The Worst Band/Artist Ever

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How can anyone even consider nominating (the rather marvellous) New Model Army, or even (the lovely pseudo-gothy) Mission whilst the Stereophonics still walk the earth? Heresy!

― Paz, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Normally the idea of "hating" a band or music is pretty incomprehensible to me. Don't much like it? Don't listen to it. Dave Bowman does strike a chord with Hue and Cry though. Apart from the dull music they gave us Pat Kane. Has any man in history fancied himself an intellectual on less pretext? Or been such an arsehole?

― Naomi, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i couldn't disagree with the sublime respone any more. limp bizkit was close, but anyone who remembers any of my previous posts should know my pick for worst band ever, no worst thing ever - andrew wk. don't get me started.

― dyson, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I agree with Dyson about Andrew WK but what about Savage garden, Del Amitri, The Stranglers, The Fugees, Cast, Ocean Colour Scene, Lighthouse family, Dire straits, Level 42, All these have achieved serious critical or comercial success but they are all unmitigated garbage. And don't get me bloody started on Westlife.

― Kris England, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Fugees!? On that level?

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Moody Blues are the worst band ever. On the soundtrack to the IMAX movie "Journey Into Amazing Caves" there is a song called "We Can Fly." It is the worst song ever. It is so bad that if everything the Moody Blues ever recorded besides this song were amazingly wonderful and great and good (which it is certainly not) they would STILL be the worst band ever. Entirely because of "We Can Fly." It's awful. I'd transcribe some lyrics but you would go blind upon reading them.

I'd rather listen to the Nickelback record ten times a day every day for the rest of my life than hear this song ever again.

I will hear this song approximately 15 times tomorrow. I heard it 15 times today. My life is a living hell etc.

― adam, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm old enough that I had to live through the days when Emerson, Lake and Palmer were played a lot, so they're my choice. These days, it's certainly the Stereophonics. Mr Writer is the worst record I've heard in at least a decade.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I will not take anyone seriously who says The Fugees or Level 42.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The first Del Amitri record was utterly great, the rest are utterly shit.

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

― J, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

You're not listening. It's the Moody Blues. Download "We Can Fly." You'll understand.

― adam, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Okay, I don't know if the Moody Blues are the worst band ever, but the experience of listening to just a real audio sample of "We Can Fly" is pretty tortuous (and I stopped after 15 seconds). Listening to that 15 minutes a day, every day, sounds like the WORST possible experience ever--like some ancient punishing deity's idea of hell.

Adam, you have my sympathy.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sorry. 15 times a day. Not minutes. TIMES.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

So what's so bloody good about the Fugees Dan?

― Kris England, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Level 42 are great.

― mark s, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Fugees are great for three reasons:

1. Lauryn Hill
2. Wyclef
3. Well, I can't say Pras because he sucks, so I'll say "Ready Or Not" instead, which is a KILLER track and one of the best singles that came out that year.

― Dan Perry, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dave Mathews is my mortal enemy

― ejad, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Adam, you have my sympathy.

Thank you. I'll add it to the ball.

The Fugees and Level 42 are both not bad at all, not a tenth as awful as the Moody Blues. All the Christian bands my born-again coworkers listen to are TERRIBLE. Fucking AWFUL. One of these coworkers has a DJing business on the side. A Christian DJ service. He has a business card that says "Upon this ROCK I will build my church." Do not let anyone tell you that the Newsboys "aren't that bad." They really are.

My favorite Christian band is Living Sacrifice. They rock.

― adam, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Puddle Of Mudd, Powerman 5000, Oasis, post-Downward Spiral NIN.

― Simon H., Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Awww, while I'm sure that anything new from the Moody Blues must be utterly fucking awful, I still have a soft spot in my head for Long Distance Voyager...I even grabbed a used copy from the cassette bin at a convenience store in Manitoba for the long road trip back to Ontario last year. Even though I know it's cheeze, I could listen to "The Voice" and "Gemini Dream" fairly regularly and not feel like clawing my ears off.

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Toadies? Seven Mary Three? Wax (for fuck's sake, WAX)? Deep Blue Something? Jimmie's Chicken Shack? Wow, mid-90s American alt- rock really coughed up some putrid excrement!

― Clarke B., Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Foreigner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― briania, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Foreigner? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

― Clarke B., Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

People, the answer is obvious: Jimmy Buffett -- muttonheaded purveyor of tropical millionaire slack.

― Michael Daddino, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't know if there can be one ultimate worst band, but two that have already been mentioned remind me of everything there is to hate about at band: Blink 182 and Sublime. I am really getting tired of poseur punk and poseur ska bands claming to be counter culture music when really they've sold out to a major record label and changed their music almost completely for the benefit of themselves and the record execs. If more people would turn off the radio and go out and buy sampler records of actual punk labels then I think that we might get a better understanding of what a real punk rock band is, instead of being force fed the latest sell-out bands who are trying to convince us of their originality while they're putting out the same crap as just about every other band out there. Anywho, I hope that I have helped to convince someone out there to listen something other than mainstream radio crap, or at least pissed off a couple of Blink 182 and Sublime fans.

