1) every emo-vegan-krishna-crust-core band
okay,okay...it's more than three bands,but they sound and look so samey it counts as one band

2) Muse.and every Muse fan between 15 and 25 years of age.

3) any hip band in the indie rock scene. same as 1)

1. The Eagles_ I cannot begin to describe my hatred for this band. Jeez.

2. Uncle Tupelo_ This band is nothing but insulting. Commercializing the lowest common denominator ain't cute. Nor is spawning Lucero and the like. Thanks for unleashing an army of filth, complete with forced "backwoods" drawl in a holster. Rubbish.

3. !!!_ Come the fuck on.

Mr. Desalvo wrote:2. Uncle Tupelo_ This band is nothing but insulting. Commercializing the lowest common denominator ain't cute. Nor is spawning Lucero and the like. Thanks for unleashing an army of filth, complete with forced "backwoods" drawl in a holster. Rubbish.

i heard uncle tupelo for the first time in my life on my way to work this morning, and holy lordy was it ever crap. granted, it was just one song, but it was awful and made me glad i'd never bothered to listen to these clowns before.

about three years ago, i had the misfortune of seeing lucero open for the new year here at the now-defunct last place on earth. so help me, a massive crowd assembled to see those local hacks, then dissipated before TNY played. their loss, the fools. i saw one of the best shows i've ever seen, but also saw my favorite active band play to very few people, which was appalling. this after seeing bedhead in a packed club here three years prior to that.

in any case, lucero are pretty damned horrible, but in memphis, people inexplicably think they're geniuses. lucero = CRAP.

might I say that it surprises me to see dylan hating velvet underground.
ok.
some of you posted bands that are already long gone. coal chamber? thats a wasted vote. I cannnot believe we have gotten this far without:
STAIND- worthy of me using caps
GODSMACK- dudes. alice in chains weren't that good BEFORE you ripped them completely off. godsmack is actually the name of an alice and chains song! jesus!
PUDDLE OF MUDD- notice two of the bands I chose have misspelled names.
these three are heard EVERYWHERE! classic rock stations play this shit. modern rock stations play this shit. pop radio plays it.
kill the three of these and I will live a long and plentiful life.

i'm going to smite r kelly, good charlotte, and the vines.

Rotten Tanx wrote:1. Radiohead. We dont need anyone trying to bridge the gap between art/post/whatever rock and mainstream stadium rock. Be one or the other.

that's not their problem if you can't define them. i happen to get by just fine calling radiohead british pop music. it's not -that- difficult.

And stop whining you ugly cunt, you sound like a cat dying.

even a living cat could never do what yorke does on pyramid song. transcendence.

Rainer Maria
The Walkmen
Built to Spill

Built to Spill I am supposed to like and my friends shove their music down my throat. Can't do it. Saw them live. Puke. I'm sorry.

In recent months I saw a new Chicago band, made up of some folks who have been in other past fairly popular local bands (including one I enjoyed from time to time and one I didn't), and man was it wretched. Rock n roll music with no hooks, no energy, no vitality. Nothing. I felt I almost had the DUTY to approach them post show and say 'Guys, please, for your own good, stop now, nobody needs this." But I didn't. And they'll probably be popular if they continue on. I don't like to bash bands, especially if they're local, but this was the first time I've felt this possible sense of duty, of calling, to speak out and make some kind of attempt to prevent this project from continuing.

What's really odd is that I don't see a point to this discussion considering how much I love to bitch about "shitty" bands. These bands are neccessary to keep the 'rock n roll' food chain going. Without these bands we wouldn't be able to:
1) Boost our egos because they are so "shitty" and our bands are so fuckin' great
2) Have bands to bitch about
3) Have a reason to turn Conan off with ten minutes left to go
4) Justify only reading magazines like Chunklet or Mojo
5) Cull from tons of songs for the ever clever tongue in cheek cover tune
6) Act all smug because we don't listen to the radio or watch MTV anymore
7) Have $13.99 coasters for our drinks
8) Try to pick fights with lame ass idiots standing in line to go see a band called Me Without You (Sadly, this band exists and yes I did try to start shit with the fans standing in line for this show. I guess I was feeling kinda metal since I had just purchased the new Dillinger Escape Plan.)

only here wrote:i'm going to smite r kelly, good charlotte, and the vines.

