Your all-time least favourite band...

....your all-time least favourite band?

Having read the lyrics to Mr. Writer for some reason this morning, I think the Stereophonics have to be a contender.

this is an obvious choice, but muse are serious contenders to take that place.

^^ a dark hole for everything that's "acceptable" in music

i'm not a fan, but i guess i could get behind muse's overblown supertheatrical proggy redonkulousness if i really wanted to.

I really really really really hate Maroon 5.

los campesinos

Frank Zappa. Not just bad but malign.

Hot Chip

Some quite interesting answers so far. I can understand why people hate these although (Maroon 5 excepted) I have enjoyed a track or two by all of these. But yeah, Hot Chip, Zappa, Los Campesinos and Muse all seem to share a commonality in that while they're all musically accomplished, they display a similar kind of irksomeness which taken without that extra pinch of salt can really rub me up the wrong way.

I think Muse have a sense of fun about their ridiculousness and an affection for their audience. I hate Zappa because he appeared to hate people. It's the worst archetype in rock - the clever person who thinks that everyone else is stupid, and that misanthropy and self-congratulation infects his music.

yeah, that's my main issue with Zappa too. I like his instrumentals, but I don't find his lyrics funny at all. And all that scornful Dancing Fool/Valley Girl stuff is plain deceitful.

Boring answer but it's probably U2, for so many reasons

wither Oasis?

They're probably the worst example of 'thinking everyone else is stupid'.

oasis and/or queen

abyss of stupid vs abyss of silly

I wouldn't have imagined you'd care that much about queen, lex. When/how do you come across them?

Lex has been digging in the vaults!

Put me down for the Smiths.

Bon Jovi. Worthless in every respect.

tim they have a sadly entrenched high-profile status in british culture that makes me want to emigrate

like the amount of times i'm reminded that bohemian rhapsody is a thing that exists...ugh

i cosign the smiths actually! def hate them as much as queen/oasis, maybe even more

lex is going to be good value on this thread

radiohead also a contender

oh god and animal collective OBVIOUSLY

lex, this is a great queen song that i think you'd enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2EDkv_dyeI

Choose one, lex.

calumerio has a point. Bon Jovi represent the worst of American rock.

If I was going for "smash hated rock canon" I'd probably go for Nirvana, but I guess I actually reserve more contempt for bandwaggoning bands lower down that totem, like Pearl Jam or Foo Fighters or something, the same way that more hatred is reserved for Muse or Coldplay than the top of the family tree Radiohead.

Like, I can't ~actually~ hate on Kurt Cobain because of his cheerleader-for-riot-grrrl status but man, I fucking hate the amount of uncritical exaltation heaped on Nirvana.

i choose radiohead

everyone agrees about oasis at this point so i don't need to choose them, queen i can dismiss as lol old people, aninmal collective i'd prefer to think of as completely irrelevant and unimportant

radiohead, sadly, continue to fool so many people ;_;

plus radiohead keep finding their way into my path - DJs i otherwise love putting them into their mixes wtffff such a total vibe killer

the clash

I fucking hate the amount of uncritical exaltation heaped on Nirvana.

That's very different to hating a band, surely? "Overrated" shouldn't really come into this.

Gorillaz. I can normally find *something* to enjoy about most bands, but I just find them consistently dreary and terrible.

The Doors
Eagles
Alicia Keys
Katy Perry

Oh, no, I fucking hate Nirvana as well. Also Pavement. Actually maybe I hate Pavement more than I hate Nirvana! I sorta liked that one Nirvana song that sounds like Killing Joke?

Pavement.

I like both but I could see Pavement being truly detestable in a way I can't with Nirvana.

Alfred has good taste.

The warm smell of made up words / rising up through the air

Wow, I know Queen aren't everyone's cup-o-chino, but actively hating them is something I can only imagine Lex being capable of somehow. I'm not a massive fan, but I'll always welcome Killer Queen or Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy coming on the jukebox. And Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the few ubiquitous karaoke/cheese night staples I'm not totally sick of yet.

queen were pretty special, probably the provincial equivalent of the clash

I can totally imagine not liking Queen. I don't, but I see how they could grate.

I'm wondering also if there's a dichotomy between "least favourite band to listen to" and "least favourite band to hear about" ?

Red Hot Chili Peppers - lunkhead jocks who are so horrible they make it difficult for me to listen to George Clinton now. Can a band do anything worse to you than infecting your enjoyment of great music by playing a really bad, ubiquitous version of it?

I realise this is my fault rather than George Clinton's.

queen is pretty much the ultimate love or hate band

Who could hate The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke?

eh, I am pretty middle-of-the-road when it comes to Queen. there are aspects of them I do love, yes, but also aspects of them I hate. I guess I lean more towards the love end, though.

the decemberists

- thinking rhyming 'bad montage' with 'persiflage' is the key to good lyric-writing
- writing a song cycle based on the Táin Bó Cúailnge and being unable to pronounce it
- reading a biography of van morrison and deciding you know enough to write comic songs about the troubles
- writing a lot of creepy songs about rape

OMG I so agree with RHCP as well. #DieDieDie

I don't care either way about Queen, could take them or leave them, really.

I would say Red Hot Chili Peppers but I heard some of their early recordings and they were aiite

oh, I know what my least favorite band is! fucking DREAM THEATER. easy.

U2
The Magnetic Fields

well that's proved me wrong i guess. i've only ever met people who are either diametrically opposed to queen or completely head over heels obsessed

i love them

Jason Mraz

like, queen are up there with fleetwood mac and depeche mode as goat for me pmuch

another vote for queen here - hate their music, hate their ubiquity, hate them as people

I don't hate the Decemberists but I really enjoy reading people who do.

