Name a Musician Who Should Not Have Been Born.

YANNI! I'm talking to you.

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Chuck Norris doesen't kill women.

No-talent hack, just like Yanni, John Tesh, Kenny G, and their ilk... :grr:

Whne I first moved to Connecticut, he lived in New Haven (his last name was Bolotin then), and--I swear this is true--charged people for SINGING LESSONS!

If the concept of paying HIM for singing lessons isn't the funniest fucking thing you've heard all day, you're unconscious.

Redstone

:rofl: Pay HIM for teaching someone to sound like a cat in heat? :rofl:

I saw him and Nicollette Sheridan in the lobby of the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza in Stamford, CT, about twelve years ago, and they had their entourage with them. There was a piano in the open area between the restaurant and the bar, and he was heading over to it. Hubby and I got the HELL out of there before he started the dry-heaving that is his "singing." :yoiks:

His stupid heavy metal band played my dorm at UConn one time. God they were awful.

he is truly awful!

self explanatory

Hillary Duff, again a definition stretch but she sucks nonetheless

:puke: Her middle name should be "Emetic". :puke:

Welcome to DU, WannaBePassingFair! :hi:

I win.

What. the. hell.?

Fingers on a chalkboard.

He's the only person on the face of the planet who makes Emmylou Harris sound bad in a duet!

Redstone

I cannot stand to hear that man. Let him play guitar all he wants. But the guy should hire a singer.

And inexcusable.

Redstone

and we are going to go at it. NO ONE fucks with my man Dave Matthews. I will destroy you both!!!

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I can't stand his voice.

to hear him sing. In Dave's own words, "Lyrics are just those little annyoying things between solos. . ." Most fans I know like them because, while he might not be able to sing well, they have some incredibly talented musicians. If you look at most of their live songs, bout three minutes are words, while most of it is the good stuff, just plain music and solos

...

sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

I cant hear you! I love Dave with all my heart.

And I like some of Dave Matthews' stuff, but if "Ants Marching" doesn't some of the most stupidest lyrics in rock (even the title is stupid!), I don't know what does.

I haven't heard enough of Yoko's music; I only really know her for being John's wife (and I'm cool with Lennon.)

love Bjork though...

(*coughKennyGcough*)

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But I figured you'd get around to it eventually :)

:hi:

kenny:puke:g

All three of those little fuckers!

the Hanson spawn's clothing at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. :puke: The mannequins have fancy concert duds on them. I mean, I can see Elvis and Johnny Cash and The Sex Pistols and Ray Charles and The Beatles, and just about everyone else, but HANSON??? :puke:

hanson owns you.

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No, seriously, someone invent a time machine, and make sure his mother and father never meet.

I believe he is sacred, and was thus NOT born, but has always existed and always will.......


But I also think Bobby Goldsboro should be retroactively aborted.....

a pretty good way to get my blood boiling and then douse it suddenly. I came in here looking for a fight, and now I gotta wander out nodding my head.

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ya got me on that one! I was gonna tear into ya until I read the rest of your post.

I, btw, have a cat name Coltrane...and another named Bird.



As for musicians that should never have been born:

Toby Keith
Natalie Merchant (personal experience...boring, vapid, devoid of any contribution to mankind other than depressing music...to the umpteenth power)
Zamfir
Peter Buck (personal experience...that lasted several hours...THE biggest asshole I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with...at one point I prayed for death)
John Tesh
Yanni
Britney Spears

oh yeah...and John Ashcroft

Durst is like Ryan Seacrest - they dont give a shit about music, they are businessmen disguised as music "experts". They're marketers, not guitar players or DJs.

The difference between Ryan Seacrest and a real DJ - a real DJ plays music that's worth listening to. Ryan Seacrest only plays the music that sells.

The difference between Fred Durst and a real musician - a real musician plays music. Durst is a vice president of Interscope Records.

Nails on a chalkboard sounds better. Seriously.

and plays well and composes. just sayin.

the man wrote 'mama told me not to come', 3 dog night's finest moment.

and about 100 other amazing, challenging songs.

