucks, they suck I hate them and I wish ill on them.

Live
Jason Mraz
Jack Johnson
Dave Matthews Band - hate them, hate their fans more than anything in the world
Jimmy Buffett - like his music okay but his fans make me want to kill

Oh I forgot one:

Counting Crows

Oh and fucking whathisname from Hootie and The Blowfish. He came back as a country singer and is on Dan Patrick show all the time and i HATE HATE HATE HATE him

Yeah, Darius Rucker. His a capella rendition of the national anthem at the bowl game a couple nights ago was TERRIBLE>

every time someone opens an envelope, Fergie sings at them...?

vegemitegrrrl otmotmotm

Three cheers for being douchebags!

http://www.grapesandgrainsnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/parrotheads.jpg

I opened a bunch of Xmas cards last month and Fergie didn't sing at me once

All this time and no 3OH!3

although perhaps they qualify as repellent/repugnant on a basic social level

Salem

All this time and no She & Him

radiohead annoys the fucking shit out of me

all jam bands really enrage me. im not sure if its the bands themselves or the filthy hippies.

but it's weird, the only music that's really driven me (near) to fits of rage recently was a bjork CD someone was playing in a record store. no idea which bjork CD, but a recent one, and i neither hate nor love bjork, really, i mean, i'm not by any means a fan, but i don't bear her ill will. anyway, holy cats this album was bugging me so very very much. horrible, endless planes of shrill, disjointed voice swooping, angled cruelly so as to pierce the outer membrane and wedge their barbs deep within the tender ear-flesh beneath. i was reduced to muttering foul black nothings to myself as i pawed the racks, suddenly painfully aware of the presence within myself of the crackbrained old rooneyman i hope to live someday to become.

Salem

― cocklamoose (chrisv2010), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 3:08 PM

^ THIS!

but it's weird, the only music that's really driven me (near) to fits of rage recently was a bjork CD someone was playing in a record store. no idea which bjork CD, but a recent one, and i neither hate nor love bjork, really, i mean, i'm not by any means a fan, but i don't bear her ill will. anyway, holy cats this album was bugging me so very very much. horrible, endless planes of shrill, disjointed voice swooping, angled cruelly so as to pierce the outer membrane and wedge their barbs deep within the tender ear-flesh beneath. i was reduced to muttering foul black nothings to myself as i pawed the racks, suddenly painfully aware of the presence within myself of the crackbrained old rooneyman i hope to live someday to become.

it was probably "The Dull Flame of Desire"

All this time and no She & Him

― billstevejim, Wednesday, January 5, 2011 2:08 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh yeah i kinda blanked here. that and all jenny lewis product drives me fucking berzerk.

jason mraz is a GREAT call

yeah every time a She & Him song happens to me I start doing my rendition of that bold look of cotton song in my best imitation of zooey being the talentless throatless hack she is. fuck i hate that band.

seconding, thirding, whatevering jason mraz, i actually can't think of a more punchable musician

for a brief second I was confusing Jenny Lewis with Donna Lewis and thinking "well that is an INTERESTING career turn..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtlO0RXktlo

wow um.. wow

ah yes Mraz and his stupid fucking hats.

zooey deschanel - damn, damn, damn does this woman sound bad

that freecreditrep0rt.com band

lol

xp

metal

:(

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I figured out recently zooey has the same singing voice as the big cheeks lady from Eraserhead who sings "In heaven everything is fine.." It was a big moment for me.

The Doors really bother me for some reason.

lol, was gonna come on this thread all high and mighty saying "no band enrages me" but then someone mentions mraz and
http://dailypop.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/incredible_hulk.jpg

doors me too

hahaha

BTW, a companion thread:

Bands you would normally hate but... don't

Meatloaf.

On the classical front: Eric Whitacre

Urgh Meatloaf drives me nuts too.

and yes Aerosmith.

mainly steven tyler

Nico Muhly

Pearl Jam.

Never paid She & Him any mind, then I saw them do "I Put A Spell On You" on Conan. It's like a six-year-old throwing a tantrum about being put to bed. I can only assume that the only reason Zooey Deschanel didn't stomp her feet and yell "No! No, no no!" is because she forgot to.

aerosmith were one of the great rock bands IMO

i kinda like she & him but i feel like i shouldn't. :/

Always hated M Ward, which I thimk might be challopous b/c everyone seemed to like him before She and Him.

like i said, its not aerosmith as a whole its just steven tyler.

