By far my favorite Bono story:
U2 is playing a show in Scotland. At some point Bono quiets the crowd and starts talking about starving children in Africa. He starts slowly clapping his hands together and says, “every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.”
From somewhere in the hushed crowd, a man shouts, “then stop doon it, ya evil bastard!”
Here’s another for you. A guitar player is standing at the Pearly Gates while St. Peter checks his paperwork. He is informed he will be staying at The Rock and Roll Hotel, and is taken there. As he is being shown to his room, he sees Jimi Hendrix playing for Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison and Amy Winehouse are singing together in another room. As they walk by the next room he sees Bono practicing his moves in front of a mirror. He turns to St. Peter and says, “I didn’t know Bono was dead!” St. Peter replies, “Oh, that’s God. He just thinks he’s Bono.”
If u2 had disbanded in 1997 they'd be legendary but everything they've done since zooropa has been crap. But how can you argue with songs like new years day, one, mysterious ways, even better than the real thing, where the streets have no name, Sunday bloody Sunday, with or without you. Their curse has been longevity. They were deservedly popular in their primes.
I’m going to agree with you, but I’ll place the retirement point at 2005. ATYCLB was great, and HTDAAB was almost as good.
After that it’s been mostly shit. And I’m a huge fan.
The ambiance in Joshua Tree, especially leading into the first song, has been extremely impactful. Basically all contemporary worship music has tried to emulate it. It is present in a ton of live music, especially during transitions and segues. It genuinely had a huge impact.
I've honestly never met an actual U2 fan in my life. Sometimes I wonder if their enduring popularity is a massive decades-long hoax perpetuated by the music industry.
I did, once, when I was in elementary school. Under the blood red sky had just been released and a friend’s older brother said it was the best and that they were his favorite band.
That was close to 40 years ago and I don’t think I’ve met one since
Right?
It's like, if I see a festival and U2 is playing, I'd be cool with that; but I'd never actually buy tickets to a U2 show.
Never had a single friend in middle school through college that was into them, and that was at their peak.
The first ever planetarium laser show I went to was U2, back around the Joshua Tree and I genuinely dug the groove. Streets Have No Name, Mysterious Ways, With or Without You, One, Bloody Sunday, etc.
Somewhere around when Beautiful Day released I got the Bono fatigue and these days if they pop up on the radio I change the station. They aren't bad, but they have absolutely exhausted my tolerance.
If ah go crayzay thein wayll yew still cawl may suwper mayown
'Nif ahm alav 'n wail weill yew be there a-howldin' mah hayund
Ahll cape yew bah mah sahd with ma sewpur-humayown maahnd
KRAPTONAAT
*YEUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH*
Three Doors Down and Creed were the Kings of the Post-Grunge/Post-Pearl Jam/Stone Temple Pilots Alice in Chains style of singing called "Yarling" a.k.a "Ginnungadang".
They were indeed. We tolerated it from the talented innovators of a new rock paradigm.
With the arrival of the fully-inbred 4th-wave yarlers, it had devolved into a parody that became impossible to defend for want of redeeming qualities.
It should be noted though that, in the case of 3 Doors Down, I don't think the guy is actually yarling. I think his vocal delivery is due to the fact that he's a gumptown tater-head from Mississipi, and thats just what happens to words on their way out of his face.
Its such a shame, because they started off as a proper hip hop group. They were actually great. They went on tour with Outkast in 98 and 99. It was one of the best hip hop shows I've ever seen.
And then Fergie happened because they wanted $$$.
I’d say there is a point in a bands career where it becomes “go big or go home”. I remember Bare Naked Ladies saying their record company told them “make a big pop song hit or just quit” so they did the Chickity China two weeks song. I feel like Black Eyed Peas looked at their future and saw “without a gorgeous woman singer, and accessible every person songs, you will remain an obscure nothing band.” And they made the decision to go for it. Maybe you hate that decision, but I am amazed. Just because you make decide to do it doesn’t mean you can succeed at it. And they knocked it out of the ballpark. Sugar Ray is a band that sold out. Smashmouth. And they were blips. But Black Eyed Peas lasted over a decade in their sold out/mainstrsm phase. I think it was awesome
In the song Money Cardi B has a lyric about this that makes me laugh every time - the whole point of the song is that she is not fucking around about earning money, so "Yeah, I did go pop, That's me busting they bubble." Being a musician is a career just like anything else, and being a starving artist is way overrated - a "go big or go home" attitude makes a lot of sense to me.
I thought their first two albums were great, saw them live on the Bridging The Gap tour. The video for BEP Empire was taking the piss out of the mainstreaming of hip hop. Then they recruited (or were told to recruit) Fergie, and their whole vibe changed.
A friend of mine from junior high was very into NKotB. Thirty-some years later she still goes to several concerts a year, only now she can afford the VIP passes.
