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I'll take Bands that Suck for $200, Alex

Who is:

Green Day
Linkin Park
DMB
Nickelback (definitely on the list)
Taylor Swift
Florida-Georgia Line (essentially, any of these "country bands" that were formed just to sell concert tickets)

F*** it...any "band" or artist that makes their living on mainstream, Pop-40 hit lists are on here for me.
 
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Raising Heel said:
Suck........suck.

You won't listen to classic rock but you like Lynryrd Skynyrd? Cripes.
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1). I meant to take out ICP. Just meant to include the other three.
2). You can't tell me Beastie Boys or Linkin Park suck. You might not like their sound, lyrics, tone, et al., but they both advanced the crossover genre for sure.
 
Raising Heel said:
Beastie Boys
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Is that a trolling attempt? Because if not, we can't be internet friends anymore and I'd advise you to watch your back.

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I thought some hair bands were great (especially bands like Cinderella, Tesla, The Cult, etc...) and the Beastie Boys are outstanding.
 
gunslingerdick said:
Is that a trolling attempt? Because if not, we can't be internet friends anymore and I'd advise you to watch your back.
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QFT. Maybe their music hasn't aged that well, but during their heyday, they were untouchable. The Beasties in New Orleans on the Ill Communication tour is one of my all-time top 5 concerts.
 
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Those that sucketh the most...

Puddle of Mudd
Everclear
Sevendust
Dave Matthews Band
Spin Doctors
Fall out Boy
LMFAO


I'll add rappers that suck..

any that begin with "Lil"
any that begin with "Big"... (Big Daddy Kane and Big Boi excluded)
any that begin with "Rich"
any that begin with "Young"
 
Heels in Space said:
QFT. Maybe their music hasn't aged that well, but during their heyday, they were untouchable. The Beasties in New Orleans on the Ill Communication tour is one of my all-time top 5 concerts.
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I saw Beasties open for Madonna in late 1985...I think. They hadn't release LTI but did perform a few songs from the LP. I specifically recall them performing "Paul Revere" because of the backwards spinning of a record for the weird sound and beat it produced.
 
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chickenhunter said:
Those that sucketh the most...

Puddle of Mudd
Everclear
Sevendust
Dave Matthews Band
Spin Doctors
Fall out Boy
LMFAO


I'll add rappers that suck..

any that begin with "Lil"
any that begin with "Big"... (Big Daddy Kane and Big Boi excluded)
any that begin with "Rich"
any that begin with "Young"
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DMB is so far out of place on this list. They've got about as much musical ability as you can see on one stage nowadays
 
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if you go to a DMB show, you wouldn't think they sucked. While I get that some don't like DMB, they don't suck. The band is extremely talented musicians and put on a hell of a show.

Hey, I don't care for Grateful Dead, but they don't suck.... obviously they had talent that appealed to a huge number of people.
 
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Yep. They may not be everyone's cup of tea but those guys can freakin' play. Carter Beauford is the best drummer alive
 
TarHeelMark said:
... And Boyd kicks ass!
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I actually got to meet him, he did a post show meet and greet in a bi-lo parking lot after a show in Duluth. Seriously one of the nicest guys I've ever met. I tried to shake his hand and he pulled me in for a bear hug.
 
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I used to regularly see DMB in W&L fraternities in the early 90s. Talked to all of them in the keg lines numerous times.

Them was the good ol days.
 
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TarHeelMark said:
if you go to a DMB show, you wouldn't think they sucked. While I get that some don't like DMB, they don't suck. The band is extremely talented musicians and put on a hell of a show.

Hey, I don't care for Grateful Dead, but they don't suck.... obviously they had talent that appealed to a huge number of people.
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That's my take by far. As a musician, you instinctively have a mutual respect for other musicians' contributions and TALENT, even if the audible results aren't pleasing to your ears. I've often stated how I just don't get the mass appeal of the Grateful Dead, or Phish, or Widespread Panic, or even Dave Matthews. I went to a show when I lived in Charlotte (outdoor pavilion I forgot the name then) and it was Dave Matthews and Lenny Kravitz opening. I went to see Kravitz. He was incredible. Craig Ross is a great guitarist. The girl I took wanted to see DMB. So, I sat through about 2 hours of one long song. I guess being totally sober since age 21 has had it's down-sides.

