Most Rage Inducing Bands/Singers

[Steve Contra]

Sublime makes me want to murder a white person in flip flops everytime I hear even a snippet of them.  What are some bands/singers that make you want to kill someone?

[Van Cruncheon]

sublime is too cac for me, even.

[Human Snorenado]

Oh Jesus, the list is nearly as long and distinguished as my johnson.

Creed
Nickleback
Every modern country band/artist
Drake
Mumford and Sons
The Avett Brothers
pretty much any band that uses a fucking banjo in the year 2015 actually
Steely Dan
Tool
Rush
Billy Corgan in any of his forms
Red Hot Chili Peppers
99.99% of r&b artists that have recorded anything after 1979

[Steve Contra]

RHCP is a GOAT candidate for worst band ever, I'll give you that.

[Human Snorenado]

Weezer / Radiohead . Worst fucking stans.

[king of the internet]

Most white people who try to rap.

[ToxicAdam]

The common thread among all things I despise in music is when the artist intentionally panders to the LCD. When it's so blatant, it's an affront to your senses.

So, 98% of all modern country and many pop artists.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Kanye
Puff Daddy
Sublime
Nickleback
Any new random pop song
Country music

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Matchbox 20, or just the sounds Rob Thomas makes anytime he opens his mouth.

I swear, he could order a cheeseburger and it would sound irritating as hell.

[Brehvolution]

wiz kalifa
imagine dragons
iggy azaelia
pitbull
anyone feat. pitbull

[bork]

Not getting why Sublime would be rage-inducing in this context. 


^^^
This mother fucker would be if I actually attempted to listen to anything he's done.

My list would be most grunge bands, most nu-metal bands, most pop-stars from this era in particular, and most of the rappers and 'pop' rappers from the last 15 years or so.

[Stoney Mason]

Not getting why Sublime would be rage-inducing in this context. 

Yeah I don't really get that either. I mean are a lot of people who listen to sublime douchey? Sure. But the phenomenon that happened with that band isn't their fault. I'm old enough to remember when Sublime really was a very small cult thing. And the people who listened to them back then are different than the post generation that grew up on them.

Mainly what this boils down to obviously is things that are popular that I'm not really a fan of.

So in that vein, I'll go with Kid Rock. He was barely tolerable as a shit level rapper for white frat bros. But his whole move into a faux americana republican heartland singer is absolute shit stuff. One year, the baseball playoffs used one of his anthems ad nauseam and I don't think I've watched TBS since. He's the best metaphor for America by copying things but never actually understanding them at their core.

[Stoney Mason]

I like all those bands also.

But I think what can happen is that if you are in a time and place where you have a crazy friend who is trying to shove a band down your throat as the most progressive unique sound out there, it can make you hate them.

I like Rush. But I can also understand that many Rush fans would almost drive any sane person to hating that band.

[Steve Contra]

Also Rush has the worst singer imaginable.  I mean besides Bob Dylan.

[Human Snorenado]

It's not that Rush fans are annoying... although they are certainly annoying.

It's not even that Rush are a bunch of libertarian shitburgers, although they most certainly are.

It's the simple fact that despite all of that undeniable musical virtuosity in the band, Geddy Lee's voice will always, ALWAYS just sound like an elf being tortured. That's an objective fact.

[Kara]

Rage Against the Machine

[seagrams hotsauce]

Death Grips is the worst and Zach Hill has never done anything worth anyones time

[Kara]

*sets down a Gor novel* High fantasy elves being tortured.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Also super umad @ the weezer/radiohead coslander

 high school

[Human Snorenado]

Quick, somebody shop Legolas's head onto that

[bork]

Ska bands.  That shit drove me nuts when it got big for a little while there.  Too much of it sounded exactly the same.  I did like The Urge's first album, but they're not entirely ska I guess.

The worst experience was in my high school senior art class.  This kid put on the worst crap I have ever heard -it was a ska "band" made up of some students- and it made my ears bleed.  We collectively-threatened him to take the CD out immediately or watch it get cut up into pieces.

Not getting why Sublime would be rage-inducing in this context. 

Yeah I don't really get that either. I mean are a lot of people who listen to sublime douchey? Sure. But the phenomenon that happened with that band isn't their fault. I'm old enough to remember when Sublime really was a very small cult thing. And the people who listened to them back then are different than the post generation that grew up on them.

I remember Sublime from before they were popular because my older brother and his friends used to listen to them.  Was pretty surprised when they blew up and then the lead singer blew himself up and that was that.     But I can't say I find their music annoying.  Some of it is pretty juvenile but whatever.

