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Edited Nov 12, 2008, 16:52
Re: Successful bands that you dont like
Nov 11, 2008, 20:40
Contemporary? All of them.

Going back a bit

The Eagles - everything I hate about the post Woodstock era in a nutshell. What was Joe Walsh thinking of other than the $$$$? Smug, heartless garbage spoon fed to adoring masses who have no feel for rock n roll but a burning need to be part of the in-crowd and can't help getting it wrong. Five years later they'd have been buying The Knack. That said the intro to One of These Nights is lovely - makes a nice loop.

The Jam - after All Mod Cons if not before and he was both a Tory and a Chelsea fan before he discovered socialism.

Style Council - more of the above with even worse styling. Spandau were more soulful. Chas n Dave are more soulful.

Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Oasis & The Farm

Beautiful South - misanthropy in old labour clothing.

Guns n Roses - now that really *is* mock rock. A great start and a miserable decline into pomposity and self-parody.

New Order - One of those bands I could like more if a) they were not lavished with so much empty-headed critical prasie and b) they would gag their singer

Spandau

Ultravox (post JF)

Simple Minds (post 84)

Madonna (apart from Lucky Star and Vogue)

Simply Red - if only he would stick to funding reggae reissue labels!

Elvis Costello - after Pills n Soap. He's a little bit country, a little bit jazz, a little bit classical and more than a little bit of a bore.

The Verve - everything after the first two or three singles. So you think you are too good for Space Rock? Ha!

Each of the above are guaranteed to make my hackles rise for various reasons. In most cases that's connected with tuneless yodeling, pretentious lyrics lifted from the back covers of books they are too medicated, ignorant or plain bone idle to actually read and / or more-street-than-thou posturing.

.... and lets not forget all those hideous nameless faceless post grunge American angsty major label rock acts who took the worst elements of Pearl Jam and turned them into a shed load of platinum albums.
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