All-American Rejects for making music that makes my dick go limp

I want to knife Gonjasufi based on his name alone. What a fucking douche name.

311 - hated them bc of 'Down' and that monotonous, endless, toneless nasal singing voice that dude has..then I forgot about them. Then they did that Cure cover that shitty FM radio loves so much and ON LIKE DONKEY KONG

Bright Eyes. Conor Oberst more tolerable if he's singing with Monsters of Folk but his weak warbliness just make me furious.

Sarah McLaughlin. Breathy teary awfulness and her fakeass humility and ugh I sat through her set at Bridge School bc I didn't want to walk all the way out to the beer line and goddammit it was the worse laziness-based decision I've ever made

I have to say I loathe when they play post-grunge bands on classic rock radio. I can't even distinguish one band from another. Classic rock is supposed to have soul and blues or at least country & western roots ; nineties / 2000s rock has none of that. I am sick of trying to like it so I don't feel like a terrible snob. It's like they don't bother to learn or respect American roots music.

Ooh, this one is kinda redudant bc who cares but VELVET fucking REVOLVER.

I saw them for free in order to see Alice In Chains with their new lead singer lol...and t just infuriated me that these superstar hasbeen assholes were wasting my time with such bullshit music and getting PAID for it.
Scott Weiland looking like a cadaver and singing through a megaphone bc he's coked out his vocal chords
Slash being Slash reminding me of that blip in 1989-1992 when I thought he was actually cool which just bums me out worse
Duff like I can't even
Matt Sorum with his saran-wrap face and aggh

I had friends who actually saw them MULTIPLE times, said Weiland was HOT. How do you...it just doesn't...WHY LORD WHY

jason mraz calls himself "Mr. A-Z"

oh that is a cockpunch right there

Sarah McLaughlin. Breathy teary awfulness and her fakeass humility and ugh I sat through her set at Bridge School bc I didn't want to walk all the way out to the beer line and goddammit it was the worse laziness-based decision I've ever made

I hate her so much that I tried to start an interwebs rumor about her being a Nazi sympathizer. Sadly, it didn't take.

We could try again. I wholeheartedly support you

And now she has that damn commercial with all the sad animals

I even had a fake attributed-to-her quote, something about how Nazis were actually kind to animals.

lolol

vegemite's suggestions are all a+ except velvet revolver who seems more pathetic than hateable really. like i can't really believe that anyone genuinely gives a shit about them except their management and maybe not even them.

lol, Sarah Mclaughlin is another one for me to bring up on the "bands you should hate but... don't", mostly because I adore the Rabbit in the Moon remix of "Fear" so much

xpost Yeah like I said it's redundant to hate them now but I will never forget how infuriating that live show was

ws sarah mclaughlin

haha let's do this

"You know, there actually were people who thought about the proper order, and proper place for human beings in nature and amongst each other, and they had a plan, and they came very close... But, it's just, in Canada, in modern times, you just can't talk about them anymore. It's very dangerous for you, professionally, but soon we'll have to rethink these things, I promise you"

seriously, I fucking love this to bits and this is the route I really wanted McLaughlin to go careerwise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBQ12YypcCM

Nico Muhly

Intriguing. I'm curious to hear why.

Ooh...man I have a lot of these (I have a lot of built up anger apparently)

Chris Cornell solo
That fucking Billie Jean cover was the worst thing ever. And that people actually said OUT LOUD it was better than the original omg running at u with knives...and then him doing fucking IMAGINE on Conan on the 9/11 anniversary last year.
SLOWING SONGS DOWN DOES NOT MAKE YOU A GENIUS.

Worshipped that guy in Soundgarden but solo he showed his true douchey colors

omg running at u with knives

I am stealing this phrase

I'll happily share it with u

"You know, there actually were people who thought about the proper order, and proper place for human beings in nature and amongst each other, and they had a plan, and they came very close... But, it's just, in Canada, in modern times, you just can't talk about them anymore. It's very dangerous for you, professionally, but soon we'll have to rethink these things, I promise you"

ftw

xp: together we will run at thm with knives

YES

I would like to go back to the moment in time before I decided to look up that "Billie Jean" cover and tell myself "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DON'T DO IT"

Hubris of the worst kind

Man Chris Cornell's first solo album wasn't like the best thing since Pam Grier's tits but it was quite good! He didn't suck until the album that stupid Billie Jean cover was on, when he'd blown his voice!

He blew his voice way before the Billie Jean cover, didn't he?...I thought he had throat surgery right around the Audioslave startup

But Euphoria Morning was good, I'll give him that.