Rage Against the Machine

What?  No.

[Steve Contra]

Yeah...Ska

[king of the internet]

Really tho there's nothing more granting to me than the local music scene where I live. It's all this ultrabland bluegrass / folk / jam band mishmash slop (it's the whitest place in the world) and the cornballs around here just gobble it up. Basically the musical equivalent of vanilla froyo. The venue I work at has these bands almost every night this season and I have to pretend to not want to blow my brains out and appear like even more of a wet blanket than I already am. 

[bork]

Does Rush have a particularly popular song?  Because while I've known who they are for forever...I can't think of a single song they've done.

A review in the New York Times opined that Lee's voice "suggests a munchkin giving a sermon"

 

[bork]

"Tom Sawyer" sounded familiar.  Nope, couldn't listen for more than 30 seconds.  Dude sounds like he's trying too hard to be Robert Plant rip-off and ends up sounding like someone doing a bad English accent impression of a hobbit.  The very definition of this thread title.  I'm getting fucking angry just thinking about it.

[Rufus]

YYZ comes to mind. Instrumental, too.

[Kara]

@ bork

Most Rage Inducing Bands/Singers

[StealthFan]

Tool owns.

[mormapope]

The Ramones - Uber trash. Shit is repulsive.
The B52's - Colossal trash, shit makes you want to hurt something.
REM - Whiny taco trash.

[Stoney Mason]

The Ramones - Uber trash. Shit is repulsive.
The B52's - Colossal trash, shit makes you want to hurt something.
REM - Whiny taco trash.

 

Tell me who you like so I can hate on them. 

[ToxicAdam]

The entire construct of this thread feels like bait to troll some currently unrepresented borean.

I know niche trolling when I see it.

[Brehvolution]

Nothing is worse than having to sit through 1st-4th grade orchestra "concerts".


That's the kind of stuff that makes Geddy Lee tolerable.

[Kara]

Hot
Cross
Buns

Hot
Cross
Buns

[Positive Touch]

Really tho there's nothing more granting to me than the local music scene where I live. It's all this ultrabland bluegrass / folk / jam band mishmash slop (it's the whitest place in the world) and the cornballs around here just gobble it up. Basically the musical equivalent of vanilla froyo. The venue I work at has these bands almost every night this season and I have to pretend to not want to blow my brains out and appear like even more of a wet blanket than I already am. 

this exactly. any cac trash that carries on the tradition of bullshit annoying-ass American folk music with the stupid banjos and the corny lyrics and shitty harmonies and fuck fuck I hate it so much. I fucking hate all cac revival of... well all culture from the fifties and earlier, but I ESPECIALLY hate the music.

[Steve Contra]

Nothing is worse than having to sit through 1st-4th grade orchestra "concerts".
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That's the kind of stuff that makes Geddy Lee tolerable.

I was driving home from dinner with my friend, his kids and his ex-wife (long story) and she asked what she should put on, and I said "whatever" so she put on a recording of her kid's school band doing some kidz bop shit closest I've ever been to jumping out of a moving car

[Phoenix Dark]

Eminem. Never has trash to straight up mediocrity been celebrated more. You can complain about Radiohead all you want, if you deny they have at least a couple amazing albums you're a fucking idiot. You can hand wring over RHCP, Rush, Tool, etc yet for the most part they have at least one great album that stands the test of time. Can you say that about Eminem? All of his best material has aged like shit, especially when compared to actual classic hip hop albums. If I throw on Illmatic or Death Certificate today, is anyone going to be like "nah, this isn't cool anymore"? No, and if so you're a plebe bro.

Marshal Mathers LP is a good album, I'm not denying that. But the initial level of shock and amazement wore off a decade ago. It's now just a crass album full of very basic, lifeless production and wack guest appearances. There is no funk or soul or swing or whatever you want to call it.

Technically Eminem was a great rapper. But so was Canibus. Ultimately both have been trash for longer than they've been good for the same reason. You can only rap about rap for so long, you can only rely on your flow for so long, and you can only do corny shit for so long. Eminem is a 40 year old man rapping about eating buggers and raping chicks. Come on. His artistic growth arc has pretty much been...nothing. I'll give him props for making nice with his mom, but outside of that it's the same shit he rapped about 15 years ago, minus the dope flow. Now his flow is trash.

Annoying fans? How about fans who don't listen to anything outside of Eminem, waxing poetic about how he's the greatest rapper ever, the only rapper who doesn't rap about violence (lol) and drugs (LOL) or street life. At least Radiohead fans tend to have a college degree.

