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- Published October 23, 2007 - 244 Comments
Instead of a “best of” list, I thought we should have a bit of fun with a “worst of”. Inspired by Blender’s top 50 guide, I have put together this list of the top 10 worst artists in music. Please be sure to tell us your own most hated bands (include youtube links if you can).
10. La Toya Jackson If you feel the funk
Is it just me or does that look Michael Jackson in a dress? In fact… has anyone ever seen the two of them together at the same time?
9. Howard Jones New Song
Maybe, just maybe, it would have been better if Howard mimed and the mime sang! This is a memory of the eighties I am sure we would all happily give up.
8. Vanilla Ice Ice Ice Baby
This is seldom the case, but I can honestly say that words fail me.
7. Lipps Inc Funky Town
This has to be seen to believed. Around 2:23 the girl in pink has a stroke – well – it looks that way anyway.
6. Asia Go
This guy has as much talent as a drunken karaoke singer.
5. Starship We Built This City
As Jefferson Airplane, this band was actually not too bad. Unfortunately things turned sour when they changed their name. Oh – check out President Lincoln’s cameo around 1:25.
4. Kenny G Love Song
As a public service, the List Universe will supply free sick bags to anyone requesting them after watching Kenny G in the video above.
3. Michael Bolton Said I loved you… But I lied
This one even comes with fake pan pipes – awesome! Not. Nice song title too.
2. Emerson, Lake and Palmer Hoe Down
What is most astonishing about these guys is that they were actually quite successful! Who would have believed it?
1. Insane Clown Posse Hall of Illusions
WARNING: This video contains explicit lyrics and clowns. Oh – and guess what? These guys were involved in professional wrestling – I think that really says it all.
This list was inspired by this list at Blender.
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October 23rd, 2007 at 6:50 am
The only ‘artist’ I’ve heard of in that list is Vanilla Ice, and only because of the dispute about using the ‘Under Pressure’ bassline
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:00 am
I think Kenny G’s Love Song is what they play on a loop at the Chinese rest. here
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:05 am
Good list! Grace Slick is usually well good though (With Jefferson Airplane she did rock).
There’s a lot of rubbish in the mainstream nowadays. MTV and whatnot. It’s marketting, it’s the *industry* over artistic merit.
At least Ice Ice Baby is kinda funny.
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:10 am
I choose not to comment anymore on this particular post.
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:17 am
dangorironhide: Seriously? Not even La toya Jackson?
Aud: haha and in elevators
Hobolad: I agree about the mainstream.
Juggz: Have I included someone you like?
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:47 am
ice ice baby = one of the worst? that song made me smile, heh.
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:03 am
The creepy thing about Latoya Jackson is that she has her brother’s face… after his surgery :S
About Funky Town… the video is really hilarious, but the song is catchy! I’ve had it in my head all the afternoon!
Very funny anyway! Great list!
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:04 am
No Avril Lavigne? Just for using “sk8er” as a word in a song title should be reason enough
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:06 am
jfrater, you must admit that ELP were pretty good musicians compared to the rest of the list. It just didn’t age well I suppose. Keep up the good work
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:09 am
You don’t like Emerson, Lake and Palmer? Now, granted, Hoedown is probably not one of their better pieces, but still… you put them on and leave off that guy who wrote the song “Convoy”?
I’m so confused.
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:17 am
Yes Jamie you have
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:18 am
Sheyhey: with that reasoning I would also have to include Madonna for her priceless: “other places make me feel like a dork” just so she had something to rhyme with dork
RobS: youtube for convoy?
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:20 am
Damn you made me comment again…..oh well
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:22 am
Juggz: oh
Lipps Inc?
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:23 am
juggz: oh – now that you have broken your silence you will just have to talk as normal
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:30 am
Wow…there are 6 songs on that list that I actually listen to on a regular basis. man …
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:39 am
wow – I have never written a list that so successfully annoys the regular readers!
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:40 am
I actually used to like Insane Clown Posse back when I knew nothing about music D:
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:45 am
Could not find a video of C.W. McCall doing his song, “Convoy”, although I did see him lipsyncing to it, way back in ‘75 and it left me traumatized for several days.
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:47 am
Jamie: Not annoyed just confused. lol. I have 5 of theose songs on my mp3 player. The 6th one I listen to at a friends house. It is baffling
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:55 am
Insane Clown Posse just played in Norfolk, VA last week. I’m forced to be in this awful city for work. After seeing some of the people that live here, it makes me shudder to think of a place filled with their fans. Yes I am a snob.
Here’s an idea for a list, great British bands that Americans haven’t really heard of like Pulp and Super Furry Animals (OK, they’re Welsh, but same island).
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:00 am
Ken J: Did they play at the Norva? I hated Norfolk, but then I spent most of my time there in Ocean View.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:06 am
good list, waaaaaay too short, tho.
I could do a top (bottom?) 150 at least.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:13 am
wow, insane clown posse. wow, la toya. Everyone one this list makes music seem less like an art form and more like a plague.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:20 am
Ravyn: I’m not sure what the place is called. It’s a theater across the street from the MacArthur mall where Tidewater Community College is. Morrisey played there in August which kind of surprised me.
I usually find something to like about cities I go to, but Norfolk is completely lacking in charm. I can’t wait to get back to Seattle.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:25 am
Yep, Insane Clown Posse takes the cake, yet they still keep selling millions of albums.
These are all really good candidates for the worst music videos.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:55 am
Ken J: It sounds like you are talking about The Scope (the big dumb dome). I haven’t been in Norfolk in over 2 years. I am going for not being there the rest of my life. Only thing I liked about Norfolk was leaving it.
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:04 am
What, no Fall Out Boy or Akon? That’s okay, the rest of this list satisfies me enough. =) Good one.
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:14 am
Where’s William Hung!! His “rendition” of She Bangs was, how can I put this delicately, *bad*.
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:58 am
Let me step in and explain why I think Emerson, Lake and Palmer belong on this list. (And I do think they belong here). jfrater can then chime in tell me if I’m on the money.
ELP symbolized everything that was disgustingly wrong with 70s “progressive rock.” They–along with the utterly execrable group Yes–were what was left of the absurd hippie ethic in music which had sprang up in mid-60s California, epitomized by groups like Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, and Jefferson Airplane. At the time, some of this music was good. Much of it sucked. In time, however, it fell into a pit of suckage which rock has never since plumbed to. And it got especially bad when the Brits got involved. The English groups of the day had some pathetic need to promote themselves on the basis of their “musicianship,” and to adopt pseudo-classical themes and motifs in their music. (Britain, you see, being so much more a class-ridden society, had a tendency to spawn rockers who felt the need to “prove” themselves as “legit” to the upper-class intelligentsia). And so you end up with something like ELP and their ilk—generally indicative of 20 or 30 minute masturbatory solos and jams, filling up whole sides of LPs, with a lot of oppressive, ridiculous fantasy/sci-fi-inspired lyrical imagery, mind-numbing and soul-sucking. Not the kind of music you dance to—oh no—dancing is teenybopper-ish, lowbrow! These guys were out to prove that they were as good as Beethoven! Or Bach! Or Handel! Or… well, fill in your favorite classical music figure that pretentious types would want to emulate.
Rock and Roll nearly died because of assholes like this, and their California counterparts, both in the prog rock scene and the laid-back “country-rock” scene of the same period. We almost buried Rock and Roll because of groups like ELP and the Eagles. Thankfully, some kids of the day were fed up with this junk, and decided to reinvent the form, and voila, you had Punk.
But there’s your answer. The reason ELP is so much worse than the worst cheese-pop groups you can think of is because ELP were serious about what they were doing–they really believed in the drek they spewed out, that it was “art.” That makes them dangerous. Thank god their wretched influence died when the Sex Pistols stepped forward to destroy their kind once and for all.
The question I have is, why is Lipps Inc. here? It seemed to me this list was more like “Worst Performances” than “Worst Artists.”
But see, the trouble is, there’s so much godawful crap out there to choose from…
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Great comments Randall. Only complaint is I’m not sure I would include the Eagles with the others.
Kind of reminds me of Nirvana kicking the crap out of hair bands but that’s another story.
Norfolk does pretty much suck. Come up to Richmond sometime. Might not be Seattle but it sure beats the hell hole that is NorFuck VA.
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:31 pm
“Funkytown” was covered by a band called Psuedo Echo. Somehow they actually made it worse.
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:30 pm
You (Insert insult here)! I love (insert song/artist here). And (insert another song/artist) sucks way more than (someone on the list). How dare you!
That should cover most anti-list responses.
For the pro-list responses.
Right on! (insert song/artist here) really (sucks, blows, reminds me of being downwind of a paper factory or a hog farm).
Maybe you should put up that recording of the worst singer, ever, from before.
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Cat Skyfire: Florence Foster Jenkins? Her list is featured on the front page today
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:56 pm
I had a good laugh over this list! I was not quite familiar with Howard Jones, but this could easily be a repressed memory…
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:14 pm
I could speak as normal, but Ive been bitten byt the Halo 3 bug….now Ravyn might just get ahead of me in the comments.
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Juggz: How is Halo 3. I have been holding off on getting it (don’t want to spend money on it)
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Ravyn: It is nothing short of godly.
well that’s just my opinion. 
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Heiho,
about adopting ‘pseudo-classical themes and motifs’, Hoedown is composed by Copland (also Fanfare for the Common Man; basically I think that’s the reason why ELP are in this list). Mussorgsky’s Pictures At An Exhibition was outstandingly performed by ELP. I’ve heard much worse ‘genuine-classical’ interpretations.
