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People who piss you off in music.

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23:26 / 02.09.03

Alanis Morrisette! She had one hit album a hundred years ago and people still treat her like she's the sh*t. That annoying squeek she does at the end of every line in her songs is like rats nibbling at one's spine! Think of more later.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

05:54 / 03.09.03

Amy Studt! You're not a 'Misfit'! You're not too ugly for the pretty girls, too weird for the goth girls! You're depressingly pretty. That's your blessing, that's your curse! So do a song about how it's your right to persecute anyone at school who looks weird and then go to the mall with all the other little princesses and piss off!

Delta Goodrem... etc etc.

Jack The Bodiless

11:02 / 03.09.03

Pig: The Lighthouse Family do bring back good memories, actually. 1996, a certain girlfriend, our first kiss... ahhhh...

But if your only reason for hating them is that they're too MOR, then you've kind of completely missed the point. Again. Haven't you?

23:37 / 03.09.03

Has anyone else seen the new Amy Studt video, where she kidnaps that guy, and then later buys cleary? Jesus, what the fuck??

And having read my last post over- complaining to Popworld that she's too pop? She may be the best thing ever.

00:49 / 04.09.03

Limp Biskittle... "I'll eat you alive." I'd like to watch him eat Ms. Spears alive. God is that song awful. The album isn't out yet...and is so much worse. Makes me not want to listen to a damn thing again and stick two pencils straight into my ears. And that kiss on MTV..."Lesbians are cool." If it teachs young girls to kiss each other why not. Oh and they will, yes they will. With that same porno like affection we have seen so often when girls do it only to make men/women pissed off, because you're "Never gonna get it."

06:24 / 04.09.03

It's probably not going to be a popular choice, but...

Every time I see or hear Damon Albarn, I want to track him down and beat him to death with a toffee hammer.

10:39 / 04.09.03

bear: call me sad, but i really liked that appleton song! it's like the antithesis of a panic attack. or maybe i'm just getting old.

jumping jesus: i feel the same way about damon allbran. he's super full of himself and when he talks about brit pop he sounds like an old man reminising about the war spirit. he acts like brit pop was the most important thing in music, ever! & he once said "diet nirvana" which really annoyed me.

my heart is too small for any more hate.

11:03 / 04.09.03

Yeah, I'm totally with you on hating Albarn. Don't care what he's like as a person, I just hate all his music apart from the Ravenous soundtrack, which is amazing (and probably only good because of Michael Nyman's presence). Irritating as fuck.

No star here laces

17:37 / 04.09.03

Oh god yes. All of Blur, actually, particularly the alkie one. Or the lanky one. I can't decide. I think they were all genetically engineered in a vat to be perfectly West London. Euch.

20:13 / 05.09.03

Why are Madoinna and (gasp) Missy Eliot advertising Gap? Am I missing the really-you'll-piss-yourself-when-you-realise post-modern undercurrent to it or something?

02:14 / 06.09.03

Me First and The Gimmee Gimmees. I sooo fucking hate them. The first song I heard of theirs was the remake of Aqua's Brabie Girl. I thought 'Cute concept..remaking a song ska style. Then they came out with a nother remade song...and another...and god forgive them another. Maybe they have songs of their own and maybe those songs are the greatest thing since Mozart but I have yet to hear any. These guys got old way too fast by having a gimmick and doing it to death...like Marilyn Mason set to evil.
Im thudding them all whack-a-mole style!!!

Beside we all know the greatest ska band was Me, Mom and Morgentaller.

16:28 / 06.09.03

Hey, if we're bashing Albarn here...

What a self-important, disgustingly archetypal middle class stage brat he is. Don't often wish really horrible things to happen to people, but Albarn is the exception that proves my rule.

A pox on him!

Our Lady of The Two Towers

18:12 / 06.09.03

I'm rather suspicious about The Suffrajets, especially when I check their website and find these gems:

But despite what their name may suggest, The Suffrajets aren’t a bunch of radical pseudo political feminists, out to lead the next generation of girl power wannabe’s. They’re not bemoaning teenagers, fuelled by anger and betrayal; they are sisterhood driven by their sheer love of making music.

And founding member Gemma is keen to dismiss the preconceptions that the name may conjure up in a male dominated world; ‘You hear the name and you think of the whole women’s movement, but that’s why we changed the spelling. We take from the original Suffragettes only the women’s connection, but we don’t have all the same women’s rights and beliefs. The only connection we have is the fact we are female, that’s it. We try and make it quite clear to people, we’re not women’s libbers, we don’t hate men, we’re just a band with girls in it who just want to play music’.