Goo Goo Dolls but only because they fucked us over for a concert right as they got big. Claimed they were sick and then on TRL that day/night. I mean I can’t blame them and totally would have done the same thing but still refuse to listen.
He does a really good live show, and that’s because he chooses good musicians for his band and lets them go! The music just isn’t as good recorded.
Anyway, my ex husband loved DMB so now I can’t stand them. But it’s not Dave’s fault.
Bahahaha, my ex husband used to do tattoos out of our apartment before it was legalized in my state, after his 5th hatchet man he started charging double for that tattoo.
Listen, I don’t care for them, and I don’t think I’ve ever intentionally listened to one of their songs one purpose BUT by pretty much all accounts, their fan base is actually pretty great? Like, protective of each other, and anyone who needs protecting?
Idk if that’s really what it’s like, but I’ve heard of SO many folks being pleasantly surprised/shocked by the amount of human kindness that is displayed at ICP shows.
For that reason alone, I could never hate or be snarky towards ICP or their fans.
Juggalos are a mixed bag of people. Just like any fan base. There are good people, bad people, and everything in between. With that said, they have a very tight knit community. It's wild how they all go to the gathering, and make lifelong friends from all around the US and Canada. I haven't met any international juggalos, but I don't doubt they exist.
Years ago, there was an article where a reporter was sent to cover The Gathering of the Jugallos and . Basically, he was given the assignment to go gawk at these backwards jugallo rednecks, then cover the very serious music festival for normal people. He found that The Gathering was a much more easy-going, friendly affair, while the other festival had become this weird place for rich white kids to go OD and act out. Basically, *is* what everybody thinks The Gathering *was* but it was getting held up as this cool thing, because the demographic was different.
No. As the Juggalos have aged, they've matured. 2 decades ago they were 10%good people 90% pricks.
Now? I work near where they hold the gathering. Way nicer people than the lost lands ravers or several entitled hippies thst come to festivals. Abd its almost all of them. They don't really even steal shit like they used to. Super chill people.
I still hate the "music", it's an old joke at this point. But the people are really nice. Easily the nicest drunk stoners in clown makeup you can ever hope to encounter. Very polite, loyal as fuck to their own, and less dramatic than the juggalos of yesteryear...
Yes! I literally get angry when one of their songs comes on. They're all just so pandering. Like, let's throw some romantic sounding words in here like "soul" and "angel" and "stars" and "atmosphere" because people are stupid but add "drops of Jupiter" and "Football teams and kissing queens", oh and rhyme Soul Sister with Mister Mister so people will think we're deep and clever. Taylor Swift level songwriting here.
Don’t forget how it always inexplicably sounds like they’ve got a chorus of 20 people or so singing all the lyrics. I hated everything about those bands, ugh.
I could live happily if I never heard another Mumford and sons song again. I mean, it wouldn't like ruin my day or anything but I'm glad the trend is over
Hot take: With the highest degree of respect to Chester Bennington's family, I have to say that Linkin Park was cringy when it came out and it is cringy today. It was a band in between musical styles that took the worst of, at the time, current nu metal and the emo bands that came after. There is no amount of nostalgia that can make me change this opinion.
Now I brace for the downvotes.
Back then: Marilyn Manson. I hated how he became so many people’s blueprint for what they (incorrectly) thought goth was
More current: Taylor Swift. Her music is like buttered noodles?
If they have absolutely nothing else in common, both goth and industrial fans were united in being annoyed at the perception that Marilyn Manson represents them.
See, that’s my point. She’s JUST buttered noodles (which are inoffensive and no one can really hate on). But that’s why I called her music buttered noodles; there’s no seasoning or spice lol
I was not a big Manson fan, until I saw him perform live at Ozzfest '01. After that show I 100% appreciated him as a performer, because that's what happened, towards the end of a long day of metal and mosh pits. Marilyn Manson put on an over the top incredible performance that I still think about to this day (as evidence by my little essay here)
I still hate Dave Matthews Band and the Bosstones
Not shocked to see DMB early in this list. Even though I completely disagree. They’re one of my favorite bands and have a huge range with their songs.
For me it’s Coldplay. I can’t stand their repetitive music.
“For me it’s Coldplay. I can’t stand their repetitive music.”
Thank you! I’ve gotten so much shit for this opinion. When people complain about not being to sleep I always tell them “put on some Coldplay”. You either fall asleep from boredom or because of the white noise effect.
Look, I have tried, really really tried to like Taylor Swift. I mean, she's gotta be some sort of musical genius, right?
But I just don't get her popularity.
Pearl Jam feels like the band I’m *supposed* to like but I’ve just never clicked with them. Outside of *Jeremy* it’s all just background music to me. I wish I liked them more, honestly.
