List your top three bands that you dislike that others like....

[aquaman]

Me,
1) Oasis- Never got them, probably does not help that they are assholes.
2) Pearl Jam- I'm Sorry, that guy's voice gets on my nerves, I like his political beliefs but that is about it.
3) Audioslave- Compared to Soundgarden this band is the Bay City Rollers.

[khashka]

1. OK

1. The Rolling Stones. (Could Mick Jagger just do us all a favour and die already?)

2. Oasis (I'm a Blur fan myself)

3. Lynnerd Skynnerd (Or however the fuck you spell it. Neil Young is god and trashing him only exposes how pathetic they truly are.)

Khash.

[aquaman]

3. I agree that Neil Young is God.....

Makes me want to attend church.

[Zomby Woof]

12. Um

Ronnie Van Zant, the late vocalist of Lynyrd Skynyrd, LOVED Neil Young, and wrote that in fun - he was ribbing Young for slamming ALL southerners, and ignoring the good ones. He wore a Neil Young t-shirt on several of their albums. Neil Young LOVED that song, saying "I am proud to have my name in a song like theirs. They play it like they mean it". I have a t-shirt of Neil wearing a Skynyrd t-shirt!

Neil Young wrote "Powderfinger" for Skynyrd to record, but Ronnie Van Zant died before he could do it, and Neil did it himself.

It troubles me that 31 years later, people still believe such a terrible falsehood about "Sweet Home Alabama" and the band's relationship to Young. I just posted about it in a HUGE GD thread a few weeks ago, and yet people STILL insist on slamming the song for the wrong reasons. Hate the music if you must, but realize that Skynyrd and Neil Young were MUTUAL FANS.

And Neil, although I love him, isn't god. The man endorsed REAGAN while he was president, fergawdsakes. And I am still mad at him for his song "Union Man", which is anti-worker. Don't even get me started on "Will To Love", a song basically about salmon lust.

[aquaman]

13. You are right, Neil Young is not God......

I too was troubled to learn of his past political leanings. However, his music is amazing. Regarding the Lynyrd Skynard story, I knew your version as well. I myself appreciate that band. Good rock n roll.

[Zomby Woof]

17. Neil is mostly liberal

"Rockin' In The Free World" showed that he hadn't forgotten his roots. He did great leftist songs in the 90's, then for some STUPID reason (maybe all that pot he smoked), he said after 9-11, "We should probably give up some of our freedoms for security". It was that kind of boneheadedness that made Ronnie poke fun at him for the anti-southerner generalizations, even as a fan.

[hibbing]

79. Greendale

Always was a moderate Neil Young fan, but my respect
for him increased a lot after listening to the acoustic
version of Greendale about 150 times, it is fantastic.

[Syrinx]

42. what ZombyWoof said!

I agree with every word.

[PittPoliSci]

2. Bring the flame.

1.) Coldplay
2.) Led Zeppelin
3.) Radiohead

Bonus round!

4.) Oasis
5.) The Grateful Dead
6.) Pink Floyd
7.) Jimi Hendrix

Go ahead, tell me how great they are and how confused I must be to dislike such masters of music itself. I'll tell you that I don't give a shit and I'd rather listen to the Ramones any day over it.

[aquaman]

4. Listening to Coldplay is like.....

watching your grass grow.

[PittPoliSci]

5. in the immortal words of george carlin...

It's like watching flies fuck.

[khashka]

7. No, listening to Coldplay is

like a root canal. Annoying, painful, and requires an anasthetic.

Khash.

[aquaman]

11. LOL..........

nt

[Zomby Woof]

14. Of all those bands

Only Oasis sucks more than the Ramones. Jeezus! The Ramones were painfully awful, and fronted by a right-winger yet. Sloppiness and snotty attitude is no substitute for creativity and musicianship.

A few more of them need to die, and soon.

