Bass solos by people who are not even good at bass.

The most loathsome song ever commited to record. I cannot begin to descibe the hatred for this piece of excrement. I have to leave the room if I hear it. Even if I was on the vinegar strokes I would still jump ship. Terrible terrible version.

Singing with power is one thing, Aretha and Tina did it right, but nowadays you have singers who are undeniably talented singers but they overdo it.

Whitney Houston is like the Yngwie Malmsteen of vocalists.

Exactly. It's as though they choose to sing songs purely to show off their vocal range. Completely unnecessary and adds nothing.

I have to say that Leona Lewis is pretty good and I liked her debut track 'Bleeding Love'. Not usually my sort of thing but her impressive vocal range is well contained.

^This.

Really? I thought that was pretty overdone.

Yeah but I have been known to lose my musical sanity from time to time.

this thread is awesome

metalheads are definitely on my list . . .

after i read this i had to look it up...and i found "Аркадий Укупник" and he wasnt that bad...slipknot came up also but im positive thats just 'cause of the masks

Or because they're a joke.

^lmao.

:bringit:

Metalheads and MTV

People who like certain music almost entirely because of the lyrics.

Not all Metalheads are idiots. Most are but not all.

I already posted this before but I'll re-use it here because i'm lazy.

My personal opinion is that grunge is one of the biggest fallacies in music history.

I don't have a problem with the ideal of grunge, The thought of someone putting Black Sabbath style riffs with punk/indie ideals & attitudes appeals to me.

Grunge was supposed to be the great break out of the American Underground , but that wasn't what happened. All that happened was record labels signed up any scruffy band that looked and sounded miserable , in a lot of cases ex hair metal bands (EG Alice In Chains & Pearl Jam) There were a few exceptions like Mudhoney who run out of ideas shortly after their first album came out , and Soundgarden who despite showing some signs of promise on Ultramega OK decided to be some crappy Sabbath tribute band instead.

But other than that the whole grunge thing led to the whole 'alternative' thing where people actually believed that by listening to major label stadium rock shit like the Smashing Pumpkins & Bush that they were under the deluded impression that they were listening to the alternative to the mainstream when in reality real independent labels and bands struggled to compete against the growing monopoly of the big 4 labels.
The whole thing was a lie , and the music was mostly rubbish and thats why I hate it.

I blame David Geffen and Cameron Crowe. Both knew sod all about the scene and proceeded to make money out of a scene that Dinosaur Jr and Big Black did better and five years earlier.

The picture for grunge hate is awesome. That kid sucks more then dirt devil.

Great thread, I've agreed with everything so far. I'll be impressed if he can take this all the way to #1.

So I kinda disagree with the grunge one, though it's true that grunge was mostly corporate hype, I still like the bands.

And enough of the Smashing Pumpkins hate. :(

In terms of the Pumpkins, i like the music but hate the band. I'd be intrigued to see if Billy Corgan can get any further up his own arse in the next few years.

I totally agree with the grunge one. Like anything there was the occasional good grunge song but basically I hated that stuff when it was new and I continue to hate it to this day.

Well Pumpkins are still one of my favorite bands, at least in the top 10 region for me.

I understand why people hate them though, they use the alternative label but they don't sound like an alternative band, alternative is supposed to be all about lo-fi production and miminalism, SP were the exact opposite, their songs were all layered and pure pomp. They had more in common with 70s arena rock bands like Queen and Rush than they ever did with Big Black or Dinosaur Jr.

And thats precisely the reason I love them, they brought back the pomp rock, not even todays prog bands do it quite like the Pumpkins did.

I think the bands decline started with Adore when they adopted an industrial rock sound, which is pretty much what f*cking everybody was doing in 1998.

As for grunge, it depends, I still love Nirvana and Pearl Jam, and The Melvins are pretty awesome. I don't care for Alice in Chains or Soundgarden though, but I admire their talent.

I'm pretty sure Urban actually likes Siamese Dream but I'd like to repeat that this thread rules.