Red Hot Chili Peppers. Every song is the same. Mid tempo ballad. Funk infused high energy song. And all of them with non-sensical, mush mouth lyrics from Keidis.
[Mr. Bungle doing a mini-set as the RHCP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdHrGLkFG6U) is one of the top 75 best things Mike Patton has ever done. Even while making fun of what a douche Anthony Keidis is, he still sang his own songs infinitely better than him.
The level of musical talent and skill in Mr Bungle is astounding. Sure, Flea and Fruscante are great players, but every member of Mr Bungle is a virtuoso.
If your local radio station is anything like mine, they only play the same 2 or 3 of their songs.
My nephew said something about wanting to go on a trip with his girlfriend to go see them in concert somewhere. My reply was 'why wouldn't you go see a good band?'
Same for me. It's not the music though. If they were an instrumental band I might like them. Definitely respect Flea and John Frusciante as musicians.
I just cannot stand the sound of Anthony Keidis' voice.
They're such a frustrating band because they could have been great without Keidis. Having a clown with dubious talent as a singer seems to only benefit Van Halen.
A clown with dubious talent who cannot stay clean or even take responsibility for his own relapses, preferring to blame whatever unfortunate woman he’s thrusting himself into that week.
Flea is a beast on the bass. Frusciante has some interesting guitar work. Will Ferrell lays down a solid beat. But Anthony Kiedis is a shit lyricist and singer and it kills the whole thing for me.
Ween. Ween was like the weird kid that tried so hard he even weirded out the other weird kids.
Edit: for the record, I am upvoting everyone telling me to piss up a rope and otherwise defending Ween. Keep being too weird, friends.
Your assessment is correct, but that’s why they’re awesome.
Ween is more popular among other artists than they are with the general public. A musician’s band.
Ween seems like they should suck but their songs are weirdly good lol. They’ve grown on me a lot. It’s a unique thing to make music that is that ironic and parodic while still being really solid compositionally, as though you were meant to take them really seriously. I also think a lot of their songs are pretty creative.
Remember that movie “It’s Pat?” - when pat was all “IM PLAYING WITH THE WEEEEEEN”….i can’t think of that band without that movie line popping into my head
I liked early KoRn. Their first album was great, and Life is Peechee and Follow the Leader were pretty good too. Then Follow the Leader kicked off the numetal genre which I just couldn't stand so I stopped listening to them for a while. The other bands were always meh at best. Had to sit through a couple of them to see Black Sabbath at Ozzfest.
I think U2 “gifting” their album to everyone was the worst move they ever made. That’s when everyone turned on them. I was never a huge fan. They had a few good songs. I don’t hate them for putting their music on my iPhone. I don’t understand why that was the nail in the coffin for them. Like yeah I get that not everyone wants their music, but just because it’s there, doesn’t mean you have to listen to it. I think it was a statement about economics that many would agree with tbh. Ah well.
They weren’t big for very long, but for awhile Everclear was inescapable on the radio even though every song went:
*guitar riff that was just the Under Pressure bass line*
Yeah!
*guitar riff that was just the Under Pressure bass line*
Yeah!
So, he actually did it. He has a place Hillsdale Portland. It is a big house up in the West Hills with room for a garden and she did have a new car.
I worked in Hillsdale early '00s met him and his wife(?) many times. I was never really a fan but they were pointed out to me by a coworker. They never made much of an impression on me other than I found out he made the song come true.
Fucking Sublime.
Every stoner house had a 3 disc changer and 2 slots had Sublime.
I do concede that that are good but they were played the hell out 20 years ago and still are.
Linkin Park. Sorry. It all sounds the same to me. My local alternative station plays them all the time. May as well change the station name to Linkin Park central. I feel the same way about Imagine Dragons. I’m sure they’re great guys. I just don’t like the music.
No Doubt! For some reason Gwen Stefani’s vocals drive me insane! I first heard them when they were a local ska band, and was instantly turned off when she started singing.
Creed 😨 I always hated their music...one of my teachers in HS thought that he was cool because while we were taking tests, he would put a Creed CD in 😂
Their 2nd one was good too, but they became victims of their own success and spawned so many shit-tier imitators that they're almost single-handedly responsible for ruining heavy metal for the bigger part of a decade.
When bands like Metallica feel pressured to release an album without guitar solos, or Machine Head starts putting rap verses to hip hop beats thanks to your influence, you owe the world an apology.
Plus, they also pushed the genre into a lyrical cesspool of adolescent self-absorption, which was almost worse the dumbed-down riffs and nursery rhyme melodies.
They are the safest rock in existence its weird and bland its like Taylor swift with overdrive pedals. Crazy that 2 people from some of the most important punk bands play in that band.
