Who do you hate the most?

[Lord Mhoram]

Loathed Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, and Soundgarden.

It is all a matter of opinion: I put the Pumpkins in my top 5 of all time and I love Nirvana and Soundgarden.

[dennisrwood]

Boston
www.boston.org/stagepix.html

their music is souless pap. I hate their look, their sound, their lyrics. the fact that the leader lives in his mom's basement. that I'm from New England and had to listen to their crap growing up. I hate them and all the souless music they make.

[High Lord Tolkien]

Kiss and the Who

I've never enjoyed any of their music.

Even though I used to write
T
WHO
E
on my book covers in Jr High.
I never listen to them.

[Sheriff Lytton]

Boston
www.boston.org/stagepix.html

their music is souless pap. I hate their look, their sound, their lyrics. the fact that the leader lives in his mom's basement. that I'm from New England and had to listen to their crap growing up. I hate them and all the souless music they make.

Something tells me that this is more than a feeling Dennis

I think there's always been good music and bad music. Theodore Sturgeon's law of "Ninety per cent of everything is crap" seems broadly applicable here.

It's nice to see how violently we can all disagree on what constitutes the ten per cent that isn't.

Music I hate ? Well, I'd quite cheerfully stuff the Tijuana Brass somewhere Herb Alpert would find indescribably unpleasant.

And if it were the James Last Orchestra... nothing but one instrument at a time would do for old Jimmy.

[Cail]

Ugh. Boston is horrible. The city should be nuked for spawning the band.

[matrixman]

I think there's always been good music and bad music. Theodore Sturgeon's law of "Ninety per cent of everything is crap" seems broadly applicable here.

Yessir, I agree. I don't want to make sweeping generalizations about the quality of music from any given decade. So, if you focus only on crap in the 80's, you'll find plenty of it. If you're looking for good music in the 80's, you'll find plenty of that, too.

Anyway, off the top of my head, these are "musical artists" that make me want to hurl weapons of mass destruction at them whenever I see or hear them:

Michael Bolton
Celine Dion
Garth Brooks
Britney Spears
Menudo
New Kids On The Block
N Sync
Backstreet Boys
Justin Timberlake
Air Supply
REO Speedwagon
Billy Ray Cyrus
KISS
Bon Jovi
The Osmonds

I'm sure there's more, but that's a good representative list of musical suckitude in my book. I really don't think I want to waste my energy explaining why I hate their music. I'm sure they're all fine human beings who give to charity and perform valuable community service, of course. Just keep them the hell away from me.

[Cheval]

What makes me change radio stations is Bruce Springsteen and John Cougar Meloncamp
(or as I refer them as: Bruce Stringbean and John Cougar Menstrualcramp)
or just about any new group/band today.

I guess it is the "Jersey" sound of music.

[dennisrwood]

ZZ Top. i don't get it. the suck and are repetetive.

[DukkhaWaynhim]

What makes me change radio stations is Bruce Springsteen and John Cougar Meloncamp
(or as I refer them as: Bruce Stringbean and John Cougar Menstrualcramp)
or just about any new group/band today.

I guess it is the "Jersey" sound of music.

Then I suggest you turn the radio off when traveling through Indiana, my friend. There is an unwritten law among Hoosier radio stations that a Mellencamp song must be playing at any given moment of every day on at least one station. I'm actually a Mellencamp fan, but has anyone ever heard the term 'victim of overplay?'

DW

[Queeaqueg]

McFly

[I'm Murrin]

McFly

The only thing worse than Busted is a Busted rip-off.

[dennisrwood]

Faith Hill's cover of Joplin's :Take Another Piece of My Heart"

[Queeaqueg]

Robbie Williams

[Warmark]

Robbie Williams

<violently sick>

[Nav]

Michael Bolton

I can't remember which comedienne it was (possibly Caroline Quentin) who said "if confronted with Michael Bolton and a pair of scissors, you wouldn't know whether to go for his hair or his vocal chords."

I'd also cheerfully ring Robbie Williams' neck. I can't stand the way he acts like he's the most important man in music/britain one moment, and then goes digging for sympathy the next because he's "so screwed up". He has produced some decent music on occasion, but the rest of the time he just produces over-hyped, romanticised garbage to sooth his oh-so-fragile ego.

Bit harsh to include Justin Timberlake though, there was some quite funky stuff on his album and he doesn't take himself too seriously.

[Cail]

Michael Bolton, Robbie Williams, Justin Timberlake, and every member of 98 Degrees, The Backstreet Boys, and In Sync should be unceremoniously tossed into a chipper/shredder.

[dennisrwood]

Bruce Springsteen

I just don't get the amount of love he receives.

[Cail]

While I'm no fan of Springsteen's politics, the man has written some extraordinary songs.

[dennisrwood]

sorry, i can't equate the 'boss' nonsense with the actual music. i find it ok, but no better than many.

[Warmark Jay]

Oldsters who can't grow with the times. U2 is better now than they've ever been, while Springsteen gives us another rehashed version of "Nebraska". Sad. I'm not a big Mellencamp fan, but he's done some interesting stuff over the past few years (that "Wild Night" cover, "I Saw You First") and seems to be comfortable enough in his own skin to not care what the "true" John Cougar fans think.

But the Boss...his schtick has worn thin. There was an excellent article on MSN's Slate recently discussing his act, and how much of an act it is - for starters, how a guy who was born, raised, and spent the bulk of his adult in life in Jersey ended up with an Oklahoma drawl.