Popular Bands & Hit Songs You HATE!

WHAT?? Tom Sawyer is one of the best songs EVER!

 

BAND: Tom Petty. I know, I've already ducked into a corner with the laptop typing this. They sound like the feral cats outside my apartment. And every song is a riff off getting high. Which, sorry, not me.

SONG: Anything by Alan Jackson. Anything. Including the 9/11 song.

 

Can't stand Floyd or Zepplin.

 

Coldplay is Radiohead-lite

 

Band: The Dead, Buffett, 80s hair metal, prog rock (except some Yes songs), boy bands, most pop music, new radio-friendly country. That about covers it.

Songs: Any by those bands, except Friend of the Devil. For some reason I like this song. But the rest, I just throw up in my mouth a little.

 

I remember Blender wrote in its review of a Rush best-of package, "Buy this, and your girlfriend will leave you."

The Rush crowds are the most full-throated of any concert I've seen, what with it being all guys. The Rush in Rio CD has the deepest-sounding mix of any I've heard, because they had to work around the sound of 40,000 male Brazilians cheering and singing along.

The second-most guy-heavy crowd was Mojo Nixon. Or as he put it:

"My wife asks me, 'Mojo, are you fuckin' around on the road?' And I say, 'No, honey, I ain't.' Because when I look in front of me [Mojo waves his right arm across the audience], I see nuthin' but guys."

 

So do chicks really not dig Rush? Hmmm Is there something wrong with me?

 

Ah Mojo: I wanna be in Martha Quinn.
Jesus at McDonald's was the first thing I heard from him, and remains a fave. Saw him in Louisville one night and it was hilarious. People get giving him shots and he got hammered and kind of stumbled out the back door of the club for about 10 minutes, then came back in. But he didn't play Jesus at McDonalds!!!

 

I interviewed Mojo Nixon when he was riding high with "Elvis Is Everywhere". Funniest guy I've ever talked to.

 

I am probably going to catch major shit for this, but I cannot listen to anything by Bruce Springsteen. I've given him shot after shot, different song after song, early and late. But I just can't stand the guy's voice - it makes me want to put a virus on my computer just so I never hear it again.

 

For me it's Barbra Streisand. One of my college roommates played her music over and over (I think she was borderline psychotic in her Streisand obsession -- she was convinced she even looked like Barbra), and would think nothing of ripping the needle across one of my albums, then disgustedly jam it back into the sleeve and put one of her Streisand albums on the turntable. No asking or anything, just come into the room and scratch the crap out of any non-Babs album.

 

Same here. I've never really cared for Bob Dylan, but I don't hate the guy.

Others: The Eagles, KISS

Song: "That Smell" by Lynyrd Skynyrd