Hanson. Their curse was that Mmmbop became THE hit early in their career. Their later stuff is in fact alright and with a lot more skill involved than a single repeated hook.
I’ve met so many people who hate Meatloaf. I think Bat out of Hell is a top 10 album.
Back when I was a wedding DJ, I’d queue up Meatloaf when I had to take a shit
The songs are good. The person was a POS that I’m glad is gone. Sadly. So many musicians of that era are maga turds.
Meatloaf was a terrible human being, it’s hard to ignore that and like his music. I used to like that album before I knew though.
I don’t think being pro-Trump and then realising he was a sack of shit and then becoming anti-Trump necessarily counts as being a terrible human being.
His only other controversial stuff seems to be being a climate change denier and anti-vaxxer but I put that down to stupidity over any malice on his part.
Plus you can argue that Jim Steinman was a bigger part of Loafs music than Loaf himself.
I don’t hate it, I just don’t get it. Rock boomers always ranked it pretty high. The album art looks like the most killer metal album ever. And then I drop the needle for the first time and it’s fuckin’ showtunes.
That makes sense, because the music is repurposed from a musical that Meat and Steinman were writing.
Ghost comes to mind. I’ve never had a problem with them and a lot of their songs I think are pretty good. Seems like they get shit on a lot though.
Have anything to read about them? Never even heard of them
Gotcha. Ghost is a metal pop concept band, where the front man is an ongoing chain of satanic antipopes (while still being the same dude in face paint). Only they are all really bad at converting the world to Satan worship on account of doing the actual work is no fun, and what’s the point of being the satanic antipope if you aren’t gonna have fun.
Sounds great! Only… Metalheads are like “this isn’t metal” and they’re kinda right. Its pop music, but metal and satanic.
Also, the front man may have fucked over his bandmates, or maybe not, depends really. I’m inclined to say his behavior may have been shitty, but that’s something you should work out beforehand.
As a metal head, I didn’t understand Ghost for the longest time. I didn’t hate it, but “this isn’t metal” was my exact thought, lol. Took me a few tries before I finally thought they were “okay”. Then I went to see them live, and now they’re probably in my top 15 bands.
A lot of fellow metal heads out there don’t like it when music is fun enough to be enjoyed by people who don’t keep a closet full of long-sleeved band shirts. A couple years ago I ran into an old coworker at a Fleshgod Apocalypse show and they got angry when I asked if they were interested in tagging along to an upcoming Dethklok show.
I saw Dethklok and Babymetal together, your old coworker would have hated it.
I love ghost. Great songwriting and their mixes are fuckin solid (Andy Wallace of course)
I can’t listen to Ghost because someone said they sounded like Scooby-Doo chase music.
Lady Gaga with Satanic/Catholic imagery.
They’re basically Dark ABBA
I’ve never really listened to Ghost but I have a buddy who really likes both them and ABBA, so that tracks
Really? I’ve never heard anything bad about them, whenever I hear someone talk about them it’s always very positive
“they’re not ‘heavy metal’, and not really satanic”
People just struggle to put them in a category, and that hurts some people’s brains but I really dig it.
Lars Ulrich of Metallica is I think the most hated metal musician today, with the Napster case and his recent performances which are way too snare-heavy if you ask me (some would use the word “lazy”).
But the large majority of the metal scene acts as if he was the worst drummer ever, which is obviously not the case. If you go and listen to Metallica’s 80s and early 90s stuff, including bootlegs of live performances, this drummer is more than capable, but he also invented a lot of fills and patterns that came to be used prominently by others, like Mike Portnoy.
So I’m not saying this in defense of the guy - don’t know him personally - but that’s a blatant case of people not listening with their ears if you ask me…
I’m sure “most hated” has already been covered, so I’ll go farther down the list and pick one that’s a little hated and IMHO more than “not bad”: Crash Test Dummies.
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm gets clowned on by people who remember it, but (1) it’s pretty good, and (2) CTD’s first three albums are full of super catchy folk-pop-rock with decent lyrics. Some of the third album, and then subsequent stuff gets deeper and deeper into Brad Roberts’ then-current interests and generally doesn’t grab me, but more power to him.