If mankind’s mind about music would have been stuck with Randall’s we would still listen to someone who just knocks two rocks together. But there is something like creativity involved, and this is turned on by subculture contra mainstream, in a very simplified and shortened summary. This evolved music throughout the centuries, and it evolved especially in popular music throughout decades or even shorter intervals.
ELP were in the same manner the climax of a detaching from folky-flowry-powry stuff like, if you want, the Sex Pistols (of whom no-one seriously talks anymore in a more creative than chronological way) marked the detaching from concept rock.
And about dancing, I think it was Charles Mingus who said something in the lines of ‘white men say you can’t dance to jazz; well, I say, white men can’t dance at all.’
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But I don’t want to elaborate too much about ELP. I just want to say this list topic is very, very irritating. I would have expected a list containing Florence Foster Jenkins (again ^^ ) and suchlike, and maybe some of the radical amateurism movement, namely the Portsmouth Sinfonia and similar. Or probably some freak show of worst cover performances, whatever.
Instead of that the list contains something like ‘artists jfrater dislikes most’. Which is ok for another list, but not with that topic.
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:02 pm
hehe
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Welsh people are British. Wales is in the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
October 23rd, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Jamie – I’m a regular reader and I’m not annoyed; I agree with all of your selections as bad artists if not necessarily the worst. Just when you think it can get no lower….it does!
I have to say, that Girl In Pink from Lipps Inc. scares me. Seriously. A lot. If one of my coworkers came in with those wide glazed eyes and frozen smile I’d be running out the back door, because I’d be pretty sure that it was a matter of seconds before they started shooting.
October 23rd, 2007 at 6:24 pm
id agree with juggz halo 3 is godly. Id put my gamertag up on my profile for anyone wanting to be pwnt, but i appear to have lost my password. Anyway, ever heard of the casualties? even for punk music its pretty bad. and you sorta scared me, at first when i saw howard jones i thought you meant a song from KsE, but then i saw a white guy with knappy hair.
October 23rd, 2007 at 6:26 pm
This is a great site but a horrible list. Some bands on here weren’t real or popular enough to deserve a spot and then the list maker obviously has an axe to grind against Carl Palmer. Both Asia and ELP are listed with Vanilla Ice? Those bands still tour. Howard Jones had a comeback just last year. They belong on a list with Lipps, Inc?
Lame list that weakens the overall excellence of the website. Disappointing.
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Where’s Milli Vanilli?
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Honestly, I think I could pull off better dance moves than the girl from Lipps Inc and thats an incredibly sad statement.
This is when you fire your choreographer.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:08 am
Yeah Jamie I agree with Juggz, it might be better to layoff on worst music, as you could tread on other people’s toes. But hey it still your blog and opinion so you are free to do as you’d like.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:26 am
librarian: the majority of the list was compiled by Blender Magazine and VH1 – so it isn’t a list of artists jfrater doesn’t like – in fact, I had not heard most of these songs before starting on the list. I mention Blender in the first paragraph of the list
October 24th, 2007 at 1:28 am
Rey: Hiding their head in shame I imagine
October 24th, 2007 at 1:35 am
Ken J the Welsh ARE British! I just had to comment on that, sorry if i sound snobby. And never ever ask a Welshman what part of England he’s from. People ask my Welsh fiance that all the time and it pisses him off.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:37 am
Mary, didn’t see you had already commented on that!
October 24th, 2007 at 3:02 am
Top 10 worst artists in music now or 10 years ago? wow its the same old tired shtick such as Starship “We built this city” and Vanilla Ice “Ice Ice Baby” ; when did those songs come out again?
there are at least 100,000 artists past and present out there and these are the 10? I respect the ones mentioned, they filled a role, such as Starship for a lame song trying to sell Burger King’s Burgers. Vanilla Ice proved that at least in the early 90s, whitey couldn’t rap and street cred meant something. However, both are catchy and should be far from the 10 worst ever.
Insane Clown Posse, or ICP, are not the worst artists ever infact they should be far from the worst 100 simply because they are unique artists who make their own form of insane rants and raves and put them into a rap-style song that is unique. The Beastie Boys did it, Eminem did it, 50 did it, even Kid Rock did it a little bit with his hit song Bawitdaba and other similar songs. However nobody strikes a nerve as the most debased as ICP. There are others on Psychopathic Records but they are based off of the ICP formula and thus cannot be declared the worst. I watched that music video “Hall of Illusions” and I thought it was really awesome for an ICP song, I’ve heard and seen worse from them, trust me. It touched upon real issues such as the sickos who roam the trailer parks, dysfunctional families, and so on. Plus it was a fun song, and for the sugar popstars I hate their songs infact most of pop and the “boy-band” and “divas” are the Worst imaginable and they should be the worst 10. however it will never happen since most people’s taste in music involves pop-synching vocals and lame background “music”.
Yes, Michael Bolton is a fudgepacker and an assclown when it comes to music, but he needed to be so he would become infamous as the namesake to (one of) the protagonists in the movie Office Space. That movie would not be the same were it not for Michael Bolton, in both ways.
“Funky Town” is a cool song, one of the best from the last 50 years I think.
October 24th, 2007 at 7:38 am
Don’t forget Fergie. She can’t spell, her songs are cookie-cutter, annoying, and hard to listen to, and as an added bonus, she’s quite unattractive.
October 24th, 2007 at 7:43 am
plus fergie pee’d herself on stage :-0
October 24th, 2007 at 7:58 am
she did? That is pretty revolting. Was it drugs?
October 24th, 2007 at 8:03 am
i have no idea what the cause of, i guess just hitting that high note caused a loss of bladder control, but there are numerous pictures from the performance on the net. yeah, so uh after that any feeling of attractiveness was lost to me
October 24th, 2007 at 8:10 am
evan: I’ve got to see a video of that, sounds like some serious lulz to be gained
October 24th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
why is there no nickelback? WHY IS THERE NO NICKELBACK?
October 24th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
She (fergie) said she had to pee and because she was performing at that moment, she didn’t want to interrupt the show to go to the bathroom. It was one of those New Year’s eve concerts, I think.
October 24th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
What, Ryan? You don’t want to be a “rockstar”?????
October 24th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
WE BUILT THIS CITY
“Someone’s always playing corporation games
Who cares they’re always changing corporation names”
- Starship
- previously Jefferson Starship
- previously Jefferson Airplane
- currently Jefferson Starship The Next Generation
- the pot calling the kettle black
October 24th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
as rediclous as both kenny g and michael bolton are they’re both extremely talented at what they do. and fergie’s still hot.
October 25th, 2007 at 7:07 am
I must admit, I approve of all of these, most especially ICP. No matter how popular they are, they are not good.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Librarian:
The point is that Rock and Roll shouldn’t have anything to do with classical music; the two are unrelated in form and origin, and they cast a terrible pall on each other. Bands and people who don’t get this, have (sorry) their heads up their asses. I offer the friendly suggestion that you extract yours while there’s still time.
ELP and its ilk were the worst form of pseudo-intellectual trash that had come along in rock’s long history. Now, see, by your logic, all experiments and “subcultures” are “creative” and are therefore valid and worthy, and so we should lend legitimacy to ELP. This is rubbish. Not all experiments are good and helpful; many are bad and harmful. So it was with the entire “progressive rock” movement. It did nothing good for rock and roll except nearly grind it to a halt, bringing in a lot of pretentious nonsense that had no place in a form of popular music that is at heart primitive, earthy and energetic. I love classical music, but I don’t need it injected into my rock and roll, nor do I require the reverse. They belong separate from one another.
As for your dismissive comments about the Sex Pistols (and comparing what they did to ELP’s dubious “contribution” to rock!) —all I can do is laugh. Are you serious? The Sex Pistols are not talked about “seriously” anymore? Excuse me? (Oh… except for “…in a more creative than chronological way”… what does that even mean? Clearly you trying to sound all intellectual and knowledgeable, but you fell flat on your face).
The Sex Pistols’ music was vibrant, energetic, alive, and is not only still listened to today, but is still listenable. I don’t know a soul who still listens to Emerson, Lake and Palmer. The Sex Pistols were a linchpin, and a revolt. ELP were nothing but a trio of mundane musicians who wanted respect for their vaunted “virtuosity.” They made no comparable contribution to music (indeed, they made no contribution at all) and certainly were no “revolt of form” (which is what you seem to be implying).
Stick to your library, it’s where opinions like yours are happiest—hiding in dusty old volumes that no one ever read in the first place.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Heiho,
jfrater:
sorry, yes, I’m aware Blender is mentioned. Still I don’t need to go over there to tell them they’ve chosen a crappy list topic. It’s your site here, and you’ve decided to publish the list here with that crappy topic, so I blame you for it here
Randall:
oh, I forgot, classical music came without any experiments and evolutions down to earth on the never-mentioned third slate given to Moses on Sinai.
The fourth slate of rock probably had ‘Sex Pistols’ engraved on it, but accidentially it shattered.
Read your comment again and feel free to rearrange your view of who’s falling on his face there.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
flame flame flame!
October 25th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
I come to this website very often and I must say, I do enjoy reading these lists. However, I think it is funny that ICP is considered the worst band/artists but they still sell alot of records, with one going platinum and 3 going gold. How could they be so bad but sell so many albums? Other than that, good list and good work with the other lists on this site.
October 26th, 2007 at 5:20 am
Librarian:
Make sense, crazy person!
no really, seriously—your post made no freakin’ sense whatsoever.
I suggest you re-read MY post and note that nowhere did I say that classical music has never had experimentation and never evolved. But then I think you know very well that I never said this. Your maneuver here is a tired old tactic used by people who can’t win arguments honestly; they resort to tossing out weird and wild diversionary “accusations” (i.e., trying to make it sound like their opponent said something outrageous and/or stupid when in fact, he/she did nothing of the kind). Moreover, as far as this topic goes, you don’t know who you’re talking to here, so watch it, phony bookworm.