Back to Hootie... I have another little gem of a story about them. I used to play in a band around Murrell's Inlet, and the Grand Strand, in the late 80's/early 90's. I had a good friend, Tom (not in my band), who was close pals with Mark Bryan. Now, this was like 1990-ish. My band was very Black Crowes-y, Allmans/Stones/Cream classic rock-inspired. I love that stuff. Way different from The Hootie. Anyway, The Hootie (as we called them) was playing regular gigs at a club called Sandpiper's (anyone been there?). It was somewhat notorious. Anyway, The Hootie was starting to gain some momentum about this time, I guess- or so it seemed in hindsight. They always had huge turn-outs, which amazed me cuz I thought their music sucked. So, my buddy Tom that knew Mark Bryan asked me and another friend of ours- Keith (who was not a musician)- if we wanted to go to Sandpipers. We go, and then during a break, we're hanging out with the band (who was not by any means famous or anything of that magnitude then). But, they did have Rucker and they had that boring-ass sound. I was cordial and kept my opinion of the music to myself while my buddy Tom mainly talked to Mark. Just chit chat. Tom was and is an absolute prodigy at guitar. He's a low-key guy who knows a lot of big names through his won reputation. Now, it gets good. The OTHER friend, Keith, who was just your average bar-band observer, and drunk as a soup sandwich starts talking to Darius Rucker. Now, Keith is a big fan of my band and our style of music. "Hard To Handle" was popular then and that was an Otis Redding cover and we were palying it occasionally. So, Keith asks Rucker "Man... do you ever get tired of singing this stuff these guys make you play and just want to belt out what really moves you?" Now, Tom and I are both tee-totalers and immediately turn to face Keith. It gets awkward in seconds. Rucker says "These guys don't make me sing our music, man. It's my music, too!" Keith continues, while slurring "yeah, yeah, man. But, you know, I mean, I know you wanna do what really comes natural to you. You wanna let that soul shit out and you gotta hold back for these guys." Now, the racial intent is just washing over everyone... except Keith who is totally sh*t-faced. he really means well, but he's drunk and he is thinking that because Rucker is black, he must be inclined to mimic James Brown, Otis Redding, or whatever other stereotypical standard he's assumed. Tom, who is a very sort of meek and humble guy, blurts-out "Guys, I apologize for him... he's just a friend who's a little drunk." To which Keith butts-in "no, no, no man! This guy knows what I mean. Just be up front about it! That's all! I'm not knocking the guy... look at all the hot tail out here! They love this sh*t!" To which i bust out laughing. That creates more laughter. Rucker says "Man, it's all about the tail. I sing for the tail. When I get home, and I'm with my brothers, I pull out the Otis and we do the Fa-Fa-Fa song! You stay cool." And, Keith relents with "See, that's all I'm saying!"

I dunno if that was worth typing-out. But it was memorable to me (25 years ago). If I'd known they were going to be who they became, I might have been more chummy. But, truthfully, their music sucked. Another side-note, I was in a band in Charlotte during Hootie Peak Time, but our lead singer's voice sounded just like Rucker! Talk about bad luck! No matter what we played, it sounded like Darius Rucker singing.
 
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That's my take by far. As a musician, you instinctively have a mutual respect for other musicians' contributions and TALENT, even if the audible results aren't pleasing to your ears. I've often stated how I just don't get the mass appeal of the Grateful Dead, or Phish, or Widespread Panic, or even Dave Matthews. I went to a show when I lived in Charlotte (outdoor pavilion I forgot the name then) and it was Dave Matthews and Lenny Kravitz opening. I went to see Kravitz. He was incredible. Craig Ross is a great guitarist. The girl I took wanted to see DMB. So, I sat through about 2 hours of one long song. I guess being totally sober since age 21 has had it's down-sides.

