What band/singer does EVERYONE hate but you enjoy?

[LynneSin]

I have to confess: I love Color me Badd!



I even have their greatest hits cd although I think they only really had 2 greatest hits!

[kick-ass-bob]

1. You just lost major cool points.

x(

[LynneSin]

2. Yes, but I'm so fricking cool that I can post that and get away with it

:D

[kick-ass-bob]

3. but coupled with the liking of Journey AND Styx...

you are getting dangerously close to the cutoff.

:P

[LynneSin]

4. I tolerate Journey and Styx I like about 2 songs

but in general they aren't in my collection

[UrbScotty]

5. STYX!

Have at it!

[Arugula Latte]

56. Aaaaarrrgh! No one, and I mean NO ONE, is allowed to like Styx!

Styx Sucx! It's in the constitution!

:spank:

[hfojvt]

60. maybe no one born after 1979

"If their album sales didn't offer the final word on the band's popularity at the close of the '70s, a 1979 Gallup poll did the trick: The group was named America's most popular rock band. It's you babe, indeed."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002GBU/102-5412114-2919337?v=glance

[njdemocrat106]

122. I like Styx, and I was born in 1980.

"Is it any wonder I've got too much <clap-clap> time on my hands?" :evilgrin:

[Dervill Crow]

115. Whoops. I didn't get that memo. n/t

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. Yoko Ono.

[WildEyedLiberal]

7. Celine Dion

:hide:

[Allenberg]

76. I'm a big fan.

:)

[bertha katzenengel]

8. My usual answer. The Captain & Tennille.

Mrs. V. recently bought me their "greatest hits" CD. :7

[hfojvt]

34. love will keep you together

especially Muskrat Love

[bertha katzenengel]

35. believe it or not

i always skip over muskrat love :shrug:

i don't know if it's true but there was a tale that they performed for Queen Elizabeth and "Muskrat Love" offended her. Not because it's bad but because of the implied animal sex. :shrug:

[hfojvt]

41. that's easy to believe

and their greatest hits CD does not include "Can't Stop Dancing" does it?

[bertha katzenengel]

47. Yes, it does.

Who knew anyone could sing that fast?

I remember, clear as day, the very day that song came out. Weird. But then, I WAS a groupie.

[anarch]

9. The Fugs

At least, nobody I know can stand to listen to 'em. But c'mon, how can you resist songs like "Slum Goddess" or "Boobs a Lot"? :shrug:

[kwassa]

48. Monday, nothing, Tuesday, Nothing, Wednesday and Thursday ....

NOOOOOOTTHIIIIIING!

[anarch]

53. I think that one, along with "Carpe Diem", are the anthems of my life. n/t

[DancingBear]

84. "It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest"

Also, check out "Boobs A Lot" by The Holy Modal Rounders -the original (I think).

edit: Ed Sanders solo LP "Beer Cans On The Moon" is interesting, too. :)

[progmom]

10. .

manhattan transfer

[last_texas_dem]

11. Styx

is probably the most hated of the bands that I liked, although I think that they have way more "closet" fans than is generally acknowledged (after all, they have a pretty big fan base; they've got to be somewhere!). I also like Chicago, Journey, Kansas, Supertramp, Uriah Heep, and several other primarily seventies rock bands that everyone makes fun of.

[flvegan]

12. Poison.

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[jus_the_facts]

13. Obviously....OASIS....I didn't think I'd like 'em...but I DO.....

:dilemma:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

21. I do too.

now come, let us hide.

:hide:

[jus_the_facts]

32. Yeah.....where were you....when we were gettin' high......

:yourock:

[EOTE]

67. Me too......

I so wanted to hate them, but I just can't. And if you're going to choose one band to shamelessly ripoff, you can do a hell of a lot worse than the Beatles. I'm seeing them in November :).

[jus_the_facts]

69. Awesome...wish I was goin' to see them too....

....I was turned on to them from someone who used to post a lot of music threads here in the lounge...I'd posted that music had died in 1991...he sent me a couple o'their songs by email...I ended up goin' and buyin' Heathen Chemistry...Definitely Maybe and What's The Story Morning Glory...I'm an OASIS FAN MAN! :D

:hi:

[I Have A Dream]

14. I like some of Creed's music, and I like the lead singer's voice.

I don't understand why everyone here dislikes them so much. :shrug:

[indigo32]

27. me too

I admit it.

