Worst Band Ever

Now that is what awful music sounds like. Someone spent a lot of money on that.

 

Nazareth. Saw them in 78 or 79 and when the four of us walked out we looked at each other and burst out laughing. One buddy said ‘that music was awful’. And it was. Shitty concert by a shitty band.
That guy from LA who rated the worst bands and had the Eagles second isn’t worth of taking a crap in the same bathroom as them. Nothing worse than a music critic who can’t play an instrument. I’ll bet he’s one of them. A friend of mine in Canada is a music critic but can’t play. He said he can only offer his opinion as to whether it’s listenable to him, can’t critique composed and recorded music because he can’t appreciate the special talent that’s required to write it. Unless it’s pure tripe.

 

Spin Doctors

 

Oh, stop. I’ve never made a feature film. Am I unqualified to tell you “Citizen Kane” is better than “Ernest Goes to Jail”?

The Eagles wrote songs for coked up lawyers to pretend they’re cowboys.

 

"I Can't Tell You Why" is awesome, though.

 

That is patently fucking wrong, emphasis on patently and fucking.

 

I heard that cover within the last 6 months on classic rock radio. I couldn’t believe it existed, and thank God I went almost half a century not knowing about it.

Triumph isn’t good on any level.

 

Going to second this, and before I do, I will state I hated Hanson in the 1990s. They actually refused to be just a teen pop band. They didn’t do a sitcom or variety shows, they wrote their own music and basically still play music because they like to play music. You get the feeling they were shocked by their success and didn’t really care if it lasted it or not. Not saying these guys are Bob Dylan or Neil Young, but they seem fairly well adjusted.

 

"Mmm Bop" is singularly awful and kind of set up Hanson in a no-win spot. They had a song called "Penny and Me" on a later album that was actually pretty good. There was a one-off power pop supergroup a few years ago called "Tinted Windows" -- it was Taylor Hanson singing, Adam Schlesinger on bass, James Iha on guitar and Bun E. Carlos on drums. Didn't really live up to the sum of its parts, but it wasn't bad.

Read an article on Hanson a few years ago -- apparently they have a rabid following among middle-aged women. They still get mobbed at shows, but it's the same pack of Karens every night.

 

Why talk about movies when the subject is music??
You don’t like the Eagles, fine, but you can’t say they aren’t a great band of musicians in front of any musician without being laughed out of the joint. You obviously have no concept of what it takes to write and record music of high quality, it’s a very special talent. More musicians get laid than film makers.

 

The “you never played the game” argument is stupid in any field.

And this isn’t a discussion about ability as a musician. I’m not arguing that Joe Walsh cannot play guitar. He can, and quite well. But the Eagles as a band wrote and recorded songs, and by and large those songs blow.

You can go ahead and try to make the argument that someone who doesn’t play guitar simply cannot fathom the deep, soulful genius of “Witchy Woman.” It will not be a good argument.

 

Listen to those two teen age songs I posted and Hanson will look like Pink Floyd.