― Mike C, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Train. By miles and miles.

― Ryan, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

THe worst band ever is Twisted Sister. horrible Horrible HORRIBLE

― Steve Mueller, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Probably the one that placed first on freaky trigger's best ever list.

― Marc, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

dog's eye view, but marc's response seems most reasonable.

― keith, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

― Lord Custos III, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mike D is wise. Buffett is reason to murder.

― bnw, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://home.clara.net/huntsman/maxwellplumm.jpg

― David, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Scooter. Saw them on Top of the Pops today. Wretched stuff.

― Tim DiGravina, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Where did you dig *that* one up then David?

Puddle of Mudd, like Staind before them, do seem to be as ugly as their name. But I stick with Clannad and "Division Bell" Pink Floyd BECAUSE I HATED THEM SO MUCH I INSULTED A TEACHER WHO LIKED THEM

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Where did you dig *that* one up then David?

Music & Video Exchange bargain basement some years ago. I thought it might be good for sampling.

― David, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

bloody hell Counting Crows are back in the Top 40: I'd be prepared to nominate them in this thread.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Wyclef Jean -- bullshit pedestrian yuppie CD-shop-reject dilletante masquerarding as artiste. Gets Celia Cruz to sing on his debut album and what song does he pick? Bloody 'Guantanamera'! Sings in phony Jamaican accent. Goes 'ungh' every time Lauryn Hill opens her mouth. Fucking cultural imperialist pig. I pick him because he's actually got a good voice and some good songs, but betrays them with the most crass crap imaginable. Jimmy Buffett, Foreigner, Kansas, Toto, Styx, the Eagles, Blink 182, Band 187 -- easy targets. Nothing beats the bad taste of singing 'Redemption Song' on national TV, wrapped in an American flag. Sanctimonious asshole. DIE, 'CLEF!

― Eric Blowtorch, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm just posting on this so i can search myself on Yahoo.

― David H, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

worst band of all time? .38 Special. easily. but they don't have much currency these days, so it's hardly a dramatic choice. so, yeah, gotta craphound those Strokes. to call them a stain in Lou Reed's underwear is Flattery. hell, they make all the VU faking in the 80's (Feelies, Dream Syndicate, etc) sound postively Profound.

― sleestak, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've been contemplating writing a book on this topic. The evil triumverate of ex-Eagles is collectively responsible for some of the blandest, soul-less music the world has seen, I think. Joe Walsh, Don Henley, and Glenn "Smuggler's Blues" Frey. Stupid assholes. Dave Matthews, Counting Crows, Ben Harper, David Gray. Look at the misfortunes that have visited the following dickheads, though: Spin Doctors (awful throat disease), Blind Melon (O.D.),Sublime (O.D.), Alice in Chains (O.D.), Blues Traveller (heart attack). Probably more! Please let the Ozzfest and Horde tour buses crash into each other and fall off a cliff!

― paul burkhart, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

shudder to think, dave matthews, nick drake, half the beatles' catalog, ani difranco, cowboy mouth, oh yeah BAD RELIGION, indeed the sisters of mercy, every lou reed post Bells, coldplay obv.

i will try to come up with more inspired contributions, but really, you tend to block this sort of thing from memory.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

shudder to think and bad religeon? please try a little harder.

― dyson, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh let's see you top that!

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

like i said earlier on in the thread - andrew wk is the worst piece of shit ever. he makes bad religeon look like beethoven.

― dyson, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

What about whiny indie rock and ironic mesh-hat math metal? Portland is absolutely swimming with this shit. Also, I fucking hate Tom Waits. I fail to see the artifice in making the same croaky, banging on an antique piece of plumbing album repeatedly. And releasing two at once. Also, that stupid band Morphine. Unoriginal beat poetry over annoying sax. Oops, that guy popped his clogs! I think Soul Coughing and Cake are about ready for an accident to befall them as well.

― pb, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Quick addendum: The Pogues. That shit suuuuuuucks.

― paul b, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tom Waits. I fail to see the artifice

haha *spits coffee all over the place on like a hundred levels*

― The Actual Mr. Jones, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"like a hundred levels" *sigh* And I imagine one of those levels is inhabited by fans more rabid than DMB-ites.

― paul b, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

aaaaahahahaha YES it IS!!

― The Actual Mr. Jones, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Whoever said Foreigner is someone who I would have little in common with.

My picks include: Everything, LFO, Smashmouth, Steve Miller Band

― Brad Haywood, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

good to see some tom waits hate, but it ain't him. yes probably whoever is on as soon as i turn the radio on to the "modern rock" station.

― unknown/illegal, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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