What Singer Will ALWAYS Make You Change Radio Stations?

[arwalden]

... or better yet... turn it completely off (*CLICK!*) just so you won't have to hear them?


Mine: Michael Bolton, Rod Stewart.

[SmileyBoy]

1. Anything by Nickleback

*shudder*

[MaggieSwanson]

17. I'm sooo with you there

'Nuff said.

[laheina]

26. Thank you!

That guy's voice, and the way that they try to emphasize it! Yuck.

[LSdemocrat]

43. Same here

I'd also add Train to my list

[liberalpragmatist]

96. TOTALLY Agree

Fantastically shit.

[Fenris]

2. Dave Matthews, the blonde Jesus-dude from Nickelback

Any of the Black Eyed Peas.

[Common Sense Party]

34. I'll second Dave Matthews n/t

[Sequoia]

79. Same here.

He's scary looking to me. Plus, he's a slob.

[proud2BlibKansan]

127. Dave Matthews has a GREAT band though

I don't mind his singing. His band is so awesome I can ignore the vocals.

[Zomby Woof]

142. Aimless noodling

DMB is so severely self-conscious, that they are the sonic equivalent of masturbation, except that masturbation should never be so boring as to put one to sleep (until AFTER it's over, anyway). If they have any talent, it's lost in the meandering wankathon of noodles they excrete. And the lyrics are even dumber than Trent Reznor's, which is no small feat.

[proud2BlibKansan]

146. Well my entire family of musicians thinks he and his band

are pretty wonderful. I am going to have to hide this thread and hope none of them see it. :scared:

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Stevie Nicks

[BlueJazz]

63. She always sounds like somebody that has been at a football...

..game for 2 weeks and has been screaming the whole time, go's home...
drinks a can of Drano, then heads to the studio to record. :)

[ronnykmarshall]

99. May both of you rot in hell.

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[proud2BlibKansan]

125. You know her voice will be the elevator music in hell

[ronnykmarshall]

149. For you ....

:evilgrin:

[proud2BlibKansan]

124. LOL Sounds about right

[DancingBear]

101. Why thank you ma'am

For those that don't remember, Fleetwood Mac was actually quite good at one time, before they turned into whatever the hell she turned them into.

"Future Games" vs. Nicks-goo.

You be the judge.

:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

126. The sad thing is that the rest of the musicians in FM were pretty good

but Stevie Nicks :puke: I swear her voice is like fingers on a chalkboard to my ears.

[nutsnberries]

118. yup. i couldn't agree more. -nt

[Shine]

4. Lucinda Williams. I just can't stand the sound of her voice.

:puke:

[Bridget Burke]

71. I saw her when she first came to Houston....

She did a set at the Old Quarter. I was impressed by her strong voice & wondered what she'd sound like if she ever learned to hit the right notes. She lived in Houston for a while & worked on the singer/songwriter lifestyle. Yup, she'd been doin' some hard travelin'....

Eventually she got famous. But she's still bit tone deaf.

[Dees]

5. John Mayer

[nickinSTL]

65. Me too..

every time.

:puke:

[Cats Against Frist]

121. Righty-O

And, anything whiny -- Blink 182, Linkin Park, Good Charlotte. I can't stand that fucking crap. I can only barely stand "The Decemberists," but just barely.

[flamingyouth]

6. Scott Stapp

[swag]

15. Oh, he's good. And who's that original bleater? Pearl Jam guy?

Oh, sure, Eddie Vedder. There was a whole radio generation of them.

The bleaters. Oh, other guy. Drug problem guy. Weiland.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

114. I HATE him and Creed.

He thinks he's christ and I just want to smack him.
Duckie

[Zomby Woof]

7. Freddie Mercury

Only so much preening and posturing one can handle. It ain't operatic - it's more akin to passing a boa constrictor, with really dumb lyrics thrown in just for extra annoyance and pretention.

[LynneSin]

60. You really want to get on my shit list don't you?

I mean, it would be nice if we could actually get some new music with Freddie Mercury in it but he DIED YOU KNOW!!!

:grr:

I might have to add Frank Zappa to my list

:grr:

[proud2BlibKansan]

129. Zappa? That will put you on MY shit list.

I agree with you about Freddie Mercury though. He was a master.