I haven’t fallen on my face in years; yours, however, I’d suspect to have dents and grass stains all over it from the astounding number of times it’s been forced to the dirt. Of course, I only make this guess from the absurd lack of substance or quality in your argument… such as it is.
October 26th, 2007 at 5:22 am
Will someone please put “Ben” out? He seems to be on fire.
Popalicious: popularity does not equal quality. Look it up sometime.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Another good way to have produced this list would have been to turn on the radio and written down the first 10 “artists” you heard.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Heiho,
Randall:
as much as I don’t know to whom I’m talking here you don’t know as well. And you can’t threaten me, your pathetic try to do so is just cheap and ridiculous.
I like a good rant as much as any guy next door, but _your_ initial posting was not a good rant, it was just a mere outburst of haltless accusations with no sense whatsoever.
You accuse ELP (and in one go all ‘Brits’) to have caused almost rock’n rool’s death, because _you_ don’t like the sound, or couldn’t move your feet to it, or who knows why.
I don’t care at all if you like it or not. This is your business.
Rock’n Roll died many times in the past in the opinion of so many people who had seen their favourite star dying, falling to drugs, recovering from drugs, or, worst of all, just becoming bloated and old; or because some band did some stuff some wanna-be criticians didn’t like. It’d need a revolving door in its coffin, because it has survived again and again, and from many worse things than ELP (or ‘the Brits’) could do to it.
Classical music had its experiments and evolutions, so we agree on that.
You said
‘Not all experiments are good and helpful; many are bad and harmful.’
And which is which, and how do you want to decide that _before_ anyone tries?
How would you’ve wanted to achieve such a definition in classical eras long ago (provided anyone would have given a dime on your opinion about it)?
You further claimed as Sex Pistols contribution to rock
‘The Sex Pistols’ music was vibrant, energetic, alive, and is not only still listened to today, but is still listenable.’
The very same is valid for Bill Haley. So this was nothing really new, wasn’t it?
ELP on the other hand brought electronical music up to a climax. It doesn’t matter if _you_ like them. It doesn’t matter if _I_ like them. Or if any of us likes electronical music at all. They are still no ‘worst artists’ because of that.
So the lack of argument is not on my side.
If you have respect for experimenting and musical evolution you can’t have it just to one genre. If you don’t like the outcome of such an experiment, just don’t listen to it. Seems to do harm to your blood pressure.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Nice try, “Librarian,” but I can guarantee you the “pathetic” tag belongs hanging on someone who is nutty enough to defend, of all groups, Emerson, Lake and Palmer… while in nearly the same breath making disparaging noises about The Sex Pistols, of all groups.
A few quick points in response: A) Where, exactly, did I “threaten” you? By saying, “watch it”? Get a sense of humor, for chrissakes. B) I did NOT dismiss “all Brits” in my “rant.” (or rantless rant, as you’d have it). In fact, I tend to prefer British pop/rock much of the time. Re-read what I wrote, or stop pretending you didn’t get it. Cheap high-school-debate-team tactics don’t work with me. I explained adequately well why the style and “movement” that ELP represented were anethema to rock and roll, and why. If you don’t want to hear my reasoning on this, I have no intention of repeating myself.
C) “Criticians” is not a word, pal. At least not last time I checked. The word is “critics.” Again, this is a common mistake of the pseudo-intellectual: reaching for a fancy-sounding word in order to come off as “impressive,” only to fall flat on their face…as you seem to be determined to do, repeatedly.
You’re comparing the Sex Pistols to Bill Haley and the Comets now? Oh for the love of Pete… stop breaking the Prozacs in half, will you?
But of course, I know your point was to attempt, again, to belittle my original point by diversion—but again, you failed. My point was that the Sex Pistols were energetic and vibrant and remain listenable—whereas ELP never were.
I’m curious—how old are you? Are you so old that you remember Bill Haley and the Comets, and are thus so dismissive of the Sex Pistols because, at the time, you had no clue of their importance? Are you an aging hippie who had all of ELP’s records? Or are you a youngster who wasn’t even alive when the Sex Pistols had already come and gone? I wonder…
But let’s not make this an argument about the Pistols vs. ELP. It’s silly. Let’s go to your other ridiculous averral, that “ELP brought electronical music up to a climax.” Even if this were true, I would need to hasten to point out to you that what ELP played was not, in my humble opinion, ROCK AND ROLL. Nor was it, in the opinion of an ENTIRE GENERATION of kids (my generation) who rose to adulthood during or on the heels of that crap. That’s why we had a punk/new wave revolution, to bury the leftover hippie garbage of the late 60s/early 70s.
Now… you wanna adore ELP, be my guest… contrary to your cutesy attempt to crack wise, it makes no difference to me OR to my blood pressure. But you really go too far with your absurd claims. ELP took a ridiculous hybrid of classical music and the hippie “jam” to what one might call an extreme climax; but pardon me for thinking that electronic music was far better served, and the form FAR more tastefully exploited, by groups like New Order and Depeche Mode, than your beloved ELP.
And as for your “if you don’t like it, you don’t have to listen to it” attitude—that kind of statement is also one of the last refuges of the scoundrel who doesn’t want to face the truth that music (as with any art) demands standards. Yep, this sure enough is a free world and everybody has the right to make whatever noise they want—but I’ll be damned if I allow it to reach a point where I can’t state where I stand.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Heiho,
after failing in threatening like a cat tries to threaten enemies by making herself bigger with all the fur pompously standing out, you try to patronize me?
This has nothing to do with humor. You’re a mere nobody with a nickname, no more, no less. And yes, I’m aware the same applies to me.
If you’ve preferred british groups (Pistols aside) you’ve hidden that very good in your initial posting. At least, the accusation of using ‘pseudo-classical motifs’ is there, and it is true that there were lots of British bands doing so. Starts with the Beatles in late 60s, forgive me if I’ve missed someone doing it earlier. Goes well over about Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, King Crimson, Queen and many more. If they all were anathema to Rock’n Roll because of that, well they couldn’t kill it.
What ELP did was just stretching this as far as they did, with the addition of using Moog synthesizers and establishing synthies in pop culture. If you’d know anything about electronical music you’d know that extracting a sound from a Moog is far different from anything the plastic pop bands like Depeche Mode and the lot more than a decade later had on their hands. Which they had, of course, on their hands because by that time it was common and cheap.
As for the ‘C’ritician, you accuse me for using high-school-debate-style, and in one go do the best example of all poor-argumenters, spitting on a weakness of a word. For your interest, I’m no native speaker, and if my English is so good by now that it doesn’t show anymore besides of one word it has either improved a lot in a very short time, or you yourself have fallen on your face – again.
And no, I don’t recheck every single word I write with a dictionary.
There’s still no answer to where you would draw lines for allowing experimentation. It seems you think it’s valid in classical music. If crossover of any kind is not your thing, so be it. If on the other hand ELP didn’t play ROCK in your opinion they couldn’t bring Rock to die.
So before accusing me to use lowgrade discussion style, try to invest some thinking before you write, because otherwise you’re entangling yourself into gibberish.
And I’m in fact not dismissive of the Sex Pistols themselves, just for them being glorified here as the true Messiahs of Rock’n Roll, because they were nothing more than another tide. I’ve given that short summary about subcultures rising to mainstream above, which seems to have bypassed you. This is validated perfectly by the comparison of Bill Haley and the Pistols, even if you think it’s belittleing you. Both arose from angry youth subculture in reaction to previous mainstream, used offensive behaviour, language and outfit – for the given time. Both were condemned by establishment.
About my age:
It seems that I was a youngster about the same time when you was. It seems also, that I’ve chosen another route than you. I still like music of any kind if it either approaches my head, heart, or stomach. I don’t restrict the regions to certain genres, nor do I favor certain groups or stars over all others. So yes, I do adore ELP, and especially so for their Pictures version. I don’t adore them for later stuff, because after a climax there’s no other direction than downwards. They never could repeat it in later years. Still they’re not entitled to ‘worst artists’ because of that.
So
‘I’ll be damned if I allow it to reach a point where I can’t state where I stand.’
I second that. From another perspective than yours. But I second that.
October 28th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Funny…I was listening to my Shuffle (doing housework=need music) and Funky Town came on and I thought about this list. HAHA
October 28th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Ravyn: hehe – I actually like Funky Town – but this performance – and Lipps Inc in general suck!
October 28th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
jfrater: I have to completely agree with you on that….
Wilson Phillips-Relese Me just came on woot
October 28th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
I Like Icp Tho…….
October 29th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Librarian:
A) There WAS NO threat. Stop being ridiculous. “Watch it” does not constitute a threat.
B) I hid nothing in my original post, in particular in regards to my liking of English groups. YOU need to develop better comprehension skills. I was commenting on Emerson, Lake and Palmer and the “progressive rock” movement. That’s all. YOU wrongly inferred, by invalid and wrongheaded logic, that I did not like English rock. (i.e., you assumed that because I made one disparaging comment about one type of English musician, I must hate all English musicians).
C) YOUR disparaging comment directed at Depeche Mode and their ilk, in favor of groups like Jethro Tull (!) (god help us) I’ll just laugh off.
D) “If I knew anything about Moog synthesizers” is cute. If YOU knew who you were talking to, you wouldn’t make such backhanded, insupportable swipes directed my way. But again, I’ll leave that. Your comments are obviously those of someone who prefers the drek poured out by bands like ELP, Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, et al over the stuff I like—so we’re never going to agree.
