# Worst musical artists, ever?

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**Created:** [October 1, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-musical-artists-ever/555729 "2010-10-01T15:25:07Z")\
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Artists/bands I can’t stand but have huge followings:

Rush  
The Cure  
Radiohead  
Emerson, Lake and Palmer  
U2  
The Smiths

It’s cool to hate Nickelback, Creed, etc., so I don’t bother anymore. But I actually own an album by each of the above bands, and while I may even like a few songs by those artists, by-and-large I find them obnoxious and their fans often even more so.

But I think The Cure and Radiohead are the worst. Pretentious and droning with terrible, terrible vocals. I’ve got both _OK Computer_ and _Pornography_ and could only manage to sit through each once.

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