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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.
Probably doesnβt help that theyβre so popular that their music was licensed and became synonymous with commercials.
Same thing with the doors and all things Vietnam.
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.
Really surprised that no one's mentioned Yoko Ono.
She's really not that bad if you've ever heard Linkin park.
Is there a band called Yoko Ono? I ask, because I'm fairly sure there isn't a singer.
The Plastic Ono Band... It is not good.
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.
Ahh. The licorice jelly bean of music.
βGrossβ¦ here, try itβ
I posted it in reply to another comment, but I think this is worth it's own mention.
Sweet.... Jesus....
Saw it before, but never noticed the thumbnail before now. Couldn't have found a more suitable one.
Easily the lead singer of Kings of Leon. That whine in his voice makes me want to chug bleach.
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.
BEanS, bEAnS, BEanS,
JEsSiE ATe soMe bEanS,
SHe wAS HapPY, HapPY, HAppy
ThAT SHe aTe SOMe beaNS
Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. It's essentially unlistenable.
It ain't easy listening, but there's nothing else like it. Pretty interesting how it was made.
Smashmouth
Hey now...
Because unless you saw them live, where the lead singer was probably drunk, they're a legitimately good band with a solid discography. It's not even a Nickelback / Creed situation where the common consensus is to shit on them - they're just overexposed for their few top-100 hits.
"All Star" in particular is a self-aware criticism of people who give people shit for listening to Smash Mouth.
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.
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.
Linkin Park and Papa Roach. 2 okISH bands with the worst singers in music history. Shit gives me headaches.
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.
David Lee Rothβs solo workβ¦ makes my ears bleed
Rebecca Black.
Puddle of Mudd and definitely Wes who's last name I don't give a shit to spell out.
Their 15 minutes of fame were long pass in the 2000s and they're one of the shit pillars that came to be known as butt rock.
Their performance of About a Girl on Sirius is one of my favorite things ever. It never fails to make me giggle.
He tried so hard to blame it on a cold, lol. Then he tried I think at some point, making it like a parody?
No dude, you just suck that fucking bad. Stop making excuses.
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.
David Lee Roth. Tone deaf
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!
Can't stand the voice on Matt Bellamy from Muse. I could probably tolerate them with a different singer.
Calum Scott easily. That one song that kept playing during every commercial break drove me to madness. It's that "You Are The Reason" song that Kay Jewellers used for one of their commercials, and my God it was the most overplayed shit in the universe while it was still airing and made me despise that song. I hated the sappiness and I hated the stupid-ass high pitch he would constantly sing in throughout the whole song. It's the one and only Calum Scott song I listened to. Kay Jewellers always picked the worst and most ear-piecing sappy songs for their commercials. I have never listened to another one of his songs, and I don't plan on ever doing it. Song is nothing but him sounding like a pussy who cries and whines around woman trying to get them to like him. And keep in mind, this was on every day, on every commercial break. I could never go even ONE DAY without hearing that effing song on my Roku. I was, at one point, seriously contemplating ripping my ears out if I ever heard it on my TV again.
Hearing that song practically every single day on every goddamn commercial break made me unbelievably angry. Thank God Kay have stopped playing the commercial with that song included, it drove me absolutely insane every time I heard it on a commercial break. I got sick and tired of hearing it very quickly. Sometimes, it would get so overplayed in one day that I wished I was deaf on numerous occasions. That song has just turned me away from the artist entirely as I bet all of his songs are cringeworthy, sappy songs with him singing in an ear-splitting high pitch. "You Are The Reason" is a full-blown assault on the ears.
Never listening to another one of his songs again after that. One of his songs was bad enough.
And here's the commercial if you are wondering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tu_eMQuKGk
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.