What's the most annoying band?

[HEyHEY]

Poll question: What's the most annoying band?

[Fenris]

1. Triumph

Not really. I just had to throw that out there.

[Redneck Socialist]

14. That hurts man

I was a huge Triumph fan back in the day. Honestly they saved me from pop oblivion. I owe them a great musical debt. :headbang:

on edit: sloppy typing

[driver8]

41. Triumph fan here, too...

I grew up on the border of Canada in upstate NY. We used to go to Ottawa and see Triumph everytime they came through town. I think I ended up seeing them four times. These guys rocked!

Huge Rush fan, too!

How come Limp Bizkit isn't on the list? Fred Durst annoys the shit out of me.

[Massacure]

2. Anything with Rock or Rap.

[flamingyouth]

3. Trooper! God, I'd forgotten about them!

Too obscure to be most annoying, but an excellent choice nonetheless.

How are you? Not too happy, I hope?

[HEyHEY]

6. He he

I'll be happier once Trooper stops playing shitty bars in BC!

[flamingyouth]

8. They're still at it?

Gotta give them points for trying. Or for torturing the ears of the good people of British Columbia. :D

[Wat_Tyler]

12. Chilliwack were wack.

[Left Is Write]

17. Raise a little hell, raise a little hell, raise a little HELL!

[driver8]

42. Raise a little hell...wasn't that a band called "Trooper"? n/t

[driver8]

43. Whoops -- just saw where Trooper was mentioned...n/t

[Wat_Tyler]

4. The most annoying band ever (other than Simple Minds) is......

The Spin Doctors.

[HEyHEY]

5. HOW COULD I FORGET THEM! AHHHH!

[Wat_Tyler]

DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT THEM!

NO NO NO NO!!!

What were their other singles - other than 'Two Fuckwits'? There was one about Cleopatra's Cat, IIRC.

[Fenris]

7. The greatest band of homeless people ever.

Also, the only band of homeless people ever. Also, the worst.

[Wat_Tyler]

10. Surely Chumbawamba were homeless.

I mean, they must've been - right?

[Fenris]

13. They are now.

[Wat_Tyler]

20. Yes. They drank a whisky drink, they drank a vodka drink.

AND THEN I KILLED THEM ALL.

[Fenris]

24. Pissing the night away...

...on their grave.

[Wat_Tyler]

28. They got knocked down.

By me in a BIG FUCKING TRUCK.

[Fenris]

52. You're never going to keep them down

Unless you tie weights to their bodies.

[driver8]

44. I hated that stupid song of theirs...stupid name, too. n/t

[Wat_Tyler]

46. Was there ever a band that screamed 'ONE HIT WONDER' that much?

[blindpig]

71. sure

Hootie & the Blowfish. mediocre stripmall bar band.

[Wat_Tyler]

73. This is true.

[opiate69]

54. Violent Femmes were homeless, IIRC

[redqueen]

70. Damn you for mentioning them.

Every time I get close to erasing that crap from my memory, some douche brings it up again.

THANKS!


on edit: excellent answer. douche.

[Wat_Tyler]

75. Thanks.

Rush-loving douche.

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. You take Aerosmith and U2 down NOW! Or I kill you.

:P

[ronnykmarshall]

11. Rush

I went to a concert years ago in Fresno. Even the drugs I was on didn't help.

BOOOOOORRRRRRRING!

[liberalmuse]

15. Creed?

And how dare you put Rush on the list!? Sure, I know that it's Geddy Lee's voice that turns off some to Rush, but I loves me some castrato-style vocals. Nothing like a man with the octave range of a woman.

Back to Creed: Scott Stapp took his 'spread-my-arms like-dying-on-the-cross-Jesus-in-my-videos' gig too far. And then there's the Creed fan base, made up of noxious fundies. Creed. 'Nuf said.

[Biased Liberal Media]

39. YES. I can't stand Creed

Not because they were so obviously Xian...but because he (Scott Staph) was so damn annoying!

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. Rush, no question.

