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OK enough with the top threes already people...... nothing like enough bile and vitriol going on there at all.
So let's kick off with the worst 3 bands in human history.
3rd last westlife/boyzone/all-the-others-cos-they-are-all-just-one-constant-annoyance-a-vile-assault-upon-the-human-soul 2nd last Simple Red The Worst..... Black Lace (time may erase the tunes to a dull memory, but it can never heal, I can neither forgive nor forget)
I'm sorry, but my response to the question is the same band:
Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Starship Starship
The Airplane's creative highpoint was about the time the needle hit on "White Rabbit" and ended on "Somebody to Love". The Starship editions (both of them) contributed to the general decline in Western civilization that led to 9/11. Yes, I draw a direct line between "We Built This City on Rock and Roll" to the actions of Osama Bin Laden (I believe the historical record will bear me out) 
I saw Grace Slick on a news show a while back, she looks like Bea Arthur now. Scary 
there was a really crappy band in the pub the other day. they left early there is a guy on tv here who once was in a band called "rasberry cordial". playing bad eighties electronic music.
a really crap band everybody would have heard of, though one, nickelback or creed take your pick.
bright eyes (maybe THEE worst "band" making "music" that i have ever heard
she wants revenge
the killers
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forgot to add Aerosmith
Oi!
Metallica. Any boy/girl band. The Rakes.
megadeth
AC~DC
Iron Maiden
{metal (apart from some Metallica) is rubbish}
oh and Aerosmith. they're the worst actually.
I'll probably get a slating for number three but i've never liked them. Not even one record. So there.
*darts off very quickly*
1- Magic Numbers 2- Razorlight 3- Snow Patrol.
Although limiting to three isnt reallty fair.
Missy Jem wrote:
- Any (and i mean any) boy/girl band
- James Blunt (not technically a band but...)
- The Beatles
I'll probably get a slating for number three but i've never liked them. Not even one record. So there.
*darts off very quickly*
me neither. never understood the fascination with the Beatles. The amount of open mouthed Japanese fans down Matthew street in Liverpool looking for the mythical Cavern, and bringing carrier bags out of the Beatles shop.
and try going down Matthew St on August bank hol weekend. don't bother. its rammed. you can't get a pint.
Bunnymen's our best band ever.
imho.
john kershaw wrote:
Bunnymen's our best band ever. imho.
Whatever happened to The Icicle Works?
Missy Jem wrote:
- Any (and i mean any) boy/girl band
- James Blunt (not technically a band but...)
- The Beatles
I'll probably get a slating for number three but i've never liked them. Not even one record. So there.
*darts off very quickly*
LOL, must confess to a soft spot for SOME of their more ahem, chemically enhanced tunes, but most of what people get ecited about/ it's just nonsense.
Besides, they were already included in number 1.
"oh campbell you talk crap the Beatles were no boy band"....yeah that's right, those crowds of 10x000's of wee girls were drenching their knickers over Lennon's clever use of the sus4- +9 chord.
john kershaw wrote:
Missy Jem wrote:
- Any (and i mean any) boy/girl band
- James Blunt (not technically a band but...)
- The Beatles
I'll probably get a slating for number three but i've never liked them. Not even one record. So there.
*darts off very quickly*
me neither. never understood the fascination with the Beatles. The amount of open mouthed Japanese fans down Matthew street in Liverpool looking for the mythical Cavern, and bringing carrier bags out of the Beatles shop.
and try going down Matthew St on August bank hol weekend. don't bother. its rammed. you can't get a pint.
Bunnymen's our best band ever. imho.
Somebody shoot me. For once i'm in total agreement with the Kersh. Echo and the Bunnymen rock!!
Missy Jem wrote:
john kershaw wrote:
Missy Jem wrote:
- Any (and i mean any) boy/girl band
- James Blunt (not technically a band but...)
- The Beatles
I'll probably get a slating for number three but i've never liked them. Not even one record. So there.
*darts off very quickly*
me neither. never understood the fascination with the Beatles. The amount of open mouthed Japanese fans down Matthew street in Liverpool looking for the mythical Cavern, and bringing carrier bags out of the Beatles shop.
and try going down Matthew St on August bank hol weekend. don't bother. its rammed. you can't get a pint.
Bunnymen's our best band ever. imho.
Somebody shoot me. For once i'm in total agreement with the Kersh. Echo and the Bunnymen rock!!
Jem
Gonna get shot for this, but Liverpool's greatest exports are...