[PittPoliSci]

16. Led Zeppelin is about as creative as Milli Vanilli

every song follows the same formula and sticks true to the sucking pattern. Given, every Ramones song sounds exactly the same, but at least they didn't suck in 9 minute intervals.

[XemaSab]

21. wow....

I don't know what to say.

Other than I really dig Coldplay, Radiohead, and Pink Floyd.

The other 4 are really, really overrated and I don't know what the hell people who like Oasis are thinking.

[robertarctor]

6. Hmmm ...

Pearl Jam (Blood, Sweat & Tears minus the horn section and memorable songs).
Dave Matthews Band (ever wonder what that tuneless singer-songwriter at open-mic night would sound like backed by a smooth-jazz combo?).
Creed (assclownorama).

[PittPoliSci]

8. good pick on DMB!

Their music is so repetative it makes Coldplay seem original!

[aquaman]

9. Thank you for saying Dave Matthews.....

I have always called his music "frat rock." Piss, in my opinion. Creed? Well, I don't think that I have to say how bad they sucked.

[WhollyHeretic]

10. Let's see...

1)The Doors
2)Led Zeppelin
3)Pink Floyd

[Elidor]

15. It's like this:

Grateful Dead - puh-leeze. Take away the drugs and the communal atmosphere and you have a lousy jam band with folk fusion pretensions. They suck bongwater. Phish did it better.

Duran Duran - please, please kill me now! They live on as undead zombies, existing only to extrude massive suckage.

Def Fucking Leppard. What more do I have to say? They were a rock band, once. Before Pyromania. Too Late for Love was their high-water mark. Then they learned how to suck. They're still at it today.

[johnnie]

18. No problem

1) Led Zeppelin- OK, John Paul Jones and John Bonham rocked, but what's with Jimmy Page thinking he was any good on guitar? And Plant.. shezz, I have heard cats screwing outside my window that hit the notes better than him.

2) Lynyrd Skynyrd- OK, they had some good tunes for the 3 weeks they stayed alive, but they weren't that friggin' good. There were many many southern players that blew these guys away over and over again. One track of Johnny Winter blew away Skynyrds whole catalog of "southern rock".

3) Stevie Ray Vaughn- OK, but lighten up people. I love Stevie. I saw him 3 times and he rocked each time, but to put him along side of B.B, Johnny Winter, Albert King, Jimi, Albert Collins, Robert Johnson, Buddy Guy and so many others, sorry..Stevie had some good licks, but only about 4 of them. He wasn't all that.

*Disclaimer, I think my own thoughts, so go ahead and prove me wrong.

[frylock]

19. u2..

U2, and U2.

[CanuckAmok]

58. I agree, and so does Maddox:

"Rock on you frauds"

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=11worst

[mvd]

20. Mine

Creed, 'N Sync, and Gorillaz would be three of them. Grateful Dead, too.

Love Pearl Jam, U2, Rolling Stones, Radiohead, and Coldplay - like DMB, Duran Duran, Pink Floyd. and Led Zeppelin quite a bit, too... Oasis was good on What's The Story, Morning Glory?

I'm sure I'll disagree with many choices here, but I can take it. I'll just go on listening to them no matter what's posted. :-)

[XemaSab]

22. So many choices....

1. Green Day
3. Eminem
4. Sublime

Just can't hack any of that crap.

[Zomby Woof]

27. I can't either

Green Day = every generation has to have its own talentless snotty poser pseudopunk band.

[XemaSab]

32. This may be so,

but Green Day is the one that has to afflict MY generation.

They sucked when I was in high school and they suck now.

My colleague had a party once that they crashed (they were friends with her roommate's BF or something like that), and they *totally* trashed her house, like smashed windows and shit. They paid for it, but she was PISSED.

[WhollyHeretic]

39. Green Day is extremely annoying

and they absolutely mutilated an Operation Ivy song, just thinking of their cover of Knowledge makes me cringe.

