paddymelt
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keep in mind i said overrated, wich doesn't neccisarily mean worst. And keep in mind i am a sarcastic sonufabitch sometimes.
Here's my list and why:
10. Coldplay. Sorry but has a more luke warm, bland, homogenized band ever existed?
9. Metalica (their later career merits only disgust)
8. U2 (its a beautiful day is probably the phoniest song i ever heard. of course its a beautiful day when you are a kajillionare. it would be different if a blind quadropalegic with sars wrote and sang that song. Anyone besides Bono and i might actually be inspired, but when friggin Bono sings it i just feel insulted.)
7. Kiss (sure their lunchpails were cool- but their music? come on!)
6. Pearl Jam (hey i wore flannels back in '91-'94, still do when its cold sometimes, but i cant for the life of me understand why anyone would ever buy a pearl jam album.)
5. Lenny Kravitz (this guy really creeps me out- like if i had a 14 year old daughter and he was alone in a room with her, im pretty sure he would try to do her. dudes just too greasy- and not in a cool way like bacon is greasy, or pizza or some 50's street punk is greasy. Dude is bad greasy like astroglide)
4. Phish (who can actually sit and listen to one of their entire albums start to finish? i know one guy who can and if he asks me to play hackey sack with him one more time ill sock him in his smiling face.)
3. The Greatful Dead (not even when i did tons of drugs was this music enjoyable)
2. The Doors (ill admit- i liked them when i was 11 and didn't know shit- but i was over it by 12. yeah i found out having long hair and smoking weed didn't get me laid like i thought it could. i blame jim morrison)
1. The Beatles. (Bands today most often site the beatles as being their biggest influence. Not to dismiss their pop song-writing ability it is observable that the beatles' "sound" was entirely derived from American blues, rock and r&B. Lets face it, the beatles were a bunch of unoriginal biters who only succeeded in paving the way for a multitude of commercial teeny bop boy bands. Bands today would be better off checking out the beatles' musical influences than continually labeling the beatles as the be-all-end-all. And that reminds me, I think that stalker-turned-assassin, Mark David Chapman, was right: Lennon WAS a phony. "All we need is love," really? We need more than that homeboy. And I'm also sick of all the 60's generation shit-heads saying they changed the world and shit. maybe they changed advertising and marketing but the world is the same. Vietnam is still raging, we just traded the jungles for deserts. but i digress. Again, in my opinion the Beatles are a huge reason why we have so much commercial rock and boy bands and all this gawdawful pop music today. think about it the next time you hear your beloved band in an elevator, the supermarket, on a car comercial...thats where pop and rock bands today want to be.)
ok i'm sure some people may not find this post interesting, they may in fact feel indignant that i've named a band or too that they like but whatever, opinions are like assholes and i know my ass stinks too.
So what I'd like to know is, what bands do ya'll think should be added to this list and why?
Here's my list and why:
10. Coldplay. Sorry but has a more luke warm, bland, homogenized band ever existed?
9. Metalica (their later career merits only disgust)
8. U2 (its a beautiful day is probably the phoniest song i ever heard. of course its a beautiful day when you are a kajillionare. it would be different if a blind quadropalegic with sars wrote and sang that song. Anyone besides Bono and i might actually be inspired, but when friggin Bono sings it i just feel insulted.)
7. Kiss (sure their lunchpails were cool- but their music? come on!)
6. Pearl Jam (hey i wore flannels back in '91-'94, still do when its cold sometimes, but i cant for the life of me understand why anyone would ever buy a pearl jam album.)
5. Lenny Kravitz (this guy really creeps me out- like if i had a 14 year old daughter and he was alone in a room with her, im pretty sure he would try to do her. dudes just too greasy- and not in a cool way like bacon is greasy, or pizza or some 50's street punk is greasy. Dude is bad greasy like astroglide)
4. Phish (who can actually sit and listen to one of their entire albums start to finish? i know one guy who can and if he asks me to play hackey sack with him one more time ill sock him in his smiling face.)
3. The Greatful Dead (not even when i did tons of drugs was this music enjoyable)
2. The Doors (ill admit- i liked them when i was 11 and didn't know shit- but i was over it by 12. yeah i found out having long hair and smoking weed didn't get me laid like i thought it could. i blame jim morrison)
1. The Beatles. (Bands today most often site the beatles as being their biggest influence. Not to dismiss their pop song-writing ability it is observable that the beatles' "sound" was entirely derived from American blues, rock and r&B. Lets face it, the beatles were a bunch of unoriginal biters who only succeeded in paving the way for a multitude of commercial teeny bop boy bands. Bands today would be better off checking out the beatles' musical influences than continually labeling the beatles as the be-all-end-all. And that reminds me, I think that stalker-turned-assassin, Mark David Chapman, was right: Lennon WAS a phony. "All we need is love," really? We need more than that homeboy. And I'm also sick of all the 60's generation shit-heads saying they changed the world and shit. maybe they changed advertising and marketing but the world is the same. Vietnam is still raging, we just traded the jungles for deserts. but i digress. Again, in my opinion the Beatles are a huge reason why we have so much commercial rock and boy bands and all this gawdawful pop music today. think about it the next time you hear your beloved band in an elevator, the supermarket, on a car comercial...thats where pop and rock bands today want to be.)
ok i'm sure some people may not find this post interesting, they may in fact feel indignant that i've named a band or too that they like but whatever, opinions are like assholes and i know my ass stinks too.
So what I'd like to know is, what bands do ya'll think should be added to this list and why?
