• Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Someone I know listens exclusively to the Beatles on the car radio. From all the Beatles hype, it should feel like a party, but instead it feels like you’re listening to jingle commercials during the whole ride.

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      Probably doesn’t help that they’re so popular that their music was licensed and became synonymous with commercials.

      Same thing with the doors and all things Vietnam.

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      Oh my God THANK YOU! You just described exactly how I feel about them and I’ve never been able to really figure out why they bothered me.

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      Is there a band called Yoko Ono? I ask, because I’m fairly sure there isn’t a singer.

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          Did you honestly think from my comment that I didn’t know who Yoko Ono was?

          I was saying that whatever noises she makes, she isn’t a singer. Therefore she doesn’t qualify for a mention in the “worst band or singer” category.

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            I couldn’t tell, so the gamble was either I get whooshed, or I help someone become one of today’s lucky 10,000. I guess I got the former, lol.

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    Corey Feldman’s Angelic 2 the Core is without a doubt the worst album I’ve ever listened to. It is not just mediocre or underwhelming, it is not just a “miss,” it is actively and unforgettably horrible. Definitely worth checking out.

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    The worst recorded sound that I have ever heard was Kurt Cobain doing a mic check on a Nirvana live bootleg. Like a tortured cat with laryngitis.

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    3 months ago

    Easily the lead singer of Kings of Leon. That whine in his voice makes me want to chug bleach.

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      Because unless you saw them live, where the lead singer was probably drunk, they’re a legitimately good band with a solid discography. It’s not even a Nickelback / Creed situation where the common consensus is to shit on them - they’re just overexposed for their few top-100 hits.

      “All Star” in particular is a self-aware criticism of people who give people shit for listening to Smash Mouth.

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    Guns and Roses in '91 or so. God I loved them so, every song. When we got a chance to see them in OKC, with some band I’d never heard of, Crashing Gourds?, something like that.

    We were tripping acid and the crowd was wild, should have been fun. They came out 2-hours late, screamed shit into the microphone, beat their instruments and left. Sometimes I couldn’t even tell which song they were playing, that bad.

    And worse, the opening band, who later became wildly popular, was apparently booed. We were late and had missed them.

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    I have been fighting my way through the "1,001 albums you must listen to before you die’ list, and there have been some truly terrible albums.

    New York Dolls, debut album

    Brian Eno, my life in the bush of ghosts

    Marquee Moon, television

    Slade, slayed?

    Sugarcube, life’s too good

    Barry Adamson, Oedipus Schmoedipus

    Animal collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion

    Heaven 17, Penthouse And Pavement

    And the worst album I have ever heard on my life, king of garbage music Lou Reed and his garbage band of notmusic and pretention: The velvet underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico

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      Music is subjective, I like some of the albums you listed, but I agree that the 1001 list is trash full of terrible albums. I made it through 142 before giving up.

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      aha a fellow 1001 albums listener. im currently doing it too. the heaven 17 album is one of my favorite discoveries. ill drop my 1 star ratings here let me know if i hate one of your favs lol

      rolling stones debut

      cheap thrills by big brother

      gorillaz debut

      young americans by bowie

      untitled black is by sault

      461 ocean boulevard by eric clapton

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        Damn! I haven’t gotten any of those yet, but I think we might need to fight a little when I do! I’ll save this and get back to you!

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                I’ve only rated the velvet underground and nico album one star because I personally don’t consider it actual music. Because of that, I have a hard time rating music I “just don’t like” as one star because it’s recognizable to me as music. So, I rated this one two stars.

                I was surprised to see you rated a Clapton album so poorly because I like him (musically) quite a bit. We have really different tastes, and I think it’s cool to know there is stuff that absolutely is not for me that is a five star album for someone else

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      Animal collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion

      For anyone else who had a visceral “fuck right off” reaction to such slander, check out This Town Needs Guns’s Animals and/or As Tall As Lions’s self-titled album.

      And-- you felt robbed by the twee album from Bjork’s first band? “Birthday” alone is reason to respect that record. Get your head on straight.

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        album from Bjork’s first band

        Yeah, I tried. I just couldn’t enjoy it all. Maybe I have pedestrian tastes or just don’t “get it,” but whatever the case, all of those were very unenjoyable to me.

        I was actually at a function last night talking music with a group of folks, and a couple folks chastised me for not liking the velvet underground with Nico album as well. It’s all good; I’m not claiming to be a music critic or anything and y’all still get to love albums I can’t stand

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    Linkin Park and Papa Roach. 2 okISH bands with the worst singers in music history. Shit gives me headaches.

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    When I heard the Tool cover of No Quarter and found out the original was by Led Zeppelin I gave that version a spin too. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.

    Reason being that I really like the Led Zeppelin vocalist. But his performance on that song is just unbearable to me.

    The Tool cover though, absolutely amazing!