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hands down: the peels. ughhhhh

― breezy, Sunday, 27 March 2005 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

and

I love you but I've chosen darkness

seems like interpol light to me

― breezy, Sunday, 27 March 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

not that recent, but about a year ago I had the misfortune to see Pink Grease three times in three nights, through no fault of my own

― coco, Sunday, 27 March 2005 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

seems like interpol light to me

-- breezy (breezypoint7...), March 27th, 2005.

isnt't that akin to diet water?

― latebloomer: AKA Sir Teddy Ruxpin, Former Scientologist (latebloomer), Sunday, 27 March 2005 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

CLOTAIRE K!!!!!

Arab Street Music Show.

worst.band.(?).ever.

― pher (pher), Sunday, 27 March 2005 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

louis XIV & the bravery

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 27 March 2005 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Fingathing. Worst gig... ever! Painful altogether and they went on for an unbelievably long time. Out of spite I'm sure.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Sunday, 27 March 2005 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

that rock band on the neptunes' label. high speed idiots or whatever they are called. they make ok go look brilliant.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 March 2005 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, the Bravery are strong contenders

― Seuss, Sunday, 27 March 2005 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, Maria took BOTH my answers! Freaky deaky.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Sunday, 27 March 2005 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

HIMSA

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Sunday, 27 March 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

luxury car. they're from perth, scotland, and are embarrassingly poor. shockingly, my mate has signed them to his label.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 27 March 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm intrigued by the Louis XIV album cover, but I have no interest in listening to the actual album.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 27 March 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard bits of Louis XIV. I didn't care. More same old boring rock iconic...it's a parody of itself at this point.

The one Nina Simone album I decided to try in full turned out to be excruciatingly atonal in spots. I'm sure she has better albums, I just chose the wrong one.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 27 March 2005 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

finally heard me some Xiu Xiu. I really wish I hadn't.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 27 March 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard a Louis XIV song on the radio the other night, and I couldn't figure out what it was (until I got home later and googled the lyrics) but at the time my best guess was that it was LCD Soundsystem.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 27 March 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

bloc party

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 27 March 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The moldy Peaches. Not new, but new to me, and god how I hate them.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Sunday, 27 March 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

One more shout for Xiu-Xiu. A painful pile of ass wank.

― everything, Sunday, 27 March 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The moldy Peaches. Not new, but new to me, and god how I hate them.

You are a rubbish.

Whoever the local band were that opened for Million Dead on their Northampton date last Wednesday. Horrendous.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 27 March 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Hot Chips -- easily the worst live show I've ever seen.

― JC-L (JC-L), Sunday, 27 March 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

eh, I downloaded the newest Hold Steady album as was pretty disappointed--his vocals/lyrics bother me.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Gaff, I think they're called. Apparently manufactured shouty indie; an aberration.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah that Louis XIV is pretty depressing. It's not like "Some Girls" was one of my favorite Stones tracks in the first place.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I kinda like the carrot juice line but that's it

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Bright Eyes. I turned on MTV2 and there was a video for this 1000% excruciating singsong tune with couples sitting on a couch wearing headphones.. and I immediately thought OMG THIS IS THE WORST THING I'VE EVER HEARD. I had to watch to the end and find out what band it was, so I'd know never to accidentally buy one of their records or get dragged to their show. Bright Eyes. IST TEH SUCK

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 28 March 2005 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

almost every goddamn Myspace band that tries to add me as a friend.

Some friends of mine even coined the term "Myspace rock."

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 28 March 2005 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bravery

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 28 March 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Who do apparently in some way owe their success to myspace, by the way. But I'm not one to talk shit about myspace bands ...

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 28 March 2005 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bravery are Gary Numan-approved.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Monday, 28 March 2005 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't say if everything he does is this bad...but I recently discovered that that fucking two-chord air-raid siren of a big hit song that I really hate (title unknown, except probably by many of you) is by Usher.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 28 March 2005 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bravery has my vote on this one.

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Louis XIV

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

How bad was the Hot Chip gig? That's kind of disappointing to hear, since I love their album, but perhaps they're one of those bands best kept in the studio.

Kasabian and Razorlight here. And I'm still not sure which of the two has a worse name...

― Telephonething, Monday, 28 March 2005 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone actually like The Bravery?

