Worst Band Ever?

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by TheREALHunter:
   

Originally posted by kosmo:
  I'm surprised Fallout Boy hasn't been mentioned...
 
 Got a couple more criteria
 
 Claiming the bass line you lifted is one note different than the original.
 Having the hit breakthrough single ghost written.
 Listing one's own band as best album, etc of the year.
 
 the last two are in honor of SR-71 since i'm pretty sure that Butch Walker actually wrote that first single of theirs after the band delivered their album to the record company. I  remember ROTFLMAO seeing the bands leader list his band as several of his own top picks in a Baltimore paper.

I would assume your first one is attributed to a certain Mr. Van Winkle? haha [/b]

And I quote,
 
 "Nah. Nah. Ours is competely different.  Our bassline goes 'dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun . . TING!  The ting at the end makes it completely different.  Yeah."
 
 What a bitch . . . . LOL

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  I also find it funny that it's no longer cool to bash U2.  I'm sure by the next album, it will be all the rage again....

Even idiots/haters come to their senses eventually, my friend . . . .
 
 

Originally posted by miss p...dirty pirate hooker:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
  I also find it funny that it's no longer cool to bash U2.  I'm sure by the next album, it will be all the rage again....

i actually hate u2. a lot. a lot a lot.
 but don't find them to be the worst band ever by any stretch of the imagination. [/b]

Oh, well.  Even I am/was growing to love your posts, I knew there had to be something wrong with you.  Everyone has their faults . . . Shit happens . . . . .

[miss pretentious]

i know. i know.
 i can't be perfect... fucking adorable with great taste in music.
 
 but not perfect... i understand    
 
   

Originally posted by miss p...dirty pirate hooker:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
  I also find it funny that it's no longer cool to bash U2.  I'm sure by the next album, it will be all the rage again....

i actually hate u2. a lot. a lot a lot.
 but don't find them to be the worst band ever by any stretch of the imagination. [/b]

Oh, well.  Even I am/was growing to love your posts, I knew there had to be something wrong with you.  Everyone has their faults . . . Shit happens . . . . . [/QB][/QUOTE]

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Sir HC:
  Signs that you are a "worst band":
 
 1.  Critique the pillars of your genre (metal bands dissing Zep or Sabbath).
 2.  Changing name/personnel to "make it" (SR-71, Lincoln Park).
 3.  Covering someones well known song, destroying it.
 4.  Dissing your peers as if you are somehow better.
 5.  Incompetence live.  Sure the studio may be where you (or the session musicians you use) work best, but if you can not pull it off live, strike against you.
 6.  Time from release to the cutout bin/$1 bin at the used CD stores is under a year.
 7.  Genre jumping to get play.
 8.  Being a clone of some other band's sound.
 9.  Just being bad.

I can't believe noone's mentioned Third Eye Blind, they fit pretty much all of these

[TheREALHunter]

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
   

Originally posted by TheREALHunter:
     

Originally posted by kosmo:
  I'm surprised Fallout Boy hasn't been mentioned...
 
 Got a couple more criteria
 
 Claiming the bass line you lifted is one note different than the original.
 Having the hit breakthrough single ghost written.
 Listing one's own band as best album, etc of the year.
 
 the last two are in honor of SR-71 since i'm pretty sure that Butch Walker actually wrote that first single of theirs after the band delivered their album to the record company. I  remember ROTFLMAO seeing the bands leader list his band as several of his own top picks in a Baltimore paper.

I would assume your first one is attributed to a certain Mr. Van Winkle? haha [/b]

And I quote,
 
 "Nah. Nah. Ours is competely different.  Our bassline goes 'dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun . . TING!  The ting at the end makes it completely different.  Yeah."
 
