Bands you hate (for unreasonable reasons)

[Festoon]

What bands do you just dislike for no apparent reason, and it doesn't even have to fair, you just dislike.

 

For me, Basement Jaxx. They always just struck me as posh kids for some reason, like sons of Lords or something. The music is too clamourous to be tuneful.

[Oaf]

Scissor Sisters. For the crime that is what they did to Comfortably Numb.

Oh, and ABBA.

[cubik]

The Flaming Lips. Not because of their music, I always thought the singer looked like one of those eternally smug people who is up himself and believes his own hype. 
 

He might be lovely and down to earth for all I know, I never bothered to find out.

[Gotters]

Blur, they are just so fucking smug and think what they did was high art - Country House and Parklife are novelty records.

 

They are on the excellent ch5 series on Britpop at the moment and they still seem to believe this. 

[FishyFish]

Coldplay and Simply Red. Not sure I need to say any more.

[Art Vandelay]

I thought the Comfortably Numb cover was amazing and by far and away the best thing Scissor Sisters did. I remember that coming out and it being this big white label thing that sent crowds berserk, and then they seemed to launch properly later as a dreadful Radio 2 Elton John pastiche instead. Completely appreciate why someone would hate that tune though.

 

I’ll second Blur and novelty is definitely the word. You can chuck all of Albarn’s output in with it too, it’s all shite. 

[Gotters]

plus Alex James' cheese is overpriced shite too.

[ZOK]

Arrested Development, not just because their music is shit but because for a time they were massive, and consequently their shit music was everywhere…and you sometimes still hear it today.

[Plissken]

Blur's later stuff is alright and they might be pricks, but Albarn is a very talented prick.

[Orion]

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Totally overrated bollocks music and most of them seemed like complete wankers. Young gets a pass for his solo stuff though. Tempted to just throw in all "supergroups". The vast majority of them are terrible.

 

Greenday. Just the whole thing.

[Escape]

1 hour ago, FishyFish said:

Coldplay and Simply Red. Not sure I need to say any more.

 

You hope we comprehend.

[Art Vandelay]

I did hear a Coldplay tune recently that despite everything really knocked. It had the ring of something made by that Swedish guy who writes absolutely everything with production suggesting the rest of the band had been wisely jettisoned. Really the only thing letting it down was Chris Martin’s vocals, so in conclusion it was a Coldplay song where they’re the worst thing about it.

[Festoon]

2 hours ago, FishyFish said:

Coldplay and Simply Red. Not sure I need to say any more.

 

Oh yes, 

2 hours ago, Art Vandelay said:

I thought the Comfortably Numb cover was amazing and by far and away the best thing Scissor Sisters did. I remember that coming out and it being this big white label thing that sent crowds berserk, and then they seemed to launch properly later as a dreadful Radio 2 Elton John pastiche instead. Completely appreciate why someone would hate that tune though.

 

I’ll second Blur and novelty is definitely the word. You can chuck all of Albarn’s output in with it too, it’s all shite. 

 

Third vote for Blur.

 

It is impossible not to want to punch this face:

 

Coxon's solo albums are meandering shite too.

[Ste_S]

Radiohead, the student's Coldplay, and with extra whine in the vocals.

[Festoon]

2 hours ago, Orion said:

Greenday. Just the whole thing.

 

Remember when they went 'serious' and 'political'? Christ. It's worth listening to Wake Me When November Ends or whatever the fuck it was called, again.

 

It came on the radio recently and I was staggered at how weak the guitar was mixed. And played.

[Festoon]

26 minutes ago, Ste_S said:

Radiohead, the student's Coldplay, and with extra whine in the vocals.

 

In college (1997) one of my flatmates used constantly mock 'Moany Thom' to the extent that one of my other, drunk, angry, flatmates threw a bottle of wine at her head, missed, the bottle smashed against the wall of our kitchen and went everywhere.

 

She turned, looked at the wine-covered room mess, turned around and quipped "Still not as 'w(h)iney as Thom".

 

I agree with her. Also, his lyrics are dreadful, sixth form stuff. Band are alright though.

[Festoon]

2 hours ago, ZOK said:

Arrested Development, not just because their music is shit but because for a time they were massive, and consequently their shit music was everywhere…and you sometimes still hear it today.

 

Only Mr. Wendal has survived. Such a smug, preachy tune. The little guitar sound always reminds me of Lemmings, for some reason.

[Nick R]

Mogwai. Nothing against their music, I just disagree with that "Blur: are shite" T-shirt.

 

Spoiler

I also object to the incorrect spelling/pronunciation of "shit".

 

[cubik]

Blur are shite though, and “shite” is a perfectly cromulent word. 

