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The Enemy
self explanatory.
tbh they don't even deserve the capital letter i gave them.
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i was about to say all music is good and has some positive qualities but your right. the enemy.
Scouting For Girls
She's So Lovely - worst, laziest, blandest, stupidest song ever. Makes Rockstar by Nickelback sound like Paranoid Android.
She's So Lovely isn't bland!
If it were bland, it would mildly annoy me. As it is, it makes me want to scratch my own eyes out.
And nothing in the entire cosmos could ever, *ever* be as bad as Rockstar.
look look dancing boys
but it's hardly music so I'm not sure that counts.
seconded
truly abhorent band and i imagine people
All soft rock, ever.
Truly my most hated genre of music. Simply because of the dreadful cheesiness.
just read this...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Music-WASHBURNE/dp/0415943663/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205180506&sr=8-1
Pretty much everything
I'm not being cynical for any sake other than that I really haven't heard ANY new artists that I think are worth giving a shit about. Especially not in the UK. I used to think when I lived in North America that people there were so congruent to their tv portrayed stereotypes, but now I'm back in the UK, I have to say I can't stand the palette that we are all choosing to pluck our dress sense and our musicality from.
I think bad music is:
that which is just carbon-copies of everything else; that has been done to death; that has no melody; that you could forget 5 minutes after having it on; Turin Brakes; that makes you cringe
I definitely agree with:
"that which is just carbon-copies of everything else". Even if I thought something was really awful, if it was original I would still respect the band/artist for making it. I would like to say all instantly accessable music is bad, I know this isn't strictly true though, I just get bored of it very quickly.
As do I
I'd say anything that fails to offer something new or different is 'bad' by default. I have no problem with bands or artists being reminiscent of other bands or artists, but there has to be something new in the mix otherwise it's just a waste of time surely.
about 95% of music.
Soulja Boy and Sound Boi
or whatever they are called...wankers.
soulja boy is the preverbial
shiz - No, i mean YOU
and if we're going by genres, then:
pop-trance, NME-"indie", soft rock a la Nickelback, the sweeping tsunami of acoustic singer-songwriters that has crash landed into the 21st Century
and Fatman Scoop
There's no such thing as 'bad music'
There are lots of music that lacks quality/ originality but everything has a place and an eager listener.
But then again, celebs doing karaoke for cheap TV is bad music.
there is no bad music
only bad people. music should be more darwinian, we need natural selection of bands, not record executives throwing shit down our throats over and over
They should teach in schools...
..that being in a crappy NME band IS NOT COOL!!