[jackelope72]

50. Another Creed liker here...

Celine Dion, too.

[mainegreen]

15. Skinny Puppy

Everyone says its just noise.

[WildEyedLiberal]

24. I didn't know everyone hated Skinny Puppy

I kinda like them myself. I would assume that people who dislike them would dislike the entire genre also.

[mainegreen]

29. Most people hate the genre

I know all of 2 people who actually like industrial.

[Dukkha]

62. huh? I know LOTS who love it

then again I'm a Goth/Industrial/Darwave DJ so I'm around them all the time

[Maestro]

111. I know plenty who like industrial!

Even the vaulted NIN has its roots in industrial.

[no name no slogan]

37. Throbbing Gristle

They make Skinny Puppy sound like the Osmonds by comparison.

[mainegreen]

44. Genesis P-Orridge

Perhaps one of the weirdest cross-dressers in Industrial. But what a trooper! Saw him with pigface on the Feels Like Heaven Sounds Like Shit tour in Philli. Weird guy.

[no name no slogan]

52. Gen is one fscked-up individual

Did you hear about him and his wife/partner each having partial sex reassignment surgery? They're attempting to become one asexual being, apparently.

That sounds like a very cool show! Psychic TV are also on the short list of good industrial stuff (along with SP and TG). They make NIN sound like the purile shite it really is.

[mainegreen]

55. I did not hear about that.

Albiet I'm not suprised. Lately I have been going back to Industrial roots and influences (AKA Kraftwork being an influence type example), just because its really amazing to hear some of the older albums anew. Some of these albums really ring down through the ages.

[no name no slogan]

57. I have a vinyl LP called "The Industrial Records Story"

which was a collection from the early 80s of some of the acts that were on Industrial Records like TG, Leather Nun, SPK, Cabaret Voltaire, etc. I think it's been reissued on CD, although I'm not certain.

Some of the stuff aged really well, suprisingly. Unfortunately my turntable died a couple years ago and I haven't had a chance to repurchase it on CD yet, but it's worth checking out.

Industrial Records

[xmas74]

64. Wrong.

I like Skinny Puppy and I have a friend who adores industrial/goth.

[Maestro]

109. I love Skinny Puppy!

:hi:

[MN ChimpH8R]

16. Van Der Graaf Generator

Peter Hammill has one of those love it or hate it voices and he writes extremely loquacious lyrics about existential angst. At their best, the band sounds sort of like Kirkegaard set to avant garde rock with jazz inflections. I like it though. :shrug:

[Wolfy]

17. Pantera!

I love them but went to their show once with some friends and was forced to leave before I was ready.

:cry:

[Maestro]

112. Pantera is awesome.

I first saw them when I was in high school in the late 80's here in Dallas. Amazing! R.I.P. Dimebag.

[HughBeaumont]

36. Second on the love for VDGG!

I need to get more of their albums.

[mr blur]

78. VdGG - Yes!!

Saw them back in June, First time since 1976. They were wonderful.

[Wapsie B]

18. Ambrosia

[last_texas_dem]

23. Hey, they're not bad

Their first (I think) album with "Holdin' on to Yesterday" and "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" is very good. Yeah, they got a little slicker and more "Adult Contemporary" as they went on, but still made some good pop singles.

[Wapsie B]

25. Yes they're not bad at all.

How much I feel is their first song that comes to mind.

[Jade Fox]

117. No less than Quincy Jones admired Ambrosia's production work...

on their song "Holdin On to Yesterday".

[Jade Fox]

116. Love 'em. David Pack was (is) and amazing singer....

Proof that 70's arena rock wasn't all bad!

[philosophie_en_rose]

19. Nelson.

I was 9 when they had their 15 minutes of fame. I envied their long, shiny blond hair. :)

Their videos and music are very enjoyable to mock.

[Left Is Write]

68. I was...uh....er....*24* during their big summer of hits.

"Love and Affection"? Yeah, I was all over it.

Matthew was cuter than Gunnar.

