The worst rock bands ever

[Oh Danny Boy]

Coldplay have no redeeming features

[El Geet]

Coldplay have no redeeming features

I don't like them but they seem to be able to write songs that lots of other people like. That's a pretty decent feature to have as a musician.

[88h88]

I like the music produced by Coldplay, I'm of the opinion that if they were purely an instrumental band I could actually say I liked them. They've made some very pretty tracks it's just Chris Martin warbling all over them that ruins it.

[Guest]

Baby shambles, just god awful, one of the worst bands of the past decade for sure, the worst thing is their fans which are numerous and each believe Pete Doherty to be some sort of misunderstood poet and great musical genius of the times. They annoy me.

Which reminds me i had a thing with a girl a few years back who was one of Pete Doherty's devoted fans, everything was Pete Doherty is amazing his music is so great etc etc. It was too much and before we even had our first date i couldn't take it any longer and told her that Pete Doherty is a shit musician and a scummy human being and when he finally OD's i'll celebrate by raising a glass. I never did hear from her again, bloody worth it though.

I know people like this, there's no arguing with them or setting them straight, they are just deluded. Can't wait until he dies.

[futureshock]

what? Slander! I never defended a nickelback song

Sure, and publicly announcing how you can't "escape" a 7 year old track does not in any way mean you like it. Wink wink.

Thank god for punk, the music scene at the moment needs a similar boot up the backside.

This is quite a common thing for rock/metal folk to say, isn't it?

[One Eye]

U fucking 2.

[Davros sock drawer]

War through to Achtung Baby. A perfect run of classic albums and no-one can take that away from them!

[El Geet]

War through to Achtung Baby. A perfect run of classic albums and no-one can take that away from them!

Someone has definitely hacked Davros' account...or is this how you roll in the Music folder?

[Davros sock drawer]

Most normal people I know (i.e. not you weirdoes) have nothing but love for U2, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find a list of classic albums that didn't have the Joshua Tree in it at the very least.

[Rsdio]

Achtung Baby and The Joshua Tree are right albums. Purely from an artistic point of view they should really have packed it in about 1993 or something though.. Easier said than done when your mere existence is a license to print money.

[Stanley]

Again though, I love Television. Haven't listened to Marquee Moon in ages, might have to bust that out tonight.

Me too, and I liked the first Interpol record. Nothing wrong with stealing a few ideas here and there.

[88h88]

Achtung Baby and The Joshua Tree are right albums. Purely from an artistic point of view they should really have packed it in about 1993 or something though.. Easier said than done when your mere existence is a license to print money.

This is correct, Davros is wrong.

[Davros sock drawer]

What, even if I agree with him? I mean, I do like Zooropa and Pop, but nothing after that, and I don't think I'd cry if they'd stopped in '93.

[Bingowings II: The Revenge]

Well I think Interpol did anyway.

On a similar note, one band I've always found rather awful are the New York Dolls:

I mean, he's practically doing an impersonation of Jagger! But then I've only really seen a couple of these sorts of TV clips of them.

Rather awful? It is unfortunate that they are miming in this clip but get out. Get out now before I set the dogs on you.

[88h88]

What, even if I agree with him? I mean, I do like Zooropa and Pop, but nothing after that, and I don't think I'd cry if they'd stopped in '93.

More this following bit:

Most normal people I know (i.e. not you weirdoes) have nothing but love for U2, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find a list of classic albums that didn't have the Joshua Tree in it at the very least.

I could find more people that exclude U2 than include it. Therefore I deduce that you know few 'normal' people.

But anyway, U2 are far from the worst. Far far farrrrrrr from the worst. Bono is up there as tippy top shitlord extreme but as a band they're nowhere near as shitty as a lot of stuff out there. They should've just stopped a long time ago.

[Oh Danny Boy]

'normal' people like kings of leon, Maroon 5 and Brit Pop, 'normal' people think that the Beatles are the pinnacle of rock, 'normal people like commercial R n'B. Given this i prefer being very not 'normal'

[Davros sock drawer]

Rather awful? It is unfortunate that they are miming in this clip but get out. Get out now before I set the dogs on you.

Why is he pretending to be Mick Jagger though? I mean, I know everyone has influences, but it's the only example I can think of where one band's singer is actually copying the look, moves, facial expressions, and singing of another really, really famous one.

[Mike1812]

Despite once being as blindly dismissive of proggy stuff as Davros is being of punk I can get behind at least a part of what he's saying. Punk as a genre did quickly become a stale parody of itself in a lot of respects and, unfortunately, that parody has been very persistent, leading to shite like Rancid and Sum 41 and whatever trading off dodgy 'punk' signifiers years later. But even if if you dismiss it musically in its 'purest' form, it's pure conservative silliness to dismiss its influence in (either directly or indirectly) democratising music, the rise of DIY culture and paving the way for all sorts of great stuff from post-punk and No Wave to something as superficially different to it as dance music and to practically every band that's interesting in the present day.

Woah! Did you just mention Rancid in the Worst bands thread? Jesus. Christ.