- Incubus. Though enrage is the wrong word. En-bore is better.

The Smashing Pumpkins. UGH.

Sting without The Police. Singing Police songs solo with a Symphony orchestra in Switzerland or whatever the fuck and Elizabethan Christmas carols and prancing around in his cougar-bait skin tight body shirts...just seeing him in interviews is enough for me to fly into a rage. Dude is nothing without Copeland and Summers and he damn well knows it. RAAGGH.

Peanut Butter Wolf. Hey fuckface, your name sucks.

all that muppet singer-songwriter shit - Josh Groban James Blunt Jack Johnson Norah Jones John Mayer Natalie Merchant Dave Matthews James Taylor ad nauseum

How did I forget Aerosmith, ugh, they make me see red.

oh yeah, the Police too, and anything else Sting.

Any Paul McCartney (not the Beatles, as I like the rest, but cannot stand him and everything about him).

smiths - can't stand morrissey, pompous arsehole

tinny indie bands with silly annoying trebly little guitar bits all the way through songs (read: bloc party)

rock bands who think they rock but really don't rock at all - you know, nickelback, RHCP, kerrang tv

Oh god Josh Groban was playing in Sbux last night, sounds like he's being forced to sing at gunpoint. Jesus. I'm sure he's a nice dude irl but VOMIT

xp to Sundar through his online presence he comes off as merely smug and affected — but his music is exactly the kind of C major classical-lite orchestrated piano diddling like Max Richter that I hate. I mean if you're going to have melodies in your music — at least make them good ones.

I was coming here to post Sarah McLaughlin - I'm happy I'm not alone in my white hot hatred of this insufferable woman, and I will gladly assist in helping spread the Nazi rumor. I see her on TV and it makes me want to hit her in the face with the business end of a claw hammer. I hate her face. Also, I love animals, but she makes me wanna set a cat on fire just in spite.

Also -

Kimya Dawson
My Morning Jacket
She & Him
and everyone who sounds like any of these

The only way I can sit through that Sarah McLaughlin commercial is if I pretend that the animals are sad bc they have to listen to her music. SEE WHAT SHE HAS DONE TO THEM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d12hunbAx3g

Paolo Nutini. That stupid, stupid voice.
The Feeling. It was bad enough when they were just crushingly insipid twee shite, but amazingly they got even worse when the singer adopted a dodgy mid-Atlantic accent in a desperately cynical attempt to make them more US friendly.
Scouting For Girls. I don't need to justify this, do I?
Kasabian. Wretched bloke-rock buffoons.

Paoli Nutini otmotmotm x 1000

oh i forgot regina spektor. she sucks

Matisyahu

every single one of these bands with the possible exception of tame impala, who seemed ok once

cosign on Dresden Dolls

I went to see them on a recommendation and the random girl I gave my seat to, four songs in, was quite pleased.

OasisPoliceDoorsBobSeger and Michelle Shocked for a reason I'd rather not divulge.

xpost lol Michael

I don't generally loathe bands I can avoid - gustibus disputendum and all that - but the problem w/this Pomplamoose thing is that the ads were ubiquitous on TV.

Owl City

omg yes how could we forget them
NEVER FORGET

The promise ring

I Love Music

Mogwai
Wolfmother
La Roux (those uber squeaky autotuned sounding vocals)
Tindersticks (mainly for the unbelievable pub singer voice)
Any of that hilarious music that eminates from a 13 year old's mobile phone whilst sat upstairs on a bus in NW London being all ghetto and shit

Godsmack

The Levelers, still

Linkin park.

so, this is p much rolling innoucuous/irrational anger 2011 thread?

Did someone say NW London?

idk how culturally specific ideas like "D4", "J1 summer" and "the dortline" are but regardless these self-regarding wankstains need to be publicly executed imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm2QmNyI6Sg

my ears will never unhear that, plax. UNNNGH.

this is a very popular band in ireland btw, like im not sure how much of the leakage from irish pop culture's endless cesspit ilx can deal w/ so

generally speaking i don't hate much music, if i hear something i don't like i just don't spend much more time with it. but generally speaking, jason mraz and anyone from the l.a. "hotel cafe/genghis cohen" folk scene is something i can't stand. same goes for crappy sunset strip party music like mickey avalon. and there's a band that a bunch of dudes i sort of know are in that plays all over l.a., getting opening gigs because one of them knows the right people, and they're spectacularly obnoxious. they're only a cover band, though.

