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Following on from the Favourite Singers/Music Genres threads,post a list of the 5 bands/singers that you really really despise - my list ....

Queen
Abba
Madness
Bon Jovi
U2
 
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curly42 said:
Following on from the Favourite Singers/Music Genres threads,post a list of the 5 bands/singers that you really really despise - my list ....

Queen
Abba
Madness
Bon Jovi
U2
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I can't think of any that I really despise. But there are far too many to list that I find boring / depressing etc., plus almost anyone whose "music" is so formulaic that every record sounds like a near identkit clone of things that have gone before.
To name just a few:
Morrissey (great musician but liable to induce manic depression)
Gilbert O'Sullivan (depressing voice)
Barry White (boring near-monotonic voice.)
And just about every RAP act since the first few.
 
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Sir (John Lennon would be turning in his grave) Paul McCartney. Pretentious purveyor of inane drivel. I will never forget him turning to his then wife Linda on national television and telling her to shut up. Also, when Johnny Walker was on breakfast radio and had announced that McCartney was coming into the studio. The p*** rang in to say he had decided to go shopping instead. Also, all the "songs by Paul McCartney and John Lennon" nonsense. Can't stand the man.
 
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I agree with you about Paul McCartney. "Simply having a wonderful Christmas time" and "Ebony & Ivory" are two of the most nauseating songs in pop history.
 
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Anyone that polluted the charts with so-called "novelty" songs, so we have

Joe Dolcie - Shaddup ya Face, (and please do so)
St Winnifreds School Choir
Clive Dunn
The Wombles
Mr Blobby

Unfortunately there are many more....
 
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My list of the ones I cannot stand are:

Abba
Cliff Richard
Bros
New Kids on the Block
U2 (their egos are at least 31 years overdue for a massage)

Also everything that Simon Cowell/Louis Walsh/all reality "shows" have churned out in recent years.
 
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d9009alycidon said:
Anyone that polluted the charts with so-called "novelty" songs, so we have

Joe Dolcie - Shaddup ya Face, (and please do so)
St Winnifreds School Choir
Clive Dunn
The Wombles
Mr Blobby

Unfortunately there are many more....
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It was an injustice that a far better song "Vienna" by Ultravox was kept off the top spot by that rubbish I have bolded.

There again, Midge Ure and/or Ultravox is/are still going strong 38 years later.
 
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Bobdogs said:
Sir (John Lennon would be turning in his grave) Paul McCartney. Pretentious purveyor of inane drivel. I will never forget him turning to his then wife Linda on national television and telling her to shut up. Also, when Johnny Walker was on breakfast radio and had announced that McCartney was coming into the studio. The p*** rang in to say he had decided to go shopping instead. Also, all the "songs by Paul McCartney and John Lennon" nonsense. Can't stand the man.
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Completely agree. John Lennon was a far more talented musician IMO.
 
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Old Yard Dog said:
I agree with you about Paul McCartney. "Simply having a wonderful Christmas time" and "Ebony & Ivory" are two of the most nauseating songs in pop history.
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I agree about the Christmas song. There's also 'Mull of Kintyre' and he probably was responsible for 'Strawberry Fields' because, like the other two, it's essentially just a single line repeated over and over again over a very simple tune.

George Martin is regarded by some as a great producer because he worked with the Beatles. His other classics included 'The fastest milk-man in the west', and similar others...
 
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Musically, Shaddapa Ya Face has always seemed a decent song to me.

Same as Deeply Dippy by Right Said Fred, I think that that's simple but brilliant. People would dismiss it out of hand.
 
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tigerroar said:
Musically, Shaddapa Ya Face has always seemed a decent song to me.

Same as Deeply Dippy by Right Said Fred, I think that that's simple but brilliant. People would dismiss it out of hand.
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Agreed. If you're going to try to identify the reason for modern music being rubbish, it isn't novelty pop songs such as Mr Blobby that are the problem, naff novelty records have always existed (Puff the Magic Dragon, anyone?) but never dominated outside of the festive period. Middle-of-the-road lift-music churned out by the likes of Coldplay and Keane is far more of a crime!

Speaking of the festive period, the Live Aid single "Do They Know it's Christmas Time" is possibly the greatest musical crime ever committed. I'll even forgive Chicago before that!
 
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Bungle158 said:
Ed Sheeran
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You've won the thread :lol:

Coldplay
Adele
Mumford and Sons
Take That (+ any ex-member, that means Robbie and Gary mainly)
Oasis (Liam does come across as quite funny these days in interviews though, Noel like a bit of a kn*b)
James Blunt
Megadeth
 
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There are quite a lot of songs and artists on these threads that I quite like.

61653 HTAFC said:
Agreed. If you're going to try to identify the reason for modern music being rubbish, it isn't novelty pop songs such as Mr Blobby that are the problem, naff novelty records have always existed (Puff the Magic Dragon, anyone?) but never dominated outside of the festive period. Middle-of-the-road lift-music churned out by the likes of Coldplay and Keane is far more of a crime!

Speaking of the festive period, the Live Aid single "Do They Know it's Christmas Time" is possibly the greatest musical crime ever committed. I'll even forgive Chicago before that!
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I take it by "middle of the road" you don't include the band of that name and their cracking pop songs "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" and "Soley Soley" !
 
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In no particular order:-

Stormzy
Ed Sheeran
Camila Cabello
Billie Eyelash (or whatever she is known as)
Cheryl Cole/Tweedy/Vermicelli (Again, whatever she goes as)
Dua Lipa
Sam Smith
Lewis Capaldi
The Weeknd
Callum Scott
Jax Jones
One direction
Drake
DJ Khaled
Little Mix
Charlie Puth

Basically anything modern - it’s all sh*te.
 
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A large amount of current pop is extremely uninspiring and derivative but I couldn't say I actively dislike many modern artists, Bruno Mars is one though.

Seems a lot of you have mentioned Ed Sheeran - I like some of his music (such as Shape of You and Don't), but not a fan of the slower stuff like The A Team - but at least his sound has some variety and not every song sounds similar!

I've personally never 'got' the Kings of Leon or Bruce Springsteen. Also can't stand anything I've heard from Celine Dion.
 
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What bothers me more is the older I get, I find myself listening to and being quite nostalgic about songs I thought were absolute rubbish when they first came out. I’m glad my Spotify history is private...
 
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Not sure I agree with all the McCartney bashing but each to their own. Whilst he did do some pretty crap stuff later on he was responsible for some amazing Beatle Classics. Eleanor Rigby, Hey Jude, For no One or Penny Lane to name a few. To say John Lennon was far more talented would be unfair. Perhaps the stronger writer yes.

Anyway my list

Duran Duran
Genesis
Sex Pistols well overrated.
Spice Girls
Almost everything since CD's went out the window.
 
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