Terrible Bands We Listened to When We Were Young and Stupid

[Pike]

Self-explanatory thread here.

I'll start: Limp Bizkit.

[Madame Adequate]

Linkin Park.

[Pike]

Linkin Park.

:( I went through that phase as well.

Also Evanescence. COME ON I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WE ALL THOUGHT "MY IMMORTAL" WAS DESCRIBING OUR LIFE

[Jinx]

I hate to admit this but


Nickelback.

[Raistlin]

When I saw this thread title, Limp Bizkit immediately sprung to mind. It was so popular when I was in middle school that I was caught up, despite not listening to much music at the time outside of car trips.

I'm not sure there was a more terrible popular band when we were young.

[Slothy]

Every smurfing band named in this thread so far.

Also, Korn. Maybe not as terrible as the others mentioned from what I remember, but still pretty representative of a lot of what I've grown to hate in music.

Also, also: Disturbed.

[Sephex]

Never considered myself a fan of them, but I am also guilty of willingly listening to Limp Bizkit.

Oh god, Coal Chamber. I just remembered. What the **** was I thinking?

[Jessweeee♪]

Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park.

But I still like a couple of their songs. My family still loves Limp Bizkit. Especially my mom. Korn I actually like more than I used to. I hated it because my parents loved it but now it's like "oh hey actually it's not so bad." Still not enough to plop it into my iPod, but I'll turn the radio way up when it comes on.

[Shorty]

Newfound Glory. Ugh.

[Clo]

Bowling for Soup.

[Rantz]

Limp Bizkit.


Linkin Park.


Evanescence.


Korn

I still willingly listen to stray songs by all of these. I have no regrets!

[Madame Adequate]

I legitimately still like some of Korn's stuff.

[Pike]

Guys, guys, I thought of another one.

System of a Down.

I DON'T THINK YOU TRUST IN MY SELF-RIGHTEOUS SUICIDE
I CRY WHEN ANGELS DESERVE TO DIIIIIIIIIIIIIE

Remember when we thought that was the best lyric ever?

[Jessweeee♪]

Okay these aren't terrible bands you listened to when you were younger these are just bands you listened to when you were younger that you don't anymore!

[Madame Adequate]

Ahahahahaha oh man xDD

I still like them, too

Also, Slipknot. Oh man listening to them and thinking you're FULL REBEL SCREW YOU SOCIETY!

[Pike]

GUYS

GUYS

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE

[Clo]

Guys, guys, I thought of another one.

System of a Down.

I DON'T THINK YOU TRUST IN MY SELF-RIGHTEOUS SUICIDE
I CRY WHEN ANGELS DESERVE TO DIIIIIIIIIIIIIE

Remember when we thought that was the best lyric ever?

:stare:

I still listen to System of a Down. Pretty often.

[The Man]

Guys, guys, I thought of another one.

System of a Down.

I DON'T THINK YOU TRUST IN MY SELF-RIGHTEOUS SUICIDE
I CRY WHEN ANGELS DESERVE TO DIIIIIIIIIIIIIE

Remember when we thought that was the best lyric ever?

:stare:

I still listen to System of a Down. Pretty often.
^. Plus they're not anywhere near the same level of awfulness as most of the bands mentioned in this thread. Limp Bizkit? Linkin Park? Yeah, those suck. System of a Down? Actually not bad. Even if some of their lyrics are awful.

[Slothy]

Yeah, some of SoaD's lyrics are terrible. Some of their songs are outright terrible. But a lot, I might even dare to say most, of their music is pretty damn awesome.

[Clo]

Their lyrics are not really the point. Vicinity of Obscenity is about whacking off onto a whore's feet. Clearly they're not going for depth.

[Raistlin]

I will also stick up for System of a Down -- though I prefer their stuff where they actually try to sound like real metal music ("Aerials" remains awesome). They are far from objectively terrible (Limp Bizkit, Nickelback).

EDIT: I'll say the same about Disturbed, and even Korn and Evanescence.

[Mirage]

I thought I could type something like

"None of the bands listed so far, and that makes me feel awesome."

But then someone mentioned system of a down. Though I don't really think they're that bad even today. I doubt I would mind listening to Aerials again. Maybe I should try...

[Pike]

Okay, I was a bit harsh on SoaD. I apologize for putting them in the same thread as Limp Bizkit/Linkin Park.

[Agent Proto]

Terrible bands I listened to when I was young and stupid?

Garbage. Not necessarily terrible. Just mostly like the name suggests.