Back to Hootie... I have another little gem of a story about them. I used to play in a band around Murrell's Inlet, and the Grand Strand, in the late 80's/early 90's. I had a good friend, Tom (not in my band), who was close pals with Mark Bryan. Now, this was like 1990-ish. My band was very Black Crowes-y, Allmans/Stones/Cream classic rock-inspired. I love that stuff. Way different from The Hootie. Anyway, The Hootie (as we called them) was playing regular gigs at a club called Sandpiper's (anyone been there?). It was somewhat notorious. Anyway, The Hootie was starting to gain some momentum about this time, I guess- or so it seemed in hindsight. They always had huge turn-outs, which amazed me cuz I thought their music sucked. So, my buddy Tom that knew Mark Bryan asked me and another friend of ours- Keith (who was not a musician)- if we wanted to go to Sandpipers. We go, and then during a break, we're hanging out with the band (who was not by any means famous or anything of that magnitude then). But, they did have Rucker and they had that boring-ass sound. I was cordial and kept my opinion of the music to myself while my buddy Tom mainly talked to Mark. Just chit chat. Tom was and is an absolute prodigy at guitar. He's a low-key guy who knows a lot of big names through his won reputation. Now, it gets good. The OTHER friend, Keith, who was just your average bar-band observer, and drunk as a soup sandwich starts talking to Darius Rucker. Now, Keith is a big fan of my band and our style of music. "Hard To Handle" was popular then and that was an Otis Redding cover and we were palying it occasionally. So, Keith asks Rucker "Man... do you ever get tired of singing this stuff these guys make you play and just want to belt out what really moves you?" Now, Tom and I are both tee-totalers and immediately turn to face Keith. It gets awkward in seconds. Rucker says "These guys don't make me sing our music, man. It's my music, too!" Keith continues, while slurring "yeah, yeah, man. But, you know, I mean, I know you wanna do what really comes natural to you. You wanna let that soul shit out and you gotta hold back for these guys." Now, the racial intent is just washing over everyone... except Keith who is totally sh*t-faced. he really means well, but he's drunk and he is thinking that because Rucker is black, he must be inclined to mimic James Brown, Otis Redding, or whatever other stereotypical standard he's assumed. Tom, who is a very sort of meek and humble guy, blurts-out "Guys, I apologize for him... he's just a friend who's a little drunk." To which Keith butts-in "no, no, no man! This guy knows what I mean. Just be up front about it! That's all! I'm not knocking the guy... look at all the hot tail out here! They love this sh*t!" To which i bust out laughing. That creates more laughter. Rucker says "Man, it's all about the tail. I sing for the tail. When I get home, and I'm with my brothers, I pull out the Otis and we do the Fa-Fa-Fa song! You stay cool." And, Keith relents with "See, that's all I'm saying!"

I dunno if that was worth typing-out. But it was memorable to me (25 years ago). If I'd known they were going to be who they became, I might have been more chummy. But, truthfully, their music sucked. Another side-note, I was in a band in Charlotte during Hootie Peak Time, but our lead singer's voice sounded just like Rucker! Talk about bad luck! No matter what we played, it sounded like Darius Rucker singing.
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That was worth typing out. I laughed.
 
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That was worth typing out. I laughed.
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Oh, man... to have been there... it was something I'll never forget. And, that is my usual memory anytime I ever hear a Hootie song. I tried to set the mood and write it with as much accuracy as I could to convey the tension and then the laughter/release. My friend Keith, when he was drunk, was like a less-controlled, less-cultured, southern version of Kramer from Seinfeld. I left out the part about Rucker holding Keith's left shoulder with his left hand and patting his back with the right hand while he was saying "It's all about the tail, man." He handled the awkwardness perfectly. You knew he meant well, he was just convinced that because Rucker was black, he had to have some Wilson Pickett in there just waiting to get out.

Those guys are (were) actually very cool and totally down-to-earth, approachable, humble guys. No arrogance or superiority whatsoever. I would be shocked to hear they ever became anything other than that once they became famous. I forget sometimes just how BIG they did get at that period.
 
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That's my take by far. As a musician, you instinctively have a mutual respect for other musicians' contributions and TALENT, even if the audible results aren't pleasing to your ears. I've often stated how I just don't get the mass appeal of the Grateful Dead, or Phish, or Widespread Panic, or even Dave Matthews. I went to a show when I lived in Charlotte (outdoor pavilion I forgot the name then) and it was Dave Matthews and Lenny Kravitz opening. I went to see Kravitz. He was incredible. Craig Ross is a great guitarist. The girl I took wanted to see DMB. So, I sat through about 2 hours of one long song. I guess being totally sober since age 21 has had it's down-sides.