Jane's Addiction

The Hold Steady

was gonna say Red Hot Chili Peppers, but "enrage" is a strong word and I do like that one song they've done 200 slightly different ways

mainly Jane's Addiction ... and Primus and Violent Femmes

I generally don't get enraged with bands, more with genres and such, but the Decemberists piss me off quite a bit.

Definitely the Dresden Dolls.

The Hold Steady seconded. Shitty sub-Springsteen rock with tedious lyrics and a singing nose.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Just that one song is enough to let me know they're trying to bring back the "classy alternative" of the pre-Nirvana era and I want no part of it.

Godspeed You Black Emperor

Every time I hear them now I feel like Otto in Repo Man when he mutters "I can't believe I used to like these guys"

Modern Talking used to enrage me heavily in the 80s.

In the past years (speaking of past ten years or so), Nelly is probably the one act that has enraged me the most. Just gotta hate that voice!

Considering I don't really hate much music,
Much less get enraged by any of it,
Slayer's "Reign In Blood" really bums me out. Every time I read something about it I'm all "let's give it another shot", but it's recorded and mixed in a way that really puts me off.
I like lots of Slayer and Rubin otherwise

:shock:

Man, times have changed.

Nearly 190 posts about bands that enrage you, and not one mention of Limp Bizkit or Fred Durst.

crossed my mind but seemed like too easy of a target. besides they don't enrage me that much anymore cuz at the end of the day, Fred Durst is Fred Durst, and I'm not, and that's one thing I can smile about no matter how much life sucks....

Limp Bizkit contains too many lulz to enrage.

Styx, REO Speedwagon, .38 Special, Jefferson Starship, Asia, Toto. Miserable^inf overplayed hack rock.

Moldy Peaches
Asher Roth
Salem

hate the lyrics, hate the frontman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_GYpt6DDt8

band of horses, mainly because my roommates play them incessantly.

generally at this point in my life though it's really for hard to muster hate for stuff.

this laptop is enraging me though

piece of fucking shit

Lol

Oh, just remembered...anything that Conor Oberst is involved with. That guy can just take a flying leap right now.

destroyer

(plus every new pornos song that guy sings on)

Another vote for Oasis
Presidents of the USA - have a friend whose favourite track on rockband is 'peaches', every time he picks it i die inside a little

The fucking Pixies. That whole soft:loud thing everyone seems to think they invented. Well, roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news... "What the fuck, Piotr Illych, why didn't we think of that one?!"

umm, i've never known anyone to claim that the pixies invented "that whole soft:loud thing." rather they upped the noise-pop ante about half a notch during an era enamored of such provocations. plus wrote some catchy tunes. but i suppose that's harder to rage against.

idk how culturally specific ideas like "D4", "J1 summer" and "the dortline" are but regardless these self-regarding wankstains need to be publicly executed imo

Not from Dublin, but know a lot of people in Terenure. Apparently they're decent enough guys who realise they got kinda lucky. Probably not as famous locally as Heggo's ma who did the AIB ad.

so, this is p much rolling innoucuous/irrational anger 2011 thread?

Yup!

Presidents of the USA - have a friend whose favourite track on rockband is 'peaches', every time he picks it i die inside a little

Come on, they're just a goofy rock band, can't you do better than that?
I submit whoever is responsible for the song "Chicken Fried" and the people responsible for ensuring it gets played every single hour on every single bar jukebox. If I could delete one song from existance it would be that one.

Eric Clapton repulses me on so many levels

Not from Dublin, but know a lot of people in Terenure. Apparently they're decent enough guys who realise they got kinda lucky. Probably not as famous locally as Heggo's ma who did the AIB ad.

― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Thursday, January 6, 2011 12:59 PM (1 hour ago)

one of them is mary black's son, they didn't "get lucky" they "had connections." that and what is most unappealing abt this bs is that there *is* a demand for it. like context may be key here son.

"Alabama, Arkansas, gee I love my maw and paw"

yeah fuck those guys 4real

The Pixies are the greatest band ever, so super cool, they changed my life. I think I am super cool for liking them, they are the greatest band ever and no one ever made music like that.

another vote for moldy peaches.
adam green

any sort of band that dresses up in costume

oh and those fuckers the Aquabats that are on Yo Gabba Gabba. The singers stupid faces and dance moves make we want to throw a hammer through my television.
Seriously if this doesn't enrage anyone:
http://theaudioperv.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/aquabats.jpg

Thanks to this thread, that fucking She & Him song has been chirping nonstop in my brain for the past 16 hours. Zooey Deschanel, please stop singing. You have one career you don't deserve; why do you think you need a second?

