Pop punk should not be allowed :(

With one exception...

can anyone tell me what's the difference between Green Day and Avril Lavigne?

i concur with the slipknot thing, just lol@ that failure.


but garage bands can be a hit or miss, most bands start off as such.

lol, nothing.

ironic, or hypocrisy. actually, pop punks both. lol

and duly noted.

the "tits" could mean "the sisters"

considering tit=sister


i thank scrabble for that definition

dont forget to put your eyeliner on vagina, especially before you headout to listen to repeating melodies rhythms and the worst articulation live you could expect.

I don't want to see Green Day in bikinis

Paradise Lost

Please stop spamming, or at least learn how to use the multi-quote feature.

And i've deleted your last comment, abuse towards other members isn't tolerated here.

Leading gynecologists do not recommend this.

it's all good :thumb:. i've never understood the whole guilty pleasures thing, especially when it's a reflection of the music you liked as a child. so some people grew up with boy bands, i grew up with the smurfs whoopteedo. part of being a kid is being naive enough to buy into stupid stuff like that, style over substance etc.

though i must say that 'cobain' comment that that just got quoted up here about slipknot not being cool but savage garden being ok is about the funniest thing i've read in a LONG time hahahaha.

Captain Beefheart - Your music sounds like shit. I understand being creative and experimental, but listening to that crap and liking it has to be akin to defecating on kitten, rubbing it on a wall, and calling it art.

Rush - Geddy, your vocals annoy the shit out of me. I would much prefer Rush with your vocal chords cut out.

Metallica - Same goes for you, Hetfield. We'll include your stupid face in the surgery.

Mogwai - ZZzzzZZZzzzZZZ wake me up when you guys die in a train accident. It will have been more eventful than your music.

Linkin Park - I'm sick of you guys existing. You sound so generic it makes me want drink bleach. Do you even have a fan-base anymore? I hope not, and I hope you get the hint and just stop before you end up doing an album with Oasis and we all end up killing ourselves.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Cheesy on every front. And nothing special, except the amount of cheesiness, which somehow overshadows the dull and boring music.

Weezer - Speaking of cheesy, your lyrics are retarded and I don't care if it's intentional. Cuomo, I hate the way you pronounce certain words too. It's enough for me to hate you.

Disturbed - Draiman, why do you sing like that? It sounds really fucking stupid. It's like you're taking it up the butt while eating peanut butter and emulating a chipmunk with too many testicles. Your latest album even improved in the guitar department, but you're still singing in the band, so there really isn't any improvement at all. I'll continue hating it.

A million other obvious choices - Just pick one. There's a significant chance I won't like it. Especially if it's that typical indie garbage. Or anything with a 4 to the floor beat. Or D&B with a jazzy sounding female singing in it. Or anything that's experimental for the sake of being experimental and doesn't achieve anything except experimental(ness).

I guess I'm done.

Disagree on Mogwai, but agree with the others.

Agreed with it all until I got to the bolded part. :(



^Been a favorite for almost as long as I can remember.

Have you listened to anything other than Trout Mask Replica?

It amazes me more that you even mentioned Captain Beefheart, (they're relatively semi-obscure imo), I never heard them on the radio, they are one of those bands that the average person doesn't know about, and you'll never hear about them unless it's a music critic or someone on a music forum. (I have their best of CD, I like some of their stuff.)

What is this? Some muso analyzing a pop band as if they're supposed to be some groundbreaking progressive rock ensemble?

Speaking of cheese, cheddar cheese is my personal favorite...

I really like those ones... :)

Maybe not refuse to like EVER since I haven't listened to an entire album but...

The Hold Steady

Annoying ass voice from some middle aged balding guy trying to relate to pre-teen as he rants on and on about stupid bull****. The music is nothing new at all. The backup vocals are cheesy and annoying as hell. Even the random piano parts suck.

Yes, and although there's more cohesive Beefheart than what I'm focusing on, I still don't like it.



Anyway, I give myself a good bit of time after discovering any artist that's new to me and generally try to afford that artist a wide consideration, but when I do that and I still don't like it, that's when I decide for good.
Although, I do have to admit, when I feel like people are digging obscure crap just because it's obscure, I tend to already go into it with a sense that the music is going to be garbage because their tastes are usually based on everything but the actual quality of the music as a whole, imo.

