But it wasn’t really a remake, right? He just sampled those songs, and sang about singing “Sweet Home Alabama” when he was a teenager.
I don’t even hide it. I love that song. It’s fun to sing and bop around to. Do I consider it to be Mozart? No. But I like it well enough that it’s on one of my more listened-to playlists.
Always hated Vanilla Ice. I had a grudge because I already hated the rap/hip-hop genre, and he soiled a Queen song.
Hated the Spin Doctors at the time, too. To the point where I’d leave the room or turn the station if their songs came on. It wasn’t that the songs were all that bad, it was that they were the kind of crap that then gets stuck in your head and drives you slowly insane for the rest of the day/week. I mean is the Alka-Seltzer jingle all that annoying just on its own? No. Is having it stuck in your head for hours hellish? Yes. The Spin Doctors stuff started to get to that level of annoying by about the second time it started looping through my head. It didn’t help that I worked in a bar at the time and it got played all the freakin time.
If I remember right, Pocket Full of Kryptonite was produced by Frankie La Rocka, from Scandal. The trend at the time in pop music (which also helped to kill The Black Crowes) was to repeat the hook and chorus as many times as possible in a song, in order to drill it into people’s head so they couldn’t stop hearing it. It was a miserable thing to do, as it made repeat listens less and less fun, as opposed to leaving the crowd wanting more.
It may still be the trend, today. Happily, I don’t listen to pop music. 
I share what seems to be a fair amount of popular scorn for Celine Dion.
Though in my case (and that of my co-workers) it’s largely because one member of our department apparently just loves Celine and plays one (and only one) of her albums over and over and over again until reels the mind.
I also had contempt for REO Speedwagon before it became fashionable.
I have to take exception to both of these.
Who hates Hootie and the Blowfish? I mean really hate. I think that list of people would be vanishingly small. Not to mention the fact that while none of their other albums sold as well as Cracked Rear View, they did sell perfectly fine. And Musical Chairs is just a good CD.
As for Creed. Critics were falling all over themselves to praise both My Own Prison and Human Clay. Artificial doesn’t even begin to describe the backlash against Creed. If it was good on the release date, it’s still good and I admit to liking both of those albums. Weathered was pretty rough, but Scott Stapp’s ego was out of control at that point. But that’s no reason to just dismiss two pretty decent CDs.
I’m not sure if this qualifies, and I just know I’m gonna catch a world of grief over this one, but I gotta nominate Bruce Springsteen. His early stuff was really good–the guy knows his business. But when they released “Born in the USA,” it seems that all you heard on the radio, all you heard from friend’s stereos and pretty much all you heard in your dreams was that ##%&&*^$$#@ cover song, and sometimes (just to change the type of torture) something else from that thrice-dammed album.
I still can’t listen to Bruce to this day, all because of that one album. I know the man is an amazing artist, I loved the stuff he made before “Born in USA,” but now everytime I hear him, all I can hear is that dammed song. Let the stones fly, but I have to stand firm on this one
People hate Goo Goo Dolls? Yeah they’re certainly not the most talented band in the world, but I still regularly listen to at least a few of their songs.
Phew, I just came in here to say the same!
Also, with Sugar Ray, I know a lot of people who dislike them because they “sold out”. It’s interesting if you go on Youtube and look at their videos before they made it big as the bubblegum rock lite group, they actually sounded like a decent punk band. Obviously it didn’t bring in the bucks like their later sound and a lot of people seem to resent them for changing.
Which is ridiculous because listening to Mark McGrath speak for even a few minutes proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the man wanted to do bubblegum rock his whole life. I think the fact that he was really good at it is what really enraged the haters.
Yeah, I’m gonna have to say that Kid Rock shouldn’t belong on this list. Hated should mean once popular and now no longer seen as such (Usually by diminished album sales and critical reviews).
Because you can’t be considered “hated” if your albumbecomes a #1 album, and then pops BACK up on the top 10 album sales a year later to stay for over 4 months- especially considering that he’s one of the few that hasn’t sold his albums online either, so that’s not helping boost sales.
People may love him or hate him personally, but the sale charts seem to indicate people are still buying his albums on quite a successful scale. Something Limp Bizkit (my nominee) hasn’t been doing.
Also- yeah, he did a song that sampled “sweet home Alabama” and “Werewolves of London”, but it was its own song and not a remake.
I’d also add to the list-
Hmm… Limp Bizkit to me is the purest example actually.
But I’d add Britney spears- however, her next album may pull off a successful comeback, so that won’t stay long perhaps.
Hootie was actually going to be another one I was going to suggest too.
But I can’t think of very many others that haven’t been named already.
I’d say POD, but I don’t think they’ve really released anything, and they’re just not popular now- not hated- but they have their own niche genre.
“Guns and Roses” perhaps? As it’s just a shred of its former self?
It’s a Canadian thing, mostly, but **The Tragically Hip **have gone from being one of the best rock bands in the world in the early 90s to being one of the consistently WORST bands, at least if you count bands that have actual record contracts, and to be honest I kind of wish they’d quit.
I guess they don’t precisely meet the OP’s requirements because their first four or five albums’ worth of material is still excellent; it’s just that the last four or five albums are garbage.