I realise this is my fault rather than George Clinton's.

He produced their second album! He is very much to blame for the success of RHCP.

how can you look at a picture of the decemberists and not hold them in contempt

hate them as people

why?

Jason Mraz

― corey, Friday, August 5, 2011 9:05 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Brian May saves badgers! Who could hate that?

was actually having trouble thinking of anyone, but then corey lit the way for me

That is totally awesome.

xp

why hate them as people though? brian may seems like kind of a good guy as millionaire rock stars go

xposts

this is on some sub-charlie brooker shit i guess

jurassic 5

the decemberists

- thinking rhyming 'bad montage' with 'persiflage' is the key to good lyric-writing
- writing a song cycle based on the Táin Bó Cúailnge and being unable to pronounce it
- reading a biography of van morrison and deciding you know enough to write comic songs about the troubles
- writing a lot of creepy songs about rape

Good choice. Also, this
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/colin-meloy-sings-sam-cooke.jpg

brian may loses points for still being unapologetic for sun city, gains them for having same hair as his wife

Also: Meloy is ugly.

Lex is the first winner in:

Thursday

Sublime is definitely up there.

Steely Dan, tbh

really don't know whether to award or dock brian may 1,000,000 points for his site guide:

http://www.brianmay.com/images/bm_siteguide_160708_1125x840ed.jpg

btw hi brian, if you are checking your server logs

re queen - yeah, hate may's general chippiness abt ppl even daring to question them playing sun city, hate him for playing guitar on the roof of buckingham palace at some fucking royal birthday party bs - plus we will rock the musical, horrible hair, ghoulish queen memorial industry etc etc

Streetheart

Mumford and Sons

Just listen to Sheer Heart Attack, man those guys were fucking awesome.

Can't argue with the sins of May that Ward Fowler and others have listed.... but I still love Queen. What a wonderful, ridiculous band. As Bill Magill says, Sheer Heart Attack is indeed fucking awesome.

Agree 100% about The Decemberists. The epitome of smug US indie bullshit. Excellent points made upthread.

Some further reasons to hate them: Colin Meloy Sings Shirley Collins. As if murdering Sam Cooke wasn't bad enough, he also went and did an EP of songs popularised by England's greatest folk singer. What sort of egotistical berk thinks he can pay homage to two of the great singers by singing their songs in his expressionless nasal whine?

That awful sub-Wes Anderson video for 16 Military Wives.

His boring adolescent memoir about The Replacements' Let It Be.

Elbow

Ha this thread is going to be great.

Mentioned so far

Love:

Queen
The Clash
Smiths
S Dan

Really Strongly Dislike:

Radiohead
Pavement
Mraz

The rest I've either not heard or don't care about either way

I can't think of my most hated though. Hmmmmm.

James Taylor really irritates me but I that can't be my answer. I feel like there has to be someone I HATE more. Hmmmm.

I was trying to explain to a colleague the other why I dislike Queen, and I think it boiled down to one thing: Brian May's guitar sound. I agree with the poster who said he would welcome certain Queen songs on the jukebox - You're My Best Friend being one such example - but Christ, that guitar. Really unpleasant.

I'm currently reserving my ire for Americans wearing bad check shirts and beards - I can't even get past that to listen to their music sometimes, and there seem to be a lot of them about.

Oh yes and I have a major problem with Jack Johnson.

every time i think of a band that's had the kind of longevity where they'd been torturing me for my whole life (nominating some doober like jason mraz seems silly since he'll probably be gone from my life in a few years) i keep remembering they have at least one song i like.

on the other hand nickelback's been around for more than ten years now and doesnt seem to be going anywhere soon, so lets say them.

The problem with hating Jack Johnson is that it's too obvious to hate Jack Johnson. But my girlfriend really likes him, so he's a presence in my life.

DMB are first that spring to mind

I nominated Mumford & Sons just now but at the end of the day I would have to join the Queen-haters as my least favourite band. It's the bombast I can't stomach. I can overlook a lot of qualities but not that. U2 and Oasis would be second and third for me.

Can I pick a song? That would be easier for me. I HATE, like really irrationally hate, "The Living Years" by Mike and the Mechanics. I can't handle that song. I've never been able too and I never will.

I hate bombast in boring stadium indie bands like Arcade Fire, but it works with Queen cos they have a sense of their own ridiculousness, and, most importantly, they FUCKING ROCK!!!

perhaps you just dont know the pain that can develop in the realtionship of a father and a member of a famous prog rock.

that was to e, but i like the idea its about the arcade fire.

uh-oh....r.....e......m
(darts away)

x-post - Perhaps Jess but I think it's mostly because it's the most awful and irritating piece of music that's ever been recorded.

RHCP-- I could tolerate their early stuff back in the late 80s, but a roommate who played them all the f'in time made me hate them. (The roommate was killed by a car in 1990--and never got to see his favorite band ascend to superstardom.)

Pomplamoose?

it's actually hard to think of a band that i truly, truly despise off the top of my head.

the problem is that i tend to start grudgingly like shit i'm overexposed to, or at least come to tolerate it. i'm especially susceptible to musical stockholm syndrome.

I can seriously find nothing at all redeemable about them, and even though I aggressively loathe a good handful of artists on the thread, Pomplamoose are the only act I can say that about.

I'm an REM fan, but I can understand why people don't like them.

I'll second the Los Campesinos hate. Just horrible. They seem kind of minor though - it's easy to avoid them and their influence isn't exactly widespread.

