Worst Band Ever

But they came to you with open arms

 

No one say Huey Lewis and the News. I won't be able to handle it.

 

Justin Bieber.
Few things have inspired such unusual, spontaneous rage in me as the first time I watched the "Baby, Baby, Baby" video. I have never wanted to kick the shit out of a 12-year-old as bad as I did in that moment. At one point I was in Wal-mart and saw a cardboard cutout of Bieber over a box of posters. My first instinct, that I had to consciously tamp down, was to go punch it in the face.
He was everything awful with teenage pop music, like if you could condense all of the bad things from every boy band ever into one evil vessel, and has not gotten any less douchey now that he's grown up.

 

I haven’t listened enough to confirm it is Florida-Georgia Line but that’s my hunch.

 

FGL is a traveshamockery, but the topic is worst band ever rather than worst vocal group or duo ever. Had it been the latter, they’re the winner. Or loser.

Whichever.

 

So many choices, some already mentioned.

Nickelback and Creed might win for worst lead singers, but their music is pretty generic Pearl Jam knock-off. Also in this category of decent music, horrible singer are the B-52s. Fred Schneider's voice is the aural equivalent of a cheese grater.

Starship is a contender because they were the dried-up remains of a great band (Jefferson Airplane) and, at times, a pretty good one (Jefferson Starship). And "We Built This City" is probably the worst song released in the 1980s, and that's saying something.

All of you who are mentioning Rush obviously are confusing them with a blowhard who died this past week.

So that leaves ... Meatloaf. Worst of all time for his horrible ballads. Even his "cool" song is a discofied piece of shit with cameos pasted in by Todd Rundgren. Just like the food he's named after, you can pour all the ketchup on it you want, it's still bland, slimy and awful.

 

The takedowns in this are gold.

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List - LA Weekly

 

Not a bad list, but The Raconteurs are pretty goddamn good.

 

Many to choose from.
The Hansens signalled a certain dirge in music.
People actually thought that crap was power pop - early historical evidence we were headed away from a world governed by reality.

 

I find The Doors totally unlistenable, with the exception of "Roadhouse Blues".

And as a Cauckistani I can tell you the worst band from these parts is certainly not Rush (fucking philistines) or even Nickelback (and they are shit) but Triumph. Warmed-over Zeppelin riffs, lame lyrics right out of the self-help section of your local bookstore and a completely unimaginitive cover of "Rocky Mountain Way".

 

WRONG but understandable

Similar to Extreme with "More Than Words" and Mr. Big with "To Be With You," that single is the best and worst thing to happen to a talented group.

The Final Countdown is very much an 80s rock album (a song about a ninja ffs) but it's very well done. They're a talented bunch (especially John Norum) and didn't need the hair metal look to succeed but they needed it to become huge. They were just unable to shake it.

They're impressive live (something Poison never was and Motley Crue could only achieve on occasion even before Vince Neil entered the "Orson Welles in Paul Masson commercial outtakes" stage of his career)