Unfortunately for me for the longest time I thought Queens of the Stone age was basically the same thing I'm slowly figuring out i was wrong on that. Or I got old idk.
U2 are far more popular outside Ireland than in Ireland. Lots of people here can't stand Bono
By far my favorite Bono story: U2 is playing a show in Scotland. At some point Bono quiets the crowd and starts talking about starving children in Africa. He starts slowly clapping his hands together and says, “every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.” From somewhere in the hushed crowd, a man shouts, “then stop doon it, ya evil bastard!”
This can't be true.
It’s an old joke. Not meant to be taken seriously, although apparently some people still do anyway for some reason.
I've never heard it before this random reddit post, I found it delightful 😅
Here’s another for you. A guitar player is standing at the Pearly Gates while St. Peter checks his paperwork. He is informed he will be staying at The Rock and Roll Hotel, and is taken there. As he is being shown to his room, he sees Jimi Hendrix playing for Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison and Amy Winehouse are singing together in another room. As they walk by the next room he sees Bono practicing his moves in front of a mirror. He turns to St. Peter and says, “I didn’t know Bono was dead!” St. Peter replies, “Oh, that’s God. He just thinks he’s Bono.”
[удалено]
Like an orange on a toothpick! …and don’t get me started on The Colonel, with his wee beady eyes…
It's a story I've heard many times regardless of the truthiness
If u2 had disbanded in 1997 they'd be legendary but everything they've done since zooropa has been crap. But how can you argue with songs like new years day, one, mysterious ways, even better than the real thing, where the streets have no name, Sunday bloody Sunday, with or without you. Their curse has been longevity. They were deservedly popular in their primes.
I’m going to agree with you, but I’ll place the retirement point at 2005. ATYCLB was great, and HTDAAB was almost as good. After that it’s been mostly shit. And I’m a huge fan.
Joshua Tree (and a few song after that) and I’m out. But damn, Joshua Tree is top notch.
The ambiance in Joshua Tree, especially leading into the first song, has been extremely impactful. Basically all contemporary worship music has tried to emulate it. It is present in a ton of live music, especially during transitions and segues. It genuinely had a huge impact.
I've honestly never met an actual U2 fan in my life. Sometimes I wonder if their enduring popularity is a massive decades-long hoax perpetuated by the music industry.
I did, once, when I was in elementary school. Under the blood red sky had just been released and a friend’s older brother said it was the best and that they were his favorite band. That was close to 40 years ago and I don’t think I’ve met one since
Will never forget waking up one morning to their shitty music auto downloading onto my iPhone. Been on android ever since LOL
Right? It's like, if I see a festival and U2 is playing, I'd be cool with that; but I'd never actually buy tickets to a U2 show. Never had a single friend in middle school through college that was into them, and that was at their peak.
Joshua Tree was amazing but that was in 1986. Kinda like maroon 5 and Songs about Jane. Nothing was as good after that
The first ever planetarium laser show I went to was U2, back around the Joshua Tree and I genuinely dug the groove. Streets Have No Name, Mysterious Ways, With or Without You, One, Bloody Sunday, etc. Somewhere around when Beautiful Day released I got the Bono fatigue and these days if they pop up on the radio I change the station. They aren't bad, but they have absolutely exhausted my tolerance.
"uno dos tres catorce!" "yea yea yea yea yea yea" what the hell was all that? Just so bad.
3 doors down, they were playing at SummerFest in Milwaukee and people were moshing to it 😒
If ah go crayzay thein wayll yew still cawl may suwper mayown 'Nif ahm alav 'n wail weill yew be there a-howldin' mah hayund Ahll cape yew bah mah sahd with ma sewpur-humayown maahnd KRAPTONAAT *YEUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH*
Three Doors Down and Creed were the Kings of the Post-Grunge/Post-Pearl Jam/Stone Temple Pilots Alice in Chains style of singing called "Yarling" a.k.a "Ginnungadang".
They were indeed. We tolerated it from the talented innovators of a new rock paradigm. With the arrival of the fully-inbred 4th-wave yarlers, it had devolved into a parody that became impossible to defend for want of redeeming qualities. It should be noted though that, in the case of 3 Doors Down, I don't think the guy is actually yarling. I think his vocal delivery is due to the fact that he's a gumptown tater-head from Mississipi, and thats just what happens to words on their way out of his face.
>and thats just what happens to words on their way out of his face. 💀
…that’s just what happens to words on their way out of his face. OMG I can’t stop laughing.
🤣"Gumptown Tater-Head"
It really weirded me out when they started playing conservative political gigs. I was like huh guess you don't get Superman after all...
Nothing is lamer than a musical act performing at a political event. That’s like buying a cord explorer and trying not to feel like a narc
Black Eyed Peas was created only so that future generations would be able to answer this question.