There have been a few notable cases where grunge and alternative artists elevated themselves from the mainstream bull**** and became a defining pinnacle. Radiohead comes to mind, as well as Blind Melon (mostly because Shannon Hoon was amazing). Actually, I'm getting kinda tired of this blanket "alternative" label that people (I scarcely know who) have been putting on rock music. What will they call it when someone refuses to accept that label? Alternative-alternative rock?

I think alt rock purists and hipsters hate so called alternative bands like The Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam and Blind Melon for their classic rock influences more than anything, which is supposed to be like treason or something. Granted there are bands like Dinosaur Jr but they have that sh*tty "we just recorded this album in our garage" production that makes them cool and acceptible.

Its all about that so called bullsh*t "authenticity", so I think what Urban said about punk fans applies to indie fans as well, for the most part.

Just look at Pavement, as soon as they learned how to actually play their instruments and record an album that dosen't sound like it was pieced together in 5 minutes in some outhouse they "sold out".

It just seems like this woman was put on this planet to annoy me. Whether it's pissing over her husbands legacy of recording some of the finest heaviest music to basically turn him into a doddering slurring imbecile for the cameras for another few million quid in their horrible obviously scripted 'reality' show.

Or maybe it's getting herself or her pug ugly talentless kids on TV doing all the things that spoilt rich celebrity brats do , music & TV presenting or whatever they feel like being that week.

Her position as a talent show judge is hilarious as it's quite clear that this woman couldn't recognise talent if it jumped up & bit her on the arse. Let's look at her management record before she started doing these talent shows. There was Ozzy , who she only managed because she wanted to take Sabbath off her father to piss him off until Tony Iommi told her to take a running jump.
The Smashing Pumpkins , a band who had been around approx a decade already , and they only stuck around for a year or so. The rest were a few here today gone tomorrow unimportant metal bands. Hardly a track record for discovering new talent.

And then there's her treatment of other bands when they dare criticise her. When Josh Homme complained about his treatment on the Ozzfest Sharon said she hoped his dick would fall off so him mother could eat it. When Bruce Dickinson did the same thing they sabotaged Iron Maidens set. When Lee Kerslake & Bob Daisley asked where their royalties for the first 2 Ozzy albums were she got the albums re-recorded so she didn't have to pay them anything. There's also a story going around that when Randy Rhodes handed in his notice she told him that 'She'd make sure he'd never work in the music industry again'.

Basically I fucking hate this woman and her fucking awful 'i'm just a regular mum' type Asda adverts were the last straw.
Sharon Osbourne , Rot in hell.

All I can say to that is...

THANK YOU!

Oh and you left out one of the worst things she did, starting Ozzfest, which showcases lame nu metal bands more than anything. This woman's contribution to music was basically introducing us to Limp Bizkit.

"We'll be getting back to John for an update on this years cattle show in the next half hour , in the meantime remember this one from Glenn Medeiros....."

Coming from someone who has to be subjected to Norfolk radio, trust me Alan Partridge would be an improvement.

C'mon now. It's not all bad.

Where I live in Tennessee most of the radio stations we pick up come from Memphis and Jackson, Jackson in particular has a great jazz station.

The worst for me is classic rock radio, not because of the music (that would go to adult contemporary) though the format nowadays is pretty much just "Foreigner, Bob Seger, Skynyrd, repeat" but because of the DJs.

Airheaded neo-conservative southern boys making stupid and sometimes racist political remarks and answering calls from their likeminded middle aged listeners, not realising the irony in having just played Neil Young and The Clash.

In the UK you don't get local stations dedicated to one type of music. No matter where you go in the country you get the same thing. Rubbish locals news items broken up by classic rock / 80s pop. They're ALL the same.

You do know they're all run off the same company right?

That's horrible.

American radio ain't so great, but at least theres variety.

Yeah because not so long ago ours had a DJ swap.

We got Pat Sharp :rolleyes:

It speaks volumes that i didn't recognise the name, google imaged his name and went 'ohhhhh that cunt!'

Just out of curiosity, what is your guys answer to Rush Limbaugh?

Probably Richard Littlejohn & Jeremy Clarkeson

But nobody really takes them seriously.