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post your nominee for the shittiest "great" band ever

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11 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

The dead
Kiss
The cure

Is that one of them Hi-ku things?

Just now, Dolemite said:

Fuck the Eagles.

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There is no 'The' in Eagles. So there.

I'm with you on Bad Company.  Generic white blues rock.

2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I'm with you on Bad Company.  Generic white blues rock.

Bad Company, Steve Miller Band, Springsteen -- all very good entries IMO.

I love Steve Miller Band.  I love Springsteen's lyrics -- the music is "eh" to me.

(caveat - not sure they were ever considered "great", but since we're mainly talking classic rock here...)

I'm a prog rock guy, Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, Yes, Tull, love some, like others, but god almighty is ELP the most bloated bunch of horseshit I've ever heard.  From the Beginning, Lucky Man, Karn Evil 9 single, that's it,  everything else is just Keith Emerson jacking off for 20 minutes at a pop.  Ugh.

2 hours ago, Rollo Tomassi said:

Bad Company.  For real, they are the worst.

I think the Kinks are outstanding.  One of the most under appreciated bands from that time period.

I remember hearing about both Van Halen and Rush getting pressured into sounding more like Bad Company. Fortunately for the soul of rock 'n' roll, neither did.

Let me be the first to diss U2. Thank you.

Edited by Dolemite

Several good mentions:  Doors, Bad Company

Got to add:  Santana

The whole “hippy forever” flowing robes and “peace, man” stuff just annoys the shit out of me.  I don’t know if they’re still touring, but if they are, I hope their airplane crashes into Courtney Barnett’s shitty bus.  

Edited by Paul Wesley

Also, this thread reminds me of the podcast, “your favorite band sucks.”

10 minutes ago, Paul Wesley said:

Several good mentions:  Doors, Bad Company

Got to add:  Santana

The whole “hippy forever” flowing robes and “peace, man” stuff just annoys the shit out of me.  I don’t know if they’re still touring, but if they are, I hope their airplane crashes into Courtney Barnett’s shitty bus.  

Yeah, fuck Santana.

This isn't exactly the concept of the question, but The Who. Don't get me wrong, they are awesome and seminal to rock n will....I guess it's just that I WANT love them more than I actually do when I listen to them. Townshend transcended that band. 

<sorry, not sorry>

8 minutes ago, ohchaucer said:

This isn't exactly the concept of the question, but The Who. Don't get me wrong, they are awesome and seminal to rock n will....I guess it's just that I WANT love them more than I actually do when I listen to them. Townshend transcended that band. 

<sorry, not sorry>

I love The Who and I totally agree with this. I always want more after listening to an album. 

Seconded on Aerosmith and Phish (if anyone thinks Phish is great). Maybe Radiohead but I get why people like them. 

 

U2 for me as well but somebody beat me by an hour.

I remember watching a music doc some years ago ab Guitar Gods w Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White, and I forgot the 4th. It was fuckin’ comical.


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15 minutes ago, OkieLite Fan said:

U2 for me as well but somebody beat me by an hour.

I remember watching a music doc some years ago ab Guitar Gods w Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White, and I forgot the 4th. It was fuckin’ comical.


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It Might Get Loud. And it was just those 3.

Steve Miller Band

This is my submission, I hated every single song I’ve ever heard by them and yet they were played continuously on FM radio.

And the Doors DO NOT SUCK
The Doors are less "shitty" and more "wildly overrated".  Jim Morrison wasn't a genius poet.  He was an asshole who took drugs and wrote out all the shit that went through his head while tripping.
They also never had a bass player in the band, but clearly had bass guitar on every fucking record.  I don't know why that irritates me, but it does.

ray manzarek played the bass lines on his rhodes piano bass. He was a badass
Aqualung is one of the greatest songs ever written. Fight me.

Along with Cross Eyed Mary

I can’t even keep reading this thread with some of the bands people are dissing on up in here.

Head starting to explode

I have David Bowie and Bob Marley on my list. 