For me it's anything to do with Nick Cave. On paper it should work - I should be his biggest fan, but all I hear is posturing and an overwhelming insincerity.

thank you

I find the posturing entertaining, especially in Birthday Party stuff, but I totally see what you're saying; I also despised Nick Cave until I picked up Hits on a whim one day and heard "The Friend Catcher" for the first time. After that, everything else clicked.

Alicia Keys.

for the same reasons dog latin despises Nick Cave.

I saw a CD for a band called "the weepies" the other day

KILL

Soulja Boy and Waka Flocka Flame make me weep for the future of humanity.

yeah anyone with a name waka flocka flame earns that right.

well also anyone who sells so much ignorant-ass lowest-common denominator bullshit to people who in a perfect world would know better

ive never even heard the dudes music...again based solely on my hatred of his name.

well also anyone who sells so much ignorant-ass lowest-common denominator bullshit to people who in a perfect world would know better

― Indolence Mission (DJP), Thursday, January 6, 2011 12:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i feel this way about most "rap" music these days.

The Band, save a handful of numbers, does this for me. perhaps because of a handful of numbers.

hippie jams.

The Band are the most amazingest

^^^^

upper mississ-hippie shakedown

vegemitehippie

That band I hated back in the late 70s... Bostonkansasforeignerstyxtriumphtotojourney.

The Wanted - they have far more media exposure than their shitty boy band mewlings deserve.

on paper, there is so much i should like about them. some songs hit all those notes. then there is the rest of the catalog, which is unlistenable. But i want it all to be great...and am thus enraged

Franz Ferdinand

any sort of band that dresses up in costume

the Beatles
Devo
P-Funk
the Monks
Public Enemy
Daft Punk

The Hoosiers
http://spin1038.com/wp-content/files/2010/08/The-Hoosiers.jpg

I mean, just look at those fuckers.

Ugly white people! Blegh.

ironic mustaches.

They claim to have invented 'odd pop'.

any band that lays claims is aggravating at the least.

weird cuz the band was kinda the first start of the end of hippie IMO, like they were "freaks" they were canadian (and 1 southern) backwoodsman supposedly....

if you think levon helm and garth hudson are hippies i don't know what to say to you

danko was probably the most borderline hippie, and i'm sure robbie would pretend to be to get in some chixx pants

manuel was just a burnout, not hippie tho IMO

(I love the band btw, just wanted to make the pun)

weird cuz the band was kinda the first start of the end of hippie IMO, like they were "freaks" they were canadian (and 1 southern) backwoodsman supposedly....

Robertson described himself and the rest of the Band in their Ronnie Hawkins days as "street punks." And while there's no doubt some typical Robertson self-mythologization in that, I doubt that anyone playing with Hawkins in those days would later find many/any aspects of hippiedom particularly attractive.

yeah in the book that whole canadian/hawkins scene seems like a weird holdover of greaser culture more than hippie

I can't really think of any band that enrages me in a recorded context, because it's pretty easy to avoid those situations - just skip to the next song. But I have gotten pretty pissed off at bands in live situations. Was seriously bummed out by Crystal Stilts, a band whose album I kind of liked, in concert because they had a really boring take on the "don't give a shit" attitude and their singer's face pissed me off. Beyond that, mainly just 100 terrible local bands who were playing bills with my terrible local band when it existed.

For me it's anything to do with Nick Cave. On paper it should work - I should be his biggest fan, but all I hear is posturing and an overwhelming insincerity.

Word.

Also The Band really do suck, y'all have just been sold a bill of goods.

Also, lolling at Tarfumes and Upper Mississipi because even if The Band weren't self-described hippies, hippies are a significant portion of their fanbase.

The Pixies. Those bubblegum-mean-nothing-sorta-heavy songs are just enraging.

Resist...urge...to...defend.....Nick cave...The Band...Pixies....ggggnnnnnnggghhhhh

gott punch II hakwwind if you were anything less than a total bro i would have sugg banned u for that. the band are fucking great. diminishing returns after the first two lps but srsly they are yoga flame for all time.

I love Nick Cave but I can at least kind of appreciate or see the enragement,,,I love the Pixies but can sorta see how they might be infuriating...but the fucking Band. Just....damn that's cold.

