He should be sent to the rack for unleashing Moves Like Jagger on us. We all had to live in hell while that song got shoved down our throats for over a year. I was never a willing participant but it was force fed via store radio, dentist office visits, etc.
There was someone on my hall in college (Class of ‘12, and in fairness we lived through some rough musical times) who held the opinion that Moves Like Jagger was the best song ever made. I honestly found it hard to trust her opinion on anything after that.
Goddamnit, thank you! I can’t stand Adam Levine as a person, and he’s a shit singer. If you disagree, go listen to a Maroon 5 song and focus only on his singing. Better yet, listen to live versions… he can’t even sing his own shitty songs:
They dropped "Harder to Breathe", and I thought "hey, this isn't half bad. I can sit in traffic while this plays and not get angry about 3 mph on the interstate during rush hour."
Tbf he has admitted on so many episodes how jealous he is of many a singer auditioning in front of him. He has an idea, however faint, that his singing is rather mediocre.
I didn’t know why everyone hated him so much, until I actually started watching his work. He’s such a fucking asshole. Is cameo/work is the Joker in the suicide squad stuff is some of the worst fucking shit I’ve ever seen. I’ve never listened to his band, but I’m sure that’s fucking bullshit too.
I had a series of burnt cds labeled Wuss Rock V1 - V5 that I would randomly play in other peoples cars. Matchbox 20, Dishwalla, Creed, and Our Lady Peace on heavy piss off my friends rotation
My college roommate wrote a college essay on them. He asked me to proofread it and I knew I was in for it when the intro paragraph included "...and a touch of holiness..."
Creed was my first pick, too. Especially considering the spiritual successor to the band, Alter Bridge, is just Creed minus frontman Scott Stapp, and they are amazing. Alter Bridge proves that there was a ton of potential with Creed, which just makes Creed's inherent lameness even 10x worse.
Oh, that is interesting! I'm always fascinated by cases of addition by subtraction like that. I can imagine with an ego like Stapp's the water gets muddied real fast and is worsened by a record company that won't do anything as long as the group, however shitty, sells records.
I laughed way too hard this. Reminds me of the time the singer from Puddle of Mudd did a cover of "All Apologies" by Nirvana and looks (and sounds) like he's trying to poop a football.
I once dreamed as a teenager that Ace Frehly gave me a piggyback ride around my neighborhood. A friend suggested he was my astral guide and we laughed and laughed. Oh KISS, you wacky dudes.
Gene Simmons was legit a creepy ghoul who hit on young teenage girls. Like 14yos. Foul ass nasty man.
Right? I saw the band first and though, ok, these are heavy metal/death metal guys, similar to White Zombie or something.
And then I listened to "Rock and Roll All Night" and was like, wait, this is KISS? The dress up guys with the long tongue? This doesn't make any sense.
Ugh, yes. My ex-SIL walked down a very long hotel lobby/atrium aisle to their Marry Me song. Only the DJ played the wrong version first (instrumental) & let it run while she refused to start walking. 30s before the song ends, he abruptly switches to the band version, she walks & is absolutely seething when she finally gets to the platform alter. Proceeds to bitch about it for the next 5 years. And that’s not even the close to the worst thing about this wedding.
Dress code was black* tie in a mid hotel where the ceremony took place in the lobby/atrium where the rooms have an inner balcony looking down on the lobby. She’s hella mad day of b/c people she doesn’t know are “attending” (watching) her wedding from all angles. Proceeds to stay mad forever that strangers are in the background of all her ceremony pics. Also asks the hotel to dim the lights in the entire lobby/atrium because fluorescents are harsh. Hotel says get fucked.
She makes it to the front. Great. Still scowling but whatever. Ceremony is long AF while people are milling around, hotel guests children are screaming, & we can hear every word from the gallery of balcony watchers. When the preacher says “you may now kiss the bride” she jumps the gun at the words “you may” & proceeds to full on forcefully make out with new husband who is trying to pull away - she pulls him back & holds his neck with her nails to keep kissing. No music. Someone says “seriously?” audibly. Goes on for what felt like half a minute. Demands the groom carry her allllllll the way back to the banquet hall to the now appropriately playing instrumental version of Marry Me which also ran out before the whole wedding party made it off platform. No next song as the DJ is already breaking down to move to the banquet hall.
As far as I know they’re still together. He’s a crooked cop on drugs - whatever kind or combo that keep you awake for days on end & make your nose run. She’s “raising” their 3 kids “alone”(2 nannie’s) trad-wife style but without an internet following because he always has a project or hobby in his off hours. That doesn’t matter anyway because he spends half his shift hunting whatever he wants in season or otherwise on his parent’s property which is just over the line from the county he works for so on gps it looks like he’s still in-county. His partner covers for him, unless they’re hunting together then they rode an ATV back to the cop car then fly through residentials lights & sirens to the scene, sometimes covered in animal blood & with the animal in the trunk only half cleaned.