What a wonderful body of work from this guy - not only great songs, but tons of movie scores.

as a song-writer, especially when he whips out his smug cynicism.

However: "Baltimore" "Think It's Gonna Rain Today" "Just One Smile" and more are very good songs.

Their music is total shit. But I have seen them around town when I go home to visit Mom and Dad.

singers. Yep, pretty much, just singers.

Neil Diamond wrote some awesome Brill Building Pop - hits for the the Monkees.

and barely any of us are old enough to remember Ethel Merman in her broadway prime before she became a cliche.

i can barely stand to hear Edith Piaf, but i recognize the artistry.

I've been a musician for 35 years. I love good music. Maybe I paint with too broad a brush, but come on, 'Calender Girl'?, 'Breakin' Up Is Hard To Do'? If you don't agree that that's pap, we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Compare this to the great tunes written by Holland-Dozier-Holland for the Supremes for instance.

But like the French say, "Chacun a son gout" (each to his own tastes).

Besides this is hardly a serious discussion.

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Manilow has no business on this list. He is one of the best writers and singers and your going to hell for just thinking about typing his name. Shame shame, I have been in love with him since kindergarten.

The one that's nailing Hillary Duff. (Actually, all of the wankers from good charlotte, probably.)

they are a group of fake emo/goth posers

my sister thinks they are the BEST BAND EVER, and i just want to tell her to get a clue no real goth/emo band would EVER EVER EVER date or be seen with the likes of Hilary Duff or any other disney bred pop/acting princess, who ironically has suddenly become a "rocker" according to MTV. What is wrong with this planet!?!?!?!?!?!?!???!?!??!!!

I could listen to "Pieces of Me" or "Mmmm-bop" hundreds and hundreds of times before I had to sit through this once...

Everyone get out your barf bags. You'll need them.

I hear people saying we don't need this war
I say there's some things worth fighting for
What about our freedom and this piece of ground
We didn't get to keep 'em by backing down
They say we don't realize the mess we're getting in
Before you start your preaching let me ask you this my friend

Chorus
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going thru a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry 'bout bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

They took all the footage off my T.V.
Said it's too disturbing for you and me
It'll just breed anger that's what the experts say
If it was up to me I'd show it everyday
Some say this country's just out looking for a fight
After 9/11 man I'd have to say that's right

Repeat chorus

I've been there with the soldiers
Who've gone away to war
And you can bet that they remember
Just what they're fighting for

Have you forgotten all the people killed?
Some went down like heros in that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten about our Pentagon?
All the loved ones that we lost and those left to carry on
Don't you tell me not to worry about bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?

http://www.bigbro.ca/zone.html

"From AC/DC to Shania Twain to the Backstreet Boys, "Mutt" Lange has written and produced hit after hit and it sometimes seems everything he touches turns to Pure Gold!"

plus Def Leppard & Bryan Adams. ick.

turning garbage into gold...crap, and I thought he was some cool guy or something.

shania may be a hot piece of ass, but artistically she is a non-entity.

I can understand how Kevin Cronin's (of REO) vocals can irritate, though.

And they're a great deal better than the tripe that passes for "popular" music today.

Plus, who didn't make out to REO's "Hi Infidelity" album?

Jeff Lynne not only writes and sings some pretty good songs, but he's a phenomenal record producer as well.

But I still hate him.

The man is a fuckin' genius. B-)

Some of his production work in the eighties/nineties may have gotten a bit repetitive with all those loudly-smacking snare drums (then again, that seemed to be a feature of a lot of eighties rock; think "Born in the USA"...) but I think ELO was one of the last great singles bands of the rock era. (They did some great albums, too, but I think they were one of the last bands who released a string of great Top 40 singles.) I do prefer their earlier work (the whole disco thing kind of made them lose their "sound" IMHO) but they did some great stuff throughout their career. So I have to disagree; I am glad Jeff Lynne was born.

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I'm not such a hot REO fan, but surely there are worse "musicians" out there.

