Your most hated bands/groups

I think a big part of it is the marching band and pep band at the university I attended LOVED to play Styx music. Seemed like every other timeout. At least one halftime show a year featured Styx music. So whether I was covering a game for the newspaper or going to a game as a fan, I had to hear Styx...complete with the annoyance that is listening to too much marching band music..blaring multiple times a week during the football and basketball seasons.

 

No way. Pantera.

 

Seems from about 1975-95 about 90 percent of college (and more often, HS) band directors were big fans of certain specific bands and turned their songs into halftime shows.

Chicago was a big one in the mid-1970s. All the high school band directors who thought they were hip adapted Chicago songs.

Styx took over in the late Seventies and early Eighties.

 

1. Boston.
2. Boston.
3. Chicago.
4. All Hair Bands.
5. Everything Else.
6. Boston.

 

Two of your points seem contradictory:

• There are a whole lot of people in this thread -- and in general -- who will proclaim their hatred for artists for reasons that have nothing to do with the music. Mostly, they think it will sound cool. That's weird to me, but whatever.
• ...
• I used to be one of those who would try to define my tastes (and my coolness) in terms of stuff I hated. Once I actually listened to some of the stuff I "hated," I frequently discovered I liked it. A lot.

If you used to define your taste and coolness in terms of stuff you hated, why do you find it weird that other people might do the same? Upon listening to music you hated, you found you liked some or a lot of that music, which seems to imply that you hated the performers and not the music.
You seem to be puzzled and/or dismissive of a characteristic in others that once was characteristic of you.
Further, is it possible that, because you once defined your taste and coolness based on stuff you hated without any actual assessment of the quality of the music, you now project that same behavior on to others who, in fact, may not actually engage in such behavior and rather dislike music because they dislike the music rather than using their dislike as some kind of faux display of coolness?

 

Well, it's semi-contradictory. I used to do it. I used to be 17.

 

Sounds like the name of a song by Bonnie Raitt or someone like that.

 

Saw them in Brooklyn a few weeks ago. Not gonna lie, they put on an awesome show. They have some serious rabid, loyal fans. I don't love their music, and we basically went bc my gf was bringing her 12 year old nephews to their first concert. Still, well worth it, those guys don't mail it in.

 

Best bands named after cities or states:
1. Chicago
2. Boston
3. Kansas
1788. Oklahoma
1799. Alabama

 

My post reads much more dickish than I intended.

But I've seen people post here many times that if someone dislikes something popular - music, movie, TV show - it is simply an attempt to co-opt some kind of contrary coolness or hipness, and I reject that premise.
1. It usually assumes facts not in evidence by attempting to assign motive.
2. It appears to invalidate any opinion that does not hold with the mainstream as either petty or elitist.

 

No love for New England? Toronto? Chilliwack?

I saw Alabama back in the early80s, not a fan at the time but a friend had an extra ticket and Roy Orbison was opening. I went to see Roy but Alabama put on a great show and did a meet and greet with fans milling around the stage after the show, not something I ever saw any rock acts doing.

 

can't believe there's never been a good band named for New York or San Fran. Are there really bands named New England and Toronto? My god those are just the whitest.