Most unlikable people in music

Sergei Malatov

Mike Love (The Beach Boys)

That is all.

Littlehorny

knew someone who dealt with famous people now and then and even though he was pre warned he said Bob Dylan was the most ingnorent contrary oul w**ker he ever met.

eviltwin

Kayne West

FortySeven

Ian Watkins.

loyatemu

Littlehorny wrote: »

knew someone who dealt with famous people now and then and even though he was pre warned he said Bob Dylan was the most ingnorent contrary oul w**ker he ever met.

some evidence of that here: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/13/night-bob-dylan-abandoned-me-at-petrol-station

Ironman76

Brian McFadden. . . . Oh wait, you said "music".

cbb1982

Bono

Rothko

I'd agree with Mike Love. I'd also nominate Gene Simmons, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj Adam Levine.

endacl

The bad pub 'band'. Whichever one happens to disturb my pint.

Lads. There's a world of difference between a 'line check' and a 'sound check'. And if you don't have enough talent to recognise ye have no talent, ye're in the wrong business.

Most recent example was yesterday in the Park Hotel in Dungarvan. A frankly shocking sax player, squeaking out bad tunes, midi style, while being accompanied by a guitar owner playing all the right chords for a different key. Comical for ten minutes. Left the pub after that.

blastman

Lars Ulrich

Make some room for Victoria Beckham, Axl Rose, Phil Spector, Ike Turner, Bobby Brown, Justin Bieber, Bon Jovi, that tit from The Script, the scobiest one of the three scumbags in NDubz, and oh Christ!, Mick Hucknall

threein99

eviltwin wrote: »

Kayne West

End of thread

gerrybbadd

blastman wrote: »

Lars Ulrich

Came here to say that!

Yamanoto

+1 for Mike Love of the Beach Boys, a man with an industry wide reputation as a deeply unpleasant human being.

If you were to get an envelope, seal it up and just write the word 'ᏟՍΝΤ' on the front and put it in a postbox anywhere on the planet, it'd end up on Mike Love's doormat.

loyatemu

he called his solo album "Mike Love, Not War" - gotta give him some credit for that.

on the other hand he called a later solo album "Summer in Paradise by The Beach Boys"

Saipanne

Sergei Malatov wrote: »

Mike Love (The Beach Boys)

That is all.

A towering cnut.

Saipanne

threein99 wrote: »

End of thread

Kayne has nothing on Mike Love.

OleRodrigo

The ' Boards After Hours Ensemble ' - bunch of cantankerous keyboard warriors tbh.

PaulM1977

The lead singer of Maroon 5, whatever his name is.

mahoganygas

Art Garfunkel was a bit of a d1ck at his vicar street gig a few years back.

loyatemu

mahoganygas wrote: »

Art Garfunkel was a bit of a d1ck at his vicar street gig a few years back.

I thought it was interesting that Paul Simon would rather tour with Sting of all people, rather than Garfunkel.

Yamanoto

mahoganygas wrote: »

Art Garfunkel was a bit of a d1ck at his vicar street gig a few years back.

What did he do?

I met Art Garfunkel about 10 years ago in a social setting & he was withdrawn & uncommunicative, almost to the point of being somewhere on the spectrum.

mahoganygas

Yamanoto wrote: »

What did he do?

I met Art Garfunkel about 10 years ago in a social setting & he was withdrawn & uncommunicative, almost to the point of being somewhere on the spectrum.

He had a go at a member of the audience for talking during the start of a song.
Made a big song and dance about it. Humiliated the poor woman and went on a self righteous tirade about how much work he puts into his songs and she had no respect for that.
He then asked her what she had to say that was so important.
She sheepishly told him that she was just telling her friend how much she loves this song.

Uggghhhh... I still cringe thinking about how awkward the room felt after that.

custard gannet

Morrisey strikes one as being an absolute plank.

Sergei Malatov

mahoganygas wrote: »

He had a go at a member of the audience for talking during the start of a song.
Made a big song and dance about it. Humiliated the poor woman and went on a self righteous tirade about how much work he puts into his songs and she had no respect for that.
He then asked her what she had to say that was so important.
She sheepishly told him that she was just telling her friend how much she loves this song.

Uggghhhh... I still cringe thinking about how awkward the room felt after that.

I am fully on Garfunkel's side.

