Least favorite 'successful' group

[motely36]

This has probably been asked before, but too bad.

What musical act does everybody else like that you can't stand?

Mine would be Coldplay. I change the station when ever they come on.

[HappyMe]

1. Lady Gaga

I don't really listen to top 40 radio, so this is based on what I have seen/heard on tv.

[taterguy]

2. Slapp Happy

[ZenLefty]

3. U2

[Burma Jones]

4. The Eagles

except for the song "Hotel California"

[MH1]

10. What about "The Last Resort"? Best. Environmental.Song.Ever.

(ok maybe just one of the best, but very good)

Sadly, not much played on the radio.

It was also on the Hotel California album.

I agree that a lot of Eagles stuff was tripe. But Last Resort is a phenomenal song. IMHO.

[Curmudgeoness]

49. I have to agree on The Last Resort.

Eagles were up and down on quality, but that song was awesome. Enough to bring tears.

[GoneOffShore]

28. Tom Waits once said that listening to the Eagles was

Like watching paint dry -

Didn't agree with him at the time and still don't. There were some good musicians in that band and when they split they got even better.

[wysimdnwyg]

5. At the risk of starting a flame war...

Post-Achtung Baby U2. Sure, there is a song here or there I like (Evolution, Love and Peace or Else), but for the most part, their music took a sharp turn towards pop and away from the blues influences that made them great. They played Nashville last year, and almost all of my friends went. I wasn't interested, thinking they would play mostly new stuff. I have some regret, because apparently half the show was from the older records, but I'm still glad I saved my money.

[HappyMe]

6. Yup. It's like watered down U2.

[getdown]

72. post Joshua Tree ......

[hifiguy]

7. I have always loathed and despised

Sty(n)x with genuine passion. I could never decide what was worse about Dennis DeYoung, the braying, over-vibratoed and ludicrously hammy voice or that dog-awful porn-star mustache. I INSTANTLY switched stations whenever I heard these barf-mongers.

[dawg]

13. You know ...

I totally love Styx, and yet totally understand where you're coming from, at the same time.

[progressoid]

21. Yup

I bought a Styx album once. I was 15.

Then I found actual music.

[Archae]

56. Try this one by Styx.

NOT their usual style!

[getdown]

73. THANK YOU

[Doc Holliday]

90. Hear, hear!

Although they're caught in a 3-way tie with REO Speedwagon and Journey.

Never cared for REO....couldn't stand Journey after Infinity....but given a choice between listening to Styx and masturbating with a cheese grater....well, I'd have to think 'er over.

[geardaddy]

8. Matchbox 20

Guns N Roses or any other "heavy metal" type pop band.

[getdown]

71. they're a

guilty pleasure

[bigwillq]

9. Adele

[motely36]

39. really?

I like her a lot.

Off to ignore for you!

[bigwillq]

46. Can't stand her.

Don't like her personality, don't like her songs.
Decent voice, but not at all attracted to her sound.

[Odin2005]

59. OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!!

She's awesome!

[ScreamingMeemie]

112. Swear to God, you would be the best room mate for me ever!

You like everything I like... You hate everything I hate!

Happy New Year, Dear friend...

[bigwillq]

117. Happy New Year, friend!

[HappyMe]

123. Agreed.

Horrific caterwauling, bad songs.

[TZ]

11. LOL

I figured you were going to name a certain trio from Canada. Waiting for Creekdog or Bake to show up here for that.
Mine would be Beastie Boys.

[pintobean]

14. Triumph?

[dawg]

15. No way.

I'm sure they're referring to FM.




Although I don't know why. Nash the Slash ruled!

[TexasTowelie]

78. I only saw them in concert once and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I don't know any other three member bands that could fill the harmonic spectrum from high to low.

[pintobean]

95. Yup. I saw them in '78

in a metal building on our arena's parking lot. The building was normally used for covered parking. They called it The Arena Annex. It seemed like a shitty venue, but for 5 bucks I saw The James Walsh Gypsy Band, Saga and Triumph. It turned out to be great. For the 1st two bands, it was like a big party. Everybody was smoking, drinking and socializing. When Triumph came on, it turned into a kick ass concert. I was 17 years old and I was in absolute awe of Rick Emmit's talent.