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm itself was undoubtedly picked to be sonically polarizing and grab more attention than some of the slightly less “Crash Test Dummyish” tracks.
I didn’t realize they were hated
I saw them at the Fillmore in mid 1999. They were great live.
But what really knocked me out was half way through the second set the singer (sorry don’t remember his name) walked up to the mic and said “this song has been in our heads all week and now we’re gonna put it in yours.”
…And proceeded to play a flawless cover of Hit Me Baby One More Time. The lead singer even did some of Brittny’s moves from the video.
I’ve never listened to any of their songs besides mmm mmm mmm and I still love it so much. Its a defining part of the 90s for me
Honestly, I like CTD, but with just a few more songs, Superman’s Song, The Ghosts that Haunt Me, and Afternoons & Coffeespoons, you should probably have enough for a lifetime, LOL. Superman’s Song may even be vaguely familiar if you were reading comics in those days, as it came out not too long before the (in)famous Death of Superman arc.
Imagine Dragons. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is:
They picked up hate for being marketed like they’re some kind of super hard rock, even though they’re not. But their music is good for the genre it is. The lead singer was raised Mormon, but is now an activist for LGBT youth.
i think they picked up the hate for being played everywhere and a lot of their songs sound the same. Interesting lore on the lead singer, that does make me like them more
Probably Nickelback. I’m no fan, but they seem to get the most hate of anyone just for being mediocre.
I did a studio session with them about 20 years ago, when they were still pretty popular and before they were widely considered to be a joke, but I was not a fan. When the studio I was working for called me to do the session, my wife said, “Watch - they will end up being really nice guys and you will end up liking them more because of it.” In reality, they were arrogant dickheads, and I hated them all the more ever since.
Really? When i worked with them, they were all really nice guys. Surprised to hear that.
People at the height of their own popularity tend to be dicks. My mom organized some event with Neil degrasse Tyson during his hay day and said he was pretty insufferable.
He uhh always has been and still is as far as I’m aware. He talks down to everyone, even the camera. And him tearing apart movies was the most obnoxious thing. We know Neil, we know.
He’s somehow one of the most pseudointellectual people alive despite legitimately being an intellectual.
When I heard him talk about his relationship with Carl Sagan and how he was one of the very few people that were willing to invest time and energy in him as a black man in STEM at the time he made a little more sense to me. I feel like having to fight for it has probably made him a lil crispy around the edges.
Well, knowing they’re all assholes helps me not feel bad for all the hate they get.
and like, they’re not even that bad
Foo Fighters, for some reason, are fucking loved, and yet if you actually listen to their albums, they’re just… meh
they got a few good songs and a lot of things I never want to hear again. and that’s coming from someone whose favourite band was them for a very long time. not to mention they sound like shit live
Comedy Central destroyed Nickleback. There was a comedy special or show, I don’t remember. Anyway, they promoted the show with a clip from a stand-up bit that was at Nickleback’s expense. I you watched The Daily Show, or South Park, you would have seen that ad a hundred times. After that, liking Nickleback was an embarrassment.
What follows is my bad recollection of the joke.
People say that music can incite violence and I think that’s true because every time I listen to Nickleback I want to hurt… Nickleback.
i understand that nickelback is low hanging fruit, but limp bizkit is right there
I unironically love the music of Limp Bizkit, but Fred Durst seems like a shitty person in many ways.
Funny enough, Fred famously flushed a cutout of the lead singer of Nickelback on stage.
That was really what gave everyone the ick. But I defy anybody to say they can’t name at least 2 songs of theirs they liked. My mom liked chocolate starfish so much when I was listening to it that she went out and bought her own copy.
I can 100% say that.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anybody hate on Limp Bizkit like I’ve heard them hate on Nickelback.
At least LB had some personality, and more than one chord progression
Yeah. When Limp Bizkit had their crap album, they just disappeared. It was also around the time that Nu Metal was dying, so the end was swift.
Nickelback died a lot more slowly.
Oh please, Limp Bizkit only did it for the nookie.
Come on…
Currently Imagine Dragons. But I remember when Nickleback also was the butt of many jokes despite not being a terrible band.
There’s hate for imagine dragons? Or is it just the same Nickelback “ok, but not exciting” hate?
