And, I'm not a classic rock fan, but I can recognize the importance of the Beach Boys to musical history, and I would never denigrate them!
Same with Eric Clapton!

Whomever wrote this list is just being ignorant and hateful.
(Although I can get behind the inclusion of Pearl Jam on such a list. Never understood the appeal of that band.)

From what I understand he's a lovely person.
Too bad his music isn't.

ugh

I had tickets to see Madonna in concert for her MDNA tour a few years back. The Philly show was her first stop on the US leg of the tour and I had read that she had done some changes to the song line-up from the European leg of the tour.

Well whatever happened it seems that it took Madonna forever to get on stage. Most big names have an open act for about 30-45 minutes, 30 minute state swap and the the opening act. And since Madonna's opening act were these EDM DJ's there really wasn't much need for a change in the stage between opening act and her act. The guy played EDM for TWO FREAKING HOURS!!!! It was the two longest most horrible hours of music hell I have EVER experienced. I'd rather have been front row at a Creed concert while Scott Stapp was singing all his greatest hits while in the throes of a overload meth-roid tweaking rage.

So yes for me my music hell involves EDM. I can't stand it, can't dance to it, do NOT like it.

I don't necessarily hate all EDM, but I do find it the most douchiest of all musical genres. Moreover, most EDM DJs are not actual musicians. They press buttons. Case closed.

I have to ask myself what type of person pays money for two straight days of non-stop EDM, but apparently there are thousands who do so.

people pretty fricking high all the time.

I saw one Grateful Dead concert and it was nice but I do not do drugs and by the end of the 2nd hour I was getting pretty bored and about 30 minutes later we just packed up and left. Don't get me wrong, I do love the music of the Grateful Dead but I also realized that these long 3-4 hours shows were geared towards people tripping on some serious stuff which is why I probably got bored after 2 hours.

And this is no disrespect to the people who are indulging - as long as they are doing it safely and not planning on operating a vehicle anytime soon. But probably the reason I cannot stand EDM is because the most 'high' I might get is 1-2 beers at most and the people around me could be on something that works much better with the music.

but i do understand the place they hold in history. oasis, counting crows and creed, otoh, simply suck.

"Round Here" is a pretty good tune.

Not a huge fan of Oasis, but I do like "Wonderwall". The rest is "meh."

As for Creed, yeah it pretty much sucks, but as bad as a rep as they might get, there has been plenty worse, both in and out of the Rock genre.

And there are some other CC tunes ("Mrs. Potter," "Round Here," etc.) that I won't change the station on.

Oasis were decent to good for a couple of albums, never cared to investigate anything after though.

You can't hiiiide yer lyyyyyyin' eyes.... I want to smack someone when it's played continuously on IHate Radio.

Geddy Lee's voice gets on my nerves.

Whatever one might think of Ged's high tenor, most of the songs in their huge catalog don't feature him going to the top of his range - but many or most of their songs that get radio airplay do, which turns off a number of people by making them appear to be all about the high end of the vocal register. And all 3 members are technically brilliant and are rightly admired by a lot of professionals in their field , as well as being composers of some really beautiful music. They work hard and give their all to their music, and they put on a truly awesome show. They're also still creating new music that's not a rehash of their past successful endeavors. Oh, and they've got an awesome sense of humor.
However, Foreigner should be on that list, as well as Madonna, Abba, and Bob Seger, IMHO. And thats just off the top of my head, lol! UGH!

Madonna and ABBA, aside from maybe a few tunes each, I can take or leave.

Bob Seger, I generally enjoy hearing. Foreigner, though, I can only "appreciate" on a sort of ironic level.