24 minutes ago, Mileslong said:


ray manzarek played the bass lines on his rhodes piano bass. He was a badass

Obligatory:

 

4 hours ago, Dolemite said:

Fuck the Eagles.

This is an example of a correct opinion.

Worst band of all time, and it's not even close.

Elvis Costello

Half vote for R.E.M.-I can deal with their 80s stuff but they fell off a cliff the minute they put out Losing My Religion.

Forgot to add Neil Young. Absolutely terrible. Kinda feel the same way about Bob Dylan.

The Band.

 

”ducks”

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Fuck the Eagles.

Get your own fucking cab
31 minutes ago, EMAWesome said:

Elvis Costello

Music critics like Elvis Costello because music critics look like Elvis Costello. - David Lee Roth

1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

Forgot to add Neil Young. Absolutely terrible. Kinda feel the same way about Bob Dylan.

This is inexcusable 

7 hours ago, Rimbo said:

You know, if people ascribed their greatness to their music, I'd be there with you. But no one thinks their music is "great," outside of a few catchy tunes.

It was the showmanship, the work ethic and the "just having sex with 2 chicks because it's Tuesday" lifestyle that defined them and kinda redefined rock stardom along with it. 

mostly agree, but thread title was great band and part of being a band is the live show.  I don't care how much showmanship a band is capable of, the music has to not suck for them to get an "army" of followers to pay to see their showmanship.  And I'm sure some of those morons think Kiss makes the best rock music ever.  

3 hours ago, Paul Wesley said:

Got to add:  Santana

Yeah, when your best song is a duet with Rob Thomas, well that's just not a good sign.

I find The Scorpions supremely unlistenable.  I'm sure somebody thinks they're great.

They're like the Larry to Darrell (Bon Jovi) and Darrell (Def Leppard).  Not sure where Aerosmith fits in there, but they're awful too, which is a shame, because they had a couple of good songs in them.

1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

Forgot to add Neil Young. Absolutely terrible. Kinda feel the same way about Bob Dylan.

 

Everyone has their likes and dislikes, I say live and let live, but

You sir have no soul, yer soulless.  

2 hours ago, Mileslong said:

I can’t even keep reading this thread with some of the bands people are dissing on up in here.

Head starting to explode

Why do I get the feeling that there are those on the surly who celebrate Totos entire catalog....

When Africa comes on, you stand at attention and put your hand over your heart.

13 minutes ago, BoomMF said:

When Africa comes on, you stand at attention and put your hand over your heart.

And pull the jorts out the crack of yer ass.

3 hours ago, Dolemite said:

I have David Bowie and Bob Marley on my list. 

DO NOT include David Bowie.  Listen to zingy stardust all the way through and reflect on your choice.  Or maybe station to station or diamond dogs or lets dance (with SRV on guitar).

REO Speedwagon sucks ass

So let me get this straight. Bob Dylan, Neil Young, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, REM, U2, Radiohead. Got it.

 

8 hours ago, C-Man said:

Phish

(And I'm gonna cut every last motherfucker in here saying Radiohead.)

 

2 hours ago, Todd Gack said:

mostly agree, but thread title was great band and part of being a band is the live show.  I don't care how much showmanship a band is capable of, the music has to not suck for them to get an "army" of followers to pay to see their showmanship.  And I'm sure some of those morons think Kiss makes the best rock music ever.  

I can't argue with that. one of them was one of my roommates my freshman year...

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

I find The Scorpions supremely unlistenable.  I'm sure somebody thinks they're great.

And that somebody is wrong. They're behind Bon Jovi, Poison and Warrant. They're behind Winger.

Ahead of Nelson, though. Eeeeeeeuuuuagh.

There are only two great hair metal bands: VH and GnR. One of these represents the beginning of the genre, the other its last dying gasp.

Def Leppard isn't hair metal and anyone who classifies them as such should be clubbed over the head with a Tannoy speaker. They're NWOBHM goddammit.

I went to jr high with Matt and Gunnar Nelson. /csb 

Just now, Sbbruin said:

I went to jr high with Matt and Gunnar Nelson. /csb 

thanks arthur

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