Who is your most hated popular rock band right now?

I'd just assume call Gwen "Broadway" now instead of rock.

I will second the RHCP vote.

i mean, its one thing if you're a band, who sucks, but why do they have to be everywhere, play every festival and win every award????

and to make matters worse, i actually know people who think they are the greatest band on earth.


incredible!

Do you say that about the Yankees? ;)
(For the record, I tapped out on the amount of exposure and popularity of RHCP long ago. Man, did they play that one song enough in the 90s?)

Currently, I'm truly disappointed (annoyed? ;) ) in Snow Patrol. However, my answer is: Nickelback followed by Fall Out Boy.

Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
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?

There's obviously no point in discussing this, because we simply have different opinions on what constitutes "popular". And not everyone lives in a major metropolitan area, or has a circle of friends and/or relatives who actually look beyond what's played on popular radio and MTV. Around here, driving up to Hershey to see Nickelback is considered a good time.

For all those people deriding Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and Panic! At the Disco…are any of you fifteen? Those bands are relevant and great to YOUNG people not bitter, jaded twenty/thirty year-olds.

I don't have any of their music but I can appreciate the fact that they are energetic, enthusiastic, sincere and believe it or not, trying something fresh and (somewhat) original, musically.

I'm a little old to like My Chemical Romance but if I was fifteen? I'd LOVE them. They'd be all over my school notebooks. I'd LOVE a band that wrote songs entitled "There's A Good Reason These Tables are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought Of It Yet" or "Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued" for no other reason than it would piss off a lot of baby boomers and sensitive, Belle and Sebastian scenesters. If Bob Dylan was young and alive in 2007 he'd be writing songs like that instead of anything on the pathetic "Modern Times."

It's sort of like how sad, thirty year-old virgins criticized those recent Star Wars movies. Those movies aren't for thirty year-olds. They're for thirteen year-old boys. Action, lasers, funny creatures, etc. They're Pop Rocks and skateboards.

Bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers are rich and win a lot of Grammies but they are in no way relevant to 2007. Fall Out Boy, MCR and Panic! get pissed all over and will never sell out stadiums but are very important bands because millions of young people like them and as Morrissey once said, they write "the songs that saved your life."

Brian

Hey Brian,

Why is it that you can't even spell your name?

Your pal,

Rhett

generation after generation have dismissed what young people like as not real music

if you can't wait to be old, it's a good start

I'd rather act like an old person than a teenager. Why do so many media and entertainment types find it necessary to glorify youth and deride older people?

When you're old you tend to focus on the music of your youth. Maybe Seth is immune to this because of the club?

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Reod Dai: Do you live in N.Md?

Mr. Walalce,

I can only speak for myself, but most "sensitive Belle & Sebastian scenesters" I know are also "energetic, enthusiastic, sincere and [looking] something fresh and (somewhat) original, musically." Additionally, they're not strictly doctrinal people who would refuse to listen to a band because they aren't "indie" enough, they're simply looking for good music wherever it may be found.

I can't believe you'd use adjectives like this to refer to crass fourth-generation pop-punk whores like Fall Out Boy. Have you ever heard this group play live? Quite simply, they're an absolute shit band with no talent and a finely honed sense of how to sell themselves. Nothing wrong with that, there's tons of groups out there with a similar MO, but it just means that they stand at the top of my "most hated popular rock band right now."

I'm not just some "jaded 20-something" shitting on what kids like, there are plenty of other bands that I (again, I can only speak for myself) like and listen to (The Format, Brand New, and Against Me! spring to mind) who primarily appeal to teenagers. There's just no excuse for defending a shit band like Fall Out Boy.

And how dare you compare Pete Wentz to Morrissey. For shame.

Rhett, I wish I could change it. I realized the mistake too late. Is there a way I can change my display and login name? I'd like it to be Brian_Wallace, obviously.

Brian

AMEN.