More annoying than latter-day U2. U2 were once GOOD. Rush, on the other hand, have always been horrible. Geddy Lee's vocals are annoying, as are, almost invariably, the lyrics he sings ("Of salesmen!" I mean, come on...who can think this garbage is DEEP???); Alex Lifeson is supremely overrated; Neal Peart is passable, I suppose, but hanging around with those two hacks for all this time is a black mark.


Flame away.

[Fenris]

22. No flame here.

You summed it up nicely.

[liberalmuse]

25. I don't get it!

Rush are brilliant instrumentally. I love Geddy's vocals. They are definitely unique, and they are not overrated on the instruments, IMO. Granted, some of their songs can be a bit pretentious, but listen to YYZ and tell me Geddy isn't one of the best bass players of all times.

[Wat_Tyler]

26. He isn't - he's all technique, no feeling.

And Rush are awful.

[liberalmuse]

29. I disagree.

But can understand why people don't like them. Being a fan, I'm overly critical of them myself. However, there are times when all of them amaze me with their instrumental ability. Also, the best people I know are closet Rush fans.

[tigerbeat]

86. peeking out of the closet...........

......hey, i heard it was actually ok to like 2112 now....

it's not??

damn. (going back in closet) SLAM!

[eyepaddle]

53. I got pretty worked up over a similar topic last week

For the record if you can't say something nice....eh, the hell with it, I have to say something anyhow.

Anybody who busts out the old canard "they're all technique and no feeling" is just trying to appear tres chic. It's inverse pomposity, the arrogance of the incompetent.
And Kim Deal?!? Dude, I like the pixies, but hell man......

Rush has saved rock and roll for on at least three separate occasions, I have to go to bat for them!

[Wat_Tyler]

69. Not sure what you're on about, with the weird tone.

But I am sure about this - Rush were, and are dreadful.

[eyepaddle]

76. I'm just trying to be diplomatic

but in my opinion you couldn't be more wrong if you told me shit tasted like strawberry ice cream.

But my larger and more lasting point is these "this band or that style sucks-threads" are pretty pointless and never really go anywhere. There really is no accounting for taste--nor should there be. I mean do you ever think somebody has said--"wait a minute, now that you bring up those points it turns out I all the music I love turns out to be shit?"

It's pretty clear we enjoy different kinds of music, for instance I won't listen to punk rock unless my only other choice is castration--and even then I'd have to think about it, just to see if they were serious. Now that's a pretty strong statement, but I really don't expect it to affect your opinion.

I do get tired of the "he's too proficient at what he does--that means he sucks" posturing though. It's like saying "I hate flying on that airline, sure all their landings are flawless--but where's the emotion?"

[Wat_Tyler]

77. No - I disagree.

Rush are terrible.
And if it makes you any happier - Geddy Lee isn't that technically proficient.

[eyepaddle]

80. You see, this is what I'm talkin' about

You have informed me that Rush is terrible, and yet somehow I remain unconvinced--and no matter how many times you make that statement I'm not likely to change my views.

For the record, I don't even own any Rush albums, I've seen them a couple of times and enjoyed it tremendously--but they aren't my favorite band or anything. I'm just telling you that musical enjoyment is subjective, not objective.

It's just that simple.

[Wat_Tyler]

81. No it isn't.

Rush are terrible.

[eyepaddle]

82. You are wrong.

You see, I'm at peace with what I like, and what I don't. I don't take stuff I dislike as a personal insult anymore.

I gotta admit to a certain curiosity though--what put the bug up your backside to bitch about Prog? I've always thought of Rush as more of a hard rock outfit than actual prog though. In my mind Yes is like the definition of prog--the more unlike them you are, the less prog you are. We can probably both agree about that.

And you certainly seem to have a lot of familiarity with the form you despise. If I didn't have XM in my car I'd just about never hear any of this stuff--where are you going that this stuff is being forced on you?

Hell, as long as we're here, how do you feel anout fusion? I'd throw out Mahavishnu Orchestra as sort of a good reference point for "fusion."

[Wat_Tyler]

87. No. You're wrong.

Apparently.

[eyepaddle]

89. Well how do you feel about fusion?

And I am wrong about Yes being like the most prog of all prog bands?

[Wat_Tyler]

90. Yes, you're wrong.

[eyepaddle]

91. Well, I'm certainly not RIGHT

(as in wing)

Dare I say it I'm "progressive!":P

[Wat_Tyler]

93. Yes.

No.

