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Musicians/bands that you find intolerable?

Mr Person said:
Which is the worst thing for rock to be...





Hatred? I said "despise." Hate is altogether too much effort for an emblamatically crappy band.

Vomitous? Do you think I meant, quite literally, that it induces vomiting?

Anyway, I didn't really expect a statement about music I don't like to be turned into an inquiry.
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Apologies for wasting your time.
 
Lutherf said:
The only reason anyone ever went to a Journey, Loverboy or REO Speedwagon concert is because their girlfriend insisted that they go and they didn't have the balls to say no.
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Thanks, I laughed out loud at that one :)
 
lurchadams said:
I'm sorry to say I was a huge fan of his music as a kid. I could play along on my guitar with every song on his self-titled album. He really was a great guitar player. I guess I didn't pay that close attention to his lyrics.

Too bad Ted lost his mind.
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Good music is good music.

If you enjoy it, listen to it. Enjoying an artists work is in no way an endorsement of their morality or views.

I find Dave Mustaine to be an insufferable asshole, that has only "found Christ" after he abused countless people. Still, his art is an abstract concept separate from him and his hypocrisy.
 
MovingPictures said:
Good music is good music.

If you enjoy it, listen to it. Enjoying an artists work is in no way an endorsement of their morality or views.

I find Dave Mustaine to be an insufferable asshole, that has only "found Christ" after he abused countless people. Still, his art is an abstract concept separate from him and his hypocrisy.
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Don't know much about Mustaine. I only found out about Nugent's political views when he made news by being a crazy, right-wing piece of garbage.
 
holbritter said:
I never understood the whole Nickelback thing. I saw them a couple of years ago, and they put on a show that reminded me of the rock bands back in the day. None of the theatricals of shows today, just playing. I like Nickelback, mainly the drumming and bass playing.
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There we go! Another fellow, "out and proud" Nickelbacker! Kudos!
 
lurchadams said:
"Metallica after And Justice for all ( Black album just mildly pleasing)"
<sigh> :( c'mon, now! "Sandman", "Sad But True", "Wherever I May Roam"? They're part of my jam on long drives!
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Where ever I may roam is nowhere near as exiting as hit the light, fight fire with fire, blackened, leper messiah, trapped under ice, the four horseman, jump in the fire, no remorse, seek and destroy, fight fire with fire, fade to black, for whom the bell tolls, creeping death, ride the lightning, battery, master of puppets, the thing that should not be, welcome home (sanitarium), disposable heroes, and justice for all, eye of the beholder, one, the shortest straw, harvester of sorrow, dyers eve, the frayed ends of sanity.

And let us not forget the awesome covers of helpless, the small hours, last caress/green hell, am I evil, blitzkrieg, breadfan, the prince.

All of them classics and proper sized metallica songs. Now Sandman and sad but true are fun, wherever I may roam is nice, but they are nowhere near the speed metal extravaganzas that their earlier works were. Too simple, too commercial for me.

But I am an idiot like that. I love the 2nd coming of Iron Maiden and there are awesome songs on there. But the songs written while Dianno was there are just wickedly beautiful. Gems like, Prowler, Remember tomorrow, running free, transsylvania, strange world. Iron maiden, wrathchild, murders in the Rue Morgue, Killers, purgatory, drifter were all from the first 2 albums. Even Maiden were being less and less successful with their future albums IMHO, the Seventh son of a Seventh son was OK, nothing more, nothing like the brilliance of the early days.

It is like that with bands, even my favorite act, Ozzy Osborne has created less and less impressive records as the years went on. His first 2 albums with Randy and his first album with Jake E. Lee were the best things he ever produced.

The only exception for this is Slayer, they went from good to better to brilliant to OOH MY SATAN to brilliant to good to not so great at all. Their first album was good, haunting the chapel was good, Hell Awaits was brilliant, Reign in blood was OOH my Satan (can hardly proclaim Ooh my god for a with angel of death, piece by piece, necrophobic, alter of sacrifice, jesus saves, criminally isane, reborn, epidemic, postmortem ad RAINING BLOOD. South of Heaven was just again brilliant and then afterwards it went from good to not so great. In this regard Slayer is the exception to the rule that bands go great to plateau and keep their greatness until they drop off. Slayer went from strenght to strength until they went downhill.

