I never understood the attraction to all those super guitar gods like Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jeff Beck, Robin Trower. We’ll leave Jimi Hendrix alone though.
…but I could never stand The Smiths.
I’m sorry. Please don’t hurt me.
I mean, I was an angst-ridden teenager, wearing black, listening to depressing music and writing bad poetry alone in my bedroom, just like everyone else… but jee-ZUS, Morrisey, dude, quit your whining, get a life and just shut UP already.
[sub][sup]Thank you. I’ve wanted to get that off my chest for about a decade.[/sup][/sub]
TRAVIS!!! I feckin hate em.
also Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Muse, REM, Rolling Stones, Led Zepellin.
A few of these bands have done a few good songs but not deserving of all the hype.
Somebody already mentioned them but its worth saying again.
U2
I think I am the only person in Ireland who cant stand these eejits.
God, I thought I was alone in the world in loathing Led Zeppelin. We should start a support group.
There’s been 44 messages in this thread and no one has mentioned the Red Hot Chilli Peppers? What the hell is wrong with you people? 
Anthony Kiedis is the least talented singer of a big name rock and roll band in history, period. Although I can see how Bono or Plant could grate on someone’s nerves, at least those guys can actually * sing on key * occasionally.
Doors
Jimi Hendrix
Elvis
Neil Young <yeah, I’ll give ya “Southern Man”!>
Kenny Rodgers
Fleetwood Mac
Nirvana
Eminem
And, finally
Sean Combs (if you’re going to use names like Puffy Combs, Puff Daddy, P.Diddy; then don’t give interviews wherein you use the term “keeping it real”.)
A hearty AMEN regarding The Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger sexy? Ick. I’d rather felch a goat), The Grateful Dead (ts, I’m with you on this one, bro) Maybe it’s cause I’ve never been stoned before. I liked Limp Bizkit for a while but then Fred Durst just started to annoy me and I can’t stand 'em now.
HOWEVER…I LOVE old Van Halen with DLR. Love it, love it, love it. Really like Metallica (although I’m afraid if I buy any of their albums, I’ll be going to hell. 
). My husband is a huge Rush fan and I’ve learned to appreciate them (did I tell you I fell asleep during Neil Pert’s drum solo? Bad Bunny) I can’t believe I’m turning into such a Hard Rock Chick. Totally get into Linkin Park’s song Crawling (haven’t heard anything else by them) and think Fuel rocks!
ts, next time you’re in the area, stop and see me. Lansing has tons of used CD stores near campus. I’m your hook-up, man!
Bands that I hate:
Rolling Stones: Yes, they were influential. Unfortunately, they couldn’t play their instruments or sing.
Grateful Dead: There’s a difference between improvising and just making shit up as you go along. They did the latter, and it sucked.
The Doors: Bad poetry, bad music, Jim Morrison was a yogurt-head. Need I say more?
Sting: Pretentious. Long winded. Self-important. Oh, yeah - and his music is boring.
Bands that I don’t really hate, but that just seem sort of bland and I don’t even notice them or know why others seem to like them passionately:
U2
Van Morrison
Neil Young
Hootie and the Fuckin’ Blowfish
First: Why in the name of the lord are you putting 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys in the ROCK Category? If you listen to those groups expecting ROCK, I think we’ve found the crux of your problem. Although I understand, it’s very cool to bash pop music, so you have to get it in where ever you can.
SallySimpson:
I couldn’t hate Creed more if I actively worked at it for a monthly paycheck, but I was always under the impression that they were Pearl Jam’s second coming.
And while we’re at it: Pearl Jam. They suck. Eddie Vedder sucks…everything about them sucks. Suck suck suck.
Korn: Burn in everlasting hellfire you god damn idiots. Sitting through your set at Family Values was like being nibbled at by wombats. You can improve yourself by a) losing the f-ing bagpipes, b) taking an f-ing shower and (I don’t know if you’re capable) c) WRITING GOOD MUSIC.
And let me be the thousandth to say Dave Matthews. Is there anyone on the planet more pretentious and boring than the Dave Matthews Band? Too cool and serious to have a fan ‘club’ they prefer to have a fan ‘association’. Note to Dave Matthews: Who the F cares?
whew. I’m glad to get that off my chest.
jarbaby
rassin’ frassin’ coding! Sorry!
I’ll second Zepplin. And let me add a few others:
10,000 Maniacs-And I thought Adam Duritz from Counting Crows was a whiner.
Lynyrd Skynyrd-I’d rather pound my nuts flat with a wooden hammer than listen to “Freebird” again.
The Doors-A few decent songs, but mostly it was “let’s just see how fucked-up Jim can get.”
Korn/Rage Against the Machine/Nine Inch Nails/Limp Bizkit/Pantera-Yeah. You’re full of angst. Do what we products of the 80’s did. Throw on some music, get high in the school library during detention, and dance.
Jimi Hendrix-Yeah. You play guitar. I get it.
Nirvana-Hey, Kurt? You that upset? Go to therapy.
BWAAHAHAAAHAAAA! That, my friends, is probably the funniest thing I’ve read all day.
My husband hates Lynard Skynard with a passion in which a million suns are paled in comparison. Why? Because when he was playing in Nashville and would go on the road, inevitably some redneck (drunk, missing teeth, and puking on himself) would yell “Freebird” during the middle of the set.
Always. You can make a killing in Vegas betting on it.
Oooh, that’s funny.
Oh goody! I get to spew my musical bitches:
Led Zep: Trailblazers or not, their output sucked incredible ass. A bunch of British rednecks who read too much Tolkein.
Doors: Shut up shut up shut up!