E) Taking note of the fact that you applied a totally incorrect form of a word is hardly an example of a “poor argument.” If English is your native tongue, such a mistake clearly indicates something about you. If English is NOT your native tongue, then such a mistake, in casual conversation, is totally forgivable. If, however, you’re trying to carry on an intellectual debate, (in English) then you should be doing your upmost to make yourself understandable. Failing to do so is less forgivable, and in future, I’d advise you to be more careful–if you want to be taken seriously. (Yes, I WOULD check more words in a dictionary, therefore, if I were you).
F) Despite your accusation, I’ve entangled myself in no gibberish whatsoever. This is no place to carry on a debate or a discussion over what makes experimentation valid or invalid. I have no need to go into further elucidation of my opinions in order to suit you; I have never once said that there is no place in Rock for experimentation, and indeed never said that it belongs only in the realm of classical music. YOU should stop putting words in my mouth and start READING what I write more carefully—and we might get along swimmingly and have no need for all this back and forth bickering.
G) Despite what you say I too like all kinds of music, and again, I caution you on jumping to wild conclusions about people you don’t even know. I don’t like what you do like, and it offended you. Stop trying to push me into a tiny corner because of it. My opinion differs from yours–accept it and move on.
October 29th, 2007 at 11:00 am
If these two douches keep it up, there might be a new “most-comments” entry on the list-list.
October 29th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Great job. This list works BECAUSE all these folks sell (or sold) records. By and large I agree with the list, although the well of badness is very, very deep, and this only skims the surface. And I do like Howard Jones…
I want to second Ken J’s comment #21: …great British bands that Americans haven’t really heard of… (Okay, let’s say great UK bands.) This American would enjoy that.
October 29th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
B.S. I would love a list like that too – problem is I am not British so someone else may have to come up with it for me
October 29th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Heiho,
TMo: at least we put some effort into it, so why do you try to spoil the party with an empty posting?
Randall:
Congratulations. You’ve just wrote your very first answer to me without trying to insult me, or making poor mockery about my nickname or my assumed profession.
A) threatening: you still come up with that silly ‘you-don’t-know-who-I-am-me-being-a-big-guy’ attitude, and this is still animalic threatening behaviour, the cat with the fur standing out. It doesn’t intimidate me despite your efforts, but it is threatening anyway. And it is misplaced.
B)
This statement, including the ‘of the time’ sidekick, covers really a _lot_ of legendary british rock bands. As long as you’re aware of this, no problem. If you dislike them all, still no problem. But this list topic is ‘worst artists’, and I never would dare to put any artist under such a topic just because I don’t like his style of music. You may have noticed that I’ve indeed nowhere claimed one of your favourites to belong to this list instead of any other one.
C) ‘plastic pop’ is just was Depeche Mode was, all retort, and no soul in it at all – that’s of course _my_ opinion.
We most probably won’t agree here. This is again about like and dislike, and at no point in this discussion I have urged someone to join my likings or dislikings.
D) again, I don’t talk likings and dislikings, I talk about artistry.
For the ‘me-big-guy’-thing see A)
E) this is just side info
In my native language we say
‘I make music, so I’m a musician.’
with the same declension of nouns like
‘I write a critic, so I’m a critician.’
which one is wrong in English.
It would correctly be
‘I write a review, so I’m a critic.’
Thank you for reminding me. It was not intended as ‘pseudo-intellectual’, it just didn’t urge me to use a dictionary. Far more simple words do so. You may believe or not that I do spend some effort in my writing.
F) a simple ‘I don’t know’ would have been clear enough.
To give you a non-rock example, there was Jacques Loussier with his Play Bach stuff. _I_ think of it as a great interpretation. He tried the same approach with other composers, which _in_my_opinion_ failed. He also tried playing organ (the big thing, all pipes), and failed miserably _in_my_opinion_. Just because both piano and organ have a keyboard attached to it doesn’t mean you can play both.
But again, this was an experiment. I wouldn’t dare to call it ‘bad and harmful’ just because I didn’t like the output. You, on the other hand, claim the right to say there are bad and harmful experiments which never should be done, just because you dislike the output of some.
And now you don’t ‘need to go into further elucidation’ of your opinions.
I repeat: if you allow experiments in music you don’t allow it just for one genre.
G) I’m not offended by your likings or dislikings; as I wrote before, this is your business. I’m indeed offended by your opinion about artistry, which is, based on everything you wrote here, heavily influenced by your likings and dislikings. And this is not serious.
‘My opinion differs from yours–accept it and move on.’
Again, I second this.
October 29th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
E) “Critique” would work… and yes, I am a pseudo-intellectual.
Also, this “party” sucks. I’m leaving.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
My number one worst singer/band? LFO. They sang “summer girls”. i literally cry in pain whenever that comes on.
October 30th, 2007 at 4:18 am
Emmerson, Lake, and Palmer should not be on this list! The piece they play here, Hoedown, is from Aaron Copeland’s ballet, Rodeo.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:57 am
TMo: Good, leave. Who asked you?
Librarian:
Enough. I won’t even discuss the “threat” thing with you any further, it’s absurd. I call you humorless. If you don’t like it, too bad. That’s the opinion I’ve gotten of you, from reading your interminable postings.
B) My statement about English groups was CLEARLY a generalization. Whoop-dee-doo. Notice I did say “of the day.” Yes, I think the English “stadium” or “arena” rock of the day–that is, of the very late 60s/early 70s—was godawful. At the same time there was the English pub-rock movement. That was not godawful. And there was David Bowie, and Roxy Music–and so on. But here is where YOU are playing “debate games.” Any honest person with a brain knows a generalization when they hear one, and they don’t jump all over it in an instance like this. In making a statement, I should then have to qualify it with a dozen different exceptions? Come off it.
D) I too have been talking about “artistry.” ELP were not “artists” to me, but hacks. Skill with an instrument does not an artist make. If instrumental skill was all that mattered, then Kenny G. would be a freakin’ artist. He is not. He is a hack.
E) English is a complicated and complex language. If you’re going to express yourself in it, in writing, and wish to be taken seriously, then take greater care in your use of it.
And an aside here. English is not your native tongue. Then I would argue that in fact the problem here is that you simply don’t understand rock and roll at heart. Oh, I know this will offend many and will probably set you off. Too bad. The fact is that Euro-rock, over the years, has been overly-obsessed with the idea of forcing a heavy, classical miasma onto rock music. Sometimes Europeans (here I mean non-British Europeans) manage a decent stab at heavy metal (I detest heavy metal myself, but I suppose some European groups have made a fair show of it) and occasionally the odd European artist has done well within certain narrow genres; Air is a good example, The Hives another… there are several examples. Particularly in the post-punk era, some European groups did well. But overall they are rarely as successful as British, American, and Australian groups at grasping the basic energy and primalcy of rock and roll. They either pop it up to an often ridiculous degree, or load it down with inappropriate clutter.
I don’t know if you’re European, Asian, what… and I don’t need to know. I simply observe that you seem to show a marked preference for progressive rock forms over the simple and direct; you’ve backhandely dismissed the Sex Pistols, called Depeche Mode “plastic pop,” etc. To me this indicates that you simply have no clue as to what rock and roll is really all about. Perhaps, then, you come from a culture where it really isn’t understood. It’s the music of youth, of rebellion. This was not at all well-served by ham-handed “progressive” stylists like ELP.
F) I’ll ignore your cute sideswipe at me in regards to my knowledge of “experimentation.” Again, these posts are long enough and tiresome enough without debates on various musical experiments made through the years. I will make one observation, however—you seem to be determined to drag in a discussion here that is irrelevant; perhaps you, then, have some deep need for attention that I should cease to serve. My objection to the KIND of “experimentation” that the progressive rock movement undertook has been laid out adequately, and I have no further desire to debate it with you. Instead of answering it, you’ve come at me with this irrelevant and misleading argument defending experimentation in general. Who cares? The original point of this was that Emerson, Lake and Palmer were a terrible group that made lousy music. You seem to want to write a term paper about it.
I’ll note one thing though. You say, “You… claim the right to say there are bad and harmful experiments which never should be done, just because you dislike the output of some.” Yeah. I claim that right. I’m a well-read, intelligent human being. What else IS a critic, you pompous lout? If I had the power, would I STOP people from performing certain artistic experiments? Of COURSE NOT. But I have the voice and the knowledge to object to them, if I wish, and I will.
October 30th, 2007 at 10:02 am
oh, and Aaron Copeland sucks too.
October 30th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Out of interest, where would everyone place good ol’ Captain Beefheart on the good/bad scale? I kinda reckon it’s forced wierdness, but Trout Mask Replica does shine in certain parts.
Anyway, the Sex Pistols are as bad as ELP I reckon- punk = marketing. I mean, they hired on Sid Vicious because he looked stereotypically punk.
Sorry for that interruption- carry on, it’s quite entertaining. *Grabs popcorn*
November 4th, 2007 at 7:57 am
as soon as the acid wore off i realized that yes
ELP sucks.
that was a long time ago but they still suck.
November 7th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
james blunt should be in afghanistan inflicting as much damage as possible with several live shows. maybe he can take westlife with him.
November 11th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
You are wrong about ELP. They were brilliant!
You should have listed Grand Funk Railroad… now THOSE guys were terrible!
November 13th, 2007 at 8:44 am
As much as I love him, William Shatner’s music is truly terrible. Worse than several others on the list.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Randall: Popularity does, in fact, matter when talking about the “worst” or the “best”. Your opinion may be different from mine or everyone else’s but that doesnt make you right. When judging things like music, movies or books, popularity is a big factor in how good/bad they are. If ICP far outsells someone else, than logically they are the better band.
November 17th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
White rapper + mullet = lolage
November 17th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
I just heard the worst song from the worst band while reading this list . . . Summertime girls by LFO. Awful!! Wish I could put a frowny face after that!!
