Well Dan I don't want to be in any way cast nasturtions at your appreciation of The Beastie Boys and while I don't really need to justify my listings - they are after all merely my opinion and therefore not a judgement set in stone; mention of the Beastie Boys brings back memories of VW badge nicking which plagued this green and pleasant land some twenty years ago and our VW was one of the victims.
The craze was generated by said band's rather naff affectation for wearing VW badges medallion like on their scawny chests.
So in the case of the Beastie Boys it's not just their dire image, music and general presence or lack of it (in rock n roll terms), its...
(deepens voice to sepulchral growl)
... personal.
But I would stress this is only my opinion, if everybody else shared my tastes then old Bozo would have to have to radically rethink his career.
i think this list depends a lot on your age ? there are some bands listed here that could seem like the most awful bands ever, but if you had their first 1 or 2 albums, you might have a little mercy on them ... a couple that come to mind - queen and the eagles - their first couple albums were really good IMO - then they decided to "sell out" at some point, like a lot of bands in the day... then there are a lot of newer bands that i know must suck, although i've never really paid attention to the specifics so i can't say for sure :-)
at any rate, my list of bands with no redeeming qualities whatsoever would be: Styx Journey Loverboy
....will have to add more later after i think some more, i must have blocked them out of my consciousness ;-)
ah, he isn't a band, but i just can't stand billy joel :-) Electric Light Orchestra was pretty awful...
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1) Genesis, after Gabriel left 2) Led Zeppelin, overrated, they have never been a real band 3) Guns'n roses 4) Bon Jovi 5) All of the amrican 80s "Rock"-Bands
Dave Matthews Duran Duran Dead Phish Any new band that has come out after the millenium started and doesn't have at least 1 star from a prior mega-band (The Strokes, American Rejects, Nickelback, Staind, etc - excludes Audioslave and Velvet Revolver).
The Stones Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tim Ries - The Rolling Stones Project > Mick Jagger solo > Blondie Chaplin solo > Charlie Watts & The Tentets > Ronnie Wood solo + his f ucking paintings
1. Village People 2. Dave Matthews Band 3. ELP 4. All rap 5. Any new band that has come out after the millenium started and doesn't have at least 1 star from a prior mega-band (The Strokes, American Rejects, Nickelback, Staind, etc (Stolen from Voodoo 13)
Awwwwww, thanks Elmo! I don't know what the hell today's youth sees in this Shite...I'm making sure my kids are brainwashed from the womb on!! And they all have their favorite songs already! My 5 year old daughter loves the "fire" song, which is SFTD (the recent remix single featured the tongue in flames on the cover and that's how she's always thought of it LOL), Blue Turns To Grey, and Wild Horses. My 3 year old son loves Brown Sugar (you might recall from a while back that he used to go in the cupboard and get the box of brown sugar to dance with), and both of them love Baby Break It Down. And my little 2 year old....he takes the cake - he's a diehard rocker thru & thru, which is his favorite Stones song. He LOVES Keef - doesn't matter the song, he goes crazy just hearing that voice and loves when I do imitations of him..."It's good to be here; Head, heart, and balls; etc" I sing Thru & Thru and he goes NUTS!! Now all 3 of them love Ruby Tuesday, which I sang to each of them when they were infants to put them to sleep. Where would we be without our Stones?!
Having already nominated my top 5 with U2 at the apex can I also nominate the following as part of my outer hall of infamy?
Hell I will anyway.
Sweet Boney M Bay City Rollers Gary Glitter and the Glitter Band Linkin Park Papa Roach Picketywitch The Smurfs Radiohead Red Hot Chilli Peppers Men at Work The Ordinary Boys The Towers of London The Partridge Family Roy Wood's Wizzard The Electric Light Orchestra Black Sabbath The Wurzels The Wombles The England Football Squad The Eagles Nine Inch Nails Elvis Costello and the Attractions The Boomtown Rats Alvin Stardust
I know there's more out there but these are particularly grim.
Can't believe the hate for the most excellent David Cassidy/Shirley Jones collaboration - The Partridge Family. The little girl has to rate as the 3rd greatest tamborine player ever behind early Mick and Davy Jones.
Really, though, "I Think I Love You", "Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted", "I'll Meet You Halfway", "24 Hours A Day", etc are all fine examples of bubblegum pop (I'm a closet bubblegum fan). Without these songs (and several Osmond hits), I'd have never got any hand holding action in the 6th grade in 1971.
The Doors were great who arer we kidding? Overrated partly but so great on some records and songs. Sometimed great live and sometimes really really bad but they knew that.