 

I’d like to add these to the list:

Van Morrison - wanker

Eric Clapton - massive racist guitar noodling wanker

Drake - creepy mumbling prick

Adele - pub singer that’s done well for herself

 

[Wiper]

12 minutes ago, cubik said:

Eric Clapton - massive racist guitar noodling wanker

 

I'd argue that's an extremely reasonable reason to hate him, colossal arsehole that he is.

[skondo]

Oasis - All wankers.

Def Leppard - Awful overproduced bollocks.

Maroon 5 - Just stop.

 

[QuackQuack]

Rolling Stones - lame logo and therefore lame music

Queen - bringing opera to the masses? fuck off

Abba - too many Gen X mums like this so no

Oasis - too many Gen X dads like this so no

[Festoon]

Florence and the Machine

 

She's just a honking goose. Dreadful noise.

[Adrock]

Beatles

ELO

U2

Oasis

Cold Play

Manic Street Preachers

 

All of those are blacklisted on Spotify and I'll change the radio station if they come on. All horrible.

[velma]

Another vote for Blur, but somehow more so ever since I read Brett Anderson's biography and he had this description:

 

'witless, opportunist mockneys — middle class ‘media geezers’ who had learned to drop their aitches and flatten their vowels . . . a cheap, beery, graceless cartoon bereft of passion or rage who cravenly hid feeling behind a brittle mask of irony' 

 

In the nineties I was clearly trying to be one of 'the cool girls' but later on I had that realisation of just how lads mags and loaded blur were. I mean, at least Oasis were honest about it 

 

 

 

 

[Qazimod]

Ladbaby.  

LMFAO.  

 

Also Drake - but then I don't get on with much of that mumbly autotuned modern rap the kids listen to these days 

[DeciderVT]

3 hours ago, velma said:

Another vote for Blur, but somehow more so ever since I read Brett Anderson's biography and he had this description:

 

'witless, opportunist mockneys — middle class ‘media geezers’ who had learned to drop their aitches and flatten their vowels . . . a cheap, beery, graceless cartoon bereft of passion or rage who cravenly hid feeling behind a brittle mask of irony'

 

Learning about Anderson's impoverished background also lends a classist air to stuff like Charmless Man, if the rumours about it being based on him are true. Know your place and don't get ideas above your station, oik.

 

Related: I read Miki Berenyi's autobiography over Christmas. She had a relationship with Billy Childish before she was in Lush and wrote about bumping into Graham Coxon when she went to see Thee Headcoats years later, when Blur's star was ascendant:

 

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There are entitled arseholes everywhere. At a Headcoats gig, Graham Coxon and his new squeeze Jo, from riot grrrl band Huggy Bear confront me, petulantly demanding: “Why are YOU here?” Never mind that I’ve known the band’s singer, Billy Childish, for over a decade and if anyone’s the fucking interloper, it’s them. Their attitude is everywhere, erasing any history before their patronage, claiming bands, venues, entire genres of music have only existed in any “happening” sense since the Britpop royalty “discovered” them. 

 

[Festoon]

1 hour ago, DeciderVT said:

 

Learning about Anderson's impoverished background also lends a classist air to stuff like Charmless Man, if the rumours about it being based on him are true. Know your place and don't get ideas above your station, oik.

 

Related: I read Miki Berenyi's autobiography over Christmas. She had a relationship with Billy Childish before she was in Lush and wrote about bumping into Graham Coxon when she went to see Thee Headcoats years later, when Blur's star was ascendant:

 

Jesus, I had literally no idea, but in general we all understood.

 

This from the lads that brought us "Country House" - a song a college friend at the time called "an abomination in every single way - a song that actually makes you angry". From the lyrics, to the see-saw music, to the painful singing -particularly the choral bit which is singularly awful, to the fucking brass band bit - it's British exceptionalism all over, "Rule Britannia" for lad mags. And the video - oh my days. FHM crossed with permatwat Keith Allen, horrible, horrible colour saturation, sped-up Benny Hill sequences, a piss take of the Queen Bo Rhap video bit - from people not bit to sniff the steam off Mercury's piss.

 

Dreadful.

[Plissken]

Still better than Oasis, who ran out of ideas after track 1, side 1 of their debut album.

 

Fuck me, that's twice I've sort of slightly defended those Blur fuckers.  That's twice more than I ever intended to.

 

I can't think of many bands for this thread, because I've got entirely reasonable reasons for hating a lot of bands.

[Naysonymous]

14 hours ago, Nick R said:

Mogwai. Nothing against their music, I just disagree with that "Blur: are shite" T-shirt.

 

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I also object to the incorrect spelling/pronunciation of "shit".

 

 

I thought I was so cool when I wore that T-Shirt to a Blur gig.