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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

It's Will Oldham, unless I'm overlooking someone.

― Paul Eater, Saturday, 17 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh yeah he's up there w/ the most boring but he's not stridently awful enough to to be any kind of definitive "worst" i don't reckon.

― unknown or illegal user, Saturday, 17 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

maybe you're overlooking catpower. but the absolute worst band in the world, EVER? They just keep coming. you can't stop them. ask me in 2025.

― paul b, Saturday, 17 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

If we can go on the basis of one song, 4 Non Blondes makes me wanna break stuff more than any other band.

If not, Dave Matthews, for whom my loathing knows no bounds.

And as a side note: FUCK YOU JANET JACKSON.

― My name is Kenny, Saturday, 17 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

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― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 9 November 2003 03:57 (twenty years ago) link

The KJ thread is the I Love Music equivalent of Foot and Mouth and cannot be allowed to spread.

Christ, innocent days there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 November 2003 05:12 (twenty years ago) link

Alice in Chains? Nick Drake? Coldplay? The Strokes? You guys are evil.

I choose b4-4. Everybody download "Get Down" and you will realize that it is the worst song ever made.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 9 November 2003 06:36 (twenty years ago) link

that's funny. Just imagine how different ILX would be if that initial Killing Joke C or D thread had never happened.

― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 9 November 2003 06:41 (twenty years ago) link

We would definitely not honour fire. In any shape. (Mr. Barrus and I agreed the other day that we would not have been paying any attention to Killing Joke at all these days were it not for Alex's intensity.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 November 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link

The Levellers, obviosuly.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 November 2003 07:06 (twenty years ago) link

N. was OTM with U2. Never have one band spouted so much shite and convinced so many people that they are worthy and talented and important, whilst just being turgid little self-righteous arses. They should just fuck off.

However, when people like Big Brovaz or Blazing Squad or Mel B exist, it's so difficult to pick only one.

And whoever said The Pogues up there is just wrong on so many levels.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 9 November 2003 11:28 (twenty years ago) link

Tom Waits hataz make me sad. I know he's not everyone's cup of tea, but one thing he's *not* is boring, in any sense.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Sunday, 9 November 2003 12:28 (twenty years ago) link

Hmmm...a lot of backscratching here...anyone care for a massage?

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

does anyone remember Then Jericho? i couldn't name any of their tunes, i seem to remember they were U2 copyists, a couple of hundred rungs below Simple Minds on the evolutionary ladder.

also: Boyzone

i have a certain hatred for Geri Halliwell mainly because she is such an odious, supremely irritating person, but her records, even by today's manufactured-pop standards are really quite atrotious.

i also have an aversion, actually it's more akin to a phobia for Mariah Carey's singing. Especially in that video for "Without Me" - all that phoney emoting, all that "look at me! i'm so emotional!". Urghhh!!

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

sigur ros.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 10 November 2003 03:00 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...

Wow U2 Tom Waits, Sigur ROS, Erthnics, Sisters of mercy, I'm dumbfounded " I know That might be a big word for a lot of you so you might want to look it up or just google it, thats what you idiots do these days, yes it was a pun, Another google word. All these unbelivable bands, and you all think the the worst, compared to the shit that plays on the radio Fcng Nigga hoping gangsta crap, damn not even one Emenim. You all are a buch of nigger loving gasta wanabes spear chuck'n face paint'n gak packing Cock holding pussys that doun't need to pay higher taxes for the air you breathe for loving the bitch malcom X the fucking Commie,,take yo bich ass hiphopping bungalow beat back to Africa where it belongs, so you can die off from HIV just like Africa, " Wonder why?" becuz, theres a bunch of Niggas there an now there infecting the USA.. top crime rates LARGE BLACK COMMUITYS. High drug rates LARGE BLACK COMMUITYS. High VD's HIV LARGE BLACK COMMUITYS. Low income high Socail Security " OH AND THAY ALL WHANT MORE TO BUY THERE CRACK! LARGE BLACK COMMUITYS. highest drop out rates LARGE BLACK COMMUITYS. AND THE FUCKING WORST MUSIC EVER LISTION TO IN A LOCAL AREA.. LARGE BLACK COMMUITYS.. LARGE BLACK COMMUITYS ...LARGE BLACK COMMUITYS... I'm not anti-race BUT LOOK AT THE NUMBERS. I'm BLACK and I'm ashamed of are sorry excuse for a culture,, Equil Rights We scremed!! no segrgation We yelled!! and what did we do when we got what we wanted,, WE Segragated are selfes screeming ITS RE CULTURE EXCEPT IT ITS OUR MUSIC and gave the rites back. not to the white man nooooo, Back to no one person or race or culture, we though it away WE NGGAS GOT GREEDY FORM NEEDYAND NOW WHERE ALL STUPITY. and are oun music shows us.

