Who is your most hated popular rock band right now?

emo boy bands

chokeychicken is absolutely right. Every time I hear that damn Hinder song, I feel like shooting myself in the face.

Since I don't listen to radio, the only place I'm really exposed to bands like Hinder and Nickelback and My Chemical Romance is my local bowling alley. I go about once a week, and they often play this XM station called "20 on 20", which is basically a loop of the most popular 20 songs of the week. And it's been virtually unchanged for months. You can usually count on hearing Justin Timberlake at least two or three times in about a two hour period. He's not rock, so he doesn't really count in this thread. If we were talking about any artist or band at all, though, he would definitely take the cake. He should be blasted off into the sun, or thrown into a volcano, or otherwise expunged from the world.

I actually like Snow Patrol. I'll readily admit that "Chasing Cars" was ridiculously overplayed last year, though, and did not deserve a Grammy nomination. But then, I despise the Grammys and consider them a complete joke, so that's neither here nor there. I will say that I think it deserved a nomination more than most of the other crap.

Originally posted by The Bombay Doors:
Dunno. Maybe Belle And Sebastian?

I would consider Belle and Sebastian neither "popular" nor "rock". >_>

Belle and Sebastian aren't popular? What are you living under, a rock?

Hinder… especially after reading their Rolling Stone interview.

Also, the Fray.

In the end, for me, it is not really about the music. If I don't like it, I turn it off but the annoyiiing interviews and inflated sense of self worth make me detest them.

There is no band out there right now that is worse than Hinder, period. They are bottom of the barell in music and personality.

Saw Cat Empire on Letterman last night. What a nightmare; like Bruce Willis fronting Everything. Apparently, they're huge in their native Australia.

belle & sebastian are only popular if you listen to nothing but indie rock

i enjoy The Fray because they've got a piano and it's a bit unique (in terms of "new hot zomg vh1 bands") and i promoted for the same reason.

I've never liked RHCP, and this latest CD is enough to make me vomit.

The reason I choose She Wants Revenge is because that's the one band of the list of those I can't stand that I keep hearing; otherwise, I agree with pretty much all of those others listed.

In my opinion, Belle & Sebastian does not belong on this thread because they are just too good. Again, my opinion, for those who need that reminder.

Sonick, you are dead right about the Red Hot Chili Shits! UGH!!!

By some freak good luck of nature, I have yet to be cursed with the sounds of Hinder…but I take everyone's word for it.

I just introduced myself to "Hinder" with a healthy dose of ITunes sampling. They are so bad that they are good. Listening to them is like watching some low budget B-movie that has acting and special effects that are so poor that you end up watching anyway just for kicks. Are they really popular? I might not have my finger on the pulse of popular music, but its hilarious that someone might listen to this and think that its musically/artistically interesting.

Tie between nickelback and the fray.

Unfortunately, Hinder are approaching double platinum . . . . & I don't particularly care for Fallout Boy nor Panic! At The Disco much either. I can enjoy a catchy, fluffy, meaningless song as much as the next cat but for some reason these groups just raise my ire like a motherfucker.

Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
Belle and Sebastian aren't popular? What are you living under, a rock?

I'm not, but almost everyone I know must be by your reasoning, considering I know perhaps one other person who's ever even heard of them. Do you honestly think that if you were to ask random people on the street whether they've heard of Belle and Sebastian you would get any significant numbers? I guarantee you'd be lucky to get one out of a hundred, unless you hit up a college campus. The vast majority of people get their music from popular radio and MTV. When radio stations are playing a band's single once an hour, and their video has been branded by VH1's "Need to Know Artist" label, that's popular.

If you're headlining venues as large as Constitution Hall and Merriweather Post (as Belle and Sebastian have), you most certainly ARE popular.

And you only know one person wh has heard of Belle and Sebastian? Do you live in a retirement home or something?

This is my favorite Hinder review, courtesy of AllMusic.com:

Released in September 2005, Hinder's Extreme Behavior revives the simpleton riffs and stupid misogyny of 2001 albums from Puddle of Mudd and Nickelback for a whole new batch of undergrads. This isn't even post-grunge â?? it's straight-up dude rock. The artwork is a triggered response collage of boobs, lingerie, and Jäger, and the music is so obvious that it actually recedes from the ear. Like a stereo left on in the keg room, it's just a chatter of swear words and tuneless electric guitar blab. Austin Winkler sounds like a drunk shouting along with Chad Kroeger, and his lyrics? "Let's go home and get stoned/Cause the sex is so much better when you're mad," "She said she's sorry/With one finger/I said fuck that," "She said she loved the taste of my oh oh oh" â?? Winkler doesn't even have enough class to fake sounding cool. When Hinder and producer Brian Howes (he co-wrote every song with the band; Nickelback producer Joey Moi also gets a credit) do try a little tenderness, they sound like a bludgeoned Wallflowers ("Nothin' Good About Goodbye"), thudding power ballad torchbearers ("Lips of an Angel"; cue the soaring solo stolen from hair metal), or bumbling Guns N' Roses thieves (the played-out "Sweet Child" rewrite "Homecoming Queen"). Extreme Behavior can't even make it as rote hard rock â?? it's too insulting to women and your intelligence. That's why it's dude rock instead. Hinder are so egregiously dull they appeal not to fans of music, but fans of high fives.

i hate all bands with cool names that play at the black cat that everyone thinks rule because they're so underground and trendy to the brain of waving it in everyones face, then you listen to them and they suck to the point of never making it past the life of handmade shirts and cardigans.

Hmm… I can think of two - My Chemical Romance and The Fallout Boys

I'm quite up on this… I teach middle school… so I have girls in my class that have FOB written all over their belongings. Apparently their is/are some hot guys in this group… My chemical romance is further down the list.. another is Panic! at the disco. I've seen Taking back sunday around as well. I had an argument with a seventh grader who thought it was just panic at the disco… I said, no, really it's Panic! at the disco…. the beauty of adolescent conversation.

How about most most hated "rock "act". Yes both terms need pretentious quotes:
Daughtry
Gwen Stefani