Your bottom ten worst artistes of all time

Look, you obviously don't know your stuff.

Yes are brill. Chir Squire is truly fantacers. OK, Jon Andersons' vocals are a bit dodgy tbf imo, however I think they are lush wasad.

 

Jon Anderson sounds like a baritone sometimes compared to Rush's Geddy Lee! I wouldn't like to be the wrong end of a supertweeter if ever they did a duet!

 

Compared to David Surkamp (of Pavlov's Dog) Geddy sounds like Paul Robeson.

 

as long as its not Robeson & Jerome!

welcome to the forum fella!

 

Cheers for the welcome.

 

OK, for what it's worth, I can't bloody stand:

Genesis after Peter Gabriel.
Joe Jackson (Git, No prize git)
Phil Collins (I feel the need to swear a lot)
Katie Melhua (learn to write your own songs and have something to say)
Sade (I hate eighties drivel)
The Thompson Twins (Jesus, here we go again)
Dead or Alive (More freakish than Wacko Jacko)

I'm not going on anymore, there's no point as it's just so subjective but I am an ageing prog rocker who loves loads of new music. I adore electronic shit like Eat Static and I love the ramblings of Ozric Tentacles but for me, the worst period just had to be the eighties.

 

My roommate has a phobia of Phil Collins. I could never get into them, but don't hate them as much as he does or you seem to haha. When I started a Pandora playlist with Rush, they came on. Nothing special.

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Didn't mean to get sidetracked, I'm just excited to be working on the project. Back to topic - haha. I'm not a fan Tenacious D. I actually get in a bad mood when I hear them. I think Jack Black tries way too hard.

 

any ten that stopped feeling it... but still played it..you know who you are

 

I used to have the same opinion of the eighties. Then I looked at the music I listen to most, The Jam, The Smiths, and realised that there were some gems in the mire of mediocrity. Then look towards the end of the 80s, Stone Roses (look no further) and the rest of the early Madchester scene(raw I know!), and New Order in between. I have a mental block now, but Im sure many others would come to the defence of the 80s. Now, the 90s..... that is a different matter!

 

Mmmmm worst ten? in no particular order
red hot chilli peppers
boy bands
tom jones
genesis
michael bolton
razorlight
rod stewart
kaiser chiefs
kasabian
celine dion

 

The musical wall of death contains two acts primed for the first shot; M People and The Pet Shop Boys. One with a voice like a fog horn the other a penny whistle. Nothing can shield me from the despair of their crimes against music.

 

Interesting. A wall of death is by no means future proof. What happens when your hate grows. Do what I do; I was put onto the idea by a friend of having a 747 of death. Plenty of seats, and if a passenger suddenly does something to save themselves, they get bumped off for, say Graham Norton. Unfortunately for her, Jordan is and always will be the Pilot.

 

Does the wall of death change?

In my experience no. The Pet Shop Boys and M People have always been there. It's not just their appalling music, I think it's more that they have prententions of artistic merit. X Factor and Pop Idol winners are easy targets but Pet Shop Boys and M People are more than that. They fall into a pantheon of mediocrity spilling over with Chapman, Hucknall, Olazabal et al. Albums full of single track quality while attempting to convince us that they are the second coming of Brian Wilson.

Please feel free to add more names to the list. Artists who believe in themselves far too much; a thread of its own!

 

I must admit that the vast majority of bands or performers all of you have listed I have never heard and many I have never heard of. Therein lies the problem. I quit listening to radio by about 1975 because the music was becoming so formulaic, unoriginal and uninspired. Mostly I like rock and roll (among others) but what I really like is music that shows talent. Anyway, I am shocked that no one has yet mentioned my personal standard for the worst music ever made. Dave Matthews. When I first heard his ear vomit I thought that it was an imitation of the stuff I tried to hum to myself in the bathtub when I was 8 years old. Literally. It was the same aimless uninspired noodling. I stopped after maybe as much as 30 seconds. He not only didn't stop, he recorded his aimless noodling. Anyway, here's my list. I hope they all get throat cancer for what they have done to this planet.
1)Dave %#*&^^%#$#@*&^% Matthews
2) Bruce Springsteen
3)pretty much any country---what a bunch of unoriginal nothingness
4)rap---genius? they can't even enunciate half the time so that the lyrics are simply unintelligible, and when they do enunciate, they ramble on like schizophrenic patients who have not been taking their meds.
5)counting crows. their first album had 2 1/2 good songs and that was the end for them. More aimless noodling disguised as "art".
6) almost all heavy metal, but mostly great white. you call this songwriting? it's dog food converted into sound waves. with ketchup on top.
7) Michael Jackson--he's just a freak. even whitney houston is normal compared to him.
8) Janet Jackson--I think she may be her own brother with some sort of inflatable implants that can be ballooned on demand.
9) all disco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! somepone please go back in time and kill those people. Empty headed fluff that goes thump thump thump.
10) Sting. Shut it ya bore.

 

I was very pleased to hear Steely Dan described as "Vanilla white man's music" on Radio 4 recently. Succinct, accurate, tells you all you need to know.

 

You might be interested in this then.

(If you haven't already seen it)

http://www.yachtrock.com/

 

In no particular order...

1. WestLife
2. Spice Girls
3. Boyzone
4. Take That
5. East 17

(Do you see a theme yet?)

6. Bewitched
7. New Kids on the Block
8. Sugarbabes
9. Girls Aloud
10.Hansen

Please someone round up all people responsible for manufactured boy/girl bands/ individuals and put them up against a wall.

 

The value of this thread is in dislike of what mostother people like (sort of shock factor eg rubbishing The Beatles). So..here goes..
(I may not reach10)

Ry Cooder (and I love slide guitar as a rule)
DannyThompson (the jazzy bass player)
All 'rap'music
Mick Hucknall (esp because Picture Book was so good)
Sting (espbecause Police were so good)
Weather Report - sounding dated now?
Late Coltrane
Ant and Dec (if they were singers)
Cliff

 

Katie Melua (you can fool most of the people most of the time)
Coldplay...stop the stupid falsetto
M People.. foghorn leghorn
Pet shop boys wispy pap
Morrissey...whining one note tosser
Florence and the Machine...have you heard her "sing" live? Painful!
Joss Stone....such potential, but so very annoying.
any Rap..it's just very silly
Bob Dylan...be like Irving Berlin and let others sing your songs.
Katie Melua.... so bad I named her twice

 

Boney M
Shakin Stevens
Lady GaGa
Samantha Fox
Take That - all boy bands really
Spice Girls - all girl bands too
Missy Elliott - what on earth??
Clive Dunn
Terry Wogan
Celine Dion