Who is your most hated popular rock band right now?

[azaghal1981]

Tie between nickelback and the fray.

[TheDirector217]

Unfortunately, Hinder are approaching double platinum . . . . & I don't particularly care for Fallout Boy nor Panic! At The Disco much either.  I can enjoy a catchy, fluffy, meaningless song as much as the next cat but for some reason these groups just raise my ire like a motherfucker.

[Reod Dai]

Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
 Belle and Sebastian aren't popular? What are you living under, a rock?

I'm not, but almost everyone I know must be by your reasoning, considering I know perhaps one other person who's ever even heard of them.  Do you honestly think that if you were to ask random people on the street whether they've heard of Belle and Sebastian you would get any significant numbers?  I guarantee you'd be lucky to get one out of a hundred, unless you hit up a college campus.  The vast majority of people get their music from popular radio and MTV.  When radio stations are playing a band's single once an hour, and their video has been branded by VH1's "Need to Know Artist" label, that's popular.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

If you're headlining venues as large as Constitution Hall and Merriweather Post (as Belle and Sebastian have), you most certainly ARE popular.
 
 And you only know one person wh has heard of Belle and Sebastian? Do you live in a retirement home or something?

[alex]

This is my favorite Hinder review, courtesy of AllMusic.com:
 
 

Released in September 2005, Hinder's Extreme Behavior revives the simpleton riffs and stupid misogyny of 2001 albums from Puddle of Mudd and Nickelback for a whole new batch of undergrads. This isn't even post-grunge â?? it's straight-up dude rock. The artwork is a triggered response collage of boobs, lingerie, and Jäger, and the music is so obvious that it actually recedes from the ear. Like a stereo left on in the keg room, it's just a chatter of swear words and tuneless electric guitar blab. Austin Winkler sounds like a drunk shouting along with Chad Kroeger, and his lyrics? "Let's go home and get stoned/Cause the sex is so much better when you're mad," "She said she's sorry/With one finger/I said fuck that," "She said she loved the taste of my oh oh oh" â?? Winkler doesn't even have enough class to fake sounding cool. When Hinder and producer Brian Howes (he co-wrote every song with the band; Nickelback producer Joey Moi also gets a credit) do try a little tenderness, they sound like a bludgeoned Wallflowers ("Nothin' Good About Goodbye"), thudding power ballad torchbearers ("Lips of an Angel"; cue the soaring solo stolen from hair metal), or bumbling Guns N' Roses thieves (the played-out "Sweet Child" rewrite "Homecoming Queen"). Extreme Behavior can't even make it as rote hard rock â?? it's too insulting to women and your intelligence. That's why it's dude rock instead. Hinder are so egregiously dull they appeal not to fans of music, but fans of high fives.

www.hinderford.com

[walkonby]

i hate all bands with cool names that play at the black cat that everyone thinks rule because they're so underground and trendy to the brain of waving it in everyones face, then you listen to them and they suck to the point of never making it past the life of handmade shirts and cardigans.

[RustyOrgan]

Hmm... I can think of two - My Chemical Romance and The Fallout Boys

[myuman]

I'm quite up on this... I teach middle school... so I have girls in my class that have FOB written all over their belongings.  Apparently their is/are some hot guys in this group... My chemical romance is further down the list.. another is Panic! at the disco.  I've seen Taking back sunday around as well.  I had an argument with a seventh grader who thought it was just panic at the disco... I said, no, really it's Panic! at the disco.... the beauty of adolescent conversation.

[renton007]

How about most most hated "rock "act". Yes both terms need pretentious quotes:
 Daughtry
 Gwen Stefani

[beetsnotbeats]

I'd just assume call Gwen "Broadway" now instead of rock.

[eltee]

I will second the RHCP vote.
 
 i mean, its one thing if you're a band, who sucks, but why do they have to be everywhere, play every festival and win every award?
 
 and to make matters worse, i actually know people who think they are the greatest band on earth.
 
 
 incredible!

Do you say that about the Yankees?
 (For the record, I tapped out on the amount of exposure and popularity of RHCP long ago. Man, did they play that one song enough in the 90s?)
 
 Currently, I'm truly disappointed (annoyed? ) in Snow Patrol. However, my answer is: Nickelback followed by Fall Out Boy.

[Reod Dai]

Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
 If you're headlining venues as large as Constitution Hall and Merriweather Post (as Belle and Sebastian have), you most certainly ARE popular.
 
 And you only know one person wh has heard of Belle and Sebastian? Do you live in a retirement home or something?

There's obviously no point in discussing this, because we simply have different opinions on what constitutes "popular".  And not everyone lives in a major metropolitan area, or has a circle of friends and/or relatives who actually look beyond what's played on popular radio and MTV.  Around here, driving up to Hershey to see Nickelback is considered a good time.

[Brian_Wallace]

For all those people deriding Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and Panic! At the Disco...are any of you fifteen?  Those bands are relevant and great to YOUNG people not bitter, jaded twenty/thirty year-olds.
 
 I don't have any of their music but I can appreciate the fact that they are energetic, enthusiastic, sincere and believe it or not, trying something fresh and (somewhat) original, musically.
 
 I'm a little old to like My Chemical Romance but if I was fifteen?  I'd LOVE them.  They'd be all over my school notebooks.  I'd LOVE a band that wrote songs entitled "There's A Good Reason These Tables are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet" or "Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued" for no other reason than it would piss off a lot of baby boomers and sensitive, Belle and Sebastian scenesters.   If Bob Dylan was young and alive in 2007 he'd be writing songs like that instead of anything on the pathetic "Modern Times."
 
 It's sort of like how sad, thirty year-old virgins criticized those recent Star Wars movies.  Those movies aren't for thirty year-olds.  They're for thirteen year-old boys.  Action, lasers, funny creatures, etc.  They're Pop Rocks and skateboards.
 
 Bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers are rich and win a lot of Grammies but they are in no way relevant to 2007.  Fall Out Boy, MCR and Panic! get pissed all over and will never sell out stadiums but are very important bands because millions of young people like them and as Morrissey once said, they write "the songs that saved your life."
 
 Brian

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Hey Brian,
 
 Why is it that you can't even spell your name?
 
 Your pal,
 
 Rhett