[Zomby Woof]

140. Feh

I never liked Queen even in the 70's, and liked them even less in the 80's for violating the anti-apartheid boycott and playing in Sun City in South Africa in deliberate defiance of the rest of the music community. Besides being boring, pompous, and unbearably pretentious, they were apologists for racism and right-wing politics. 'We Will Rock You' even has a fascist aura about it. Like a Nazi-Neocon-GOP Youth Rally on steroids.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

8. Wow, I love Rod Stewart

and Stevie Nicks and Dave Mathews Good thing we don't all have the same tastes. Would make for a boring world.

I turn off most big cowboy hat music. Just don't enjoy it.

[newspeak]

41. I agree with everyone

but not a great Rod Stewart fan. Hubby hates anything disco. I'm not into contemporary country, but do like the Dixie Chicks. Don't like the generic boy and girl singing groups--most start sounding the same. Love Robbie Robinson; JoAnn Shenandoah; U2; Led Zeppelin; Buffalo Springfield; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Celtic music; Mozart and Bach and many others--just no Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and anyone sounding like them, or cry in your beer country songs.

[LynneSin]

67. Depends on which Rod Stewart

I have all his old stuff on vinyl.

But I'd rather have root canal with a rusty pair of pliers than to listen to his new crap

[xmas74]

109. I like old Rod Stewart

and love most anything Ms. Nicks does. I'm also a big DMB fan. I've been to quite a few of their concerts and have followed them since the beginning.

[sendero]

9. Fiddy sent...

.... giving hip hop a bad name every time he opens his mouth.

[momophile]

10. Peter Gabriel and Steve Winwood

and any hard rock/heavy metal.

[Common Sense Party]

35. You won't like my record collection, then. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

130. Stay away from my parties

I think I own every record Stevie Winwood ever performed on.

[WeRQ4U]

11. Jewel and Celine Dion

Both make my guts itch.

[Pithlet]

131. Me, too.

I really can't stand Jewel. You couldn't turn on a radio station in the late 90's for more than a few minutes without hearing her, either.

[mwooldri]

12. There's this one track: Tiesto - "Adaigo for Strings"

This is a dance music/classical music mix up. It IMO doesn't work well, and I will change the station when it comes on.

The other thing that will make me change stations (but it's not a song) is that bloody annoying commercial for the Doctors' Night Guard - where you hear the teeth grinding sound.

Woe betide me if I flip from XM 81 to XM 167 to escape from that song to get teeth grinding.

Mark

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Whoever's singing the National Anthem

:puke:

[blondeatlast]

103. Hell, yes. Ray Charles' (and only his) version of "America the Beautiful"

should be our national anthem.

[saged52]

14. Gretchen Wilson

certainly do not mean to offend anyone's taste - it's just my own personal thing -

[elshiva]

16. Rolling Stones, ALWAYS!

[hfojvt]

33. absolutely

All I need to hear is the opening bars of "start me up" and it is time for a new radio station. But there are a couple Stones songs I can listen to, like "You can't always get what you want." but 99.5% of the time I will not tolerate the Stones, but I feel the same way about Led Zeppelin too, and Rod Stewart.

[proud2BlibKansan]

133. I really like ONE Stones song

Dead Flowers. Awesome tune. Other groups have done a better version of it but I will listen to the Stones version. But yeah, I will usually change the station if any of their other stuff comes on.

[cynatnite]

18. boy bands, britny spears, jessica simpson...

:puke: They're as bad as faux.

[northzax]

19. this one, I can't stand it, not one bit.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. What a beaut!

Yours?

[northzax]

23. no, google image search, sorry! _nt_

[blondeatlast]

104. I have one of the very first electric Singers ever manufactured.

It belonged to my grandmother and mom, now it's mine--and it works like a charm still.

I use it as often as I use my older, but top-of-the-line, Bernina.

[shugah]

28. THAT is a very pretty singer

if it sings for you, you should learn how to sew.

[jus_the_facts]

20. Curt Cobain

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Common Sense Party]

36. I like very few Nirvana songs. The guy could not sing.

Bad taste alert:







(His aim was better than Cheney's, though.)

[jus_the_facts]

38. LMAO....

....yeah and why couldn't he have done it BEFORE he got *famous*! :rofl:

[jakefrep]

Lee Greenwood nt

[YellowRubberDuckie]

115. Thank God I'm not the only one who thinks so.

[ghostsofgiants]

22. Hmmmm...Chad Kroeger from Nickelback...and any of those other crap bands..

Creed, Default, Theory of a Dead Man, etc.

