Post by Ultimo Chocula on Nov 28, 2009 17:13:49 GMT -5
Or what I like to call, The Mike Patton "Are You Hearing This #$%@?!" Awards
Working at a store based around music I get to hear all the new stuff that gets released every day. Some of it's great, some of it....not so much. Unfortunately the stuff that's horrible tends to stay with me longer than what I liked so here you go.
This is just my opinion of course, so don't be bummed out if you're favorite band is among the damned.
5. Any Indie/Folk album released this year.
Tom Lehrer once said that folk music was the "most popular form of idiocy among the self styled intellectual." It's hard to argue with that point after hearing the lot from this year. From the Avett Brothers to Chuck Regan I'll be hard pressed if I can think of a musical form that is more pretentious and hollow. The only reason to play this is to get a twee in bed which in and of itself is proof that you've given up.
Worst song: Take your pick, it's all the same crap.
4. "Coaster" by NOFX
NOFX has proven they are in fact one of the premier punk bands by showing zero artistic growth through out their career. Fat Mike, however, is the tipping point as he is not as clever as he thinks he is and his lame jokes become grating in short time.
Worst song: "Creeping Out Sara", an obviously desperate stab at staying relevant by name dropping the it band of the moment. And no, it's not funny.
3. "Fame, Fortune, and Fornication" by Reel Big Fish
A more fitting name would be "Beating A Dead Horse". RBF had a couple of hits by playing ska versions of well known tunes, and that was fine. Then they kept doing it, and doing it, and doing it until it wasn't fun anymore. The culmination was this half assed covers album which broadcast to the world that RBF's career is pretty much over.
Worst song: "Won't Back Down". If you're wondering how Tom Petty translates to ska, here's your answer: it doesn't.
2. "Say Anything" by.......well.........Say Anything
More overreaching, pretentious, and embarrassing garbage from rock's new reigning narcissist, Max Bemis. Possessing the exact inverse of talent that he does ego Bemis comes up with more dreck that I can't imagine any one with any taste whatsoever willingly listening to and saying to themselves, "I'm having a good time".
Worst song: "Crush'd". A grown man wrote this. Wrap your head around that.
1. "I'm Not A Fan...But The Kids Like It!" by BrokenCYDE
Like there was ever any doubt, right? The upside is that the novelty of this band is just about over and by this time next year they'll be lucky to be playing the junior prom in Butt Blast, Arkansas
Worst song: "40 oz". A song so bad it makes their earlier effort "FreaXXX" look sound almost coherant (but not quite).
Working at a store based around music I get to hear all the new stuff that gets released every day. Some of it's great, some of it....not so much. Unfortunately the stuff that's horrible tends to stay with me longer than what I liked so here you go.
This is just my opinion of course, so don't be bummed out if you're favorite band is among the damned.
5. Any Indie/Folk album released this year.
Tom Lehrer once said that folk music was the "most popular form of idiocy among the self styled intellectual." It's hard to argue with that point after hearing the lot from this year. From the Avett Brothers to Chuck Regan I'll be hard pressed if I can think of a musical form that is more pretentious and hollow. The only reason to play this is to get a twee in bed which in and of itself is proof that you've given up.
Worst song: Take your pick, it's all the same crap.
4. "Coaster" by NOFX
NOFX has proven they are in fact one of the premier punk bands by showing zero artistic growth through out their career. Fat Mike, however, is the tipping point as he is not as clever as he thinks he is and his lame jokes become grating in short time.
Worst song: "Creeping Out Sara", an obviously desperate stab at staying relevant by name dropping the it band of the moment. And no, it's not funny.
3. "Fame, Fortune, and Fornication" by Reel Big Fish
A more fitting name would be "Beating A Dead Horse". RBF had a couple of hits by playing ska versions of well known tunes, and that was fine. Then they kept doing it, and doing it, and doing it until it wasn't fun anymore. The culmination was this half assed covers album which broadcast to the world that RBF's career is pretty much over.
Worst song: "Won't Back Down". If you're wondering how Tom Petty translates to ska, here's your answer: it doesn't.
2. "Say Anything" by.......well.........Say Anything
More overreaching, pretentious, and embarrassing garbage from rock's new reigning narcissist, Max Bemis. Possessing the exact inverse of talent that he does ego Bemis comes up with more dreck that I can't imagine any one with any taste whatsoever willingly listening to and saying to themselves, "I'm having a good time".
Worst song: "Crush'd". A grown man wrote this. Wrap your head around that.
1. "I'm Not A Fan...But The Kids Like It!" by BrokenCYDE
Like there was ever any doubt, right? The upside is that the novelty of this band is just about over and by this time next year they'll be lucky to be playing the junior prom in Butt Blast, Arkansas
Worst song: "40 oz". A song so bad it makes their earlier effort "FreaXXX" look sound almost coherant (but not quite).