Too many people aren't there in the moment. Why pay money to go to a show to chat on a mobile phone?

The Eagles have the right idea getting security to confiscate phones and kick people out of concerts if they don't oblige.

UsedToWait

Yamanoto wrote: »

+1 for Mike Love of the Beach Boys, a man with an industry wide reputation as a deeply unpleasant human being.

If you were to get an envelope, seal it up and just write the word 'ᏟՍΝΤ' on the front and put it in a postbox anywhere on the planet, it'd end up on Mike Love's doormat.

Can anyone recommend a book on the Beach Boys?
I'd be interested to discover where the lack of love for Mike comes from..

Sergei Malatov

UsedToWait wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a book on the Beach Boys?
I'd be interested to discover where the lack of love for Mike comes from..

Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson is a good start. And that leaves out a LOT of stuff.

https://manvsclown.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/why-i-hate-mike-love/

Read this article, and the accompanying comments. This will give you a good idea why he is so universally disliked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZSAQX2uuUY

And watch his speech for their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.

That should give you a good idea how much of a cretin he is.

Saipanne

UsedToWait wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a book on the Beach Boys?
I'd be interested to discover where the lack of love for Mike comes from..

I don't know any books, but there are documentaries on YouTube, and a film about Brian Wilson was out recently called Love & Mercy which features some Mike Cnutishness.

A great example of how much of a prick he is comes from the recording of Surfs Up. Brian was in the depths of depression at the time and wrote the AMAZING Til I Die about his experience. Upon playing it to the guys, Mike Love remarked "Well that's a ****ing downer".

RayM

Morrissey. Always loved his music, but I can't actually listen to him being interviewed without getting annoyed.

karaokeman

Saipanne wrote: »

Kayne has nothing on Mike Love.

Meh, at least Mike Love isn't a desperate attention seeker.

UsedToWait

Sergei Malatov wrote: »

Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson is a good start. And that leaves out a LOT of stuff.

https://manvsclown.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/why-i-hate-mike-love/

Read this article, and the accompanying comments. This will give you a good idea why he is so universally disliked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZSAQX2uuUY

And watch his speech for their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.

That should give you a good idea how much of a cretin he is.

Thanks. Just read the article and watched the speech, and I'm a convert to the cause. What an absolute tosspot.

Midlife Crashes

Has to be Ronnie Radke or Craig Owens.

Saipanne

karaokeman wrote: »

Meh, at least Mike Love isn't a desperate attention seeker.

Yes, he is.

mahoganygas

Sergei Malatov wrote: »

I am fully on Garfunkel's side.

Too many people aren't there in the moment. Why pay money to go to a show to chat on a mobile phone?

The Eagles have the right idea getting security to confiscate phones and kick people out of concerts if they don't oblige.

The woman leaned across the table and spoke to her friend when she heard the opening chord. There was no mobile phone, or constant chatter.

Are you suggesting everybody should remain in silence during gigs?
If I wanted to hear an artist's music in silence I'd stick in some earphones at home.

I go to a gig for the atmosphere. That comes from the crowd - singing along, dancing, clapping, cheering.

Saipanne

mahoganygas wrote: »

The woman leaned across the table and spoke to her friend when she heard the opening chord. There was no mobile phone, or constant chatter.

Are you suggesting everybody should remain in silence during gigs?
If I wanted to hear an artist's music in silence I'd stick in some earphones at home.

I go to a gig for the atmosphere. That comes from the crowd - singing along, dancing, clapping, cheering.

Was it a singer-songwriter type gig with just a guitar and voice?

If so, people should shut their mouths when the performance starts.

Rigsby

Thirty five posts in, and no mention of Mr Nasty himself...Ginger Baker...makes most of the other names mentioned so far, look like angels.

UsedToWait

Rigsby wrote: »

Thirty five posts in, and no mention of Mr Nasty himself...Ginger Baker...makes most of the other names mentioned so far, look like angels.

Great doc 'Beware of Mr Baker' if anyone hasn't seen it..
I think loveable rogue is the correct term for Ginger though

lewisdhead

Mark Kozelek springs to mind after a few recent spats he's had with other bands and journalists.

