The Worst Band/Artist Ever

Billy Joel, The Eagles, David Frishberg, Loverboy, Journey, Chicago (worst guitar solo- "24 or 6 to 4?) the dreck flows on.

"Everything from Woodstock to the Ramones was pure shit." - Billy Zoom

Something like that.

No contest. Hate them, hate their music, hate their fans.

Complaining about Blink 182, or Celine Dion or Backstreet Boys feels to me like complaining that Jim Davidson's Generation Game isn't Citizen Kane, by their own terms of reference Blink 182 seem pretty good to me in providing a quality product to their target market. I'm not in their target market and find they lack the emotional depth and breadth of cultural commentry I would prefer. But it looks like its fun to be a Blink 182 fan and where is the harm in that? Its all dumb shiney pop music isn't it?

But the gap between what they deliver and what they claim to deliver is much greater for The Manics. Never in, uh, the fabric of rock's rich tapestry has such a shabby second rate product been sold as its direct opposite.

• Music - plodding pub rock. Cast have more sparkle.
• Attitude - Contrived controvesy put to almost criminally ill targeted ends.
• Lyrics - Stupid lyrics are OK (see Ramones) stupid lyrics written by stupid people who are too stupid to be aware of their own stupidity and think they aren't stupid = just stupid.
• Appearance - oh grow up for god sake.

2. U2

p.s. Billy Zoom was guitarist for X.

I once insulted a teacher because she liked Clannad and "Division Bell"-era Pink Floyd, so I suppose those two must go in there, because it took some hatred for me to get over my terror of authority figures.

in the years since mr. sublime's death, his particularly brainless form of party skate-punk mixed with out-of-context ska has continued to fill the minds of those too impressionable to seek out either *real* punk or *real* ska with its nonsense blend of pro-marijuana sloganeering and self-referent boasting.

"he died of heroin you know, that makes the music better".

isn't there an avalanche somewhere for these people to snowboard into?

Worst of all time = REO Speedwagon. There's just nothing redeeming there. Everything is crap.

Adam, you have my sympathy.

But then the answer would be definitive!

My vote: Average White Band!

I just remembered Amateur Transplants. The UK's answer to Weird Al, but my god probably ten fucking million times worse than you could even begin to imagine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9tWpR5HZnQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq0lUjajjlM

warning: they're the biggest cunts ever

the worrying thing is that these hateful fucking smears of shat liquid were a relatively 'big hit' with the medic crowd at university, leaving me to wonder if all doctors are cunts, or just students

i can't think of a single rock band playing today that is as good as lynyrd skynyrd.

― scott seward, Monday, April 28, 2008 10:42 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is still true today, assuming of course Scott meant pre-plane crash Skynyrd

Elbow

Mean Machine

P.S. I agree with most of this thread, but not pre-post-Richey Manics, he was an unbelieveably GOOD lyricist, even if the music didn't always match their quality.

Scouting For Girls are the worst band ever. I honestly can't think of one worse.

seriously, listen to what I just posted (or don't)

I guess the argument would be that SFG aren't being deliberately offensive in the service of bants, but this is possibly what redeems them (in such a context)

i.e. they're just fools, not cunts

Amateur Transplants seem more like terrible stand up comedy in musical form rather than a band as such, they are certainly more reprehensible than anyone else mentioned on this thread, though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Parody_musicians

The Lancashire Hotpots are a comedy folk band[1] from St Helens, Merseyside (formerly part of Lancashire), England, formed in December 2006.[2] The group record songs about Lancashire, technology and British culture (e.g. "Chippy Tea", "He's Turned Emo", "eBay Eck").[3] Their songs make use of Lancashire dialect. Their first single, "He's Turned Emo", gained over 230,000 plays on MySpace (as of 17 March 2008) and was featured on BBC Radio One by Colin Murray.[4]

The current members are Bernard Thresher (vocals, guitar, ukulele, drums), Dickie Ticker (accordion, mandolin, melodica, hand percussion), Bob Wriggles (bass guitar, acoustic bass), Billy McCartney (keyboards), and Kenny Body (drums),[6] the latter two joining following the death of founder member Willie Eckerslike.

this is a one-way ticket to hell, or the shirehorses, whichever comes sooner

Oliver Callan (born 27 December 1980) is an Irish vocal and performance satirist and impressionist known for featuring on Nob Nation, Green Tea and The Saturday Night Show

His impersonations of Eamon Dunphy and David Norris led to a warning from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BAI) in July 2008. The BAI deemed his impersonations "offensive to homosexuals" and said they "promoted binge drinking".[7]

For example, in 1990, following the execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, Russell did a parody song on his show to the tune of "Chattanooga Choo-Choo." ("Pardon me, boys / Are you the cats who shot Ceauşescu / You made my day / The way you blew him away.")

Eläkeläiset mainly play cover versions of famous pop and rock hits in a fast humppa or slow jenkka style (both sound somewhat similar to polka music the way "Weird Al" Yankovic plays it) with Finnish lyrics — the original songs are barely recognizable. They also publish bootleg recordings of their own concerts.

Eläkeläiset are very popular among some OpenBSD developers and frequently played at their hackathons, where they claim they are "thwarting evil with humppa and math."[1]

^^ the science student / prolific wikipedia contributor appeal of this stuff is clearly cross-cultural

Richard Cheese is the other one who was very popular at university. think he's slightly, but only very slightly, less egregious than some of the others

CORRECTION

The worst band ever is Sugar Ray (the reason is Mean Machine)

YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjb7UD7jPqM

...rolf harris

but seriously

...holf rarris

sut beriously

The Canadian band with the really deep voiced singer who sang something like "once....there was a boy who......" or some crap like that. Thats the worst band of all time. THe name escapes me

you must be thinking of the crash test dummies. this is one of the funniest videos ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoaIBDKUYcA

no wait, it's actually sad and i feel bad for posting it

youtube user Aman Offaith agrees:

1 month ago
Then recording artist is skillful, and his voice has got a lot better over time. But this is such a sad song, and I am concerned about Brad Roberts. I do not want to see him die in his sins. If he does not ask Jesus into his life and live and trust him I am terrified for this person. He is smart, but not wise enough to find God yet through Jesus.

http://www.lyricsmania.com/london_underground_song_lyrics_amateur_transplants.html

assuming that ^this didn't hit LJ's radar during his brief root around the Amateur Transplants' catalogue

It's like God realised Ben Elton wasn't quite bad enough and made another