 What a bitch . . . . LOL [/b]

A piece of useless trivia, I once worked with the guy responsible for nicking the "Under Pressure" riff when he was DJing for Vanilla Ice (aka Deshay as in "check out the hook while Deshay revolves it").  He DJed for both Vanilla Ice AND Usher at the beginning of their careers (and left both) as well as putting out an album on A&M that tanked, poor guy was like the Jason Everman of the R&B/Hip-hop genre HAHA

[xneverwherex]

well i really hate these threads, but after a show on friday night - i was moreso curious.
 
 i saw zebrahead open for unwritten law.  i was curious if zebrahead was for real. the whole show consisted of a lot of cursing, yelling for a moshpit, assigning people to the moshpit (monitoring it, etc). and the lead singer taking his shirt off and proudly displaying his chest. i think there was some 'singing' in there maybe with some songs.
 
 i was thinking it was god-awful, and luckily my date agreed with me. for those wondering why i went to this show, only to slam it - said date ended up with an extra ticket and me more interested in seeing the guy and knowing his fav. band was unwritten law went along. the date was f'ing incredible, so i suddenly cared less that his fav band was unwritten law    
 
 oddly enough - with 3 openers - unwritten law's set had to be shortened because at midnight apparently the gramercy theater closes. and somewhere in UL's set, i kinda started liking them, only to remember "seeing red" used to make me want to hurt someone  :p

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
   

Originally posted by Sir HC:
  Signs that you are a "worst band":
 
 1.  Critique the pillars of your genre (metal bands dissing Zep or Sabbath).
 2.  Changing name/personnel to "make it" (SR-71, Lincoln Park).
 3.  Covering someones well known song, destroying it.
 4.  Dissing your peers as if you are somehow better.
 5.  Incompetence live.  Sure the studio may be where you (or the session musicians you use) work best, but if you can not pull it off live, strike against you.
 6.  Time from release to the cutout bin/$1 bin at the used CD stores is under a year.
 7.  Genre jumping to get play.
 8.  Being a clone of some other band's sound.
 9.  Just being bad.

I can't believe noone's mentioned Third Eye Blind, they fit pretty much all of these [/b]

Third Eye Blind isn't that bad.  They're a group that writes somewhat cheesy power-pop songs.  They are what they are.  They look immaculate compared to oh, say, Fallout Boy???

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by miss p...dirty pirate hooker:
  i know. i know.
 i can't be perfect... fucking adorable with great taste in music.
 
 but not perfect... i understand      

Ah, yes.  The Miss P I know & (maybe one day)      love.  That's my girl.  
 
 Full off that meal of humble pie I see?    :p

[Brian_Wallace]

Originally posted by miss p...dirty pirate hooker:
  i actually hate u2. a lot. a lot a lot.
 but don't find them to be the worst band ever by any stretch of the imagination.

There's got to be a term for:
 
 "Something you liked, then you grew to hate it.  Then your hatred became so strong you question if you ever really liked it in the first place."
 
 Come on!  There's got to be some bored people on here with English degrees.  The above feeling is how I feel about U2.  Oddly enough, it's also how I feel about "The Simpsons."  I hate both.
 
 

Originally posted by eros:
  There is only one band that comes to mind right now where you could not engage in a debate about their musical competence.  So, please, someone speak up and defend the artistic merit of Limp Bizkit.

However, I'll defend Limp Bizkit.  I'm not saying they were great but they were a McDonald's kind of band.  Lowest common denominator.  Nothing memorable.  And they actually mattered for a couple of years.  I think you are confusing your hatred for Fred Durst for hatred of Limp Bizkit.  Limp Bizkit's last album was so punk.  No singles.  No promo.  (No sales, either.)  But if you're going to stick to your guns, I admire that.
 
 Linkin Park are far worse than Limp Bizkit.  "Nookie" is a fun song to crank in a convertible.
 
 Also, someone like Billy Corgan or Lars Ulrich is a FAR bigger douchebag than Fred Durst.
 