[Shorty]

Oh shit, I just remembered I listened to Taking Back Sunday.

[Freya]

Disturbed, linkin park, evanescence,

Avirl Lavigne HE WAS A SK8ER BOI SHE SAID SEE YOU LATER BOY HE WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR HER. It spoke to me and my non skater ways.

[Pheesh]

Pike, all the bands you've mentioned are still better than the 80's music you listen to now >_<

I listened to Five. Top that.

[Goldenboko]

Guys, guys, I thought of another one.

System of a Down.

I DON'T THINK YOU TRUST IN MY SELF-RIGHTEOUS SUICIDE
I CRY WHEN ANGELS DESERVE TO DIIIIIIIIIIIIIE

Remember when we thought that was the best lyric ever?

:colbert:

[Jiro]

You people must be some kind of fucking music snobs. Every time we have threads like this I have to run and hide in "shame" because I still listen to half if not all of the shit listed. Get off your high horse and just listen to w/e makes you feel good. Goddamn.

[DMKA]

I actually still listen to most of the music I listened to when I was growing up.

You see, I just don't give a crap about supposed artistic merit or what people think of the music I listen to. Music is entertainment, and I'm an adult. If I like the way it sounds, I listen to it, and if it bores me, I don't.

I pity the man who deprives himself of potential entertainment or subjects himself to music that isn't based upon some ridiculous notion that it matters how the music was made or how other people view it's aesthetic legitimacy.

[Raistlin]

I think you're making a baseless assumption about people in this thread, that if their taste in music changed it can only be because of some sort of peer pressure -- or that for some other reason, they don't already listen to whatever they personally like. I don't give a crap about what other people think of my music or perceived "artistic merit" and I certainly would never deprive myself of any entertainment because of others' perception. But there is a very rare category of music that is so trite, so grating, so repetitive, so lacking in creative merit that I can have no respect for the artists' ability -- which I do have for the vast majority of music that I simply do not like. Limp Bizkit falls into that category, as well as a lot of Nickelback. Most of the other music in this thread does not, even if I'm not a fan (such as with Linkin Park and Korn).

[Jiro]

My girlfriend epitomises this problem for me. I played her a song by some band (I forget which) and she really enjoyed it. When I told her who it was by, she instantly hated it. No. That's an unacceptable way to view music. Don't judge a book by its cover.

[Rantz]

Oh, I have a good one, though.

S Club 7.

[Criminally Vulgar]

Terrible bands I listened to when I was young and stupid?

Garbage. Not necessarily terrible. Just mostly like the name suggests.

Right that's it.

Nobody knows what they're talking about.

[Pike]

Pike, all the bands you've mentioned are still better than the 80's music you listen to now >_<

Incorrect! 80s music is the best kind of music and only hipsters deny it!


You people must be some kind of smurfing music snobs. Every time we have threads like this I have to run and hide in "shame" because I still listen to half if not all of the tit listed. Get off your high horse and just listen to w/e makes you feel good. Goddamn.


I actually still listen to most of the music I listened to when I was growing up.

You see, I just don't give a crap about supposed artistic merit or what people think of the music I listen to. Music is entertainment, and I'm an adult. If I like the way it sounds, I listen to it, and if it bores me, I don't.

I pity the man who deprives himself of potential entertainment or subjects himself to music that isn't based upon some ridiculous notion that it matters how the music was made or how other people view it's aesthetic legitimacy.

It's largely a joke thread, relax guys. You're talking to someone who these days listens to nothing but terrible 90s pop and 80s new wave that usually makes it to "worst of" lists. You all are preaching to the choir.

Also I feel offended that I'm getting lumped in with music snobs here

[Pheesh]

Pike, all the bands you've mentioned are still better than the 80's music you listen to now >_<

Incorrect! 80s music is the best kind of music and only hipsters deny it!

Only hipsters listen to it because it's "so bad that it's good, in a totally noncommercial way..." or something. They all own the first bootlegged video recordings of 80's bands and watch them on their beta-max.

[NeoCracker]

I quite like Linkin Park and Evanescence. :p

For me, Back Street Boys. I loved the hell out of them when I was younger, and was the only music I listened to other then Oldies and Weird Al. :p

I thank the year of 2005, one year after the surge of Alternative Rock on the US Popcharts (Like The Killers First album, Franz Ferdinand, and Jet), since that's when I finally gave those bands a chance. And I love them. <3 (Well, the Killers First album at least, not so much the later ones.)

[Loony BoB]

smurf you guys, I listened to N'Sync. Top that tit.