FGTH (loved em, no apologies either, and if you want to start the "trevor horn did it all" thing, I reccomend you find a demo of them BEFORE he got them.....impressive band. Only abut 4 tracks have stood the test tho)
And Tom Baker
Go on, I fuckin dare you to say a bad thing about him :D
that's about it. Like the bunnymen just fine, but never got to NO levels of excitement
Steve Campbell wrote: Gonna get shot for this, but Liverpool's greatest exports are...
FGTH (loved em, no apologies either, and if you want to start the "trevor horn did it all" thing, I reccomend you find a demo of them BEFORE he got them.....impressive band. Only abut 4 tracks have stood the test tho)
And Tom Baker
Go on, I fuckin dare you to say a bad thing about him :D
that's about it. Like the bunnymen just fine, but never got to NO levels of excitement
Steve
i've NEVER heard more than a snippet of snow patrol, odd since they're from accross the road.
Laughed my balls off at all my ever-so-cool mates getting all funny headed when it was alledged they'd be doig a wee homecoming gig in our locel. LOL there's better bands on in there 2 nights a week, and they don't go, but someone FAMOUS...oooooh that's different.
john kershaw wrote:
Missy Jem wrote:
john kershaw wrote:
Missy Jem wrote:
- Any (and i mean any) boy/girl band
- James Blunt (not technically a band but...)
- The Beatles
I'll probably get a slating for number three but i've never liked them. Not even one record. So there.
*darts off very quickly*
me neither. never understood the fascination with the Beatles. The amount of open mouthed Japanese fans down Matthew street in Liverpool looking for the mythical Cavern, and bringing carrier bags out of the Beatles shop.
and try going down Matthew St on August bank hol weekend. don't bother. its rammed. you can't get a pint.
Bunnymen's our best band ever. imho.
Somebody shoot me. For once i'm in total agreement with the Kersh. Echo and the Bunnymen rock!!
Jem
YOU CAN'T HARM ME!!!
MY WINGS ARE LIKE SHIELDS OF STEEL!!!
But they're not from across the road steve are they? They're from Scotland! Because that twat of a frontman spent his formative years in Portadown does not mean they are an Irish band. They were formed in Scotland, recorded in scotland, played there first gigs in Scotland. ANd are shite anyway!
BA wrote:
john kershaw wrote:
Bunnymen's our best band ever. imho.
Whatever happened to The Icicle Works?
don't know. Ian McNabb went off and did his own crappy folk-rock thing.
Uncle Liam wrote: But they're not from across the road steve are they? They're from Scotland! Because that twat of a frontman spent his formative years in Portadown does not mean they are an Irish band. They were formed in Scotland, recorded in scotland, played there first gigs in Scotland. ANd are shite anyway!
I don;t have to feel guilty about not assassinating them at an early age then, cheer :D
shows you how much I know, I listen to the local media :D
So that puts us back to....Van Morrison and D-ream then :(
fuck all youse, spewin shite about whoever patrol.
proper band tomorrow night: Belle & Sebastian
lucyjane wrote: Steps Showaddywaddy Kid Creole and the Coconuts
M'lady, that is HARSH, surely NO ONE deserves to be on the same list as steps? I mean, vile and obnoxious as the other 2 are, didn't they possess people who could, like, do music stuff?
lucyjane wrote:
Showaddywaddy
I bet it's the first mentioning of this band on this forum so far
Well I did think of Steps first and was going to put them down for second and third place but thought it was a little unimaginative. However, I am sure there are far more I could add if given a little more time. I would also like to add Rene and Renata and Joe Dolce although technically not groups.
lucyjane wrote: Well I did think of Steps first and was going to put them down for second and third place but thought it was a little unimaginative. However, I am sure there are far more I could add if given a little more time. I would also like to add Rene and Renata and Joe Dolce although technically not groups.
Why thank you. my day was going rather well for once. The I get a blast of "save your love" AND shutupayourface )sp?) all at once. Cheers
Dolce's worst crime was allowing the UK to make worldwide retards of ourselves by that tune keeping Vienna off No.1 Maybe if it HAD been No1 Ultravox would have quit while they were ahead and not turned into some awfulpub band.
Speakin of which..... no one appears to have Mentioned "the Quo"
Snoopy wrote: Keane Snow Patrol James Blunt
Nice choices, the first and third make me want to distort some guitars to show how music is done instead of being fucking pansies about it. And the amount of times Spitting Games was played last year makes me want to stab Snow Patrol.
The Eagles are bottom of the barrel for me, moving in on Gram Parsons' turf, but then again, if GP wasn't so hell-bent on self-destruction......
