50 worst bands list

 

ELP: Appalling fact Singer-bassist Greg Lake performed on a $10,000 Persian rug that roadies vacuumed before every show.

 

WTF, does the fact that the guy tries to avoid an electrick shock (I believe there was a plastic rug under the carpet), has good taste in carpets and can afford it, makes lake a worst player that if he played in the floor?

 

Kansas   A feature of their live shows was roadie T. Rat, who would come onstage in a trench coat, top hat and clown mask. Then he would disrobe and dance butt-naked.

 

Yep and what? Has this guy seen Woodstock? Or does he cares for the music or only for the paraphernalia?

 

BTW: Seen Kansas twice and never seen this guy, one in 1978 and the other several years later.

 

Alan Parsons Project   In the ’90s, the world-champion Chicago Bulls took the court to the pretentious swells of Parsons’s “Sirius.”

 

And what, athletes  all around the world use the music of somebody to appear, heard We Are the Champions at least 100 times...BTW; Sirius pretentious?

 

The Doors   Morrison is widely believed to have suffered his fatal heart attack while masturbating in the bathtub.

 

What? This guys are selling gossips, nothing more...BTW: Calling Nietzche ill adviced subject doesn't help their credibility.

 

Really a cheap mediocre magaziine that supports popular acts because $$$$$$$$ and attack those that are not popular.

 

But again forget them, the magazine is crap.

 

Iván

 

 

 

 

I'm too old to be a fanboy now but remember what it's like to be one. If you're that passionate about a band and some muppet makes cheap jibes at them it feels like some neighbour's kicked your pet cat. I don't care toss anymore but would have when I was 16, for sure.

 

 

There was a saying in radio ... that if you said anything about it ... YOU LOST ... and the advertiser won. It's called the "Linda Lovelace syndromme" in some law circles, specially when many churches didn't realize that the best way to kill something was to not say anything and keep your mouth shut! And since then ... no one gives a darn about porn ...

 

(hahaha ... sure! with all its millions? Right ... I believe it!)

 

That said ...

 

The worst part of this article that the person that wrote this probably has not heard 10 of these ... otherwise he might say a few more intelligent things about the music itself and the times when it came up. But since a sense of history and understanding of that history and people is not what matters here, but the actual weight of poop content ... we can see the heat it generates ... and we think the heat does not stink for some reason!

 

That said ... here's the anti-christ version for you ...

 

50 IRON BUTTERFLY
Broke the ultimate rule in the music business ... "thou shalt never have a song more than 4 minutes" (they tried that with Elvis and he told them where to stick it and retired!) ... and the best one yet ... "it will never be a hit!..." While they never duplicated their first album they did have some nice things but unffortunately were way too inconsistent for my own tastes. The keyboard playing was excellent in general. For all intents and puposes this is the first true "prog" album that broke with tradition in its music.

43 MIKE & THE MECHANICS
This was, from the start, nothing but a solo effort for Mike Rutherford ... the fact that it became famous because of one song, could just be as lucky as otherwise. I still think that it was Genesis' publicity machine that won on this one more than anything else. But it is selfish and self-righteous to say that they do not have anything good in them. In fact, it is downright cynical and malicious. And maybe, well deserved, this was one of the writers or gossip'eaters that Genesis kicked off their tour ... and well deserved kick too! Genesis couldn't careless ... they and their families are set for life!

42 RICK WAKEMAN
Rick is a very good keyboard player ... sadly he was caught in a time where the first synthesizers were being tested and learned, and the "popular" idiom was for some well educated hands on players to try and make their name with synthesizers doing some classical music ... and to this end, the likes of Walter (later Wendy) Carlos made a name and helped cement synthesizers on the map. Unffortunately for Rick he did not have the inventiveness to do anything else with his hands than re-invent all the classical music he had ever studied and his musical attempts end up sounding like really cheap classical arrangments and musical pieces. He should have taken a hint when his own teachers and fellow students were laughing at him ... He should have learned from Vangelis, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream ... Vangelis almost replaced him but could not get a working Visa ... and Patrick Moraz was actually a good replacement not so enamored with his own classical chops. And Vangelis will prbably be remembered for many years to come ... considering he has an Oscar in his closet and many memorable pieces of music ... I can't say I remember any of Rick's pieces!

41 WHITESNAKE
Over rated.
This band was build and advertised solely on Coverdale's status as a star. No matter that he wasn't even the best musician in Deep Purple! But then, DP wasn't that great either ... about the only thing they had going for them was loudness ... not music!