In all honesty, though, I can listen to anything that isn't death metal and doesn't insult my beliefs/race/whatever and enjoy it. I still have a song by N'Sync on my PC somewhere.

[NeoCracker]

Fuck you guys, I listened to N'sync. Top that shit.

I still enjoy Pop when I hear it. XD

[Loony BoB]

Also, to whoever mentioned Five (I presume you mean 5ive!), that is nothing to be ashamed of, in fact, that is something you should say proudly while beating your manly chest. 5ive 5or li5e! Or... something. Either way, I love Keep On Movin' in particular, it is fantastic for karaoke.

[Quindiana Jones]

Britney Spears, bitches.

Maaaaybe she's luuuuucky, that Hollywood guuuurrrrrl!

[NeoCracker]

Britney Spears, bitches.

Maaaaybe she's luuuuucky, that Hollywood guuuurrrrrl!

God I loved the fuck out of that song when it came out. XD

She's a lucky, she's a star~

[Old Manus]

Level 42

[Madame Adequate]

Pike, all the bands you've mentioned are still better than the 80's music you listen to now >_<

Incorrect! 80s music is the best kind of music and only hipsters deny it!

Only hipsters listen to it because it's "so bad that it's good, in a totally noncommercial way..." or something. They all own the first bootlegged video recordings of 80's bands and watch them on their beta-max.

No it's actually hipsters and people born after the year 1990 (i.e. who should be executed for being too young) who dislike 80s music because 80s music is actually the best music and that is scientific fact confirmed by MIT, Caltech, Cambridge, and recently demonstrated at CERN.

[Quindiana Jones]

Bwahaha. Saved.

[GhandiOwnsYou]

I payed money for a Shaggy CD. Money. The shame.

[Clo]

Bahaha. Shaggy. I love him.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I still listen to SoaD. :colbert:


Guys, guys, I thought of another one.

System of a Down.

I DON'T THINK YOU TRUST IN MY SELF-RIGHTEOUS SUICIDE
I CRY WHEN ANGELS DESERVE TO DIIIIIIIIIIIIIE

Remember when we thought that was the best lyric ever?

I've lost respect for you.

[Pike]

None of you guys seem to have noticed my apology on like the very next page :doublecolbert:

I still think that lyric is cheesy as hell

[Raistlin]

Cheesy lyrics don't bother me. Generally I don't even care about lyrics, to the extent that I can even tolerate most of Linkin Park. Music and vocal quality are much more important to me. A major exception that I can think of (decent sounding song that I can't tolerate because of the lyrics) is Breaking Benjamin's "Diary of Jane," which is so obnoxiously inane and immature that I can't listen to it. And it used to be on the radio way too much.

[Slothy]

Of course it is. But cheesy lyrics are part of their charm.

And I did notice your apology Pike. :thumbsup:

[Clo]

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/040/447/Haters_gonna_hate.jpg

[Jessweeee♪]

I hate eighties music :nonono:

[The Man]

@topic, I just remembered I bought CDs by New Kids on the Block and Vanilla Ice. In my defence I was like nine.

[Pike]

I think I bought a Creed CD at some point.

[escobert]

Nothing! everything I listened to then is still awesome! But that's because nothing new is any good ;)

[Pheesh]

Pike, all the bands you've mentioned are still better than the 80's music you listen to now >_<

Incorrect! 80s music is the best kind of music and only hipsters deny it!

Only hipsters listen to it because it's "so bad that it's good, in a totally noncommercial way..." or something. They all own the first bootlegged video recordings of 80's bands and watch them on their beta-max.

No it's actually hipsters and people born after the year 1990 (i.e. who should be executed for being too young) who dislike 80s music because 80s music is actually the best music and that is scientific fact confirmed by MIT, Caltech, Cambridge, and recently demonstrated at CERN.

You're a hipster for saying that.

[Pike]

I think that's the joke.

[Mercen-X]

I listened to anything played on pop and alternative radio stations. Later down the line, I realized the music really wasn't all that great, I was satisfied listening to anything the minute I was able to memorize the lyrics and sing along. Some of the bands that I listened to that may not have been so great later changed their styles because the style they had originally was just a business ploy (i.e. Beastie Boyz). I'm more willing to listen to those bands now. But the groups I no longer approved of who haven't since changed their style, I don't listen to anymore. One exception being a Third Eye Blind CD I still own. Once a year, I may pull it out for whatever reason.

