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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LIMP BIZKIT!!!
I can’t agree more with the number 1. This is some of the dumbest ***** ever. People just latch on to this kinda of stuff because they think it makes them look cool.
I don’t disagree about the others, but ELP was a great band at their time.
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
The Lipps Inc Funky Town had me crying. People actually danced to that *****!
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
Stupid Juggalo haters!
Stupid butthurt Juggalos!
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…
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.
well i think this is bull*****
i think you need to suck some *****ing dicks.
insane clown posse may not be all that good; but ***** that. to me their *****ing family. theyre the *****ing *****. yeah people have their own opinion but who the ***** are you to tell us who the worst artist is? i think who ever made this stupid *****ing website should commit suicide. cause this is exreamly lame and plus; you dont even understand what theyre about.
JUGGALO FOR LIFE BAYBEHH!
MMFWCL
Lol, Scribbles!! Wow is it really that serious LMAO!!! Someone needs some medication. Oh, and the site can’t be too bad ( Hint) (Hint).
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.
UHM. Excuse me,
I am on meds. and dont *****ing lol me.
kthankz.
im a generally angry person. and i think u *****ing need meds for being so stupid. yeah this site is *****ing bull*****. cause someone cant sit there and diss a whole *****ing ***** load of music when every kind of *****ing 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 *****ing *****; 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 *****; and yeah im going to say this too.. half the music people listen on the radio; is *****ing 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 *****s and hoes; money and food; um there is stuff people should be listening to; and it aint that *****; thats the reason i listen to icp; they make points with their music. another reason why people think they *****ing 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 bi*****ual. 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 *****s hoes and stupid radio *****;
kthankz.
MMFWCL4L BAYBEH
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.
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 ***** 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.
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 ***** even though you hate it so much.
Thanks Brad
No problem Quiana.
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
Jazj: I think almost everyone on earth agrees with you about ICP. They are a joke.
***** you, Emerson Lake and Palmer were and still are awesome
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.
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.
I’m gonna give a nod to Jewel, any and all boy bands, Ashlee Simpson, Paris Hilton
Come on, “Funkytown” isn’t all that bad!
You forgot:
The Beatles
N-Sync
Backstreet Boys
vinilla ice and insane clown posse r kick ass
juggalette 4 life
insane clown posse is alsome and vanilla ice is kick ass
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.
If ignorance is bliss, Randall is one happy camper.
well for me emerson is genious !!!
If by ‘inspired,’ do you mean ‘plagiarized’?
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 ***** 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.
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.
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 *****ing chords.
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 !
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 *****
MCL4LIFE
^ Not sure what he just said, but thanks for stopping by.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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/
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!
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 *****. punk rock is the direct OPPOSITE of prog rock, of which ELP were the premier purveyors.
so stfu.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
HANNAH MONTANNA!!! Hanna Montanna deserves to be on this list! She’s only in the music buisness because dear old daddy pulled some strings!
ICP could make up all ten slots of this list.
Where the frack is fall out boy and 50 cent?
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.
Cramp, misspelled Personally.
Well at least I corrected myself.
Currently 4:46 in the morning, I’m so freaking bored…
Lol.
Scribbles:
If they’re “*****ing family” shouldn’t they be in jail or something.
I’m pretty sure that *****s illegal.
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.