Back to Hootie... I have another little gem of a story about them. I used to play in a band around Murrell's Inlet, and the Grand Strand, in the late 80's/early 90's. I had a good friend, Tom (not in my band), who was close pals with Mark Bryan. Now, this was like 1990-ish. My band was very Black Crowes-y, Allmans/Stones/Cream classic rock-inspired. I love that stuff. Way different from The Hootie. Anyway, The Hootie (as we called them) was playing regular gigs at a club called Sandpiper's (anyone been there?). It was somewhat notorious. Anyway, The Hootie was starting to gain some momentum about this time, I guess- or so it seemed in hindsight. They always had huge turn-outs, which amazed me cuz I thought their music sucked. So, my buddy Tom that knew Mark Bryan asked me and another friend of ours- Keith (who was not a musician)- if we wanted to go to Sandpipers. We go, and then during a break, we're hanging out with the band (who was not by any means famous or anything of that magnitude then). But, they did have Rucker and they had that boring-ass sound. I was cordial and kept my opinion of the music to myself while my buddy Tom mainly talked to Mark. Just chit chat. Tom was and is an absolute prodigy at guitar. He's a low-key guy who knows a lot of big names through his won reputation. Now, it gets good. The OTHER friend, Keith, who was just your average bar-band observer, and drunk as a soup sandwich starts talking to Darius Rucker. Now, Keith is a big fan of my band and our style of music. "Hard To Handle" was popular then and that was an Otis Redding cover and we were palying it occasionally. So, Keith asks Rucker "Man... do you ever get tired of singing this stuff these guys make you play and just want to belt out what really moves you?" Now, Tom and I are both tee-totalers and immediately turn to face Keith. It gets awkward in seconds. Rucker says "These guys don't make me sing our music, man. It's my music, too!" Keith continues, while slurring "yeah, yeah, man. But, you know, I mean, I know you wanna do what really comes natural to you. You wanna let that soul shit out and you gotta hold back for these guys." Now, the racial intent is just washing over everyone... except Keith who is totally sh*t-faced. he really means well, but he's drunk and he is thinking that because Rucker is black, he must be inclined to mimic James Brown, Otis Redding, or whatever other stereotypical standard he's assumed. Tom, who is a very sort of meek and humble guy, blurts-out "Guys, I apologize for him... he's just a friend who's a little drunk." To which Keith butts-in "no, no, no man! This guy knows what I mean. Just be up front about it! That's all! I'm not knocking the guy... look at all the hot tail out here! They love this sh*t!" To which i bust out laughing. That creates more laughter. Rucker says "Man, it's all about the tail. I sing for the tail. When I get home, and I'm with my brothers, I pull out the Otis and we do the Fa-Fa-Fa song! You stay cool." And, Keith relents with "See, that's all I'm saying!"

I dunno if that was worth typing-out. But it was memorable to me (25 years ago). If I'd known they were going to be who they became, I might have been more chummy. But, truthfully, their music sucked. Another side-note, I was in a band in Charlotte during Hootie Peak Time, but our lead singer's voice sounded just like Rucker! Talk about bad luck! No matter what we played, it sounded like Darius Rucker singing.
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LOL...that was great...and the punch line is that Rucker ends up in country music. And I still can't stand his voice.
 
Errrrr if a band "sucked" they would never be signed and we would never hear their music. Obviously we have diff tastes. I cant stand grateful dead but i would Never say they "suck". Now if u wanna talk about who sucks in a live venue these are some who really disappointed in person for lack of energy or relied heavily on studio editing

Cars
Police
Van halen
Grateful dead

Best live performances i've seen

Springsteen
B 52's
Who
Zz top
5 finger death punch
 
heelmanwilm said:
Errrrr if a band "sucked" they would never be signed and we would never hear their music. Obviously we have diff tastes. I cant stand grateful dead but i would Never say they "suck". Now if u wanna talk about who sucks in a live venue these are some who really disappointed in person for lack of energy or relied heavily on studio editing

Cars
Police
Van halen
Grateful dead

Best live performances i've seen

Springsteen
B 52's
Who
Zz top
5 finger death punch
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Van Halen sucked live? Really? I saw them twice with David Lee Roth. Maybe I was too young and too much in awe.
 
Wait a minute...

Are you including the Dead in the category of bands that sucked live? They're pretty much known for their live sound

Definitely not everyone's cup of tea but they were better live than in the studio in most people's opinions
 
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