[Jinx]

B*Witched

[nik0tine]

Some of you seem to be having a hard time distinguishing the difference between bad music and bad lyrics.

[The Man]

I listened to anything played on pop and alternative radio stations. Later down the line, I realized the music really wasn't all that great, I was satisfied listening to anything the minute I was able to memorize the lyrics and sing along. Some of the bands that I listened to that may not have been so great later changed their styles because the style they had originally was just a business ploy (i.e. Beastie Boyz). I'm more willing to listen to those bands now. But the groups I no longer approved of who haven't since changed their style, I don't listen to anymore. One exception being a Third Eye Blind CD I still own. Once a year, I may pull it out for whatever reason.

>beastie boys
>not so great

You take that back now. I hope I'm just misreading your post.

[Shiny]

I still listen to Linkin Park, Nsync, and Spice Girls. Let me show you how many smurfs I give:0 blue smurfs

[milliegoesbeep]

... Busted *bows head in shame* I WAS TWELVE.

[Mercen-X]

Beastie Boyz sinking about how brass monkeys and the crappiness of school may have had a place in my life as an angsty teenager, but it serves no purpose to me now as an angsty adult.

When I first heard Linkin Park, I was visiting my cousins and I really didn't think much of their music. But then my cousin is in his own band so, family bias. However, his lead singer started dissing Linkin Park with no real reasons to offer save one. He said they needed to make up their minds about whether they were rock, pop, alternative, or what. For a long time, I hadn't liked this guy. I didn't like his "demonic vocals" because he sounded like an idiot and he really act like a prick a lot of the time. So I started paying attention to Linkin Park. Also Hoobastank.

[The Man]

You do realise they were taking the piss in pretty much all of those songs, right?

[Clo]

I'm going to helpfully chime in that I.... never really liked the Beastie Boys ever.

[ReloadPsi]

Time for some self-righteousness, ReloadPsi style!

I've liked game soundtracks my entire life and never seemed to care for what the media or my little sister shoved down my throat. It wasn't until years later that Guilty Gear's soundtracks led to me checking out Iron Maiden of all people and realising I'd probably dodged a bullet in terms of a life of liking awful crap.

Saying that, I have a LOT of MP3s of what one would consider terrible songs, largely because I enjoy them in an ironic "haha this song is soooo funneh" way. An occasional listen to Friday provides me with a few minutes of hysterical amusement.

In other words, there were no crap bands I liked in my youth. Some classmates when I returned to college tried to get me into Enter Shikari and U2 though. They failed.

[Raistlin]

There are some questions that echo through time. How did life begin? Is there a god? Where did Stonehenge come from? Why would anyone willingly become friends with someone who collects hair? These are eternal mysteries for which we may never know the answer.

I am similarly mystified by how anyone, ever, could like the Beastie Boys.

/cue rage

[Sephex]

There are some questions that echo through time. How did life begin? Is there a god? Where did Stonehenge come from? Why would anyone willingly become friends with someone who collects hair? These are eternal mysteries for which we may never know the answer.

I am similarly mystified by how anyone, ever, could like the Beastie Boys.

/cue rage

No rage from me. They don't do much for me either.

[Jessweeee♪]

They're alright. I don't put them up with my favorites but when they come on the radio I turn the speakers up loud enough to shake my car.

[Raistlin]

I didn't think to name them earlier because I never listened to them. But here's one I did listen to many, many years ago: Blink 182.

[Jowy]

i bought the first hanson album when it came out

i'm twenty six and still like a few songs by the bizkit - specifically "full nelson". there is/was nothing wrong with like Evanescence. Amy Lee's siren song has an effect that sells. Plus I'd take her on a hot date if given the chance. i liked insane clown posse when i was twelve. they were something different from what i was used to hearing at the time and we had common ground with faygo being just dee-licious.

[Shorty]

There are some questions that echo through time. How did life begin? Is there a god? Where did Stonehenge come from? Why would anyone willingly become friends with someone who collects hair? These are eternal mysteries for which we may never know the answer.

I am similarly mystified by how anyone, ever, could like the Beastie Boys.

/cue rage

I would like to second this mystification, because I am (respectfully) not fond of the Beastie Boys at all.

