# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Pessor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pessor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pessor)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/121 "2001-07-08T02:25:22Z")
moodtobestewed likes his chili MILD! I’ll let you have the Red Hot Chili Peppers if you must, but you gotta give me this one in return… CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL I don’t even want to talk about it anymore. I mean… NO… NO. I don’t want to talk about it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![nick112](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@nick112](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nick112)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2001, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/122 "2001-07-08T06:16:39Z")
i hate Dave Matthews! everyone in prestonsburg, ky loves them, i cant stand them. AC/DC. i cant stand them. but anyone who dislikes Hendrix, is crazy. ---
**Author:** ![bwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@bwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bwk)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2001, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/123 "2001-07-08T07:32:46Z")
Wow, apparently I actually **AM** the only one who hates Boston. How about that. ---
**Author:** ![Christopher914](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@Christopher914](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Christopher914)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/124 "2001-07-08T14:12:23Z")
Ok here goes: Snoop Doggy Dogg: Who cuts your hair, jack? Alannis Morrisette: her voice sounds like cats getting it on and, isn’t it so ironic. I know she’s been mentioned before, but… John Cougar Melonhead: oh, God, if I hear anything more about farms or small towns or his self-obsessed lyrics,I think I’m gonna barf. Tracy Chapman: Bob Dylan voice meets Grateful Dead lyrics. Anything connected with the Grateful Dead. Also needs to be mentioned again. Sheryl Crow, Suzanne Vega (arrrrrggghhhh). God, that was good to get off my chest. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/125 "2001-07-08T17:54:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bwk \* > \*\*Wow, apparently I actually **AM** the only one who hates Boston. > > How about that. \*\* Guess again. I just lump all that 70s/early 80s corporate hard rock/wimp rock/cock rock together - Boston, Journey, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Styx (have they been mentioned yet? They should have), Boz Scaggs, Sammy Hagar,Kansas, etc. etc. - and dismiss them as a single unit. Oh, and has anybody mentioned Iron Maiden yet? Whatta fucking joke. A 14-minute song based on “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”? Are you guys sure you’re not Iron _Butterfly_? Getting back to the late 60s/early 70s, let me throw in my nominations for such nonentites and shoulda-been nonentities as Vanilla Fudge, Jethro Tull, Emerson Lake and Palmer, the aforementioned Iron Butterfly, Black Oak Arkansas, and more of that ilk. Thank god I wasn’t going through my formative years at that time. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2001, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-bands-you-hate-and-youre-the-only-one-on-the-planet-that-hates-them/70099/126 "2001-07-08T20:24:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Myrr21 \* > **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 concur with the above. Although I mentioned several names, there was only one of them that I said I didn’t like (O.K. I hate). If I mentioned anyone (BG’s) that aren’t rock then it was ignorance not intent. I can understand crossing over and dissing Madonna or Michael Jackson, but not **Ella, B.B. and Garth**. It is not that I am defending any one of them\*\*, but that wasn’t what this thread was about. I am amazed that someone didn’t come up saying they can’t stand **Pavarotti**. I’m an old gizzer that has lived thru all of rock, although the last few years I’m not up to date (all teenagers have left the nest). I imagine that you realize that I have a different take on some of these rockers than you do, because for instance I watched The Beatles on their Ed Sullivan appearance. _There was something that took me awhile to understand_. My sons would moan and bitch about a radio station that played the same songs over and over. It didn’t make sense to me. _Then it came to me_. When I was a teenager, we didn’t have **Golden Oldies**. We had a new type of music (rock) and we wanted to hear the new tunes and not that stuff from last week: month or year. We wore ourselves out with a new song and went on to another. We had the beginning of rock, before we knew what an album was (or stereo) and singles were the big seller (stacks of them). That’s your history lesson for the day, **[sub]sorry[/sub]**. \*\*hint I hate the one that was a marketing major in college and used it to promote himself (I’m such a good guy that I’m going to retire so you don’t have to pay high prices for my concerts). [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=6)