Black Sabbbath (earliest records the best), ACDC (earliest records the best), etc etc etc. Bands have a habit of burning bright and then fade away, they do not stop at their best.

Now I am not saying that after their prime all songs of bands deteriorate to the level of blaahhh, they might produce some glimpses of previous brilliance.

Ozzy for example after his first 3 solo albums did not produce that level of brilliance throughout the majority of records afterwards. Sure there were a few great songs on later albums, personal favorites of mine are Back on Earth from the Ozzman cometh, dreamer, Mama I'm coming home, killer of giants, thank god for the bomb, fire in the sky but none of his later albums were of the consistency of his first three albums.

Like with Black Sabbath, sure there were some OK songs after Ozzy left, but only when he came back on the Reunion tour they added another great song (and one good song). Selling my soul and Psycho man were the best things I had heard (IMHO at least) Black Sabbath making in a long time.

 
lurchadams said:
Metallica does a cover of Seger's, "Turn the Page" that I like much better than Seger's version.
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Personally I think AM I evil is about as good from Metallica as is the original.

But thanks to Metallica's use of Am I evil (and others) I have gotten to hear this gem

 
nota bene said:
Firefighters, nurses, teachers, cops don't make much, but we surely don't mind paying athletes and actors outrageous salaries for entertaining us. :(
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Very, very few people possess the talent to be professional entertainers or (especially) athletes.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
One hunnert percent.
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lurchadams said:
I can't think of any bands I hate. I admit I'm not a huge fan of country or modern hip-hop. I like classic rock, some grunge rock (including some Pearl Jam, sorry!), and some newer rock such as Alter Bridge, Linkin Park, Five Finger Death Punch, System of a Down, and...

Can I tell you something? Promise to keep it a secret? I even like some <gasp> Nickelback! Moo hoo hah hah hah! Seriously you should check out N.backs cover of Elton John's, "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting", it rocks!
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Is Alter Bridge still recording? I loved them. Played the grooves off their first two albums, and then I thought they dropped off the planet. I never heard anything else from them.
 
Mr Person said:
Anyway, I didn't really expect a statement about music I don't like to be turned into an inquiry.
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I don't think she was directing it at you personally, but there is an intense hatred for Nickelback that came from out of nowhere, and grew exponentially. She was (like I often do) just wondering why the hatred?
 
Kobie said:
Very, very few people possess the talent to be professional entertainers or (especially) athletes.
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The question is whether entertainment is more valuable to a society than "life-services" professions, and the answer, apparently, is "Yes." This is why a high-school dropout like Tom Cruise can command a $20 million per picture deal.
 
Superfly said:
Is Alter Bridge still recording? I loved them. Played the grooves off their first two albums, and then I thought they dropped off the planet. I never heard anything else from them.
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I don't know. Two of my favorite A.B. songs are "Rise Today", and "Metalingus". I few years ago I was watching the Audience Network and A.B."s frontman, Myles Kennedy was collaborating with Gun's and Roses guitarist, Slash. Trivia: Did you know that Myles Kennedy had a cameo in the Wahlberg/Aniston movie, "Rock Star"?
 
lurchadams said:
I don't know. Two of my favorite A.B. songs are "Rise Today", and "Metalingus". I few years ago I was watching the Audience Network and A.B."s frontman, Myles Kennedy was collaborating with Gun's and Roses guitarist, Slash. Trivia: Did you know that Myles Kennedy had a cameo in the Wahlberg/Aniston movie, "Rock Star"?
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I did not know that! I just googled them, and apparently they have a total of 5 albums. I have the first two, but will have to give the others a shot and see if they are as good. It's going to be hard to beat those first two albums, though.