I like the Smiths fine, but again, can appreciate why they invite such hatred. Morrissey's racism and stupidity, his dreary solo career, the blind devotion of hardcore fans, their inadvertent part in the bleaching of British rock... One thing I find odd is that no matter how much certain indiepop bands worship at their feet, they don't sound that much like them. A friend sent me a video by one band she thought would amuse me in which the lyrics are all Smiths references. Yet the music is the kind of limpid, pedestrian strum that has more in common with Sarah Records than the dynamic and versatile playing of Marr, Rourke and Joyce. So I'm a Marr fan. His solo career has been spotty, but there are some great moments of co-writing, not least Kirsty MacColl's Walking Down Madison. Just a shame he ended up playing with indie no-hopers The Cribs. Why Johnny, why?

The Levellers. It's personal.

I agree with RHCP - but I do grudgingly enjoy a couple of early/mid period songs. As someone said above, it's their jocky socks-on-cocks schtick that irks me about them more than their music. Their last decadesworth of output has been unforgivable trash

Train

Metallica (but I could just as easily say Slayer, I guess.) I was never much into 70s metal either, but by the time 1981 rolled around I just couldn't, and can't, listen to thrash stuff at all.

Getting back to Brian and the boys :

First 3-4 albums = Good Queen
Late 70s-early 80s = Getting Crap But At Least Partly Innovative Queen
Mid 80s onward = Bad Queen

Nooooo! The truth is their career was always a bit spotty, although the early albums are more consistent. Loads of good stuff in the 80s and 90s. I Want To Break Free is one of the finest pop tunes, Invisible Man is great fun, It's A Hard Life is a smart update of classic Queen pomp, These Are The Days Of Our Lives is their most moving song etc. And there are some great oddities like I'm Going Slightly Mad, Invisible Man etc. Innuendo is pretty awesome too, especially the ridiculous Brian May/Steve Howe guitar duel. I'm well aware that last sentence will be grist to the mill of many Queen haters, but if you can't enjoy a bit of flamenco-metal axe pomp then you don't know how to have fun.

I think that there's some merit in Karen D. T. has to say about splitting out the categories of worstness. I'd say there are maybe three:

1. How objectionable their music is: for Bon Jovi, this is very, in that it is lumpen, sparkless rock potatoes over which a penis (see point 2) either exhorts middle aged women to have a good time (20%), or indulges his passion for fourth-rate kitchen-sink Springsteenisms (20%), or ejects a shitwater flow of meaningless cliché into your ears (95%);
2. How objectionable they are as people: some time in 1995 or 1996, JBJ was hawking his wares about the UK. He'd been interviewed in some Sunday newspaper magazine, making much of his family-man status. And then I read an interview with him in Loaded (I was 16), where he'd obviously been told to "lad it up", so his chat was all about jizzing on Madonna's tits. Basically, he's a disgusting huckster fuck interested only in shifting product.
3. How objectionable it is to hear about them: on reflection, I think that is defined by multiplying some quantification of points 1 and 2 by the number of times you do hear about them, conversational and media exposure to them having a compouding effect. And because I hear about Bon Jovi from my perfect-demographic Bon Jovi fan sister-in-law each and ever time they have product out (odd numbered years) and when their tour arrives in Glasgow (even numbered years), this is a colossal multiplier.

every time i think of a band that's had the kind of longevity where they'd been torturing me for my whole life (nominating some doober like jason mraz seems silly since he'll probably be gone from my life in a few years) i keep remembering they have at least one song i like.

on the other hand nickelback's been around for more than ten years now and doesnt seem to be going anywhere soon, so lets say them.

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, August 5, 2011 9:57 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think there's something to be said for the quality of musical torture over quantity. besides, i feel certain that mraz is in it for the longhaul. think about his audience... when jimmy buffet dies, he's gonna assume that unholy mantle

No way is Jason Mraz ever going to get that popular. It'd be the even worse Mayer to take over that "summer good times bro" vibe trajectory, if anyone.

Wait, scratch that, it'll be Jack Johnson.

yeah, longevity is pretty key. if lady gaga is still around in 10 years like all her little monsters say she will be, maybe her.

as it stands, I do have a special hatred for aerosmith for their consistent popularity. their 80s/90s/00s stuff all pretty much gets my blood boiling.

also have no idea why anyone still cares about nofx or me first and the gimmie gimmies or some bullshit like that.

I know a rabid Bon Jovi fan. She flies all over the US following their tour. I don't get why this band inspires this type of following!!

I'd easily choose Aerosmith over Bon Jovi.

The problem with hating Jack Johnson is that it's too obvious to hate Jack Johnson. But my girlfriend really likes him, so he's a presence in my life.

― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 5 August 2011 14:57 (52 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yes, I'm not allowed to hate on him (vocally).

Recently brought myself round to liking a couple of their records, but it has to be Pink Floyd (though Elton runs them mighty close).
(Was looking down this list to see the first that really stuck in my craw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggest_selling_British_acts_of_all_time Have the Pet Shop Boys really sold more records than the Who?)

probably U2. There are many way worse bands out there, but U2 is one of those bands that I keep being exposed to pretty much everywhere I go and this has slowly built up a huge amount of hate for them in my mind.

Just listen to Sheer Heart Attack, man those guys were fucking awesome.

― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill)

true. also 'queen II'

Was looking down this list to see the first that really stuck in my craw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggest_selling_British_acts_of_all_time Have the Pet Shop Boys really sold more records than the Who?)

That's probably because of the default settings of the table which by default sorts alphabetically. Click the little arrow in the column heading to sort by that column. Having said that, according to the table PSB and The Who are tied at 100 million.