39 BOB GELDOF
"He organized the Live Aid concerts, but “Saint” Bob Geldof is a less-than-godlike musical talent." This is sad, and by far one of the most stunningly hippocritical and full of sh*t statements that has ever been said about any music or musician. And we all should know better and advise this motherbleep to go suk on Mick Jagger! If you don't appreciate some of the good things that some people can do other than take your money and get a nicer car and bigger house and bigger dope, you and the person who wrote this would not know the difference between a person and a jack-arse. You decide which you wanna be ... maybe that writer is sore because he didn't get the homecoming queen's cherry!

37 THE DOORS
"He was the Lizard King. No, really… "
It still is "unpopular" to discuss literature and art ... specially in this very board ... where some fans would rather discuss their top ten prog than enjoy a more stimulating discussion about artistic lyrics. Not to mention that no one since then has had the balls or ability to do something like Jim Morrison did, and many "poets" are mostly playing with words instead of living them. And "The Soft Parade" is actually very important from a perception stand point, and the critic is too proud to ask what that is! The closest anyone has come to these types of lyrics and deep intentional meanings is Amon Duul 2.

34 LIVE
If anyone thinks this band sounds like U2, they need to go to the doctor ... bad ears and then some ... heck these guys are at least very honest with their music and lyrics and deserve some credit. And if you haven't heard, their version of "Walk The Line" is fabulous! ...

33 JAPAN
When you consider that one of the people in this band happens to be Richard Barbieri who has been in Porcupine Tree since ... I would say that the description of that stuff is stuffy and full of itself and probably not even close to what the band did ... EVER!

21 THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT
It was never prog rock .. it was "educated pop music" ... and well done at that unless you never heard it on anything but the poor quality mp3's or iTunes versions and you will miss how well recorded and mixed these things were. I do think that the first album is still the best of them all, but many disagree with me.

19 DAN FOGELBERG
It's sad that someone will trash folks like him. He was not "new age" and neither was he a "hip" media creation and he just did his thing ... it wasn't great. But it was honest and was nice. And way better than most radio trash! He was more appreciated in the early FM days when you could play longer cuts, and enjoy more open minded music than the same top ten music.

15 YANNI
I don't like to say that anyone's music is bad. I prefer some to others, but I did think that Yanni was way too topical and new age'y -- with looks and haircut -- for those fantasy oriented housewives (including your own!) ... but we should not take away from some nice music here and there. I think he would be way better if he had dumped that woman sooner and spend more time being himself instead of an image of himself ... but that is for another day and time. And Yanni live at the Acropolis is actually good ... and most people never saw that lady violinist turn his orchestra inside out ... she made the concert worthwhile by herself ... but of course, it seems better to trash someone than to accept defeat is usually the norm when it comes to publicity.

12 TIN MACHINE
Wasn't this a sort of follow up to Lou Reed's original Metal Machine? David is a good actor. Not always an original one, but he is sensitive enough and intelligent enough to c heck out other scenes and theater and film to figure out how and what to do next with his music ... and there are some admirable qualities to that and sometimes the experiments do not work. But then, America would not appreciate him doing Kurt Weill either ... and he is very good at it. It would never be played on radio ... my gawdddd a Bertold Brecht lyric on radio? The FCC gets upset about 1.3 seconds of a boob as it is thx to some bush-time tactics!

11 LATOYA JACKSON
But she has the nicest ... and has done Playboy! Better looking then Michael!

7 ASIA
Agreed ... all the way through. The only thing missing here is the amount of ego involved in this band, and how the music wasn't even that good.

4 KENNY G
yeah ... but the new age'y mothers could envision him in their beds and then some! Dreams, you know ... are a funny thing. Guys hated it but women loved it! Sorry ... but your wife rules the roost too!

2 EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER
I'm not sure this is fair. I think they were fine through their 3rd album or so ... and after that, fame got to their heads and they realized that they were out of classical music to make fun of, and ... they were bored with their antics, and people did not want to hear their serious stuff courtesy of 3 minute radio ... and instead of saying ... up yours to radio ... they gave up. Their first album is still the best of them all from start to finish ... and Brain Salad Surgery has its moments ... and then falls flat ... the lyrics did not hold up and the art work and artist that inspired them stood up ... way better ... for his work ... than they ever did. To me, that was the end of their "talent" ... at least Beethoven and Mozart fought back!

 

Best you start the thread then, Toaster