Ill-conceived 'supergroups'

[Richardo]

Traveling Wilburys.

Take four of the most distinctive, legendary (even mythic) voices in rock history, with no ability to blend together at all. Add horrible songs. Multiply by Jeff Lynne. :puke:

Thread over.

[GumboYaYa]

1. Take three brothers from a cheesey disco band add

Peter Frampton and try to pretend they are the Beattles.

Absolutely the worst ever.

[Richardo]

2. I bow to you, Gumbo

Good one.

Did they tour as a band?

[GumboYaYa]

12. I honestly have no idea.

What a show taht would have been.....

The only reason to watch that movie is to revel in how bad it is. even then it is just painful.

[LSdemocrat]

104. Considering the Bee Gees tried to get out of the project during filming

I'd say they did not tour as a band

[jpgray]

3. Temple of the Dog

I can't stand Eddie Vedder's voice.

[Richardo]

4. Do not know that one. Geezerness showing.

[hobo_baggins]

7. I loved that group, and Eddie Vedder only guest starred on one song

the rest of the album is kick ass!

[jpgray]

10. It was pretty good

But I hate Eddie Vedder's voice. A lot.

[Catch22Dem]

109. Hunger Strike

Good song.

[jane_pippin]

15. I just hope they finally got something to eat.

I will assume they did and have been silent for so long because they're busy eating all that decadent bread they stole.

[WCGreen]

53. I was always worried about that too.....

I'm so hungry..... YEa....

[WeRQ4U]

87. But the rest of that album was outstanding

IN fact, I just downloaded that whole album on iTunes this past week. Psssst........I don't like Eddie Vedder's voice either, but Chris Cornell's.....that's a different story.

[no name no slogan]

5. Emerson, Lake & Palmer

:hide:

[GumboYaYa]

6. Get ready for the flames from the prog rock crowd.

There's gonna be some people who take issue with that one.

[no name no slogan]

36. Confession: I own every ELP record up to "Love Beach"

So I know of what I speak.

[jpgray]

11. Two words: "Nut Rocker"

What in the name of FUCK were they thinking of?

[no name no slogan]

37. Supposedly written by Kim Fowley, too

the "mastermind" behind the Runaways and a bunch of other 70s shite-rock.

[Oeditpus Rex]

96. 'Nut Rocker' has a warm spot in my heart

My cousin's band, the Tridents, covered the B. Bumble and the Stingers version around 1962. He was the pianist, and I can remember asking him to "play that fast song." (I was 6.)

It and another B. Bumble song they did, "Bumble Boogie," were my introduction to rock 'n' roll. :headbang:

[mitchum]

18. Welcome back my friends to the solo that never ends

absolutely wretched

[sendero]

45. Everybody's favorite whipping boy...

... the punk movement and rock crits managed to rewrite history. Frankly, EL&P did some real crap, but they did some pretty tasty stuff also.

Keith Emerson really was an incredible keyboardist, and sure their work was "pretentious", every bit of pop music ever made that is worth a shit is "pretentious". :) In fact, the word "pretentious" is pretentious.

Their version of "Jerusalem" is perfect, as over the top as the nutcake who wrote the words long ago :)

All just IMHO.

[sendero]

47. dag nab it

... inadvertant reply deleted

[tarkus]

52. You are mad!

Granted, they didn't age as well as some of their contemporaries, and their later albums are ridiculously bad, but when they were good they were pretty great.

And fashionable!

[no name no slogan]

100. They peaked at Tarkus

Trilogy was also alright in spots (when Keith kept his masturbation to what was in his pants, and not on his keyboard), but 'Brain Salad Surgery' and 'Pictures' are unlistenable crap.

Compare what ELP was doing to what King Crimson was doing at the same time, and there's no comparison.

And I'm somebody who owns all their stuff thru 1980 on vinyl!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

60. Moran.

:popcorn:

[hobo_baggins]

8. I'd have to say the Damn yankees

ted nugent...EWWWW

[swag]

59. You win.

[ksilvas]

85. Hands down the Worst. Amen.

Oh Tommy Shaw how could you. As if Styx wasn't bad enough.