November 18th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Amen to ICP being #1)
way 2 go jfrater
November 18th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Oh hell ya… bring on the pseudo intellectual pissing match. I came for the list, I stayed for the lulz.
November 22nd, 2007 at 10:30 am
Hey jfrater — how about a list of songs we love, but are ashamed of? Mine would be “Walking On Sunshine” by Katrina and the Waves. Love it, but feel like I should listen to it in private and wash my hands afterward
As for the whole big arguement going on here: as the great Pete Townshend said — “Rock is dead — Long Live Rock” Rock and Roll is a great big house party with room for everyone. Argueing about who or what is great reminds me of the Supreme Court justice ruling on pornography who said, “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.” It’s all subjective. That is the beauty of art — we each interpret it differently.
November 22nd, 2007 at 10:49 am
bootlicker: that is a brilliant idea for a list! Oh – and there is nothing wrong with walking on sunshine!
December 5th, 2007 at 6:45 am
Enjoy.
December 12th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
P DIDDY is the worst without a doubt . He defines the word sell out , rips off other peoples songs , and is a total arsehole to boot .
December 14th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Librarian made some really great points and if this were a debate, I believe Librarian would win. Librarian gave valid arguments to each point whereas Randall resorted to name-calling, bashing, belittling and topic switching. Also, Librarian was able to see both sides, whereas Randall believed only Randall’s side was correct and did not admit fault to the tiniest of typos. I understand your frustration, Librarian.
December 15th, 2007 at 11:50 am
If Randall had just said what he said earlier
“I too have been talking about “artistry.” ELP were not “artists” to me, but hacks. Skill with an instrument does not an artist make. If instrumental skill was all that mattered, then Kenny G. would be a freakin’ artist. He is not. He is a hack.”
There would have been no need for the debate.
December 16th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Juggalos unite!!!! ICP does not belong on this list!! Give thier music a chance and you will see. Under the clown makeup and the macrabe theatrics they actually have a VERY strong following. As for Blender magazine, now there is a publication that should be on a top 10 bad list.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:24 am
By far the worst ‘girl band’ of all time was Vanilla, a short-lived English outfit briefly (in)famous for their 1997 debut single and video ‘No Way No Way’. No attempt at harmonies, terrible ‘girl power’ lyrics, lame song (based on ‘Mah Na Mah Na’ badly sung by four rather -how does one put it politely- ‘ordinary-looking’ young women. It’s on YouTube, and there’s even a Wikipedia entry. You have a treat in store.
January 5th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
librarian 1, randall 0
January 5th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
music is like wine. you like what you like, and you shouldn’t have change that because of snobs telling you otherwise.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Asia had some good songs, Starship had some good songs and for roughly 5 years ICP was an extremely popular death rap duo and I can name 20 good songs that they had that were stupid but still sounded good, not to mention they had a large hand in the creation of death rap when the dropped on the scene in 92.
Sorry but their are other artists and bands far worse then these that never accomplish anything but that’s just my opnion.
January 10th, 2008 at 12:10 am
also Icp in proffesional wrestling… well so what so where the misfits and even though their music isn’t great many bands look to them as pioneers.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
hell yeah ICP is number one
i bet the people who made this list cant make a 10 artist more succefull than icp
name 1 other band that even has its own record label AND a fan base thats made of billions and has only had a video on tv once
January 13th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Wicked clowns will never die!!!
Dark Lotus “Juggalo Family”
(J talking)
“And they wanted to know if I would trade 10 Juggalos for a hundred mainstream fans?” And I said “I wouldn’t trade 10 Juggalos for a hundred thousand mainstream fans, 10 Juggalos is priceless.”
Basically main stream don’t mean jack. Why people always seem to associate that with importance is sick.
Juggalos will always be there they are family all. For all you haterz maybe someday you’ll stop taking life so seriously all the time lighten up. Learn to accept people then maybe you won’t hate so much!
January 17th, 2008 at 9:19 am
I also find it hilarious how people don’t give ICP their due. They are the Gods of Underground music. People see clowns and don’t give them a chance. ICP is the epitome of capitalism. Where is Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and all those teeny white chicks that suck? They should have their own list of top 10 promiscuous white girls who think they can sing
January 18th, 2008 at 3:55 am
ICP deserves to make up all 10 places they’re horrible!!
January 19th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Alright half the people on this list ive never heard of. You have the right to your opinion but to be perfectly honest with you, you sit here and say ICP is the number one worse band ever. I see it on vh1 all the time and i think its funny. If you havent realized Icp strive on the “haters”. In my own opinion ICP is one of the best bands. Now if you disaggree hey think what ever you want to think. But they came from nowhere they didnt have parents that were already famous they had to make it themselves. They made there own record label by them selves. And to be perfectly honest as stupid as it may seems I can honestly say ICP and the Juggalos saved my life. If it wasnt for them i wouldnt be here today. So you can diss us for being juggalos you can diss them for wearing paint saying what they say but in all reality it doesnt matter. Do you really think they care what you think? They strive off of you. The more you down them the more there going to think of new and better shit. If you really want to make a list why dont you make a list of the bands that has the more LOYAL fans. I garuntee you theyd be up there close to if not number one And to all the juggalos that read this MMFWCL
January 21st, 2008 at 9:49 am
@Daniel:
Hahahaha…aha…ha
I’m glad they’re still around! Without them we wouldn’t have a “band” that we could all agree was the worst band ever! They can’t sing, they can’t act, I don’t know if they can wrestle but wrestling sucks anyway. They are the worst band ever period! I don’t care if you like them but commen sence would tell you that the band that “thrives on haters” would suck…In fact rap in general sucks! You can’t spell crap without rap
Have a nice day…or not.
January 21st, 2008 at 11:58 am
ELP @ #2!!! What the hell man!!
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
michael bolton and celine dion worst singers ever
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:41 pm
And still it pours. Vile shit pours out of your mouth like a waterfall of puke. Bathe in your own hate cause it will slide off of us. We area family and we stick together till the end hey little boy bet you don’t even got any friends… tehe… Don’t hate. MMFWCL
February 5th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Maybe it’s been mentioned, or maybe they aren’t really considered actual artists, but Milli Vanilli would top it for me.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GSqV3rWM4iQ
February 18th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
*sigh* Insane clown posse is my friend’s favorite band.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
LIMP BIZKIT!!!
February 27th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
I can’t agree more with the number 1. This is some of the dumbest shit ever. People just latch on to this kinda of stuff because they think it makes them look cool.
February 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I don’t disagree about the others, but ELP was a great band at their time.
February 28th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I’m a juggalo myself, but damn, leave it to some little kid to make all juggalos look like retards…Yes, some intelligent people like ICP
March 5th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
The Lipps Inc Funky Town had me crying. People actually danced to that shit!
March 10th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I don’t agree with many of your picks, but I am glad you included Vanilla Ice and ICP.
Great site! I love your lists. I probably spend way too much time on here, but I can’t help it
March 18th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Stupid Juggalo haters!
March 20th, 2008 at 5:25 am
I actually live in Detroit, home of ICP. I’ve never run into any Juggalos, which I suppose is very good for my health. However, I enjoy Faygo. It is the best pop with the best flavors ever and don’t let ICP make you think that it isn’t.
Well, if Detroit can’t have the BEST bands out there, I guess it says something that we can have the WORST…
May 13th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Please don’t tell me you included Asia in this list… oh man. Even though the legendary Guthrie Govan was a part of it? Blasphemy!
Oh, the Chariot easily takes the number 1 spot on this list, by the way.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:39 am
well i think this is bullshit
i think you need to suck some fucking dicks.
insane clown posse may not be all that good; but fuck that. to me their fucking family. theyre the fucking shit. yeah people have their own opinion but who the fuck are you to tell us who the worst artist is? i think who ever made this stupid fucking website should commit suicide. cause this is exreamly lame and plus; you dont even understand what theyre about.
JUGGALO FOR LIFE BAYBEHH!
MMFWCL
May 16th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Lol, Scribbles!! Wow is it really that serious LMAO!!! Someone needs some medication. Oh, and the site can’t be too bad ( Hint) (Hint).
May 16th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Quiana: umm yeah SCRiBBLES is my friend and I wouldn’t take about her like that ever.
Maybe if you did some reading up you would find that ICP isn’t all that bad.
and p.s. she is on medication.
ILY SCRiBBLES & I have your back.
May 16th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
UHM. Excuse me,
I am on meds. and dont fucking lol me.
kthankz.
im a generally angry person. and i think u fucking need meds for being so stupid. yeah this site is fucking bullshit. cause someone cant sit there and diss a whole fucking shit load of music when every kind of fucking music deserves to be heard. im not just trying to praise Icp; like yea; theyre my homie and all and theyre family; but that doesnt mean theyre the fucking shit; half these people arent even that good; yeah we know; but like to someone else; someone on this list could be totally be amazing to someone else; ya digg? cause like im not trying to diss anyone. but some of this music is the shit; and yeah im going to say this too.. half the music people listen on the radio; is fucking stupid;gross;annoying;and usually pointed towards black people. hense the reason im finished with the mainstream; but dont get me wrong i have nothing wrong with black people(for all who mistake this) i just think the music is pointless; about pimps and hoes; money and food; um there is stuff people should be listening to; and it aint that shit; thats the reason i listen to icp; they make points with their music. another reason why people think they fucking suck; PEOPLE DONT UNDERSTAND THEIR MESSAGES THROUGH THEIR MUSIC. and godforbif theyre different ya know? cause like in this country you cant be different without being put down. im just as different as anyone else. im a juggalo. im a woman. i am bisexual. and im just myself. and if anyone has anything to say you can hit me up on myspace.,
http://www.myspace.com/bobthallama215
thats just my opinion. no more comments about my opinion. im just making a statement;
grow up;
and relize this life isnt about pimps hoes and stupid radio shit;
kthankz.