[MalevolentPanda]

Someone who thinks Rancid and Sum 41 are similar can safely be dismissed as not knowing what they're talking about.

On Davros's punk opinions. This is how he nominated his favourite song of the year 2005:

I think it has to be "I bet that you look good on the dancefloor". It's a perfect modern punk song in every way.

So yeah.

[Oh Danny Boy]

Why is he pretending to be Mick Jagger though? I mean, I know everyone has influences, but it's the only example I can think of where one band's singer is actually copying the look, moves, facial expressions, and singing of another really, really famous one.

Jagger probably copied them And Jagger copied the blues musicians before him so he has no patent on that style of singing. The New York Dolls are one of the most influential rocks bands ever, they certainly influenced gender ambiguity in rock music and are hugely influential to the likes of Bowie, and the emergence of punk.

Someone who thinks Rancid and Sum 41 are similar can safely be dismissed as not knowing what they're talking about.

On Davros's punk opinions. This is how he nominated his favourite song of the year 2005:

So yeah.

the internet never forgets...

[Rsdio]

Someone who thinks Rancid and Sum 41 are similar can safely be dismissed as not knowing what they're talking about

Likewise someone who doesn't read posts properly. I said they both traded off dodgy punk signifiers (ie cliched clothes, hair, 'attitude', Tim Armstrong's embarassing semi-cockney vocalisations), not that they were 'similar' or that they even necessarily traded off the same ones.

I do think they're both shite though.

[Davros sock drawer]

On Davros's punk opinions. This is how he nominated his favourite song of the year 2005:

So yeah.

I think you should be more embarrassed at trawling through my old posts for "evidence".

Like I said, I was just lashing out. You diss the Floyd, I'm windmilling.

[MalevolentPanda]

Fair enough, but you're wrong to dismiss Rancid as trading off cliched anything. Many of their records, not to mention their members' work with other bands, have been genuinely innovative. They've contributed as much to broadening the horizons of punk as any band I can think of. Given this, your criticism of them seems peculiarly misplaced. Who gives a fuck about their clothes and hair? Is every metal band that wears black t-shirts trading off dodgy metal signifiers?

[MalevolentPanda]

I think you should be more embarrassed at trawling through my old posts for "evidence".

Like I said, I was just lashing out. You diss the Floyd, I'm windmilling.

I didn't have to trawl. I remembered the post because it led to me making a CD of punk for someone after I pointed out in the thread that the song wasn't punk and they said they didn't know what punk was.

Also, Pink Floyd are fucking shit.

[Davros sock drawer]

Alright Angry Anderson!

[zxcvbnm]

After much inner debate my choice has to be; Status fuckin' Quo!

Words cannot explain how awful these are, it hurts my brain trying to figure out how they became so popular. They play the same guitar base in every damn song!

Salt+pepper+your hat=

Admittedly they went seriously downhill in the 70s, but in the 60's they were fucking epic. Check out Rossi's tache.

[Rsdio]

Fair enough, but you're wrong to dismiss Rancid as trading off cliched anything. Many of their records, not to mention their members' work with other bands, have been genuinely innovative. They've contributed as much to broadening the horizons of punk as any band I can think of. Given this, your criticism of them seems peculiarly misplaced. Who gives a fuck about their clothes and hair? Is every metal band that wears black t-shirts trading off dodgy metal signifiers?

I didn't say they haven't got more to offer beyond what I mentioned, I'm sure they probably do although I personally don't rate them.

I guess they give a fuck about their clothes and hair and singing in cockney accents despite being from California or whatever? And their fans who dress similarly must do? Like it or not, music in its commercial form is also an incredibly visual medium and when people buy into a band they generally buy into and identify with the whole package. I think that makes it worthy enough of discussion, myself.

Plus, black T-shirts are kind of universal and not quite equatable with gravity-defying mohawks, jackboots, safety pins and whatever. But yeah, of course some metal bands are cliched. I'm not dismissing anyone's music purely on that basis as that'd be ridiculous, I was only using them as an example to show the continuation of certain cartoonish 'punk' elements. The fact that I don't like their music is incidental.

[Wickedkitten]

I like the music produced by Coldplay, I'm of the opinion that if they were purely an instrumental band I could actually say I liked them. They've made some very pretty tracks it's just Chris Martin warbling all over them that ruins it.

Aye, if anything, the fact that they sound better when other bands play them as well is great.

[Rotten Ralph]

I dislike Metalica. I've no idea what people see in them. The singing is histrionic drama school quality, and the music chugs along trying to be all macho. And they pose like idiots.

I can't accept Quo for Down Down alone. and Pictures of Matchstick Men is good too.

Agreed. Metalica are a poor mans Motorhead. They always sound like they're trying so hard.

The Vaccines. Seen them twice and festivals and they are utter rubbish. The singer has a horrible voice and the music is so bland. NME keep comparing them to the Ramones as well....

[zuum]

Fucking Joshua Tree. Just even thinking about that jingly, jangly opening so perfectly crafted for a stadium of people wearing Rock Cafe denim jackets and punching the air is enough to bring on biliousness.