[eyepaddle]

95. Allright then,

this is gettin a little cubist!

[Wat_Tyler]

96. No it isn't.

You're way off.

[eyepaddle]

97. I definitley,

no.....

[Wat_Tyler]

100. Yes.

That is incorrect.

[eyepaddle]

102. Know it' snot

[Wat_Tyler]

106. Mais oui! C'est ca!

[eyepaddle]

107. You win!

I don't know Mais or ca.

hey what does plus ca change translate to?

[Wat_Tyler]

109. You're wrong.

Doesn't it mean 'the more things change?'

[eyepaddle]

115. Maybe,

seriously, I didn't know. I only took one term of French (twenty years ago) and my class was the one with all the troublemakers in it, we never got very far and I didn't feel like going into a different class and being WAY behind everybody else so I just sort of let it go.

So I didn't actually know what your first reply meant--and then threw in a second question, just cause I had your attention! ;)

[Wat_Tyler]

119. No.

You don't.

[giant_robot]

108. I think you're oversimplifying the argument.

I don't think anybody is saying "he's too proficient at what he does--that means he sucks", and I certainly don't believe that, but I do believe that technical proficiency does not necessarily lead to good music, especially when the artist exerts more effort to showcase his own technical proficiency than he exerts to be true to the music. Case in point: Joe Satriani. I don't argue that the man is a technically brilliant guitarist, but his music sounds like herd of cats in heat.

Rush is the same way. They're all about technical proficiency in service of their egos, not the music, IMHO.

By the way, I know Joe Satriani isn't a band, but can we add him to the list anyway? He's as annoying as a whole band.

[Wat_Tyler]

111. Yeah. Relentless fretwankery.

[eyepaddle]

114. Okay, NOW my feelings are hurt....

I've just been playing around on the prog stuff but I truly love Joe Satriani. ;)

This came up a week or so ago, and after I blew off a little steam I got around to making the point that emotional response comes from YOU the listener--not the musician. You hear scales and wanking (boring) I hear energy, exuberance and a man enjoying what he does (good). Music triggers emotions differently in different people. To use a metaphor some people like to canoe, others like to downhill ski (and no, I'm not saying one type of music corresponds to either activity)

I've just noticed a tendency inpeople who don't like Joe to complain about it like every time they turn around they get bombarded with it and just can't take it anymore. Face it, as far as our culture goes, this shit is pretty obscure. I like it and I have to look for it. If you don't like it just ignore it, it'd be pretty easy to do.

For instance you don't hear me complaining about Norwegian Death Metal--I just let it slide....

[Wat_Tyler]

117. Don't fuck with Halfar Hafnignogssen.

He'll eat your face.

[eyepaddle]

120. Would he use steak sauce?

Which outfit is he with?

[Wat_Tyler]

125. Anal Decay.

[eyepaddle]

126. Now THAT sounds like a tough break!

[Wat_Tyler]

127. It's the lack of sunlight - drives 'em crazy.

[eyepaddle]

129. A little rouch of

seasonal affected disorder huh? I'd rather just be depressed than suffer from....well, anal decay!

[Wat_Tyler]

130. Anal Decay is better than having your face cut off by an insane

Viking with a rusty Swiss Army knife.

[eyepaddle]

131. But only just a little!

[Wat_Tyler]

132. Depends how much decay is involved.

If it's full rectal decay, you may have a point.

[giant_robot]

122. Oh, so now you're dissing Norwegian Death Metal???!!!!!!

Just kidding. :) Actually this same debate was raging when I was in high school 20 years ago (about prog rock, not Satriani). I don't suppose we're any closer to resolving it now.

[eyepaddle]

124. Just saying those strokes

are for other folks! ;)

At least this is benign, but "your favorite band sucks" threads are high on the list of "shit that doesn't go anywhere."

[Spider Jerusalem]

34. You want to hear a GOOD bass player?

Go pick up an album by Magazine (Howard DeVoto of the Buzzcocks' old band) and listen to Barry Adamson lay it down. Listen to the Pixies and dig on Kim Deal's bass work. Hell, even Sting, in the late '70's-early '80's, was better than Geddy Lee.