Gotta go with The Doors here. Have always found Jim Morrisson laughable and the lyrics ponderously bad. Adding in the fact that all the stupid meatheads I ever ran across were huge fans, that's good enough for me to declare my own personal winner.

Hate them so much I can't even bother spelling Morrison's name correctly, apparently.

The Moldy Peaches all the fucking way

Salem a close second

^^^ man has a point

xpost, but he still has a point

the pogues i reckon

Moldy Peaches could be a metonym for "that" kind of music

bon jovi

runners up: journey, eagles, van halen

Can I hate The Levellers but like The Pogues and love The Clash?

course you can - all completely different

it's hard for me to hate bands, because as soon as I get to the "I don't like this" stage, I usually stop listening to them

Yeah, I don't really hate any bands. I guess if I was forced to listen to a band, I might grow to hate them.

The Eagles are vile. They're the unspoken villains of Barney Hoskyns' book about the canyon scene, Hotel California. They're wrong about pretty much everything.

Some bands are unavoidable. if you live where i live it's almost impossible to go out without hearing the Killers or RHCP and that's very unfortunate.

I guess it's the irrational, possibly even chemical dislike that brings out the worst in us, like when you know you are going to really dislike someone's music just by looking at their stupid Trevor Horn wannabe glasses and angry little face. (see above)

i think i know only one eagles song and know almost nothing about them

hardly know the pogues but assume they must be pretty dreadful

I guess I don't spend enough time in places that play loud, annoying background music to develop a strong dislike of anything in particular.

the levellers suggest a litany of mostly terrible associations but no actual songs tho i guess they must be quite execrable

you hate everything though

I guess with the Levellers you had to be there

I think one of the reasons that movies are easier to hate than bands (a bad movie will get trashed by critics with a ferocity that very few records ever attract) is because their worldview can be offensive without even trying. Like certain people hate Up in the Air not because it's badly made (which it isn't) but because of its perceived politics. This side of Skrewdriver that's much harder with music - you can tune out all kinds of shit you disagree with if the tunes are good. But for me Zappa, the Eagles and Bon Jovi each represent a different noxious way of looking at music and at the world, and it's embedded in every note. Similarly I can see why people cite Moldy Peaches, The Decemberists or Salem - it's the mentality they represent, and that's where hating a band can be illuminating.

i hate things so i can conserve my love for ppl and fauna

The Pet Shop Boys are two of the best haters in pop. When they hate something it's never just bad music - it's always something bigger.

I will say that when had to work in an office where they played music, I did quickly grow to hate most of the songs I was hearing. But now, I can't even remember what most of them were.

i dont think i have known someone to truly hate the kinks

seems a shame cuz i'd rather read a screed against them than another person hating on u2

on a purely musical basis I'd rather listen to Zappa, the Eagles, or Bon Jovi than any song by the Moldy Peaches, The Decemberists, or Salem, regardless of the mentality the latter bands represent

Smiths vs Pink Floyd for me. The Smiths I can basically put down to the Morrissey factor whereas I find almost everything about Pink Floyd tedious beyond belief.

it's hard for me to hate bands, because as soon as I get to the "I don't like this" stage, I usually stop listening to them

― Dominique, Friday, August 5, 2011 9:24 AM (12 minutes ago)

Do you then get to the "what exactly did they sound like?" stage

Actually, scratch that, the Flaming Lips. Which is weird because I used to quite like them, or maybe convinced myself I liked them more than I did around the time The Soft Bulletin came out. And then I saw them at Glastonbury in 2003 with their stupid fucking dudes dancing around in animal suits and Wayne Coyne straining painfully to reach every high note and the fucking TELETUBBIES VIDEOS and I realised that this was the single worst aesthetic in the history of pop and my younger self was wrong. I actively can't bear to listen to them now, it's painful in a way that very little other music is.

i miss the days when i cared enough to truly hate stuff rather than be pretentiously scornful towards it

Didn't one of the guys from Journey go on to have a career in smooth jazz? (or am I confused)

Meat Loaf is head and shoulders above all else in my pantheon of hate. If he doesn't qualify as a band, then Pavement.

pavement haters are showing their age cuz those same furrows were ploughed by some supremely terrible crap in the last decade

The Flaming Lips are it for me, too. I am hard pressed to think of anything good to say about them.

I liked Pavement until I saw them live. Then I decided they could fuck off.

Hootie and the Blowfish and Counting Crows (tie)

Was a little surprised to see Zappa's name mentioned in this thread, but just for a moment. I'm probably ILX's biggest fan of FZ The Composer but yeah, his misanthropic "comedy music" is yuck.

Kasabian, for being lumpen stadium rock bores who think of themselves as really edgy and dangerous.

after verifying that yes, Neil Schon did have a smooth jazz career, my least favorite band has to be Journey -- annoying me for 3 decades and counting

still have yet to see a band I actually hate more than Dream Theater listed on this thread

That Counting Crows cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" makes me drop the groceries and run screaming

Glee

the "Glee" band

the "Glee" band that invariably sucks the soul out of every song they touch

a new contender arrives

I despise 4 Non Blondes purely for What's Up. If I knew more by them I'd probably hate them less because nothing else could possibly be that bad. The video is next-level enraging.

yeah but without them there wouldn't be that he-man parody

I want to blame Journey for the existence of 4 Non Blondes

Journey might be the greatest band to ever have existed tbh. You know why? Because this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatorN4P9aA

That's why.