― 1st Lt. J. Schoonover, Thursday, 11 May 2006 06:31 (eighteen years ago) link

< / sic >

― gear (gear), Thursday, 11 May 2006 06:37 (eighteen years ago) link

waht

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 11 May 2006 06:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you like The Magnetic Fields?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 11 May 2006 07:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Gulf War Syndrom

― snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 11 May 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link

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― Phil_A (Phil A), Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Is dude the same dude who sold pot to Larry David on CYE? Always wondered about that.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Does the opposite of wigger exist?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link

If only he would've been around...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link

LARGE BLACK COMMUITYS.. LARGE BLACK COMMUITYS ...LARGE BLACK COMMUITYS...

Careful, if you say it one more time, you know what'll happen...?

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― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link

U2.
Supertramp.
Red hot chilli peppers.

Not actually sure if these are the worst bands ever but all 3 make me feel physically sick...

― Ant, Thursday, 11 May 2006 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link

There are very few bands that I think are truly bad... it's only music. However...

Queen - I just don't get it. I mean Radio Gaga is passable (mainly 'cos of Moroder). Other than that their fusion of opera and rock reminds me of the weird kid in school trying to make the hamster and the tortoise mate by pushing them together. Ditto the chilli peppers 'funk rock' while we're on the subject. I like funk and rock but fusing them is incredibly.

Bare Naked Ladies - Just wrong on so many levels. Over sincere vocal - check. Quirky lyrics - check. Clean production - check. Sort of band that gets idolised by dim lads who think this is smart.

Black Eyed Peas - How did they go from Jurassic Five style also rans to this? You've said it all before. My Humps? Least sexy song ever.

Celine Dion - I was so rude once to someone who liked them he never talked to me again. Why is it though that their biggest fans that I meet seem to be corporate drones who in person are inoffensive but you just know at work they have one of those jobs that through an Excel spreadsheet fucks over the lives of millions in third world countries. they never see.

...that was a bit of a rant wasn't it?

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Okay my nomination for worst band isn't even a band that I think is the worst ever (Barenaked Ladies come closer I think) but for me this is personal, and that band is Alice in Chains. Of course I don't expect a single person to agree with me out there, because they weren't subject to the torture of having to listen to them for almost 8 years straight (I have a brother who thinks they are God's gift to music).
I just can no longer stand the ridiculous, trying to be creepy and dark, monotone, vocal harmonies! It also doesn't certainly help that they started out as some God awful heavy metal glam rock band. They saw what was happening with the Grunge thing and changed their look and their sound to fit in, and then scored a major label deal!! They never came from the same stable as most of the other Seattle bands, I don't even know how they fit in. Layne Staley has to be one of the most overdramatic singers, trying to belt it out so much. Their whole creepy, dark, vibe comes off as ridiculously corny to me.
Plus we have them to blame for Godsmack.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 11 May 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

UB40 dammit.

― ConnieXX, Monday, 28 April 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link

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