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placeholder wrote:you're right, though. i have no idea what rock is.

me neither, of course.

GuyMercier wrote:there is one version of a piece by Maurice Ravel on there
...
next: the james gang rides again
sober

weird! there is a version of Ravel's Bolero in that James Gang record...

Y'know, I don't think anybody's mentioned Asia yet. "Heat of the Moment" is pretty bad as a song, even though Steve Howe's solo is significantly better than the song deserves. I'm repressing what I may have known of the rest of their ouvre, though, so I can't place them numerically in the lower echelons. But I'd place them pretty low.

maurice, asia was very very bad

just goin' on music they were up there. or down there. bottom 50? maybe.

ok, BESIDES the eagles:

molly hatchet (genuinely very very awful band)

black oak arkansas (the least competent popular band ever? so bad they poke out the other side to be very entertaining)

kansas ("carry on wayward son" may be the 2nd worst song of all time)

Pat Travers was bad

tmidgett wrote:i'm heartened to see the eagles mentioned more than anyone else

Tim,

You are right.

Five for fighting is horrible. The Eagles are horrible +1.

I'm Sorry.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

LAD wrote:I totally can’t believe people have brought up Weezer. They are very catchy and I know many people who you would agree are very smart who like them.

Weezer is a terrible 1990s version of a bad K-Tel band -- only without the charm of some of those inept K-Tel wonders. Weezer seems like they've been cynically exploiting a long-existing formula, if only because the formula was exploitable. There is nothing -- no warmth, charm, hooks, power, NOTHING -- for me to latch onto in their music. Pure, dead formula.

Compare Weezer to say, Gren, an L.A. band that was formed around the same period and worked the same musical seam. They ain't Stravinsky, but Gren, if totally inconsequential, at least struck me as honest and charming -- and they actually wrote a few wrote songs that I liked, as opposed to Weezer, whose songs suck and bore me to death.

Yes, including "Pinkerton".

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I think that we should pitch in and buy a trophy to send to the band elected as worst ever.

eh?

Tom wrote:eh?

PAT TRAVERS

LAD wrote:Um, I was joking.

I propose the use of blue text for jokes.

LAD, you are okay by me, jokey guy.