Rotten Tanx wrote:1. Radiohead. We dont need anyone trying to bridge the gap between art/post/whatever rock and mainstream stadium rock. Be one or the other.

that's not their problem if you can't define them. i happen to get by just fine calling radiohead british pop music. it's not -that- difficult.

And stop whining you ugly cunt, you sound like a cat dying.

even a living cat could never do what yorke does on pyramid song. transcendence.

I think it is hilarious that the only band defended in this thread so far has been radiohead. I did this thing for a while where I would go to parties, intentionally bring up radiohead just to trash them and see how pissed off all the fans got. People would get irate. It's things like calling their music transcendent that really gets to me. Radiohead fans have this attitude that if you don't like their music, it's because you don't understand it. It's sooooo deep, man...

Anyhoo....

1. Radiohead, just because I love to hate them.
2. All present and future Joan of Arc side projects
3. the White Stripes

1) 37 replies in and no one has mentioned Limp Bizkit. I hate this band above all others. Take the lowest denominators of hard rock and white-boy rap, stick a baseball cap clad A&R man up front and – voila – reason enough to dismiss the 21st century before it gets rollin, rollin, rollin. Durst’s dressed for the H-bomb, though he doesn’t think so.

http://www.limpbizkit.com/

2) Whatever rock band’s big in the UK currently. It doesn’t matter who it is, there’s some Blur/Oasis/Stone Roses band out there rehashing faux-attitude and racking up airtime whilst maintaining some sort of ‘credibility’ by virtue of some asinine equation that includes beer and coke intake, boppy hair cuts, and familiarity with the Beatles’ oeuvre as the sum and total of artistic achievement. Fuck y’all.

3) Limp Bizkit. This band could only exist in a nation where exactly half the eligible electorate is about to revote for George W. Bush. I want to pilot a crop duster into Durst’s skull.

ebeam wrote:

only here wrote:i'm going to smite r kelly, good charlotte, and the vines.

Rotten Tanx wrote:1. Radiohead. We dont need anyone trying to bridge the gap between art/post/whatever rock and mainstream stadium rock. Be one or the other.

that's not their problem if you can't define them. i happen to get by just fine calling radiohead british pop music. it's not -that- difficult.

And stop whining you ugly cunt, you sound like a cat dying.

even a living cat could never do what yorke does on pyramid song. transcendence.

I think it is hilarious that the only band defended in this thread so far has been radiohead. I did this thing for a while where I would go to parties, intentionally bring up radiohead just to trash them and see how pissed off all the fans got. People would get irate. It's things like calling their music transcendent that really gets to me. Radiohead fans have this attitude that if you don't like their music, it's because you don't understand it. It's sooooo deep, man...

Anyhoo....

1. Radiohead, just because I love to hate them.
2. All present and future Joan of Arc side projects
3. the White Stripes

That's funny. I had just moved to Oakland from LA when "Kid A" came out, had gone to the "album release" party at the Capitol Records building just before I moved, and absolutely despised the album. So, when I subsequently read a beaming review of that album in the now-defunct Oakland weekly, Urban View, I was inspired to write a lengthy letter to the editor, maligning the band for its self-conscious effort to alienate its fans. I wrapped it up with a bit about how, if Yorke really wanted to maintain his role as loser, he should just do what Cobain did once he became a rich bastard, and off himself. It was pretty harsh, but also very hilarious (not to toot my own horn...).

The rag printed my letter, and a week later, I was contacted by the editor, who told me: 1) more hate mail had been received in response to my letter than had been received for all other stories in the paper's history, combined; 2) the paper was going to devote a page to several of these; 3) I would be given an opportunity to respond. I responded with a fairly innocuous rant about how these Radiohead listeners were just uncritical idiots being spoon-fed culture, blah, blah, blah.

The paper received still more hate mail, and a few threatening phone calls. Needless to say, it didn't print any more of my letters...