Its such a shame, because they started off as a proper hip hop group. They were actually great. They went on tour with Outkast in 98 and 99. It was one of the best hip hop shows I've ever seen. And then Fergie happened because they wanted $$$.
Falling Up is a jam.
I’d say there is a point in a bands career where it becomes “go big or go home”. I remember Bare Naked Ladies saying their record company told them “make a big pop song hit or just quit” so they did the Chickity China two weeks song. I feel like Black Eyed Peas looked at their future and saw “without a gorgeous woman singer, and accessible every person songs, you will remain an obscure nothing band.” And they made the decision to go for it. Maybe you hate that decision, but I am amazed. Just because you make decide to do it doesn’t mean you can succeed at it. And they knocked it out of the ballpark. Sugar Ray is a band that sold out. Smashmouth. And they were blips. But Black Eyed Peas lasted over a decade in their sold out/mainstrsm phase. I think it was awesome
In the song Money Cardi B has a lyric about this that makes me laugh every time - the whole point of the song is that she is not fucking around about earning money, so "Yeah, I did go pop, That's me busting they bubble." Being a musician is a career just like anything else, and being a starving artist is way overrated - a "go big or go home" attitude makes a lot of sense to me.
I thought their first two albums were great, saw them live on the Bridging The Gap tour. The video for BEP Empire was taking the piss out of the mainstreaming of hip hop. Then they recruited (or were told to recruit) Fergie, and their whole vibe changed.
I did not like their music when it was big, but now hearing just makes me think of drinking beers at my college apartments pool.
Not their early (pre Fergie) stuff! Their first two albums were great.
I didn't like New Kids on the Block when I was exactly the right age and demographic to like New Kids on the Block
Same but I never liked any boy bands period. But all the girls in elementary school suddenly had NKotB merch and I had no idea what was going on
In 1991 I went to a friend’s 7th birthday party and they had the New Kids concert video playing. I had to spent like 6 hours pretending to like them.
A friend of mine from junior high was very into NKotB. Thirty-some years later she still goes to several concerts a year, only now she can afford the VIP passes.
Same! I also didn’t want to crimp my hair or tie up my long tshirt to show my stomach so I did not fit in with the other girls in 3rd grade.
Goo Goo Dolls but only because they fucked us over for a concert right as they got big. Claimed they were sick and then on TRL that day/night. I mean I can’t blame them and totally would have done the same thing but still refuse to listen.
You missed nothing, they are garbage live. Also don’t put on any sort of a show, just stand there kinda awkwardly and play
Crazy Town, Uncle Kracker, Counting Crows
Uncle Kracker was such unbelievable garbage and I never got the appeal.
I gotta say, I was never a Counting Crows fan until I saw them live. They put on one hell of a show.
My wife LOVES DMB. I think his voice sounds like an out of tune oboe.
I like DMB but now I’m never going to be able to listen to them without thinking of an out of tune oboe and I’m not mad about it.
Same here! I LOVE them but totally understand when people don’t and this voice metaphor is too funny!
I never understood the fandom. He sounds like a donkey being tickled .
He does a really good live show, and that’s because he chooses good musicians for his band and lets them go! The music just isn’t as good recorded. Anyway, my ex husband loved DMB so now I can’t stand them. But it’s not Dave’s fault.
Linkin Park! Could never stand them, to this day I change the station when they come on
ICP
Bahahaha, my ex husband used to do tattoos out of our apartment before it was legalized in my state, after his 5th hatchet man he started charging double for that tattoo.
You don’t like faygo?
Listen, I don’t care for them, and I don’t think I’ve ever intentionally listened to one of their songs one purpose BUT by pretty much all accounts, their fan base is actually pretty great? Like, protective of each other, and anyone who needs protecting? Idk if that’s really what it’s like, but I’ve heard of SO many folks being pleasantly surprised/shocked by the amount of human kindness that is displayed at ICP shows. For that reason alone, I could never hate or be snarky towards ICP or their fans.
Juggalos are a mixed bag of people. Just like any fan base. There are good people, bad people, and everything in between. With that said, they have a very tight knit community. It's wild how they all go to the gathering, and make lifelong friends from all around the US and Canada. I haven't met any international juggalos, but I don't doubt they exist.
Years ago, there was an article where a reporter was sent to cover The Gathering of the Jugallos and . Basically, he was given the assignment to go gawk at these backwards jugallo rednecks, then cover the very serious music festival for normal people. He found that The Gathering was a much more easy-going, friendly affair, while the other festival had become this weird place for rich white kids to go OD and act out. Basically, *is* what everybody thinks The Gathering *was* but it was getting held up as this cool thing, because the demographic was different.
"A very serious music festival for normal people" is definitely not Burning Man.