Everything about that video is so epic it's almost too much for me to bear.

ah man, now i might need to find a new all-time least favorite band

U2

I will take 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up" over any Pavement song ever written, i aint bullshittin

steely dan (although i respect them)

man, that "separate ways" vid is so great

I liked Pavement until I saw them live. Then I decided they could fuck off.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, August 5, 2011 4:54 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

That's interesting, I had a similar reaction. Had been a fan for years, but now they're tainted by Malkmus's petulant air of superiority at their reformed gig in Glasgow last year. At best he went through the motions. At worst he was being a dick, swinging his guitar around during the Spiral numbers and acting as if he was too good for these guys.
I still like their music, but I haven't had any great desire to listen to them since then. I think my tolerance for 90s slacker irony has come to an end. I want passion! I want commitment! I want the sublime!

That Counting Crows cover of Big Yellow Taxi is ghastly, and Mr Jones makes me want to poke my eyeballs out with a kebab skewer.

Agree with Glee and Kasabian. I actually walked out of a shop playing Kasabian once. I just couldn't take it.

Can't share the Flaming Lips hate. I'm going through a renewal of my love for them just now, having been to the Soft Bulletin show in London. Also Wayne is the nicest famous person I've ever met.

haha wow!

xp

barenaked ladies

(shudders)

Surprised nu-metal hasn't come up.

Limp Bizkit could well take the prize for my least favourite band. Just horrible on every level. Fred Durst is a deeply objectionable human being.

Grateful Dead

2. How objectionable they are as people: some time in 1995 or 1996, JBJ was hawking his wares about the UK. He'd been interviewed in some Sunday newspaper magazine, making much of his family-man status. And then I read an interview with him in Loaded (I was 16), where he'd obviously been told to "lad it up", so his chat was all about jizzing on Madonna's tits. Basically, he's a disgusting huckster fuck interested only in shifting product.

You despise him because you read an interview when you were young in which he acted laddish? As for being a disgusting huckster interested only in shifting product -- where's your evidence? And why is this inherently a bad thing?

my shortlist is something like:

red hot chili peppers (single worst thing about living in LA is that i hear these fuckers EVERYWHERE now and i know people who continue to buy their albums and oh god WHY)
the moldy peaches (smarmy self-consciously "clever" fucks)
the flaming lips (even tho like matt 'the soft bulletin' meant the world to me but i find them and their whole aesthetic basically unbearable now)
aerosmith (with maybe one or two exceptions i just find steven tyler to be absolutely repulsive as both a person and a singer, like skin-crawlingly horrible)

i haven't heard enough of them to really include them here but the handful of decemberists songs i've heard were awful

Every time I want to hate Aerosmith I remember Rocks and what a marvelous lead singer and lyricist Tyler was.

i walked out of a pavement show in 1995, no regrets

aerosmith = least favorite boston band ever

I will take 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up" over any Pavement song ever written, i aint bullshittin

― froster the poophole (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, August 5, 2011 5:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

same

linda perry wrote some good songs for xtina too

glee is a very strong contender!

on a related subject, i don't know anything about journey the band, but "don't stop believing" would be high on my list if we were doing this for indiv trax

This thread is making me feel self-conscious for not actively hating any real critical sacred cows. Usually I can find something to like, even if it's just a song or two. I dunno, Beat Happening?

Surprised, but pleased, no-one's nominated the Beatles yet.

i fuckin hate the doors

pretty much would love to never have to hear any bruce springsteen songs from here on in. esp "born to run"

beat happening is one I can get behind too

I agree with the posts naming the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. I heard them constantly when I travelled round Australia and New Zealand a few years ago. His voice fills me with so much anger.

Other bands I would consider, mainly recent landfill indie bands.

Stereophonics (Mr Writer, Have a Nice Day, Step On My Old Size Nines!!)
Glasvegas ("Oh my daddy's dead wah wah" plus the Alan McGee association)
The Kooks ("Shine, Shine, Shine on..yeah" this was a chorus they came up with in 2008!)
Kaiser Chiefs (ooooOOOOOOHHHHH)
Viva Brother (....)

least favorite band:

Third Eye Blind

(Blink 182 honorable mention)

Black Eyed Peas

ooo good one

Does Richard Ashcroft count as a band?

Fountains of Wayne. Literally the only band I've ever found completely unlistenable (this applies to most, not all, of their stuff).

I hate dumb late sixties blooze howling like Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Leon Russell. I probably hate Joplin the most of these because she's got the most pop cache because of her dumb "wasted siren" image & that fucking "Mercedes Benz" song. But Cocker sounds like his name on that terrible cover of "With A Little Help From My Friends" & Leon Russell is the worst thing on the Concert for Bangladesh which, given George's "singing", is saying something.

Probably Train.

"The best soy latte that you ever had....and me"

Is has to be Elbow though

(Blink 182 honorable mention)

― Neanderthal, Saturday, August 6, 2011 12:34 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY&ob=av2e

Foreigner, easy.

Alicia Keyes. least favorite song (of all time): that one about NYC that she did with Jay-Z

black eyed peas if that counts as a band.

Just listen to Sheer Heart Attack, man those guys were fucking awesome.

― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Friday, 5 August 2011 14:42 (Yesterday) Bookmark

Sage words.

Beatles

2nd: bands

Coldplay. But there are loads of bands/artists that, if I'd heard them as much as Coldplay, would bug me more, Black Eyed Peas or Mick Jagger solo or RHCP or Los Camp or the Enid...

I can't see all the hate for stuff like Queen or Zappa or the Beatles (I love Queen and hate the other two) because they've had such varied careers. There's always going to be a Helter Skelter or something lurking in their back catalogue that makes them better than Embrace or Starsailor or The Libertines. Even MUSE did Super Massive Blackhole which is ok.

beat happening otm

man, that "separate ways" vid is so great

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Friday, August 5, 2011 1:44 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

haha ikr, i would've loved to have been a fly on the wall when that video was being pitched.