Rigsby

UsedToWait wrote: »

Great doc 'Beware of Mr Baker' if anyone hasn't seen it..
I think loveable rogue is the correct term for Ginger though

I agree with your first sentence. However...."arrogant, obnoxious, (insert your own noun here) who has not got a good word to say about anyone"...is closer to the mark than your "lovable rogue" IMO.

UsedToWait

Rigsby wrote: »

I agree with your first sentence. However...."arrogant, obnoxious, (insert your own noun here) who has not got a good word to say about anyone"...is closer to the mark than your "lovable rogue" IMO.

Well, I can't argue that he's all of the above, but there something about him that makes me forgive his foibles

Anyway, anyone who hates Clapton can't be all bad.. I read his (Clapton's) autobiography, and ended up disliking him more than when I started (the book was a present)..
The only other musician that had the same affect on me was Pete Townsend..

rodge68

Bernard Sumner..saw him at EP a few years back..he said something like this "it's as hard to get a good band as it is a good crowd these days"
Knob..
Dave Couse from A House (years and years ago) insulted the ****e out of the crowd...gave away my Big Fat Merry Go Round LP afterwards...

Rigsby

UsedToWait wrote: »

Well, I can't argue that he's all of the above, but there something about him that makes me forgive his foibles

Anyway, anyone who hates Clapton can't be all bad.. I read his (Clapton's) autobiography, and ended up disliking him more than when I started (the book was a present)..
The only other musician that had the same affect on me was Pete Townsend..

I read the Clapton book too and while he can be moody, self centered and at times very immature, again, IMO he is way behind Baker in the "Mr Obnoxious" stakes. Also, he does not hate Clapton at all. According to the film "Be Aware of Mr Baker", Clapton was one of the few people that Baker actually seemed to get along with.

It says a lot about Baker, when his own son says that it would have been better if he (Baker) had never had children. I dont see any reason why he should be forgiven seeing that he himself is generally responsible for the situation (generally financial) he finds himself in. Nothing about all the money he squandered on polo ponies. Yet he blames everyone any anyone else for his predicament.

Ursus Horribilis

Billy Corgan.

UsedToWait

Rigsby wrote: »

I read the Clapton book too and while he can be moody, self centered and at times very immature, again, IMO he is way behind Baker in the "Mr Obnoxious" stakes. Also, he does not hate Clapton at all. According to the film "Be Aware of Mr Baker", Clapton was one of the few people that Baker actually seemed to get along with.

It says a lot about Baker, when his own son says that it would have been better if he (Baker) had never had children. I dont see any reason why he should be forgiven seeing that he himself is generally responsible for the situation (generally financial) he finds himself in. Nothing about all the money he squandered on polo ponies. Yet he blames everyone any anyone else for his predicament.

Ah I'll conceed the Clapton point, was just using it as a segue from Baker
Still, I know who I'd prefer to go for a night out with

Sergei Malatov

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Don Henley or Glenn Frey yet.

I love their music but they are self-centered, egotistical, cantankerous greedy and hard to warm to.

Henley, though, has the talent to back it up more so than Frey - and I do agree with a lot of his worldviews.

I still like them anyway.

Joe Walsh can do no wrong - even though he is Henley and Frey's puppet and quickly forgot how Don Felder got him into rehab and was his support system when he was off his head on alcohol and drugs.

Anesthetize

Anton Newcombe strikes me as a massive tosser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSm5optFVUw

RainyDay

Sergei Malatov wrote: »

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Don Henley or Glenn Frey yet.

I love their music but they are self-centered, egotistical, cantankerous greedy and hard to warm to.

Henley, though, has the talent to back it up more so than Frey - and I do agree with a lot of his worldviews.

I still like them anyway.

Joe Walsh can do no wrong - even though he is Henley and Frey's puppet and quickly forgot how Don Felder got him into rehab and was his support system when he was off his head on alcohol and drugs.

I saw some bits of a documentary on the Eagles last year, and the 'greedy' bit came through loud and clear in the short segments that I watched.

RobertKK

Rihanna is intolerable. People who work for her have to dress in expensive clothes, zero tolerance for a family bereavement and they live to serve her.

sryanbruen

Justin Bieber, oh sorry "Dustbin Bieber" and MattyBRaps

TheBiz

Ariana Grande, I don't listen to most of the music played on the radio but I've heard somewhere that she's a self entitled little ****

O'Neill

Mark E Smith. Love his music, but he'd be the last person I would like to meet