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Unashamed Bigotry Corner
Posted by itfc1959 on 10 November 2010 - 4:21pm.
Well. My little post on The levelllers (down there a bit) certainly stirred up some long lost love and some right bastard vitriol.
This is of course to be welcomed on these pages, because being passionate and caring about stuff is what it seems to be all about for us.
So, forgetting Ver Levs for a moment (although you could always go here http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=37078530546 to see how someone changed their mind), I'd like to know which Artists, Bands, Records etc the Massive really hate with a vengeance, for no other good reason than they just don't like them.
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Wilco, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Midlake...et al
Alt country basically.
Earnest guff (two more from him...etc)
Went to see Later
last night and I just wanted to give Midlake a slap.
They are the band the critics tell us we should like but I couldn't imagine sitting or standing through one of their gigs. Utter tedium, chin stroking for the hard of thinking.
Wilco on the other hand I love, especially when they are less 'alt country' on Summerteeth.
Just remembered
that Midlake's bass player looked like the bastard son of Alex James and Freddie Mercury. Whether that is another reason to hate them, I'm not sure. It may well have been their one redeeming feature.
Beardy Bands
Beardy bands singing in harmony, with acoustic guitar accompaniment are fashionable right now. Most are completely disposable.
Midlake on Jools reminded me of a duff update of Barclay James Harvest, with a flute replacing the mellotron. Unmemorable guff with nice vocal harmonies. Bryan Ferry essaying "Song To The Siren" was a big mistake, incidentally. Just because you admire a song doesn't mean you should inflict it on an audience when you can't bring anything new to it.
Back on topic, Devendra Banhart annoys me enormously. Unintelligible piffle, both musically and lyrically. A plague on him.
Landfill Indie guitar-jangle bands that whine on and on about nothing very much of interest. Put a sock in it and get a proper job!
U2. Need I explain?
Midlake, Banhart, Fleet Foxes etc etc ad infinitum
Bollocks to 'em.
They sound like a microwaveable ready-meal version of ISB, Sandy 'n' Richard-era Fairport and/or Trees.
"Oi, Davendra, we heard it all 40 years ago. Now stop acting like a twat and go back to your day job"
Midlake.
Just an aside about this Texan band - a couple of years ago I was holidaying in Texas and visited a record emporium in a city about 20 miles or so from where Midlake came from and out of curiosity tried to buy one of their albums. Not only was it not in stock, the assistant had never heard of them and the store computer didn't even list them. This wasn't a small independent but a large chain!!!
Completely opposite
Love alt.country really dislike Rufus Wainwright, Joanna Newsom, Antony and the Johnsons and all the other twee artists who seem to be so revered.
Here Here
I also dislike how fans of these acts call people aren't into that stuff Rockists, like it's almost some kind of hate crime to perfer music with powerful vocals, and loud guitars and drums.
Earnest Guff
wasn't that a Benny Hill character?
Evenin' viewers.
Earnest Guff
TMFTL....gets anorak and exits,
A great bluesman but suffered from a bad wind problem
from all the moonshine he drank in the 1930s
BoNo
BoNo BoNo BoNo BoNo BoNo..............BoNo.
oh yes
My better half recounted to me a quip she heard on the radio/tv a while back wherein it was announced that Bono was performing some new song that was going to be the title music to the next Spiderman movie.
The presenter in question remarked that Bono had a great affinity with Spiderman because, as a young boy, he'd been bitten by a radioactive twat.
Still makes me chuckle every time I think of it.
Not to be confused with
Ambient knob twiddler Bonobo whom I really like.
thank god
Yeah I thought Bonobo was being slagged off too for half a second. Nearly blew a gasket - the very idea!
Queen
Yep
Spot on Pencilsqeezer i cannot think of anybody else i actually hate other than U2, plenty I dislike but there is a special place in my personal hell for Bono and the boys. Actually I dont hate the other three but i dislike the baldy plankspanker more than the other two.
U2
Their music is rubbish, their singer is terrible, their fans are unimaginative sheep dullards apart from the ones who were school bullies. Redeeming features there are none. Apart from Numb which is pretty good, but sung by a middle aged man who calls himself The Edge.
Yeah!
What does he call his wife, I wonder? Mrs The Edge?
Sugar tits
I believe
Ha! LOL, Innit
Have an up for the best post of the day.
Must be
SUGAR TITS sugar tits sugar tits sugar tits sugar tits sugar tits
(there's a guitar echo in there somewhere)
I wish U2 had done us all a favor
and broke up in 1984. The Edge would be nothing without his precious delay pedal.
Coldplay
get on my tits.
Oh, I like *everyone*
"Hello birds, hello trees"
What?
Are you Fotherington-Thomas? Is this the second Molesworth reference I have seen in the Word in two weeks?
Chiz chiz
you'll be wanting pics of gurls next.
No, no
"For I am too wet and weedy, for even gurls" quoth he. "So, shall we press some flowers?"
I diskard you uterly...
I diskard you uterly...
Man of soup?
That would explane why you have a face like a squashed tomatoe.
... or even a squished
... or even a squished tomatoe?
Anyway, yu ar a wet and a wede
chiz chiz sa I
quick - as any fule kno, Grimes and the beaks will be chasing us for Latin prep if we waste more time here....bak to the cages of St Custard's.
i am grabber
captane of everything and you two oiks will be bashed alongside your grate frend peason.
oh dear
this is entertainment [note to self: grow up sometime]
o you mite
o you mite
Mark Ronson
detest the twat. Well apart from hating his music unreservedly, why do TV people think he makes good viewing on panel shows and the like. He has nil personality.
Get back behind your mixing desk if you must but stay off my tellybox.
Twat.
Agreed
In fact, I would purchase the enitre back catalogues of all the hated artists I listed above and listen to nothing else for a whole year, just for the chance to see Mark Ronson stub his toe.
Red Hot Chilli Crappers,
Green Fuckin' Day, Muse - I've had to turn off Planet Rock three times today as these serial offenders keep popping up, 'Peaces en Regalia' by FZ is on now so that makes up for things. Just!
Have an up arrow, Mr Blast
for liking Peaches in Regalia
Do Planet Rock ever play any Zappa track other than
Peaches En Regalia?
Yeap
'Valley Girl'
For Sure?
