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People who piss you off in music.

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Cheap. Easy. Cruel.

15:38 / 02.10.03

Fred Durst.

Cop Killer

16:41 / 02.10.03

I too really hate Pink Floyd, especially since their fans utterly refuse to accept that anyone could somehow not like them and go through great efforts to get me to like Pink Floyd for some reason which results in me having to hear more of the complete shit that is Pink Floyd. Fuckers.
But, what I really hate right now is the Hives. Fuck them. And all the music journalists that claim that they're "saving rock'n'roll" or some other such nonesense. I wish that I knew saving rock'n'roll was as simple as ripping off what shitty garage rock bands have been doing for the past 15-20 years. At least the White Stripes rip off good garage bands.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

17:01 / 02.10.03

Is 'we don't need no education' supposed to be ironic? Is it supposed to be that if you take that point of view then you are just another brick in the wall? Because it sometimes like it's the 70s "We don't talk about love, we only want to get drunk", i.e. a lyric that people take at face value because they think it's cool to be thick but misunderstanding the point of the song.

Baz Auckland

14:24 / 03.10.03

The brick thing is part of 'The Wall', the concept album which is about a rock star who has closed himself off from the world, and all the poo out there (father dying, wife leaving him, school beatings, etc.) by building a 'wall' separating him from the world, brick by brick....

...some great songs on that album. Dark Side of The Moon too... oh! And Animals rocks... but I can perfectly understand why anyone would think they suck.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:43 / 04.10.03

I read a stunningly insightful review of the new Dido album the other day, which said "it's so bland it's like listening to the inside of Carol Smillie's head". Which was pure fucking genius. And true.

I know I should really let it go at this point, but truly, Damon Albarn is the Hugh Grant of music. After you with that toffee hammer.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

10:00 / 04.10.03

Damon Albarn pre-Gorrilaz launch: "My man Automator has a new project I'm on, it's called gorrilaz" (paraphrasing)

Damon post-Gorrilaz: "It was all my idea" (paraphrasing).

This is why I do not like Damon. He's staring to look more like Phil Collins by the day.

Sexy Legendary

14:09 / 04.10.03

I'd not noticed it, but now you come to mention it, Albarn's receding hairline is growing more and more reminiscent of the post-Genesis cunt himself.

One of the guys who works in my local comic shop is always playing Genesis albums. They are the ones with Peter Gabriel, so they're not quite as bad as Collins, but Christ do Genesis suck.

And Albarn.

And Pink Floyd.

When i was younger, I was hooked on Floyd. I thought they were fanatstic. Then I discovered sex and booze and drugs and rock n' roll and stuff. Life is far happier ten years hence, frankly. i even tried to get back into them this summer, just so I wouldn't want to swallow my tongue when my friends occassionally drag out one their albums, but I couldn't do it.

I just couldn't...

Professor Silly

14:24 / 04.10.03

I hate mediocretins.

3 Doors Down (makes me want to KILL)
Staind/Puddle of Mud (fuck Fred Durst's "discoveries")
Bare Naked Ladies (kill Kill KILL!!!)

more generally--any "punk" with polished vocal harmonies...most rap...patriotic country...R.E.M. and Coldplay.

and most especially, with every fibre of my being: George Thorogood

I hope this man burns in hell for glorifying alcholism and ripping off talented blues musicians.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:34 / 04.10.03

Can I see your Bare Naked Ladies and raise you a:

Anyone. Anyfuckingone. Who thinks they're "wacky". But can't be arsed to be funny while they're doing it.

"Oh, you're a bit... MAD, are you? Well then let's have you fucking sectioned."- me.

rizla mission

17:15 / 04.10.03

and most especially, with every fibre of my being: George Thorogood

I hope this man burns in hell for glorifying alcholism and ripping off talented blues musicians.

(scratches head)

George Thorogood of 'George Thorogood and the Destroyers' (who I only know of at all cos John Peel plays their records occasionally) non-fame?

What an odd, odd choice of person to hate.. I mean, he's not exactly in the public eye is he? Judging from his records, I think he sounds like a pretty jovial fella too..

What about the legions of more famous people who glorify alcoholism and rip off blues musicians?

Oh Well I'm sure you've got your reasons..

03:33 / 06.10.03

Guns'n'Roses score a 10 on the lame-o-meter. They've got sexism, racism, homophobia, way too much use of acoustic guitar, bongos all over the fucking place and the most irritating singer of all time. However, even if they didn't have all that, they would still be nothing more than excrutiatingly mediocre bar rock.

Baz Auckland

15:24 / 06.10.03

..but they're great in that horrible intentionally cheesy I-loved-this-when-I-was-14 way... even if they're not being intentionally horrible...

The Barenaked Ladies should die. And stay dead this time! They disappeared in 1993 after their 2 year stint as a joke band, BUT THEY CAME BACK! And are really popular now!? Why? Does no one remember the horror that was "if I had a million dollars"? And how we had to hear it constantly throughout 1992?

