What great artists do you hate?

quickbeam

By "great" I mean artists that are generally critically and commercially well regarded. But for whatever reason you just don't like. I'll start ...

Michael Jackson

It's not just because of his personal life but I truly dislike his music too. The only good thing I have to say about him is that he's a good dancer, but I turn the station off his music comes on.


U2

Just don't get them at all. One or two songs are passable, radio friendly stuff, but in general I find their songs to be just drab and boring.


Now your turn ....

Nature Boy

U2, Simply Red, Travis, M People

There's probably lots more!

DerekD Goldfish

Pink Floyd
I cant put my finger on it I just really dont like them

The Police
There is practicly no one in the world I dislike more than sting

Nightwish

Bob Dylan - good songwriter, awful singer

u2- I just find them intolerable

Duff_Man

erm u2 are on teh top cause i rly just dont like em. hate them wit a fiery passion especially bono..coldplay aswel for sme reason as above and james blunt. thats about it cept for all the emo stuff but thats not critically acclaimed "great" now is it":P

Omnipresence

Artic Monkeys, Baby Shambels...

I mean .. wtf... this is what the kids ;-) are into these days... what a joke... i listened to other bands like kasabian and stuff and are actually pretty decent... but my god for all the hype how brutal are artic monkeys... :eek:

-A

p.s. for guitar music i grew up with pixes/janes addicition/stone roses etc... so others can feel free to slate them

oh yeah ...goes without saying... U2 are total rubbish... only ever had one good song, (sunday bloody sunday) in my opinion...

Creamy Goodness

aloleary wrote:

Artic Monkeys, Baby Shambels...

I mean .. wtf... this is what the kids ;-) are into these days... what a joke... i listened to other bands like kasabian and stuff and are actually pretty decent... but my god for all the hype how brutal are artic monkeys... :eek:

-A

p.s. for guitar music i grew up with pixes/janes addicition/stone roses etc... so others can feel free to slate them

oh yeah ...goes without saying... U2 are total rubbish... only ever had one good song, (sunday bloody sunday) in my opinion...

excuse me but the topic said great artists, i don't think artic monkeys and babyshambles fit under that.

Bodhidharma

Stones Roses, The Smiths, The Who, Coldplay

All very one dimensional in my opinion.

Bixmoo

U2, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Damien Rice, The Magic Numbers

Wertz

Queen.
Radiohead.

Nature Boy

There's a lot of U2 in this thread, i like it!!

Cher is another one, oh and bon jovi

misefreisin

damien rice, u2 and madonna

missingtime

The Killers, The Darkness. Basically any band that you find yourself singing along to and then realise that you hate them.

Guns and Roses - Sweet Child of Mine springs to mind.

Xavi6

delighted with all the u2 bashing goin on here!!

worst band EVER. and as for bono.....

pink floyd, zepplin, rolling stones, destinys child, damien dempsey, simply red. all disgraceful

spacecoyote

if you mean big and successful, i'll have to go with, the two brides of satan incarnate...

Mariah Carey and Celine Dion:eek: :eek:

Karl Hungus

U2, easily.

FillSpectre

I think it is strange that people are mentioning bands that they don't like and suggesting that people think they are great bands. Destiny's Child are a popular band but not a great band, people know it is pop music and don't cliam it is great. Some of the bands here aren't old enough to be great. Only one or two albums should exclude you from the list

U2 is an example of a band people think is great but others may hate musically.

Great bands I hate,
Nirvana
Oasis
Police

Great bands I am not bothered about

Beatles
Beach Boys

jobonar

U2 - i just dont get the big deal with them!
Coldplay - so depressing music and chris martins voice annoys me!
Simply Red - dont no where to begin with this one!
Mariah Carey - Such a diva, up her own ass, **** songs and annoying!

the list could probably continue.........

gizmo

Most of the above but I have to mention U2 and Nirvana again.

:eek: at the Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin mentions though.

Wertz

Faceless Man wrote:

:eek: at the Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin mentions though.

Have to agree...you'd need to be some pampered tweenie to hate stuff like that, especially PF...

ball ox

The Smiths

Oasis

Paul Weller

Motorhead

Rod Stewart

And I dont have much against them but I really dont understand the whole Artic Monkeys thing. Not so long ago everyone I knew was telling me to check them out and when I did I couldnt see the difference between them and all the other generic muck floating around the dodgy sky digital channels, what is original about them?

Merrick

Coldplay
Snow Patrol
I don't need to justify myself here do I?

quickbeam

A few more from me -

Agree with those who've said Simply Red. Just hate MH and their music doesn't make up for it.

