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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] Trail 6 points 4 months ago

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

[–] zelifcam 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 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.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 19 points 4 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] 5 points 4 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] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Really surprised that no one's mentioned Yoko Ono.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 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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[–] P00ptart 5 points 4 months ago

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

[–] braindefragger 16 points 4 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] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 9 points 4 months ago

Ahh. The licorice jelly bean of music.

β€œGross… here, try it”

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 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

[–] BodePlotHole 4 points 4 months ago

Sweet.... Jesus....

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 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] 8 points 4 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] 10 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Weirdmusic 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

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

Username does not check out

[–] mutilated_sphincter 4 points 4 months ago

It's a journey for sure!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 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 4 months ago

Rebecca Black.

[–] UsefulInfoPlz 5 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 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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[–] P00ptart 5 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 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] 5 points 4 months ago

David Lee Roth. Tone deaf

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

Can't stand the voice on Matt Bellamy from Muse. I could probably tolerate them with a different singer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 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.

[–] AbouBenAdhem 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Shaggs, but I enjoy them anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

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

Freespirit Graham.

My father used to book acts for a local club, and this guy played there once. He was awful. There's no nice way to say it, he just really wasn't very good. He played and sang songs that nobody recognised, and did it badly. To make things worse, he was paid, but went around with his hat at the end of the set asking people for money. Needless to say, he didn't get a good reception.

About a year or so later, my father booked another singer, and it was the same guy going under a different name. The music night was popular, so there was a decent sized crowd already there when he walked in, and quite a few of them remembered him. My father asked him what he was doing there, and he said that he thought it was worth a try.

He was told to leave without playing, as the people who remembered him were already annoyed, and weren't the type of people to suffer a fool kindly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 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!

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