They were one of the "hot" popular bands when I graduated high school and for a few years after. At that time, you could drink and go to bars at 18. There was one place my friend and I used to go to that was a dive inside, but was popular because they served pitchers of beer and they'd put a tall (Tom Collins sized) glass of ice in the pitcher to keep the beer cold. This place had been around since the 60's, and had had no maintenance or updates since, to judge by the condition; they had trash cans under the leaky spots in the roof, and the bathrooms were still painted in psychedelic colors, and some of the toilets didn't work. Disgusting place, but it was packed on the weekends, because they were one of the few places in town where you could see a live band and get a pitcher of beer. The house band played Foriegner more that the top 40 stations did, meaning every other song was a Foreigner song. Anyway, there was always one of a couple of girls that would show up every weekend night who would come in and dance in front of the band; one of them would wear short shorts, and would turn toward the band and kick one of her legs up, showing her stuff to the band. The other girl would dance in front of the band, and untie her shirt and flash her breasts at the band ( this was in the time when girls wore shirts that were tied under the bosom to show off their midsection). Always during the Foreigner songs. My friend and I were of the opinion that those girls wanted to be goupies, and were pretty trashy about it, based on their actions both on and off the dance floor. One Saturday night, they were both there, this was the first time we had seen them there at the same time. My girlfriend looked at me as these two girls were gyrating on the dance floor, trying to outdo each other, and generally embarrassing women in general, and my friend said "Okay, this is it. We are NEVER coming to this place again!" And we never did....because the place burned down late that night. Later it was determined that the owner had torched it. It was never rebuilt. That and the incessant airplay probably contributes to my dislike of Foreigner, lol!

Geddy is teh awesome!

because I knew from the title, someone would mention Rush. And I am one of the biggest Rush fans alive. Seen them almost 30 times, flown all over the world to catch their concerts. Wish they'd never get old and never stop playing.

The part about your post that makes me smile is that I love the fact that we all see things so differently. It's the greatest part of the human experience. As Rush said in 'Different Strings' off the Permanent Waves album, "the spaces in between leave room for you and I to grow."

Nickleback
Soundgarden
Nirvana....(yeah i know, i know)
Lynard Skynard

but I love that movie.


(And not because I'm ashamed or afraid of ribbing - I do not have "guilty" pleasures. I only have pleasures. And that is one of them. But none of my metal head friends are interested in everything I do lol)

At first I hated that movie but when this ending scene came on I laughed myself silly...pure joy...

And I love ABBA!

They should occupy spots 1 through 5 on the list.

Hatred of Nickelback is so universal that I keep expecting them to be embraced by Emo's or hipsters of some stripe (as long as it doesn't involve actually listening to Nickelback).

I don't like the Beach Boys or Billy Joel. A couple of the others I've never heard of. REM I like. And Pearl Jam is OK.

Going to be different for each person because tastes differ.

I love me a good banjo tune.

And I'm assuming that's not a song that would be used as punishment in hell, since I enjoyed it quite a bit.

After Googling it, I found out it was used in an episode of Breaking Bad, which is funny because after hearing the lyrics it reminded me of that show.

One of the best songs by one of the best songwriters.

Here's Townes making some guy cry with it:

We would not have Erasure's Abba-esque, which is 100% awesome (according to me).

5. Eric Clapton

Not Cream, not Blind Faith, not even Derek and the Dominoes. They all get a pass. No, it’s solo Clap that really scratches Lucifer’s itch. The Clap is to the blues as mayonnaise is to a gallon of warm mayonnaise. His style is so wheezy and derivative it’s almost gone full circle and become cutting edge again. He puts the yawn into stultify, the stupefy into catatonia, stone-facedly delivering the exact same chords, licks, and nasal delivery for over three decades over a backbeat that would have lost the Boer War. The Clap is a one man soundtrack for the many and various stages of menopause. He is the lodestone of radio stations that should have had their licenses immediately yanked after they shot the sheriff, but not the deputy, for the four-million-and-first time. When you want to get down, down on the ground, Cocaine. Followed by an eight ball of Clapton.

