Worst band ever?

[MontyVeda]

The Bump! Pop at its poppety best!!

all this 'modern rubbish' sounds quite good in comparison.

 

[Firestorm]

i refer you to post #422

Oops missed that...

Can I add Pilot , Smokie and The Rock Follies to the Rapidly growing 70's hall of shame


And the Rubettes and Barry Blue

 

[MontyVeda]

...

Can I add Pilot , Smokie and The Rock Follies to the Rapidly growing 70's hall of shame


And the Rubettes and Barry Blue

you can... but they're all better than Coldplay in my humble opinion.

 

[Rezillo]

No Fnaar was on the beam. Some terrible "bands" around then Slik, Hello, Our Kid, Fox, I am not going to look...............

Fox? Fox? With the lovely Noosha? Nooooooooooooo.......

 

[Firestorm]

you can... but they're all better than Coldplay in my humble opinion.

I agree , I have found myself humming songs by all of them since I read this thread but nothing of Coldplays.

 

[AndyRM]

Skinny Puppy. Mid 90s electronic industrial bilge. When I was at Bradford Uni, this was what all the technoheads on Usenet were listening to, so I trekked to the Virgin Megastore in Leeds to spent some of my overdraft student loan on an import tape. What a fine idea that was...

They'd lost the plot by the mid-nineties and were on the verge of breaking up. Their 80s stuff is groundbreaking and hugely influential IMO.

 

[MarkF]

Oops missed that...

Can I add Pilot , Smokie and The Rock Follies to the Rapidly growing 70's hall of shame

And the Rubettes and Barry Blue

And Sailor and bleedin Paper Lace. Worse was soon to come though Cocteau Twins, Cabaret Voltaire, Dalek I Love You, Spizzenergi............

 

[threebikesmcginty]

And Sailor and bleedin Paper Lace. Worse was soon to come though Cocteau Twins, Cabaret Voltaire, Dalek I Love You, Spizzenergi............

Sailor are quite an interesting band, some quite good stuff actually. They're a bit more serious than a couple of their well known pop songs would suggest. Maybe.

Oh yeah, and don't knock the Spizz.

 

[Donger]

Mrs Donger is spitting feathers at the mention of the Rubettes, but as she has polluted my laptop with "Sugar Baby Love" and hundreds of other examples of similar 70's bilge, I am not going to stand up for her on this occasion.
My own vote simply has to go to Babylon Zoo. (Boooo! you're rubbish!) Like thousands of other mugs, back in 1995, I got completely taken in my the heavily edited and modified version of "Spaceman" that was used on the Levi's ad, and raced out to buy the single. It shot straight to the top of the charts, and then immediately right back out again in record time, as word got out that we'd all already heard the only 15 seconds of remotely listenable stuff. Quite apalling record - nothing like the trailer, and never deserved to make them a one-hit wonder. Just shows the power of advertising.
Boo!, Boo! and thrice Boo!

 

[thefensman]

RUSH=MUSICAL GENIUS. SIMPLES

 

[Ian A]

Mrs Donger is spitting feathers at the mention of the Rubettes, but as she has polluted my laptop with "Sugar Baby Love" and hundreds of other examples of similar 70's bilge, I am not going to stand up for her on this occasion.
My own vote simply has to go to Babylon Zoo. (Boooo! you're rubbish!) Like thousands of other mugs, back in 1995, I got completely taken in my the heavily edited and modified version of "Spaceman" that was used on the Levi's ad, and raced out to buy the single. It shot straight to the top of the charts, and then immediately right back out again in record time, as word got out that we'd all already heard the only 15 seconds of remotely listenable stuff. Quite apalling record - nothing like the trailer, and never deserved to make them a one-hit wonder. Just shows the power of advertising.
Boo!, Boo! and thrice Boo!

I'm pretty certain the Babylon Zoo album was rushed out to stores in big numbers as the single started to fall and sold reasonably well enough to chart off the back of one single. I think It received what's known as "mixed" reviews.

 

[StuAff]

Skinny Puppy. Mid 90s electronic industrial bilge. When I was at Bradford Uni, this was what all the technoheads on Usenet were listening to, so I trekked to the Virgin Megastore in Leeds to spent some of my overdraft student loan on an import tape. What a fine idea that was...

You are entitled to your opinion.




It just happens to be wrong

Not mid-90s either...first album came out in 1982. And they're still going strong.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Sixpence None the Richer have a special place in hell in my opinion.

Back away from the La's, la!

But even they are nothing in comparison to the unparralleled rage and angst that I reserved for Mumford and ******* sons. I can't explain why I hate them so much, I just do.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Cold play are sort of U2 next gen'. Taking up the challenge of mediocre stadium crap.

I think you're absolutely bang on there. I watched one of their gigs on telly and thought there songs were just bland, innocuous and harmless but also felt that if I heard them repeatedly I would end up hating them as much as I hate U2 who, when I first heard them, I thought to be bland etc etc

 

[PaulB]

Of today's bands, I have a particular dislike of The Killers, Razorlight and Nickelback. Can't abide any of that load of tripe, me.