[XemaSab]

44. they're so immature

there's nothing there for me.

the lyrics don't speak to me at all, especially when they're trying to be all emo. blvd of broken dreams is total wanna-be emo crap, and I really can't fathom how people think that song says anything with any emotional depth. they're so shallow they can't even pull off angst, which is a pretty basic human emotion.

[WhollyHeretic]

28. I cannot stand Eminem. His lyrics are nothing but hatred and whining

He whines about everything and everyone he's ever met. Plus the moran threatened Moby and a freakin' puppet, talk about having some issues.

[XemaSab]

33. I think he's SO pretentious

yet people treat him like this groundbreaking artist... it's because he's a white rapper, and somehow spewing misogynistic crap makes him "authentic."

It's not OK when black rappers are derogatory towards women, and call women bitches and hos, so why is that acceptable for a white guy, especially since he seems to me to advocate not just treating women as sex objects, but treating women as objects of violence. And it's not just one song, it's a good percent of his stuff. I think he really hates women, and it bugs me that young people are listening to that and thinking that that's a legitimate form of expression.

And don't go thinking I'm a feminazi either. I can rock out to ass rock with the best of them, but the violence just bugs.

[WhollyHeretic]

35. The violence towards women in his music is terrible

I am just amazed by the number of people who aren't bothered by it. I was absolutely speechless when I found out my sister was a fan of his. MTV and radio stations wouldn't be playing Nazi music, so why do they feel so comfortable playing music that promotes violence towards women? It's fucking ridiculous. The violence doesn't just stop at women he also has some very violent homophobia. The fact that he is one of the biggest musicians of our time is frightening.

[Dastard Stepchild]

57. I really liked Green Day back in the day...

when we were all collectively 18 years old.
I matured... they didn't.
Now, it's just kinda sad.

[Zomby Woof]

23. You can't top this list

U2 - they were okay until 'The Unforgettable Fire'.
REM - all post-'Document' albums are unbearably pretentious and whiny. The ones before that were bearably pretentious and whiny.
Pixies - droning "I'm soooo hip" crapola by any other name...
Dave Matthews Band - wanking never sounded so bland.
Robert Palmer - you gotta be shittin' me! Soulless white bread pap.
Depeche Mode - made the Pixies sound better than the Beatles.
The Smiths - Applaud me as I shove a red hot spike up Morrissey's whiny pansy ass, with a knife I just ate a raw steak with.
Matchbox 20 - Die, DIE. PLEASE DIE NOW.
Aerosmith - too white for words.
Prince - the emperor never had any clothes, people. He isn't a Prince, he is the King of The Posers. He should have been offed when he tried using that symbol as his name.

[aquaman]

26. I like the Pixies,

Surfer Rosa is a great album.

[Zomby Woof]

30. I was a college DJ

Had to play their crap OFTEN. Pixies fans always defended Surfer Rosa based on it (in my theory) being less drony and a little edgier.

I will say this, at least they didn't try to be the Byrds reincarnate, like 99% of other college bands.

[PittPoliSci]

49. oh i HATE Morrissey!!!

good choice!

[WCGreen]

86. What's up with that music.....

It's like the Talking Heads without the talent, only the hip weirdness

Lynyrd Skynyrd is the band I never got in high School....

I though they were just another 4 cord rock band....


And Rush....... That was another band from my time that just didn't do anything for me at all.....

[Dastard Stepchild]

56. Hey....

I love The Smiths and The Pixies. :cry:

I'm a big girl... I can take it.

:)

[Zomby Woof]

63. That's ok!

I love Pearl Jam and some of the other bands being slammed. I think of this as a cathartic exercise, and when we're done, we go back to loving one another. :-)

[swag]

24. REM, Pearl Jam, Fleetwood Mac

[Robeson]

25. Styx is numero uno. Then Boston and Fleetwood Mac. But there are too...

...many to leave at just three...

[swag]

29. Great choices

Those are some shit bands.