[Wat_Tyler]

45. Definitely Adamson.

Damn good call.

Who else is there? Obviously, if one is looking at the pretentious end of the spectrum, Jaco Pastorius is to Geddy Lee as Shakespeare is to Jeffrey Archer. Over on the other side, Peter Hook could make mincemeat of Lee.

[Spider Jerusalem]

50. Martyn Casey's work with the Bad Seeds has been quite good, I'd say.

Works quite well with the more subtly textured style Cave's evolving into. Not strictly "rock", either, of course.

[Wat_Tyler]

51. True - you can always rely on the Bad Seeds for subtle musicianship.

Of course, Adamson's work with the Bad Seeds was also good.

[driver8]

49. Kim Deal couldn't tune Geddy's bass, much less...

play half as well as he does. I'm a huge Pixies fan, but there is no comparison between Geddy Lee and Kim Deal.

[driver8]

47. I second that, liberalmuse!

These guys can play!! Geddy is an amazing bass player and Alex Lifeson is no slouch, either. Also, there are no other rock drummers that play like Neil Peart...he has a very unique sound.

I admit that their lyrics may be a bit pretentious, but their musicianship is incredible.

[redqueen]

72. Eh... I like peart

If only they'd stopped geddy from singing. :(

[Redneck Socialist]

18. Journey

Abso-fucking-lutely the worst. Except maybe for Styx, tough call that.

[Norbert]

19. Survivor

[Taverner]

21. Any Christian Rock band

[liberalmuse]

27. Norma Jean is a decent Christian rock band.

My daughter exposed me to them, along with a few other Christian hardcore bands. Not too shabby.

[Wat_Tyler]

30. See this is it - there are Christian Rock Bands and there are artists

who are christians.

Nick Cave, Moby, U2, Johnny Cash, Neil Finn, Mike Scott of the Waterboys - Christians who make good music. Unfortunately, if it's called Christian Rock, it's invariably bollocks.

[Spider Jerusalem]

40. Yes...

If the "Christian" comes before the music, it's tripe. And unlike "Christian Rock" bands, the best Christian artists (Cave, Cash for the most part, U2 c. 1980-1991) are able to incorporate Christian imagery into their lyrics to great effect without committing the unpardonable sin of preaching.

[Wat_Tyler]

48. Yeah - it's the difference between seeking and evangelizing.

If someone's relating their spiritual quest - that can make good music. If they're trying to sell me Jesus - it's gonna get ugly fast.

[Beware the Beast Man]

98. You consider Moby good music?

:crack:

[Wat_Tyler]

101. He's in there to make up the numbers.

I was struggling.

[Taverner]

113. Moby isn't bad

Just not good....

But I'd rather listen to Moby ANY day than listen to Petra or DC Talk or any of the other "Christian Rock" bands

[Squeech]

23. Gotta go with Styx

Dennis DeYoung makes Geddy Lee sound like Sinatra.

[last_texas_dem]

35. I like Styx

They do have the unfortunate distinction of having a large FReeper fanbase for reasons I'm not sure of, but I like a lot of their late-seventies stuff (Crystal Ball, Grand Illusion and especially Pieces of Eight) and some of their later stuff as well. And I do find Geddy Lee's voice more grating than Dennis DeYoung's...

[njdemocrat106]

123. I like almost all bands of their ilk

Styx, Journey, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Boston. I admit it, I have no taste :evilgrin:

[AVID]

31. Dave Mathews Band- poser, wanna be

[donheld]

33. Dave is my boy, be nice

[last_texas_dem]

32. AC/DC

I always wonder why Rush's Geddy Lee gets all kind of shit for his voice, but AC/DC gets a pass. I can never enjoy their music because of the gawdawful cat-getting-slaughtered sounds emanating from Brian Johnson (think that's the guy's name)'s throat.

Besides, I've had "Bastille Day" by Rush in my head all day; I love that one.

[njdemocrat106]

121. I like AC/DC, but

I like their original lead vocalist (Bon Scott) a lot better than Johnson. They went from whiskey-soaked vocals to helium-soaked vocals.