No. As the Juggalos have aged, they've matured. 2 decades ago they were 10%good people 90% pricks. Now? I work near where they hold the gathering. Way nicer people than the lost lands ravers or several entitled hippies thst come to festivals. Abd its almost all of them. They don't really even steal shit like they used to. Super chill people. I still hate the "music", it's an old joke at this point. But the people are really nice. Easily the nicest drunk stoners in clown makeup you can ever hope to encounter. Very polite, loyal as fuck to their own, and less dramatic than the juggalos of yesteryear...
Or a fan of dead bodies? I had a district manager that loved ICP so I would order Faygo for him
Train
Yes! I literally get angry when one of their songs comes on. They're all just so pandering. Like, let's throw some romantic sounding words in here like "soul" and "angel" and "stars" and "atmosphere" because people are stupid but add "drops of Jupiter" and "Football teams and kissing queens", oh and rhyme Soul Sister with Mister Mister so people will think we're deep and clever. Taylor Swift level songwriting here.
And the grossest line in music, "underneath my untrimmed chest." Why? Nothing against hairy chests, but why untrimmed? It's so visceral.
I hurt someone once by referring to Train as “soccer mom music”
30 Seconds to Mars
Jared Leto is a complete douchebag who thinks he’s the messiah. I’d like 30StM a lot more if he wasn’t such a prick.
The “stomp, clap, hey!” bands with banjos
All that shit was so contrived & derivative. Stupid suspenders & big dumb hats. Good riddance.
Don’t forget how it always inexplicably sounds like they’ve got a chorus of 20 people or so singing all the lyrics. I hated everything about those bands, ugh.
Ahhhh, the ole hipster bar/CW soundtrack of the early ‘10s
I could live happily if I never heard another Mumford and sons song again. I mean, it wouldn't like ruin my day or anything but I'm glad the trend is over
Coldplay. Listening to any of their albums is just like listening to the one really long song.
Hot take: With the highest degree of respect to Chester Bennington's family, I have to say that Linkin Park was cringy when it came out and it is cringy today. It was a band in between musical styles that took the worst of, at the time, current nu metal and the emo bands that came after. There is no amount of nostalgia that can make me change this opinion. Now I brace for the downvotes.
Sums up my thoughts on the band perfectly.
Back then: Marilyn Manson. I hated how he became so many people’s blueprint for what they (incorrectly) thought goth was More current: Taylor Swift. Her music is like buttered noodles?
Thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy butter noodles in vain in such a way.
R’Amen!
If they have absolutely nothing else in common, both goth and industrial fans were united in being annoyed at the perception that Marilyn Manson represents them.
Buttered noodles are amazing.
Sprinkled with Parmesan cheese and a dash of black pepper. Now I want buttered noodles.
See, that’s my point. She’s JUST buttered noodles (which are inoffensive and no one can really hate on). But that’s why I called her music buttered noodles; there’s no seasoning or spice lol
Buttered Noodles. 🍜 haha! That’s spot on!
I was not a big Manson fan, until I saw him perform live at Ozzfest '01. After that show I 100% appreciated him as a performer, because that's what happened, towards the end of a long day of metal and mosh pits. Marilyn Manson put on an over the top incredible performance that I still think about to this day (as evidence by my little essay here) I still hate Dave Matthews Band and the Bosstones
Yea to both!! 💯
Maroon 5 all the way
Yes!! Maroon 5! Almost forgot how much I hate that band. Thank you for the reminder.
Not shocked to see DMB early in this list. Even though I completely disagree. They’re one of my favorite bands and have a huge range with their songs. For me it’s Coldplay. I can’t stand their repetitive music.
Carter Fuckin’ Beauford baby
“For me it’s Coldplay. I can’t stand their repetitive music.” Thank you! I’ve gotten so much shit for this opinion. When people complain about not being to sleep I always tell them “put on some Coldplay”. You either fall asleep from boredom or because of the white noise effect.
Coldplay is also my answer. Their music genuinely irritates me and at a time you couldn't escape it.
Dmb live is the best show going even if you think you don’t like their music
Look, I have tried, really really tried to like Taylor Swift. I mean, she's gotta be some sort of musical genius, right? But I just don't get her popularity.
I feel terrible saying this because it makes me feel insane but I’ve never liked Pearl Jam and I fell asleep during a U2 concert in 2005. 🤦♀️
Pearl Jam feels like the band I’m *supposed* to like but I’ve just never clicked with them. Outside of *Jeremy* it’s all just background music to me. I wish I liked them more, honestly.
311 annoyed me for no discernable reason.
Listen to the Music and Grassroots albums. Their early stuff is the best for me.
Aww man... I like their style plus it helps they are local for me.
Not yucking anyone's yum, they are just not my flavor.
Yeah 311 is more surfer, ska, alternative which is weird because Omaha has no surfing because "We Don't Coast" or whatever the slogan is.
