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Worst band of all time - the results so far
Posted by Chimney Singing... on 27 November 2009 - 10:50am.
1. Lighthouse Family (17.4%)
2. Nickelback (15.6%)
3. Toploader (11.0%)
4. Razorlight (9.6%)
5. Savage Garden (8.3%)
Fewest votes: The Troggs (0%), Crowded House (0.5%), New Radicals (0.5%), Sleeper (1.8%)
Most frequently mentioned but not on our list: Westlife (13), Queen (11), Stereophonics (7), Scouting for Girls (7)
There's still time to change the outcome - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S22GB7B
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Agree with Scouting For
Agree with Scouting For Girls, but Crowded House shouldn't be in there.
Agreed.
The "House" should not be near this sort of survey. They are really rather splendid.
actually the idjut boys
actually the idjut boys remix of Lighthouse Family's Question of Faith is rather brilliant balearic business.
Worst bands - any that appear on front cover of Q more than once a year.
I know this is only a lighthearted thread but
it's worth noting that all the bands in the top 5 (well four of 'em anyway) contain talented musicians with decent chops.
Maybe the thread should be titled 'Bands With The Worst Material'
hmmmm
I'm not sure you can be a 'talented musician' and have the worst material. You can be a skillfull musician, sure, but the whole point is to create something that's pleasing. If you use your skills to create bad music then surely that's different. It's like calling Harold Shipman a talented doctor for avoiding detection - that's a tasteless comparison. I'm tying myself in knots, here. I'd better stop.
Playing an instrument well is a talent
Writing music is another, but different, talent
Writing lyrics is yet another, also different, talent
Some people have one of those talents, some two, some three. Bands contain a mix of these talents.
It may be, for example, that the drummer with The Lighthouse Family is a sublime musician who writes neith music nor lyrics. Our opinion of him will forever be coloured by the music played by the whole band. Next year he might get picked up by Steely Dan and suddenly his stock here would rise.
Hitler
was a talented politician. He was also bad. You can be talented and bad.
Godwin!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law ;-)
I've wanted to say this for days
Oasis.
The Lighthouse Family
Are they really that bad?
I've only ever heard one song by them. It was quite pleasant. Nothing there that made me think the worst band ever.
I can say exactly the same for Toploader.
You *think* you've only heard one song by them...
...in fact, you may well have heard their entire recorded output - you'd be none the wiser.
Because they all sound the pigging same.
Nah..
Not feeling this Lighthouse Family loathe at all.
'Lifted' was a perfectly decent pop song and "Lost in Space" is, well, spacey.
The worst I could say about them (and Westlife) is that they are 'inoffensive'.
I'd vote for Sum 41 or any of those groomed zany jock US radio-friendly unit shifters. Those two Scouting For Girls track were goddamn horrid.
Crowded House?
Who did they upset to be listed here?
What the list seems to indicate that somebody has heard a band's most popular track on the radio too many times - with The 'House maybe Weather With You - and has extrapolated a loathing quite out of proportion.
I thought Westlife should be there, as the only boy band never to make at least one good record, but maybe they don't class as a band in this context. The Darkness were rather bad but even they did a fairly tolerable track in their brief chart bothering days, though I couldn't name it now.
Anyway, I voted for the Troggs, as Reg must have been one of the worst singers to front a good band.
Their inclusion was almost unanimous
and based on 'Don't Dream It's Over', 'Weather With You','Dust From A Distant Sun' and particularly 'Fall At Your Feet', all of which were considered by the panel to be absolute rotters.
But your view is clearly more popular with the voting public - only 1 vote for them.
We didn't put any boy bands on as it felt like shooting fish in a barrel, hence no Westlife.
You're almost unanimously wrong
There are few more perfect pop songs than Distant Sun or Fall at your Feet. Perhaps it's overfamiliarity which has dulled them for you.
Including Crowded House is
Including Crowded House is very silly. Those songs mentioned are gorgeous. 'Weather With You' was overplayed, but it's still a cracking good song.
I second
the comment above and all the others defending Crowded House.
Consider it thirded. As for
Consider it thirded. As for worst, Athlete must be up there - hear one song, you've heard them all!
Let's go to Deadlock
I reckon you need to take the 4 least unpopular bands off the second question and add the 4 most nominated bands to it for a new poll or worstoff (or whatever it should be called).
Can I just check first...
Is this a singing competition?
Is it? Is it?
Is it a singing competition? Is it? I just want to know? Is it? (repeat ad nauseum)
Just give us the bloody answer you blank-eyed botoxed bint.
The Killers
I don't like them. I know that I am not really a suitably wide database. I know that my opinion is subjective but there's something about them I jut do not like.
Agreed
I wanted them on but everyone else liked at least one song
P45 for UB40
Cod reggae that's an insult to reggae. And cod.
Labour of Love onwards
Maybe, but the first two albums - and the first live one - are excellent.
For worst band of the 60s
For worst band of the 60s I'd nominate Deep Purple.
Got their three late 60s LP's on CD (cheaply) about five years ago, and couldn't understand how a group recording in '68 could so sound like a band recording in 1975; they were ahead of their time, and that's not a compliment.
Could have been the re-mastering I suppose, but I haven't played any of them since.
Any 'crossover' band or jazz-funk hybrid (see Robert Elms, in fact anything that Elms likes) would have my vote.
Has anyone mentioned M People? Fine Young Cannibals? Everything But The Girl? Matt Bianco?
I beg your pardon
There was nothing wrong with EBTG (except perhaps Ben Watt's manners as related in a podcast) and FYC.
I may be thrown off this site
The first band I ever saw live was The Lighthouse Family and the third or fourth was Toploader. In my defence, I was very young etc. etc.
dancing in the moonlight
is a decent song.
Perhaps it's the Jamie Oliver factor - seem to remember that Toploader's version was associated with him for some reason. But then I think Jamie's a decent cove too. Hard working, with his heart in the right place
Perhaps if "Dancing in the Moonlight" was presented as an obscure 70s classic (which it is) - it would have more cred.
Jamie & Toploader
The association is that he released a CD of his favourite tracks to cook to, which included Toploader. I know because some Xmases ago I was given it by a nephew.
He may have had it playing in the background on one of his programmes as well.
This is 'worst band on the predetermined list' rather
than 'worst band of all time'.
How many people, when asked the initial question, which was asking the full question, plumped for Oasis?
And why weren't they on the predetermined list?
I think we should be told.
I have to say, I assumed that the second list was comprised of
the 'top 10' votes from the general question.
That's very feasible; I thought it an odd list.
But unless I was so knackered when I filled it in that I missed it, I didn't notice that it said so.
Oasis
Received two votes in the unprompted question, miles behind Stereophonics, Queen and Westlife.