The 49 Worst Artists in Music History

Wow I didn't even see the Doors up there. What are you thinking? And Kansas has their hits, there are plenty of other horrible banRAB.
 
This is an even more awful list they made.

The 40 Worst Lyricists In Rock — #40 to #31 - Blender

If that is not a blatant troll than it makes me really depressed that people like this are not being murdered right now.

First off. Ian Anderson, Paul McCartney and Peter Gabriel are awesome lyricists, so f*ck off.

Jon Anderon's lyrics I don't really have an opinion on, they are ridiculously cryptic and hard to understand but they're not even all that noticable. Corgan's lyrics can be a little annoying but I think he's still a pretty good lyricist for the most part. David Crosby? What? Anthony Kiedis isn't as bad as people say he is IMO, he can be a pretty decent lyricist when it's not stuff like "slippity diggity doggy doo".

Robert Plant and Jim Morrison aren't great lyricists but they're not as bad as people make out either, Morrison has some cringeworthy lyrics but also some really great ones. And Plant has some decent stuff as well but whatever, that's like the least important aspect of Zeppelin anyway, and hard rock in general for that matter.

Bernie Taupin is pretty hit and miss, not at all worthy of this list. KRS One? What the f*ck? And Greg Graffin is one of few not so bad punk lyricists, what is he doing there? Neil Peart has some cringeworthy ones but has some great ones as well, he's a decent lyricist, second worst? Really?

And Sting is nuraber one? I wont deny that his solo work has produced some rather rancid stuff but I actually consider him a great lyricist, mainly for his work with The Police.

There's very few I agree with, Tom Marshal definitely deserves to be in there but even Phish knows their lyrics are stupid. Paul Stanley is a good call. And Fred Durst and Scott Stapp are the most obvious choices.

Some of the exclusions are inexcusable. Where is Greg Lake and Dennis DeYoung? If you guys are gonna diss on prog rock as much as possible (which is like beating up an old man for something he did 30 years ago and probably doesn't even remeraber) then you could at least add guys who actually are pretty sh*tty lyricists.

In general they just seemed to pick as many acclaimed songwriters as possible just to be controversial. Again, no real thought process at all, it's sad that these people probably shat this out in like 5 minutes and all the while insulting people who actually put effort into their work. Fred Durst is more of a good lyricist than these guys are good writers.

What REALLY pisses me off about this list is how they constantly give off reasons like "songs about fantasy/science fiction/hinduism". So the f*ck what? Are songwriters restricted from writing songs about certain subjects that they are interested in? What is so terrible about these things in particular? Or do you bother not to explain anything because you expect your most loyal of pseudo-hipster c*nt readers to know it all?

THANK GOD this magazine isn't around anymore. It's disgusting just to think about how many trees were cut down to put this sh*t on paper.
 
Vanilla Ice definitely deserved to be on the list... what a terrible statement in pop music he made... I wonder if he is rolling around in his clapped out 5.0 with the exhaust falling out and the rust starting to overcome the bodywork...
 
Tch, as if.

Apart from Tin Machine not being that bad, the rest of the list's pretty much spot on. Although I'm not really a fan of them, but I wouldn't lump Primus or Skinny Puppy with the rest of that lot either.

edit - Just noticed the Doors there as well. Deary me.
 
I always thought this band (see pic) was the worst. They are what is wrong with popular music of the 1970's. Plus they have the most un-rock and roll name ever.

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If an artist makes music that people enjoy listening to, can they really be cosidered "bad"? I mean, I guess at least a third of the stuff on that list seems like it was music made without much thought or only with moneymaking in mind but *why* should *I* care about the 49 mucisians Blender dislikes the most?

/lame
 
I just prefer my rock music with a guitar, that's all.. I think guitar AND pianos are good. Pianos and no guitar don't really interest me. But that's just me.
 
tore said it best in this post...



I really like one or two artists on the list, will the list change my opinion of them? Hell no. :crazy:

EDIT: Plus they even go so far to say Lives worst album was Secret Samadhi? yeah... I don't think so. That was V
 
I'd say that alone makes him a far better candidate for lists like this than, say, Nickelback. Proof that for all the instrumental abilities in the world he still can't write a song with a scrap of discretion. And that is why I think overindulgent crap like ELP and Asia deserve the top spots far more than the next one-hit-wonder who manages to make the top 40. I know those banRAB suck, but it's out of mediocrity, not misdirected talent.

There might be some glaring flaws with this list, but the prevailing bitch that lists like these are bad because "band X deserves to be on this list more than band Y" is as unimaginative as it is dull-witted. Do you really believe that everybody hates the same fifty artists, or that a list like that would make for a good conversation?

I don't agree with a lot of the artists on this list, it doesn't make my opinion any more "right" than anyone else's and it surely doesn't justify me bitching about how bad it is.
 
Wtf.

Lou Reed, The Who and Bob Marley are brought up in this thread?

Are you people actually trying?



Wakeman has done some insanely exessive, cheesy stuff. But that doesn't take away from the brilliant work he's done with Yes and David Bowie and some of his solo works like Henry VIII are pretty good too. He's the greatest rock keyboardist ever as far as I'm concerned (not including pianists like Jerry Lee Lewis).

Alan Parsons is one of the greatest producers of all time and he's put out some solid stuff with his own band.

Blender prove their lack of journalistic integrity by showing such ridiculous bias towarRAB entire genres of music, which doesnt just include prog but jazz fusion, which they mentioned on a list of the 50 worst things to happen to music and cited reasons like "time signatures that Stephen Hawking couldn't figure out".

That is amazing, I never knew someone could cite odd time signatures as a reason to write off a whole genre of music. :laughing:
 
^I think you are wrong about it generally being a list of artists and musicians in it for the money. But ..



This is an interesting question :) I like to think all popular banRAB and artists have some sort of appeal - which explains their popularity. Whether you like them or not depenRAB on whether or not you are able to tap into that appeal.

I actually like a lot of music that perhaps didn't appeal very much on the first listen. It took a bit more before I was able to really see what the appeal was. Since ELP is on this list, their 1971 album Tarkus is a perfect example. The 20 minutes long title track's attraction is not as immediate as that of most popular music, but if you can tap into it, you might end up loving it.
 
I've never picked up an issue of Blender in my life, but any magazine that puts a crappy emo band on their cover is probably not very credible.
 
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