[mvd]

20. Here are mine

At DU, most mainstream country (Dixie Chicks and Patty Loveless get credit, but they are two of the best I've heard - artists like Tim McGraw and Shania Twain get bashed when they are entertaining to me)

Hootie And The Blowfish

Phil Collins

Some pop/rock (those that are thought of as teeny-bop, like Aly & AJ, but actually make good music. I'm still deciding if Emma Roberts is a guilty pleasure)

Some Britney Spears

I'm sure there are more..

[Zuni]

22. Journey

I love the vocals

[trackfan]

26. ABBA

[mvd]

28. Love them

It seems like they do have fans here, though. :hi:

[Politically_Wrong]

46. I love ABBA!

[Lubernaut]

98. ABBA Rules.

They make Black Sabbath sound like Black Sabbath.

[Ishoutandscream2]

30. Well, they have gotten an ill-deserved bad rap, but I love the Bee Gees

They created some beautiful music.

[no name no slogan]

38. "Trafalgar" is one of my top-10 desert island albums

their pre-disco stuff was magnificent. And even their disco stuff was still barely tolerable.

[MN ChimpH8R]

58. Odessa was pretty darn fine, too. nt

[Ishoutandscream2]

59. Yes to both of you

Odessa and Traflagar are wonderful. Also try listening to Bee Gees 1st.

Oh, and right at the "beginning" of the disco era - Main Course.

[no name no slogan]

63. Seconded, and thirded

I actually own an "original" version of "Main Course" on casette, believe it or not. And "Nights on Broadway" and "Jive Talking" are two of my guilty hidden pleasures.

[tjdee]

71. The Bee Gees are awesome....who doesn't like them?

Whoever they are, they're nuts.

Their songs on Saturday Night Fever are some of the most re-listenable songs ever made. They're cool.

[Telly Savalas]

88. Damn straight.

[jobycom]

81. The enigma with the stigma

Great band.

[Dervill Crow]

105. People don't like the BeeGees? n/t

[Initech]

31. Steve Miller Band

[kwassa]

51. like the early Steve Miller ..... "Living in the USA"

[Initech]

66. The Steve Miller greatest hits is a great album to listen to...

When you're getting drunk with a bunch of friends!

[swag]

33. Brian Jonestown Massacre.

[bicentennial_baby]

40. one of the best. band. names. ever.

i have a sticker! i looove it! :bounce:

[anarch]

43. not a half bad bunch of makers of the noise, either! n/t

[hfojvt]

39. Rex Smith

I don't know what to say, he takes my breath away.

Granted that was a one his oneder, but I also own the album (bought for a dime at a thrift shop or rummage sale)

I also love almost all the Hair Bands, which are widely loathed and/or mocked on this board, even by such luminaries as LynneSin.

[LTR]

42. Neil Diamond

Rick Rubin's producing his next album, due this fall. Now THAT should be worth a listen.

I'll also throw in Meat Loaf. Bat Out Of Hell kicks ass!

[mvd]

45. Yeah, I have a liking for both

For Meat Loaf, especially Bat Out Of Hell-era.

[defiant1]

49. "Weird" Al FUCKING Yankovic....

The man is a genius.

Al, sir, :yourock:

[Cush]

70. "Well we don't sound like Madonna, here we are now, we're Nirvana!"

[Jade Fox]

118. Me too...

Parody is damned hard to do well. Al's great.

[Hugin]

54. This is mostly along gender lines...

But, I like "The Knack".

Even though their come-back didn't quite work out.

[Dukkha]

61. Rush

Geedy Lee's voice you either love or hate.

[tarkus]

77. Some people are crazy. The man has the voice of an angel.

I also love Gentle Giant, a group most people either haven't heard of or think are weird.

[Maestro]

113. Love Rush!

Long live Prog!

[elshiva]

65. KATE BUSH!

[nytemare]

75. I think most people who might hate Kate Bush don't know who she is.

Her stuff is great. I like her music.

[mvd]

93. Haven't heard much hate for Kate

I don't know her very well, but it sounds like I might enjoy her.

[mitchum]

72. Bad Company

no one makes better husky-voiced muscle car rock. No one.

[Castilleja]

119. Absolutely!

Great voice.

[Parche]

73. arrrghh

color me horrible
they are awful

[cedahlia]

74. Phil Collins

But I want to clarify that I don't like his new shit, okay? I am a big dork, but not that big of a dork!!! :D

I'm talkin' "Against All Odds", "In the Air Tonight", "Sussudio" and that "Follow you, will you follow me..." song (I don't know the name of that one.) The oooooold stuff.

