Friday OT #2 - Mount Trashmore

[CloniesForLife]

Most of the pop acts today. My wife listens to a pop radio station sometimes and I swear 90% of it sounds like the same person

 

[Farnsworth]

The Weekend, Nickleback, Creed

 

[CloniesForLife]

I think this is pretty broad strokes…

In the past two years alone, a few amazing acts:

Kendrick Lamar
Steve Lacy
SZA
Megan Thee Stallion
Jack White
Kacey Musgraves
Brandi Carlisle
LCD Soundsystem
Japanese Breakfast
Arcade Fire

There is a pretty deep well of great music there in a variety of genres and experience levels…. For every super poppy act (or maybe two), there is generally a quality one.

Yeah SNL had had some great acts over the last couple years. They could have Brandi on every other week and I'd tune in. Her live performances are just amazing

 

[pourcyne]

I think this is pretty broad strokes…

In the past two years alone, a few amazing acts:

Kendrick Lamar
Steve Lacy
SZA
Megan Thee Stallion
Jack White
Kacey Musgraves
Brandi Carlisle
LCD Soundsystem
Japanese Breakfast
Arcade Fire

There is a pretty deep well of great music there in a variety of genres and experience levels…. For every super poppy act (or maybe two), there is generally a quality one.

Nope to everyone except Brandi Carlisle. SNL is not a great venue, probably because very, very few performers do well live. In my opinion, most of them are considered "good" because of sound engineers. That is mostly true also for the performers that I find pleasing. I tend to avoid live performances on YouTube as well, unless they are an acoustic version.

 

[somecyguy]

Most of the pop acts today. My wife listens to a pop radio station sometimes and I swear 90% of it sounds like the same person

I have a good ear for music and I can pick up when autotune is used. When we are in my wife's car, I have to turn the radio off because I can't listen to it. It sounds so computerized and not natural to me.

 

[cytor]

You guys still watch SNL? That show went down hill a few decades ago. Not worth tuning in anymore.

 

[CYdTracked]

Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Florida Georgia Line

 

[Angie]

Nope to everyone except Brandi Carlisle. SNL is not a great venue, probably because very, very few performers do well live. In my opinion, most of them are considered "good" because of sound engineers. That is mostly true also for the performers that I find pleasing. I tend to avoid live performances on YouTube as well, unless they are an acoustic version.

I don’t follow. You are saying you don’t like the acts because they don’t do well live on SNL or elsewhere, but say that is also true of the acts you like?

No entiendo.

 

[cyguy9320]

Pearl Jam.

 

[CycloneSpinning]

The first three are easy - Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, and Taylor Swift. I guess I’ll give the fourth spot to Billie Eilish. I guess I’m not even sure she has been popular enough to deserve a spot here, but she’s had a few popular songs now, and none of them are good in my opinion.

 

[madguy30]

Miley and Ed Sheren to start.

Talented for sure but too much posturing like there's more happening than there is.

Fred Durst and Aaron Lewis to round it off. I was all about their stuff in my fake outrage teen angst late 90s phase but they got annoying real quick.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Pink Floyd, Bob Seeger, Oasis, Tom Petty.

I said it.

Edit: I like a few TP songs, but on the whole...

You'll smoke a turd in hell for that

 

[jcyclonee]

Justin Bieber
Drake
Janet Jackson
Florida Georgia Line.

I would like to place DMB on here but I think I might be OK with DMB if DM wasn't the lead singer.

 

[jcyclonee]

Only 4 bands? I like breaking it down into genres.

Rock: U2, DMB, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty

Metal: GnR, Poison, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi

One hit Wonders/80s slush: Soft Cell, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Men at work, Tears for Fears

Pop Tarts: Madonna, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Katy Perry

Country: All

That's a big variety of dislikes. I guess that pretty much leaves John Philip Sousa and Claude Debussy on your playlist.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

The Weeknd
The B52s
Motley Crue
Mariah Carey

 

[CRcyclone6]

Rush
Michael Jackson
Dave Matthews
Willie Nelson

 

[Gonzo]

Pink Floyd, Bob Seeger, Oasis, Tom Petty.

I said it.

Edit: I like a few TP songs, but on the whole...

I can appreciate the genius of Tom Petty while at the same time feeling pretty 'meh' about his music. I've been to a lot of concerts in my life, and there are only two that I would characterize as "bad." Tom Petty was one of them.

 

[CYCLNST8]

Modern music is so commercialized and lacking ambition. It might as well be composed in a boardroom of producers.

I don’t feel like hating on any specific acts today (different strokes for different folks). I will say I’ll do anything to get that ****ing Burger King commercial yanked from television.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

I can appreciate the genius of Tom Petty while at the same time feeling pretty 'meh' about his music. I've been to a lot of concerts in my life, and there are only two that I would characterize as "bad." Tom Petty was one of them.

Saw him 3 times. Tom was great when he was clean but he wasn't clean enough of the time. He was pretty awful live when he was using.

 

[drlove]

Thanks so much to @Gonzo for this thread! Here it goes:

Who would be on your Mount Rushmore of least favorite bands, singers, or musical acts?

But the catch is that it has to be legitimate bands/singers/performers that have large and very real fanbases and followings. So singers like Rick Astley, Billy Ray Cyrus, etc., who are kind of universally considered a joke, wouldn't count.

So, my personal example might be that I loathe Grateful Dead, ICP, Dave Matthews Band, and any and all early 2000s nu metal (Limp Bizkit, etc).

Motley Crue (80s metal bands in general)
Kenny Chesney (and his kind in general
Sturgill Simpson (wish he wouldn't sing)
Bob Dylan (he shouldn't perform live)