This is probably one of my favorites of theirs:



VH1 used this song and mixed it with a bunch of clips from that Celebrity Rehab show they had - hate that ****. Hate seeing TV producers finding people at the lowest point in their existence and throwing them on TV with the promise of a cure, all for ratings. Jeff Conaway stood out the most to me - the rehab show (and that "doctor") just capitalized on his addiction to make money. Bastards. Jeff Conaway's dead now. Overdose. :(
 
Superfly said:
I don't think she was directing it at you personally, but there is an intense hatred for Nickelback that came from out of nowhere, and grew exponentially. She was (like I often do) just wondering why the hatred?
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It sounded pretty personal when (1) only the name "Nickleback" from my first post was quoted, omitting the explanation that Nickleback was actually a stand-in for an entire class of rock I can't stand rather being just the one rock band I really don't like, (2) there's an insinuation that I only named them as part of this "knee jerk" reaction that supposedly "many people" have (how does she know it's knee jerk, btw? Maybe a lot of people legitimately don't like their music), (3) there's a reply to my posting videos of their music with a description of one video as "vomitous" and nota bounced off that to suggest I have "hatred" for Nickleback.

If she didn't mean to suggest my stated reasons for disliking Nickleback weren't my real reasons and/or were irrationally hateful, she sure had an odd way of saying it.





(Of course, there's other stuff not from this thread that I'm not going to get into...)
 
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Mr Person said:
It sounded pretty personal when (1) only the word from my first post was quoted, omitting the explanation that Nickleback was actually a stand-in for an entire class of rock I can't stand rather being just the one rock band I really don't like, (2) there's an insinuation that I only named them as part of this "knee jerk" reaction that supposedly "many people" have (how does she know it's knee jerk, btw? Maybe a lot of people legitimately don't like their music), (3) there's a reply to my posting videos of their music with a description of one video as "vomitous" and nota bounced off that to suggest I have "hatred" for Nickleback.

If she didn't mean to suggest my stated reasons for disliking Nickleback weren't my real reasons and/or were irrationally hateful, she sure had an odd way of saying it.





(Of course, there's other stuff not from this thread that I'm not going to get into...)
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Why can't we just all love Nickelback and this would be a moot point?

:lol:

I know, I know. Never mind.
 
lurchadams said:
I don't know. Two of my favorite A.B. songs are "Rise Today", and "Metalingus". I few years ago I was watching the Audience Network and A.B."s frontman, Myles Kennedy was collaborating with Gun's and Roses guitarist, Slash. Trivia: Did you know that Myles Kennedy had a cameo in the Wahlberg/Aniston movie, "Rock Star"?
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They have a band, I think called "Slash featuring Mylse Kennedy and the Conspirators". We saw them several times before the G n' R reunion. And now, there's a fall break in the G n' R reunion tour so Slash, Myles, and the rest are going on another tour.

We're seeing them this Oct. in Boston.

Living The Dream 2018 Tour
 
Superfly said:
I did not know that! I just googled them, and apparently they have a total of 5 albums. I have the first two, but will have to give the others a shot and see if they are as good. It's going to be hard to beat those first two albums, though.

This is probably one of my favorites of theirs:



VH1 used this song and mixed it with a bunch of clips from that Celebrity Rehab show they had - hate that ****. Hate seeing TV producers finding people at the lowest point in their existence and throwing them on TV with the promise of a cure, all for ratings. Jeff Conaway stood out the most to me - the rehab show (and that "doctor") just capitalized on his addiction to make money. Bastards. Jeff Conaway's dead now. Overdose. :(
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The guy from Grease and Taxi? I didn't know he was dead :( RIP, Jeff!
 
Mr Person said:
They have a band, I think called "Slash featuring Mylse Kennedy and the Conspirators". We saw them several times before the G n' R reunion. And now, there's a fall break in the G n' R reunion tour so Slash, Myles, and the rest are going on another tour.

We're seeing them this Oct. in Boston.

Living The Dream 2018 Tour
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Kennedy does a really good facsimile of Axl Rose's voice. I wish that A/C D/C could would have found someone that could better emulate Bon Scott!
 
I have largely been blissfully ignorant of bands that I could probably hate.

That happens by not listening to the radio for 20 years, not watching any music channels, avoiding any award shows, and sticking to streaming services or download stores.

You, too, can be just like me with a low, low cost of $10-20 dollars a month.

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