# Rock bands you hate . . .and you're the only one on the planet that hates them **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 25, 2001, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099 "2001-06-25T18:07:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/101 "2001-07-01T00:44:45Z")
I don’t like: The Whole N\*Sync/Spears/etc. genre, Aerosmith, Michael Jackson(!), Nine Inch Nails, Slipknot, 95% of rap, 98% of country (sorry, I read the OP but I can’t resist), N. Furtado, Macy Gray, Motley Crue, and tons of others. Sorry y’all, but I do like RageATM and I’m just starting to like Dave Matthews Band. ---
**Author:** ![R3nergy8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e99b99/32.png) [@R3nergy8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3nergy8)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/102 "2001-07-01T00:46:09Z")
Just a few off the top of my head, Michael Jackson ('nuff said):wally: Hell, The entire Jackson Family,solo acts and as a group Elvis Presley: couldnt sing, couldnt act… For that matter(getting a tad off the subject) what the hell is the deal with those Elvis impersonators? Why those skanky polyester leisure suits in this day and age? I mean I know they think they’re keeping the _spirit_ alive and all but do they really think if _the Pelvis_ were alive today he’d be dumb enough to still dress that way???:rolleyes: A few others: B.B. King(just dont _get it_ man) 😕 Willie Nelson: see above Bruce Springsteen: does he even speak english? ---
**Author:** ![ndorward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@ndorward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ndorward)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/103 "2001-07-01T16:44:29Z")
No, it isn’t rock, but I can’t resist the opportunity to vent: My idea of hell would be being forced to listen to Ella Fitzgerald endlessly–say, her renditions of “How High the Moon” & “Mack the Knife”. Indeed, life _was_ hell for a while during the Ken Burns extravaganza. The Indigo bookshop chain here in Canada put the Burns CDs into heavy rotation at the time, so there was memorable month where I had to endure Ella every time I tried to buy a newspaper or read a book & sip something in the coffeeshop. My wife was present for a discussion among the coffeeshop employees about how heartily sick they were of Ella Fitzgerald. Why do I hate her? Mostly because of her sublimely vacuous interpretations of songs. Indeed one often gets the impression she doesn’t understand the lyrics to the songs at all. A review in _The Wire_ once put it bluntly: Ella Fitzgerald was “an airhead”. Ballads are done in a cloying little-girl voice (one that she had plenty of opportunity to use throughout her life because of the popularity of “A-Tisket A-Tasket”); while on uptempo numbers her famed ability to scat & swing had results that were one step away from caterwauling. She was relentlessly unsubtle; a friend of mine, editor of one of North America’s more noted jazz journals, once said that she was, with Oscar Peterson, a good instance of “jazz for people who don’t listen to jazz”. Like Peterson she found a home in Norman Granz’s empire, first as part of Verve then Pablo; she slotted perfectly into an aesthetic that emphasized noise, predictability, aesthetic conservatism & the bluntest kind of showmanship. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/104 "2001-07-01T21:36:12Z")
**The Rolling Stones** are a vastly overrated band in terms of influence. They were notorious. They were outrageous and pissed people off. They epitomized the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. They were also Alice Cooper. And Kiss. Republican, golf-playing businessmen. And the kids ate it up, and they laughed all the way to the bank. (All right, Mick’s a Tory not a Republican, but you get what I mean). Other bands I hate: **Steve Miller** – Lightweight pop songs by this bulb-brained dipshit, and yet he’s so full of himself. Smugness oozing out of every pore. Incomprehensible lyrics matched only by videos that scream VELVEETA! (“Abra-abra-cadabra,” for instance). **Van Halen** – Particularly “Hot for Teacher.” . . . “I got my PENCIL / Gimme something to write on.” Reminded me of all those assholes who said the DAMN SAME THING in class. I’m trying to learn, and these fuck-offs mistake asshole insolence for coolness. Fucknuts. Give anything to wipe that smirk off Eddie Van Halen’s face in a New York minute. **Glenn Frey** – Can’t remember much about him, except that there was an interview with him and Henley, and he came off as a typical brain-dead fraternity jock (apolgies to fraternity members who are not brain-dead). **George Michael** – For his incredible Godzilla-sized ego. Epitome: An a capella performance of “Freedom” in which he’s in the center of a circle with a black gospel choir tight around him, singing at him. There’s something about appropriating the power of this image to sing about his desire to be free from his record contract that’s stomach-churning. Yes, I know you hate your record contract. Do I care? Hah! That a man so much in control of his image can display an appallingly huge asshole is a tribute to the tawdriness of his character. **The Knack** – “My Bolonga” was the high point of their career. Wait, wasn’t that “Weird Al”? Yes, but it **defined** The Knack. Gawd, this feels good! ---