― Seuss, Monday, 28 March 2005 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bravery are deserving of the hatred: they managed to be painfully derivative without any of the catchiness of the bands they rip rubbing off on them.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

m.i.a., antony and the johnsons, queens of the stone age, the pleased, the evening, joanna newsom, animal collective, devandra banhart, kaiser chiefs, also anything under the now faceless "alt-country" moniker, anything related to anticon, the decemberists too

all-time worst could be hmm, cyclops, flipper, happy mondays, wolf eyes

― cornelius crash (cornelius crash), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

in the recent year(s)

― cornelius crash (cornelius crash), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG WHY DO YOU HATE MUSIC????!!!!

j/k

I like "Illegal Tender," but no other Louis XIV songs.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Amen to M.I.A. Love anticon and the decemberists.

Still, M.I.A. dislike is thicker than water. So I'm on your side.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bravery by a large margin.

(Forgive me! I happen to like Louis XIV)

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 28 March 2005 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Animal Collective, esp. 'You Could Win A Rabbit'. About as much fun as a magic eye puzzle.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 March 2005 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, all the derivatives of derivatives of... The Killers, The Bravery, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian etc. suck. I do like The Futureheads and can tolerate Bloc Party and The Franz in doses but the others are horrendous.

― jmeister (jmeister), Monday, 28 March 2005 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The Smiths ... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 28 March 2005 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

all-time worst could be hmm, cyclops, flipper, happy mondays, wolf eyes

dude, you are so wrong about that one.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

bravery

― n'ment, Monday, 28 March 2005 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I was quite surprised to find that I liked a Libertines song the other day.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 28 March 2005 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Cornelius is crazy, but I'll agree with jmeister about Killers, Bravery and to a lesser extent Kaiser Chiefs (mediocre, but not hateful in themselves).

Gotta lay into some shit local bands...Fridays from the East End of Glasgow. Strokes haircuts and a sound lifted straight from the pages of NME in 2002-3. They played a gig in my hometown of Stirling that I was djing at and while they seemed to go down well, their shamelessly derivative twaddle left me somewhat depressed. And they brought all their mates along to dance to them. That's cheating!
The sort of band you know were into Oasis four years ago and will sound like the Killers in a year.

― stew, Monday, 28 March 2005 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ordinary Boys. The most pointless excuse for a band I have heard for years (I seem to have managed to avoid hearing The Bravery for some reason).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 28 March 2005 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe the dude upthread said it was specifically Craig Finn's lyrics on the Hold Steady stuff that bothered him!
Then again, I think that Bravery single is great.

― Waking Up Onstage at Jumbo's (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 28 March 2005 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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Wait, "Bug Powder Dust" Justin Warfield? Same guy? Haha.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 7 May 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)

Apparently. We really should have threads for Panic! At The Disco and She Wants Revenge. Think of the Googlers!

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 7 May 2006 04:53 (twenty years ago)

Madden 2007 comes out in August! I've got my earmuffs ready and I'll report back as soon as I play it.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 7 May 2006 05:15 (twenty years ago)

The last Madden I played at least had a song from Speakerboxxx before it came out, and erm...Andrew WK.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 7 May 2006 05:18 (twenty years ago)

" I say “imaginary” because not even a single one of the so-called post-punk revival bands have exhibited any of the qualities that made post-punk what it was: originality, political sophistication and interesting guitar playing." hahhaha

― jkflsd, Sunday, 7 May 2006 07:07 (twenty years ago)

You guys are crazy. All these bands are awesome.

― Owen Pallett (Owen Pallett), Sunday, 7 May 2006 08:16 (twenty years ago)

mazzy star,froufrou,sigur ros,my bloody valentine
and -i swear- so many others...anything recorded under water...anything that fakes emotion really, and pretentious to boot. you're just stuck in this elevator and can't find the alarm bell

― LaurenceGasser, Sunday, 7 May 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

...so of course, logically: anything i heard on myspace influenced by the aforementioned.

― LaurenceGasser, Sunday, 7 May 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

the czars? but then i haven't seen them since he started wearing trucker hats and fired the whole band. the new covers cd is splendid though and so is the devotchka covers ep, it's all covers all the time in Denver apparently.

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 7 May 2006 13:57 (twenty years ago)

anything that fakes emotion really

All music does this.