Starship........snooze-fest pap from people who should've known better.
probably a thousand-way tie for last, most of those extreme death metal bands who appear to have put more effort into their menancing looks, unreadable band logos, wordy song titles and vile album covers than the actual music. Glancing through Pit Magazine at the newsstand is always good for a chuckle.
My choices have to be, in any order: (and two of them are from Manchester)
Simply Red Lighthouse Family M People..
honourable mentions to U2, Travis, Stereophonics and Basement Jaxx too..
i can't believe i forgot vengaboys. take out one bon jovi, add vengaboys.
what the hell is a 'vengaboy' anyway?
AgentWood wrote: i can't believe i forgot vengaboys. take out one bon jovi, add vengaboys.
what the hell is a 'vengaboy' anyway?
Someone who boogies in Ibiza?
Christopher Owens wrote:
AgentWood wrote: i can't believe i forgot vengaboys. take out one bon jovi, add vengaboys.
what the hell is a 'vengaboy' anyway?
Someone who boogies in Ibiza?
are you referring to that song 'we're going to eat pizza?'
AgentWood wrote:
Christopher Owens wrote:
AgentWood wrote: i can't believe i forgot vengaboys. take out one bon jovi, add vengaboys.
what the hell is a 'vengaboy' anyway?
Someone who boogies in Ibiza?
are you referring to that song 'we're going to eat pizza?'
Back to the island. Woah. We're gonna have a party. Woah. In the Mediterranian Sea.
Ioh Ioh, Oh We Oh
Ioh Ioh, Oh We Oh Ioh Ioh, Oh We Oh Ioh Ioh, Oh We Oh
bands like Creed that offer nothing more than bland thoughtless imitations of other bands with nothing to add but smugness and ego, all to fit market demographics of the lowest common denom... so many bands have done the dumbed down imitation of Nirvana filtered thru Pearl Jam and some Soundgarden it is hard to keep track if one wanted to try...
also bands that are "alterna- lite", totally unchallenging and very safe... the bland mainstream kids think they are da bomb... mostly harmless i guess, but so boring and lame
the "Pop Tarts" are harmless fun, or just ignore them. thou why does Madonna still have a career, i dunno? she shoulda been put out to pasture 15 years ago
Thanks to the Agent, I've remembered another group that had about two hits when I was 13:
This was their biggest hit:
Witch Doctor
Hey Witch Doctor - give us the magic words! Alright you go uhh eeh uh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang
Alright
Uhh ehh uh ah ah Ting tang walla walla bing bang Uhh ehh uh ah ah Ting tang walla walla bing bang (Repeat x4)
I told the Witch Doctor I was in love with you I told the Witch Doctor I was in love with you And the Witch Doctor he told me what to do He told me
Uhh ehh uh ah ah Ting tang walla walla bing bang Uhh ehh uh ah ah Ting tang walla walla bing bang (Repeat x2)
I told the Witch Doctor you didn't love me true I told the Witch Doctor you didn't love me nice And then the Witch Doctor he gave me this advice
Uhh ehh uh ah ah Ting tang walla walla bing bang Uhh ehh uh ah ah Ting tang walla walla bing bang (Repeat x2)
You can keep your love from me just like you were a miser And I'll admit it wasn't very smart So I went out and found myself a guy that's so much wiser And he taught me the way to win your heart
Uhh ehh uh ah ah Ting tang walla walla bing bang Uhh ehh uh ah ah Ting tang walla walla bing bang (Repeat x2)
Bentley wrote:
Taboo # 7 wrote: You all forgot Richard Marx!
and Michael Bolton... no talent ass clown.
yep and Meat Loaf
James Blunt Katie Melua Joss Stone KT Tunstall
OK... not groups... but my God imagine if these people were in a group!
:dead:
top 3 hardly cuts it does it.
top 300 may have been better. So many horrors I had blotted out (thank you agent for the vengaboys returning to my mind, may a pipe burst above your bed tonight you evil bitch :D.....and as for Catoonz....I wretched when I typed it FFS.... fucking shawankywanky on 800 mushrooms....WTF)
Can I just mention.... what ya call em fast food cuntz
After a little thought here are my nominations:
Limp Bizkit It's hard to find the words to adequately describe Fred Durst but "talentless fraudulent deluded bone-headed juvenile bandwagon-jumping arsewipe" could be a start. At least the likes of Kiss and Motley Crue actually enjoyed being paid vast sums of money to act like overgrown children in public and made music that reflected that whereas Fred Durst rants and whines like Harry Enfield's Kevin The Teenager on steroids which is presumably what one of the vice-presidents of the record company to which his band is signed thinks the kids want, that VP being Fred Durst. If we could bring Kurt Cobain back to life and play him some Limp Bizkit he'd shoot himself again.