[Catch22Dem]

110. Hobo wins!

you get a cookie

[Hissyspit]

9. Asia - the mother of all ill-conceived 'supergroups'

Steve Howe - YES
Carl Palmer - EMERSON LAKE & PALMER
Geoff Downes - BUGGLES
John Wetton - URIAH HEEP

Sing along:
"Only time will tell...
How much we suck.
Only time will tell..."

[asthmaticeog]

14. Asia's close, damn close - but did you forget GTR?

Steve Hackett and Steve Howe, completely wasting their talent of some of the ghastilest pop tripe of the '80s. I repeat for emphasis: of the '80s. One could make a compelling argument for the superiority of Giuffria.

I've forgotten in which magazine it was, but GTR's lone album earned a less-than-one-word record review: "SHT."

[Throd]

20. Asia vs. GTR = Bombast vs. wankery

...did you have to mention Giuffria? Now I feel ancient!

[asthmaticeog]

21. Did you have to mention that mentioning Giuffria made you feel ancient?

Now *I* feel ancient too! :cry:

[Throd]

29. Sorry, go listen to Vinnie Vincent's invasion

that should help

[Fenris]

31. Or Frehley's Comet

[henslee]

83. Ha! I've seen Frehely's comet.

[asthmaticeog]

33. LOL - well met.

:thumbsup:"

[no name no slogan]

35. Another sordid confession

I also saw Giuffria on tour, too, when they opened for the Deep Purple MkII "reunion" in 1984.

:yoiks:

[Hissyspit]

24. I was TRYING to forget GTR AND Giuffria.

Thanks a lot!

[asthmaticeog]

25. Sorry.

:hide:

[Fenris]

27. They should have named their album "Vowel Movement"

[no name no slogan]

34. oh fuckity fucking fuck

I will never live this down, but I confess:

I saw GTR on their only US tour

My excuse: I never thought I'd get to see Steve Hackett in a reformed Genesis or Steve Howe in a reformed Yes. And I was young. And Stoopid.

:hide:

[BigMcLargehuge]

40. I special ordered their only tape

because the record stores in town didn't have it (gee, wonder why), listened to it twice, and smashed it.

[asthmaticeog]

49. Apparently sometimes the heart rules the mind.

[no name no slogan]

115. .....

:spray:

One look, and love is blind

[Rabrrrrrr]

46. it's amzing how such incredible musicians could make such shit.

Such giants of musicianship, yet when they came together it's like they couldn't lower the bar fast enough.

Gods, what shitty, awful, disgusting music they made.

[Hissyspit]

54. It was the heat of the moment...

:P

[trogdor]

90. Let's see how much we can sound like Journey.

Oh, and while we're at it, let's polish it down to a tolerance of 0.00000000000000000001 microsucks. Couldn't produce more "perfect" music on a computer (at least not one from 1982). Perfect as in "devoid of anything resembling art." I have the original Asia LP in my collection, so I can confirm this and everything you all are saying. I love prog rock, but I'm not sure what this Asia stuff is supposed to be.

[Bunny]

13. I'm ashamed to say that I own that CD.

:blush:

A musical mishap. Yes indeed.

[donheld]

86. I'm NOT ashamed that i own that CD

It is a classic.

PS if you don't want yours the resale price for that disk is quite high
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000008LOV/qid=1139597666/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-4885055-2130339?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

[Dukkha]

93. it was my First CD

I got amy first CD player in 1988 and that was my first Disc I bought for it. I sold it long ago to a used CD store. If I only knew them the value would appreciate.

[mitchum]

16. "Checquered Past" early 80s punk/new wave supergroup...

featuring former members of the Sex Pistols and Blondie. Unfortunately, also included kiss of death Michael Des Barres as lead singer. Des Barres is a really nice and funny guy, but any musical enterprise that includes him is doomed to failure.

[henslee]

17. Distinctive, legendary,mythic? You are about as expressive as Casey Casem

It was beautiful that this band put Roy Orbinson back in the limelight one last time before he passed. Anyone who knows and loves rock would not waste their time dissing Harrison, Petty and Orbison.