I get made fun of big time because of my love for cheesy old Phil Collins songs. But I don't care!!

And I love Neil Diamond, too!!! :crazy:

[mvd]

91. Well..

there's one recent Phil Collins album I like - Testify. I didn't care for Dance Into The Light, and I'm not sure what he's been up to since 2002.

[Gregorian]

79. Cattle Decapitation.

Yay for Cattle Decaffienation.


Switch this thread around, and I'll have a huge list of bands. Starting with Blonde Redhead. HATE IT!

[donheld]

80. Sheryl Crow

One of many.

[mvd]

94. Mostly disliked in music snob circles

She's wonderful IMO. :hi:

[jobycom]

82. Toby Keith

Aside from his political songs, he's a throwback country singer/songwriter.

[MrSlayer]

83. GG Allin

Not that he was a great singer but he was a very interesting person and his songs were funny.

[Gregorian]

87. Damn, I never knew GG was so wild.

I just listened to the music, but never learned about the guy. His funeral was really weird. Yikes.


edit- Geez, Wikipedia is even more shocking than the funeral story I read. I still love his music, but man.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GG_Allin

[MrSlayer]

90. Yeah he was a fucking nut case.

I went to see him one time and as the show started I wanted to go up front to get a better view and my buddy grabbed me and said "stay here" and I said "why?" and he said "You'll see". And see I did as the feces, blood and semen went flying and the fights erupted. Was one of the craziest things I've ever seen live, I was laughing my ass off all the way home. Hell, I'm still laughing about it now.

[Gregorian]

85. Wesley Willis

Rock n Roll McDonald's!

[Lubernaut]

97. Yay!

I love The Chicken Cow.

[Blue_Tires]

86. elton john n/t

lol

[Telly Savalas]

89. Alicia Bridges

Ak-shawn! I wanna live!

I don't care what everybody in that thread from the other day says, it's a decent song.

[blondeatlast]

99. She's great--and still cookin'! nt

[Iris]

92. Cher

[mvd]

95. Yep, I like much of her stuff, too

Even Living Proof from her more recent phase.

[kwassa]

96. Michael Bolton

I kind of like a couple of the songs he did.

I really don't understand why exactly he is so hated.



Great hair, too!

[Lubernaut]

100. "I really don't understand why exactly he is so hated."

I almost fell for that one.

[Lubernaut]

102. the Locust

Me likes.

[gmoney]

101. I think Bob Dylan is a great singer...

Not many people dispute his songwriting, but lots of folks dis his singing. I think he's a great performer and he seems to be a darn good guitar player.

[mvd]

104. Agreed there!

His voice is refreshing IMO, after all the standard vocals.

Also, newer Liz Phair is hated, but I thought her self-titled album was solid. New song "Everything To Me" continues the pop direction, but adds a more devoted to the music vibe. I will be getting the upcoming album.

[blondeatlast]

103. INXS and TLC; but I don't watch the competition shows of either.

Move on, gang, move on.

[Dervill Crow]

106. I have always loved Journey and probably always will.

I also like Garth Brooks and David Lee Roth. I don't know if they are widely despised, but my family isn't particularly fond of either of them.

[NNadir]

107. None. My taste is impeccable.

It is only exceeded by my modesty.

[Maestro]

108. OMG!!!!!!!!!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

110. jesus jones

criminally underrated, in my opinion

[delen]

114. The Time

[Kazak]

120. S*T*E*R*E*O*L*A*B

At least I never seem to get much of a response whenever I bring them up. Easily my favorite band. I don't see how the people of the left can ignore Laetitia's lyrics though...FLAMINGLY LIBERAL.

[Broken_Hero]

121. In my experience...

Its Bryan Adams, i love his music, i spent most of my middle school/high school years hiding his tapes, and my desire to listen to him from all my buddies....but most people i talk to hate Bryan Adams...so theres mine...:)

[Digit]

123. John Denver

[njdemocrat106]

124. I posted these in another thread, but here goes:

Styx, Billy Joel, REO Speedwagon, Def Leppard, Yes, Phil Collins & Genesis, Chicago, Bruce Springsteen, Journey.

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