"So, I had this idea that maybe we could do a scene where my keyboard is stuck to a wall. And I'm like, playing it there, and singing."

Beat Happening are great!

two years ago Rolling Stones woulda made my list and yet now I love them :/

Fred Durst is a deeply objectionable human being.

there's a little-acknowledged city in southern Mississippi called BILOXI that might take issue with this statement

Beat Happening are great!

― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Friday, August 5, 2011 9:23 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

for clowns to listen to, at the circus,

Clowns are too busy working, at the circus

of those mentioned so far, i've hated the following:
Eagles - they make hating easy
Sublime - top tier
Decemberists - had a brief hate affair about 4 or 5 years ago when lots of people were moving to Portland and wearing sweaters
Pomplamoose - last winter i visited my folks and watched alot of tv. spent more time with pomplamoose than with my parents.

also would like to add the following bands for managing to inspire wild hatred with a single song. kudos, boys.
Don Maclean
Barenaked Ladies
Smashmouth

Fred Durst is a deeply objectionable human being.

there's a little-acknowledged city in southern Mississippi called BILOXI that might take issue with this statement

― blapplebees (crüt)

XD

Stevie Ray Vaughan is the answer for me. Despite unabashedly loving solo-heavy guitar music, the second I hear that tone I picture his stupid hat and the hate begins.

!

There is no band - there can never be a band - indeed, there are few things - that I hate as much as Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Well, The Decemberists perhaps.

haha troll

http://i.imgur.com/oJlA9.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/lnglC.jpg (sup)

fyi "What's Up?" still has a sturdy fanbase amongst girls with dreadlocks

i just still cant see calling any band that doesnt assault me w/o my permission in public or on radio/tv my most hated. i'm no great fan of beat happening but id have to search that shit out to even hate on it. its not like im waiting in line to buy a coke at the rite aid and calvin johnson comes yodeling over the pa.

speaking of which, creeds gotta be up there too. heard that shit four times today somehow.

although as an american i respect everyones right to hate what they wish for their own reasons.

I can't answer this question because every couple years I come across music that is so much worse than everything I'd heard before and I always think "Wow, this really is as bad as it gets. Music can't possibly get much more than this." Ten years ago it was the band that did the song that goes "This is the story of a girl who cried a river and drowned the whole world" then a couple years later it was Limp Bizkit, then a few years later it was Creed, then it was Nickelback, then it was Daughtry, then it was Owl City. And after awhile I realize anything I'd nominate here will just get a snort and a "Sigh, if we only knew how much worse it was gonna get..." from the ILM folks ten years from now.

a couple months ago i was trapped in a car with a mraz cd on repeat for many hours, the trauma is still fresh

creed's generally been easy for me to tune out - i havent felt inundated by them since the early 2000s. nickelback persists though, and that 'edgy' single they had a couple years ago made my blood boil whenever i heard it

holy crap I'd forgotten about that "Story of a Girl" song

i dont think ive heard it. i'll listen to it now!

haha its pretty bad.

and yeah, there are a million valid reasons for hating a band other than cultural omnipresence! i just live a hermits life now, so awful music is something i am exposed to more via corporate playlists than those around me.

holy crap I'd forgotten about that "Story of a Girl" song

― corey

EVEN THOUGH SHE LOOKS SO SAD IN PHOTOGRAPHS, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE HER WHEN SHE SMILES

Nine Days: named after the amount of time anyone cared who they were

man, that was.... sub-everclear

Stevie Ray Vaughan is the answer for me. Despite unabashedly loving solo-heavy guitar music, the second I hear that tone I picture his stupid hat and the hate begins.

OTM! I can listen to dudes like Yngwie at their cheesiest all day, but SRV makes me stomach churn. And, you're right, its that instantly recognizable tone that hits me like nails on a chalkboard.

can still hear that stupid thing where all the instruments drop out to let the his shitty compressed vocals "shine through" before the chorus: "THIS IIIIS"

Re. Muse. Surely Bellamy doesn't have to strain like that. Why can't he sing like a normal human being? Why does he purposely go out to annoy people, people with ears?

I wanna change mine to Clutch.

clutch rule

a couple people mentioned Flaming Lips as a band they used to love but now cringe whenever they hear them — Sigur Ros is like that for me: Loved when I was 16 but now their music gives me douche chills.

I never, ever forgot about or forgave Nine Days.

(((d-_-b)))

The Asia, Jefferson Starship, Toto circle of early 80s hell.

Several XPs: If it's a band that you used to love, isn't there some kind of residual fondness for them, compared to a band that you've always hated?

Apart from Dire Straits, I can't really think of a group that I liked when I was a kid that I've gone totally off.

I hate to speak ill of the dead so soon, and what happened was certainly tragic, but I'd be lying outright if I were to say there'd ever been a time when Amy Winehouse's presence in a song or on tv didn't fill me with annoyance. Especially 'Rehab' - it's just a conceited and irresponsible lyric with an awkward 'no no no' bleat of a chorus - it feels clunky, like a placeholder lyric where something better could have been inserted. I also really dislike the whole mark ronson modern swing production style which has ended up on quite a few records now. A flimsy unappealing sound if ever there was one.

Again, I realise this may touch a few buttons, so let's be cool.

Corey otm about Sigur Ros. I was in love with them for their first ep and album - so powerful and different from anything else I'd heard till then. Then there was that video with loads of children with downs syndrome dressed as fairies, which I just didn't know what to make of. And that interview where they just kept shrugging and saying 'I don't know'. And the fact everything after the first album that I heard sounded like it had been designed for tv insert music. Can't really stand em now.