 Brian

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by Brian_Walalce:
   

Originally posted by miss p...dirty pirate hooker:
  i actually hate u2. a lot. a lot a lot.
 but don't find them to be the worst band ever by any stretch of the imagination.

There's got to be a term for:
 
 "Something you liked, then you grew to hate it.  Then your hatred became so strong you question if you ever really liked it in the first place."
 
 Come on!  There's got to be some bored people on here with English degrees.  The above feeling is how I feel about U2.  Oddly enough, it's also how I feel about "The Simpsons."  I hate both.
 [/b]

Any further bashing of U2 has a strong possiblity of ending in a violent barrage of water balloons coming at your person.  We'll call it "Monday Bloody Monday."
 
 TheDirector217

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Brian_Walalce:
  The Beatles
 The Who
 Led Zeppelin
 The Grateful Dead
 ....
 Live
 The Smashing Pumpkins
 Red Hot Chili Peppers (that point made about China/Nirvana/Led Zeppelin can also be applied to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.  Just substitute George Clinton/P-funk for Muddy Waters.)
 
 oh, and Rush.  I don't even think what they produce is music.  It's so awful on so many levels.  

Originally posted by Brian_Walalce:
  However, I'll defend Limp Bizkit.  

Now it's official.  You really are just trying to be controversial.  Pathetic.

[Brian_Wallace]

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
  Any further bashing of U2 has a strong possiblity of ending in a violent barrage of water balloons coming at your person.  We'll call it "Monday Bloody Monday."
 
 TheDirector217

Hey, I saw the REHERSAL show for Zoo TV at the very same place where you are going to see The Police in a couple of weeks.  I thought "Achtung Baby" was great.  Then the milk spoiled.
 
 Brian

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by Brian_Walalce:
  The Beatles
 The Who
 Led Zeppelin
 The Grateful Dead
 ....
 Live
 The Smashing Pumpkins
 Red Hot Chili Peppers (that point made about China/Nirvana/Led Zeppelin can also be applied to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.  Just substitute George Clinton/P-funk for Muddy Waters.)
 
 oh, and Rush.  I don't even think what they produce is music.  It's so awful on so many levels.  

Originally posted by Brian_Walalce:
  However, I'll defend Limp Bizkit.  

Now it's official.  You really are just trying to be controversial.  Pathetic. [/b]

True story/co-sign.  I've been sifting through so much filth flarn filth in this thread I completely forgot about that.  File Mr._Walalce's previous post under "Things That Never Happened" thread.
 
 TheDirector217
   

[TheREALHunter]

Originally posted by Brian_Walalce:
   

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
  Any further bashing of U2 has a strong possiblity of ending in a violent barrage of water balloons coming at your person.  We'll call it "Monday Bloody Monday."
 
 TheDirector217

Hey, I saw the REHERSAL show for Zoo TV at the very same place where you are going to see The Police in a couple of weeks.  I thought "Achtung Baby" was great.  Then the milk spoiled.
 
 Brian [/b]

"Achtung Baby" was fucking garbage, I still find it hard to believe that a band that released "Boy" "October" and "War" had the balls to even attach their name to that piece of shit.

[eros]

Originally posted by Brian_Walalce:
  I think you are confusing your hatred for Fred Durst for hatred of Limp Bizkit.

Lock that quote up for the time capsule.
 
 That's the problem with subjective threads like these.  There is a difference between a band just being bad and hating them.  I don't like Bob Dylan.  Don't get it.  Never will.  That doesn't mean I don't think he has some sort of talent and I do understand why others might enjoy his music.
 
 On the other hand, Limp Bizkit/Fred Durst is and will always be a complete no-talent assclown.  I'm guessing the reason his last album didn't sell jack was because no record company was willing to promote it and lose their ass doing so.
 
 As far as being less of a douchebag than Billy or Lars, that's not exactly something I'd put on my resume.  Come to think of it, have those 3 ever been in the same room together?  Their combined energies would create a perfect storm of douchebaggery.