It's so completely absurd that you would assume that all teenagers should be able to relate to any one band in particular. So I have been able to relate to bands like Air for years, and they have a primarily older audience…does that make me a bad person? I'm sorry that some teenagers choose to indulge in introspective talent instead of dense bullshit. As far as I'm concerned, music is what you make of it. Why preach that we listen to something we can't relate to just because "everyone else" can?


Furthermore, Fall Out Boy only have a record deal because they successfully sold themselves through Myspace. They cannot play their instruments for shit.
So even if you hate groups like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, at least they can play…

if you were fifteen and knew how to use the internets then this would probably be easy for you

Don't both Pete Wentz and Morrissey take it up the ass?

For all those people deriding Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and Panic! At the Disco…are any of you fifteen? Those bands are relevant and great to YOUNG people not bitter, jaded twenty/thirty year-olds.

I don't have any of their music but I can appreciate the fact that they are energetic, enthusiastic, sincere and believe it or not, trying something fresh and (somewhat) original, musically.

I honestly don't know enough about the latter two, My Chemical Romance and Panic at the Disco. But I've heard a few numbers from "Fall Out Boy". To call them fresh and original is to ignore the fact that they sound like the derivative of the derivative of the derivative of the pop punk music that has been around for a long, long time.

And please don't compare any of these bands to Bob Dylan. He's represented for five decades, been nominated multiple times for the Nobel Peace Prize, written anthems for major social movements, and kicked ass in general. The shelf life for popular teen bands like these is about two records. The reason that some people are naming them on a board like this is that they are the flavor of the month right now and make an easy target. They might be fun and exciting to some, but I doubt anyone will know who they are in three years.

Didn't Bob Dylan once kick his girlfriend's ass too?

Also, RHCP, no longer relevant? Maybe they are nearing the end of their relevancy, but I wouldn't exactly call a band who just sold several million records of a double disc of new material, have at least three huge modern rock radio singles and sold out large arenas based partly on said new radio singles no longer relevant.

They might be fun and exciting to some, but I doubt anyone will know who they are in three years.

You could say the same thing about half the bands that people adore around here.

You all are taking this WAAAAAAAY too seriously. It's music; people like what they like. If I were a 15-year-old kid, I wouldn't (and didn't) give two shits about what bands mattered in the long run, and I certainly wouldn't care that FOB aren't "art" and that Bob Dylan is.

A bunch of uppity white yuppie music geeks are coming down on the likes and dislikes of average middle-of-the-road teenagers who never claimed to be music scholars or historians in the first place. In the long run, who gives a fuck?

Ben's Chili Bowl

1) For all you Chili Peppers haters. Say what you must about Anthony Kiedis and his yabba dabba doo lyrics (I don't know who came up with that line, but even though I'm a Chili Peppers fan it's some classic shit. Was it youbebetty?), but you'd be hard pressed to find a better band than Frusciante (a recently confirmed guitar god - there's not a lot of those), Flea (who's been more or less the best bassist on the planet for damn near 15 years), & Chad Smith - a solid drummer. Go ahead. I dare you.
2) Bob Dylan (arguably, maybe no argument at all, the best songwriter of the past 50 years or so & the voice of a generation & movement) is selling bras & panties with his songs. So the universe is kinda spinning on a fucked-up axis right now.
3) As I said earlier, can't stand Hinder or My Chemical Romance, & I don't particularly care for Fallout Boy. And I still wouldn't if I was 15. But in their (half-assed) defense, "Dance, Dance" & that new "Arms Race" single are fairly catchy songs. I appreciate it for what is. A catchy song from a more or less untalented band. It boggles me that they are so popular. My Chemical Romance sounds like a bad karaoke version of Queen & shit. People actually think these cats are like great bands. So, in closing, I say this to our youth concerning these aforementioned "bands" (I use that term loosely than a motherfucker), remember kids -

"Just cause you pour syrup on shit, doesn't make it pancakes." :D