Would listen to all these bands if it meant I never had to listen to Simply Red ever again. They are next level.

U2 - fuck off and die Bono and I dont care that you are a tax dodger, what irks me is that you are a triple a world class cunt.

Sting - hopefully he might die during one of his 9 hour tantric sex sessions that he smugly boasts about.

Oasis - I have put some rat poison in this can of Stella Artois. 'Ave it.

Moby - Seems to be from the same strand of new age dipshit dna as Sting.

Henry Rollins - Opinions are like arseholes you tedious alpha male nobber.

Radiohead - I couldn't stand them even before they went acid skiffle.

I know this is a bit one dimensional and unpleasant but I do love a lot more than I hate.

Oh shit yeah, Sting and The Police top everything. Even Coldplay.

I could go with RHCP but I do think 'Breaking The Girl' is a really good song, whereas the Stereophonics have nothing whatsoever to redeem them.

It's difficult, there are definitely two elements to this - the actual worst thing I've ever heard is probably the Tiger Lillies but I'm pretty sure I can avoid them for the rest of my life with minimal effort whereas there are many, many terrible bands whose music I've not been able to escape (usually at work, on local radio) who I think deserve the title more. The most recent one of these has been Scouting For Girls - their songwriting is just so appalling on every level. So yeah, Scouting For Girls then.

guys i had a bump on the head last night is it 2006?

I'm probably ILX's biggest fan of FZ The Composer but yeah, his misanthropic "comedy music" is yuck.

― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Friday, 5 August 2011 11:56 (Yesterday) Bookmark

Interesting... I think it was you who recommended The Grand Wazoo on the old jazz listening club thread? That was what really got me to turn around on Zappa.

Queen is weird for me. I like them fine but I never really love them like I feel like I should be able to. They're not that different from Gabriel-era Genesis or Rush, both of whom do more for me. Maybe it's the camp/Broadway aspect of Queen that somehow doesn't click so much...

Anyway, I tend not to hate bands that much anymore for the reason Dominique gave. (Or else, I get to "I don't like this" and try to puzzle out why, which often leads me to liking the music.)

Chickity China the Chinese chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'
Watchin' X-Files with no lights on
We're dans la maison
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one
Like Harrison Ford I'm getting frantic
Like Sting I'm tantric
Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy

Scouting For Girls yes. I only know that one song, but it is truly a crime against humanity. Very hard to avoid. It's in a TV advert, and it's always playing in shops. Superdrug are the worst offenders - the things you go through to buy toothpaste and shampoo at a slightly cheaper price than Boots.

I'm sticking with RHCP, but on reflection Billy Joel has to run them a close second.

The worst music I have ever heard is Kimya Dawson

Second place Radiohead, who've done far more damage

Counting Crows off the top of my head. I could also second RHCP though there are a couples songs i like i guess.

I like my pop music just fine, but Enrique Iglesias is godawful. His voice makes my skin crawl. For all I know a Jason DeRulo or somebody could be worse, but few have stuck around long enough to become such a major annoyance.

Oh yeah, and almost any "post-grunge," responsible for the massive black hole of mainstream rock radio in the aughts and beyond. Easy target, I know, but I'd argue that its pointless, utterly joyless bullshit earnestness is light years worse than the sexist minstrelsy of the "nu-metal" that preceded it. At least Limp Bizkit were openly retrograde.

Mötley Crüe

^^^Arguably the only hard-rock megastars whose continued popularity has even less to do with their music than Kiss

Not strictly a band, but fucking Lenny Kravitz.

it seems like every few months i discover an artist/band who I thought were utter shit actually have something decent going on and aren't worth the hate, but thus far U2 and Dire Straits have totally failed to do that in any way

I'm impressed that Moldy Peaches/Kimya would inspire anybody to cite them as "Worst Band Ever".
I'm sad that anybody would even mention Beat Happening.
Wide-eyed wonder is OUT in 2011

It's just been co-opted by movie studios to make cutesy zeitgeist-hopping movies and commercials for cars and dandruff shampoos. People are bored.

Can't believe some of the bold controversial decisions on this thread. People hate U2 and Coldplay, woooh punk rock!

I was gonna write all about why Animal Collective sucks. I thought about writing about my pet hate for Neutral Milk Hotel. I thought about tearing up Sum 41. But my hatred for music has diminished so much over the years as apathy kicks in

I don't have a problem with wide-eyed wonder (re Owen), but faux-naiveté for-its-own-sake makes me want to kill. Kimya and the Moldy Peaches make it work with irony and humor and sharp context. Beat Happening doesn't.

Seriously surprised no one's mentioned Pomplamoose yet.

XP: ok, my punk rock choice is Devo.

dunno about all-time but Neon Trees' Animal is so amazingly bad on all possible levels, I can still hardly believe it. (first thought: wait didn't Leto just dissolve 30 Seconds to Mars, and now he's back already with... this.. attempt.. to $$ELL)

oh c'mon.. Devo??

I'll make sure to keep track of whoever said Queen or Nirvana so that I can never trust their opinion on anything ever.

keeping in mind that this is a "Worst band of alltime" thread

You know, I don't play their albums much anymore, but listening to the Beat Happening records it's abundantly clear that Calvin wanted to fuck anything that moved, and that he was very aware of this and not especially hiding it, even while working a particular musical territory. I'm not clear on how anyone can really call them faux-naive. [Insert lyrics to Ponytail here.]

Beat Happening is awful.

My choice as of this moment would probably be She & Him.

ban ludo

I think the idea of Beat Happening is usually what people hate. Faux Naive...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vV6mNf6Bp4

Rocks harder than most of the bands in the What is Rocking thread...