[Jessweeee♪]

Douche bag
I'm a fuck you up
I'm a fuck you up

Douche bag
I'm a fuck you up
I'm a fuck you up

Douche bag
I'm a fuck you up
I'm a fuck you up

I'm a fuck you up
I'm a fuck you up
I'm a fuck you, fuck you, fuck you up

Douche bag
I'm a fuck you up
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you up
Douche bag
I'm a fuck you up
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you up

Douche bag
I'm a fuck you up
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you up
Douche bag
I'm a fuck you up
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you up

Douche bag
I'm a fuck you up
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you up
Douche bag
I'm a fuck you up
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you up

Douche bag
I'm a fuck you up
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you up
Douche bag
I'm a fuck you up
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you up

[charliepanayi]

*sees the posts saying the Beastie Boys aren't all that*
*weeps a little*
*puts on Paul's Boutique*

[The Man]

It might be a slight exaggeration to say that if you don't like Paul's Boutique, you don't like hip-hop, but it probably isn't much of one.

Did I read correctly a post implying Iron Maiden was shit too? Get out.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Wtf just said they didn't like Maiden?

[The Man]

Wtf just said they didn't like Maiden?
It wasn't until years later that Guilty Gear's soundtracks led to me checking out Iron Maiden of all people and realising I'd probably dodged a bullet in terms of a life of liking awful crap.

I'm hoping I just read that wrong.

U2 also, once upon a time, actually wasn't terrible, but they have been terrible for so long that I'll forgive anyone who hasn't bothered listening to their old stuff from when they were good, even though it was ubiquitous when I was growing up.

[Clo]

I really liked U2's old albums. I still like Blink 182, too. But not that "I Miss You" shit. :colbert:

[Jowy]

Blink 182 has been historically terrible for like two decades. That's five generations of being able to pick out someone who owns/owned a copy of "Dude Ranch".

Everyone in high school shunned me for not liking them and Linkin Park. I'm gonna go listen to my space robot music and screaming Canadians now.

[TrollHunter]

I remember back in late elementary school I smurfing LOVED DragonForce...
Oh thank god that phase didn't last too long.
There was also plain-white-t's.

Actually.... now that i think about it... there really wasn't much I listened to as a kid I still don't like, save those two.
Meh, I'm only 17 so get back to me in a few years. In time I may want to slap myself for the stuff I listen to now.

Also

Bowling for Soup.
You take that back, now.

[Iceglow]

I don't believe there are bad bands/artists. I do believe there are terrible songs, just as there are fantastic songs out there. The best thing to remember is that it's a matter of opinion or did you guys learn nothing from the song Tribute by Tenacious D? The second thing to remember is that every artist has good songs and bad songs. The good songs may not suit your aesthetics but it is still a good song and you could listen to it and others like it without clawing your eyeballs out and ramming 21" dildo's down your ears until you've gone and literally skull fucked yourself.

I mean sure some songs are more appealing than others in terms of melody, there are certain groupings of sound and notes which are not as pleasant to the brain to listen to. Some are at times outright painful to hear, stuff like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ_SfvrX5_A&feature=related) for example! (I do know 2 of the guys in that band, this is some of their better stuff believe it or not). Much more famously a band what I feel pushes on some of their albums and some of their songs at what is pleasurable would be Nine Inch Nails.

Now whilst growing up I probably listened to a lot of music because it was the cool stuff to listen to. Heaven knows I probably would never have gotten so deeply involved in the metal scene to the deep dark depths of industrial, black metal and death metal if it wasn't for those around me. I certainly don't delve as deep as I did these days. I'm much more comfortable listening to something like Train's Drops Of Jupiter than listening to something like Prostitute Disfigurement (that is actually the name of a grindcore band).

I would actually defend a fair few artists that are commonly pointed out as the worst artists in the world. Linkin Park for example have ceaselessly sought to innovate their music from album to album, if we take the 2 lives albums out and look at the 1,2,3,4,5,6,7! yes a whopping 7! studio albums they have produced or allowed to be produced (yes, we're counting Reanimation because that is definitely important and Collision Course because it too to an extent is important) using their music. Each album has artistically sounded extremely different. Even their latest offering Living Things is different despite actually being the album most similar to their origins on the Hybrid Theory and Meteora albums (for their origins you have to skip Reanimation because it is a remix album) It features heavier dance beats introduced in the A Thousand Suns album and the tendency to utilize audio clips from famous speeches throughout history or news programs, it also features more raw punk style guitar riffs as witnessed on the Minutes To Midnight album however it has a composition and feels much more like the earlier albums produced by the band, the fact that Chester literally screams his guts out for a song (Victimize) which albeit their shortest song ever packs as much explosive energy as M80 did on the Papa Roach, Love Hate Tragedy album. I'm not saying every song they ever produced is gold. Hell no, personally I've less time to listen to songs such as The Little Things That You Give Away (I get the idea there but the song was far too slow, Chester sounded like he was at the breaking point for 99% of the song and it just didn't make me feel anything) than I do to listen to songs such as In The End or With You. To write a band of as irrevocably bad based on what evidence is probably the worst sin any music fan could ever commit. On this point Dak... you need to give your girlfriend the spanking of her lifetime, she needs to know that music is important regardless of who makes it.