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Fuck the Beatles, they ruined everything.

You're making him feel like he's never been born.


:rofl: Sorry, I had to make that joke!!!!

He's dead.

n'sync


Backstreet Boys

And the ones that got the modern craze going... New Kids on the Block.


I can not believe that as a pre-teen kid who was trained in music, I had any like for these guys at all. But, they were all over my wall and I went to NKOTB concerts. :blush:

They even had their own cartoon. :eyes:

I also had the sleeping bag and bedspread/sheets/pillow set. So did every other girl.

Totally unashamed.

That Backstreet Boys pic, though... :puke: :scared:

http://www.caitlinproductions.com/subpage49.html
No "Overnight success," Lee Greenwood is an internationally acclaimed artist, who has often been described as the ultimate name when patriotism is mentioned in the entertainment industry. And . . . he earned this success the old fashioned way, by climbing the ladder one rung at a time. After years of struggling to gain recognition in the music industry, one song "God Bless The USA," transported Lee far beyond the ranks of normal stardom into a niche in America's pop culture that is seemingly reserved for he and he alone.


And not that it should be any surprise, but out of curiosity, I checked this site and guess what? You got it! *hint: not one of us!*
http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Lee_Greenwood.php

I don't even have to check newsmeat. Sean Hannity is a fan of his, so that should tell you something.

my brother worked with him in the old days before a Texas oilman in audience "discovered" him and subsidized him for several years to write music.

Notice donations to dem... think he donates to repubs as payback for all the damn times they play that one song.

all the Dem donations out! :)

From newsmeat:
$16,600* Republican
$1,250 Democrat

...without seeing that pudwhacker in his underwear, thanks.

One hit wonder with Cat Scratch Fever and now a crazy gun nut!!

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Mega Attention Whore.

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fantastic when he began. Never should have given up his raunchy,greasy Gibsons for the Stratocaster. Hendrix and Stevie Ray could get great sounds from the Strat.Clapton puts me to sleep with it.

SLOWHAND? How can somebody hate SLOWHAND?

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:D

Awww.

to defend them here. I made a valient effort once and was umercifully flamed into oblivion for it. Thank godess I don't care.
Their last album is incredible.

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BTW: I know Yanni. I first met him back in 1979 when he was playing keyboards in a band of guys i knew who moved to Minneapolis. Very nice guy. Born with a silverspoon in his mouth, but a pleasant guy. But, i don't like his solo stuff, either.
The Professor

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Edit: See I can't even write his name properly

just for "My Humps" alone. My taste for great writing makes me want to strangle anybody who plays that song just on general principle. My cousin that I was being too harsh on her when I said it was the worst written song ever, but I feel I was being generous by not going off on a tirade. :)

"My Hump" drives me up the farking wall.... And for a while there, you couldn't escape from it!

I love "Where is the Love?"

But now they're just shills...

:grr:

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Take that preening, bald prick out of the Beach Boys, and people today would be saying, "Yeah the Beatles were good, but..." Plus, that "Kokomo" shit would never have been made.

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:D

The Dixie Chicks speak for me! And 71% of the country!

I've got there 1st 3 CDs. They are very talented. (sorry to mention them on this thread) ...
They do seem to be losing their Country base ... haven't heard them on a country station in a while ...
Their new CD is Top, but their tour is not selling.

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politics, and they have guts, but I just don't like their music

Oh, I know why . . . you said MUSICIANS.

Why couldn't he be more like his cousins, Micky Gilley or Jerry Lee Lewis.

oasis ruined everything

apparently, judging from recent evidence

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is driving around or hanging out at home?

by far

KMA if you don't agree. IDGAF. They were an insult to my ears.

I like them!!! :D

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I absolutely despise him. He should have been on that spaceship to the sun episode of the Simpsons.

Oh and fuck Yanni. Wasn't he arrested for beating his wife recently? What a piece of shit.

Mr. Eddie Vedder Wannabe POS.

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and all other rightwing mysogynist pricks