MMFWCL4L BAYBEH
May 16th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Scribbles:
What exactly is this “message” that you say they have? What is even halfway decent about ICP? They’re a joke. They and their inexplicable fan following seem to have adopted nihilism as a way of life. No, I don’t think that they’re the worst band ever, but they sure as heck aren’t even close to being anywhere near average. They are DEFINITELY one of the worst bands ever.
May 18th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I liked what someone said about “just turn on the radio and list the first ten “artists” you hear. Brilliant!
But really, a few years ago, I would have said ICP is definatley the worst band, but after the huge influx of mainstream rappers these days… who knows, man?.
I mean, ICP at least has a following, I’ll give them that (oh, and whatever “juggalo” said to name another band with “billions” of fans… I can’t. because there is NO bad on EARTH with a billion fans.) Anyway, Yeah, they’ve got a following, unlike every modern hip-hop artist out there who is forgotten promptly after MTv quits playing thier videos.
But yeah, ICP is still god-awful. For those who say that they “saved” you, that’s fine, whatever it takes man, but there comes a point where you can move on. I don’t want to say that you were “suckered” into the scene, but that’s the first thing that comes to mind, any band with a theme is obviously a shtick and a marketing-ploy, think about it. really. I’d bet everything I own that ICP dosent give one half of a shit about their fans, aside from that fact that fans pay their bills.
And wrestling, dude… wrestling. seriously. come on. Someone mentioned something about the Misfits being involved with wrestling. This isn’t something that I’m aware of, but what I am VERY aware of is that there are the original misfits, with Glenn Danzig, and the “new” misfits who popped up sometime in the late 90’s. And I can pretty much guarantee that if the misfits are involved with wrestling, it’s new “new” band, whom are NOT the ones that people claim to be “pioneers”.
But whatever, whoever made that post probably did a hit-and-run and won’t even read this anyway. Well, that’s my two cents, I felt compelled to post after reading EVERY comment on this list :S Please excuse any spelling or punctuation errors, I’m typing this on my roomates evil iBook devil-machine.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Scribbles after you and your little friend get done it’s still not that serious. And for someone who thinks the person who made this site should commit suicide all because they are expressing their opinion on THEIR website is stupid as hell. Oh and I see you are still taking time to come to this website and post stupid shit even though you hate it so much.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Thanks Brad
May 19th, 2008 at 8:39 am
No problem Quiana.
May 26th, 2008 at 9:58 am
YESSSS!!!!!! Someone who views the ICP clowns like I do. My baby brother who’s 17 adores them and I try to tell him the group sucks, but really how can you tell that to a teenager? I’ve tried to influence him with some tasteful music, I love Lady Day myself and many, many others of every genre, but this mess is nothing but crap. I’m going to show him this list so he doesn’t think I’m just a prude. lol
May 26th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Jazj: I think almost everyone on earth agrees with you about ICP. They are a joke.
May 27th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Fuck you, Emerson Lake and Palmer were and still are awesome
May 28th, 2008 at 12:01 am
How cute, someone just learned how to swear. Does the liddle snookums like the F word? Apparently so, since he’s been using it on other lists too.
May 30th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Nice list, I personally would include Fall Out Boy, Limp Bizkit, Amy Winehouse, Akon, Creed, Nickelback, Avril Lavigne, and any pop-punk and/or emo band.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
I’m gonna give a nod to Jewel, any and all boy bands, Ashlee Simpson, Paris Hilton
June 10th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Come on, “Funkytown” isn’t all that bad!
You forgot:
The Beatles
N-Sync
Backstreet Boys
June 13th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
vinilla ice and insane clown posse r kick ass
juggalette 4 life
June 13th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
insane clown posse is alsome and vanilla ice is kick ass
June 30th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Emerson lake and palmer simply shouldn’t be on this list and i am truly shocked. This band probably grafted its ass off to get deserved credibility and status, to be ruined in one foul swoop due to being put on this wholly inaccurate list is a shame. Also randall to make such a bold accusation as, prog rock almost ruined rock and roll is absurd. What about bands such as pink floyd, and even led zep. revolutionary.
Also coining every british prog rock bands motive for forming and producing songs, into one patronising statement “Britain, you see, being so much more a class-ridden society, had a tendency to spawn rockers who felt the need to “prove” themselves as “legit” to the upper-class intelligentsia” shows how little you know on the subject.
Im sure some of the bands had intentions to make great tunes or experiment for there own pleasure not to “prove” themselves.
Then again ignorance is bliss i suppose randall.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:32 am
well for me emerson is genious !!!
July 4th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
If by ‘inspired,’ do you mean ‘plagiarized’?
July 8th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
well, philistines like you are probably unaware of the fact that Hoedown is an Aaron Copeland piece. Your list pretty much loses credibility including ELP at all, let alone for this piece. You don’t think you have to be a pretty good musician to pull that off?
Its too scattered anyway, what the fuck are you going for? Bands that are too campy? Bands with no talent? Or just bands with songs you don’t enjoy? You can call ELP a lot of things, but one of the top 10 “worst” bands ever is pretty moronic. Keith Emerson is arguably the best rock keyboardist ever.
I will grant that “Love Beach” was an abortion. If you had included a selection from that career miscalculation you might have a thin point. Here you have nothing but a glaring example of your inability to grasp prog rock.
Unless your intent is just to provoke comments, in which case you’re just a troll, baiting people, so I’ll skip reading anymore of your lists.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:34 am
You can’t have Emerson, Lake and Palmer, since they are some of the most talented musicians I’ve ever heard.
…and Hoedown is a song from one of the music talented composers of all time.
FOR SHAME.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:03 am
I love how “Randall” totally disregards bands that led to “his” music.
Because the 80s would have been so heavy on synths without bands that experimented with them earlier.
*hint* That’s ELP.
Oh, and I would kill myself if the only “good” music had three fucking chords.
July 14th, 2008 at 7:48 am
This kind of list doesn’t work. I don’t like country, so alot of my top 10 worst would be from that category. I do like metal, but you might not so your top 10 worst might be metal. It’s all about opinion.
Although I was shocked to not see Hasselhoff !
July 14th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Im back
and yes i havent been on this site in awhile
look i can to an understanding
i like icp
and idc about others opinions
look
i just dont think its right for like anyone to sit there and diss other peoples favorite bands.
it would have been okay if he kept all this into to himself.
cause obviously it causes problems and conflict. which is again is unnecessary.
im not going to sit here and curse anymore.
cause being angry isnt necessary.
but sorry people for being angry that day
but i just honestly think if you guys knew more about the icp then just listening to one of their songs; you would understand.
and they honestly do care about their fans.
were all like a big huge family.
ive been to their concerts; and all of the fans have gotten along; of course we moshed and whatnot; but i walked in there and i was getting waves and “waddup ninja?” the whole time
so like i dont know how to explain this all; okay most of you guys dont like icp and think their a joke; but dont you think it’d be okay to keep ur opinion to urself? cause i dont think any of ya’ll would like someone you dont know sitting there and dissing your favorite band?
i know i didnt
and you all saw that
well thats all i have to say
and this is my last comment ;
no comments about my last response cause it doesnt matter im not writing back anymore
i had my say.
im out this bitch
MCL4LIFE
July 14th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
^ Not sure what he just said, but thanks for stopping by.
July 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Now that I’ve read all the more recent comments, I have another reason, other than their “music”, to hate ICP. Luckily, in real life, they are easy to avoid. Just steer clear of large groups of trashy fat chicks in ratty tank tops with clown tattoos, calling each other “ninja”. Words to live by.
July 15th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
This list made me laugh. Sadly, I love to sing along with several of those as I drive around town. But, this is coming from the girl who filled her entire MP3 player with one-hit wonders! It is the best music ever for the gym.
July 16th, 2008 at 6:46 am
i think some of ths stuff is really retro stuff and is bad now but good then and by the way where was 50 cent, kanye west and all rap artists, oh, i forgot thats not music
July 21st, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Royce, is there a rule I missed where if you don’t listen to it it’s not music?
ok, lol my list.
10:lil jon (yeayuh! I hate him for the catchphrase alone)
9:puff daddy (“yeah. uh. come on.” bastard got famous for a skilled rapper dying and randomly proclaiming things behind other rappers.)
8:fall out boy. because screw emo. also: what the hell is he saying? I know people ribbed nirvana a lot for that, but even as a metal fan I can’t understand this guy.
7:nickelback. I swear they took every other pseudo-rock grunge band and cut out snippets of their lyrics and rearranged them.
6:anything Scott Stapp has touched. Ok, we get it. you’re a christian. now go away.
5:m.c. hammer. how the hell… I don’t even get how this got famous. He proved that walking sideways is a marketable skill.
4:milli vanilli deserves a nod for never actually making music. I suppose it’s telling that one of the members has actually killed himself over it. If I were in the band, I would have also.
3:brintey spears. All she ever was is eye candy, but did you ever see yourself saying, at any point: “Ew, I didn’t need to see britney spears’ vagina”? Seriously, she’s a multi-millionare, can’t she afford underwear?