Now, I'm proud to admit that I listen to songs from 99% of the musicians I grew up listening to, I'm even more proud to admit that I now listen to music from 99% of the musicians my sister grew up listening to and enjoy the songs. Some of these songs whilst being far removed from my own interests at that age do remind me of events and times where I was happy or had fun often in better times before my life became so complicated. Listening to these songs helps me take my mind of things.

I'm also pretty happy to announce my music tastes have grown exponentially and if it's one thing I can thank the assholes I have worked with for 5 years it's probably this. I've grown to enjoy Country music, Jazz, Easy Listening, Folk and a whole host of other sounds I used to hate blindly because rather than find I like the entire genre I found artists and songs I have the time of day for.

Music is and always will be an escape, a means to take your mind somewhere, you hear Mmm Bop by Hanson and you if you're my age remember being 13 and thinking you were all that as you skateboarded or rode a bmx somewhere. You smile, nod your head and sing along either inside or loud and proud regardless. In 15 years time, those 14 year old girls screaming Justin Bieber's name will be probably just the same with the song Baby. Lyrically it isn't important it will however be important because it's a piece of their life they can carry with them until they die that reminds them that life wasn't always so damn complicated with bills, relationships and jobs ect.

The idea that someone can arbitrarily come along to my ipod or my itunes collection and declare my music tastes to be shit? I find that offensive to the highest order I never like it when people do that even when they're scowling over something like Carly Rae Jepsen having a place in there (Yes, I do actually like Call Me Maybe bite my hairy white ass if you have a problem with that) or the fact that I've got such a wide variety of music mashed in together I'm proud of that wildly varied taste, I'm proud that I like some songs based on nothing more than it made me smile or I had a good night out dicking around with my friends to it, in the case of Call Me Maybe I'm happy because I was out in a club and met a fun girl because I was stupid enough to do a moronic dance which she saw as funny. I don't do it to people, I won't do it to people so people had better if they know what is good for them not do it to me.

[charliepanayi]

I don't believe there are bad bands/artists.

Um, yes there are.

[Jiro]

Oh, I have a good one, though.

S Club 7.

Nobody else touched this but I have to agree. Venga Boys too. But man, there ain't no party like an S Club party.

[Miriel]

I actually still listen to most of the music I listened to when I was growing up.

Me too!

You guys, I was SO JAZZED to see Spice Girls at the Olympics. Omg. :excited:

[Pike]

Venga Boys

Venga Boys is great.

[Jiro]

I don't fucking know what this thread is about so I'm just listing music that makes me go "oh yeah"

[Pike]

Yeah it's pretty much turned into a guilty (or not so guilty?) pleasures thread and I am A-OK with that.

[fire_of_avalon]

I listen to almost everything. The bands or songs I hate I hate with a fiery passion, but otherwise I can be fine with just about anything.

I have no shame that I was mad over the Backstreet Boys. I have no shame that I will still jam out to them.

Maybe I just don't have a lot of shame.

[Clo]

Occasionally I put on the Backstreet Boys and funk out with my junk out.

[Shoden]

I used to adore random stuff like Busted, Scooter and hell even Trivium, now I am saddened by my past. I saw Trivium open for Iron Maiden in 2006 a few years after I grew out of liking the former 2 I listed and realised, they weren't that good at all. I'd call them crap but someone probably likes them and someone's honour will have been insulted thus resulting in naked table top bar boxing.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Trivium is good stuff. :colbert:

[Shoden]

Eh, they're just another metalcore band doing the whole frash metulz thing tbh. Suppose its good they don't have 100 breakdowns a minute like most deathcore bands do though. I honestly cannot stand -core if you haven't guessed. XD

I'd be here forever if I listed every band I really think is "crap" because of that. So yeeeeeah. Saving the fighting talks til I remember the emoticons for here.

[Jowy]

"Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge" is still a great album as of 11:06 AM EST on 20 August 2012.

[Bunny]

Metallica and Linkin Park.

[Sephex]

"Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge" is still a great album as of 11:06 AM EST on 20 August 2012.

