I've been conflicted and am still pondering this one, but I'll pass along my friend Jenny's list that she hashed out @ dinner yesterday:

1. Steely Dan (She said that if hell exists, this is the music that would be playing for all of eternity)
2. G.E. Smith (the hatred involved in this made me laugh so much)
3. Aerosmith (fairly obvious)

I'm personally hedging cause I want it to have an impact, i.e.:

1) Get rid of Pearl Jam and you lose Creed, STP, 50% of Bush and maybe even Nickelback in one swell foop.

But I'm torn about the other two. I think votes have been wasted on inconsequential bands and I wanna make mine count.

To Oversimplify and maybe get this game to have more dire consequences:

I love Faith No More, but if you get rid of them, Korn and most of Rap Metal vanishes.

Get rid of Slint and all that hackneyed angular post-crap? poof!

Lose Zeppelin? No more "Black Hole Sun," fuckers.

Kill Big Black? Bye bye, Industrial music!


Hrm.....


Faiz

2)See ya, Cap'n Jazz. Nice to know you, shitty out-of-tune emo, but not that nice. Plus we'll still get to keep rites of spring and Fugazi, while probably hacking Dashboard Confessional off at the stump.



Faiz

kerble wrote:2)See ya, Cap'n Jazz. Nice to know you, shitty out-of-tune emo, but not that nice. Plus we'll still get to keep rites of spring and Fugazi, while probably hacking Dashboard Confessional off at the stump.

too true. i wish i'd thought of this one. i think this band was extraordinarily irritating in a genre that tends to be too precious anyhow. plus, no cap'n jazz, no joan of arc, maybe.

cripes.

limit it to a few current bands?!
i will not dissect shit to see what it's made of.
but i guess i'll just go by who wafts the worst stench of all time.



1. the beetles.
yeah. thanks for "influencing" countless bands. i really appreciated all of them, especially that cooperative known as "muzak".
also:
the greatest contribution to music you ever made happened when you started dying off.

2. led zepplin.
see above.
also:
you shat on blues almost as bad as eric clapton just shit on robert johnson.

3. the cure.
i liked you guys in high school. you got me laid and helped me deal with my "angst". but you made me into somewhat of a pussy in certain situations and spawned horrible offshoots. you get one big slap on the back.
mr. smith, when will your cheeks explode like that guy from tears for fears?

Let there be smite...

1. Chumbawumba; Turgid, pathetic.... I mean "Your ugly houses" what in the name of fuck is that.

2. Oasis; "Chained to the mirror and the razor blade"... Chained together, set on fire and thrown overboard!

3. Bon Jovi; ...Cause i can...

1. the grateful dead. imagine a world without hippie pot smoking no bath taking acid fucks, man that looks good from here. also if you kill them you lose phish and other countless wastes time and effort.
2. the doors, granted the best part of the doors happened when that fucker died but if we could rid time of them that would be another group of jam bands out the door.
3. stevie ray vaughn, i swear everytime i hear one of his songs it sounds just like the last one. he is quite overrated and i would love to never have heard of him or anyone he influenced.

50 Cent....he should go back to his gangsta life and leave us alone.

Good Charlotte.

The Calling

This is an easy one...there are countless, but recent repeat offenders:

Peter Cetera- Above even Dave 'shlabby dobby doobly oogly aaahhrrr' Matthews!

Courtney Love- Courtney Love.

Dave Matthews and his band- Yeah, that's right- and the sixteen of them, too. Even the guy who plays the triangle. If they have a guy who plays a triangle.

Maroon 5- "This Love" has got to be one of the worst pieces of manufactured bubble crap I've heard in awhile. John Mayer puts it in his mouth, though! Yum!

Chumbawumba (sp?)- You'll get knocked down, and never get up again!

Eagles- "Peaceful Easy Feeling" is the theme song to the gates of hell

John Mayer- How many poor teenage girls has he spread already? 'Spreeeadddd...spread for me...I can't wait to take you home...' Stop him before it gets worse! For the love of baby Jesus!

The entire genre of techno music- defined as 'oonce oonce'

Sugar Ray- Just fucking kill them

Blink 182/Good Charlotte/Sum 41...whatever the kids call 'punk' now

Nu rock/metal, to include the likes of Slipknot, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Puddle of Mudd, Nickleback, Three Doors Down, etc etc.

So many more...that's a lot of people to kill. What would record execs have to do all day?

alkaline trio--does this need explaining?

modest mouse-- a lame style of music, and then franz ferdinand comes out and does it better than them, making modest mouse and their lame mainstream 'push' pretty useless.

cocorosie--why is this crap on touch and go? why do people like it?


runners up: Bell and Sebastian, The Rapture, Ted Leo, Wilco, Cat Power

Hey, can't you count?




Faiz