[Robeson]

31. Don't you know it. You got that right!....

...:thumbsup:

[WildEyedLiberal]

34. I hate...

1) Dave Matthews band
2) Dashboard Confessional
3) Good Charlotte/New Found Glory/ any other new "punk" band

Basically, fake punk and emo. Evil, evil, evil.

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

I totally agree with your list

and reasons. Nirvana would easily compete for a top three, if not the top position.

[LSdemocrat]

36. My far and away #1: Nirvana

I must be one of the few people who came of age in the 1990's (I was born in 1980) who can't stand Nirvana. I also think that the 1990's are quite possibly the worst decade of music of the rock and roll era.

2. Nickleback/Creed, etc. I also can't stand pretentious angry white male rock typically sung by lead singers whose voices sound so scratchy that they must have started smoking from the age of 8. The bands I mention here are just the worst offenders.

3. U2: If they weren't constantly fawned over by the media and shoved down our throats by radio stations, I might actually find their music listenable in small doses, but unfortunately to me U2 has been so overplayed that I can't stand much of their music.

[CanuckAmok]

40. "Knee-Rock"

The (only) legacy of my imploded marriage is that my ex coined the phrase "Knee-Rock", describing all those Pearl Jam rip-offs (Creed, Nickelback, etc) with a "charismatic" lead singer who gets down on one knee and drones, head down, introspectively about his white, middle-class, blue-collar guilt, withe the microphone cupped in his clenched fists.

[XemaSab]

46. LOL

good one!

[XemaSab]

41. Nirvana

topped my list of overrated bands last week.

I don't think they're *bad*, and I have 2 of their albums, but can you say overplayed?

Yes, you can.

[Kire]

37. Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, AC/DC

[CanuckAmok]

38. Tragically Hip, Pearl Jam (and all their "Knee-Rock clones), and

Clodplay.

Yeah, that's not I typo. I said "Clodplay".

They're like "U2-Lite", which is like being an elevator music version of Enya.

[Syrinx]

43. ok

I can think of two right now.

Radiohead. Just sounds like noise to me.

Slayer. Disgusting shit.

[AntiCoup2K4]

45. Steely Dan

First of all, two guys is NOT a band. Second, if you name your band after a dildo that's a good indication that the music is going to be as phony and pretentious as that name implies.

Dishonorable mentions:

Electric Light Orchestra - combining rock with classical was a good idea, but Jeff Lynne royally fucked it up (like everything he touches)

Whitesnake - David Coverdale is the biggest fucking poser in rock history, and there is no such thing as a band named Whitesnake. (Find anyone who has played on more than two consecutive albums by said "band")

[proud2BlibKansan]

47. Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks' voice makes my skin crawl.

Can't really think of any others.

[evlbstrd]

52. Ste-e-ev-ie N-i-i-cks!

Said while moving finger up and down against windpipe.
I can't stand her either.

[against all enemies]

84. The real Fleetwood Mac was pre-Nicks/Buckingham. try em.

[Placebo]

48. A) 99% of ALL Rap/Hip-Hop — B) Dave Matthews Band — C) Grateful Dead

The list goes on really . . . the list fuckin' GOES ON.

[BlueStateGirl]

50. The first one that comes to mind is Dave Matthews Band. I think

they are impossibly dull.

Matchbox 20 is another one I don't get. It's just generic sounding pop.

[evlbstrd]

51. Grateful Dead.

Phish.
And Grateful Dead.

[no name no slogan]

53. Smashing Punkins, Led Zeppelin, REM

The Smashing Punkins are the REO Fucking Speedwagon of post-grunge. Sure, they sound okay enough and sounded fine blasting out of dorm windows in the 1990s, but Billy Corgan is the whiniest upper-class white prick I've ever heard, and they did NOTHING musically that wasn't done by somebody else in a far more superior way. Fuck off already, Billy, nobody gives a shit about your "pain"...