[Kara]

Hot
Cross
Buns

Hot
Cross
Buns

Just heard this play on a Casio keyboard in my head and I went

When I compose the first great symphony of the 21st century, not only will it be for the recorder, but it will explicitly quote Hot Cross Buns. It will be Metamorphosen for the End of History.

[bork]

@ bork

Most Rage Inducing Bands/Singers

Didn't think you were really going there

[jakefromstatefarm]

EEEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEHN FLUUUUUUHUUUUUGH

[StealthFan]

I don't care for Pearl Jam.

I like Radiohead but don't interact with other fans.

I think Mumford & Sons/Of Monsters and Men and other folksy crap can die in a fucking blaze.

[mormapope]

Led Zepplin is also annoying as fuck. If most of the songs sound like a dude getting blown or putting his dick into something, that shit becomes grating immediately.

[jakefromstatefarm]

the best thing about mumford and sons is how they follow the Nickelback/Linkin Park model of let's just make a career out of making the same song over and over again

but with like, an O Brother, Where Art Thou aesthetic

[mormapope]

The screams of someone blending their own dick is more poignant than Stairway to Heaven.

[StealthFan]

stairway to heaven

[Kara]

Led Zepplin is also annoying as fuck. If most of the songs sound like a dude getting blown or putting his dick into something, that shit becomes grating immediately.

You should listen to Flower Travellin' Band's Satori.

[jakefromstatefarm]

Zepplin is so seminal to modern rock I don't get how they'd induce rage.

boring? sure. annoying/dick blending? :aicmon

[mormapope]

You make a good point, they don't make rage inducing music, just boring music.

[Phoenix Dark]

I'd be curious to find out what else is boring to you. They're a blueprint for a lot of stuff, mixed with blues covers.

[Great Rumbler]

Nickleback
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jet
Guns N' Roses
99% of country music

[Human Snorenado]

Boring, wtf, you guys are fucking morons. The band that made Whole Lotta Love, Immigrant Song, Black Dog, Ramble On, etc is boring? Go self-castrate. You've already done it in spirit.

It's cool, we didn't wanna come to your party anyway. Heard there'd be douches with acoustic guitars there.

[Brehvolution]

I will always have a soft spot for Aerosmith's Angel. That opening solo.

[jakefromstatefarm]

You make a good point, they don't make rage inducing music, just boring music.

honestly, I wouldn't even disagree with you, I just think it's a case where the genre became so saturated with the stuff that bands like Zep were doing it's difficult for us to appreciate it

my grandpa grew up in the Dust Bowl and his idea of cookies are essentially just wheat and flour. conversely, the current American food industry's nutritional standards have rendered my taste buds impotent to anything that doesn't contain an obscene amount of saturated fat. which one of us is right?

[jakefromstatefarm]

Dio tha gawwwwd

[mormapope]

Black Sabbath with Dio as lead singer: 
Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne as lead singer: 
Ozzy Osbourne solo career: 

[brob]

I'd argue Smoke On The Water is first. Stairway To Heaven is not overplayed at all in Saudi. Smoke On The Water? It's like the most recognizable guitar riff of all time or something.

"I took guitar lessons once and this is the only riff my dumb ass managed to learn" type dudes. Seven Nation Army is another guitar riff people who can only focus on one string at a time like to believe they can play.

[mormapope]

Let's change lanes then.

You wanna talk utterly disposable and unusable?

The entire pop punk / scene kid genre. It's amazing how something so ridiculously popular had no ripple waves. in fact the only traces of this shit you saw as they disappeared were the fashion choices of some of the metalcore/deathcore kiddies and skaterfegs. it's like almost all it's exponents collectively realized it was trash on every level as they got older and completely threw the culture in the bushes.

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Are you talking about Emo bands or something else entirely?

Emo reached its highest popularity peak in the years 2004-2007. Shit died fast. Anyone that listened to that type of music was ridiculed on the spot.

[Human Snorenado]

Reminds me, Green Day is utter trash and their rise in the early 00's shows why that era was terrible for all music.

Blink 182 is somehow even worse. Fuck everything associated with emo shit.

[jakefromstatefarm]

Reminds me, Green Day is utter trash and their rise in the early 00's shows why that era was terrible for all music.

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tbf, they were huge by the mid 90s, the fact that they laid the groundwork for the "NOFX but marketable" lane and then managed to ride the wave of emo shit 10 years later while maintaining multi-plat status is kinda crazy

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[I'm a Puppy!]

Reminds me, Green Day is utter trash and their rise in the early 00's shows why that era was terrible for all music.

[Kara]

Dookie