Bands I Loathe

[Spotbowserfido2]

TSO, have you heard William Shatner's take on singing? There is a very fine line between amusement and revulsion...

[paeng]

Check it out:

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

[Mr Intolerance]

Awww, now come on - that's a novelty tune - it's not like when Rick Springfield started his music "career" (remember "Jessie's Girl" and "I Do Everything For You"? I wish I didn't either...), cashing in on his success in General Hospital - and yet claiming it was a legitimate musical endeavour. Shatner's singles were a quick buck-turner, never intended to be a serious musical career, any more than Leonard Nimoy's "Proud Mary" or Richard Harris' version of "MacArthur Park" - and the public knew that.

Come on, let's pick on the real evil in the charts - Jack Johnson, for example; he's the aural equivalent of beige. When the musical revolution comes, he'll be first against the wall.

[Aeron]

Spotbowserfido2, I think you'll have a change of heart about nine inch nails if you hear the recent Ghosts albums.

YouTube - Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts IV - 34

or

YouTube - Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts II - 18

are good examples..

I despise a vast amount of music but the following genres about cover it, any form of Christian music, 99.9 percent of country, modern rap and whatever ####ty modern jazz is playing at Borders bookstore. So far as bands... Turn on your local pop radio station and whatever plays first can go in the blank.

[Spotbowserfido2]

Quote Originally Posted by Aeron

Spotbowserfido2, I think you'll have a change of heart about nine inch nails if you hear the recent Ghosts albums.

Thank you. Nine Inch Nails is much better without vocals. Mr. Reznor's unrelenting angst-driven vocals are unbearable when we have to suffer through them. I have my own cross to bear, too, you know. We all do.

[The Silent One]

Quote Originally Posted by Spotbowserfido2

Quote Originally Posted by Aeron Spotbowserfido2, I think you'll have a change of heart about nine inch nails if you hear the recent Ghosts albums. Thank you. Nine Inch Nails is much better without vocals. Mr. Reznor's unrelenting angst-driven vocals are unbearable when we have to suffer through them. I have my own cross to bear, too, you know. We all do.

Exactly how I feel, albeit with more gusto than I can generally manage nowadays...

[Odalisque]

I hadn't seen this thread before and, exploring it, expected to see that people had cited bands I really love. To be sure, I did notice the names of a few bands of whose CDs I own a few (The Grateful Dead, Cream and The Eagles) -- but these are CDs I haven't played for a long time.

It was rather a relief to see no mention of anyone of whom I'm a big fan -- such as We're Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It!! (Fuzzbox for short). Perhaps I'm the only person on here who knows Fuzzbox.

Anyway -- I'd like to take this opportunity to add Led Zeppelin to the list of the loathed.

[Aetherwing]

My daughter, her boyfriend, and her best friend, and HER boyfriend listen to The Flaming Lips, Boards of Canada, Black Moth Super Rainbow and several other trendy-indie bands ad infinitum ad nauseum. I admit no exposure to any of teh above prior to my inundation-by-association, but I have grown to view all of teh above with distaste.

To make matters worse, fans of Boards of Canada refer to the band as BOC. Unnacceptable: Blue Oyster Cult is and shall forever be BOC. I hold few things sacred, but BOC is one.

Loathings I developed on my own: Smashing Pumpkins. That guy's whiny voice is the aural equivalent of chomping tinfoil for me. Eminem. I don;t care for his music, and I don't care for his punk (original definition) image. Stain'd. Hate 'em. Can't even vocalize how much. Creed. Thank Yog, they went away.

Odalisque, I have never heard anything by Fuzzbox, but I have heard of 'em. I read an article on them in a dentist waiting room about 20 years ago....

[the_havoc_man]

Well, I know that I loathe Celine Dion. I don't think that she is even human.
Mutual hatred to Creed, Candlebox, and John Mayer.

[the_havoc_man]

hearing the Band's song the Weight made me cringe sonically at an Irish bar this evening. I got my revenge by playing some great tracks off of the Stooges Fun House.