So, phew! We're safe there, they have nothing interesting to say, they're just girlies. Hurrah for that! I've just watched the episode of The Simpsons where Lisa tries to do something about the incredibly sexist talking Malibu Stacy dolls. So that just proves that sometimes the universe does have a sense of humour.

14:06 / 07.09.03

Y'know who annoys me?

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

The way all the broadsheets are writing about them going "ooh, these guys are really badass rock n roll rebels!", seemingly cos they wear leather and have messy hair.

For fucks sake! They're signed to Virgin, they stand still on stage, they mumble about how modern music's a bunch of rubbish, they don't drink and they sound like fucking RIDE!!

They don't "really rock" Mr. Guardian Man. On the contrary, they rock so little that, unlike bands who rock a lot (like say Slayer or Lightning Bolt), you can comprehend them and they don't frighten you.

14:53 / 07.09.03

Couldn't agree more about Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Rizla.

I'm deeply dubious about the possibility of any legitimate "rebellion" or "subversion" (for want of better shorthands) in popular music anyway, but BRMC are so hilarously wrong that they could be a Chris Morris parody of the archetypal rock 'n' roll band.

The video for "Whatever Happened to My Rock and Roll" is the perfect example. There's the black clad PowerTrio (TM) rockin' out in moody black and white, but, like, The Man has put up a barrier between them and The Kids at the front of the stage... then there's some gubbins with tear gas and then the rozzers turn up, and zzzzz... It's like they've made some kind of primary school "Altamont! The Musical!" based on a chinese whispers version of what actually happened there.

Every feature I read on them, they're positioned as being firebrand iconoclasts, something that is nigh-impossible to discern from either their music or their shambling, embarrassingly inarticulate interviews.

Just to pick an example off the top of my head: Bobby Gillespie speaks some real bollocks, but even when he's at his most outlandish (anyone remember that Guardian interview where he more or less claimed that everyone but him had the potential to be a concentration camp guard?) at least he's interesting . Any time I read an article on Bobby G, at least he'll make me laugh or disagree violently; BRMC, on the other hand, are startingly blank.

Having fuzz pedals and vertical hair does not make you the Jesus and Mary Chain. It makes you twats. It's not 1986 any more, you fucking throwbacks.

15:54 / 07.09.03

Beside we all know the greatest ska band was Me, Mom and Morgentaller.

I wouldn't go that far, but damn, are they ever missed. Naked show! The Slackers are playing in Montreal around the 20th. You should go. And check out the Kingpins, if you haven't already. Canada's greatest ska band.

Oh, this is a hatred thread. Um, Chelsea Clinton! No, wait, she's not a musician. And I have a crush on her. Never mind.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

16:59 / 07.09.03

I hate everything about the MTV Music Awards. I hate that they have to shock us with something silly every year, I hate the we keep hearing about how Chris Rock is "dangerous" because he makes jokes about inflated ego pop stars who are jokes anyway, I hate that they give awards to videos they don't play, I hate that MTV shows it endlessly for months after it's staged, I hate that there is some pretense that the awards are based on anything other than what record company MTV wants to promote.

Feel the hate. Embrace it. Love it, for it is what I am made of.

And I agree, Sk8er Boi is a fun song...and I heard it coming from every single Corn Dog stand at the Minnesota State Fair two weeks ago. Not bad for a year old pop song.

10:52 / 09.09.03

I thought we'd already learned from other "slag off" threads that we should love and respect everything all the time. Come on, Barbelith!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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10:55 / 09.09.03

Seriously though, I havn't read all this thread yet but it's bound to be great.
I hate Morcheeba and Evanescunce.

15:04 / 10.09.03

...and nobody's mentioned the Stereophonics, who give me a pain - not only for their music, which is the sonic equvalent of gurning - but also for their utterly, utterly banal album titles. 'You Gotta Go There To Come Back'? There's a truly profound statement. Yeah, thanks for that. Stellar work all round, and not even slightly workmanlike.

As for 'Just Enough Education To Perform'... words fail me.

15:16 / 10.09.03

As for 'Just Enough Education To Perform'... words fail me.

Actually, that's not one of theirs. They plagarised that from a review of theirs which stated that they had "just enough education to perform". This led to the cutting, biting assault on nasty critics that was... Mr. Writer. It was nearly Mr. Wordman.