OK, Fine....
I do NOT talk funnny...
... I am surrrre.
"Gag me with a spoooon"
(What DOES that actually mean?)
According to my old mate Pete..
When we were at school, he was the New Boy, and American. But he explained what all the words in Valley Girl meant. Gag me with a spoon is, apparently, an invitation to introduce one's generative member to Ms Zappa's oropharynx.
Which sounds, like, sew grodie?
Valley speak has gradually and subtly morphed into the lingua franca for middle-class teenaged girls.
...and here's Moon Unit (and her daughter*) playing it live
with Dweezil
*who, oddly enough, isn't called Aspidistra Hatstand
Blimey..
That's scarily spot-on. In a good way.
Almost too good. It sounds like the original being played through the PA. Ms Unit nails it absolutely. Which takes some skill because, like, it's not like, y'know, singing? Or, like, anything like that? And the odd flattish harmonies from the band are, like, there as well?
Mind you, this is Frank Zappa's inheritance we're talking about. It's going to be good, isn't it?
I might get a kicking for this
but I really dislike The Fall and professional miserablist Mark E Smith. Incomprehensible lyrics and studied contrariness.
Oh! and The RedHot Chilli Peppers are complete wank
No kicking from me
If everybody liked The Fall there'd be no point in liking The Fall.
David...
Is that you?
Whisper it quietly
but I don't really like the Divine Comedy. The Barron Knights de nos jours. I don't really, really, hate them (him?) but I feel I need to get it off my chest quietly and hope no-one around these parts notices.
Eh?
D'oh
The Barron Knights de nos jours
I'm sure its a very nice phrase and all that but how does it actually relate to Hannon and all his works?
apart from the Victory For Calling Up the Groups album obviously
How about
Mr. 'Clever Clever' Coconut Head?
he's still an irritating twat either way
Thank You For the Compliment.
I shall take it in the spirit it was intended and put it on the shelf with all the others.
You've already answered you question by referencing Victory. But how does it relate to Hannon and all his works? Simple. I don't think either of them are funny, and as that's their raison d'etre (did you see what I did there?) I consider it fair game.
Bear in mind that this blog was intended to reflect mindless bigotry and therefore not for the faint-hearted.
The Smiths & The Cure
That whole bedwetter indie strand.
The Cure
are Goth, listen to Porno and tell me otherwise.
Morrisey is a simpering nancy boy who needs a slap from Fotherington Thomas.
Not heard
The Headmaster Ritual, Nowhere Fast, The Queen Is Dead, Sweet And Tender Hooligan then? Bedwetting - I don't think so.
No idea. If I have heard them, I've avoided listening...
I detest Stephen Morrissey and all he stands for. Unashamed bigotry, see :-)
I really detest him too
but he is now referred to in this household by the name someone gave him on here last year "Curiously Unique Northern Tunesmith" - whoever coined that name should get it trademarked.
Before someone bleats
'but how is it possible to hate someone you've never met?', which often greets these things,
I say of course it's possible and I hate Kelly Jones from the Stereophonics and The Streets.
Kelly Jones
was in The Streets as well? No wonder I can't stand them.
(Pedant Alert)
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes
The Sterophonics. Tired, predictable, cliched shite, hollered by a smug midget who's mistaken croaking and barking for singing.
UB
40.
I'm with you.
Whenever I hear a UB40 record I always get the feeling the record might just stop at any time because they can't be arsed to get to the end of it.
I've never thought much of them
since John Peel quoted them saying (in the mid-80s) that the only show you could hear reggae on Radio 1 was ... Peter Powell.
An unrestrained loathing
for Oasis, The Verve, Pulp, Stone Roses...
Oh, Fuck it. Britpop. Every band. Every single bloody band from this period of bowel-emptying mediocrity.
Calm down la
Suede with BB were a behemoth of 'Guitar Based English Rock Music' in the style of The Who. Mansun fit in there too and I adore both combos, I'd be more than happy to point a Spotify playlist your way.
NOOOOOO!
Mr Blast-I thought you were all about the Goth / Industrial. Don't shatter my illusions....
Whatever happened to Mansun though?
Fine band who just seemed to never quite I don't know ... happen
Will anyone disagree with this target of hate?
(1) Bon Jovi
(2) Jon Bon Jovi
You'd be surprised.
I've seen them mentioned on here in a not-slating kind of way.
Oh, and...
...since you might not have seen my reply to your Dave Grohl post on the drums thread: Eh up, Roo.
:-)
Eh up indeed!
What defence can there possibly for Bye Jovi? What?! What?!?!
Eh up indeed!
What defence can there possibly be for Bye Jovi? What?! What?!?!
I have seen Bon Jovi live.
They weren't bad.
And Bad Medicine is aces.
I saw 'em in Milton Keynes Bowl about 20 years ago
and, as a live act, they were bloody good.
Predictable? Yes.
Cliched? Yes.
Ridiculous amounts of pyro? Yes.
Overblown? Yes.
Catchy songs? Yes.
Huge, shoutalong choruses? Yes.
I had a great time :-)
BUT, 20 years on, are they anything more than a nostalgia act peddling the same 'old'? Dunno, but they can still fill stadia so they must be doing something right. I suspect the Man In The Stadium would suggest there's a lot to be said for a predictable, uncomplicated night out.
Right, you're barred
Thou shalt not defend insipid permed stadium rock in a discerning music forum. Begone!
ugh
One of those acts that almost makes Guns n' Roses look half decent. Almost.
That bloke
out of Hard Fi used to get on my nerves.
Darling of the Brits
Robbie Williams
I heartily concur
Though I think the only reason I had such a problem with him was because he was so popular, branded a genius, without any discernable ability. Or likeable tunes. Plus he gurns and pouts like someone who bit into a Scotch egg only to find shell there within.
Me too!
He's not an entertainer he's a fecking karaoke singer at best.
As my Dad once commented...
watching Robbie Williams on stage is like Norman Wisdom attempting Shakespeare.
THAT
might just have been brilliant. Have you seen Max Wall in the tv version of Godot?
Oasis.
They were fucking shite from about February 1995 onwards. Their music makes me want to throw up, and the fact that I quite like Noel Gallagher almost makes it worse. How can someone so intelligent and seemingly self-aware make such concrete slabs of wank?
