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[โ€“] charonn0@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

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

[โ€“] HotWheelsVroom@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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

[โ€“] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 4 points 3 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.

[โ€“] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 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.

[โ€“] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

A support band for Madness. To call them crap would be an insult to all the genuinely crap bands out there. They went through crap and came out the other side. Then they went through whatever level of shitness that was and came out the other side. I don't think anyone applauded them, except when they stopped making whatever ungodly racket they were making and went offstage. I've never been more relieved to hear a bunch of unmusical talent-free potty-mouthed morons finally STFU.

[โ€“] mortrek@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Trickhay on YouTube... Learned about him when he posted an ad on Craigslist looking for a singer for his music. He's become an inside joke for my SO and I. I think my favorite is "hoop dance".

[โ€“] funbreaker@kbin.earth 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There many songs that I hate more than anything by the Carpenters but they are the only band with bad songs that I've had the misfortune of listening to more than one bad song of. I can't stand the treacly, cutesy bullshit they put out.

I would also put the person who sang " ON THE WINGS OF LOOOOOOOVE" on here but I can't be arsed to look them up.

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[โ€“] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

i think untitled black is by sault has some of the most unemotional bland pathetic excuse for vocal delivery ive ever heard. it makes the entire record sound like a corporate mandated album

couple of songs are decent tho, like wildfires and the one with michael kiwanuka, but everything else is plagued with uninspired lyrics and mindnumbingly boring instrumentals. on top of flat "i was going to close in 5 minutes but a customer just walked in" vocals

[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (3 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.

[โ€“] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah I saw them around that time and they were awful here too. Also the venue had really bad sound.

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[โ€“] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I have been fighting my way through the "1,001 albums you must listen to before you die' list, and there have been some truly terrible albums.

New York Dolls, debut album

Brian Eno, my life in the bush of ghosts

Marquee Moon, television

Slade, slayed?

Sugarcube, life's too good

Barry Adamson, Oedipus Schmoedipus

Animal collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion

Heaven 17, Penthouse And Pavement

And the worst album I have ever heard on my life, king of garbage music Lou Reed and his garbage band of notmusic and pretention: The velvet underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico

[โ€“] Pulptastic@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago

Music is subjective, I like some of the albums you listed, but I agree that the 1001 list is trash full of terrible albums. I made it through 142 before giving up.

[โ€“] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

aha a fellow 1001 albums listener. im currently doing it too. the heaven 17 album is one of my favorite discoveries. ill drop my 1 star ratings here let me know if i hate one of your favs lol

rolling stones debut

cheap thrills by big brother

gorillaz debut

young americans by bowie

untitled black is by sault

461 ocean boulevard by eric clapton

[โ€“] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Damn! I haven't gotten any of those yet, but I think we might need to fight a little when I do! I'll save this and get back to you!

[โ€“] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

new 1 star album, 461 Ocean Boulevard by Eric Clapton

[โ€“] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really? Wow.

New one for me: treasure by the cocteau twins

[โ€“] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i can see why thatd be 1 star for someone, i thought that album had some good songs though

[โ€“] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I've only rated the velvet underground and nico album one star because I personally don't consider it actual music. Because of that, I have a hard time rating music I "just don't like" as one star because it's recognizable to me as music. So, I rated this one two stars.

I was surprised to see you rated a Clapton album so poorly because I like him (musically) quite a bit. We have really different tastes, and I think it's cool to know there is stuff that absolutely is not for me that is a five star album for someone else

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[โ€“] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Animal collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion

For anyone else who had a visceral "fuck right off" reaction to such slander, check out This Town Needs Guns's Animals and/or As Tall As Lions's self-titled album.

And-- you felt robbed by the twee album from Bjork's first band? "Birthday" alone is reason to respect that record. Get your head on straight.

[โ€“] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

album from Bjork's first band

Yeah, I tried. I just couldn't enjoy it all. Maybe I have pedestrian tastes or just don't "get it," but whatever the case, all of those were very unenjoyable to me.

I was actually at a function last night talking music with a group of folks, and a couple folks chastised me for not liking the velvet underground with Nico album as well. It's all good; I'm not claiming to be a music critic or anything and y'all still get to love albums I can't stand

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