**Author:** ![jabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@jabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabe)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/105 "2001-07-01T21:50:23Z")
I am so surprised that, after all this talk of the Dead, no one mentioned Phish. Now, I love Phish, they are one of my favorite bands (13 shows) but a lot of people hate them I took a moment from my day and wrapped it up in things you say and mailed it off to your address you’ll get it pretty soon unless ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/106 "2001-07-01T22:09:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kniz \* > \*\* > And if **Journey** and **The Eagles** get dissed why not **Chicago** , **CCR** , **Kansas** or **the BGs**? I love **Tina** but does everyone else? Could there be someone, who doesn’t like **Buddy Holly**? > > In closing: **I will always hate the Clap Man**! \*\* Thank yew SO much for reminding me: I can’t stand Buddy Holly. OR Eric “Over-rated and Boring” Clapton. Kansas can carry on their wayward sons to another frickin’ planet any time they want. Yesterday would have been good. And The BeeGees? I thought we were slamming rockers? They don’t qualify as much of anything except crap on a cracker. I can’t believe I forgot to add these folks! ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/107 "2001-07-01T22:53:49Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Joe\_Cool \* > I agree. Blink 182 sucks ass. What’s sad is that they used to be a fairly good punkish band until they hit it big and got [sub]e[/sub]M[sub]p[/sub]T[sub]y[/sub]V-ized. Now they’re all poppy and stupid._\* Ick. Nien comrade. Pick up Blink’s first CD. Number one song is: Genre: Pop/ **Rock** i.e. Bubblegum About: A Girl. Punk? Not a damn shred of it. I would know, I’m a critic for an online punk magazine. I had to sit throught that first CD. My ears were raped. Same thing with all those “punk-gone-pop” bands. They were always pop. Green Day, first CD: Pop, whinny, girlfriend songs. Blink: Same. Offspring: Not girlfriendish and whinnish, but not punk. MTV had nothing to do with it. They were homogonized and godforsaken long before the men in satin baseball jackets who sounded like they were on quaaludes got to them. ---
**Author:** ![moggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@moggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moggy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/108 "2001-07-02T12:23:15Z")
The Smithereens!! Anyone remember them? I always thought, “All their songs sound exactly the same”, then I saw them open up for another band, and THEY ARE SO BLOODY PRETENTIOUS! They were doing all these “cool rock-n-roll star” tricks, like the one guy was smoking a cigarette and put it in the neck of his guitar while he played a solo. Wow, man, you are a, like, god. NOT! Go away quietly. I NEVER liked the Gin Blossoms, I always thought the lead singer whined instead of sang, and all the songs were about the same thing: “Well we were together once before and it was good but we’re not now and if you could forgive me for being an a-hole it would be great blahblahblah”. I used to call them the Whinge Blossoms. I used to LOVE Duran Duran when I was a teenager, and I still like some of their songs, but the lead singer, Simon Le Bon, is a pretentious piece of crap! He was always trying to explain his lyrics, “Well it’s symbolical representation of the hunter and the hunted, and who becomes which one when they’re put in a different setting.” Get over yourself, you know you just went to the dictionary and looked up a bunch of words and strung them together. And no, you are not a SuperStar Rock God anymore, your time has passed. Just shut up. And I’m sorry ,I agree with whoever said that the Stones needed to give it up a few decades ago. Mick jagger is creepy and undignified, and Keith Richards has looked like the Wrath of God for the past fifteen years. Yikes! ---
**Author:** ![Myrr21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/109 "2001-07-02T13:07:11Z")
Good lord. Now, I understand hating a band here or there, but with some of these really long lists…do you people even like music? I once got free tickets to a Dave Matthews Band concert. Now, I’ve always hated them, but the concert rocked. And it was entirely on account of the fiddler he had with him. Then the guy busted a string, and the entire thing went downhill back to the usual crap. I also support any bashing of Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart, provided one makes exception for their early years with Cream and Faces, respectively. Tool can bite me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ace_of_Swords)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/110 "2001-07-02T14:40:17Z")
Ok, I think I’ve got the hang of it… Let: V=Vocal Screechiness, inchoate mumbliness, irritating whisper, etc. L=How much we’re all supposed to love 'em P=Pretentiousness or REM Quotient C=Cognitive Dissonance for paying for this crap D=Dancability F=Folksy, but it aint _my_ folk Q=Quality O=Overrated The Playa Haterz Forumla: If !D && (L_V_LogP+F-C\ **Author:** ![R3nergy8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e99b99/32.png) [@R3nergy8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3nergy8)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/111 "2001-07-02T16:36:52Z") Ok,so she’s not a ‘rock band’ but… ``` **MADONNA** ``` With possible exception of the song “Borderline”, I have never liked her, her music, and especially her awful attempts at acting. There was a comment made about Madonna(can’t recall who said it or when) that went someting like… ``` *...the only thing Madonna does well is market herself...* ``` I could not agree with that statement more; she is \*\* totally\*\* overrated. ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/112 "2001-07-02T17:35:54Z")
