Pathetic bands

Snow Dog wrote: The Lost Chord wrote: there are so many pathetic bands...lol Well, like REAL bands its hard to say, but stuff like Green Day, backstreet boys, and all that rubbish...MISERABLE!!! But a real band that i cant stand...PRobly something like Iron and WIne or some indie stuff like Cursive, or BrightB Eyes In what way are Green day not a real band?

Nah, they're real, they just suck so much that some people think it was just a nightmare

Gog/Magog wrote: Eurythmics...rubbish rubbish rubbish

Not their first album "In The Garden" (1981). Very good pastoral neo-
psych (especially the singles "Never Gonna Cry Again" and "Belinda"), with
CAN's Hölgar Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit providing much of the backing.

el böthy wrote: Six Eight wrote: el böthy wrote: and they even did a kinda Scooby Doo movie...need I say more? Don't forget about "Kiss saves Santa"! Quick, to the Kissmovil!!! Wait a minute...everybody knows dinosaurs hate guitar solos! jejejeje...thats a great show...you are talking about the show Famaly Guy...right?

That I am, my second favourite show behind another special animated family.

Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac is a great guitarist, listen to the songs "Big Love" and "Go Insane" I'm not a big Fleetwood Mac fan but some of their stuff is quite good, good pop music to say the least.

Pop, Power Pop (punk-pop and emo), and "gangster" rap are all horrible excuses for music.

As for prog, I never liked Styx or The Mars Volta at all, but they are far from pathetic.

Phil Collins, need I say more?
Mike and the Mechanics (I know I know, they're a good band, not pathetic, but I just don't like it)
Post Peter Green Fleetwood Mac (except the stuff with Danny Kirwan on).
Iron Maiden (I really don't like them, sorry - seeing that clip of them at Ozzfest really put me off once and for all)
Status Quo (except "Pictures of Matchstick Men", that's not bad)
U2 - bland bland bland
Simply Red (Mick Hucknall, good music taste, but his voice...)

Green Day, Finch (they're first album anyhow, emotastic), Blink 182, Limp Bizkit (what is that all about?), Eminem, 50 Cent, Nelly... and everybodies favourites: Shania Twain, Celine Dion and that woman who shall remain nameless, because she's that bad!

Hmm, indeed I am el böthy, grr at you!  I shall not sleep for a week now!

Off topic: Can you point me in the direction of English translations of Borges?

Just imagine a Phil Collins and Mariah Carey duet... tasty!

PC: Oh, think twice, it's another day for you in paradise...
MC: wooo woo woooooooo wo wooo woooo wo

Even my friends who are into the likes of Bowling For Soup, Greenday, Good Charlotte and the like dislike Mariah!

I've never met anyone who likes her, how is she so successful?

Anyhow, I digress... back onto topic please people...


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Go and listen to some bands that aren't good enough to secure record deals.
Then come back and debate honestly whether any of the above bands are
pathetic.

russellk wrote: Go and listen to some bands that aren't good enough to secure record deals. Then come back and debate honestly whether any of the above bands are pathetic.

 

Popularity/success or popularity/capability may be another criteria for this subject

el böthy wrote: ...mmm...I really shoulndt have picked out Kiss and Fleedwood Mac for this right? jejeje, well, thats what I think!

Well I think Kiss is one of those bands that makes just good time rock 'n' roll, there's nothing even close to pretentious, thoughtful, adventurous or complex in their output (alright, maybe "Music from The Elder"). Kiss, Saxon, AC/DC or even Manowar (the death to false metal! dudes ), anybody who takes those bands seriously needs to see a therapist.