Also, I'm not a violent man, but I want to grab Stuart Murdoch by the throat and force him to fight me.
Concrete Slabs of Wank
TMTFL, a Mojo Special Edition, a Classic Rock Prog Cover and a BBC4 Night.
At the very least.
Before you ask Stu outside
you do know he used to box when younger and, I believe, is still in shape. My advice: bring a "tool" like Ray Winstone in Scum.
*edit* How did this end up here? I usually post BETTER when drinking.
They went a very long way
on a handful of quality songs
A handful?
Maybe a very small clumsy hand that can't hold on to anything without dropping it.
Weeks before a new Oasis release...
Noel would always claim the band were on the cusp of releasing a new return-to-form masterpiece that'll blow everyone's mind.
Weeks after an Oasis release: Noel, in an amusing, self-depricating way, says they rushed the release of the album and it wasn't really up to scratch.
Seriously, would Oasis get signed based solely on their output since What's The Story?
Cruel but funny . . . .
I loved his quote "Vote Labour. If you don't and the Tories get in, Phil Collins is threatening to come back from Switzerland and live here — and none of us want that."
Oasis Split
to recycle an old Quo gag:-
was it because of musical similarities?
Rod Stewart..
used to really rate him up to about 1975, but the past 35 years have been vacuous prickery.
And Tina Turner, eh? She was good too, once. Now I switch off the radio.
And Phil Collins, great drummer then singer to tear your hair out to. Hang on..
Obviously, James Blunt is a twunt. But the real hate objects are the good ones who lose their edge, taste, judgement. Jagger just about tottering on the edge. Hate to think what might have become of Lennon, he was threatening to.
I now...
...refuse to hate James Blunt. He was the funniest thing on HIGNFY the other night: sweet, self-deprecating and genuinely witty. Despite looking like a lesbian Charles Hawtrey.
Now I am confused . .
I was distressed to find myself waking up singing about Californi-bloody-a the other morning: repeatedly asking myself: James Blunt?!! Why? Why is he?
But you say he was good on HIGNFY . . one of the great TV progrs. . . but I live In Italy and we can't get it . . and you say he was good. . .
RETHINK RETHINK . . . or not . . .
he was .....
........ok. on a par with a empty tub of lard
Agreed
Used to mock Blunt until I saw him interviewed on Top Gear and found him to be charming, self-deprecating and all that jazz.
And I wouldn't have wanted to have been in the first tank into
Kosovo either.
Yes, yes, guys..
don't doubt for one second that he's charming, it's just his goddamned bland songs sung in this Al Stewart-ish, mid-gender whiny voice that makes me want to touch that dial. And You're Beautiful joins Lady in Red and I Just Called as the aural equivalent of a quicksand vortex of pure syrup, to be resented despite their strong melodies and affectionate intentions.
I think.
John Lennon
I am a massive fan of the fabs, & SOME of the later, solo stuff, but I agree Declan about Lennon.
I am 54, so I remember quite well when he was shot. I was upset, & played his stuff for days on end, but my girlfriend at that time, got me double fantasy as an early Christmas present.
I loved , then & now, "(just like) Starting over", but I thought the rest was utter tosh.
It has been almost 30 years, but I still think its a very poor album.
(Wish he was still here though)
Livin' in the USA
Something about coming to America seemed to sap Lennon creatively. How does one go from Imagine to Sometime in New York City in what, five months? And he never came back to the level of writing he had on Imagine and before.
I only like Clean Up Time
I only like Clean Up Time and Watching the Wheels from Double Fantasy. I prefer his tracks from Milk and Honey where he doesn't seem to be taking himself so seriously. Nobody Told Me is a nice early 80's update of middle period Beatles conventions.
Nobody told me
Good call, I had forgotten that, its got an "all you need is love" / "Instant Karma" sort of feel to it IMHO.
David Bowie
Astonishingly over-rated old pseud with an irritating, affected voice. And he doesn't pronounce his own name properly.
Still, fair's fair - The Laughing Gnome is OK. It's been steadily downhill since then though.
Lando
Lando, I think you are talking bollocks.
You may say so, sir
However I am, in the spirit of the title, unashamed.
No doubt if I tried - really tried - to like Bowie, I could. However the very thought of his grating renditions of 'The little drummer boy' and 'the Lord's Prayer' are enough to drive me to put on Trout Mask Replica at loud volume, to cleanse the musical palate.
Covers are, all too often, a window into the musical soul. If only the windows above came with thick curtains.
Oh for goodness sake!
Well of course he's going to seem like a hugely unattractive proposition if those are your touchstones! It'd be like saying I hate Stevie Wonder because of I Just Called To Say I Love You, Ebony & Ivory and Part Time Lover. Or Dylan because of Wiggle Wiggle, Froggie Went A-Courting and Big Yellow Taxi. Etc etc.
They're indicative
of the quality that makes me dislike his work. An irritating thread that runs through everything he does, turns into an overwhelming fashion catastrophe.
Covers - a window into the musical soul.
I am almost certainly in a small minority when I say that I think David Bowie made one of the best ever covers albums.(pin ups - 1973).it was, & remains one of my favourite albums.
If you really do take Lords Prayer / LDB as reference points, then I think you are trying to be controversial for its own sake.
(& I still think your view of the Dame is utter Bollocks.)
Agreed!
When fans pontificate about Bowie's 'chameleon like ability to reinvent himself' or some such bollocks, I've always thought - a bit of slap, some girls tights and a mince about the stage does not an amazing transformation make.
Laughing Gnome
He's right about that, though. It *has* been downhill ever since for The Dame. In fact, I like his Deram stuff more than anything he's done since.
So
how should he pronounce David Jones?
Boom
and, furthermore, tish.
I think you know what I mean though...
AC DC
Headache inducing shite
A Load of old tosh
I just don't like them - for no reason whatsoever
Biffy Clyro
Nirvana
Spandau Ballet
Wham
Take That
Kiss
Bon Jovi
Anything Simon Cowell related
Michael Jackson
Whitney Houston
Beyond Music:
Crap 80s Radio Stations that play the same shite on rotation
Soap Operas
Reality Television
Fuck me!
how could I forget the dismal and depressing Travis.
