Who is your most hated popular rock band right now?

[Seth Hurwitz]

generation after generation have dismissed what young people like as not real music
 
 if you can't wait to be old, it's a good start

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I'd rather act like an old person than a teenager. Why do so many media and entertainment types find it necessary to glorify youth and deride older people?

When you're old you tend to focus on the music of your youth.  Maybe Seth is immune to this because of the club?
 
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 Reod Dai:  Do you live in N.Md?

[HoyaSaxa03]

Mr. Walalce,
 
 I can only speak for myself, but most "sensitive Belle & Sebastian scenesters" I know are also "energetic, enthusiastic, sincere and [looking] something fresh and (somewhat) original, musically."  Additionally, they're not strictly doctrinal people who would refuse to listen to a band because they aren't "indie" enough, they're simply looking for good music wherever it may be found.
 
 I can't believe you'd use adjectives like this to refer to crass fourth-generation pop-punk whores like Fall Out Boy.  Have you ever heard this group play live?  Quite simply, they're an absolute shit band with no talent and a finely honed sense of how to sell themselves.  Nothing wrong with that, there's tons of groups out there with a similar MO, but it just means that they stand at the top of my "most hated popular rock band right now."
 
 I'm not just some "jaded 20-something" shitting on what kids like, there are plenty of other bands that I (again, I can only speak for myself) like and listen to (The Format, Brand New, and Against Me! spring to mind) who primarily appeal to teenagers.  There's just no excuse for defending a shit band like Fall Out Boy.
 
 And how dare you compare Pete Wentz to Morrissey.  For shame.

[Brian_Wallace]

Rhett, I wish I could change it.  I realized the mistake too late.  Is there a way I can change my display and login name?  I'd like it to be Brian_Wallace, obviously.
 
 Brian

[you be betty]

AMEN.
 
 It's so completely absurd that you would assume that all teenagers should be able to relate to any one band in particular.  So I have been able to relate to bands like Air for years, and they have a primarily older audience...does that make me a bad person?  I'm sorry that some teenagers choose to indulge in introspective talent instead of dense bullshit.  As far as I'm concerned, music is what you make of it.  Why preach that we listen to something we can't relate to just because "everyone else" can?  
 
 
 Furthermore, Fall Out Boy only have a record deal because they successfully sold themselves through Myspace.  They cannot play their instruments for shit.
 So even if you hate groups like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, at least they can play...

[HoyaSaxa03]

if you were fifteen and knew how to use the internets then this would probably be easy for you

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Don't both Pete Wentz and Morrissey take it up the ass?

[PigIron]

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 honestly don't know enough about the latter two, My Chemical Romance and Panic at the Disco.  But I've heard a few numbers from "Fall Out Boy".  To call them fresh and original is to ignore the fact that they sound like the derivative of the derivative of the derivative of the pop punk music that has been around for a long, long time.
 
 And please don't compare any of these bands to Bob Dylan.  He's represented for five decades, been nominated multiple times for the Nobel Peace Prize, written anthems for major social movements, and kicked ass in general.  The shelf life for popular teen bands like these is about two records.  The reason that some people are naming them on a board like this is that they are the flavor of the month right now and make an easy target.  They might be fun and exciting to some, but I doubt anyone will know who they are in three years.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Didn't Bob Dylan once kick his girlfriend's ass too?

[alex]

Also, RHCP, no longer relevant?  Maybe they are  nearing the end of their relevancy, but I wouldn't exactly call a band who just sold several million records of a double disc of new material, have at least three huge modern rock radio singles and sold out large arenas based partly on said new radio singles no longer relevant.

[Bombay Chutney]

They might be fun and exciting to some, but I doubt anyone will know who they are in three years.

You could say the same thing about half the bands that people adore around here.

[nkotb]

You all are taking this WAAAAAAAY too seriously.  It's music; people like what they like.  If I were a 15-year-old kid, I wouldn't (and didn't) give two shits about what bands mattered in the long run, and I certainly wouldn't care that FOB aren't "art" and that Bob Dylan is.  
 
 A bunch of uppity white yuppie music geeks are coming down on the likes and dislikes of average middle-of-the-road teenagers who never claimed to be  music scholars or historians in the first place.  In the long run, who gives a fuck?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Ben's Chili Bowl

[TheDirector217]

1) For all you Chili Peppers haters.  Say what you must about Anthony Kiedis and his yabba dabba doo lyrics (I don't know who came up with that line, but even though I'm a Chili Peppers fan it's some classic shit.  Was it youbebetty?), but you'd be hard pressed to find a better band than Frusciante (a recently confirmed guitar god - there's not a lot of those), Flea (who's been more or less the best bassist on the planet for damn near 15 years), & Chad Smith - a solid drummer.  Go ahead.  I dare you.
 2) Bob Dylan (arguably, maybe no argument at all, the best songwriter of the past 50 years or so & the voice of a generation & movement) is selling bras & panties with his songs.  So the universe is kinda spinning on a fucked-up axis right now.
 3) As I said earlier, can't stand Hinder or My Chemical Romance, & I don't particularly care for Fallout Boy.  And I still wouldn't if I was 15.  But in their (half-assed) defense, "Dance, Dance" & that new "Arms Race" single are fairly catchy songs.  I appreciate it for what is.  A catchy song from a more or less untalented band.  It boggles me that they are so popular.  My Chemical Romance sounds like a bad karaoke version of Queen & shit.  People actually think these cats are like great bands.  So, in closing, I say this to our youth concerning these aforementioned "bands" (I use that term loosely than a motherfucker), remember kids -
 
 "Just cause you pour syrup on shit, doesn't make it pancakes."