[asthmaticeog]

19. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Meandering Dingleberries!

:applause:

[Fenris]

23. Moseying Doucheberries.

:applause:

[asthmaticeog]

28. Perambulating Arbitraries

:applause:

[Fenris]

30. Sauntering Elbridge Garries

:applause:

[asthmaticeog]

32. Advancing Dromedaries

:applause:

[Beware the Beast Man]

38. Grovelling Pillsburies.

[asthmaticeog]

44. Machiavelli-ing Dignitaries

[jpgray]

63. Ravel-ian Sugarplum Fairies

[asthmaticeog]

69. Migrating Virgin Marys

[jpgray]

71. Pavlovian Hillbillies

[asthmaticeog]

72. Festering Mercenaries

[henslee]

80. Sedentary Huckleberries.

[asthmaticeog]

81. Wayfaring Striptease

[jpgray]

89. Unraveling pill fillies

[asthmaticeog]

95. Domineering Jew Fairy

[jpgray]

97. Snivelling lil' Eire

[asthmaticeog]

99. Wriggling Apothecary

[jpgray]

105. Cacaphonous Culinary (changed)

[asthmaticeog]

106. Creeping Incendiaries

[jpgray]

107. Columnating Commentaries

:P

[asthmaticeog]

108. Stacking Unnecessaries

[jpgray]

112. Compounding Calumnies

[asthmaticeog]

113. Continuing Catastrophes

:P

[jpgray]

114. Daodejing Coronaries

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4726292&mesg_id=4726292

[Fenris]

22. Oddly enough, that record was played as nauseum in our house.

My parents have owned some questionable albums over the years. George Harrison's "Cloud 9" is another one.

[Robeson]

26. Ringo and the All Stars...

...:thumbsdown:

[Beware the Beast Man]

39. Blind Faith.

The sum was nowhere near as good as its parts.

[MadHound]

92. Whoa, where did that come from?

Blind Faith was a group of genius, and it's a crying shame that they didn't put out more. What is your objection to it?

Of course, it seems that I'm not on the popular side of this debate. I thought that the Traveling Wilburys and ELP were both pretty good groups also. And quite frankly, back in the day, a lot of people agreed with me:evilgrin:

[kwassa]

98. Blind Faith sucked

thats a fact, jack.

[MadHound]

101. Well that's enlightening

And why did four of the arguably best musicians of their day suck, in your opinion? Let me guess, you don't like Cream or Traffic either:eyes:

[Catch22Dem]

111. I'm with you

Blind Faith, Traveling Wilburys, and ELP were great. Hell, I like Jeff Lynne.

[BigMcLargehuge]

41. Tin Machine

Anything but legendary... often put to shame by their opening acts, i.e. the local garage doofuses in Providence, RI. when they played Club Babyhead, a venue seating a tightly packed 200 people, I could have roller skated around in front of the stage.

David Bowie was nice to me though.

[ghostsofgiants]

42. Tweeter and the Monkey Man was a good song.

[elshiva]

55. I like that song, too!

But I don't think I could listen to a whole album.

[ghostsofgiants]

57. Agreed.

[NoSheep]

43. Dylan and Petty were great together. Dylan and Harrison were good

together...they should have left it there! I think they were trying to capitalize on Roy Orbison's fading rennaisance at the start. Sadly, they kept it up after Roy went away. Criminal, really. Yes. End of thread.

[sendero]

48. I'd have to go...

... since I'm a fan of prog-rock (even still :) ) with UK or Asia. Both were packed with ostensibly talented folks who had done well in other groups, neither made a single song worth hearing.

[carpetbagger]

50. The New Yardbirds.

Following the dissolution of The Yardbirds, Yardbirder Jimmy Page joined up with experienced session bassist John Paul Jones and Band of Joy members Robert Plant and John Bonham (Procol Harum's frontman having declined the opportunity). They changed their name to "Lead Zeppelin", but had to change the name again due to the uncertain pronunciation of the name.

Through the entire decade of the 1970s, they drifted into obscurity, failing to produce a top 10 hit in their final 6 studio albums. Their talents unleashed, two of the three surviving members would finally reclaim their glory with multiple top-10 hits on the same album in separate careers in the years following the band's breakup.

