dumbass wrote: Tue Mar 22, 2022 3:11 pmPearl Jam

Definitely towards the top of the list

PEPPER! wrote: Tue Mar 22, 2022 6:07 pm

brephophagist wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:30 pm It’s Skrewdriver.

^ yep, plenty of bands are as bad, but none of y'all can name a band that sucks worse than Skrewdriver.

That said this if somebody asked "what is the worst song ever" this one comes to mind:

This has Anthony Kiedis written all over it.

Yes, RHCP are terrible, but Anthony Kiedis may be the most singularly untalented frontman of all the hacks here, including Shifty Shellshock (ACTUAL STAGE NAME) from CrazyTown. Listening back to RHCP after some of the comments in this thread, it's like he's doing minstrelsy without the blackface.

I don't think RHCP are the worst band ever, but Kiedis just zaps any sort of enjoyment I might get out of (what I think are) the competent musicians in the band. His delivery, his lyrics, and... live... his complete lack of sense of pitch are just awful. I can only imagine the amount of effort required from recording engineers to polish that turd on the studio albums.

jfv wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:40 am I don't think RHCP are the worst band ever, but Kiedis just zaps any sort of enjoyment I might get out of (what I think are) the competent musicians in the band. His delivery, his lyrics, and... live... his complete lack of sense of pitch are just awful. I can only imagine the amount of effort required from recording engineers to polish that turd on the studio albums.

For me, it's not that, it's just the failure to see that shouting about being "funky" or "sexy" isn't the same as being either thing. I don't know why they want to make that music. Shirt-Off Shouting Bro-Down Jamz just leave me cold.

I've said for years that the RHCP are the worst band of my generation. They could be the worst band ever but The Doors exist so it's too close for me to call. Horrible music, horrible singer with absolutely horrible lyrics. I could not for the life of me understand how they were popular.

elisha wiesner wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 6:51 pm Horrible music, horrible singer with absolutely horrible lyrics. I could not for the life of me understand how they were popular.

The bolded part is the baseline requirement for popularity.

Anyway, Buck Cherry.

Either Disturbed or Godsmack.

elisha wiesner wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 6:51 pm They could be the worst band ever but The Doors exist so it's too close for me to call. Horrible music, horrible singer with absolutely horrible lyrics. I could not for the life of me understand how they were popular.

Thread CLOSED. All truly horrible bands owe some of the shiteness to Morison and Co.

I used to think the Foo Fighters were harmlessly bland, but one Sunday morning when packing down after a gig, the venue was playing some Foo Fighters double live album or something. And it was really bad, and as it kept playing I got more and more irritated with the awful, awful songs and the whole atmosphere of it, Dave Grohl performing some horrid little thing horribly and the roar of the stadium accompanying every shitty thing he did. It was really starting to spoil my morning. If all you ever hear is Everlong or whatever, you may not appreciate just how bad their B material can get.

And yeah, hearing about how humble and what a nice guy he is all the time. He probably is a nice guy, but he also comes across as someone with a Bono-sized ego who likes to flatter himself that he stayed humble. Is that uncharitable?

Anyway, their smiley drummer died and that's shitty. And they're not the worst band ever - but they might be the worst band in the world to still have any contemporary relevance. Also, possibly the ONLY band of their generation to still have any contemporary relevance - most of this thread reads like "bands that used to annoy me on the radio 20 years ago".