Also agree with Bob Dylan - great writer, awful singer (though I am going to see him in Kilkenny - he is a legendary writer)

If I was asked this question a few years ago I definitely would have said The Beatles. I don't mind them so much now, but if I can nominate songs instead of artists I'd like to nominate Hey Jude and Yesterday and Penny Lane.

I'm no tweenie, but I'm tempted to nominate Pink Floyd too. I really, really want to like them, and have tried so hard, but they don't do it for me like others.

Also like to nominate Nicks / Buckingham era Fleetwood Mac. Just don't like it at all.

And :cool: on all the nominations for U2.

KnifeWRENCH

David Gray......hate his voice and music with a passion :mad:
Manic Street Preachers...yawn.something about them just really irritates me

i hate james blunt,but in no way is he a "great artist"

i also dislike Coldplay,although i wouldnt say i "HATE them"..some songs are okay but chris martin cannot sing.i mean REALLY cant sing.jack johnsons music is annoying,but again,"hate" is too strong a word.

FillSpectre

THe manic Street Preachers were initially acknowledged as a crap band and then I turned my back and people were going on about them. A really strange one as they hadn't improved.

I get some of the dislike for older bands like Zep, the Stones (rolling that is) as they don't sound new and shocking as they did. I lent a mix cd I had to a guy I worked with and he said he liked it but told me some of the songs were a rip off of people he liked. He claimed a zep song was a copy of Pearl Jam etc... It was laughable but many people just don't know the importance of some of the older bands.

Tar.Aldarion

U2, Iron maidon.

pbsuxok1znja4r

U2.
Coldplay.
Any indie band that calls itself a "rock 'n' roll" band.
Damien rice.
The Beatles.
Eric Clapton.
Most blues guitarists w/ possible exception of Rory Gallagher.

Black Sabbath. Definitely Black Sabbath.
The Undertones.
Guns 'n' Roses.
Bob Dylan.
The Eagles.
Bon Jovi.
Most of Jimi Hendrix' stuff.
Van Halen.
Norah Jones.
Any R'n'B styled female vocalist w/ possible exception of Mariah Carey.

...The list goes on and on and on...

Oh, and another band that I don't necessarily hate, but do seem horribly overrated are Opeth.

tj-music.com

Bon Jovi is awful, U2 is overrated completely, and the worst of them all is probably theis bloke called James ****

Beekay

scouser.tommy wrote:

Black Sabbath. Definitely Black Sabbath.


Oh, and another band that I don't necessarily hate, but do seem horribly overrated are Opeth.

Black Sabbath:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: and Opeth:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: J/K


I would have to say U2 and RHCP

sinjin_smythe

scouser.tommy wrote:

U2.
Coldplay.
Any indie band that calls itself a "rock 'n' roll" band.
Damien rice.
The Beatles.
Eric Clapton.
Most blues guitarists w/ possible exception of Rory Gallagher.

Black Sabbath. Definitely Black Sabbath.
The Undertones.
Guns 'n' Roses.
Bob Dylan.
The Eagles.
Bon Jovi.
Most of Jimi Hendrix' stuff.
Van Halen.
Norah Jones.
Any R'n'B styled female vocalist w/ possible exception of Mariah Carey.

...The list goes on and on and on...

Oh, and another band that I don't necessarily hate, but do seem horribly overrated are Opeth.

Ahh comon Mariah Carey but not Jimi Hendrix :eek:

crosstownk

The Beatles, Oasis, Rolling Stones. I just can't listen to them - don't know why - I just can't.

Dudess

FillSpectre wrote:

THe manic Street Preachers were initially acknowledged as a crap band and then I turned my back and people were going on about them. A really strange one as they hadn't improved.

I think that coincided with the disappearance of Richie. Suddenly all the NME/MM hacks who slated them day in day out went all serious and appreciative of them. Bloody hypocrites.

Oasis - can't actually articulate how much I hate them:mad:

Kooli

Bob Marley - I just don't see the appeal at ALL!!

And Simply Red is definitely a given - no one is arguing with that one are they?

Larianne

Were Simply Red known as a great group/artist????

Can't listen to Damien Rice. I'd rather listen to Mariah Carey moan on than Damien Rice.

Used to be a fan of Red Hot Chilli Peppers but jesus that new song drives me nuts its so bad!! And on the frickin radio non-stop!!

FillSpectre

Dudess wrote:

I think that coincided with the disappearance of Richie. Suddenly all the NME/MM hacks who slated them day in day out went all serious and appreciative of them. Bloody hypocrites.

Oasis - can't actually articulate how much I hate them:mad:

Even before your man disappeared they were getting massive praise and then he disappeared. I actually met him before he went missing. He got really mad becasue I pointed at his mutilated arm and siad he should have put "fu*king stupid" on it.

