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

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