[TexasTowelie]

104. I saw them at the Erwin Center at Austin in 1986.

There were about 15,000 people in attendance. The concert started with a green laser projection of a speaking head of the "Time Canon". It was awesome considering the level of technology available at the time.

Those Triumph casettes were played all through my senior year when I went rolling (& smoking) on the rural county roads. I'm glad that a few people still remember them. Rush & Triumph were the Canadian supergroups of that era.

[motely36]

40. I don't hate them.

Just don't like them.

[MH1]

12. AC/DC.

Not that I ever listened to much, because whenever I recognized anything by them, I would change the station.

[Wait Wut]

19. Blasphemy.

But, only if you're talking about Bon Scott/AC DC.

[getdown]

74. ab so LUTE ly

[RZM]

100. In order to like AC/DC you really have to like big guitar sounds

And monster, over-the-top riffs. Not for everybody, I guess.

Personally I think they're the quintessential basic guitar rock band.

[Denninmi]

16. Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band

I know, he's a hometown boy here, actually lived about 2 miles from me until a few months ago. Everyone in Detroit just LOVES Bob Seger, he has done good things for the community over the years.

But, every Bob Seger song I ever heard was like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Can't stand the music of his successor, Kid Rock, either.

[Wait Wut]

18. Ugh. Yes.

One of my very favorite people in the world loved Seger. She died just over 2 years ago. Now when I hear him, I cry for a different reason.

[motely36]

41. Kid Rock is the successor to Seger???

Not to me. I like Seger but not Kid Rock.

I do not see the connection.

[Wait Wut]

17. This will probably get me banned.

The Beatles


While there are a handful of songs I like (tolerate, is closer), I thought the whole Beatlemania thing was ridiculous. Same with Elvis (Presley, that is). My car's name is Elvis...Costello.

[Denninmi]

33. I love the Beatles, but I hate Elvis Presley.

I think if Elvis popped up today, he'd be a giant Country music star. And I detest Country.

[motely36]

42. The Beatles are sorta meh to me.

[pacalo]

45. I am SOOOO with you.

Their rise to success, for the most part, reminds me of the "kick their ass, take their gas" hysteria after 9/11. I was only in the 7th grade & their music didn't appeal to me, but how I tried to like them because everyone else seemed to. It wasn't until the 70's that I began liking their music.

[A Simple Game]

66. Not a big fan myself.

I did like Sgt. Pepper and Abby Road, the rest not so much.

[NoGOPZone]

124. I know you're not serious about being banned

but I've never found Beatles diehards to get bent out of shape when you say you don't like them. Stones fans have even more of an "don't give a shit about what anyone else thinks" about their group. Compare that to some of the reactions you can see in this thread to comments about Frank Zappa and Rush.

[Wait Wut]

125. Must be the people I know.

I receive all kinds of shit for not liking the Beatles. Hell, my husband gives me shit for not liking Steely Dan.

I don't know any Stones fan, so I couldn't give a comparison.

[Populist_Prole]

20. Any of the soft rock "corporate rock" bands of the 1970's.

Too many to list, but they get regular airplay on radio stations aimed squarely at those who wish it were 1977 forever....and play the same tunes over and over and over. There was tons of great stuff to come out of the era, but most of my slightly older peers only like overplayed "hits".

Don't pillory me, but I mean stuff like:

The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac. Very "safe" stuff radio station payola's and corporate sponsors are comfy with. Course, I've always disliked soft rock anyway, preferring the "wall of sound" type of stuff; Seems like a throttling influence on the music. I'll be the first to say there's lots of bad hard rock made as well.

[HughBeaumont]

22. Kid Rock.

Terrible at country, lousy at rock, worse at rap.

And he just gets worse and worse and more ubiquitous with each passing year.

Yet he PACKS arenas. I DO not fucking get his success.

Or do I?

[hifiguy]

26. He does suck, and on a colossal scale.

He's actually good at absolutely nothing remotely resembling music. But the number of bands who have made a fortune shoveling utter dogshit on the public is astronomical. Kiss always comes to my mind first for some reason.