So Solid Crew At its peak the group was made up of more than twenty people but they didn't have a brain between them, as demonstrated on their hit "21 Seconds" during which a series of MCs were given 21 seconds on the mic but all managed to say fuck all of any note. They had flash cars, they had champagne and, as various court cases and the incident in which one member of the crew shot himself have shown, they had weapons but no matter what they had they were still a bunch of what are now known as chavs. They are currently in "urban" music's "whatever happened to" file which is very large but sadly does not contain everyone who has ever been involved in this bastard offspring that was created when soul was raped by gangsta rap.
S Club 7 To continue the shooting theme hardcore porn's loss was pop music's gain but pop music gained a "band" with so little personality that even the arrest of some of the members for smoking cannabis in public failed to make them interesting. They had a series of hits such as "Reach" and...no I can't remember any of the others and then disappeared from the scene almost as unnoticeably as they arrived on it. One of them has gone on to have a solo career making equally unmemorable music but without having to share the video shoot/lad mag photo shoot/getting out of a car outside a trendy nightclub without showing your knickers to the photographers shoot with less attractive bandmates which is the most important thing.
Bere wrote: A-HA
oh, you poor, misguided woman. a-ha were geniuses--ahead of their time in so many ways.
oh, you poor, misguided woman. a-ha were geniuses--ahead of their time in so many ways
Name one !
oh, you poor, misguided woman. a-ha were geniuses--ahead of their time in so many ways
Name one !
Digital Mike wrote:
oh, you poor, misguided woman. a-ha were geniuses--ahead of their time in so many ways
Name one !
They managed to sound like old duffers when still in their 20's.
I remember seeing them on TOTP( or simillar) once and yer man errr Pal(???) had a stratocaster with theatre blood splattered on the scratchplate.... a true rock martyr....trouble is the set dresser or props mamager didn't know guitars are meant to have strings so it had none.LOL oddest thing i ever seen.
Digital Mike wrote:
oh, you poor, misguided woman. a-ha were geniuses--ahead of their time in so many ways
Name one !
i'll name 3: take on me (and the video was brilliant) the sun always shines on TV the living daylights
so there.
AgentWood wrote:
Digital Mike wrote:
oh, you poor, misguided woman. a-ha were geniuses--ahead of their time in so many ways
Name one !
i'll name 3: take on me (and the video was brilliant) the sun always shines on TV the living daylights
so there.
and was beginning to think it was about Morten :D
actually i thought they were quite ok, but at this stage i was a new order fan, and had to put them down in public.
AgentWood wrote:
Digital Mike wrote:
oh, you poor, misguided woman. a-ha were geniuses--ahead of their time in so many ways
Name one !
i'll name 3: take on me (and the video was brilliant) the sun always shines on TV the living daylights
so there.
I'll second all 3. Sun Always Shines On TV is fantastically arranged and orchestrated. Brilliant tune.
I managed to see a random concert on televison and was truly impressed with how good they still sounded. Strong live vocals and very tight timing. Truly professional sound.
Taboo # 7 wrote: I'm sorry, but my response to the question is the same band:
Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Starship Starship
The Airplane's creative highpoint was about the time the needle hit on "White Rabbit" and ended on "Somebody to Love". The Starship editions (both of them) contributed to the general decline in Western civilization that led to 9/11. Yes, I draw a direct line between "We Built This City on Rock and Roll" to the actions of Osama Bin Laden (I believe the historical record will bear me out)
I saw Grace Slick on a news show a while back, she looks like Bea Arthur now. Scary
Tabbsy, ewe ignorant slut. From 1966 to 1969, Jefferson Airplane was one of the best rock bands on the planet. Surealistic Pillow, The amazing After Bathing at Baxters, the almost equally amazing Crown of Creation, Volunteers. Volun-fucking-teers.
Even Blows against The Empire, the first album recorded by "Jefferson Starship" (actually a Paul Kantner solo album), was a good album.
The musicians? Jorma Kaukonen plays like nobody else on Earth. One of a handful of guitarists with a signature sound. Actually, two signature sounds, because he likes to play electric, and he likes to play acoustic blues. A one-of-a-kind guitarist. Jack Casady was his counterpart on bass-- an amazingly talented musician in his own right.
Everything else you said was spot on. 