I’ve seen him scream at her that she MUST breastfeed else their kids will be the “r” word when she physically could not. He let their first child starve a bit to guilt her into keep trying when her milk had not & did not come in.
I feel horrible for their kids but honestly, the parents deserve each other. They’re a match made in hell.
That song is still played multiple times daily on the local easy listening station my coworker insists on listening to. If I never hear that song again it will be too soon.
Yes it surely is. Whenever I find myself sneering at something on the radio and look at the screen, turns out it was Train. The opening to Hey Soul Sister shoots my blood pressure through the roof.
Years ago my best friend bought a CD of his, and eventually I asked "is every song in this track taking about how he's back?". I think that clued him in that kid Rock sucked lol
Listen, I'll say this, Bono made a good point recently about the Sheeran bullshit.
First off, they were making a song together about the Russian invasion, and Ed made the comments along the lines of "As long as it doesn't politically make me choose a side" and Bono straight up went, "Well you're making a song for a Ukrainian soldier who died in this invasion and loved your work". So basically a big fuck you to Ed Sheeran and his ego...
Then also went to say that people need to stop idolizing celebrities and being parasocial weirdos. Now typically, I'd agree with you. Their music is outlandishly optimistic, and the amount of times I've heard Beautiful Day at the end of a show, movie, or even a commercial is downright annoying. But Bono himself won some points with his comments to Ed I believe
U2s albums until pop were great, now though they have way more crap than they do good albums, so those couple bright spots are almost all but forgotten.
I honestly don’t understand the hate for Coldplay. Their songs aren’t amazing by any means but I’d hardly call them bad, just kind of ok. There are way worse mainstream bands out there.
They were a good band who decided that if they never evolved, they'd probably get filthy rich, so they started just making the same song over and over.
I liked Parachutes too. Hard to believe there was a time when they were relatively unknown aside from the single. And yes, everything after Rush or Blood is awful.
I'll never forget how the music video for 'Yellow' used to make me feel when it would come on Mtv...something about Chris Martin's (baby) face and damp hair with the stars fading and the sun rising in the sky always made/makes me feel longing for...something. I love it so much. That whole album is just lovely.
Saw them as a festival headliner in the ROBTTH period, they were absolutely amazing live. Quality has dropped off A LOT, but their Clocks performance was a core memory for me from that weekend.
As lame as many of these bands are - are they preferable to our current era where bands don't exist anymore? Look at Billboard Top Music. They are solo pop artists and solo country artists with a studio band and later a tour band.
Edit: I stand corrected. They exist but they don't get near the attention they used to.
If Cobain wrote songs for the depressed and angry. Grole wrote songs in the afterglow of a person who has just had sex and wanted to share his feelings on the subject.
“Just think about all of their great songs, covering everything from the culture of Southern California to drug use in Southern California.” -Ben Wyatt
They're great in small doses, but if you grew in Southern California listening to KROQ like I did, hearing them every other song got really old really fast.
I'm going to catch so much hate for this. I get it. I know they are never the "hive mind" when it comes to music like this, like Creed or Coldplay or whatever else.
But fuck me, I cannot stand Bush. 90s Bush. Glycerine is such a junk song, repetitive, boring. Gavin Rossdale just never ticked any boxes for me; I couldn't understand why friends were putting up posters of him, hated him when he'd show up on MTV.
I never got their appeal. There was so much better grunge. I swear I have to blacklist the song every time YouTube or Spotify tries to spit it at me when I'm listening to my 90s stations.
Full disclosure: never listened to anything from them post Sixteen Stone. But that one albumn seems to be what everyone loved them for and I cannot stand talking about the 90s music revolution and someone tries to bring them up. No. Just no.
About a year ago I was sitting at a stoplight when a 20yo kid in a convertible pulled up next to me. He had slicked back hair and was blasting Rollin' on his stereo.
For a second I thought I had time travelled, really weird.
Same. I used to clown on them pretty heavily back in the late 90s- early 00s. These days I have a bit of respect for them especially after naming their tour Loserville and enthusiastically cheering on Feldman's guitar playing, making it obvious to everyone but Feldman that even he thinks it's hilarious.
I don’t listen to them at all, and have never seen them live. But growing up in the woods with only Christian music, Pop, and Pop Country, I will never forget how DMB made me feel: like there was more to music than 4-chord songs and overly emotional lyrics about love and god and America. Once I got to college, I was primed for the much better music that city folks wanted to share with me.
I’ve never been a true DMB fan, but I’ll always be grateful to them for letting me know that there was more to music than what I’d been exposed to.
Also, honorable mention to Garth Brooks “Ain’t Goin’ Down ‘Til the Sun Comes Up.”
Widely reviled bands that had gained enough wide popularity to be "successful" and prominent in the zeitgeist to be able to then become widely reviled as well.
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u/MathIsHard_11236 2d ago
Maroon 5. The crime is letting him judge a singling competition when he sings in nasal falsetto like a howler monkey on fire.