do you have an absolute LEAST favorite music artist for all-time?

radiohead

probably oasis

Dream Theatre.

Meat Loaf.

I'd be interested in serious answers to this because I find it difficult to believe someone devoted time/energy to actually determine a least favorite music artist of all time. My default response to this is Chicago. But I expended little sweat arriving at that conclusion (although I did do time with Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album) and I imagine, oh, ELP would piss me off even more if I made a project out of it.

And then there's always the question of what's worth hating. I'm not going to get too far ripping on Wednesday Week.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/photos/imissyou.jpg

I just listened to "Rock Lobster" to check if the B-52s still work for this. They don't and I'm a little disappointed.

radiohead x2

Something about Smash Mouth has me reaching for my gun whenever they barge their way into my life. Thank goodness this doesn't happen as often as it used to.

radiohead aren't really my least favorites *shrug*

u disappoint us rev ;_;

I'm thinking maybe Luscious Jackson

pete yorn

nutini

Currently it's Alicia Keys and Katy Perry.

I do hate the Doors.

maybe early bright eyes. I hear he got less awful later on, and it's still more about hating the fans than the music.

Canned Heat. They suck so bad. Also: Jefferson Airplane.

Staind

Black Eyed Peas, but that p much goes w/ out saying.

It's not so much their "big band of the moment" thing that kills me - I'm mostly indifferent to that kinda stuff, always knowing it'll exist w/ or w/out my "confirmation". It's that there used to be this girl who'd give me rides to parties on weekends and she always played "tonight's gonna be a good night" 100% non-irony on the trip there. I often wonder if people like her are the same ones who'll grow up to blame school-shootings on videogames.

If I heard more songs by the guy who did Rockabye, it would probably be him. Otherwise, no.

aerosmith. without a doubt

radiohead only kinda bore me when i listen. as background/wallpaper i think they're alright. worst thing i've heard recently was a snippet by Blue October, so their pathetic asses....

http://www.rockpic.net/images/eric-clapton-9.jpg

I can get behind many of these choices, that's why I don't have one.

The Miracle of the Smiths

Dave Matthews

without giving it too much thought... panda bear

I can get behind many of these choices, that's why I don't have one.

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otm

steely mac

aerosmith. without a doubt

insane! considering how good their seventies catalogue is

it's a gut reaction. i can't control it

they're a notch below the Stones

Even Pump isn't bad, my last girlfriend got me to realize.

nope it's awful

they're a notch below the Stones

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ok I don't hate aerosmith but they are nowhere near the rolling stones, in my book anyway

i mean we are not talking about objective truth here just pure blind disgust

my unholy trinity of least favourite music artists (in no particular order)

Beatles
Oasis
U2

o_O @ beatles

elvis costello. man may or may not be an ok sort, music makes me want to seal my ear holes with wax.

oh oh oh oh oh. elliot smith. ACTUALLY any of these new "indie" "rock-for-14-yr-olds-who-are-just-now-discovering-rock" rocker types.

dude who hates the beatles... man. Tomorrow Never Knows? seriously?

animal collective

speaking as somebody who kinda hates the Beatles even tho i don't really hate the Beatles it's as much about what they represent - that kind of "man you can't hate the Beatles" thing that 95 percent of personal hates wouldn't elicit - as it is about the actual noises they made. like i started off just not really caring about them or ever wanting to listen to them and i feel like the world badgered me into straight hate. sacred cows can be annoying if you're a carnivore i guess.

well it's just that I would assume people's absolute least favorite artists would be more one-dimensional than the beatles

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

like it's cool if you don't like the beatles, it just seems weird and reactionary to say they're your least favorite band because "The Beatles" represent a lot different kinds of music compared to say Oasis or U2

*lot of different

i don't really have a single hate figure more than i have a single love figure. i think i get more wound-up by fandom and its excesses than i do with people making music, however turgid it might be. and if you don't read interviews or pay attention to what musicians actually think about anything it's even easier not to hate them.

and Bono is the worst prick of all time, but those first couple or few U2 records were good.

see that is how objective i am. please note for next time i say something outlandish :D

like i say crut it's more a reaction to that "you can't hate them more than artist X" school of thought. cos you could flip it and argue that the sheer size of their influence is more pernicious than some comical old one hit wonder. not that i do, really, but i'm just saying that if aesthetic offence is yr main reason to hate an artist then it's possible that a "bigger" artist cd give you more offence than a smaller one?

I don't have a least favorite artist. Considered as an entire genre of music, though, death metal. I can find absolutely nothing listenable in the realm of Cannibal Corpse et al.

andrew bird

I like Cannibal Corpse

Yeah, some folks do. Maybe I could find some merit in the guitar playing, it seems skilled, but the vocals are just ridiculous, and don't get me started on lyrics. I'm not Tipper Gore, but there's just no way I'm ever listening to that stuff.

Tipper "Gore"

new display name

one day I was at a bar and wanted to play something on the jukebox and some muscular dude in his 20's stopped me and said "sorry, this is a Dave-only zone, if you're not playing Dave then get the FUCK out" (referring to Dave Matthews, obviously)

so yeah these guys played like 15 "Daves" in a row, could have been the same 2-3 songs over and over again for all I knew

man, the temptation to cue up half a dozen David Cassidy numbers and run like fuck

Years ago, David Browne (I think it was) was asked by a reader in an Entertainment Weekly "Ask The Critic" feature what artist's popularity puzzled him the most. He said that he could see how Dave Matthews might be some cult thing but was at a loss to understand how he's a gazillion selling superstar.