I know this is a hipsterish thing to say, and I hate it when other people say this on the interzone, but I actually thought their first album was a lot better. I guess I liked the rougher quality to it. Couldn't really get into anything past that one, though I did try. To be fair, "The Ghost of You" is a pretty cool song. I like the WWII themed video as well.

[Jowy]

That is a damn good disc, not gonna lie. Totes saw them at a crappy venue in 03 for like eight bucks.

[The Man]

Metallica and Linkin Park.

As with many other bands mentioned here, Metallica used to be not terrible. A strong case could be made that nothing they've released since the eighties has been good, though. (Death Magnetic might have been ok if they hadn't clipped the fuck out of it during mixing/mastering, turning it into unlistenable garbage).

[Shoden]

Metallica and Linkin Park.

As with many other bands mentioned here, Metallica used to be not terrible. A strong case could be made that nothing they've released since the eighties has been good, though. (Death Magnetic might have been ok if they hadn't clipped the fuck out of it during mixing/mastering, turning it into unlistenable garbage).

I've heard plenty of remixes of songs off DM and heard them live. Though I think Thrash metal is one of the more primitive, repetitive forms of "heavy" music Metallica's takes on it really caught my ear, Master of Puppets and all that.

I really enjoyed their 90s stuff as their writing really took a step forward, sure it wasn't "metal" but that's just chug chug "frash" fanboy tears talking, Load had songs like Bleeding Me and Outlaw Torn, Reload had songs like Fixxer, Low Man's Lyric and DEVIL'S DANCE! Its not ALL Doom and Gloom for Metallica.

[The Man]

DM is fine if you listen to the Guitar Hero III mixes. The official releases are all smurfing awful.

My conclusion with Load/Reload is that it would have made a good single disc or double LP. It might even have made a good double CD/triple LP at about two hours. The 160-minute combination, though, just had so much material that it all started to run together. Several of the songs didn't really do much to distinguish themselves from one another, and that's never a good sign.

That said, there were good songs like several of the ones you mentioned (I don't see much special about "Devil's Dance" but I would've mentioned the others as highlights); I'd also throw "Where the Wild Things Are" on that list. It's not a surprise that the longest songs on those albums tended to be the best, because those were the ones where the band really gave themselves the freedom to stretch out and deviate from the formula.

I'd say the Black Album was much the same way, even though it had a lot less material - while you could probably accuse the band of using a formula from Ride the Lightning through And Justice for All, at least on those albums they used enough variation in their songwriting to distinguish the songs from one another. I mean, obviously you can say that the fourth track on all those albums (and DM for that matter) is a ballad, and that the penultimate or ultimate track is always an instrumental, and so on, but the fact is none of those songs sounds the same. With the Black Album, though, that was the point from which a lot of their songs didn't do much to distinguish themselves. The songs that broke from the formula - "My Friend of Misery", "The God That Failed", "The Unforgiven", "Nothing Else Matters", etc. - tended to be the most interesting, although there were a few that managed to be interesting despite obviously being composed to a formula ("Sad but True", "Enter Sandman").

St. Anger, though, was a steaming pile of tit. Seriously I don't know what they were thinking.

Lulu I'll give them somewhat of a pass as they weren't the ones who wrote it. They were basically just Lou Reed's backing band. I don't entirely know what he was thinking though.

[Jowy]

S&M version of Devil's Dance is GOAT

[Shoden]

DM is fine if you listen to the Guitar Hero III mixes. The official releases are all smurfing awful.

My conclusion with Load/Reload is that it would have made a good single disc or double LP. It might even have made a good double CD/triple LP at about two hours. The 160-minute combination, though, just had so much material that it all started to run together. Several of the songs didn't really do much to distinguish themselves from one another, and that's never a good sign.

That said, there were good songs like several of the ones you mentioned (I don't see much special about "Devil's Dance" but I would've mentioned the others as highlights); I'd also throw "Where the Wild Things Are" on that list. It's not a surprise that the longest songs on those albums tended to be the best, because those were the ones where the band really gave themselves the freedom to stretch out and deviate from the formula.

I'd say the Black Album was much the same way, even though it had a lot less material - while you could probably accuse the band of using a formula from Ride the Lightning through And Justice for All, at least on those albums they used enough variation in their songwriting to distinguish the songs from one another. I mean, obviously you can say that the fourth track on all those albums (and DM for that matter) is a ballad, and that the penultimate or ultimate track is always an instrumental, and so on, but the fact is none of those songs sounds the same. With the Black Album, though, that was the point from which a lot of their songs didn't do much to distinguish themselves. The songs that broke from the formula - "My Friend of Misery", "The God That Failed", "The Unforgiven", "Nothing Else Matters", etc. - tended to be the most interesting, although there were a few that managed to be interesting despite obviously being composed to a formula ("Sad but True", "Enter Sandman").

