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Bands that fucked up so badly that you can't even listen to their good stuff any more

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Thread inspired by REM's 'King of Comedy'

Loved REM once upon a time, now hate them with every fibre of my being. Threw 'Monster' on the iPod this evening figuring I'd get some sort of nostalgic hit from at least. Ended up wanting to slit Michael Stipe's throat. I know the last (x) REM albums have been totally worthless, but I finally realised tonight that I never want to hear Murmur, Life's Rich Pageant, Document or Fables of the Reconstruction ever again. What's more, I don't know what I ever saw in REM in the first place.

Have you ever wished death upon a band you once loved?

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 1 May 2004 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't go quite so far as "wishing death", but I fell off the NIN wagon, bigtime, once he started doing songs with Marilyn Manson. I still enjoy "Pretty Hate Machine", but haven't heard "Downward Spiral" in years, and heard a friend's copy of "The Fragile" once soon after it was released. It isn't that I now think those albums suck, I just have no desire to listen to them or follow NIN's career anymore.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 1 May 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Outside the Gate by my beloved Killing Joke was ALMOST unforgivable, but the quality of the material that followed it (via some swift backpeddling towards more familiar territory) redeemed them.

With each successive Kiss album after Dynasty, I gradually fell further and further out of love with the band until it bordered on abject contempt.


By the end of Black Flag's run, I thought they were horribleu

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

horribleu....sounds like a particularly stinky cheese ≠

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"â‰"

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 1 May 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Here I come to defend R.E.M. again!

I like R.E.M.'s silly songs. I enjoy "King of Comedy" (though I hate the production on that record).

― Tim Ellison, Saturday, 1 May 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

With each successive Kiss album after Dynasty, I gradually fell further and further out of love with the band until it bordered on abject contempt.

Solid evidence of the pure milk of human kindness at work. You're a more tolerant man than I and better for it.


― George Smith, Saturday, 1 May 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, how did the Pepsi commercial with that annoying little girl make you feel?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The one with Kiss in it, I mean.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I know the one you mean. I wept hot tears of abject despair, as if someone proved to me that the markings on the Shroud of Turin were just stains from someone's spilled coffee. There is no beneficent God anymore. How could there be?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)


Did someone mention Electronic? I kept the faith until this...

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...
tainted legacies:

Metallica
Liz Phair
Guided by Voices
Pavement
Pink Floyd
Jefferson Airplane (starship, ugh)
Sex Pistols (too much lame reunion shit)
Jane's Addiction (ditto)
Morrissey
Prince
Michael Jackson
Madonna

I'm sure there's more I'll think of later. Not that I can't stand the old stuff at all anymore, but they do feel more like "guilty pleasures" now...

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I went off "Television" after "Television", up until recently...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Hated most everything the Replacements did after Side One of Pleased To Meet Me, and now I can't remember why I liked 'em in the first place. Oh wait, now I remember: It's because I was going to school in the mid-80s [even did a show at the campus radio station!] and it was THE LAW.

(Cinematic equivalent: David Cronenberg's "Crash", tied with "Howard The Duck" as the worst film I ever paid money to see.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The House of Love

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaron, you're cutting a pretty wide swath. Almost everyone's legacy is tainted to some degree. I just can't see 'Never Mind the Bollocks' as a "guilty pleasure." And when, to your mind, did Pavement lose the plot?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

RW:
Brighten the Corners, Terror Twilight and the cringe worthy (to me) Jicks made me think less of Malkmus than I used to. But you're right, it's not really fair to say they/he lost it as bad as say, Metallica. I can see someone digging those albums.
Johnny Rotten embarrasses me now as well, and when I put on Bollocks now I can't get the image of his bloated goofy ass Jimmy Kimmel appearance out of my head. I agree it's an all time great album, maybe the memory will fade eventually.
The other bands I listed I felt either had a sudden dramatic drop in the quality of their output or just ran out of steam but kept flogging a dead horse. But I'm willing to debate these, they're not set in stone.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

And I would like to put forth that there are plenty of bands who a) knew when to quit, or b)were able to avoid embarrassing themselves to the point of a lot of the bands I listed, so I wouldn't totally agree with the everybody's legacy is tainted to some degree thing.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Moby

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Siegbran otm.

'Play' disgraced everything he'd done before.

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Metallica. After "...And justice for all" they become so shitty that i can't listen to them anymore. And Lars, of course, is in my black list, only second to George Bush.

― Elvis is Dead, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Simple Minds own this category for me. Their later music was so bad that it's only been recently that I've been able to enjoy listening to "sons & fascination" and "new gold dream" (which are both great) again.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah Pash is right here, they were once pretty good

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Just received The King & I RMX by the Residents. The already not so great Elvis cover album from 1989 now with breakbeats and sound effects over the vocal lines. For those who think that the Residents' output from, say mid eighties till now was already abysmal: you've heard nothing yet!

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Simple Minds is a good call. They lost it for me after New Gold Dream, edging towards session gloss. When they scaled up for the stadia what had sounded epic before became hollow bluster. The later likes of Belfast Child are abominable.

But yes, S&F is magnificent ('Theme For Grebt Cities'!) and I recently played Empires and Dance for the first time in a decade - wow! Great album! I have to confess a sneaking regard for the likes of Chelsea Girl too.

Even though I was never a fan of Maurice Deebank, Felt became intolerable after he was replaced by Martin Duffy.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Fat Bob's doing everything he can.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

To win you back or turn you away for ever, Chris?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Turn me off, dead man. I don't know whether it's the streak of fuck-ups since Wish or my age, but there's only about two or maybe three tracks on that one I can make it through, and just one since ("Out of This World"). Jason Cooper = end of the band. "No metalheads" my arse, that guy's made even Disintegration intolerable in concert. Just not good enough.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)


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