Musical artists you can't stand!!

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I hate to mention it because it will give everyone bad memories, but - Meatloaf.

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All of the horrible old dirt is getting unearthed here! “I’m Not In Love”. “Seasons In The Sun”. “I’d Really Love To See You”. Blecch, blecch, blecch. I’ll see that and raise you Eddie Money.

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I get what @MomofWildChild is saying. It’s one thing to not like a particular genre of music; it’s another to call whole genres “garbage.” It’s pretty arrogant to be so sure of one’s own particular taste to that extent. “I don’t like it so it’s garbage.” Really?

For the record, MOWC, I like some country, but more to the classic, bluegrass side overall.

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More bad lines “Your eyes have the mist of the smoke of a distant fire” 
of the fog of the drizzle of the fumes of the blah blah blah etc.

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And overall, you all wonder why I prefer eighties music to seventies?

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@Waiting2exhale - you are not alone.

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Another vividly remembered but just awful song from the early 70s is “Run, Joey, Run.” Synopsis: Julie is pregnant, tells her Dad that she and Joey are going to get married; but Dad is furious, pulls a gun on Joey, and accidentally shoots Julie.

Another ghoulish song is “Where Oh Where Can My Baby Be?” which was originally released in the 60’s and later covered by Pearl Jam. The topic? Devoted boyfriend holds girl as she dies by the road after a car accident.

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I have to confess I liked England Dan and John Ford Coley. I also liked Danny’s Song by Loggins and Messina. (I am playing this in a slide show for my two graduating kids) “Even though we ain’t got money
I’m so in love with you honey”. I know
embarrassing. I like country and I like guitar driven music.

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@garland:

“And overall, you all wonder why I prefer eighties music to seventies?” While I would be the last person to deny the bad music of the 70’s (and there was a lot), all decades have bad music. The 1980’s gave us the synthesizer bands, like Soft Cell and Human league (that the pundits claimed were going to take over, hah), it gave us a lot of MTV style music, some of which was great to good, others were “kajagoogoo” and the like
every era has bad music, have you ever listened to some of the stuff produced in the 1960’s, like the Archies
(I won’t put the Monkees in that category, they had some decent songs, and if they had been given the chance, could have played their own instruments, they did later on. Not great, but pretty good pop/rock music). Every generation has music you want to barf at, I couldn’t stand Pearl Jam because it struck me as a bunch of entitled kids complaining about how much their life sucked
there is always crap, anyone remember the Hanson brothers? The Jonas brothers?

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I enjoy lots of Don Henley’s songs, don’t mind when they come on the radio, but if I ever run across him in person I will sucker punch him in the throat for “Desperado.” Sorry, I know that will not be popular because he and the Eagles are considered some of the best of the 1970s. That song just annoys the heck out of me for some reason. I feel like John Blutarsky listening to “I Gave My Love a Cherry” in the stairwell.

“Mickey” is still my all-time least favorite. “Up, Up and Away” (in my beautiful balloon) deserves a mention as well.

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Ahh
the late '90s equivalent to NKOTB or the male equivalents to the Spice Girls


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@Magnetron: You’re a hard one, and I know that you’ve got your reasons


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Hanson: “Mmmmm Bop” is an amazing, weird pop song, like “Wanna Be Starting Something”. If Hanson never did anything else – which, as far as I am concerned, they didn’t – that remains a huge achievement. I have noticed, by the way, that they continued to play for a long time, and even acquired some critical cred in later years. But I never listened to it.

The Jonas brothers: Nick Jonas (feat. Tove Lo) impressed the heck out of me on SNL a few weeks ago. As with many of the Disney manufactured stars, when you scrape away the crap there’s some there, there. (SNL seems to be the go-to place for ex-Disney stars to demonstrate that they are now at least post-pubescent. I have found myself reacting favorably to Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, and Ariana Grande, as well as Jonas. And, trust me, that kind of music is not my usual jam.)

Didn’t New Kids On The Block give us Mark and Donnie Wahlberg? That ain’t nothing, and it ain’t the Spice Girls.

And . . . what’s wrong with the Archies? “Sugar Sugar” and “Everything’s Archie” have been parked in my brain for almost 50 years!

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My husband calls Nick Jonas ‘Neck Jonas.’

He just can’t get that small ‘e’ sound to come out right. My girls roll their eyes and look at him as if he had three heads.

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Hey, Hanson is still around. They’re called Haim now.

That’s a joke.

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I don’t exactly hate him but the artist I’ve always thought was hugely over-rated is Sting.

It started all the back with him whining “Roxanne!” I thought “Huh? This song is a big hit? This mediocrity is what first propelled Sting to stardom?” And the mediocrity has since continued.

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“Yummy Yummy Yummy” by the Ohio Express. They sounded like tiny aliens who stopped by for lunch.
“Indian Lake” by the Cowsills. Burn those clothes and wigs.
“One Toke Over The Line” by Brewer and Shipley. They all had one too many tokes.

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Agree with @TonyK Those are particularly awful songs. I still think MacArthur Park is the worst.

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Bono seems ridiculous to me. Just really pretentious. I’ve never really listened to U2 either so I can’t speak on his music.

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I’ve never cared for the sound of Billie Holliday’s voice, though the lyrics to some of the songs are moving. *Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday,*by Etta James, is dynamite.

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