I'm in a bad mood now
Hue & Cry
I can't stand their jazzy tosh, and I especially can't stand Pat Kane's "I sing in a band, I know how to solve Scotland's political system" style.
Surprisingly enough, other people from the West of Scotland have been to University, but if you only listened to Pat you might not get that impression. Don't like his voice either. (We do share some political opinions). The last funny thing Q magazine did was offer them £100 to split up. Shame it didn't take.
H & C inc.
I like(d) them . . still like the music but was appalled to hear that with concert tickets in their hometown you could pay extra to meet the band for tea (?) (and visit some of their old haunts, I believe): are they now a theme park? Or a National Heritage site?
Looking for Linda
is one of the worst things i've ever heard.
Aye
When he says 'ciggies' it goes through me.
Couldn't agree more
Dreadful, dreadful band, and a singer/writer who virtually defines Self-Importance.
So ...
... which of their tracks will be on your Jock'n'Roll CD next Friday? ;-)
rest assured
they will not be represented. even in a comical way.
are you joining in ?
Sure am!
but not sure how they'll all go down with the Glasgow Massive.
The Hold Steady
Despite being championed by all and sundry (but most of all by Uncut magazine) to the point of force feeding, I can't stand them. I'm trying to come up with a more articulate criticism but can't get past "cack"
Same goes for the current trend of bland bands geared towards the over 40's audience, re Lucifer Sam's earlier comment.
OH!
Oh!
Oooooooooooooh!
*chews inside of cheek furiously*
*decides to say nothing*
Yikes...! Don't let idiotbear read this...
you'll get a pasting!
Idiotbear = Bob
Idiotbear has had an identity change and now wishes to be known as Bob. He's already seen the post! ^^
No way!
I won't be having that...he's idiotbear, there's only one idiotbear!
theee
same song repeated for a hour and a half.
my review from this summers gig at the forum
That, I'm afraid...
...is bollocks.
There will be letters
Fairport Convention,though not "who knows..."
.a load of failed geography teachers singing about "Squires and Misty mornings" in faux west country accents.Brilliant musicians they may be but if i was that good i do something more interesting with my talent. Stands back after lighting touchpaper.
If i Gave my opinion on Bellowhead i'd be banned by Fraser and i don't want that.
You are not alone
This blog made me invest no less than £6 in a couple of Failport Conventional albums and I was genuinely struck by how dull they were. I wouldn't go so far as to say I hated the music but I was left wondering, 'Is this it?'
"It's been a long time since we heard from Bonnie Raitt'
Not f***ing long enough Bob.
Not having that!
Bonnie Langford I'll give you; even Bonnie Tyler, tho' I have a sort of affection for her. But Lovely Bonnie Raitt?? One of the finest singers of the 70s, one who at her best embodied the virtues of restraint and emotional honesty? A shit-hot guitarist and all-round good egg? Fie on you!
Strongly Agree
Bonnie Raitt? Bonnie RAT, more like.
Although fie on you is still a hell of a rejoinder...
Nick Cave
Arse clenching pretension from the po-faced Bad Seeds to the knowing sleaze of Grinderman.
That fucking ridiculous 'tache and the lank hair.
Though I hear he speaks highly of me.
Hmmm, that was liberating. 2 to 1 the next Nick Cave track I hear will change my life and I'll tattoo his name on my arse.
He dyes his moustache
I greatly upset several of Senora Malo's friends who *adore* Nick when I pointed them at this Guardian interview where he admits that he dyes his 'tache.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/feb/23/popandrock.features
(I like him, and I find this funny. They found it off-putting)
I do too
never ever thought I would but it feels right so I do.
Women all around me do it - I've known Jennifer for 14 years and I'm now back sharing an office with her. As long as I have known Jennifer she was dark brown, she's blonde now and suits it.
where's the problem?
It's funnier when Nick Cave does it
There's nothing wrong with dyeing your 'tache, but there is an element of artifice about it that some people would expect Nick Cave, the Dark Lord Hisself, to be above.
*and, in a comedy element in a thread relating to bigotry and knee-jerk reactions, the CAPTCHA word for this post is ABU*
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Not hated, but overrated
Bob Dylan - like listening to a wasp trapped in a bottle (although Subterranean Homesick Blues and the more recent one with the line 'most of the time' are brilliant)
The Band - putting their dead hippy hands on country music
The Eagles - dead hippy hands
Jethro Tull - gurning, twitching, flute-ing pillock
Neil Young - kept awake on night before English exam by three people crooning Southern Man like someone had nailed their privates to a wall. But the real thing sounded similar when I saw him at Phoenix festival.
Prog rock - show-off musicians and their interminable solos. No toe-tappers or tunes you can whistle
The Clash - second-rate pub rockers who turned into third-rate Rolling Stones
The Smiths - said nothing to me about my life
The Dude agrees
Pink Floyd
(Post Syd) I cannot stand them. They get right up my nose.
Pink Floyd
(Post Roger) I cannot stand them. They get right up my nose.
I love '65 - '83 Pink Floyd
but I think the post Roger stuff is mostly bad elevator muzak. I can't understand the big Dave Gilmour fans who think Roger Waters had no importance to Pink Floyd and that Lapse and Bell are brilliant musical statements.
The Pink Floyd
with Syd, I cannot stand them. They have done no wrong since he was ejected.
IMO
Hm, that's all the Pink Floyd bases covered, except
is anyone going to say they only liked them since Roger Waters left?
Queen
"It's A Kind Of Magic" is so bad that I don't think hate does it justice. I could get Al Qaeda to talk by just playing them the video on rotation, they would beg and plead to think they were drowning.
Yes, yes, yes.
See my (admittedly very brief) post at 3.39pm today up there. ^^
I didn't expand on my hatred as it's irrational and entirely inexplicable. Apart from the fact that they're crap. Obviously.
Epic tune
Compared to Radio Gaga.
Belle and Sebastian
But I've said that enough times already. Fey, pretentious, self-aggrandising twaddle.
And The Divine Comedy. For the same reasons.
And The Fall. Because they're shit.
The Fucking Cranberries.
And probably a few more. But I'm too filled with bile to type.
Belle and Sebastian - oh yes.
Prefab Sprout without the tunes.
Or the wit.
Or the intelligence.
Hee hee hee..