I've met alt.rock fan college kids, diva loving gay boys and Nickelback/new country fans who all think Dave's the shit. I really, truly don't get it.

tie between every circuit house dj ever and weird al. i'd be fine with weird al if he didn't have ways of forcing his way into my life, like my high school radio station partner forced upon me that would only play weird al such that the whole school hated us, and my current coworker that only has weird all and richard cheese albums.

yeah those people who play Richard Cheese over and over are the worst, as their defense is, "wait, this guy can actually play! and sing!" my response is "yeah, but he's playing and singing shitty fucking songs". IMO he fits alongside the guy who does MC Hawking, let the gimmick be funny and don't beat it into the ground

"sorry, this is a Dave-only zone, if you're not playing Dave then get the FUCK out"

ok this is hilarious

damn, this thread got aero to post i miss you -- thread is a success

i don't think i have a least favorite band btw . . . it definitely wouldn't be staind or blink tho

reminds me actually this weekend i'm hanging out with some people and two of them are talking about how great i think jonathan peters was at pacha the other day and one's all "oh man it was like dark like really dark tribal!" and the other one's all "but wait was it like... really like DARK DARK DARK TRIBAL?" and i waited for a lol but no lol came and the other one just confirmed, "yeah man!"

one day I was at a bar and wanted to play something on the jukebox and some muscular dude in his 20's stopped me and said "sorry, this is a Dave-only zone, if you're not playing Dave then get the FUCK out" (referring to Dave Matthews, obviously)

so yeah these guys played like 15 "Daves" in a row, could have been the same 2-3 songs over and over again for all I knew

http://www.channel4.com/assets/programmes/images/the-simpsons/series-9/episode-18/the-simpsons-s9e18-20090310161524_200x113.jpg

in which state was the dave-only bar located? just out of curiosity

fratachusetts

"which artist/band has the worst fans" should be its own thread if it's not already.

It was in Wisconsin - btw this guy wasn't like a bouncer or anything, just some dude with a bunch of friends who really, really wanted to hear Dave Matthews over and over again

daterapeississippi

wisconsin

if this question was only based on fans, dave might be a lock for my #1 worst band.

Didn't we do a worst fans thing? Jimmy Buffett for me, hands down.

it's a pretty basic question.. seems like something that's probably happened by now.

Who Has The Worst Fans: Dave Matthews Band , Phish, or Jimmy Buffett?

Yeah I dated a girl once who had this really weird fan thing going on for him (she made custom Dave shirts and everything), she would say things like "DON'T TALK SHIT ABOUT DAVE" and swoon over him every time one of his songs came on. I mean it was just like those guys who are hardcore into Tool or Radiohead or Metallica and talk endlessly about how much better their favorite band is than everything else, but it's just like, it's fucking Dave Matthews, he of the nasal voice and squirrelly face, creator of some of the most bland, inoffensive music to ever grace FM radio.

I wouldn't call it "inoffensive"

You dated a Dave Matthews fan?! I gave my friend a load of grief for dating a dude who was big into Jack Johnson. Eventually he left for Portland and I made her get the JJ CDs out of her car.

oh man the one girl i was into in high school i only started listening to dmb and phish because she did. i got into DAVE tho, phish didn't really fly

I never really got phish. Why not just be a straight-up Deadhead?

jerry DIED, man.

You dated a Dave Matthews fan?!

FWIW, my girlfriend's a massive fan.

DMB is mostly just tame and inoffensive to me. Phish have improvisational chops, even if they're not my thing. But my hatred of Parrotheads stems from Jazzfest in New Orleans, where Buffett fans would join their tarps together to create huge megatarps in front of the main stage (some complete with police "Do Not Cross" barriers) creating their own private party zones, drunkenly, loudly yack and ignore the earlier (often local and much better) acts until Jimmy came out, and then bellow along to all of his songs. All while wearing stupid headgear:

http://keystv.com/dynamic/clients/ParrotHeads/ParrotHeads_pic.jpg

FWIW, my girlfriend's a massive fan.

Not entirely malicious razzing, Ned. De gustibus, etc...

Quite so!

Jazzfest is the worst music festival i've ever been to. The fairgrounds are terrible, the lineup is always boring. The only good thing about it is the crawfish pies. Just noting this in case we decide to poll Least Favorite Music Festival Ever.

Disagree with this about as strenuously as humanly possible, but interested to hear your actual favorites.

Which we could do here:

C/D: Music festivals

so as not to derail this thread.

Sound Opinions did one of their "Rock Doctors" episodes a while back where they helped mend a rift between a couple. She didn't care for Dave, he had written plays based on their music.

I never really got phish. Why not just be a straight-up Deadhead?

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For a long time, Phish made a point of sounding nothing like the Dead, despite the huge influence. They actually shelved songs that they felt too much like the Dead. I listened to some Phish for a while early this summer after 10 years of just not giving a fuck, and they've definitely rolled back the "don't sound like the dead" rule.

i got into DAVE tho, phish didn't really fly

SB'd btw. Just kidding, but man if you had to choose between these two, you really really chose RONG.

yea idk trey's guitar sound is just so HAPPY, like aural prozac or something. hate the fans but always will have a soft spot for 'billy breathes' lol

Tried to think of the most blandly inoffensive act I could name just for the sake of trollz-&-lolz, but that's not really my style so I abandoned the idea.

five for fighting

I said Staind but only because my brain had repressed my knowledge of Jason Mraz

John Mayer

Loving the fact the UK is more-or-less DMB and Phish free (outside of a few irritating ex-backpacker types who "can't wait to go travelling again", just fucking go already IMO).

Moldy Peaches

oh god, I'd forgotten Moldy Peaches existed

System of the Downed ? that’s the guy that always sounds like he’s hacking a loogie, right?