Neil Young: Are you singing or sodomizing livestock?
Steely Dan: I’d rather listen to six out of tune bagpipes playing Ina Gadda Da Vida
Def Leppard: Sweet babbling Christ! Why is this drek so popular?
Rush: OOOH! Pretentious Canadians who can’t play/sing in sych with each other. May I have some more please?
Emerson, Lake and Palmer: I can’t comment on how bad this bad was.
Jethro Tull: Put the flute down and step away.
Yes: See Jethro Tull
Pearl Jam: Eddie, you’re pretty and all, but your music tanks.
Dave Matthews: Wake me up from this nightmare
Nirvana: Nice shot, Mr. Cobain. Thank you.
U2: I like most everything before Joshua Tree, not a note after.
That’s all off the top of my head. More will probably follow.
Hey, look, I have no problem with a thread about bands you hate… but what’s with this “I’m the only one who hates them” stuff? There’s NO band, and NO musician who’s universally beloved, to the point where you’re a pariah if you don’t love them.
MAYBE, just MAYBE, a guy who hates Elvis or the Beatles could truthfully say he feels outnumbered, and gets tired of the media adulation each continues to receive (“ooh, ANOTHER re-packaged Beatles collection…”). But no other artist receives such near-universal admiration. Example? Okay, I love Led Zeppelin (as do many white guys my age). But Led Zeppelin fans make up only a TINY percentage of the overal population! MOST Americans never listen to them. There’s NO stigma attached to you who don’t like them. So, why not just ignore them, and change stations when one of their songs is on the radio?
I mean, I don’t like Reba McEntire’s music, but what would be the point of flaming here? She’s one of HUNDREDS of musicians I don’t care for; she’s easy enough to avoid; and NOBODY looks down on me for dissing Reba.
I mean, MOST people don’t like Tool! They have their passionate fans, of course, but half the country has never heard of them, and most who have don’t think much of them. Sure, they’ve sold a few million albums, which means they have a few million fans. But in a nation the size of the U.S., a few million is a drop in the bucket. NOBODY is a social outcast because they don’t like Tool. So, what was the OP whining about?
Fallen Angel, I agree with almost every band you listed (though the list was longer than the one I bothered to type out for myself).
astorian has a good point–some of you honestly believe that you’re all alone and ostracized because you don’t like Rocky Martin? Or the Backstreet Boys? Get some new friends!!
However, even though Led Zeppelin and the like aren’t on everyone’s list of favorites, they’re among bands that are considered so influential and so important to history (or, in the case of the younger groups/artists, so adored by critics) that I could see why people feel alone in jeering them. The difference, for me, is that if someone whips out a Journey CD at a party, I feel comfortable snickering. If someone whips out Dave Matthews, I’d just bite my lips and silently wish it would end soon. It has to do with how I think the bands are generally perceived, I guess. At any rate, that’s why I was surprised to see Journey in this thread, but not Dave Matthews.
BTW, I do own a Journey CD, but I snicker at myself too.
Rage and Beatie Boys both make me want to rip my brain out through my ear. They both sound like whiny six year-olds who got kicked in the groin, and all I want to do is tell them to SHUT THE FUCK UP and get lost.
I also can`t STAND Beck. Slow and annoying, my brain literally SHUTS DOWN to avoid having to listen to it!
Those three are really the worst. There are others, but those are the worst.
Astorian . . chill, dude!! Were just having a little fun here :rolleyes:. OBVIOUSLY if you claim to be the only human being on the face of the planet that hates Pearl Jam . . well that would imply about 5,999,999 other people like them, quite an improbability.
The point is I think a lot of people have the feeling that there was this rock group that they didn’t “get” . . and were afraid to say so, or felt inferior because they didn’t and everyone they came into contact with raved about them, or they were on the radio all the time, and obviously as seen by the response to the OP, there are quite a few of these individuals. How about joining the party and telling us about YOUR band you always felt uncomfortable criticizing???
As for finding new friends, well I can tell you I’ve been in a few public situations where I said a few disparaging things about some bands, and it elicited quite a hostile reaction from someone within earshot . . .from someone I never met in my life!! Enough . .I’m being a joke killer. . .here’s some bands I HATE:
THE GRATEFUL DEAD: Not horrible musicians, and I actually don’t hate their music. But I just don’t get the “deadhead” experience. No, I’ve never been to a Dead concert to feel firsthand the “community” experience, the 4 hour concerts, the freelove, the pot, the fact that the Dead let their fans tape their concerts, you can give me all the Deadhead arguments you like, but I’m sorry, call me square, unhip, uncool . . I DON’T GET IT!!!
15 years ago I would have cut my own tongue out for saying this . . . but I can NO LONGER stand Led Zeppelin. I think part of the problem is that Jimmy Page has put out a CD every other week of his old rehashed Zep material. Enough!! The same goes for my other former favorite, Pink Floyd and Metallica!!!
** Fallen Angel **
I respect your right to your opinions but that comment about Kurt Cobain was ** way out of line. **
You didn’t like him? Fine. But mocking his death is ** NOT FUNNY.**
Now, this one is probably going to get me lynched as I haven’t seen them mentioned anywhere The Cure. Actually, I don’t hate them, I just can’t stand the lead singer’s voice. Something about it just hits me the same way running your nails across a chalkboard does.
I’ll also throw in Beck, The Go Go’s, Prince (Or whatever he’s calling himself this week) (with the exception of his “Black” album, BTW anybody know where I can get a copy of that?), any member of the Jackson family (Janet, Michael, LaToya, Tito, etc, etc), and last and certainly not least, Bon Jovi!