Likelihood that solo albums by The Clap comprise 88% of Mitt Romney’s musical collection: A VIRTUAL CERTAINTY

Clapton is pretty great when he's mixing his blues influences with rock, but whenever he does straight blues or blues-pop, it's pretty banal and derivative stuff.

When he said solo Clapton "is to the blues as mayonnaise is to a gallon of warm mayonnaise." Yep.

But I don't think he puts any personality into his playing.
I have also watched Joe Bonamassa on TV. Technically good, but I don't get the sense there is a personality behind the technical skill.

YMMV. <----lifetime serious classical musician here with pretty good ears.

IMNSHMO, putting Sting on this list is sacrilege. He's good at writing fabulous catchy bass lines. Near the end of some songs, he runs out of ideas and has too many repetitive lyrics and obvious rhymes. The Police is one of my all time favorite bands. The others are Queen, The Beatles, The Kinks, and The Who.

Billy Joel: Not as good as Elton John, but not that bad either.

As one part of a larger something, he's technically great. On his own: no magic whatsoever.

I don't know enough about Sting's solo efforts to have an opinion (although I did like the Police). And I certainly agree with you on Queen, The Kinks and The Who. I actually don't care for the Beatles. I understand their importance in the grander scheme of things, but I attribute my distaste to being trapped with too many Beatles A-Z weekends in my youth (you know what they say about repetition).

For the record, my list of hellish music would have been vastly different than the author in the OP. Mine would have been mostly made up of contemporary country music acts and caterwauling singers like Mariah Carey (in addition to the previously mentioned Hootie and the Blowfish).

I can't stand shitkick. Idiots with a clothespin on their nose singing about how they ran out of beer, their porch fell off their house and killed three coon dogs, their pickup got repo'd, etc. etc. and they wonder why they are depressed?
I live in a place where people listen to country and they probably are all clinically depressed. Also, on Sunday they give money to a preacher telling them they are worthless filthy sinners b/c they are not perfect like Jesus.

That "family values culture" is pretty damned dysfunctional.

I like Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson because they have good voices and are not nasal. Then they call it "new country" or "country rock" if they throw in an electric guitar. They're still committing pedal steel guitar abuse and whining.

I agree with you about Mariah Carey being awful. I refuse to listen to anybody new. I am always horribly disappointed because there is nothing new in the music and there is no complexity to hold my interest.

I didn't like Led Zep in 1969 and I still am not impressed. Too much screaming and too much distortion.

Brian May of Queen is tasteful in his distortion. He doesn't lose the pitch totally and I can always tell when he is noodling within the chord he is on.

I don't think older country music is terrible, and I even like some of it, like Johnny Cash. But the contemporary shitkickin' variety should be considered in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. Especially if the words "freedom" or "America" are contained therein.

I have a reflexive muscle in me that wants to take up the cause of Led Zep, but only because I used to have a boyfriend who was a fanatical Who devotee and just to be a contrarian little witch, I adopted the position that Zeppelin was superior so we could have playful arguments (he was the worst tease ever so he completely deserved it). My argument was built on my contention that Zeppelin at their best was better than The Who at their best, and Zeppelin at their worst was not as bad as The Who at their worst.

I'm not sure if I meant it. I will ask you though, were you not impressed by Physical Graffiti? Not Kashmir? (so beautiful...)

On a conciliatory note, I completely love Queen.

A "contrarian little witch" defending The Who!!!

Can't say I liked Physical Graffiti or Kashmir back in the seventies. Maybe I missed something.

I just thought Zep was overblown in all directions. Heading towards the lack of verse structure and noodling that could easily turn into an aimless jam of "progressive rock" like Yes and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Although I idolized Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman because I am a pianist & they have awesome classical chops. Do the Great Gate of Kiev and steal from the best (Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition).

I first started following him with Cream, went back and heard the Bluesbreakers album, which was revolutionary at the time (he created that sought-after Marshall amp tone / sound that a generation of players embraced). Thought the Yardbirds were primitive and embryonic, whether it was Clapton or Beck in the lead guitar spot.

