Well, I do. Or, more accurately, I resented the hell out of them. Mostly because they rode to fame on a 2nd-rate cover of “I Go Blind”, which was originally recorded by a much better band, Canadian roots-rockers 54-40. 54-40 never got the fame and recognition they deserved, so I hated that Hootie hit the big time with one of their songs. Although I’m sure 54-40 weren’t complaining about all of the royalty money.
Me, too. I gave up after “Trouble at the Henhouse” (which I think is unfairly under-rated) and I find most of their more recent stuff downright embarrassing. Occasional gems like “Bobcaygeon” aren’t worth wading through the overwhelming head-up-ass-edness of the rest of it all.
Sampled, or more likely, rerecorded - the SHA guitar riff and the WIL piano riff sound crisper than the originals.
Yah, remember “Riding the Storm Out”? That song freakin’ rocked. What happened to REO Speedwagon was the power ballad. The record companies decided that every hard rock band needed to do power ballads. This is the same thing that ruined other once-great, once-rocking bands like Foreigner, Journey, and Heart.
The original songs had exactly the same chord pattern (though perhaps in different keys): V-IV-I, which was repeated without changing, over and over and over. It’s the reason why every member of every “classic rock” bar band in the USA hates “Sweet Home Alabama”. The song is boring as hell to play, but there’s always somebody in the audience who wants to hear it to this day.
I heard about Poison the same thing you said about Cinderella: the “hair metal” thing with all the hairspray, makeup, and spandex was done at the record company’s insistence, not what they themselves wanted to do. As soon as they had the sales pull to do so, they ditched all the glitter.
Agreed. I never put Bon Jovi in the hair metal genre. I think that’s why they’re still around.
I also wanted to add that Darius Rucker of Hootie & The Blowfish, along with Kid Rock, is now showing up on country music radio. Rucker has a country album out called “Learn to Live” with the current single, “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It”. It’s pretty good. I love these lyrics from the divorce song, “All I Want”:
“You can have every penny that I make from this here song
Girl all I want you to leave me is alone.”
Have you seen Bret Michaels lately? Still sporting the eyeliner, the lip color, and the ridiculous hair. CC DeVille also continues to don the hair and makeup, even though now he looks pretty silly (not that I thought he looked good before or anything). So I don’t buy that they wore the glitter only at the behest of a record company. They are the quintessential hair metal band, their music sucked, and for some inexplicable reason, people still love them.
“I Go Blind” was basically their last gasp of mainstream success. They were ridiculously famous at that point from “Let Her Cry” and “Only Wanna Be With You”. The only single that had any success after “I Go Blind” was “I Will Wait”, which was really only enjoyed by Hootie fanboys and VH1.
When I was in high school in the '90s I knew several girls who LOVED the Monkees. There were less of them than girls who loved the Beatles, but there were a few.
I doubt there are many serious Monkees fans anymore, but I wouldn’t call them a hated group either. Some of their songs are still played on oldies/classic hits stations, and I think most people today would consider say “I’m a Believer” worthy of at worst an eyeroll, and at best a singalong.
I can’t believe the thread is this long without anyone mentioning Oasis. Although still popular, their brand of rock went stale after 1 and a half albums and they’ve been plodding away ever since.
I agree. I’m a huge metal head and listen to some extremely heavy and off track stuff and I still think Creed got a bad shake at the end. Whether you liked them or not Mark Tremonti was actually PLAYING his guitar, solos and all, in a time dominated by nu-metal junk. They may not have been the most technically difficult solos but they were there and they fit the songs. I mentioned in a thread a long time ago that I thought that Creed (at the time) was the last big-hit arenarock band. Scott Stapp sucked but the musicians in the band were not bad and came up with some really good hooks IMHO.
If you want to talk here-today-gone-tomorrow lets talk Prodigy. Those guys were worshipped as they “ushered in the new reign of techno in the USA” when they hit. I don’t even think it took a full year for the US to realize how much techno sucks, and in turn, Prodigy.
I’m a huge Monkees fan, and I’m 42. I remember they had a revival in the mid-80s when MTV showed their TV show, but I’ve like them since I was a little kid. Mickey Dolenz on lead vocals, though, not Davy Jones.
Only one mention of Guns 'N Roses so far? Every review I’ve seen for “Chinese Democracy” says it sucks hard and G’nR can’t exist without Slash.
The former members of Alice in Chains are planning on reforming with a new lead singer and they’re already hated just for thinking about it.
Also, ICP (or the Insane Clown Posse) was mentioned upthread. Now I realize they were never really loved by the general public (except for a brief fascination with them when they managed to be the crudest thing ever published on one of Disney’s subsidiaries and got themselves yanked off the shelves in the course of a day) but amongst Juggalos (fans of ICP) they’ve been hated since about the 6th Joker’s Card album, Hell’s Pit/Shangri-La. Nothing they’ve done since has come anywhere near the popularity of The Great Milenko or the earlier Joker’s Card albums.
However, I really don’t think Smash Mouth is hated now, they’re still used quite a bit in movies (especially All Star and their cover of I’m a Believer), and they’re not a walking punchline like a lot of bands/grounds have become. Contrast Britney Spears, N’SYNC, Backstreet Boys etc who, after their little era of popularity, pretty much came to serve the same utility as circus clowns as far as popular opinions go.
Why? The rest of the guys should suffer for the stupid mistakes of Lane? Fuck that. Yeah it may not sound the same anymore but Jerry sang ALOT more of the vocals than most casual fans realize and he sounded much like Lane as well. It’s their band. Let them do what they want.