2:soulja boy. this could easily be expanded to include all retard rap. What, rhyming is too hard? You have to make random noises and repeat the same thing over and over again to a simplistic backbeat with a retarded dance attached? kill yourself.
and the number 1? def leppard. oh for the love of… put the spandex away. you’re scaring me.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Really no need to bash wrestling. We fans aren’t proud of their involvement either. It’s so easy to make fun of wrestling, but no one really has a case against it besides they don’t personally like it.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
the bloggers point about ELP is “hey guys, can you dumb it down so I can relate?”
to call probably the best keyboardist in rock music ever the worst is beyond stupid
I think this guy is just baiting people to get comments
good work, troll
August 14th, 2008 at 10:29 am
I agree with deidre_dean. Keith Emerson is one of my four favorite keyboardists (along with Rick Wakeman, Jordan Rudess, and Derek Sherinian). I want to deck the guy who put him on there.
iamaneviltaco- your description of hip-hop is spot-on.
And Randall (if that is your real name)… go to hell.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Matt:
“And Randall (if that is your real name)… go to hell.”
Been there, Matt! Thanks!
It was nasty, but a damn site classier than the trailer park *you* live, pinhead.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Heh, I don’t remember having seen this list.
But, while we’re on the topic, I hope people aren’t dissing Funky Town on the basis of that video…because the performer in the video is not Lipps Inc.
It’s (from memory) a video made for German tv using a miming studio dancer.
If you’re interested, here’s the real Lipps Inc : http://www.funkytown.com/
September 1st, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Most of you guys that are arguing about the ELP song just don’t seem to really get it, it looks like we have a troll or two in the dungeon. No matter what they will tell you, they weren’t trying to immitate classical, they were trying to immitate The Doors. (Who had a MAJOR influence on punk music, so maybe you should examine your argument against the sixties and it’s music.) It sounds like somebody just watched a VH1 feature done by somebody who had nothing to do with the music or even the generation being spoken of.
I liked them alright when they were together, but there are many songs that are far worse than hoedown. This list seems out of order. And +1 on C.W. McCall!
September 1st, 2008 at 9:42 pm
wrong dumbass
the doors were not particularly proficient musicians, none of them
ELP was a trio of virtuosos
no comparison, and you are the one who doesn’t know shit. punk rock is the direct OPPOSITE of prog rock, of which ELP were the premier purveyors.
so stfu.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:03 am
There’s too many commnets to read so apologies if some one has already mentioned the dreaded Celine Dion. After having had to suffer through listening to her when she played near where I live, I can only reconfirm my hatred of all things Dion. She should never have been allowed to cover ‘We Will Rock You’. Shudder.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 am
I can understand not being a fan of Celine Dion, but is there really any doubt that skinny Frech Canadian can sing? I would never buy her cds, but she has one or two songs even I can’t help sing along to while I’m driving.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 am
If that’s what you want to call singing….try telling that to the poor terrified kitten I found mewing under a car the night she played. Poor thing was crying!! Luckily I got new headphones in time for the Westlife concert.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:46 am
Thank goodness I’m English. Fortunately we’ve never been subjected to ICP. If that song is typical of their oeuvre, then they belong on this list.
On the ELP issue, yes they are talented musicians. However, they are apallingly dull. Just because you can play an intsrument really well does NOT mean that you can make interesting music. Just look at Steve Vai (shudder).
As number one, I’d nominate Throbbing Gristle. I doubt many people have heard of them, but believe me that’s a blessing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8klW9trVTQ
Apparently they’re terribly influential.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Ahhh, the outraged cries of Juggalos and Juggalettes. They’ve become a staple of the internet, cropping up like a bad case of indegestion with they wild, poorly typed rants.
The way I see it, it works out like this: if you are a white lower middle class suburban disenfranchised (in most cases) male between the ages of 12 and 20, then there is a pretty good chance you’re into ICP, and no fault for that. If you are a white lower middle class suburban disenfranchised (in most cases) male above the age of 20 and like ICP, then there is a pretty good chance that you have crappy taste in music, or are suffering from some sort of mental defect.
I myself, along with my entire group of friends, were hardcore Juggalos (sp?). We had all the CDs, watched all the videos, wore clown face paint at Halloween, and even had several copies of Big Money Hustlers. It seemed like ICP spoke to us, and we were all in love with the sub-culture. And then one day, something amazing happened. I put in one of the Dark Circus CDs and was astonished to find that the music I had been so feverently devoted to was actually quite bad. Horrible, point of fact.
I won’t deny the appeal of ICP. For the target demographic (see above) they cater too, they do it amazingly well. Their fans are numorous and rabid. But, it’s all based on the gimmick, if you will, on the perception that they put forth. The message they portray, dubious though it may be, is powerfull. What isn’t is the actual talent of the people behind it. Their rapping is uninspired, tedious, forced, and oftimes, dreadfull. The flow is severly lacking, and they usually take an infantile view of the world.
Juggalos, no one is arguing that there is something almost inspired, in a weird, ultra crass marketed sort of way, behind the “movement” with which you apply yourself. What we are trying to say is that once you get past the face paint and psychopachic-ness, the music itself is really just bad.
My appologies for the long post, but I feel a sort of connection to these poor souls, like someone who has succesfully gone through AA would feel with an alcoholic. I feel that maybe, just maybe, if I provid an eloquent enough thought, then it might shake some sense into them. Then again, ICP fans are obviously not known for their appreciation of the eloquence of execution.
October 10th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
That pro wrestling thing was a cheap shot to the intelligent fans. Pro Wrestling just gets a bad wrap because it’s “not a real sport”.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
HANNAH MONTANNA!!! Hanna Montanna deserves to be on this list! She’s only in the music buisness because dear old daddy pulled some strings!
October 12th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
ICP could make up all ten slots of this list.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Where the frack is fall out boy and 50 cent?
November 24th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Hm…
It’s fun to read all the strange and utterly hilarious comments.
People get mad because they like certain music, and they try to protect what they enjoy.
Everyone is entitled to their own personal opinion.
Me person, I have such a random music base that people could easily make fun of me, I can go from the said ICP to classical, to some death metal where people can’t understand the lyrics unless they read them.
Plus, if you haven’t noticed, these lists are made for fun usually.
And also seem to be from the people who post their own personal opinion.
So why get offended?
Like I said before…
People are entitled to their own opinion.
This stuff is just for fun.
It’s also fun to see how angry people can get. XD
Personally a Juggalette myself I find it hilarious when others of the family get all worked up over such a small trivial matter.
November 24th, 2008 at 3:46 am
Cramp, misspelled Personally.
Well at least I corrected myself.
Currently 4:46 in the morning, I’m so freaking bored…
Lol.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Scribbles:
If they’re “fucking family” shouldn’t they be in jail or something.
I’m pretty sure that shits illegal.
November 27th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I find the denigration of progressive rock and heavy metal (and no, hair “metal” is not heavy metal at all–why don’t you spin some Agent Steel or Metal Church to find out what the genre is really all about?) and the glorification of punk rock and grunge music frankly baffling. Is it that people can’t stand the realization that their favorite musicians are better than they are? Yes, Keith Emerson wore ugly clothes and wrote songs about robots that you can’t dance to (I don’t understand what’s so great about dancing anyway–if you want to make a fool of yourself there are certainly less strenuous ways of doing so), but he was a compositional genius who wrote some of the greatest rock epics ever written and brought a level of artistry to rock music not equalled until the rise of latter-day progressive bands like Dream Theater in the late 1980s.
The message of genres like punk rock and grunge is a recurring virus in popular music that seems to pop up about once every fifteen years–the idea that it is acceptable to be mediocre, acceptable to not strive to better your own talents, acceptable to have musical talent about equivalent to President Bush’s speaking talent. Kurt Cobain was a terrible guitarist with an even more terrible singing voice, and served only to destroy (temporarily) what metal and the strains of hard rock that escaped MTV’s corruption spent more than a decade building. Punk rock was slightly less musically bankrupt, but what good it did do was appropriated in a far more refined form by thrash metal.
Punk rock killed rock and roll and completed its degeneration into “rock”, and grunge came very close to killing heavy metal. And now, it seems like the virus is returning just in time, in the form of poser “indie” rock, pop-punk, and degenerate elements within metal itself (especially the “metalcore” abomination, the glam rock of the 21st century) to kill heavy metal for real just as it is on the verge of breaking out of the underground again, obliterating the guitar music tradition handed down from blues and for all beneath a tidal wave of manufactured “talent” singing in their toothless, harmless, powerless voices (if Estelle, the woman behind the loathsome “American Boy”, sang any more softly, she’d be whispering, for chrissake. Big Mama Thornton could have eaten her for breakfast and had room for another course!) songs constructed out of resampled drum machine beats by people whose only instruments are financial ones.
The mainstream is why we can’t have nice things.
December 6th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
@ Randall
Your pretty stupid or just a moron, but how in the hell is punk rock better than prog rock in any way. Punk music is just a bunch of whining people complaining about every thing with one 3 chord riff for every single song by any punk band. Progressive rock may not be all good but for the most part there is some amazing bands and songs that have come out of that genre… so your saying King Crimson, Alan Parsons Project, Pink Floyd, Peter gabriels genesis…etc are terrible? I can just imagine the sad music you listen to
December 7th, 2008 at 2:58 am
Woolie Wool: you officially rock the fuck out.
December 8th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
How about any song that soulja boy sings?
December 10th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Anon, Anon, Anon, Anon – calling Anon. I hope you read this.
I have no idea where to post this comment. It almost certainly doesn’t belong here, but I can’t find anywhere else.
From the Sydney Morning Herald 11 Dec, quoting AP. I thought of Anon, then something really strange in this article caught my eye.
“Madonna is causing “crazy enthusiasm” and “impure thoughts” on her first concert visit to Chile, a prominent retired cardinal says.
Roman Catholic Cardinal Jorge Medina criticised the flamboyant singer during his homily at a Mass in honour of the late dictator Augusto Pinochet, who oversaw the deaths of some 3200 dissidents during his 1973-1990 rule.