[kodi]

36. spinal tap. goddam stonehenge. i paid a lot for tickets to that show

and about those speakers, they were no louder than the ones the dead used on the wall of sound tour that dialed up to 10, trust me on that...i've got some soundboards from them shows to prove it!

and i dont give a shit 'bout that drummer blowin' up neither, he sucked.

[AVID]

37. spinal tap - like were even real

[no name no slogan]

66. They WERE real

I saw them in 1991, on the Break Like The Wind comeback tour. Freakin' AWESOME show! So what if the stonehenge monument got trampled by a dwarf-- Nigel's erm, "interesting" guitar solo more than made up for it.

However, I was sorely disappointed that they didn't play anything off "Shark Sandwich". A vastly underrated LP, IMHO.

[frylock]

38. oreosmith..

[Melynn]

55. Couple of bands not on the list

Here's a couple of annoying bands not on the list: Winger, Grand Funk Railroad.

When I was in high school the favorite band of all the jocks was Grand Funk Railroad. They're were awful.

[mvd]

56. Out of the ones I know, KISS

Just never found them interesting at all. I'll admit that I haven't explored Bryan Adams a whole lot, but what I've heard was ehh.. Same thing with Styx.

[Beer Snob-50]

57. Sammy Hagar Band, Lenny Kravitz

most of the bands of that ilk.

[ThorsHammer]

58. Not quite a band, but the young, saccharine pop stars

[B Calm]

59. I have to say the worst band is our local high school marching

band..

[flvegan]

60. Ashlee Simpson's band.

Like, I can't believe how they ruined it for her on SNL. OMG! She was so, like, grace under pressure, you know?

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

61. Metallica. eom

[no name no slogan]

65. Smashing Pumpkins -- The REO Speedwagon of the '90s.

Billy Corgan is a worthless putz who thinks being a self-important songwriter is the same thing as being an important songwriter.

Good riddance to bad garbage.

[tcfrogs]

62. REO Speedwagon n/t

[liberalmom]

63. Rush

All time nails on a chalkboard quality to the way they sounded.

[underpants]

64. Bare Naked Ladies-no doubt about it

:puke:

[no name no slogan]

67. Yes, bouncing around like you've got a slinky in your ass

...is no substitute for good songwriting.

[redqueen]

68. I can't believe Rush is beating Kiss

WTF is wrong with you people?

[KamaAina]

74. Bryan Adams is a band?

Annoying? Slightly (but not really enough to be up here). A band? Um, nope. "No man is a Bande, intire of him Selfe"...

Factoid: He was going to title his debut album "Bryan Adams Hasn't Heard of You, Either" :-) but the buzzkills at the record co. nixed it.

[Mizmoon]

78. Menudo

hands down

[ArcRabbit]

79. Smashing Pumpkins

With Billy "Whiney Voice" Corgan.

[no name no slogan]

83. No votes for Loverboy yet?

Ah, that's right, you cannucks apologized for them back in '92, IIRC.

[kick-ass-bob]

84. How 'bout Motley Crue?

These days...

[Cobalt Violet]

85. Lenard Skinard, and similar southern rock bands.

[buddhamama]

88. Foreignor

blech!

[tjwash]

92. Any 80's big hair bands.

nt

[Beware the Beast Man]

94. Rush- by far.

I'll bet my 3/4-length baseball jersey on it.

[tigereye]

103. Rush always makes me laugh

gotta love that falsetto.

[Wat_Tyler]

110. What about the voice of Geddy Lee. How did he get so high?

[LSdemocrat]

99. Nickelback

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

104. THE KILLERS

They're annoying.

[Spider Jerusalem]

112. Yes, they are...

and they suck, too. I just don't get the popularity. But then I'm like that with MOST stuff that's popular.

[dean_dem]

105. Phish

Seriously. Even if I WAS a dirty stinking hippie, and even if I WAS stoned out of my gourd, I would still think that was some of the worst crap ever to pass for music.

[MrSlayer]

116. Aerosmith. The poster boys of corporate rock.

[njdemocrat106]

118. Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit

Anything rap-rock, basically.

[nytemare]

128. Matchbox Twenty

Other than Push, all the songs are the same song.