Back to my prog records and English electric folk. Now where the hell did I put that copy of Mike Oldfield's "Ommadawn" and those old Fairport Convention LPs anyway.....

[HughBeaumont]

29. Ommadawn is amazing stuff.

Especially the guitar solo. Mike was so far ahead of his time in the 70s.

[hifiguy]

30. That guitar solo on side one

over the soaring vocal chant and those relentless African drummers may be the greatest build of pure musical tension I have ever heard in any kind of music. Then the last guitar shriek at the end and nothing but the drummers slowly fading away into the distance. Wow!

[TexasTowelie]

79. Agreed. In search of

talent.

[IcyPeas]

23. Rush

[RebelOne]

24. Any of the groups from the '90a to the present. I am a '70s and '80s fan. n/t

[comipinko]

25. The DLC

[Tobin S.]

27. Theory of a Dead Man. Probably the most sexist band in rock.

At least judging by the stuff the radio execs deem worthy of air time.

They are among a group of bands that all sound similar to each other. They got their break on Nickleback's label. Hinder sounds a lot like them, too.

[Angry Dragon]

31. Stones ............ not can't stand ...........just never got them

[Broken_Hero]

32. Kiss, The Rolling Stones

for starters.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. The Eagles.

[Initech]

35. Aerosmith - never liked them, never will.

[motely36]

43. Don't care for them either

[Charlemagne]

64. I took

Guitar lessons back in the 90s. I wanted to play folk music (yeah I know, really popular with the ladies right) but my guitar instructor loooooved aerosmith. I dont like them. But all the songs I learned were areosmith. I eventual quit guitar because it wasnt getting any ladies. But I can still play Sweet Emotion pretty well.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

36. Supertramp

Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no

[unionworks]

84. Gaaaaaaaah!

Make it stop! I can't tell you how many fine grooves that killed in the 70s...usualy by some sadistic djwho would play it right after something really good. Damn you, now it's stuck in my head...

[UnrepentantLiberal]

108. Ha ha

Sorry to do that to you. I'm truly sorry.

[7wo7rees]

37. KISS is a scam.

Nothing there. Musical progenitor of the Paris Hilton scam and the Kardashian scam.

[Populist_Prole]

44. They were from like 1977 on

Prior to that, especially the '73-'75 period they were good solid hard rock. The marketing BS got a life of it's own and once they starting being rich their music went downhill as well...albeit with a few bright spots here and there.

[ArnoldLayne]

52. I agree I only liked their first 3 Albums back then. I

personally loved their first album. I also loved Queens first album which came out around the same time. "Its Cold Gin Time Again" my theme song in 1974.

[Odin2005]

57. Fun tidbit, the guy who made their pyrotechnic guitars has Asperger's

He has a biography out call "Look Me In The Eyes".

[Ptah]

38. Frank Zappa

I never 'got' him.

[kwassa]

61. Zappa was brilliant.

Peaches En Regalia.

Wildly smarter than most music around him.

[A Simple Game]

67. His smartness went well past music, the man was indeed brilliant.

Must have had an astronomical IQ.

I liked some of his music but I was not a huge fan of his music. His politics, yes I was a huge fan.

[unionworks]

83. Zappa is immortal

And a hell of a lot oof fun to listen to!

[madinmaryland]

47. Rush (the band). nt

[TZ]

85. You also think Tony Romo

Is a great QB. And the Pirates are your favorite BB team.....

[Bluzmann57]

48. Rush

They are just annoying. Getty Lee's voice grates on me. And they just are not all that talented.

[OriginalGeek]

55. Not talented?

I don't think I have ever read a more uninformed opinion. Geddy and the Neil and Alex may not make music you like but they are masters of their instruments and true artists.

And they've been doing it since the early 70's with just one line-up change (Neil Peart was not the drummer on the first album).

And I bet they would breastfeed pitbulls in an Olive Garden if the musical phrase called for it.

[Bluzmann57]

88. You have your opinion, I have mine

Just do not say I am uninformed about music. I have likely forgotten more about Rock and Roll and especially Blues than you will ever know. I stand by what I said. Not all that talented.

