Blender's Worst Artist List

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Here is the Blender’s Worst Artist List I got from another forum…
Blender Magazine came up with the 50 Worst Artist List.
Have fun…

  1. Iron Butterfly
  2. Toad the wet sprocket
  3. Master P
  4. Goo Goo Dolls
  5. The Spin Doctors
  6. Gipsy Kings
  7. Manowar
  8. Mike & the Mechanics
  9. Rick Wakeman
  10. Whitesnake
  11. Blind Melon
  12. Bob Geldof
  13. Nelson
  14. The Doors
  15. 98 Degrees
  16. Paul Oakenfold
  17. Live
  18. Japan
  19. The Hooters
  20. Arrested Development
  21. Richard Marx
  22. Skinny Puppy
  23. Crash Test Dummies
  24. Color me Badd
  25. Celine Dion
  26. Jamiroquai
  27. Bad English
  28. Creed
  29. Primus
  30. The Alan Parsons Project
  31. Howard Jones
  32. Dan Fogelberg
  33. Pat Boone
  34. Benzino
  35. Oingo Boingo
  36. Yanni
  37. Yngwie Malmsteen
  38. Mick Jaggar
  39. Tin Machine
  40. Latoya Jackson
  41. Air Supply
  42. Lee Greenwood
  43. Vanilla Ice
  44. Asia
  45. Kansas
  46. Starship
  47. Kenny G
  48. Michael Bolton
  49. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  50. Insane Clown Posse

Whitesnake? Whitesnake? Whitesnake? They embodied everything good about hair metal and the late '80s!!

Color me Badd? c’mon “I want to sex you up” is a classic!!

Air Supply? Dental appointments & root canals would not be the same without them!?!?

Rick Wakeman, he should be on the top 5. hands down.

And where are the Cowsills? Japan is not that bad…

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My summation:

Kansas, Asia, Whitesnake, Air Supply and the Doors were wonderful groups during the times that they were in (Doors were 60s, other four were 80s bands). Bad English and Oingo Boingo were pure early 80s acts with a cult following.

There are many 60 something women who back in the day would of bagged Pat Boone in a heartbeat.

One hit (or so) groups-The Alan Parsons Project, Crash Test Dummies, The Hooters, Richard Marx, Mike and the Mechanics, Spin Doctors. Lee Greenwood did the “Proud to be an American” song, I don’t listen to country, but that song is good.

Bands on the List that do suck-Starship (also one hit band, not counting the Airplane, another one hit band), Vanilla Ice, Nelson, Goo Goo Dolls (because I HATE THIER NAME).

Bands on that list that rocked-Live, Kansas, Primus, Creed, Gypsy Kings, White Snake, Blind Mellon (which ceast to exist when their singer OD’d), Mick Jagger solos.

Who in the hell are…Insane Clown Posse (I have heard of them, never heard their music, they seem to suck), Malstreem, Benzino, Howard Jones, Jamiroquai, Arrested Development, Japan, Paul Okenfield, Manowar, Master P, Toad the wet sprocket, Rick Wakeman?

Singers and bands that are not here but should be-Melissa Ethridge, Bonnie Raitt (the straight Melissa Ethridge) Ratt, Poison, Barry Manilow, In Living Color.

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just another BS magazine list IMHO.

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Japan was an excellent group who recorded such classics as Nightporter, Ghosts and Visions of China. Lead singer (and later solo artist) David Sylvian is one of the most talented personalities in the show business. Morons.

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Obviously a list like this is going to be a heated issue. But can we all at least agree that Michael Bolton sucks?

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I’m with you, Nemo. God I hate these magazines…Who puts ELP below michael bolton AND kenny g? I ask you.

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We’ve been over this already here .

Jon

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I’ll say that the moron who said Kansas should be on that list should get his testicles cut off by Darth vader using a rusty spoon.

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I won’t argue with Insane Clown Posse. Talk about exploiting a gimmick. Although Slipknot is almost as bad. I don’t think they even deserve the term “artist.” I’d go to bat for Marilyn Manson (band or individual) long before either of those groups. His shtick is every bit as derivative as theirs, but at least he seems to have a consistent artistic credo he sticks to, no matter how revolting.

And Vanilla Ice gets a bum rap, although it’s pretty much his own fault. Once upon a time, long before he became “Vanilla Ice,” Robert Van Winkle was a respected underground rapper with genuine credibility in that community, and he never had to lie about being “from the 'hood” to get it, either.
It’s pretty hard to argue with LaToya Jackson’s being on this list, though.

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corndog man, to illustrate the artistic disaster that is Insane Clown Posse, imagine KISS in full makeup. Now, give them dreadlocks and make them a rap group made up of fat white guys from Detroit. And there you have it.

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I totally agree about The Doors. I liked Vanilla Ice though.

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Idiotic list IMHO. Many of those artists have had very good songs.

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Agreed. It just seems like an attempt to be “daring” and “in your face” (The Doors & Skinny Puppy on a worst artists list?! I am so outraged by this magazine!)

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Pat Boone really isn’t to my taste, but he gets a bad rap. He did more than Elvis to get black music into white homes in the 50s (Example: Little Richard recorded “Tutti Frutti”, got a little chart action with it, and within a few months was back to washing dishes for a living. Pat Boone had a fairly major hit with it, which got white kids who’d missed the original version wondering about it. Suddenly, Little Richard was back in business and hasn’t been out of it in 45 years). Plus, Boone has a great sense of humor about his whitebread image. Give the guy his due.

The Gipsy Kings aren’t even remotely a rock ‘n’ roll outfit and don’t belong on this list. Oingo Boingo, while an acquired taste, gave us some brilliant solo work by Danny Elfman later. And Alan Parsons made one of the single greatest concept albums ever with I, Robot. His other stuff was dull by comparison, but hardly anything to warrant inclusin in this Hall of Lame. And the Goo Goo Dolls and Spin Doctors were harmless fluff from the same era that gave us the Lemonheads, Phish and Soul Asylum; why they should be singled out for infamy is a mystery to me.

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  1. Rick Wakeman= “Journey to the Center of the Earth” is an incredible album from (admittedly) one of the most accessible of the progressive bands/musicians
  2. Bob Geldof= is a freakin’ genius
  3. Nelson= Bill Nelson is too cool for words
  4. Japan=David Sylvian rocking is awesome!
  5. Oingo Boingo=Danny Elfman is beyond reproach musically, I’m not sure but he might be God
  6. Tin Machine=David Bowie rocking hard with Soupy Sales kids (who are good!)
  7. Emerson, Lake & Palmer=mainstream prog rock, but it started a lot of people down the musical road (and they sold a few records too!)

hey Blender!, blow me!!!

unclviny