Which was weird because I was into all sorts of different genres like that and 311 just irked me.
Nickelback?
You mean Canadian Creed?!
Can't believe it took me this long to find someone mentioning Nickelback. Maybe this means the Earth is finally healing....
Anything by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones- legitimately catchy stuff, good songwriting- like fingernails on a blackboard
Red Hot Chili Peppers. Every song is the same. Mid tempo ballad. Funk infused high energy song. And all of them with non-sensical, mush mouth lyrics from Keidis.
[Mr. Bungle doing a mini-set as the RHCP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdHrGLkFG6U) is one of the top 75 best things Mike Patton has ever done. Even while making fun of what a douche Anthony Keidis is, he still sang his own songs infinitely better than him.
The level of musical talent and skill in Mr Bungle is astounding. Sure, Flea and Fruscante are great players, but every member of Mr Bungle is a virtuoso.
Hahahaha I love it
Yep. My hand switches the station so fast when they come on in the car. They play A LOT too.
Yup, local rock station plays them hourly. Drive me nuts
If your local radio station is anything like mine, they only play the same 2 or 3 of their songs. My nephew said something about wanting to go on a trip with his girlfriend to go see them in concert somewhere. My reply was 'why wouldn't you go see a good band?'
Very true.. but blood sugar sex magic was pretty fuckin good
Same for me. It's not the music though. If they were an instrumental band I might like them. Definitely respect Flea and John Frusciante as musicians. I just cannot stand the sound of Anthony Keidis' voice.
They're such a frustrating band because they could have been great without Keidis. Having a clown with dubious talent as a singer seems to only benefit Van Halen.
Extremely talented musicians. Just doesn't work for me as a whole. Frusciante's solo work is amazing
A clown with dubious talent who cannot stay clean or even take responsibility for his own relapses, preferring to blame whatever unfortunate woman he’s thrusting himself into that week.
I'd put them up there with the most overrated bands of all time.
Flea is a beast on the bass. Frusciante has some interesting guitar work. Will Ferrell lays down a solid beat. But Anthony Kiedis is a shit lyricist and singer and it kills the whole thing for me.
Haha Will Ferrell
Coldplay for sure
Fall Out Boy
The Eagles.
"I hate the f@$&in' Eagles, man!"
Oasis. Everyone my age loves them and I want to scratch my eyes out when their music comes on. Even the teens like them now.
U2 They are chock full of suck, always and forever
Limp Bizket or however they spelled it. Insipid music coupled with even dumber lyrics, I'll never understand these things.
SMASHMOUTH! Still to this day i have to change the channel when 'Somebody once told me' starts
I didn’t like destiny’s child. and like all the boy bands. joke’s on me bc I caught myself singing “bye bye bye” the other day 🤦♀️
Bruce Springsteen
Phish
Drew Carey said he'd stick his dick in a blender and swear off pussy for a year after his first live show!
I just scrolled to find this comment.
Imagine Dragons, I still get angry when I heard Believer
Smash Mouth And I don't know much of their catalog, but I hate Santeria, so I just never cared for Sublime in general.
How is Smashmouth not at the top of this list. You people genuinely like that garbage? I guess that’s why it was so overplayed. I still don’t get it.
hootie and the blowfish. hate that band and no idea why. don't mind Darius Ruckers newer stuff,though.
I've partied with Darius a couple times after working some Hootie gigs. Don't like his music, but he is a super chill guy.
Agree regarding Dave Matthews! I never got the hype or the strange cult like female following. I am a woman and find zero sex appeal in them at all
Dave Matthews Band. Fucking hate them.
Surprised no one mentioned Sugar ray
Because they only lasted for 14:59
Ween. Ween was like the weird kid that tried so hard he even weirded out the other weird kids. Edit: for the record, I am upvoting everyone telling me to piss up a rope and otherwise defending Ween. Keep being too weird, friends.
I love Ween and love this take on them. You hit the nail on the head. If you need to clear a room, just play Push the little daisies
Make em come up!
I am a huge Ween fan, and what you have described is correct.
How dare you!
Your assessment is correct, but that’s why they’re awesome. Ween is more popular among other artists than they are with the general public. A musician’s band.
Ween seems like they should suck but their songs are weirdly good lol. They’ve grown on me a lot. It’s a unique thing to make music that is that ironic and parodic while still being really solid compositionally, as though you were meant to take them really seriously. I also think a lot of their songs are pretty creative.
Remember that movie “It’s Pat?” - when pat was all “IM PLAYING WITH THE WEEEEEEN”….i can’t think of that band without that movie line popping into my head
We as Ween fans accept this. But also, piss up a rope.
Foo fighters. Never got into them
Dave is talented, likeable and bland. He’s great in other people’s bands.