Spot-on, Paul. And much nastier than me. I salute you, sir.
Not a huge fan of
Black Eyed Peas myself. Nor do I much admire the massive's new fave band - Take That.
Oh, and if James Blount is now accepted as a top comedy pannellist maybe he should stick to that as his music stinks.
And if I ever hear Annie Lennox's new single again I will weep tears of blood.
I was slowly beginning to feel inadequate
as I read down this list because I couldn't think of anyone I truly hate. But then I arrived here and you reminded me that the Annie Lennox single is truly beyond appalling. It's a disgusting mound of turgid scum floating on a stagnant pool of vomit and the vomit has blood in it. It has not one single redeeming feature.
I feel much better now.
The Rolling Stones ....
.... : as they say, no moss gathered here.
The Eurythmics - and you can add everything Annie Lennox has ever done or will do as a solo artist too.
Bob Dylan. Bob's in his basement, singing out his fundament.
... and I am vastly irritated by two albums' titles from some band called Everclear for reasons that I can't quite adequately explain. They are :
Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile
Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 2: Good Time for a Bad Attitude
Never 'eard 'em, never wanna 'ear 'em!
BR
FT
I never understood...
...the love of the Rolling Stones in America. It's Mick Jagger's abysmal parody of an American accent that surprises me that they were never the subjects of an attempted lynching.
C.W. Stoneking...
... what the fuck is all that about?
four of mine:
Steely Dan
ELO
Supertramp
and - oddly - Evanesence (sp?) - it's the woman's earnest non-voice that I hate - so maybe that's justified not bigotry.
Nick Lowe
Not really - it's just that he never EVER gets any criticism (here or elsewhere) and he may be feeling left out...
Very
good :)
But...
...he is the best living songwriter. I can't imagine anyone hating Nick Lowe!
Well
Elbow
Janelle Monae
Justin Currie
SAHB
Mumford and Sons
The Killers
Therapy
Manics with Richey
Manics this century
Jeff Beck
Eric Clapton
Santana
Frank Zappa
I'll Get You Butler
There is an Australian musician, a sort of really poor mans Jack Johnson, called John Butler, who has a combo called the John Butler Trio. He is a peace-sign-flashing, white-dread "millionaire hippy", much beloved of surfer dudes, 3rd-eye-wearers, stoners, dudes, the coffee-table alternative lifestyle crew and their whole bleedin' diaspora, all up & down this land down under.
I hate him. I hate his audience. I really hate his music - a kind of laid back happy-clappy finger-poppin' acoustic groovin, with songs about how groovy it is to, you know, be groovy, and hey mr man stop doing bad things cos that ain't groovy...not groovy like us, and dont you wanna be groovy too, mr man?...that sorta shit.
You know the deal...the songs are...oh...they're...Hey! I was walkin' down the street, just playing my guitar, and this guy came up & asked me for some money, and I could see that, deep down, he was groovy too...and black, which is even better...so I thought, hey I'll jive with this guy a while, lay some bread on him, cos then I get another song out of it, and the video will look great! I can see me now, walkin' down the street, playing my guitar, wearing me pork pie hat (do you think it looks better tilted at this jaunty sideways angle? Or should I just put my dreads in a beckham-band....what do you think, mum?)...and anyway we'll all have a party on the street, me and my man, laughing like in a pepsi commercial, my man that I'm writing this very song about, and - oh fuck, did you see him do that breakdance just then? I tell you what, they've got rhythm haven't they?...and they're so happy even though they're poor, which makes you think, doesn't it? - yeahhh...
Yeah. John Butler.
Yeah!
A douche-bag of the most celebrated variety.
Jimmy. Fucking. Buffet. This
Jimmy. Fucking. Buffet.
This caused a massive argument with an ex girlfriend who likes the Parrotheaded Talent Vacuum's restaurant chain "Cheeseburger in Paradise".
She didn't seem to understand my reluctance to go eat in an establishment whose soundtrack drives me to want to commit acts of mass murder.
It's irrational I know, and not founded on anything in particular. But I hate Jimmy Buffet.
You won't like this then...
Not that we talk about Jimmy Buffett much here
but I love the abbreviation PHTV for him :-)
Parrotheads
The answer to the question what do you get when you cross alcoholism with a crazed cult?
the cheeseburger
at CIP is to be recommended though. Just get past the music and decor and the whole buffetness of the place!
Plan B
Never heard his music consciously but I see his irritating face on his irritating videos at the gym and I despise the man. His sarf London gangsta persona makes me want to rip my own testicles off and stick them up the exhaust pipe of his souped up Ford Focus.
And another vote for the Eagles too. Gah.
I see this as an essentially futile gesture
But I do admire the sincerity. And I am imagining your disassembled nads exploding from the exhaust - I need to get out more I know
Arctic Monkeys
Worse than Queen and UB40, I give you this lot. Please take them away and don't bring them back.
Arctic Monkeys
More like half washed monkeys to me.
What do you think of
Dead Monkeys?
For some inexplicable reason
no-one has mentioned the Lighthouse Family. Shitehouse Family more like.
While I'm at it, if more people had bought South by Hothouse we might have been spared M People.
have an up arrow
just for the alternative name.
Agree with you on M People. "Search for a hero" is the most Alan Partridge thing ever.
Amen Brother!
Towering cathedral of pure arse. The Lighthouse Family, so named as this is the only place where there music should be played : an un-manned lighthouse obviously - you wouldn't want anyone to hear it. The music could be used to stop the seagulls crapping on the roof.
It's the blandness of the vocal, the spirit crushing tedium of the lyrics and the arse numbing musical beigeness of it all that marks these chart troublers out as being a health and safety nightmare. Never listen to them whilst operating heavy machinery or driving. They'd make me drive in to on-coming traffic, although I'm not sure whether it would be due to a fit of nihilistic fury or that I'd just fallen asleep.
Well put
It can only be a matter of time before they become the dictionary definition of turgid.
I haven't spotted a mention of Il Divo yet. I really hate them, particularly the one who looks like he probably snogs every mirror he goes past.
Agreed
There's more than one of Il Divo (or The Divots as I believe it should be correctly translated) that have love bites on the mirror or have been admitted to A&E with shards of mirror where there shouldn't be shards of mirror.