Led Zeppelin: just because you can moan about your lemon and play a one-stringed guitar solo doesn't mean you SHOULD. And who the fuck cares about what a bunch of fucking elves did a thousand years ago? Pretentious beyond belief, they're the only group who somehow managed to extract every last drop of soul out of the blooze. Put a fucking sock in it boys-- oh wait, judging by your trousers, you already have....

REM: Yay, more white guys with jangly guitars. Hey, the Byrds called, they want their sound back! And personally I don't give a fuck why Michael Stipe is so much better than all of us-- he still can't sing, his lyrics are pedestrian at best, and just because you can go all country-rock on us doesn't mean you should. Stealing licks from "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" does not make you Gram Parsons (another insufferable pretentions trustafarian).

[Dastard Stepchild]

55. I forgot about the Pumpkins....

I don't like them either. :)

[Zomby Woof]

62. You nailed the Pumpkins but GOOD

Perfect. Corgan is the poster boy of all that is wrong with oh-so-alienated, over-pierced, black-wearing, wimpy, well-off suburban teens and twentysomethings. He fantasizes about Morrissey feeding him an elk carcass.

[Dastard Stepchild]

54. Why sure....

1. Nine Inch Nails - can't stomach the guy.

2. The White Stripes - I'm supposed to like them. I'm an indie hipster, fer crissakes. But, I hate them. I truly, truly do.

3. Sleater-Kinney - I've tried. And tried. And then tried again to get into their music. It's just not happening.

[no name no slogan]

61. good picks

I've seen NIN in concert TWICE (why? I'm a masochist I guess) and I still JUST DON'T GET IT. It's like warmed-over Ministry, but without the humor. Eh.

The White Stripes.....oh cool, primitive punk rock. Wow, never saw that before. Neat.

Sleater-Kinney. See White Stripes, but with a bass player. Yee-haw.

Geez I'm an asshole. :+

[flamingyouth]

59. Eric Clapton, Santana, Grateful Dead.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

60. mine

1. steely dan
2. the beach boys (i know i know hipsters love them but fuck the beach boys and fuck hipsters)
3. nirvana

i agree with you on audioslave, but soundgarden is a tough act to follow.

and re: Oasis, I never see anybody say they like them. especially here at DU - so i think that's pretty much a gimme. i personally don't find Oasis as bad as everybody else, becuase Oasis knows they are pretentious and mediocre - which is more than can be said for all the shitty pretentious and mediocre bands that don't think what they're doing is derivative, unoriginal and shitty.

[no name no slogan]

68. Two words: Pet Sounds

it is a pop masterpiece. As good as anything the Beatles did, but almost all from the mind of Brian Wilson. THAT is why the so-called "hipsters" like the Beach Boys-- it sure isn't for Mike Love's whiny, nasally tenor. :D

[MrSlayer]

64. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Radiohead

The Chili Peppers are horrible, the singer has the worst, most annoying monotone voice of any band out today.

Nirvana is the most overrated band of recent times. Three chord, whiny, woe is me, pussy music. Cobain should have killed himself 4 years before he did and spared us the drivel. Rape me indeed.

Radiohead is just flat out crap. I can't really explain further than this. It's just unlistenable and it personally irritates me that people like them.

Dishonorable mention to: Yes, Bruce Springsteen, Steppenwolf, Creed, Billy Joel and Bon Jovi.

[Initech]

65. The Killers, My Chemical Romance, and Dave Matthews Band

[jpgray]

90. I'll never understand the appeal of DMB (nt)

[webjamn]

66. Yes, Rush, and Bon Jovi

Rush has great musicians but the singer and songwriting sucks.

[alarcojon]

67. Here are mine

in no particular order:

Limp Biskit

50 Cent

Grateful Dead

[Spider Jerusalem]

69. The Killers.

That's my current #1, mainly because of their obnoxious popularity. Lame, imitative ripoff of late '80's/early '90's UK electropop/rock. Other bands got there first and did it better. Fucking wankers.