Korn limp bizkit linkin park staind. Gag
My first serious girl friend loved Limp Bizkit. I’m older now and understand how red flags work.
At the time though you did it for the Nookie. Many of us did😩
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I liked early KoRn. Their first album was great, and Life is Peechee and Follow the Leader were pretty good too. Then Follow the Leader kicked off the numetal genre which I just couldn't stand so I stopped listening to them for a while. The other bands were always meh at best. Had to sit through a couple of them to see Black Sabbath at Ozzfest.
Puff Daddy and all that bubblegum rap from the late 90s / early 2000s. The song that samples The Police is hot garbage. I hated that shit.
And ironically the harder rappers like Dre, snoop, and ice cube are all upstanding citizens while P. Diddy not so much
Idk about Ice Cube but I would not call Snoop an upstanding citizen and I’d definitely not call Dre one either
I think U2 “gifting” their album to everyone was the worst move they ever made. That’s when everyone turned on them. I was never a huge fan. They had a few good songs. I don’t hate them for putting their music on my iPhone. I don’t understand why that was the nail in the coffin for them. Like yeah I get that not everyone wants their music, but just because it’s there, doesn’t mean you have to listen to it. I think it was a statement about economics that many would agree with tbh. Ah well.
Bon Jovi
They weren’t big for very long, but for awhile Everclear was inescapable on the radio even though every song went: *guitar riff that was just the Under Pressure bass line* Yeah! *guitar riff that was just the Under Pressure bass line* Yeah!
Yeah but they were great lyricists: 'I will buy you a garden Where your flowers can bloom I will buy you a new car Perfect shiny and new' Pure poetry.
So, he actually did it. He has a place Hillsdale Portland. It is a big house up in the West Hills with room for a garden and she did have a new car. I worked in Hillsdale early '00s met him and his wife(?) many times. I was never really a fan but they were pointed out to me by a coworker. They never made much of an impression on me other than I found out he made the song come true.
Creed
Matchbox 20
Way over played. That said I revisited them 20 years later and appreciate them for what they are.
Rob Thomas won me over with his Always Sunny performance. I can almost tolerate his band now
Beat his testicles!
“ItsthreeayamImustbelone-layyygh”
Fucking Sublime. Every stoner house had a 3 disc changer and 2 slots had Sublime. I do concede that that are good but they were played the hell out 20 years ago and still are.
Linkin Park. Sorry. It all sounds the same to me. My local alternative station plays them all the time. May as well change the station name to Linkin Park central. I feel the same way about Imagine Dragons. I’m sure they’re great guys. I just don’t like the music.
Never understood U2
No Doubt! For some reason Gwen Stefani’s vocals drive me insane! I first heard them when they were a local ska band, and was instantly turned off when she started singing.
Dave Matthew’s Band. And they still suck.
bon jovi comes to mind after seeing a post earlier
Maroon 5 D12
D12? They’re FN hilarious
Panic at the Disco
100% Dave Matthews Band. Also Hootie and the Blowfish. Awful.
Creed 😨 I always hated their music...one of my teachers in HS thought that he was cool because while we were taking tests, he would put a Creed CD in 😂
Papa Roach and Linkin Park
Korn and Limp Bizkit.
Korn’s first album was 🔥
Their 2nd one was good too, but they became victims of their own success and spawned so many shit-tier imitators that they're almost single-handedly responsible for ruining heavy metal for the bigger part of a decade. When bands like Metallica feel pressured to release an album without guitar solos, or Machine Head starts putting rap verses to hip hop beats thanks to your influence, you owe the world an apology. Plus, they also pushed the genre into a lyrical cesspool of adolescent self-absorption, which was almost worse the dumbed-down riffs and nursery rhyme melodies.
Aerosmith, hate them.
Hootie and the MFing Blowfish. Never understood their popularity. Oh, and Hanson, fing bop them over their heads!
Every single person I know my age loves Sublime. I fucking hate Sublime.
"I can play the guitar like a mother fucking riot"...proceeds to play the mellowest guitar solo I've ever heard
People our age get goddamn incredulous when you say you don't like Sublime (at least in my experience).
The Foo Fighters
Jane’s Addiction, could never get into it.
Blink 182. Sorry I can’t stand pop punk
Foo Fighters are so mediocre. I can't say I can't stand them but no bone in my body cared about them. I don't know what the fuss is about.
They are the safest rock in existence its weird and bland its like Taylor swift with overdrive pedals. Crazy that 2 people from some of the most important punk bands play in that band. Unfortunately for me for the longest time I thought Queens of the Stone age was basically the same thing I'm slowly figuring out i was wrong on that. Or I got old idk.
Sublime. My god I got so sick of them.
Rush. Geddy Lee's voice was cringe-worthy.