No one has mentioned the Beach Boys yet. VH1 just voted Pet Sounds like the #2 most influential rock album of all time. Why? They suck! It sounds like the music coming out of one of those horses little kids ride for a quarter outside KMart. YUCK! (btw I gotta say that by having a username like “Virginslayer” you’re pretty much advertising that you have never been laid before! Just thought you’d want to know…) ---
**Author:** ![Opengrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@Opengrave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opengrave)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/113 "2001-07-02T18:23:13Z")
Off the beaten path here… 1. Diecide 2. Emperor and the one I’ll probably take heat for… 3. Death NP: **Amon Amarth** - _The Avenger_ ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2001, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/114 "2001-07-03T15:12:24Z")
Fleetwood Mac (Give it up, Stevie) Tool Rush Steve Miller Band Not really rock, but Captain & Tenille. Why is so much attention given to these over-promoted dinosaurs with all the Behind the Music specials and 70s retro rock stuff? They stunk then and they rot now. The Cure Violent Femmes Any Britney/Christina/NStink/Backwash Boys/Destiny’s Child type of band REM - never saw the appeal U2 - never ever understood the mania about this self-righteous whiner ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2001, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/115 "2001-07-07T03:17:26Z")
Here’s the short list: Molly Hatchet, Limp Biscuit (buy a dictionary, Durst), U2 after The Joshua Tree, Springsteen, Dylan, Kid Rock, The Doors. And I have to defend Skynyrd, because I live in the South, and that’s the kind of stuff I grew up on. I disagree w/ Metallica, but I like their music. -brianjedi ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2001, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/116 "2001-07-07T05:52:08Z")
**Kiss Guns & Roses-** what did they do for rock again?\*\* Kiss-\*\* They had no good music, face it, they marketed their pyrotechnics and nothing else.\*\* Hole-\*\* They don’t have any talent! Courtney Love is a dirty crack whore who can’t sing and can’t play guitar, but her husband killed himself so we should buy her albums to ease her pain?\*\* Blink 182 The Beatles Van Halen Grateful Dead Eminem Limp Bizkit- **Hey Fred Durst! You’re not cool, you’re not a rapper, you’re not a rocker. You’re an angry frat boy with an attitude and an ego problem. You’ve managed to trick all the MTV babies into believing that you belong on TRL, like that’s hard.** Shaggy Tori Amos-\*\* She’s another angry bitch, who can’t keep a tune, who likes to sing and then scream, can’t stay at one general volume, and she grates on my nerves. ---
**Author:** ![They\_Call\_Me\_Sneeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@They\_Call\_Me\_Sneeze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/They_Call_Me_Sneeze)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/117 "2001-07-07T17:52:39Z")
Mariah Carey is right up there on the list of people who I wish would Go Away Forever. When she is played in my presence, my annoyance becomes palpable and can shatter windows, and I am on my third set of dentures, having gritted away my previous teeth every time she is mentioned. You would think someone singing with her head so far up her ass would be muffled and unpopular, but you would be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2001, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/118 "2001-07-07T20:22:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mercutio \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Chum \* > > \*\*The band that I hate that everyone else seems to love is Blink 182. I like punk music. I HATE Blink 182 \*\* > > **Blink** is punk? What in the hell? Wait, seismologists are confirming that Jello Biafra is rolling in his grave.\* > > \*\* Did you see the words “I, Chum, think that Blink 182 could and should be classified as punk music”? I didn’t think so. They’re not. ---
**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/119 "2001-07-07T20:27:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AETBOND417 \* > \*\* > I’m just starting to like Dave Matthews Band. \*\* Get out! Get out before it’s too late!!! Don’t let Satan pull you into his world of bland music and vomit-worthy vocals!!! ---
**Author:** ![Felinecare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Felinecare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Felinecare)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2001, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/120 "2001-07-07T20:32:47Z")
Hey! We anti-Stones are not alone. Well, I can put up with _Gimme Shelter_, but that’s it. As far as I’m concerned, the hoopla over Jimi Hendrix has yet to be explained. I did have someone earnestly tell me I was reacting to the poor quality of his sound system and recordings thereof, instead of the music. Nevertheless, _Scuse ME…while I change the station_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099.md?page=7)