I'm glad you are able to tell my musical tastes (and my degree of mainstream-dom) from me criticizing a band that was suggested to me by someone else in a thread devoted to criticizing every band no matter what. I'm sure that would be a useful talent if you didn't predict so wrong it's funny.
Bit of a backlog so I'll do two:
Jimmy Eat World has one of the top five worst names ever for a band, edged out by Death Cab for Cutie and a few others. Their music is so bland it hurts; they are proof that rock music is dead, if it ever lived in the first place. I know! Let's start a band whose sole purpose is to get a song or two played on the Clear Channel-owned "alternative" rock station!
and for fbikilledmygoat:
It's almost like beating up a wheelchair-bound 4 year old criticizing Envy... from the off-the-pretentiometer track names ("Chain Wandering Deeply"??? Come on now. I can do that too, look: "Bicycle Drift Senselessly Meaningful") to the ridiculously overlong song lengths to the comically bad vocals, they've covered the bases of shit-ass banddom. Just goes to show, it doesn't matter how skilled you are at your instruments if you hire a singer whose skill is what most would classify as "hollering." That's not to say they're skilled though, unless your definition of skilled is "can write a song with simplistic quiet bits strung together with simplistic loud bits."
Rock songs should never, ever be 13 minutes long. Ever.
OK, anyone up for led zeppelin or the casualties?