You don't even have an appreciation for NOFX? Well I guess it's pointless to argue with an Englishman in his 30s about punk, I should know better. :p:

I'm just not into old school "original" punk, with a few exceptions. Maybe one day I'll get into that stuff, but it won't affect my taste for more poppy punk. And don't get me wrong, there are plenty of mainstream pop punk bands I hate, so please let's not assume I'm a fan of Sum41, Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, Avril, and all that shyte. I'm talking about 90s California street/skater punk bands like Pennywise, Lagwagon, etc. basically the Fat Wreck/Epitaph stuff. But hey...we can agree to disagree. I grew up with a lot of that stuff and I like it. And Dookie was a fine album, albeit much more mainstream than the other stuff I liked so of course more people know about it and will diss it if they're not into the style. And again, I make no excuses for post-Dookie Green Day...I never liked them beyond that album but I also don't hate them, I just ignore them.

They have been pretty cheesy and boring as hell for the past 15 or so years, yes. But they were good before that.

Ah fuck this thread. I guess I shouldn't go around trying to defend stuff, it's irritating. :D We all have different perspectives on things and will never hear something the same way as someone else.

Every indie band that lists the Beach Boys as a primary influence.

Fuck off. Just fuck off. Your ability to do four-part harmonies might help gain audiences in the toddler range but it doesn't really give credence to the ineffable infatuation modern indie press has with you. Especially when every goddamn song sounds the same: your lead singer does his best impression of Donald Duck while your synth player enjoys some novel melody. I seriously can't stand this bleepity-bloop underwater Pet Sounds shit.

No I don't like NOFX either. I have given them a chance but apart from Spitting In My Eye, they just don't do anything for me. My reasons for disliking this sort of sound is not soley based on growing up on early U.K Punk. I also got into the N.Y Hardcore scene in the late 80's listening to stuff like Agnostic Front, Crumbsuckers, Cro-Mags etc as well as crossover stuf like D.R.I, Corrosion Of Conformity etc. So 90's 'Pop Punk' just doesn't get me going at all. I find that it lacks energy and enthusiasm but I know that many people were into Green Day, Offspring and Lagwagon etc in their youth and it's only right to love the bands that you grew up with.

You make me sad. :(

But at least your explanation was good. I kinda of agree with it, except for the whole bit about how electric guitar blues musicians suck. :p:

^^ i gotta agree with Engine on SRV. why would i want to listen to someone trying to sound like hendrix when i could just listen to hendrix?

I dunno....I'd just as soon listen to both of them and be content.

i suppose it would double the available material hehehe

I loved SRV...we can't even get John Bon Jovi within 50 ft of a helicopter. How sad.

Yeah that makes a lot of sense, I can see it sounding like sissy crap. :p:

I'm sorry about that - really. It's just something that I never get to express and I really do feel a little guilty about my dislike of it. I live in Texas where SRV is a god and there are things I like about him but when it comes to his music I just..don't like it.

Yeah - I guess I did say that but I don't think all of them suck. In fact I think many of them are very good musicians who pour their souls into their music. I guess that's why I feel guilty about disliking them. I do like Hendrix, though, and there are probably others

The following artists can eat my ****.

Arctic Monkeys
Guns N' Roses
Pass afire
Green Day
Pink Floyd
Sigur Ros
The Vandals
311

For these ones, :thumb:

If you love early RHCP you gotta love early 311, no?

There is no justification for loving 311.

I wore my 311 shirt yesterday. :D

Well I like early RHCP and hate 311 so I was going say something but then I saw this..

..and realized that nothing more needs to be said. 311 have always sounded really unappealing to me

BTown, I agree with all of yours excepting Sigur Ros and GnR

Does that rant include Kraftwerk and The Ramones? Both who mention The Beach Boys as a influence, the former mention them more as a inspiration to create music to be identify with Germany as the BB's did for CA, and the latter claim The Beach Boys as more of a musical influence.

P-nut is an excellent bassist and Chad Sexton can work the snares. Their early albums, Music and Grassroots, have plenty of funky tunes. Here is a favorite from before they released their first record:

i can't come up with an artist off the top of my head worth mentioning...there are quite a few that don't even merit a name drop.

i will say that i absolutely refuse to listen to the entire genre of country. even if someone showed me a country song and i actually liked it, i would still - purely out of principle - refuse to ever download, buy, or in any way associate myself with that form of music.

You forgot to say just kidding.

...right?

sadly, no.

maybe it is because everyone i met in my musically formative years who listened to country happened to be a backwoods hick. then, realizing i was from the south and may potentially be grouped in with this sad niche of society, i revolted against anything about it (accent and music included). to this day, i just can't find anything i enjoy about country. it really rubs me the wrong way.

i just don't like current pop. they say they enjoy making music, and they bull**** people because talking pointlessly, overdo the backbeat so you can't recognize it, autotune it, and sell it for $20.00, which is $20.00 more than it's worth is what they do, and they make too much money for total crap. also, i associate current pop with people who say "so last week", and those people need to GO THE **** AWAY! FROM ANY TRACE OF EXISTANCE, THEY NEED TO BE GONE!