To be honest though, most of the crap that comes on the radio drives me insane. My roommate insists on listening to the local classic rock station constantly. It's horrible. Occasionally they'll play something by The Clash or something, but 99% of the time I end up wanting to stab my eardrums.

[last_texas_dem]

24. With a couple of exceptions...

Pretty much anything with the second lead singer of AC/DC.

[Aristus]

25. Lone Star.

Most of the time, that craptastic whiny bleating is confined to the country-and-western stations. But some fool of a no-talent, tonedeaf assclown decided it was "crossover" material and started playing in on pop stations. When that shit starts squishing mushily into my radio speakers, it's all I can do to get the station changed quick enough.

God, I hate that shit!

[Tom_Foolery]

62. Mrs. Foolery and I call them Goat Star. n/t

[Patiod]

88. They're even worse "live"

I got dragged to a country concert where they were the opening act.

They can't move -- imagine George Bush as the lead singer, trying to move a little, and you have the idea.

[laheina]

27. Celine Dion

Without exception.

[Initech]

29. Linkin Park

I swear that I'll go postal if I hear "One Step Closer" one more time! :puke:

[Canuckistanian]

30. Even before I clicked on the link

I thought, "Rod Stewart". My late lamented mother even called him "Leather Lungs"

[FunkyLeprechaun]

31. My family

Just turn off my aids and let them wail on before they realise I'm not listening.

heh.

[WildEyedLiberal]

32. Any pop-punk band

Fall Out Boy, Taking Back Sunday, New Found Glory, Simple Plan, etc etc etc etc etc

[Common Sense Party]

37. I've never heard of any of those, but most of these Lit, Blink182,

etc. are just so lame. Give me Husker Du any old day.

[RevCheesehead]

39. I'd have to agree with your choices.

Rod Stewart makes my larynx cringe in pain.
Micheal Bolton is - well, a no-talent hack.

[Starlight]

40. The Cranberries.

Yet my BF loves them. He has terrible taste in music. :wtf:

[Skittles]

42. NATALIE MERCHANT

OMG that thin, tinny voice just makes me want to poke out my eardrums; I have actually left department stores because of her voice being piped in. :puke:

[blondeatlast]

106. Thanks; I thought I was alone in this. Euw, eeeuw, euuuuw. nt

[XemaSab]

44. Alanis

:P

[DanCa]

45. Brtine y Spears Ted Nuggent and Toby Keith.

I don't care who they vote for, the three of them have no talent what so ever.

[unsavedtrash]

46. Sting with or without the police, pearl jam, phil collins n/t

[NMMNG]

47. Bonnie Rait, Alicia Keys, Outkast, Celine Dion

With the exeption of "My Heart Will Go On". I can deal with that one song--any other C.D. will automatically get turned off. :puke:

[proud2BlibKansan]

134. Bonnie Raitt??

Are you kidding? She is friggin awesome. A true master of the blues. Have you heard any of her early stuff?

I am with you on Alicia Keyes though. My son loves her - we argue about her all the time.

[billyskank]

48. James Blunt

x(

[Syrinx]

49. Celine, Whitney, Mariah...

Basically any singer that just because they can hit very high notes think they should hit them about every five seconds.

[slybacon9]

50. Phil Fing Collins

most boring of ALL TIME.

[njdemocrat106]

52. I think most boring has to go to Radiohead...

and yes, I actually don't think Collins is boring.

[slybacon9]

117. the funny part about that is that Radiohead is my favorite of all time.

OK Computer is the best rock album of the 20 years (i know that isn't sayin much)

[jarjarbinksisgod]

143. if not...

the best ever.

[njdemocrat106]

144. I still don't see what the big deal is with them...

I guess I'm not supposed to, considering I just admitted to liking Phil Collins. ;-)

[gollygee]

66. I knew he'd already be mentioned

I HATE Phil Collins and immediately change the radio station if he comes on. I'd rather listen to Celine Dion than him.

[njdemocrat106]

136. Well, I love him

Not LOVE love him, but I like him enough that I have some CDs of his. Celine Dion, on the other hand, has a good voice but sings some lousy material (and no, I don't have any of her albums).

[tyedyeto]

51. Springsteen... ugh! n/t

[njdemocrat106]

53. Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Bjork, Radiohead

The latter two being the most overrated artists of recent time.