Two from me..
Kasabian really get my goat. They are just cocks.
And even tho` i`m an 80`s kid i really really loathed Thompson Twins.
OOOOOOOOOOH....
...Kasabian. Fucking sports-casual thug-rock for people who want to pretend they "know their music" without actually owning more than ten records. Just "indie" enough for their audience to think they're "credible", with all that horrible adjective implies. Anyone who talks about "credibility" or "real music" clearly has no ears or brain.
Kasabian: about as appealing as a bottle of sick.
And
From Leicester, which is funny in the context of a band who look like that.
Leicester
I have been wanting to as for a week or 2 now, could someone please explain the Leicester reference.
Many thanks.
Nickelback
I find it even less explicable that no-one has mentioned Nickelback. Although come to think of it, it could be similar to the Harry Potter books, where everybody just talks about "you know who" due to the sheer horror the real name generates.
Does this make me the Harry Potter of Rock? And will I have to sleep under the stairs from now on?
The Incredible String Band
I've been aware of the ISB for many years but never really collided with their music ... went to see Robert Plant and the Band of Joy at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh last month however and they closed the gig with I Bid You Goodnight, mentioned in Word 93 by Mark Ellen
Plant also told a story about playing in the Usher Hall back in Feb 1970 with Led Zeppelin and meeting a bunch of hippies from the Borders after the show - the ISB
this prompted me to check out the ISB album, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, on iTunes but i previewed a few tracks before buying ... glad i did ... didn't buy ... it may have been at the cutting edge of something or other 42 years ago, but it now sounds beyond parody ... painfully worthy and self conscious, grating, awful ...
That was my first impression too
but give them a chance.
I found myself humming "First girl I loved..." out of nowhere about three months after I dismissed it. Since then I've never looked back.
And another one from me....
Primal Scream. Ok, like some of their stuff but I can`t stand Bobbie Gillespie......tries far too hard.....it`s painful.
You and I...
...are clearly of one mind on many issues, John. I could literally *never* get tired of slapping Gillespie's pinched little rat face.
Me! Me!
Just one pop - or maybe a few. Primal Scream are the most worthless, self-aggrandising, desperate-to-outcool-everyone band there is, has been, or ever will be. There is no more pathetic sight in popular music than the magazine cover (maybe more than one) on which Bobby Gillespie is doing that "throwing some boxing moves" thing. Children up and down the land were pointing and laughing.
That's one queue I'll be joining...
... desperation to appear "cool" is NEVER ever cool.
Them's the rules.
...
or thinking such thing exists
Time, place etc
Bay City Rollers, Rubettes, Smokey, Mud, David Cassidy, Osmonds.
I probably hate Justin Bieber but don't know enough to confirm it yet.
And rap. All of it. Not black music in general, just rap. Especially white rap. Especially Australian white rap.
And since you mention 'etc' in the OP, horse racing. And politicians. Bastards.
Mud?
How can anyone hate Mud? It's almost impossible to think of another band who have had more variety in their three number ones. Imagine a world with Mud...not a pretty picture is it?
Eric Clapton...
The most boring performer I ever saw. Got the tickets free and still felt ripped off.
God, my arse.
Has there ever been
a more pointless thread
Do any of them have a "point"?
It's an internet discussion forum. That's all.
Hang on
134 posts and no-one's mentioned Florence and the Machine yet. Let me:
Florence and the Machine. Bellowing does not make you a good singer. "Stunning" in a bad way.
Curates Egg (TMFTL)
Is that because everyone knows that Dog Days is an absolutely cracking tune?
I would have added Richard Thompson to this list but he wrote 1952 Vincent Black Lightning and for that alone is a treasure of the national variety.
Argh.
As bad as M People.
I'm proud of myself...
I made myself a promise that I would not get involved in negative slanging threads anymore and refrain from mentioning how utterly shite Elbow are...
Anyone who wears wacky hats perpetually
I give you: East 17 & N'Dubz
I may have missed them further up
...but I can't believe no-one has mentioned the whiney dirgemeisters themselves...I am, of course, referring to Radiohead. I so want to slap Thom Yorke.
And yes, "The Whiney Dirgemeisters", TMFTL :-)
Or, as my mate's Dad said to her once...
"that whining bloke you like is on telly"...
Morrissey was "that other whining bloke..."
franz ferdinand
I will actually walk out of any house in which one of their aural turds shelf- nestles.
Cerys Matthews
So she's blonde, but can she sing - can she f**k. I'd get road rage if I had to listen to any more of her pathetic bleating. How many more 'comebacks'/re-inventions is she allowed?
REM - Jangle, Jangle, Jangle -can't be bothered with them.
Pretenders - being in her band must be like being on a chain gang (also see Siouxie And The Banshees) - both charmless and joyless.
White Stripes - Shite Stripes more like!
and another thing................
Futile attempt to change your mind about Cerys
Here's Cerys Matthews singing Awyrenneau. I think it's about an aeroplane. I think it's quite, quite lovely.
Futile attempt to change your mind about Cerys
Hmmm, I'm probably pushing it posting twice...
It's like
she's singing words, but when you actually listen, she isn't
Weird.
Cracks knuckles
There's only one contenders: The Script.
Have I won?
For me
It's Dark Side of the Moon.
'Breathe' aside, absolute shite. 'Money' is particularly ghastly
Actually you can add Wish You Were Here to the list. Mondeo rock
Pedantic i know but ...
WYWH - 1975
Ford Mondeo - 1993
Granada Mark I rock perhaps?
You can still
listen to it post 1993...!
Would hate
to be stuck in a boozer with you lot
Stuck in a boozer
Sorry , double post.
Stuck in a boozer
Excuse me, but I would much rather share an hour & a few scoops with people who, in the main, try to be positive & friendly.
you sir, (?) strike me as being a killjoy.
if you dont like it here - Then just Fuck off.
Ooooooh
Get you
Ooooooh, get you
And that is you being positive is it? Oh my poor aching ribs.
Jimmy Carr must shit himself when you are in the same town as him.
I would hate to be stuck in a boozer with you.
Gentlemen, please!
Come on Hoops and Jack, it's not worth taking this all so seriously.
Let's lighten up, share a bag of crisps, and I'll put something decent on the jukebox.