20:32 / 10.09.03

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are supposed to be a shite pop/ska covers band. They're an amalgam of a bunch of ska/skater bands. Its like karaoke but someone pressed record.
I only know this because an ex of mine was their 'biggest' fan. So you have to suffer aswell.

Who annoys me?
Puff Bloody Daddy.
Robbie Bloody Williams.
Any number of Ibiza DJ's that score a top ten record.

20:34 / 10.09.03

Oh and I concur. The Stereophonics. Ugh. Music for the unimaginative.

02:49 / 11.09.03

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are supposed to be a shite pop/ska covers band. They're an amalgam of a bunch of ska/skater bands

Low and behold a bunch of ska/skater bands have joined forces to do naught but purposefully do shite coverings...and this shall be a sign unto yee that the appocalypse is upon us!

07:24 / 11.09.03

Low and behold a bunch of ska/skater bands have joined forces to do naught but purposefully do shite coverings...and this shall be a sign unto yee that the appocalypse is upon us!

They call it fun....

We call it shite.

I guess you have to be a 15 y/o American kid to get it?

08:05 / 11.09.03

So am I the only one who enjoys hearing "Blowin' in the Wind" and "My Boyfriends Back" performed in the style of NOFX?

Just a bit of dumb fun, nothing more..

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:44 / 11.09.03

The Stereophonics. Definitely. They're not just shit, they're also responsible for Coldplay, and their godforsaken elk. (Or should that be "ilk"? Last time I looked, the elk was still pretty fuckin' holy. Sorry, elk.)

Every time I see or hear Damon Albarn, I want to track him down and beat him to death with a toffee hammer.

People have agreed with this already, but I feel the need to agree to a murderous degree on this one.

Also, I know it's a few years old now, but whoever (I've deliberately not foud out, for their own safety) decided to do that "Iron, Lion, Zion" remix a few years back. I mean, who wakes up one morning, and says "y'know, Bob Marley'd be great, it it wasn't for all that fucking reggae stuff"?

Oh, and in defence of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- as I believe poor JtB had to endure a rant to the effect of from me the other week, they are to the Jesus and Mary Chain what the Jesus and Mary Chain were to the Ramones. And you can't argue with evolution, baby!!!

11:04 / 12.09.03

John Maer/Mayer/I don't know how to spell his name...

...they play him at work and I want to kill. He's sings about high school! Over and over! With a horrible voice! Maybe it can't be explained.... he's just ones of those musicians that strikes the WRONG NERVE...

The Knights Templar Boogie Machine

17:58 / 12.09.03

Pink fucking Floyd(yes)..the most overrated tedious wankfest bullshit middle aged arseburger of a band in the history of the universe, even though 'wish you were here' is quite a nice song(and i actually like the barret stuff)...Don't care if sleazy did the animals cover, fucking shite......
Great gig in the sky? - more like fucking shit in my ears!
Remembering the early nineties when all my acid ambient friends recommended them - why?
Roger waters? - piss water more like!...cunt...
Pseudo-political statements and dreary obvious lefty bullshit....
We don't need no education? - More like we don't need no fucking Pink Floyd...Not psychedelic, as mundane as a wet day in sutton coldfield....
HATRED!
yeah!

02:36 / 13.09.03

Hey hey! Careful with that axe, Boogie Machine! Hee hee hee.

09:23 / 13.09.03

My thoughts exactly Boogie Machine.

Although I've mellowed on the Barrett era recently, and I like the guitar sound on 'Breathe' off 'Dark Side..'..

The Knights Templar Boogie Machine

16:58 / 13.09.03

Hurray!

17:22 / 15.09.03

I hold Pink Floyd directly responsible for permanently depressing some of my friends. They seemed tp become popular amongst my peers as a teenager just as everyone was discovering drugs. "Listen to Pink Floyd, man. They're really fucked up." No they're not! They're all about madness and war and Roger Waters losing his dad at van early age. Put impressionable teenagers on drugs with The Wall and you will have a melancholia that will never leave. Bastards! (Syd era excepted, and the track Atom Heart Mother which I'm not allowed to dislike 'cause my dad co-wrote it)

21:29 / 29.09.03

No-one seems to have mentioned Catatonia

"Mulder and Scully" must have one of the worst choruses ever written.

14:16 / 02.10.03

Dave Matthews Band. For so many reasons. The music, the people listening to the music, the people making the music, and the culture that creates such things.

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