― Doktor Faustus (noodle vague), Sunday, 7 May 2006 14:01 (twenty years ago)

The Lovemakers, who performed before Eagles of Death Metal at SXSW and whom we unfortunately endured to make sure we got a spot in the packed bar. Imagine Animotion revived, with Newman from Seinfeld on keys, a shirtless, poofy-haired guitarist who looks like a failed auditioner for Glass Tiger playing hot licks while making out with his sleazy female vocal counterpart with no irony whatsoever. They announced at show's end that they have an album forthcoming on Interscope.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Sunday, 7 May 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

I have recently determined that I don't really like any new modern rock music, which is the saddest recent music-related revelation that I've been forced to come to terms with. Editors, Arctic Monkeys, She Wants Revenge, Matisyahu, Dresden Dolls... I've heard songs from these bands dozens of times on the radio, and none of them stick in my head at all. They're just all boring shit. A "new Nirvana" has never been more necessary than right now, and there's pretty much no way this is happening anytime this year. So yeah, we're all fucked.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 7 May 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Well theoretically, those bands mentioned shouldn't be a defining guage for modern rock music.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Sunday, 7 May 2006 15:28 (twenty years ago)

believe me doctor faustus...somebody like janis joplin wasn't faking it. she sang like she felt. you feel like she felt. it's just an example. it's also what i call music.

― LaurenceGasser, Friday, 12 May 2006 23:41 (twenty years ago)

and yet she was awful.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:05 (twenty years ago)

THE USED(and every otheremo metal that was at the teaste of choas)-queer,queer and also simple plan they sound so shit live and are gay !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

― nathan gibson, Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

The Mystery Jets. Embarrassingly poor.

― boney (b0n3y), Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:13 (twenty years ago)

Blood on the Wall opening for Destroyer the other night. Really, why bother?

― r3000, Saturday, 13 May 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

i've only found good music in the last month or so. this has also coincided with my ceasing to download every single song on every single mp3 blog.

i do like the mystery jets and final fantasy, though. aside from a couple people affronting sacred cows upthread, most of these (commercial) bands are hardly worth mentioning since it's a bit tacit they're crap.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Saturday, 13 May 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

SHE WANTS REVENGE / THE PARLOUR BOYS

― city of gyros (chaki), Saturday, 13 May 2006 04:45 (twenty years ago)

I saw a band on tv last night called Mew, dunno who they are or where they come from but their sheer awfulness had me sitting slack-jawed for the entire clip and I'm hoping they've already fucked off and died. Probably better than the Dresden Dolls though.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Saturday, 13 May 2006 08:45 (twenty years ago)

it has to be *People*. girl/boy duo. usually when an act is bad i just forget about them and don't go out of my way to slag them in print or on ILM, but in their case I make an exception, cuz I really want them to stop making music.

kasabian were pretty bad. and i did slag them in print. but they are already a dim memory.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 May 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

fuckin hair police

― rizzx (Rizz), Saturday, 13 May 2006 10:15 (twenty years ago)

jesus fuck, i thought the thread title said best band etc....

hair police were awesome

worst would be...hmm..oh willy mason

― rizzx (Rizz), Saturday, 13 May 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

hey, i just brought willy up on another thread! i've only heard his big single. probably not my kind of thing. my pal bob is in the video though!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 May 2006 10:33 (twenty years ago)

yeah, its not my kind of thing either. a lot of people do like him i can imagine. he sounds like Johnny Cash lite, generic countryroxxor

― rizzx (Rizz), Saturday, 13 May 2006 10:35 (twenty years ago)

he is from where i live, so i hear about him a lot. he's the local boy made good, you know? he's really young.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 May 2006 10:38 (twenty years ago)

but feel free to hate! never stop hating on my account.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 May 2006 10:42 (twenty years ago)

the only thing i hate is Blur, the rest..i just don't like

― rizzx (Rizz), Saturday, 13 May 2006 10:48 (twenty years ago)

Easily some of the worst new music I've heard is via myspace invites. Who needs the radio?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 May 2006 12:24 (twenty years ago)

dammit, i love the dresden dolls.

someone once told me that lacuna coil is good. so, i checked them out the other day, and no, they are not good.

the new regina spektor is also terrible and boring and disappointing.