I can't stand Oasis either but am quite surprised at the hate for the Stones. I think the fact they kept going has tainted the mass of good work they produced and the reissues every week don't help.

grumpytrousers

Wertz wrote:

Have to agree...you'd need to be some pampered tweenie to hate stuff like that, especially PF...

no no no...y'see that's the point of the thread. I've tried to like Pink Floyd. I've listened to them with an open mind, thinking 'the world and his wife rates 'dark side of the moon' as top notch stuff' so it's bound to be good'

it just didn't do it for me. So i borrowe Echoes of a pal of mine. Perhaps it's just the 1973 stuff that wasn't for me, but there's plenty more in the ouvre. Nope. Nothing really grabbed me by the short'n'curlies and refused to let go.

Can't explain it. To be cliched, it's obvious that x gazillion Pink Floyd fans can't be 'wrong' per se, but I'll disagree with every man jack of them!

Ditto for the Smiths; I can appreciate perhaps 5 or 6 of their songs and just can't get beyond them after that.

Might as well row in with everybody else on the board and say that Paul McGuinness' showband from Finglas (© Scrap Saturday, 1990!) don't really float me boat either. Angel of Harlem is still my favourite song by them, and that's probably 'cos it doesn't sound like them!

Coldplay. Whinging betwetters the lot of 'em.

Radiohead...don't start me!

YeAh!

Kooli wrote:

Bob Marley - I just don't see the appeal at ALL!!

And Simply Red is definitely a given - no one is arguing with that one are they?

Know exactly how you feel about Bob Marley! Cannot for the life of me see how he has such a following. My hairdressers tendency to sing/bellow Bob Marley while she is cutting my hair may have had some influnce on my hatred for the man

arbeitsscheuer

Have we got all night?

Damien Rice, U2, The Smiths, Bon Jovi (most definitely Bon Jovi), The White Stripes, Franz Ferdinand (oh God I really hate them), the Kaiser Chiefs, the RHCP since Californication, The Stone Roses (and yet I like Ian Brown's solo stuff... Strange, no?), loads more too...

Oh, and Pete f**king Doherty.:mad:

Charm Offensive

Taking the thread title to mean "Which allegedly great artists do you dislike and can't understand the hype behind" (rather than HATE), then I'll say: The Pixies, Primal Scream, Green Day, The Postal Service (and I'm a huge DCFC fan), The White Stripes... that's about it. Hating bands/artists is bit of a waste of time, why don't you just try and expand your musical horizons so there's more stuff you can say you do like, instead of having aneurysms about how terrible you think U2 are? All these posts saying "wow I'm glad to see so much U2 bashing going on lolz!!1" are a bit pathetic if you ask me. And I ain't no U2 fan.

DerekD Goldfish

that's about it. Hating bands/artists is bit of a waste of time, why don't you just try and expand your musical horizons so there's more stuff you can say you do like, instead of having aneurysms about how terrible you think U2 are?

Hating things is fun

Wertz

DerekD Goldfish wrote:

Hating things is fun

"Can hate be good? Can hate be great?
Can hate be good, can hate be great, can hate be something we don't hate?"

*whistles*

chris01

quickbeam wrote:

By "great" I mean artists that are generally critically and commercially well regarded. But for whatever reason you just don't like. I'll start ...

Michael Jackson

It's not just because of his personal life but I truly dislike his music too. The only good thing I have to say about him is that he's a good dancer, but I turn the station off his music comes on.


U2

Just don't get them at all. One or two songs are passable, radio friendly stuff, but in general I find their songs to be just drab and boring.


Now your turn ....

I can agree with you there micheal jacksons personal life messed up everything for him if it wasnt for all the madness i recon he would be one of the best musicians of all time. I mean his thriller album is excellent and it sold over 50 million copies i heard.

colm_mcm

I may get shot down because of this,

But I hate Damien Dempsey, I know he's supposed to be a modern day Bob Dylan or something, but his accent bugs the hell out of me!

X-SL

my chemical romance, artic monkies, velvet revolver, some of U2's stuff, slayer

Ruu_Old

Barry Manilow *punches nose*

colm_mcm

Ruu wrote:

Barry Manilow *punches nose*

You'll have to punch harder than that.....

jazoo

Meat loaf/ bon jovi / brian adams / any pop idol crappy stuff SHANE WARD nobody should be allowed to market music exclusively just for kids . and leave u2 alone they done a lot to put Ireland on the map .

jazoo

Ruu wrote:

Barry Manilow *punches nose*

good call forgot about old big nose

Anto McC

Red Hot Chilli Peppers and The Who

dango

The clash, robbie williams, the ramones and bruce springsteen

simu

The Beatles. I mean, they had some good choons but produced some awful shíte too!