[ThomCat]

92. Yes, on all counts.

:puke:

[SoCalDem]

54. anyone singing country music

or hip hop or rap

[Hardrada]

100. We have 3 FM classical channels in range

so I never listen to any pop or country stations ever. When I was a kid stations used to play polkas and schottisches but I'm not sure anyone plays these anymore. I usedto listen to them with my grandparents who are, alas, long deceased.

[Sandhill Crane]

55. That's easy, NEIL DIAMOND or BARRY MANILOW

[ScreamingMeemie]

57. ACK! I love Neil Diamond!!!

Welcome to DU...I guess...*sniffle* ;)

[ThomCat]

93. I grew up listening to Neil Diamond

My Mom loved to listed to his albums so heard them a lot and I've always kinda liked his music.

Don't tell anyone, but I have some MP3s of some of his songs on my computer. I put on my headphones hear at work and listen to him occasionally without my coworkers knowing.

:P

[oregonjen]

107. Do you have his new CD "12 Songs?" It's really good!

[xmas74]

110. I've heard that from quite a few people!

Maybe I should get over myself and give it a listen.

[donheld]

56. Rod Stewart

:puke:

[terrya]

58. Whitney Houston

[Trigger Hippie]

59. Frankie Valli

Ich.

[Brewman_Jax]

61. Britney, Jessica, Ashlee...

and the other manufactured corporate cookie-cutter "singers".

[rhino47]

64. Barry Manilow ,Britney Spears.

Ted Nugent almost ANYTHING country (besides johnny cash,steve earle and patsy cline)

[MissMillie]

68. Bob Seger and Tom Petty

it's been that way for a long time now.

[johnnie]

69. I turn off

Springsteen, Robert Plant, Stevie Nick, that dude from Journey and that dude from Nickleback.

[Strong Atheist]

70. 99% of country music ... nt.

[WoodrowFan]

72. YES or Rush

Anything by "Yes" or "Rush"

[ET Awful]

73. You nailed it in one try with Michael Bolton.

Rod Stewart has actually done a few songs I like, so I won't ALWAYS turn it off. Bolton, on the other hand is, as so often quoted from Office Space, a no-talent ass clown.

[JCMach1]

74. Steely Dan...

the are so farkin' irritating...

[bikebloke]

75. Coldplay, Stevie Nicks, Bob Seger....

Nirvana, Whitney Houston...

I don't think I've ever heard Michael Bolton. He must be bad if I'm turning him off before hearing a single note.

[Crazy Dave]

76. Mariah Carey

But if I turn the volume down when she's on TV I could watch her for hours :9

[ncrainbowgrrl]

77. Norah Jones.

If I hear "Come away with me one more time..."

[NewWaveChick1981]

78. I have SEVERAL...

Air Supply (barf!)
Neil Diamond
Michael Bolton (I'm bolton to change the station!)
Molly Hatchett et. al.
Ratt, Whitesnake, and ALL other metal/hair bands (and ESPECIALLY Dokken!)
"New" country music of any kind
Rap/hip hop of any kind (gives me a headache!)

[bif]

80. Neil Young

Hate his whining-ass voice.

[lcbart]

81. Barry Manilow, Toby Keith, Journey n/t

[Radio_Guy]

82. Several

Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Travis Tritt, Toby Keith, Chaka Khan, Meat Loaf, Marie Osmond, Dolly Parton, and nearly every other country musicians.

[ProfessorGAC]

83. I Don't Do Seger Or Bruce

While i like Bruce's politics, his music leaves me cold. And, sicne i was a kid, the radio station can't change fast enough if i hear Mike Love's voice.
The Professor

[PittPoliSci]

84. Nickelback, Creed, Staind, Incubus

The singers of those bands are by far the most terrible thing ever.

However, honorable mentions should go to Korn and Limp Bizkit.

[grimble_grumble]

85. Too many to name

but Phil Collins is the first to pop into my head.

[Montauk6]

86. Macy Gray, Taco (remember him???), Bon Jovi

[TallahasseeGrannie]

87. Early Michael Jackson

like "Be There." I can't take the strain.

[KG]

89. phil collins

ack!

[KG]

90. phil collins

ack!