St. Anger, though, was a steaming pile of tit. Seriously I don't know what they were thinking.

Lulu I'll give them somewhat of a pass as they weren't the ones who wrote it. They were basically just Lou Reed's backing band. I don't entirely know what he was thinking though.

Load and Reload were originally meant to be a double album afaik. It might explain where you got that idea from as both albums do sound as if they're supposed to flow into eachother. I should have mentioned King Nothing as well as that bassline is amazing. Shoot me haha, I like Metallica's basslines, I'm a bassist so I'm inclined to like songs that might otherwise be stale. :p
The Black Album had its moments but the mix was godly, My Friend of Misery is one of my favourite basslines to play as well!

St Anger, felt as if, it was a garage band experiment left unfinished, the songs had that feeling when I listened to it that they weren't quite finished. Some had potential but others didn't have any at all I'd say. That's just being nice.

[The Man]

I knew Load/Reload was originally intended to be a double CD, but as I said, the problem is that a lot of the material just doesn't distinguish itself from other material on the records. Maybe the band just needed to spend longer working on some of them, but there are just too many forgettable songs as they are. If you're going to release 160 minutes of music, you'd better be sure that all of it is remarkable. Most people just don't have the attention span to listen through that much music on a regular basis, unless it's all incredible.

I guess I could just listen to one album at a time but I am obsessive-compulsive about things like that. I have made cut-down versions in the past that satisfy me somewhat more, but usually I'm lazy and just don't bother listening to them at all.

And yeah, "Devil's Dance" is much cooler on S&M.

[Shoden]

I've had a relisten to Load and Reload just now. There's a few more highlights and a couple, "decent" songs but otherwise yes there are very forgettable songs that sadly take up space on them albums that really overshadow the good ones. What would say about songs like Mama Said, Hero of the Day and Unforgiven II which are less rocky nevermind less metal and less thrasy ones?

[The Man]

"Hero of the Day" is pretty good. I go back and forth on "Mama Said" and "The Unforgiven II". Sometimes I regard the latter as a failed experiment, but it's still interesting and a break from the general monotony of the album even if it's not as great as the classic country songs they obviously modelled it on. "The Unforgiven II" is a neat idea but it doesn't really hold a candle to the original. It can still be interesting to listen to once in awhile though.

[Shoden]

I don't mind Unforgiven II myself and I enjoy Mama Said simply because of Hetfield's voice.
OH! and just to note S&M Hero of the Day is amazing, well S&M in general is for me tbh.

[Peegee]

I have been summoned here as punishment for listening to ICP from the age of 17-19

since I'm actually talking about this in-depth: I was intrigued at the idea of listening to records that had a theme. Granted THERE'S SO MANY OTHER BANDS THAT DO THIS but I to this day have never bought a cd except for ICP. Anyway they apparently had this ongoing story about joker cards and the like, and it led up to the revelation that they were agents of God and the last album had to do with going to heaven or hell.

But by that time I had grown up and got some good taste in music and rap (90s east coast rap/hip hop), so I only found that out by downloading their album. Alas, I didn't buy it. As if I was going to buy two albums just to find out what I already knew reading online. Pfft

[Shorty]

I just remembered that I was a huge fan of The Used. Also I listened to Kottonmouth Kings. god help me.

[Rianoa]

I listened to Busted as a kid, they were bad.

I don't really listen to any band or musician regularly but my music tastes have always been bad , Evanescence, Phil Collins, Breaking Benjamin, Eminem, Brian Adams...I am incredibly :cool:

[NorthernChaosGod]

EMINEM IS NOT BAD.

[Laddy]

EMINEM IS NOT BAD.
Bad? No. Incredibly overatted? Yes.

[NeoCracker]

He is a very tallented rapper. His skills are great.

Doesn't change the fact his music is 75-85% crap.

[charliepanayi]

Slim Shady LP and Marshall Mathers LP are good. Since then - not so much.

[Pike]

I like oldschool Eminem.

What's that one great song called again? Oh right, Stan. That song is brilliant.

[Rianoa]

I do like Eminem.. his old stuff he takes himself to seriously now :P

[Pheesh]

Slim Shady LP and Marshall Mathers LP are good. Since then - not so much.

Yep, this.