To meet the OP’s requirements, though, I submit:
Almost Every Hair Rock Band From The 80s
Come on. Poison was HUGE, absolute gigantic. You also had RATT, Great White, Firehouse, Dokken, Cinderella, Whitesnake, Warrant, Quiet Riot, The Scorpions, Winger, and of course Def Leppard. Those guys were at the top of the heap. Hair metal was the shiznit. Now, most of those bands are forgotten, their music gets very little airplay (you do still hear a lot of Def Leppard) and people snort and giggle at a lot of songs that were enormously popular in the 80s.
There are hundreds of musical acts that meet the OP’s criteria, but that really doesn’t mean much. I mean, it’s NOT as if people who used to love Band X with every fiber of their being have done a 190 and now abhor Band X. It just doesn’t work that way. What you ARE seeing is this: many bands that used to have both loud, vocal fans and loud, vocal detractors now have only loud, vocal detractors.
Why? Simple:
Look, even if you LOVE a song, chances are you’ll get tired of it after hearing it a few thousand times.
Or, if you’re a teenager, there’s a good chance that your tastes will evolve and change, and the stuff you loved a few years ago will either bore you or leave you cold. Artists who seemed deep and challenging when you were 14 may start to sound shallow and silly by the time you’re 17. That doesn’t mean you were “wrong” to love those acts at the time. It just means that you’re not the same person you were when you first became a fan.
So, it’s NORMAL to look back at music you used to love and find that it now does nothing for you. Nothing shocking there. You loved Ratt or Poison in 1987, but can no longer see what you found so appealing? That’s natural. You used to think Leonard Cohen or Pete Sinfield’s lyrics contained the Meaning of Life but now you find them a bit pompous and silly? Congratulations! You’ve made it to adulthood! That doesn’t mean you were wrong to be intrigued by their lyrics once.
But HATRED can last a lot longer than love. Teenage boys who liked hair metal in 1987 eventually grew up and moved on to other types of music. But the self-styled sophisticated kids who LOATHED hair metal in 1987 STILL hate it as much as ever. It STILL galls them that everybody else liked those bands and made them feel like social outcasts for liking something more edgy.
Bottom line: most of us eventually lose interest in bands we loved as kids, and we stop worshipping them. Most of us NEVER stop despising the bands we hated as kids.
Formerly passionate Creed fans grew up, and are now tepid Creed fans. Passionate Creed haters STILL hate them as much as they ever did. That makes it seem as if the public has turned on Creed. But it hasn’t. All it means is, many of Creed’s fans have grown up and moved on, while Creed’s detractors have done neither.
That’s not the way I remember it. Looking at the Rolling Stone site just now, Human Clay received a mediocre review with 2.5 stars. I can’t find a review there for My Own Prison. The AMG entry for Human Clay says that neither album was favored by critics upon release. Creed was definitely a popular band at the time, but they were not critically acclaimed.
Well, you’re entitled to your opinion, but MY opinion is that Creed’s albums were terrible on their release dates and remain terrible today. I hate the band less than I did then only because I no longer have to hear them every time I go to the gym. I complained for months about how I always wound up hearing the same damn Creed song during my workout, then I finally realized that they actually had two horrible hit songs that sounded exactly alike.
This did lead to a running joke in my circle of friends in college, a little game we called “say it like Creed”. I don’t think I can do it justice in text, but it involved saying things in an imitation of Stapp’s overdone vocal style. For example: “I think IIIIIIIIII…am go-ing to get some ICE CREAM NOW…maaayBEEE some CHOC-O-LATE or CHERRY SWIRL…if they still HAAAAAAAAVE SOOOOOOOME!”
Good one. POD came out with a new CD in April, but other than it selling a bunch of copies in it’s first week, I can’t recall hearing anything else about it.
Wait, I have to nitpick here. I don’t know about Sweet Home Alabama since I’ve never heard it (the remake), but I’m pretty sure the “remake” of Werewolves of London was just a completely new song with the background music from Werewolves. Probably sampled directly from the original track.
Saying this is a remake would be like saying Vanilla Ice did a remake of Under Pressure (by Queen/Bowie for the younguns).
My personal opinion is that Kid Rock isn’t intelligent enough to realize that the music he writes (assuming he writes his own material) is complete crap and that remaking a couple of classics might actually boost his career.
I’ll admit the Werewolves song was pretty catchy the first few times I heard it.
Oh, trust me. If you lived in South Carolina during the 90’s, you can hate Hootie. You know how much radio play that album got in the rest of the world? It must have gotten THREE TIMES that much here.
Air Supply and REO Speedwagon come to mind. I’m not really even sure which is which. 
Is this really true, that they’re hated? They’ve hit a big resurgence lately and a lot of people I know (Gen Xers) still claim to love them, for reasons that utterly escape me, as I hated them when they came out. I believe Motley Crue just had a successful tour and album, and there was some hair metal nostalgia tour over the summer that did well. And, most frighteningly, my students, who are tweeners, freakin’ LOVE them. A kid made me a mixed CD recently with a Bon Jovi song on it, and another kid performed “You Give Love a Bad Name” at the talent show that brought down the house. So I’d say, people with taste have always despised hair metal, but it is not reviled or loathed as a genre. It’s got that cockroach-like endurance that has kept it alive for 20 years.
REO originally rocked out rather convincingly, but got very mellow* as time went on. Air Supply was mellow* from day one. Oddly you may hear the mellow stuff of the former on a classic rock station, but not the latter.
[*Additional adjectives implied, such as “sappy”, “trite”, “melodramatic”]
I like them, but they should have called it quits after their “…Infinite Sadness” double album.