[Bullwinkle925]

91. Whitney Houston. (Or, in our house she is known as 'Witless').

self-edited for typo

[Balbus]

94. Bono

[chaska]

95. I have nightmares about Neil Sedaka.

[drbtg1]

97. AC/DC

utterly worthless

[Tikki]

98. Those girl singers with...

...high pitched whiny nasally breathy voices....sorry I don't know names.

I turn the station, you know.


Tikki

[DancingBear]

102. Billy Joel

God, what a hack.

(If anyone has ever read "Red Lobster, White Trash And The Blue Lagoon" by Joe Queenan there is an absolutely hilarious couple of pages on Billy Joel in there).

[Liberalynn]

105. Any Male Singer Who souds like a female and

also any female singer who sounds like a male.

Examples of guys, Michealla, errr excuse me I mean Michael Jackson, The BeeGees or their late brother Andrea errr sorry I meant Andy, and some of the fifties teen idols.

Example of Female- Kim Carnes, other names escape me at the moment. I just remember a fellow admission attendant at the Park where I worked as a teen and I used to race each other to the radio to see who could turn it the fastest whenever "Betty Davis Eyes" came on. I use to think jeese Kim, why don't you just barf and get whatever it is that is stuck in both your throat and gut out already? It sounds really, really, painful both to you and to me.

I don't know why this particular brand of artisans bothers me they just do.

Also I know Springsteen has a lot of fans, and he has written about some pretty good strong liberal issues, but it always sounded to me more like he was screaming at the top of his lungs verses actually singing or carrying anything even remotely resembling a tune. Thus making his attempts at vocal stylings very obnoxious and hurtful to my ears. I give him he was very good at writing lyrics he just should have left the singing of them to some one else. The only one I could actually stand to listen to for more than a few minutes was "Dancing In the Dark," because he actually came very close to a tune on that one.

[Bucky]

108. Surprised no one has mentioned Leo Sayer

The ultimate Leo Sayer picture

[Arugula Latte]

111. The Styx lead singer dude.

:puke:

Not that he's heard much these days, thank goodness ...

[pinniped]

112. Funny choice: Michael Bolton.

I bet Nicolette Sheridan tells him to can it.

- "Motown" wannabe Michael McDonald
- Asslee Simpson

[njdemocrat106]

137. I actually like "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You"

But I won't sing along, or else I'd end up with a hernia.

[donheld]

113. The Eagles

:crazy: I've heard enough eagles to last a life time.

[Guava Jelly]

116. The beastie boys

Man they suck..
but the radio station i listen to in kansas the Buzz..plays them 5 times a day.Arrrrrrgh
they stunk then and stink worse now

[Jean Louise Finch]

119. Gwen Stefani and Chris Cornell

Even though I sorta get a kick out of her, I can't deal with Gwen Stefani's voice. Especially the older stuff with No Doubt, ESPECIALLY that wretched, wretched song "Don't Speak".

Chris Cornell is like nails on a chalkboard; I just can't deal.

[Beware the Beast Man]

120. That James Blount knucklehead.

What's worse than another wussy Coldplay knockoff? A wussy Coldplay knockoff that sounds like Rod Stewart. :banghead:

[mvd]

122. Plenty

Most rap and hip/hop. And Nickelback comes to mind: take the way Chad grates on you with "Look at this photograph.." for example. "How You Remind Me" is actually a good rock song, but I doubt they'll do a song like that again.

[DawgHouse]

123. Rod Stewart

[proud2BlibKansan]

128. Yoko Ono

Sorry John, but your wife can't sing worth a shit.

[momophile]

147. this is true but...

have you ever really heard a Yoko song on the radio? Yuck!:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

148. Only on a really bad radio station

LOL

[Benfea]

132. All of them, really.

I never really liked the music that gets played on the radio, except for a few years during the 90s "alternative" movement.

[6000eliot]

135. Billy Joel and John Cougar

Never got why either was ever popular.

[doc03]

138. Montgomery Gentry

[Dinger]

139. Reba McEntire, Mouse-faced rw Ho

twangy, whiny voice. yuk!

[Rabrrrrrr]

141. Neil Young. Always on my ass to change the station. I hate riding with him

"Change the station! Change the station! Change the station! Change the station! Change the station!"

Every 10 seconds.

Nice guy, but for fuck's sake, Neil, live with a station for a few minutes.

[judaspriestess]

145. M&M

have a disdain for him, I really don't listen to rap that much anyway