Worst band ever?

[alecstilleyedye]

And then I recalled attending a gig years ago which promised so so much and delivered - precisely nothing! That's right, as pointless an exercise as reading Richard Hammond's biography. I dunno if they're the worst band ever, but they have to be close. With a great name they were unappealing, appalling, cretinous, insipid, obvious and trite, in ways which the Spice Girls could only mimic.

Yep, it was the Dead Kennedys.

you need to use your brain with the dks, not just your ears

i suppose it helps if you know the cultural background to the songs, holiday in cambodia isn't a song about a backpacking trip…

 

[papercorn2000]

It isn't?
Oh.

 

[papercorn2000]

Funny how his fans happily ignore his lifestyle and think he's great. If a guy living next door to you behaved the way Freddie did you'd be horrified! Massive drug-fueled, anything goes by-sexual orgies. Yeah, excellent ;0)

Hell no!

Wrap up a cheap bottle of plonk and take it next door...

Hi Fred, having a get together? Ok, just for a munute or so then...

I would have thought that these conditions were normal living near to the fleshpots of downtown Airdrie...

 

[GilesM]

hitherto the Dead Kennedys had entirely escaped my notice. Curiosity prevailed over caution. 34 seconds of that youtube clip has left scars...

You have obviously led a very sheltered life, I remember going to see them in '81 or '82, a manic night to say the least. I hope the scars heal soon

Edit to add, I am concerned that the U2 clip has left no scars, 5 seconds into that and I had a chair balanced at the top of the stairs and was just adjusting the noose, fortunately postie rang the bell, amazing how a package from chain reaction can bring you back to your senses.

 

[Quoth]

I can barely bring myself to type their name. Nickelback. There, I've said it. If you haven't thrown your keyboard to the ground shouting "YES, YES!!" by now, then you just don't get music.

 

[papercorn2000]

Good call! Drone, drone, drone!

And some silly facial hair to boot. Mind you, the front man bloke has made a shedload of cash by not underestimating what the public wants!

 

[GilesM]

I can barely bring myself to type their name. Nickelback. There, I've said it. If you haven't thrown your keyboard to the ground shouting "YES, YES!!" by now, then you just don't get music.

Yes, Yes, complete pish from pishland.

 

[Andy in Sig]

I'm no expert and I haven't played it for about thirty years, but I thought he sang on that one too? The only Spirit I ever play now is Future Dreams (which is totally bonkers, with samples from Star Wars and Dark Star and Mexican radio on it), and that came much later.

Now my memory is getting a bit hazy. I'm pretty sure RC sang on Animal Zoo but I was thinking more of Mr Skin, which I've always assumed was the first singer. Maybe that song wasn't on Twelve Dreams. Spirit did however do the best ever version in history of Like A Rolling Stone on their Spirit of 76 album.

 

[Andy in Sig]

I was in a local cafe the other day and a video of U2 being fronted by some bird called Mary Bilge was on. That was pretty dire and Bono is probably the world's leading celeb prat.

 

[Blue Manc]

Bit harsh on Nirvana there User1314, though I agree with most of the rest. Controversial choice for J would be Joy Division, nazi obsessed doom and gloom merchants, that really weren't all that.

 

[papercorn2000]

Well you could also argue that they ripped off a load of other bands such as Mudhoney...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Oh. The choice. The choice. Where to start?


F. John Foxx. Never heard you but I know you will be cr*p because of the way you spell your name.

Oh, bit harsh - as the founder and original singer of Ultravox, before that horrible greasy slimeball Minge Urine got hold of them and turned them into some gruesome electro-pop blandness, he was a great frontman - top band with three good LP's before they went shite with that tosser MU. Anyone that blasts his audience with 2 hours of great tunes and non-stop strobe light can't be all bad - someone call HSE and an ambulance...........

 

[Andy in Sig]

I wouldn't so much say "bit harsh" as "unfair" about Eric Clapton. Loads of white blokes have made it big playing the blues. He's a master of it and a very lyrical player. The only time he went a bit crap was when he started playing very white stuff (which sort of culminated in Lovely Tonight) but he at least had the excuse that he was getting over heroine addiction, so I suppose he didn't want to do anything too taxing.

 

[Blue Manc]

Wonderful Tonight (Which is awful). Never knew he was addicted to characters from Jane Austen.......

 

[tyred]

I must say I quite like Eric Clapton.

Surely Bucksfizz deserve a mention in a thread like this?