His post-addiction work, starting with "461 Ocean Boulevard," is where the trouble began. "Ocean" was noot half bad and still stands up well, I think, but the follow-up with its anemic reggae and somnambulistic blues ("There's One In Every Crowd&quot STILL sounds like the work of a recovering addict, because...well, it was.

The two albums that Phil Collins produced, "Behind The Sun" and "August," both boast really leaden, annoying production, and with the exception of "Holy Mother" (Clapton's tribute to Richard Manuel from The Band), some pretty unforgettable material.

His straight blues can either be hot or sometimes boring, as you said. "From The Cradle" felt like a breath of fresh air after so many sugary pop songs. That means its greatness largely came from comparing it to Clapton's weaker work.

I just finished an 80 minute Clapton mix CD for the car that took me years to make for all of the reasons listed above. I did include two of the more pop songs, "Change The World" and "Running On Faith," because for my tastes they are good songs. When I was DJ in the local club a few years ago I got so many requests for "Wonderful Tonight"...it was THE slow dance song of choice...that I just started playing it all the time without people having to ask for it. In interviews, Clapton said that the song came about when he was getting bored and impatient waiting for Patti to get ready for some event they were going to, and she asked if she looked OK, and his "wonderful tonight" remark was sarcasm stemming from the fatigue of waiting for her.

1a. They all rule.

2. The Beach Boys, R.E.M. (note periods ) and Pearl Jam also rule.

He can keep the other four, although Counting Crows isn't that awful.

Richie is a good guitarist, but I went to a concert to see their opening act and I just couldn't sit through BJ's set. I did meet one of their crew though. She said that Jon has a girlfriend in every city because he's afraid of getting STDs from groupies.

I never understood the appeal of Hootie and the Blowfish either. Oh, and Maroon 5.

I honestly can't think of anything good to say about Maroon 5. Awful, awful stuff.

Fucker fully deserves whatever hell he's dished up.

i love the beastie boys

However, I might have to rethink my anti-B.B. stance because yesterday I found out they are cat-loving guys so that just about redeems their awful music in my eyes.

Daniel Powter: Had A Bad Day

The song is just bad!

Creed and Oasis definitely do. My list would also include Nickelback, Guns n Roses, Muse, and Coldplay (sorry, hate them all).

I hate them, too. I'd rather listen to Nickleback, and I don't like them much, either. I concur with the rest of your list, as well.

You can also thank Eurovision for a whole load of "music from hell".

For your listening "pleasure" - all the winners from 1956 to 2014.

Without Eurovision, we would never have had this piece of greatness from Father Ted:

come pretty close - though Weezer's first two albums were rather good, and I can enjoy some Joel tunes as a guilty pleasure.

Clapton hasn't made a worthwhile album in nearly 40 years ('Journeyman' was "okay," I suppose). Sting, similarly, has spent the last few decades getting blander and blander - nothing since "All This Time" has caught my ear at all.

The Beach Boys I don't agree with one bit, unless he's thinking of *shudder* "Kokomo."

R.E.M. were fantastic for their first several albums (up to around 'Document') and quite good for several more after, 'Monster' (or a good chunk of it at least) excepted.

The rest on the list range from enjoyable (Pearl Jam) to "meh" (Counting Crows) to a little of both (Oasis).

...But yes, Limp Bizkit, Nickelback, and the aforementioned Creed would make a truly hellish eternal soundtrack.

I've had this very catchy theme tune inhabiting my mind recently, and it's now becoming a bit annoying:

Everything a band could do wrong, they did.

Boring music, stupid lyrics, bad vocalists, the works.

about Steve Miller. To be fair the two minutes that Norton Buffalo got was almost worth it.

That's a straight up music promo for Kung Fury, which is part parody/part homage to cheesy 80s films/games.

Here's the Kung Fury trailer:

I've been recommending it to lots of friends.
I laughed at the entire thing.