Deerhoof, Deer Tick, Panda Bear, Animal Collective, (any "indie" band named after woodsy animals), Sufjan Stevens, Joanna Newsom, Phoenix, Gavin DeGraw, Bright Eyes, Ray Lamontague (sp, too lazy to check), and Bachman Turner Overdrive.

Also anything Jack White (especially White Stripes, Dead Weather is ok, I mean they covered "New Pony"), Wolfmother, Rush, Iron Maiden, Motley Crue (hate those screechy, scoldy, male high voices, except for Zeppelin).

Argggh, The Hoosiers. I'd forgotten about those tossers.

you have an awful lot of rage, thirdalternative.

there should, however, be a special circle of hell for Scouting for Girls and The Hoosiers.

Snow Patrol & Travis

Snow Patrol are kind of like the iteration of Coldplay that works for me; they are pretty much the same type of blandrock but I've never wanted to murder my radio for playing a Snow Patrol song at me.

yeah, basically all blandrock enrages me to a point that i can't even describe in words
but snow patrol has the worst effect on me

Gasp! Coldplay. How could I forget.

Snow Patrol are kind of like the iteration of Coldplay that works for me; they are pretty much the same type of blandrock but I've never wanted to murder my radio for playing a Snow Patrol song at me.

― Indolence Mission (DJP)

i forgot to add that i envy you for this

Oh yeah, Animal Collective. Fuck those guys.

Love Lifter Puller and I have about ten songs from Almost Killed Me and Separation Sunday that I like, but I'm still going to go with the Hold Steady. Dudes have a lot going for them but when the band's pomp (esp in the Franz Nicolay) and Finn's lyrical/vocal monomania/monotony merge the product becomes exceedingly frustrating/insufferable

I meant in the Franz Nicolay era, but most of that pomp was in the Franz Nicolay too

Oh yeah - FUK TENNIS. They're a Denver band I was hearing a lot of good things about, hyped up in p4k and given sound reviews in the AV Club. I browsed thru their myspace and thought the whole "we lived on a sailboat and we write songs about living on that sailboat. oh yeah we lived on a sailboat" was a little odd, but i sorta liked they're jingly-jangly homagey roots. Come the concert, I couldn't stuff enough horse piss down my throat to even remotely enjoy these guys. Worst concert of 2010.

The sailboat thing got VERY FUCKING OLD after they mentioned it for the 45th time. Additionally weather that day consisted of freezing winds - but to imply, no to insist, that they lived a life aboard a sailboat they came dressed in shorts, white khakis, and sperry topsiders w/out socks. I was just like "give me a fucking break here". They concluded the concert talking about how they wanted to return to their sailboat and was so sloshed that I yelled "We fucking get it!" to the chuckles of some and the glares of most others.

Just google the band. Pitchfork just published an interview in which they talk about their sailboat, and how friends used to react to their living on a sailboat and how different they were from everybody else. Drown. /rage

jesus christ that sounds enraging.

Yeah in retrospect I wish I hadn't written that in such idiotic furor, but it grew really tired and at one point I just calmed down and found it utterly bizarre that they were taking a break between songs to actually talk about sailboating again.

I started seriously saving for a sailboat about four years ago. That’s when I decided that I can’t go to concerts anymore because when I go to a concert, I want a beer. All of a sudden a $10 cover turns into $25 if I want a record or something. These last three years have really been about shaping our desires through a life of saving rather than destroying all our desires by wanting to go out and buy stuff. We didn’t really go to concerts for the last three years at all. We were on this hardcore saving plan, where every ounce of money was going into the bank or going into a mutual fund, just trying to get as much money as possible. Then we did it, and everyone was like, “Well, that was weird. How did you do that?” It’s not that hard if you just realize it. If you want to go backpacking in Patagonia for a year, if you want to live in Europe for a year, make a plan. It’s totally possible today.

whose quote is that?

dude from Tennis

horseshit. trustafarian.

it actually sounds quite reasonable to me. Though all this breast-beating about sailboating is pretty irritating.

I think Coldplay are way better than Snow Patrol. There's a bit of delicacy and thoughtfulness to their arrangements, whereas SP just go plod plod plod plod.

whereas I feel like Coldplay sort of prances around the idea of a song without ever really committing to it but Snow Patrol figured out you can get ppl to listen to any amount of tender platitudes if you bash away at them hard enough

Also, lolling at Tarfumes and Upper Mississipi because even if The Band weren't self-described hippies, hippies are a significant portion of their fanbase.

― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Friday, January 7, 2011 1:27 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

Well, sure. And a lot of hippies liked the Who, but the Who despised them (to the point of physically attacking them).

Eh, agree to differ then. I'll leave you to bash away at your tender platitude.

xpost

also v v shocked at Gott Punch dissing The Band - when Stormy Davis revived a Band thread recently and just wrote 'the best' i was like, yeah he's prob right

Coldplay have cornered the market on music to play at your wedding and/or reception.

The Doors
Styx (Dennis DeYoung's voice makes me want to
Punch a tree)
Most bands in which white folks "play Reggae"
and for totally left field:
Oingo Boingo/Danny Elfman
Nitzer Ebb
Daddy Yankee and most Spanish-language "rappers"

any sort of college frat band like OAR.

No wedding/reception that I've ever been to thankfully.

But even when I hear Coldplay songs, I *feel* like I'm at a wedding. Like, a marshmallow dress fake tan 500 guest wedding magazine, wedding.

what kind of sad sack pathetic wedding would play "The Scientist"

That's rough.

What is the Scientist

Six Pence None The Richer. i kind of feel like they are really trying to be a kind of band that i would like, but god, i just HATE how they sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdBym7kv2IM

this is "The Scientist"

Now poor VegemiteGrrrl's sleeves are getting puffier and her skin is turning an unnatural shade or orange/brown. That's science allright.

Google 'Coldplay Scientist Wedding' and this was the first hit

I think I just blew your mind DJP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ7Ye-7mVcg

what a touching wake

wait, what

LOL

Coldplay for contempt, not so much rage.

The Doors = rage.

I cannot fucking stand MIA. Her self-important bullshittery, half-baked political grandstanding, and bad, Mario-paint-esque bleep-booping is nauseating to me and I would have liked to personally beat her senseless with a 2x4 while she was pregnant at that goddamn awards show.

http://images.zerosec.ws/uploads/62503900-00-46.jpg

looooooooooooooooool

hey, i ain't above kicking a pregnant woman in the stomach bro

whoa

I feel like I opened the door for this with the psychokinetic hammers in my opening post but at least that has the buffer/comfort of being impossible

it's weird how everyone is okay with murder, torture, and bludgeoning... but when someone expresses the desire to hit a pregnant woman, it's all like "WHOA WHOA WHOA"

did you have angry flakes for breakfast today, res? Yknow the IA thread's there if you need it.

Nah, I just think that this particular pregnant woman should be beaten. I'm otherwise my usually chipper self!

missed yr window, she isn't pregnant anymore

yeah, I know. A guy can still dream, can't he?

...

Oh gawd, here's the part where I have to apologize for stepping over the line because our society has some unclear and seemingly illogical delineation between acceptable forms of fantasy violence and unacceptable forms of fantasy violence.

SORRY GUYS

even when there's no line, there's a line. Sorry dude, that's just how it is.

Some thing you just shouldn't put in writing.

sorry res that is way over any kind of line

So this is like that thing where sex on TV is totally unacceptable and obscene and sends the wrong message to our children, yet we can show all the blood and gore and murders we want cuz that's mysteriously OK.

OK, sorry guys. It was over the line. All comments rescinded.

it's more like making jokes about things that are patently ridiculous/impossible are generally accepted but making jokes about things that are not only possible but actually happen to people are much, much harder to have come off the way you want them to

DJP otm

glad we cleared up this hypothetical pop-star assault fantasy ethics conundrum. good work ilx

I was about to excelsior that whole exchange but maybe not a good idea. Still, "Missed your window, she's not preggers" = all-time LOL.

Taylor Swift, Steely Dan, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, John Williams

Green Day

Ghost of a Sabre Tooth Tiger.

i heard an interview & Sean Lennon going on about being inspired by 19th century science books and last night they were on Jimmy Fallon playing accordions and aaagggnnngh so much affected bullshit it's like white noise, like omg just fucking play and don't make it always be a "thing" that needs explaining. Gives me a damn migraine.

And I kinda like Sean Lennon so, fuck..whatever

Elvis Costello - uninteresting "articulate" lyrics, comes across as a stuck-up prick, boring pub rock, fuck the fuck off

Nickelback doesn't infuriate me as much as it's fashionable it's led to believe most people are by it. I definitely don't like them and don't think I ever have, but their repertoire of hits is pretty impressive. It's like some weird reactionary thing online where as soon as one discovers "indie music" (at their current state, stuff like Vampire Weekend) they must cast off all their old influences to the most violent of degrees. The last.fm page, and all the comments, is boring and pathetic. Why waste time hating on this band?