Seriously surprised no one's mentioned Pomplamoose yet.

Clarke did.

xp Link to the What Is Rocking thread plz

keeping in mind that this is a "Worst band of alltime" thread

it's not tho

"Your all-time least favourite band..."

To me that's what it means.

Can't believe some of the bold controversial decisions on this thread. People hate U2 and Coldplay, woooh punk rock!

I know what you are saying. But as you get older (approaching middle age) your hate figures seem to become permanent fixtures and they dont seem to fade away either. Cant be arsed hating the new generation, that would be too predictable. For what it is worth I immensely dislike Nicolas Jaar and James Blake and think they are wildly overrated.

I guess I get it with the faux naivete thing. I like it in certain situations (Ramones, The Pastels, Beat Happening)

I'm hard pressed to call up any actual 'hatred' for any band's music in particular. My dislike of 'least favourite band' Flaming Lips would best be described as 'resigned'

yeah i'm having a really hard time coming up with anything

I have this weird thing where often songs i hear on the radio (e.g. that All-American Rejects song about dude's face giving you hell) that I think I "hate", it's more a case of some part of me registering how very catchy they are and some other part of me wanting to resist that. The friction feels like dislike but it's not really, or not entirely.

It's kind of like meeting an arrogant idiot who you also think is attractive, and wanting to focus on the former even more vehemently in order to put the latter out of your mind.

There are also tons of pop songs I only really hear as snippets on tv or over cruddy shop speakers or in a taxi etc, and I think they're annoying and bad etc. Then one day, maybe months after x song has fallen out of constant rotation, I'll hear it in its entirety over decent speakers and I'll be like 'oh! That's not half as annoying and bad as I remember'. Think this is actually a really shit thing about pop in general and why a lot of people can be against it.

ha tim otm, last song i had that experience with was raise your glass

Oh, hi.

I've been away, so I'm late to this thread.

Hate a band? Blimey....

Over-long "Yes" tracks make me cry with pain and distress, but then I did buy "Wondrous stories" on blue 12" single back in the day, and quite liked the mostly instrumental b-side. Do not wish to 'investigate' any Genesis. I dislike "The Feeling" as they have none.

I vote "Dire Straits", as I saw the finest musical minds of my generation get taken up by the gateway drug that was "Brothers in arms" during a house party, where the cassette tape version they were playing came to an end, and the overwhelming vote for 'next record' was to play it all again. and again. and it never ended..... How many Cure Fans, Simple Mind fans, Smiths fans, whoever, were never to return? I left that house and never went back, as did some hardy souls. Those that got left behind became estate agents.

Haha, that story sounds like the old '40 people at the first sex pistols gig' yarn, but the opposite

Yeah, that simile has it, certainly.

Oh 'that's the joke' - I get it. Sorry, I'm pointing out the obvious as my brane's still fizzing from Field Day.

Not at all, you were spot on. It actually happened.

(and the SP 100 club hadn't occured to me)

Hey Dog Latin, do you look like one of the Velvet Underground?

I feel guilty reading this. I'd mentally assigned Owen P to the "Similar to the Flaming Lips" category. All apologies.

Most hated...probably the .John Butler Trio.

Doran err... Not knowingly, no. I do get paid to body double for Jamie Oliver on occasion though. Why? I think I spotted you tonight - were you mixing onstage just before Gruff Rhys?

Yeah, wanted to put a few names to faces but baby brain made me leave it too late. Next time.

Haha, well there is always that wdyll thread - an interesting and often surprising resource for that sort of thing.

Seriously surprised no one's mentioned Pomplamoose yet.

Clarke did.

Whoops, so he did, as did Cosmo Vitelli...must not have had all answers showing. Still surprised it hasn't shown up more considering all of the vitriol against them elsethread.

ahh what the hell

Animal Collective is music for tall twiggy white boys that have managed to escape EMOdom by finding a counterpoint in indie jungle wank music where a fap of twigs can gather around and feel secure knowing that AC is popular, cool with the scene kids and not mainstream. AC plays rhythmic air-humping music denoted by a brilliant musical comp technique known as layering a turd on top of a turd (a bit of an unfair description when you can tell that some songs have a much more mathematical approach towards turd timing and evolution - who would of thought that someone would turn noodling into a science?) The Vocals sound like nasally yelps.. actually, this review is making me too sick to go on

you pretty much just summed up everything I like about Animal Collective

indie jungle wank music

sounds pretty good

then join the group fap

more of a loner tbh but i guess that's what personal digital music devices are for

indie jungle wank music

sounds pretty good

I was kind of curious about this rhythmic air-humping. although tbh he had me at the tall twiggy white boys.

Animal Collective is music for tall twiggy white boys that have managed to escape EMOdom by finding a counterpoint in indie jungle wank music where a fap of twigs can gather around and feel secure knowing that AC is popular, cool with the scene kids and not mainstream.

hadn't realised Lorax was a short podgy black woman, will reassess her posts now.

woooh punk rock!

The Stranglers can suck on a soggy turd as well. ee how they like that 'Golden Brown'.

lol nv

i kind of love captan lorax

lorax is mexican

ok he gets a "slagging off twiggy white boys" pass then :)

soz Lorax

White people don't have a clue, do they?

They dont even have gymn toned muscles and they listen to clattering psychedelic music that doesn't have a groove unless they get a black drummer or something.

a fap of twigs

We hunt in faps

I'm gonna say Death Cab For Cutie because it's the one I'm sort of obliged to listen to. my gf likes them :(

Kenny Chesney