The Worst Band/Artist Ever

"25 Or 6 To 4" is ruined by Peter Cetera's voice (or whatever robot was standing in for him in the studio that day). And the harmonies in the chorus are harmful to the environment.

And as with "Street Player," so with "I'm A Man." We don't need their version. I much prefer Macho's anyway.

All the other songs mentioned are very bad.

Man, you guys are weird. Foo Fighters have some really good songs. Not the best band ever, certainly, but I think you could put together a respectable best of package for them.

foo fighters are bullshit

The ability to imagine an artist going poo is important in rock 'n' roll.

Your well reasoned argument has swayed me, Omar Little.

Greatest band/artist ever: Cephus and Reesie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AdblS6Y3iI

I was right about the Manics, but I think I over estimated how long they would be around (I know they are still around, technically, I meant.. um relevantly).

who was that Kath guy in the C.T.A. Does he count and is he enough to keep Chicago from not becoming that big black hole of suckiness designate "Worst Band Ever"? Stay tuned.

We really need a "Most Average Band/Artist Ever" thread. Seems like we'd be twice as likely to arrive at some kinda consensus. Mathematically speaking

but most bands are average! you'd be here all night.

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