The Grateful Dead. What their fans regard as "great" (those godawful extended "jams" and so on) I regard as musical masturbation, and if there's been a more overrated band in the past 35-40 years, I haven't heard of them. More fucking wankers.

Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen was/is marginally talented at best, and David Lee Roth is an irritating idiot. Yet more fucking wankers, and the fact that anyone ever thought they were GOOD is a sad commentary on the overall suckaliciousness of rock music when they became popular.

I could probably think of at least a dozen more.

[aquaman]

77. I agree that The Killers are totally overrated....

They bore me immensely.

[Donkeyboy75]

70. The Steve Miller Band

Make them stop!!! :cry:

Also,

Journey and They Must Be Giants (oooh, we're SOOOO funny)


I agree with many of you who have mentioned DMB (one of the ones I hate the most), Creed, Clapton, Styx.

[youthere]

71. Rolling stones

Springsteen
and Nirvana
Please don't hurt me.

[mr blur]

72. U2, Queen and Oasis

and if you want a fourth, the fucking tedious, crappy Eagles.

[Zomby Woof]

78. Queen sucks

Thanks for reminding me. I would have added them to my list if I had made the deadline.

[ole_evil_eye]

73. in this order

Smashing Pumpkins(the guy can sing like Madonna can rap)
Linkin park-Whiny boy band nu metal
Bob Dylan-Can't understand a word he says

[ZombieNixon]

74. KISS, KISS and KISS

Hate KISS, hate KISS, hate KISS, hate Gene Simmons more.

'Nuff 'zed

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

75. The Doors, for sure. Used to love 'em, when I was JR HIGH/HS age.

Then, later on, I thought, "why was I ever into these guys?" I think I was much more attracted to the attitude and the cult aspect of Jim Morrison than anything else. Musically I don't think they were very great.

[Emops]

76. Nirvana, The Whie Stripes, and Radiohead

Nirvana- Had a good rhythm section, but Kurt Cobain couldn't sing, write songs, or play guitar.

The White Stripes- I'd rather jam an icepick in my ear.

Dave Matthews Band- The Grateful Dead for wimps.

[name not needed]

80. Only three? Here goes nothing.

1. Creed. Nuff said. Besides, they also suck as Alter Bridge. Same faux-Christian cock-rock, but with a different shitty singer.

2. Slipknot. No.

3. Simple Plan. Fuck, I listen to emo and I can't even take this shit.

[Tikki]

81. There here.....

3.Van Halen...inflated egos..inane lyrics...mediocore music
2.Nirvana....Tired and it showed...boring-to-death derges...flash in the pan
1.Led Zeppelin...Gigantic Inflated Egos...no wonder the audience kept flicking their Bic lighters during Led Zeppelin shows...they were trying to set themselves on fire to put themselves out of their misery.

[RandomKoolzip]

82. Radiohead, The Smiths, U2...

Limiting this to just three is excruciating.

[blue neen]

83. The Who, The Grateful Dead, and Rush

The Who--I don't know, they are just boring.

The Grateful Dead--Their music was DOA from the first time they played it.

Rush--That VOICE! It is migraine inducing.

[Scout1071]

85. Rush, Depeche Mode, Pearl Jam.

There. It's out there. It's like a weight lifted off my shoulders.

On edit: DMB would outrank both Depeche Mode and Pearl Jam.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

87. I don't feel like listening three now, but...

all of you who said Radiohead can SUCK IT

that's all :D

[Dinger]

88. Mine . . . . (I'm Old School)

1) Brooks & Dunn
2) Garth Brooks (Not a band, but I CAN"T STAND HIM!)
3) Dire Straits

[jpgray]

89. Radiohead, Velvet Underground, NY Dolls

They're not bad or anything, I just never want to put on their music.

[SacredCow]

91. Here we go....

1. Creed- Stapp is way too sanctimonious
2. RUSH- That voice makes me want to retch
3. Any and all "boy bands"