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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Definitely Steven Seagal in that reggae song he did. This one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v4-zYghodc

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I will upvote but I do not dare press the link. Yikes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tom DeLonge : Blink-182

Never hit right for me. Terrible voice. Nasally and whiny. Wanna be punk. Men in their mid to late 20s singing about the drama only a 15-year-old in high school would care about or experience. It was weird.

I had no issue with Billie Joe Armstrong and Greenday. I really enjoyed their career and catalog.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Someone I know listens exclusively to the Beatles on the car radio. From all the Beatles hype, it should feel like a party, but instead it feels like you're listening to jingle commercials during the whole ride.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Probably doesn’t help that they’re so popular that their music was licensed and became synonymous with commercials.

Same thing with the doors and all things Vietnam.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Oh my God THANK YOU! You just described exactly how I feel about them and I've never been able to really figure out why they bothered me.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Corey Feldman's Angelic 2 the Core is without a doubt the worst album I've ever listened to. It is not just mediocre or underwhelming, it is not just a "miss," it is actively and unforgettably horrible. Definitely worth checking out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Ahh. The licorice jelly bean of music.

β€œGross… here, try it”

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Really surprised that no one's mentioned Yoko Ono.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

She's really not that bad if you've ever heard Linkin park.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Is there a band called Yoko Ono? I ask, because I'm fairly sure there isn't a singer.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I posted it in reply to another comment, but I think this is worth it's own mention.

Puddle of Mud - About a Girl, live on Sirius

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Sweet.... Jesus....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Saw it before, but never noticed the thumbnail before now. Couldn't have found a more suitable one.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Easily the lead singer of Kings of Leon. That whine in his voice makes me want to chug bleach.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The worst recorded sound that I have ever heard was Kurt Cobain doing a mic check on a Nirvana live bootleg. Like a tortured cat with laryngitis.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

BEanS, bEAnS, BEanS,

JEsSiE ATe soMe bEanS,

SHe wAS HapPY, HapPY, HAppy

ThAT SHe aTe SOMe beaNS

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. It's essentially unlistenable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It ain't easy listening, but there's nothing else like it. Pretty interesting how it was made.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Scruffy the cat.

Just the shittiest music. They were bad enough that despite it being over thirty years since the single listen I had of the one album I had, they still stand out for being bad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Linkin Park and Papa Roach. 2 okISH bands with the worst singers in music history. Shit gives me headaches.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Red Hot Chili Peppers, best band ever, but boy is Kiedis a bad vocalist. Kudos perhaps for not doing auto tune.

Fleas energy made up for it and the songs are all bangers so it kind of pushed you over it. But if you keep focused on the vocals it's shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anyone remember The Fall?

Rest in peace, Mark E Smith, but fucking hell that was awful, but in a brilliant way

Thanks man

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

My answer may not quite fit the topic. But I'll share anyway.

In the late 20-teens, ZZ Top and John Fogerty we're touring together. My wife and I saw them on the Jersey Shore (thanks VetTix!) and Fogerty opened the show and absolutely killed it. Then ZZ Top played and Billy Gibbons just didn't have it anymore. We left early.

Several weeks later they played Jones Beach Amphitheatre and thanks to VetTix we got to go again. Once again Fogerty knocked it out of the park and Billy was just not up to snuff.

It was sad.

Interestingly, Billy Gibbons is featured on one of the tracks of Slash's new album Orgy of the Damned. That track is the perfect fit for Gibbons and it holds together beautifully.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Shaggs, but I enjoy them anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Not quite the answer to your question, but Cafe Tacvba. Great music, lousy singer, like that guy says about Red Hot Chili Peppers. Jesus Christ.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

David Lee Roth. Tone deaf

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

David Lee Roth’s solo work… makes my ears bleed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Rebecca Black.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Guns and Roses in '91 or so. God I loved them so, every song. When we got a chance to see them in OKC, with some band I'd never heard of, Crashing Gourds?, something like that.

We were tripping acid and the crowd was wild, should have been fun. They came out 2-hours late, screamed shit into the microphone, beat their instruments and left. Sometimes I couldn't even tell which song they were playing, that bad.

And worse, the opening band, who later became wildly popular, was apparently booed. We were late and had missed them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Crashing Gourds?, something like that

Smashing Pumpkins?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

When I heard the Tool cover of No Quarter and found out the original was by Led Zeppelin I gave that version a spin too. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.

Reason being that I really like the Led Zeppelin vocalist. But his performance on that song is just unbearable to me.

The Tool cover though, absolutely amazing!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Florence Foster Jenkins singing the Queen of the Night's aria.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Imagine dragons - cutthroat. I dislike imagine dragons as it is, but this song is so bad it sounds like a bad parody of a shitty song.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I saw Hole play a show years ago and their opener was this god-awful band called Imperial Teen.

Hands-down the worst band I've ever seen.

Now, if you ask about the most disappointing concert I've ever seen, it was the Smashing Pumpkins' Horde Fest run. No one's showing up to hear you mix bongos into your songs and experiment with your music live.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Worst concert, REM when they were starting out.

Recorded voice that irritates me the most? Dead Kennedys.

I am, personally, pretty tolerant of imperfect singing if the song is good, think a whole lot of bands just let the best singer they have sing, instead of finding someone who can really sing, and that's OK.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It's funny. I know Jello's singing isn't great, yet I absolutely love his warbling voice.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

(FYI, I hold different views than this instance)

TL;DR: for me it's current russian warsongs and covers of 80-90s classics that put the opposite meaning into them. Polina Gagarina, Shaman are the most known artists due to being banned from YT, but there are dozens of them. What and why - I'd try to explain in following paragraphs.

They don't feel either inspired or honest, most of the worthy artists don't want that mark in their resume so it's left either for newbie artists or oldies who fear they are losing relevance. The western-in-everything 'Π― русский' is the only catchy tune local media empires could produce, others are even more cringe like '333', they don't even compare to what repressed guys did and do.

Surprisingly, the same notion is shared with my relatives who do support the war (unlike me) or at least our men there. We still have a tradition of singing along the songs of old over the table when we meet with our elders, or over the fire if camping or meeting in the countryside, mostly soviet songs with inclusion of 90-00s. And itso happens there's none of the promoted ones in the menu.

But that also tracks with the concerts on the TV we sometimes put on. It's all older stuff by mostly aging artists. The contemporary russian music culture, as I suppose, was castrated by some sort of negative selection and I can't think otherwise.

And what is really embarassing for me personally to hear is appropriation of songs that are either anti-war or asking for changes (namely KINO's ones) sang in this day and this year by those who support both the regime and the war on state TV. That's like this one republican guy just one hair width from discovering what RatM's songs are about. There's some second-hand shame you want to wash off in a bathroom right after hearing.

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