Brigade du jour

00:48 / 26.10.03

The Beautiful South ... shudder.

It's not even their fault really, I used to work in Blockbuster video and for about three months Perfect 10 played on the in-store tape every ... ten ... minutes. I mean, there's only so many times you can go out for a sandwich in one shift. No wonder I put on a stone that year.

Travis - I find it extraordinary that a band as wet and soppy and prematurely middle-aged as they should name themselves after Robert de Niro in Taxi Driver. For fuck's sake.

Eric Idle - for finding such imaginative ways to avoid singing the word 'shit' when he did Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life on Top of the Pops when frankly it would have been easier to just field the complaining phone calls himself.

But sure hey, I may change my mind about these people in the future. I used to hate Kylie Minogue and now that's illegal.

Jack Fear

01:24 / 26.10.03

For what it's worth, FHTB, Travis apparently named themselves not after DeNiro in Taxi Driver, but after Harry Dean Stanton in Paris, Texas.

Not that that makes it any better, mind.

That said: Texas. I remember when they first came out, and they were nattering on about how they took their name because they were like sooooo inspired by Ry Cooder's brilliant soundtrack to (yes) Paris, Texas. Which is great, except that they SOUNDED NOTHING LIKE RY COODER'S SOUNDTRACK FOR PARIS FUCKING TEXAS, and instead like another bunch of know-nothing Scots pukes marrying dull crunchy guitars to dull vaguely dancy beats. Haggis-munching fuckers.

Brigade du jour

04:03 / 26.10.03

Blimey. Texas were another one of those bands on the Blockbuster tape. So were The Corrs. I kind of liked one of their songs. That wasn't it.

I didn't know that about T****s, could've sworn I read the de Niro thing somewhere. Oh well, maybe I subconsciously made it up in a crass attempt to make them sound exciting.

Oh, and you're all going to hate me for this, but I never liked Nirvana either. It was all just noise as far as I'm concerned.

gergsnickle

19:42 / 26.10.03

I'm surprised no one else has mentioned: Beck. Everytime he gets in the media with some new CD or something I find myself thinking, well, just goes to show you that once you become well-known you can stay in the public eye forever, regardless of whether or not you have anything worth saying or listening to. Someone on the first page said a similar thing about Alanis, and I see that as well, but I think I would rather have to listen to one of her CDs (on, say, a long car trip) than any of Beck's nonsense.

Matthew Fluxington

20:31 / 26.10.03

Damon Albarn pre-Gorrilaz launch: "My man Automator has a new project I'm on, it's called gorrilaz" (paraphrasing)

Damon post-Gorrilaz: "It was all my idea" (paraphrasing).

In fairness to Albarn, he did write the overwhelming majority of the material on that album.

And it was shit.

Contrasted with Lovage: Songs to Make Love to Your Old Lady By...which was absolutely brilliant.

Dan the Automator, Kid Koala, Mike Patton, and Jennifer Charles (with guest appearances by Alburn and others)...these folks have made one of the best albums I've ever heard.

higuita

17:49 / 30.10.03

Is dAb allowed to be nice about people in this thread?
Anyhoo, I'd like to take the opportunity to confess to a loathing of mainly Robbie Williams, with a side order of Coldplay, Travis and Stereophonics.
I mean, covering a Rod Stewart song? He was shit in the first place. In that generation, I'd like to include Phil Collins, Elton John and Mick Hucknall. I know Hucknall isn't that old, he just seems about 55.

And to balance my mean side, I totally rescind all bad thoughts about Lionel Ritchie following the Rob Zombie 'Brickhouse' thing from House of 1000 corpses. Rock and/or roll!

Matthew Fluxington

18:17 / 30.10.03

Ugh, are you kidding about Lovage? Was that sarcasm? That record is terrible. And in no small part, that is because of Patton. Patton's presence is one of the major surefire signs that a record will be absolutely horrible.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

13:06 / 31.10.03

Try Deltron then. And Albarn might have written the Lyrics, but did he produce it? No.

As regards the title of this thread, I'd like to nominate Flux.

13:26 / 31.10.03

Mike Patton's one true talent seems to be the ability to assemble a bunch of talented musicians to work on some project and then bellow some really irritating shite over the top of their combined efforts.

Professor Silly

16:43 / 31.10.03

no sarcasm in this case--I really enjoyed hearing Mike Patton actually sing for a change. But then I like most of the projects he's involved in...I guess I have strange tastes.

It's also suddenly apparent that the radio here in Denver sucks harder than most other places. The George Thorogood songs, as well as "If I Had a Million Dollars"...these do piss me off...but if I have to hear another Beatles song as sung by Joe Cocker I think I might have to kill.

Brigade du jour

23:12 / 04.11.03

Oh my god! Puff Daddy! How could I have forgotten that grave-robbing leech!? And not that it matters, but he's a right gormless geeky little fucker as well!

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