Hxxx
Good idea Hannah...
just as long as it's not Elbow.
Putting something decent on the juke box
Bagsy its Slade.
Good news!
It's got The Laughing Gnome - everybody's happy!
This is a rare event
In the main, there's not much conflict here, and people rarely shout each other down. This is a rare thread where we were invited to vent, and we have done so. I *really* can't stand Hue & Cry, but I haven't pointed this out before because it *really* doesn't matter.
If this place degenerated into people slagging off other people's favourite bands all the time, I'd disappear, but I think that's unlikely to happen.
Pet Shop Boys
A pair of smug oxygen thieves
This thread is really pissing me off...
not because of the bile, vitriol and negative energy being hurled at some poor musician (who's probably really nice but we don't actually know them so can't possibly be allowed to have an opinion on them) who can't answer back, oh no!
It's because every time I notice the title I keep having to sing it out loud to the tune of Harry Hill's "TV Burp's poetry corner"...
I can't get it out of my head, it's driving me insane!
What are
the chances of that happening.....
What are the chances of that happening?
Mister dog, your comment really did make me laugh out loud.
have an arrow.
I dunno
but there's only one way etc etc...
But make haste
for its time for the badger parade.
And yes, we know, some of you have unashamed hatred of the Hillster (Harry and\or Jimmy)
I like this thread as it acts as a pressure valve and requires no debate. I hate _____. End of. Just a bit of fun.
The modern design of the VW Beetle
Beetle drivers and the little waves they give other Beetle drivers
Agree with the Pressure Valve
I've taken the basis of this thread as an opportunity to have quick cathartic shout about the output of some artists you just don't enjoy. Tongues in cheek and irony set to stun
I don't think anyone truly hates any of the artistes dissed above. I was very dismissive of Nick Cave's ouvre. But I wish him well and would see no harm done to the lad. I hate him not. The fans of any of the above may bridle on their behalf, naturally, but as the artists themselves have I'm sure admitted separately on many occasions if you're in the public eye you take the rough with the smooth.
More, I'd say that the highly successful Mr Cave has better things to worry about than the semi-anonymous drivel written about him by an overweight man in his mid-40's wishing his time away.
Absolutely
spot on sir! Have an arrow.
Exactamundo! My Work Here Is Clearly Done
And now I must return to the rest of the site. Thank you all, you have been wonderful.
Nothing like a bit of bile to get the juices moving.
Still waving?
My dad used to do this thirty-odd years ago, I had no idea it still went on.
Oh come on,
how many posts, and no one's mentioned Scouting For Girls yet? There's an act who can really make you appreciate the artistry and joy of a well-executed hammer-face meeting
In a weird way...
...I'm slightly in awe of how they seem capable of re-releasing the same song under different names every few months.
That said, a well-placed bear trap somewhere on the stage for their next gig would seem in order.
"She's so lovelaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrggggghhhhhh."
Much better.
Nu/Speed/Extreme/Death etc. Metal
Stop bloody shouting and get yer hair cut!
Smug Middle Class Nonsense
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Arcade Fire
Richard Thompson
Seasick Steve
...and anything that involves any combination of the following; a rug, a picnic basket, white wine and Latitude Festival.
On a tangent, I almost forgot about Spandau Ballet...
No. No. Mustn't.
Hannah tells me I can't resist a troll. I must! I must!
*hypnotoad eyes*
Resist Rob, resist. Go to your happy place.
*ommmmm*
Toad the Wet Sprocket?
Why?
It's Hypnotoad
He's from the Simpsons. He's a hypnotic toad (hence the name)
I hypnotised Bob into staying calm.
*does the hypnotoad eyes again*
Now... Wellhamsrus... make... me... a... cheese.... sandwich.
*looks hopeful*
*awaits cheese sandwich*
Bite my shiny metal ass - its Futurama!
Course it's Futurama
Of course it is. *Tuts at self*
Can't get the staff nowadays.
I just
lerrve the noise it makes
Toad the Wet Sprocket?
Why?
Fall Down.
Something's Always Wrong.
Walk on the Ocean.
All I Want.
Why not? Everything else. However, there's a magnificent EP's worth in those 4 tracks.
Welcome to the Massive...
Richard Thompson and the Latitude festival huh? Good debut post :-)
Yeah...
... and there's nothing wrong with rugs (I've got 3) and white wine.
Deep breaths...................
Apologies for any offence caused to Word readers, I'm not normally so angry.
I just started to remember the way that Tony Hadley used to hold his microphone and the red mist descended.............
All very well but
I don't know about anybody else, but it wasn't the jab at Spandau Ballet that got me, it was the "smug middle class nonsense" heading. That is the sort of nonsense generalisation that gets on my tits something rotten - and would have done even if you hadn't mentioned Richard Thompson, one of my favourite performers, whom I've loved since I first heard him play a session for Andy Kershaw (that well-known middle class ponce) on Radio One when I was 21.
oH get over yersel!
Welcome Ed, pull up a pint...
Get over what?
What is it I'm supposed to get over?
as the great Frank Zappa once said
"Please relax, please relax".
I think it was on the video for 'Does Humour Belong In Music vol.1' or 'You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol.1'.
I was well over my Zappa phase and these vids did nothing to convince me that I was wrong, but I did enjoy that stage announcement from him. His phrasing was great.
Welcome
I agree. IMHO, what makes this site is the sheer variety of opinion.
Pull up a pew, make yourself at home, your going to fit right in.
happy posting.
Hi Rosbif, I take your point
Hi Rosbif, I take your point regarding the tagline it was a bit of a generalisation. I think I was trying to make a point (badly) about a a particular type of Rodrigo y Gabriela fan.
As far as the others, my dislike of Richard Thompson has nothing to do with his ability as an artist but is based pretty much entirely upon that thing he wears on his head (illogical I know). I've already explained in a previous post what annoys me about Spandau Ballet, having said that you can throw in their entire recorded output with the exception of 'To Cut A Long Story Short'. As for Arcade Fire, I just don't like them.
I wouldn't take anything I say particularly seriously, I like Duran Duran so what would I know..............
Oh and thanks for the kind
Oh and thanks for the kind words everyone, even if I did start by trying to put my size 11s right in it..............
Don't worry about it
irrational loathing of a band / artist based purely on stupid headgear is fine in my book - see my earlier post!