― Emily B (Emily B), Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

I would have to say Man Man.

― Jacobo Rock (jacobo rock), Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

I have not hear She Want Revenge but I remember after reading they were not another interpol knock off band, that it was fronted by Justin Warfield. I remember his debut trying to jump on the whole Arrested Development/Basehead laid back hippie stoner rap bandwagon at the time. What's next?

― Jacobo Rock (jacobo rock), Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

What a great thread.

Thank God I'm not alone in my aversion to animal collective. I kind of thought I was. I really tried with sung tongs, convinced that I wasn't hearing right. And I'll pick up "feels" in a store and just sort of look at it, turning it over and thinking "maybe..." Now I can scoff confidently, knowing I scoff on behalf of innocents everywhere oppressed by the hipster taste-making cabal.

Also, the Trews. So derivative as to be invisible.

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 13 May 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Any band with the word "wolf" in its name. Particularly Wolfmother.

― Mr _Deeds (Mr_Deeds), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I disagree twice, then agree once.

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Easily some of the worst new music I've heard is via myspace invites. Who needs the radio?

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), May 13th, 2006.

OTFM

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

xpost,
Yeah - MAN MAN
As a huge fan of 70s prog/Zappa/Beefheart etc, I expected to like this band at least a LITTLE BIT,
but I really could not stand them at all.

Also I'm from Philly, so I wanted to like them...

― Chris Bee (Cee Bee), Saturday, 13 May 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

the new regina spektor is also terrible and boring and disappointing.

Amen. Didn't take her long to go from "Chemo Limo" to a single that sounds like Shania Twain.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 13 May 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

I avoided the radio for about 2 years.
Then, 4 months ago, my car stereo broke,, followed directly by ipod, so no possibility their

So now it's fucking Tool on that one alternative station, or, "so. so. def."
But probably, the most truly terrible band it has exposed me to is recent (well, recent to me) System of a Down.
"most loneliest day of my life."

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Sunday, 14 May 2006 02:31 (twenty years ago)

"most truly"
::horror:: my cod, i need to get that thing fixed

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Sunday, 14 May 2006 02:32 (twenty years ago)

As seen on Wimp.com

― zig, Sunday, 14 May 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

date: today
station: KCRW
song:"Philosophia"
artist: Guggenheim Grotto

there's no way this could have turned out ok

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 14 May 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.jared-leto.org/multimedia/videos/tv/carson_thestory_%5BJared-Leto.org%5D.zip
http://www.jared-leto.org/multimedia/videos/tv/carson_thekill_%5BJared-Leto.org%5D.zip

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 14 May 2006 03:33 (twenty years ago)

(I didn't actually download those. I did however see them on TV last night. Well, half of this one actually before I switched off the set.)
30 SECONDS TO MARS LYRICS
"The Story"
I've been thinking of everything
I used to want to be
I've been thinking of everything
Of me, of you and me
This is the story of my life
These are the lies I have created
I'm in the middle of nothing
And it's where I want to be
I'm at the bottom of everything
And I finally start to leave
This is the story of my life
These are the lies I have created
I created
And I swear to god
I've found myself
In the end
In the end

This is the story of my life
These are the lies I have created

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 14 May 2006 03:45 (twenty years ago)

"Lonely Day" is probably the worst System Of A Down song ever.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 14 May 2006 04:43 (twenty years ago)

Are you kidding me "Philosophia" by the Guggenheim Grotto is f-ing fantastic. www.guggenheimgrotto.com download the EP then have an opinion about them. They are by far the best band around "today.!"

― Trini, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:35 (twenty years ago)

"today.!"

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:38 (twenty years ago)

The Automatic - 'Monster' I've heard this twice on the radio recently and it is the most leaden, lumpen, imagination free, bottom of the NME-rock barrel piece of unreedemable shit I've ever heard.

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 07:23 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

She Wants Revenge

justin warfield comes out fighting re the JD/Interpol jibes

http://valleyheart.tumblr.com/post/4578209549

[full disclosure : i spent a few hours backstage with justin last year when SWR supported the psych furs.
having loved his hip hop stuff/one inch punch etc, thought it be cool to find out more.
summary of the 'event' : lots of self analysis, and not many laughs]

― mark e, Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:58 (fifteen years ago)

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