[OriginalGeek]

89. No, Your opinion that you don't like their music is valid

but you cannot possibly mean they are not talented. That's a statement on a (fairly) quantifiable attribute. They certainly aren't beginners. They aren't hacks. They aren't coarse or clumsy when playing. They have written some beautiful compositions (the beautiful part is my subjective opinion however it's fact that they understand the music theory behind what they do).

My _opinion_ is that they are some of the finest musicians in Rock and Roll. That opinion is based on the _fact_ that these guys are masters at playing their instruments. They clearly have loads of talent.

Your _opinion_ is that you don't like what they do with their talent (And I certainly don't begrudge you that opinion. I didn't like Geddy's voice the first time I heard it either.) but you cannot simply say they are not all that talented and expect no challenge.

[Doc Holliday]

91. Though I'm not a huge Rush fan,

when Geddy Lee stopped sounding like a gerbil with an amphetamine habit, their music became way more palatable to me.

And I know it may border on blasphemy, but I don't enjoy Pink Floyd anymore....not since Roger Waters left.

Same with Van Halen....not worth listening to without Roth. Hagar sucks balls.

Thank God for cable TV....without it, certain former members of 80's hair bands would have nothing.

KISS? Don't make me laugh. They're a rock band in the same sense that Velveeta is cheese. Their target demographic was (and probably still is) 14-15 yr. old boys, and their music is about at that level of competence.

And I don't care how many records they sold-- I never cared for Fleetwood Mac after Buckingham/Nicks, which is kinda funny when you realize that most people had never heard of them till that time.

Eagles? Over-rated, big time. Now they're raking in the 'nostalgia' cash. Yee-haw.

But pay my little opinions no mind-- I was one of those weird dudes who listened to King Crimson, Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, and Zappa on the side.

[CreekDog]

119. Roger Waters left Pink Floyd?

at this point, it doesn't matter one way or another.

[Lisa D]

50. Pink Floyd

Their music sends me into a depression.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

51.

[ArnoldLayne]

53. Whaaatt!!

[EastTennesseeDem]

68. Hahahaha!!

[UnrepentantLiberal]

86. I don't think she meant Syd Barrett.

[kwassa]

62. Pink Floyd doesn't depress me, they simply put me to sleep.

[PVnRT]

127. +178.992

[Archae]

54. Steve Miller Band.

Talentless hacks, shitty music and asinine lyrics all rolled into one obscene ball of shit.

[RZM]

101. Yes

Back in the '90s a guy I knew saw Steve Miller in concert. When I asked him how the show was he said:

'Terrible. It was a good example of all that was wrong about the '70s.'

[Odin2005]

58. Nickleback!

[Generic Brad]

60. Hootie and the Blowfish

[getdown]

75. Counting Crows!

[Charlemagne]

63. Rolling Stones

ugh I hate them so.

Yes I am probably going to get blocked by a bunch of people



Stones Suck

[elleng]

69. WITH YOU!

[TexasTowelie]

80. Don't feel lonely.

I can deal with Satisfaction and Ruby Tuesday. The rest of their music is forgettable.

[unionworks]

113. Have you seen your mother, baby

...standin' in the shadows?

[Art_from_Ark]

130. Paint It Black, Jumping Jack Flash, and As Tears Go By, and 19th Nervous Breakdown are good songs

As Tears Go By:

[Tikki]

65. Not a Van Halen or Motley Crew fan even though they are...

technically L A. bands.
So into other sounds at the peak of those two bands' popularity.


Tikki

[getdown]

70. John Mellencamp

[aikoaiko]

76. Oasis.

A couple of catchy songs, but I didn't understand the hype 10 years ago.

[unionworks]

77. Michael Jackson

Phil Collins. Genisis. Wait, let me don my asbestos suit...

[TexasTowelie]

81. Bruce Springstein.

I had a roommate who loved them, but I never understood his fascination with him. I couldn't change the radio fast enough when "Born in the USA" was playing.