Size 11s
Is it true what they say about men with big feet ?
(Big feet - big shoes)
big
sox.
haven't been here long either
and ran away crying for about a fortnight when Lucas Hare very gently put me in my place after I tried to be funny.
I mainly just read now...
Well, welcome back
and keep on posting!
Aww, fanks
:)
spot
on.
music bloody festivals
It makes me laugh on here...
when someone sitting at a computer, probably an Apple Macbook Pro in a coffee shop with wi-fi sipping a latte and writing on an internet forum brings up the old "I hate the Middle Class" chestnut!
Pffft, I love middle class chestnuts
They taste of the country ... proletarian chestnuts taste of WD40 and spinning jennies...
SOAJRA
Son of Ambiguity Joke Rides Again
Mick Talbot
Can't stand the bloke.Never met him,He's done nothing to me. Probably a decent Geezer.. I put it down to my opinion that he looks like every bloke in Surrey and places like Leatherhead,Epsom and the like. (Apologies to people from these areas). He's got that pretend Cockney look about him. The kind of bloke who says he's from London but is really from Purley or Yeading. A Kind of Mod Jimmy Pursey.Anyone from North of Watford will know what i mean.
He also really crap in any video he's in.He makes Weller look like Olivier.
Michael Legge
The funniest thing ever on his podcast...
He does bear more than a passing resemblance to Mick Talbot...
Anyhow. He saw Mick in a shop in London once and ran up to him shouting "Mick! Mick!... you don't know this yet but two years from now you will invent a time machine"... and then ran away.
The. Clash.
Just. Don't. Get It.
I love how the Clash said
I love how the Clash said old music was bloated rubbish then put out double and triple (!!!) albums full of bloated rubbish.
i.do.
x
Others will disagree
But the thing about The Clash for me is the sheer breadth of their ambition.
T Rex were agreat British band but can you imagine them recording "Handsworth Revolution" by Steel Pulse?
The Jam were a great British band but can you imagine them recording "Don't You Want Me" by The Human League?
The Smiths were a great British band but can you imagine them recording "Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack?
Most bands, even many of the the great ones, are bashing away inside a tunnel. The Clash (and of course they weren't always successful) took an interest in the world around them, and were musically adventurous in the manner of The Beatles and Bowie. And this was made possible by terrific musicianship and a great songwriting partnership.
It was Topper
He actually turned up at the studio when the rest were sat at home stroking their chins and supporting the Red Brigades :-)
Posers, fakes (but a great band)
Crikey
The Beatles, Bowie and The Clash in the same sentence. Is that a first? Musically adventurous or bandwagon hoppers, searching for the 'new sound.' Where Ver Clash are concerned, I remain bigoted, I'm afraid.
Others will disagree....
But I dont. I am with you all the way on The Clash.
fabulous band.
very well put.
Oh to be so articulate.
(Still cant get away with the Smiths though)
Given this thread is the one place we don't have to justify
our comments can I just reiterate that I loathe and detest Stephen Morissey and all that he stands for?
I realise I said it upthread but it bears repeating.
But
I've heard he stands for old ladies on buses.
You heartless bugger! :-)
I always think
the great tragedy of Mozzer's life is that a man so obsessed with having his name spelt correctly that he wrote a song "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" where he spells it out "S-T-E-V-E-N" is constantly referred to as the more common "Stephen".
Only cos
their feet is murder
*tumbleweed*
NWOBHM
It was all bollocks.
Happy now?
***whispers***
No it wasn't, brother... keep the faith.
***whispers***
"You're an angel witch... you're an angel witch"
I'm late to this one
and it is bigotry so here is my admissions.
I have no urge, whatsoever, to listen to Captain Beefheart. I don't think I will enjoy it so I won't do it.
I have tried Steely Dan. It's a bit boring.
I don't really like prog rock or that type of folk rock that involves flutes and tricky rhythms.
Oh
*crosses Jethro Tull box set off Leedsboy's Christmas list*
Wellerphant Man
How many times have we been told the new album is a complete revelation and totally new direction from the last one? When it appears, blimey, it sounds exactly the same as the dire old plod rock he's been churning out for the last 25 years.
Bigotry / Levellers Twofer
One of my swining mates who writes for both Q and Mojo - yes you know who you are - has reduced the gloss of the might which is the Decemberists by continually and deliberately referring to them as the Levellers.
A pox on he and his !
Onto matters bigotry - fuelled, in what kind of world can Queen possibly be seen as anything other than the kind of irritant vainglorious clatrap that presumably nowadays comes within the Xmas round robin msg - " and here's our Freddie fresh from the dressing up box singing his little song in four different languages...wait, come back..........."
prog rock
just don't get it... and have tried to listen, but no
and definitely no to:
coldplay
alan parsons
the fall (but that was due to an over enthusiastic fan who tried to convert me during my art school days - long time ago but still can't go near them)
and
any act that appears on the X factor
Simply Red
I really don't like Simply Red
Taken as
red innit?
I can't believe
no-one's mentioned Kings of Leon
Elvis Presley
I know its a late entrant but just saw this thread and had to mention 'The King' Presley. I'm sure people will be up in arms but I can't stand him, it didn't help that I had to sit opposite an Elvis lookalike/wannabe at work for 12 hour shifts for the last 4 years. He would insist on humming along to any Presley tunes that happened along on his classic oldie radio channel.
But if I hadn't had to suffer this I still hated Elvis and all of his rock'n'roll ilk.
Elvis Presley
I know its a late entrant but just saw this thread and had to mention 'The King' Presley. I'm sure people will be up in arms but I can't stand him, it didn't help that I had to sit opposite an Elvis lookalike/wannabe at work for 12 hour shifts for the last 4 years. He would insist on humming along to any Presley tunes that happened along on his classic oldie radio channel.
But if I hadn't had to suffer this I still hated Elvis and all of his rock'n'roll ilk.
On the subject of pure unadorned bigotry
I have to admit that the following eponymous CD makes me want to firebomb FOPP whenever I see it in the stalls:
"Does It Offend You Yeah?"
Is that seriously the best name that band could come up with? And has anyone ever bought their album on the strength of their name?
I have no idea what they sound like. But I don't intend ever to find out.