Oh man, I absolutely fucking hate Elvis Costello, thanks for reminding me.

Also, anyone that dared question Oasis' ability to will hammer-projectile arms, I direct you here: You think you're cool, but you're a dick - a picture thread

bands on "fat wreck chords". just typing that makes me so mad.

i'm starting to hate elvis costello too. though more because of his awful tv show than his albums, which i've never really felt the urge to listen to.

fuck you, seriously.

http://home.kpn.nl/boeradje/mfatgg/pictures/promo/break.jpg

all-time: aerosmith, motley crue, green day, post-thrashin' metallica
more recent due to radio/party play: lady gaga, drake

also used to really hate no doubt but then they got kind of good when they stopped being a shitty ska band. :-/

the specials

whoa this thread

xp: I mean, since we're talking elvis costello and shitty ska bands

Tom Waits

can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet--

Sigur Ros

+ that new Jonsi solo record, EEEUUURRRGGH FUCK OFF AND DIE

Forgot a really important one for me: SUBLIME

I saw a CD for a band called "the weepies" the other day

KILL

while we're on the topic of band names that enrage at first sight-- Cute Is What We Aim For

Didn't want to start a new thread. But DID want to keep it positive so...

Bands that engage you:

The New York Dolls

R. Kelley but only for moral reasons. It's hard trying to keep a lifetime ban on him since he is talented.

Coldplay have cornered the market on music to play at your wedding and/or reception.

hahaha omg just got back from a wedding tonight! guess what was played

COLDPLAY ("Yellow")

also heard Michael Buble (first dance!), Dave Matthews, and that annoying "I'm Youuuurrrs" song by Jason Mraz

the 30 min. dedicated to "dancing" where all the old ppl came out to shake their hip replacements included Stevie Wonder "Superstitious", James Brown "Sex Machine", Michael Jackson "Billie Jean", Jackson 5 "I Want You Back"

final dance floor song? Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling"

sad thing is, there are probably thousands of weddings each year with playlists that are 99% similar

Talking Heads/David Byrne

Another vote for Steve Miller.

seeing Elvis Costello's name here has been somewhat cathartic and I'd like to thank those who mentioned him.

coldplay have some good songs

Creed would have been on this list like five or more years ago when they still mattered, but really more or less just Scott Stapp.

back when Yahoo did those Yahoo Chats with celebrities, and this one was a radio broadcast, and I asked Scott what he thought of his comparisons to Eddie Vedder, and he replied "I kick his ass completely".

what a douche.

loooool

Evanescence

xxp why were you even wasting time on an internets chat w/ scott stapp???

AIDEN

Holy shit Aiden

Dare I even ask...

Xxxpost it was 11 years ago and I was 19?

BROKNCYDE

avett brothers for me....my dad and ex girlfriend love them and blaaaarrgggg

http://www.freewebs.com/xaidenx/aiden4.jpg

Aiden

Creates this:

http://www.rockworld.tv/assets/galleries/370/aiden_299.jpg

Oh dear god

haha i had never heard of aiden until this

back when Yahoo did those Yahoo Chats with celebrities, and this one was a radio broadcast, and I asked Scott what he thought of his comparisons to Eddie Vedder, and he replied "I kick his ass completely".

amazing!!!!!!! that quote takes me higher!!!!!!

i like evanescence btw

u suck. First time I saw the video I thought it was a parody.

...

Wow lotsa awesome bands getting hated on ITT... but, I guess there's no accounting for taste.

I'm not particularly enraged by many bands... but basically pop-punk sends me overboard, such as:

Rancid
NOFX
Lagwagon
Blink-182
Anti-Flag
AFI
Bad Religion
Good Charlotte
SUM 41
etc...

I generally think Marilyn Manson is a douche and in conversation comes across as nothing more than a pseudo-intellectual obsessed with promoting his own image he insists defies all generalizations one would get from just looking at him. The actual things he has to say about issues he finds relevant to himself are cliche and almost juvenile. I really first started hating him in Bowling for Columbine, fyi.

Um Rancid and BR in that list=boooooolshit

i like evanescence btw

― markers, Monday, January 10, 2011 7:19 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

Bring Me to Life is a massive tune. Don't care for anything else by them particularly.

not too bullshit. it looks like viceroy's addressing the broad spectrum of pop punk there (only thing missing is green day, really).