[unionworks]

82. Whoa-oh-oh

...oh-oh! (Bruce does that a lot. I find it annoying. Shhh!)

[UnrepentantLiberal]

87. No one loves Bruce Springstein more than

Bruce Springstein.

[Doc Holliday]

92. Guys-- SpringSTEEN.....STEEN

Although I once saw a video of Catch A Rising Star's tenth anniversary show, wherein Joe Piscopo (in character as Sinatra) referred to him as Bruce SpringSTEIN.

[TexasTowelie]

93. Whoops.

I guess that I didn't pay much attention to the spelling since I wasn't a fan.

[pintobean]

98. That's Fronken STEEN!

[UnrepentantLiberal]

97. It's TexasTowelie's fault.

I went with that spelling.

[TexasTowelie]

105. Yeah, it's always the towel's fault!

Somebody asked me if I wanted to get high and you know what that leads to...

[UnrepentantLiberal]

109. Oh yeah.

[cemaphonic]

94. To be fair, "Born in the USA" has a terrible, terrible arrangement.

I'm only a casual fan, but Springsteen does have much better songs than that one. Plus, if it had been recorded with the spare arrangement of the songs on the Nebraska album (it was written around the same time), it probably wouldn't have been misinterpreted as a rah-rah patriotic song, even by Reagan.

[Doc Holliday]

96. The fact that

so many conservatives seem to think that Born In The USA is a patriotic song simply confirms some of my opinions about them.

The arrangement was part of the satirical aspect of the song.

[Dr. Strange]

126. There you go.

Can't stand the boss.

[RZM]

99. Madonna

Said it many times. She's the most overrated musical artist of her generation. Perhaps of all time.

That she's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is an absolute travesty.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

110. Disagree.

I like her.

[unionworks]

114. Joni mitchell

True goddess of the underground, shares your opinion

[cyglet]

102. Nickelback (don't get that one AT ALL...awful)

Green Day. Coldplay. U2. Alannis Morrisette. 5 for fighting (pretentious!).

I know there's more I'll forget to include, and I'll agree with the "1977 forever" repetitive "classic rock" stations as a generality. It's also all anyone wants to listen to at work, so it's a special irritation.

[RZM]

103. Bon Iver

His songs are like collages of all of the worst things about '80s music, with the cheese factor pushed to 11.

[kimi]

106. What, no one has mentioned "America"??

Ya know, the ones who did "Horse With No Name" and "Sister Goldenhair". Gag gag gag, and then gag again.

(Not so crazy about Kiss, Supertramp, and I could take or leave Bruce Spring-whatever the current spelling is. )

But for heaven's sake, give the horse a damn name already!! Sheesh.

[unionworks]

115. Oh Ye of Little Faith

Fall DOWN upon your knees and beg forgiveness for your sins! FYI a "horrse with no name" is a stolen horse, in cowboy parlance. Secondly, it is a drug the c.I.a. ran out of Laos and sold to teenage G.I.s in almost uncut form in Vietnam. About 20% of G.I.s returning from 'Nam '67--'70 were addicted to Horse. And Oz DID give something to the Tin Man, that he didn't already have! And "Sandman" was dedicated to all U.S. Airmen in that conflict. Open your ears....and feel the Green Monkey crawl across your back. God forgive me.

[RZM]

120. LOL. Always liked America

'Horse with no Name,' 'Ventura Highway,' and 'Magic' are classics, IMO

[nolabear]

107. U2

Hate 'em. And ditto on Coldplay except for "Fix You" which is one of my favorite songs.

[UTUSN]

111. da Bee-aaaa-tles n/t

[unionworks]

116. All you need is love..... n/t

[Iggo]

118. U fucking 2.

They have three songs I like (which is really only one song stretched out into three songs).

[RZM]

121. Not a very big U2 fan

Though I think this early song is a classic

[NoGOPZone]

122. Led Zeppelin

[PVnRT]

128. A second vote for Suckplay

I would rather listen to the sound of two fifteen-year-old cats anger-fucking each other, their claws scratching on a blackboard the entire time, being narrated by Rush Limbaugh.

[motely36]

129. what a great discription!

not nearly as painful as coldplay