[LynneSin]

74. HEY!!!!! They only kept that title for a very short time

Led Zeppelin was an amazing group!

[Redstone]

51. Was there ever one that WASN'T ill-conceived?

I'd be interested to hear about any.

On edit: Great formula. Well done.

Redstone

[henslee]

61. The Texas Tornados were fuggin awesome Doug Samm, Freddy Fender,

Augie Myers and company.

[MrScorpio]

56. The Power Station

It left me unfulfilled

[swag]

58. Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe

[jpgray]

62. Kevin Ayers, Brian Eno, John Cale and Nico

Actually that sounds really good.

[mitchum]

102. I agree...June 1 is a great record (and don't forget the incomparable...

Oliie Halsall)

[HughBeaumont]

66. GODDAMNIT, I like Anderson Walkman Buttholes and How!

For some reason, some of those songs aren't bad.

For the record, the title of this reply is an actual Butthole Surfers song.

[swag]

68. Didn't the Dead Milkmen sing "Anderson Walkman Butthole and How"?

[HughBeaumont]

75. Oooops.

What the hell made me think that was a BS song?

[swag]

77. Oh, probably the word "Butthole."

I got all excited thinking there was a Butthole Surfers song about Anderson Wakeman Bruford and Howe, though.

Maybe you should write one.

[HughBeaumont]

78. It's because the DM mention the Butthole Surfers in the song.

And if I was to write about ABWH, it'd be a parody of their style of playing on a hidden song on the end of the CD, with me on helium to imitate John Anderson's vocals.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

64. The Republican Party.

Oh, sorry, I thought this was GD for a second. :)

[hfojvt]

65. Led Zeppelin and

The Rolling Stones

they make me wish my radio had an "ignore" button

[HughBeaumont]

67. Mushroomhead.

Clevelanders know this. Mushroomhead formed as a side project of members of local metal bands. It soon became like nWo of the WCW in real life. Then Slipknot got more popular than them using their (well, Bile's and Mr Bungle's) calling card. Only in Cleveland.

The most ill concieved supergroup in real life was The Firm. "Radioactive" SSUUUUUUCKED.

[asthmaticeog]

70. HSAS: Hagar, Schon, Aaronson & Shrieve

A colossal waste of time.

[LynneSin]

73. Queen with Paul Rodgers

:puke: :puke:

Freddie wanted his band Queen to continue on after his death and I will admit that Paul Rodgers has great vocals. But something about Paul singing Freddie songs just does not mesh with me. It's like listening to Bad Company do a Queen tribute show.

I would have rather seen Brian May & Roger Taylor just tour and do their own vocals (which they have for many of the Queen songs). It's a shame that John Deacon retired :cry:

[mitchum]

103. They should change the name from "Queen" to "Butch"

[RetroLounge]

76. Blind Faith

:hide:

RL

[Ron Mexico]

79. 1.) Box of Frogs. 2.) What was the name of that band with Jimmy

Page and Paul Rodgers, with that miserable "Radioactive" song? God, when you compare the talent involved to the final product, they really SUCKED.

[asthmaticeog]

82. You're thinking of the Firm.

And for that, you have my sincerest condolences.

[Ron Mexico]

84. Right! Thanks for

both the answer and the condolences. That fucking song is stuck in my head now, ever since writing the first post.

[Benfea]

88. Hey! I rather liked the Traveling Wilburys!

Although my biggest criticism is that Jeff Lynn's producing overwhelmed the character of all the other musical personalities in the project.

[Dukkha]

91. how about Guns and Roses II

which was Axl Rose plus five others. They couldn't even get their album released after 8 years and played only one set.

[Initech]

94. Ooh ooh - Velvet Revolver!!

Take some washed up musicians (the reminants of the original Guns N Roses), add a once-great alternative rock singer who went completely fucking off the deep end (Scott Weiland of STP) and you get Velvet Revolver.

I guess the same could apply to Audioslave, but unlike VR, Audioslave has an album that's actually worth listening to!