“This woman comes here and in an incredibly shameless manner, she provokes a crazy enthusiasm, an enthusiasm of lust, lustful thoughts, impure thoughts,” said Medina, the cardinal who was chosen to announce the election of Pope Benedict XV.
…”
December 12th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Can we add the BloodHound Gang? I hate all their music.
December 23rd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
only band missing is sex pistols
December 26th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Being from a suburb me detroit i am very familiar with Icp and its music and its funny when you are 15. Juggalos scare me. If you throw a bottle of faygo pop and them and run, you are usually safe. Lol:-)
December 29th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
THANK YOU FOR NUMBER ONE. Somebody finally agrees with me.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Wrong about Emerson Lake and Palmer. Those guys could actually play their instruments and Greg Lake has one of the all time time great voices dating all the way back to King Crimson.
January 10th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
insane clown posse
yes i completely agree as soon as i saw this list i was ready to see insane clown posse. everyone hates them expect for the stupid kids at my high school i see like 20 kids with icp backpacks i want to yell at them
January 10th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
If you think about it, ICP making this list is pretty much what they’re all about. MMFCL
January 11th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Is there not one juggalo here?
January 11th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Oh come now, there are a few decent ICP songs.
January 18th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Aww man! how can ELP be on this list!! They are awesome.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
In response to Ant-LOX’s comment, I say ELP is considered a shitty band today (not by me though) because rock & roll isn’t “supposed to be” like their style.
I must also add that another reason I oppose the denigration of prog-rock is that I consider the Beatles to be the genre’s progenitors, and I consider an implication of “prog sucks” to be “The Beatles ruined rock”. (Just my opinion though).
January 24th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Lists like this are always ridiculously subjective.
But among current, inexplicably popular “acts”
the worst are Metallica, Linkin Park and EVERY SINGLE RAPPER who cannot sing, dance or speak a recognizable language…you know who they are.
Compared to these hideous “talents”, ELP and Latoya Jackson are Lennon and McCartney
February 5th, 2009 at 1:31 am
emerson lake and palmer shouldn’t be on this list
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Umm, why are ELP on here? I see no justifcation for that, they made some great prog albums. They even managed to carve a niche for themselves amongst the likes of Yes, King Crimson and – the legends of prog themselves – Pink Floyd. So I don’t understand how you could consider them anything anywhere near sub-par, let alone 2nd worst artist in music.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:05 am
Oh my god. I just went to the link – probably should’ve done it before I commented the first time – and I don’t agree with at least half a dozen bands on that list. I understand that all lists are going to be subjective to a point, but this one is calling bands crap based on the opinion of a musical biggot. Did you look at the questionaire at the bottom? That was actually rather insulting because my band would score one a, some b’s and maybe one c. That’s a bit crap in my opinion :p. Great paradox I guess…
March 5th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Insane Clown Posse aside (they probably are the worst band that can even be imagined), I think there are worse bands than those listed. What you don’t know is they’re all fronted by my ex-boyfriend…
March 6th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Hmm, the fact that he is your ex wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that is bands are “crap” would it?
March 14th, 2009 at 2:48 am
Emerson Lake and Palmer do not belong on this list. The phrase ‘worst artists in music’ is excessive in the first place, and seems to insinuate that the author knows all music, which is absurd. ELP wasn’t ‘pseudo-classical’, as rawk expert Randall would seem to suggest. A lot of it was literally classical. I wonder, can rawk expert Randall even read music? Can he play any instrument? I’d bet that Keith Emerson or Greg Lake could name the notes in say, a B flat mixolydian scale a good bit faster than rawk expert Randall could.
To suggest that someone in the arena of popular music who could even recognize the name Modest Mussorgsky or Alberto Ginastera, much less literally play hours of their music note for note… is a shining example of how completely misguided rawk expert Randall and his cohorts are. To suggest that ‘assholes like this almost KILLED rock’ is not only extreme and confusing, it’s downright ignorant.
People like rawk expert Randall are the ones who killed it, dealing in extremes with unfounded opinions and misguided attempts at trying to understand and explain music which is clearly above their cloth-filled, stupid ears’ comprehension.
If you don’t speak the language, don’t insult those of us who do by butchering it.
March 14th, 2009 at 3:06 am
It’s also necessary to point out to rawk expert Randall that Jimi fucking Hendrix was very, very nearly a member of ELP. Explain that one for me.
March 18th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
You put down ELP as one of the worst bands ever? I mean, I understand Asia, but do you have something against Carl Palmer?
As another note, you might as well put down Aaron Copland as one of the worst artists of all time; that’s a re-interpretation of his song.
Just seeing Vanilla Ice and ELP on the same list, tsk tsk, shame on you.
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:33 am
Howard Jones!? How very dare you!!
Lot’s of mediocre electronica from the early 80’s, wouldn’t have said Howard Jones was particularly influential but he made some great pop songs. Great memories of watching Top Of The Pops as a child
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:38 am
Everyone mimed on TOTP in the 80’s
April 4th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
ELP is the shit
April 5th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Just found this list. And I have to say, with the exeption of ELP, the rest deserve to be here. “Ice, Ice, Baby” was the worst song ever and I hear it in my head when I listen to Queen. That guy should be strung up for making that song!
April 8th, 2009 at 8:12 am
It always makes me sad to see Insane Clown Posse come in at #1 on a “Worst Of” list. I love these guys and almost everything they’ve put out or been apart of (albums, music videos, movies, comics, etc), as well as all of the artists they’ve helped put on the map (Twiztid, Blaze, ABK, etc etc etc).
April 9th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Mark, it has nothing to do with the fact he is my ex. He just genuinely makes bizarre music. He’s a brilliant guitarist, but he’s cracked.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
210. Unicorns : Most “brilliant” guitarists are
June 9th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
what about Miley Cyrus ?! she should be number one, because she can’t sing and her songs is soo fucking bad !!
July 27th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
this is all just an opinion. i happen to like “we built this city” and “funky town.” my top 10 would look different. it would be the first ten rap “songs” i could come up with, and bobby mcferrin’s horrible song, “don’t worry, be happy.” but that’s just my opinion. every song on your list is someone’s favorite song, i bet.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
@ Cecilie (212) OMG!
THANK YOU!!!! i effin hate miley cyrus, she’s a nasty ass whore & all she does is make her daddy richer.
she put up nudes on the internet & blamed the jonas bitches, AND SHE POLE DANCED at the awards show, but it makes billy rays ass richer.
UGH I HATE CUMBUCKETS LIKE HER!
August 20th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
oh btw, ICP sucks balls, and Kenny G makes me giggle.
August 22nd, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I dont know if this has been mentioned yet, but Hendrix almost joined ELP. it wouldve been HELP. true story, look it up. and I love ELP, there first album and Tarkus are classics
August 29th, 2009 at 2:52 am
Pat Boone Should Be on that list for he made rock crooning!!!
September 5th, 2009 at 4:24 am
AHAHAHAHAHA ICP IS NUMBER 1 AHAHAHAHA
ICP SUCKS HARD AND THEIR FANS SUCK EVEN MORE.
if that is even possible.
sorry for yelling
September 11th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Well.. I mostly agree with Randall, but then you have things like Symphonic Metal (IE. Nightwish (Tarja > Anette)) And they are really good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEvKrATgk0
October 19th, 2009 at 8:29 am
totalstranger:
Hendrix did not ‘almost join’ ELP; *Mitch Mitchell* wanted Hendrix to join. You are making it sound as if Hendrix was considering joining, when actually it was a bit of a fantasy on Mitchell’s part. Personally I can’t see Hendrix ever joining ELP as the musical style were vastly different..
October 20th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Once again, another great list that I totally agree with.
Yes… These is another I would like to add to the list. Britney Spears… I’m not even a Britney Spears hater. I actually like a few of her songs. She’s pretty, sure. And, yes, she can entertain. BUT, I just hate the way she sings. Her voice is just so damn inaudible and whisper-like. It’s very annoying. Everything about me says, “She’s honestly not much of an artist” (which is truly what this list is about). It’s almost as if the music producers really want to prove to the world that they CAN take someone with no voice and turn her into one of the biggest comercial artist in the world.
October 24th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
why isnt Brooke hogan, Ashlee simpson and lindsay lohan on here? and add paris hilton why are they trying to sing when they cant? dumbasses
October 26th, 2009 at 12:35 am
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer one of your “worst artists”? Are you nuts? You obviously have no real knowledge of music. And the singer for Asia in that video is John Wetton, a VERY talented musician throughout his career, just dried up during this end period. Same guy who wrote (and sang) all the great songs on the first Asia album. Obviously these selections were put together by someone with a good knowledge of pop music, and not much else.
Embarrassing.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:47 am
Asia! C’mon ; Heat of the Moment! Awesome song.
And Starship rocked that song.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Insane Clown Posse are not the worst i have ever heard…..not that good either though!
i will go for Avril Lavine,Miley Cyrus (or ‘Biley Zyruz’ is how it sounds when she speaks!!),Lady GaGa,Nickelback,Peter Andre(nice guy but crap music!)….. there are loads!
October 31st, 2009 at 8:05 am
I can’t speak for the rest of ELP’s stuff, but I have to say that “I Believe in Father Christmas” has become a Christmas staple for me. What a beautiful song!
Interesting list. I’m sure there’s plenty of room for a second!
October 31st, 2009 at 8:06 am
Oops, my mistake. “I Believe in Father Christmas” is actually Greg Lake’s song, and not ELP’s.
Is this better or worse? lol
November 15th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
ELP is in now way they second worst artist/band in music. You may not like ELP (they’re alright) but try to watch the hyperbole.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
What? No Miley Cyrus or Britney Spears?