It was spectacularly awful. Would watch again. And again.



It was on a channel we just discovered we had - El Rey. With all the kung fu movies it has (both ridiculous on purpose and ridiculous not so on purpose) and the spaghetti westerns, it's quickly becoming one of my favorite channels.


My daughter is going to record their father's day weekend kung-fu movie marathon for me.

the bad news is that when you're in the backseat of someone else's car, and the radio is out of reach, well then...? not much you can do but ask. or jump out.

I hate these guys so effing much I couldn't even watch the clip. I went to YouTube and grabbed the link and closed the page before the first note:

Add Warrant and you've got a Trifecta!

I won't even add a video for Warrant because I refuse to type the name into the search!

Although Ted Nugent has a good lock on creepiest, slimiest jailbait tune of all time - we can disagree on that one.

And no doubt worse than anything on the author's list, Creed included.

However, if there was one band (other than the aforementioned ABBA) that would constitute eternal torture, it might very well be Disturbed.

Clearly never heard Starland Vocal Band or Paul Anka.

There are some everyone can agree on, of course.

If we are repeatedly bombarded with a song after a while it becomes unpleasant. This takes place on an unconscious level. It happens with a lot of music.

I ration my listening to some of the old classic music. I have already listened to it too much—like the Allman Brothers Live the the Filmore. Now I can only listen to it once or twice a year. Sucks!

Another factor is unfamiliarity. Some music just takes an open mind and a bit more listening, to get, to appreciate.

I think we should celebrate the great music instead of focusing on what we don't like for one reason or another.

Like this song? If you don't, just listen once, come back and listen to it once more, a few days later. Then tell me. That will be a total of two times if you're not familiar with this song.

Mystic," but I've noticed that whenever I binge on an album, I eventually don't even hear it anymore. It's not that I dislike it, I just don't hear it. Hard to explain, but when it happens, I just naturally stop listening to it, and rarely do again. Strange and, yes, it does suck

I get that some of the unwashed, musically illiterate masses out there don't care much for Pearl Jam, but Weezer?? WTF? Who doesn't appreciate Weezer? Maybe they got them mixed up with Ween?

Best karaoke song in the world!!

i stood on asphalt for five hours to see them at riot fest last september. i've loved them for 20 years and finally got to see them. it was everything i wanted and more.

super cruddy pic

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1) The Bee Gees (post 1973)
2) KC & The Sunshine Band
3) Michael Jackson/ the Jackson 5
4) Donny Osmond (& siblings)
5) Chic
6) The filthy rotten POS band that did the disco version of "Stairway to Heaven" (I KNOW they'll be in hell for that monstrous bit of sacrilege!)
7) Every band /singer who did a knock-off of "Danny's Song" (CANNOT STAND that POS song!!)
8) Paul Anka "You're Havin' My Baby"
9) Captain & Tenille
10) Roger Whittaker "The Last Farewell"

...it will be Heaven!

Cannot stand 'em. Maybe they're great musicians, but I never liked 'em, and when a Doobies knock-off band "played" (a term to be construed loosely in their case, because they couldn't) at the senior prom, that ruined 'em for me permanently! They were HORRIBLE--and ALL they could play was Doobie Brothers! Still loathe them.

I wanna be a winner so she'll buy me ice cream. With sprinkles.

Foghat - and any other boogie band that sounds even vaguely like Foghat
KISS
Mickey Thomas era Jefferson Starship/Starship
Whitesnake
Angel and all the rest of 1980s Hair Farmer "metal lite"
Styx
Styx
Foghat (see above)
KISS

And STYX

Honorable mention to two particularly horrendous individual LPs

Yoko's Approximately Infinite Universe - which I used to clear a record store I worked in at closing time. Ten seconds flat, every time.
Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music

And the Dead Boys with Stiv (Master) Bators? And if were including solo artists don't forget Skakin' Stevens, Rick Springfield, Stryper and more.

Wolf