What Does It Take To Be The Band You Love To Hate?

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Inspired by my outbursts on the Scissor Sisters thread...

I've been noticing that I almost never post to threads about bands I like. I read the threads, think "hrm, that's interesting" and then click back. However, some bands, I hate them so much I will read EVERY SINGLE THREAD about them, and am spurred into posting by pure, unadulterated rage.

Who is your "Band You Love To Hate" at the moment?

And what made them that way, what pushed you over the edge from merely disliking to hating to ACTUALLY ENJOYING AND REVELLING IN YOUR HATRED?

Is it overexposure? Is it image? Is it associations? Or something else?

(I could have sworn that I have asked this before, in specific, re: The Strokes, but I searched and couldn't find it.)

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Razorlight -- because they make me feel old. And they are shit, also.

― HKM, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Razorlight haven't actually permeated far enough into my consciousness to provoke homicidal reactions.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I so have deja vu about this...

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

the magic ingredient is omnipresence. for whatever reason scissor sisters have broken the 5-albums-a-year thing and so 'laura' is all over the place. doesn't help that it's catchy.

― i can't ne fucked typing my name in all the bloody time, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

White Stripes, Black Keys, any of this new-rock shit.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

that insipid, whiny, ooh i'm so deep and clever and *sensitive* I have piano noises in my band shite that seems so fucking popular with the up their arse indie tossers here.
or, since I took thirty words to say one, Coldplay. they really, really bug me. and it doesn't help that my flat is full of fans who luuuuurve them. and everything piece of shit thing that comes along that sounds just like them, no matter how derivative.

― Catty (Catty), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The Darkness. Say it again. The Darkness.

― Jeffrey Beaumont, Friday, 17 September 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I've thought of the other thing that makes me *really* hate a band.

Be a second-rate pastiche of a band or a genre that I actually really *do* like. Then be compared to that band all the time. That will really get on my nerves.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 17 September 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Hyping a band to be something it so clearly isn't and constantly harping on about this. Not so much a comparison to something I love, but talk up the KIND OF THING I think would to be great, but constantly fail! Taking the Scissor Sisters as an example here, Old Fart!!!!!! summed it up dead well when he said something like "if they're the new sleazy dirty rock revolution then Air's Talkie Walkie is the nu-wave of S&M" - I mean, COME ON! Does nobody SEE this??

― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 17 September 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.z1049.com/staffwords/perry_0.jpg http://goodmusic.00band.com/images/jcasablancas_200.jpg

... It's usually the frontman's fault.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 17 September 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Bwah hah hah hah hah!!!

Cut that out. I mean, the second photo loaded first, and I'm all, "Hey, what's wrong with that? Oh, the hottness" and then you go and make me spit coffee all over the monitor and lose my clit-on for sheer laughter.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 17 September 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Mediocre band (eg clash, prml scrm, darkness, white stripes) + 100% uncritical, fawning lavish praise in papers, radio etc = I WANT THEM TO HURT.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 17 September 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

U2, which I know is cliche, but Bono bothers me so much it really doesn't matter. To me, bands that think that they're more than what they are--in this case, political leaders...I think there was an article on CNN about how some politicians were going to consult Bono re: World Bank issues, and it pretty much made me want to kill myself. It has nothing to do with their political orientation, or specific causes; just the fact that they're taken seriously outside of their music.

(this applies to all celebrities)

― musically (musically), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

Any band with a member that rocks a mustache-less goatee.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

the decemberists. they're the teacher's pets that everyone else wishes would stfu and stop ruining the spitball-throwing.

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

>> Be a second-rate pastiche of a band or a genre that I actually really *do* like. Then be compared to that band all the time. That will really get on my nerves.

-- Danger Whore (masonicboo...), September 17th, 2004 11:54 AM. (kate)

This often works for me - see Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, I hated them for a bit in 2001, then they disappeared.

The only band I really REALLY hate is the Stereophonics. I once had the misfortune to see them play a couple of songs live at an Amnesty International benefit concert and they were a bunch of miserable cunts just as I imagined!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

some of the best artists in history were "second-rate" pastiches!

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I dunno, if they're the best artists in history they aren't second rate, are they? I mean, yeah I love lots of bands that are pastiches of other bands, but those bands don't suck.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

just the fact that they're taken seriously outside of their music

I think you'll find U2 aren't taken that seriously inside of their music, either.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

notice my clever use of scare quotes

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever it takes, "The Band You Love To Hate" is the best song by J. Church, IMO.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

Here, Alfred, a thread just for you.

(I was looking for something else, but found this and thought of you.)

― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 16:11 (eleven years ago)

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