Dave Matthews Band got a lot more hate than they deserved
Nickelback hate was pretty bad but got better I feel. Animals is a banger.
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Justin Bieber. He can play like 5 instruments incredibly well. He didn’t handle fame very well and they kinda forced him to be what he is.
He’s like the dude version of Brittney. Like they even publicly sexualized him too it just looked a little different because he’s male.
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…
Insane Clown Posse
Outside of the Juggalos and Juggalettes they seem to attract a lot of derision but they have some bangers for sure.
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.
“Lost Without Each Other” is a genuine bop. They’re a lot better than they get credit for.
Smash Mouth wound up getting overplayed with “All Star”, but their debut Fush Yu Mang is excellent. Way better than you’d expect, and it’s worth a listen if just for their first radio hit, “Walkin On The Sun”.
Walkin On The Sun is actually kind of based if you listen to the lyrics.
That album definitely doesn’t get enough credit. It’s got some surprisingly heavy-hitting songs. Nervous in the Alley? The Fonz? Let’s Rock?
It’s crazy to me how many commercials used Walking on the Sun for the “So don’t delay, act now, supplies are running out” line, considering the broader context of the song.
I was definitely too young to understand most of those songs as a kid.
TBh I loved Astro Lounge (the album that All Star is on). The rest of the album is quite good despite the wearing out of its most famous track.
I soured on it pretty quick only due to the ubiquity of “All Star”, but I really should revisit that album. Even that song isn’t bad, it just got played to death.
It’s not as angry and energetic as Fush Yu Mang but I think it’s a solid album.
That album is really great! Road Man has a great tune.
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’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.
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 didn’t realize they were hated
Auto industry driven genocide
The Beatles are alright.
They just sound boring to younger people because they were so influential, their work got incorporated into all of pop music.
I don’t personally hate them but my college roommate did because he thought they were boring.
Even if you don’t grasp the context of the times, it’s insane to call them “boring” unless they never listened past “A Hard Days Night” or “Help!”
Even those are only “boring” because they were so groundbreaking and influential
Right, they aren’t boring by any means, it’s just before they started getting really experimental.
Though they were smoking TONS of weed during Help! and you can def tell that something was different imo. Meeting with Bob Dylan fundamentally changed them.
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?
It sure as hell feels like manufactured hate than real hate. With Nickleback, I only ever started seeing people making fun of them after an episode of South Park (iirc) made fun of them, which just made every one of those jokes posted by a user online seem like they just wanted to copy the show and get some laughs. It feels exactly the same when I see memes hating on Imagine Dragons.
The Monkeys were disrespected for being a “fake band” by many but created some good music.
Probably overlooked him somewhere but I didn’t see Ed Sheeran, I believe he’s okay, a good songwriter and very talented musician. He might be hated because it’s very poppy, but it’s cringe to hate stuff for being popular/pop.
I think, for a certain mindset (mine), it has been difficult to match his appearance with his music, which is basically pop that tries to be a bit sexy. I have no problem with unconventional-looking artists (Frank Black, Thom Yorke, etc.), but they don’t try to sound like players, as such, and I think that is where the disconnect is for me. I also do not enjoy his music, and I don’t really thinks he has much to say lyrically. There’s something unabashedly commercial about him that just irritates me.
That said he definitely has talent and i’m clearly not his demographic, so what do I know.
Moby. Play is a great album and I play that shit at least once a year.
His ambient stuff is my happy place
There’s a fun heavyweights podcast episode about Moby’s childhood friend who lent him the Folkways album boxed set, which Moby used to make Play, and never gave it back :p
Reminds me of when Bob Dylan was young and starting out, he was invited to a DJs house that had a bunch of hard to find albums and stole them, which basically shaped his taste in music.
That was the soundtrack to my uni years. It got old after a bit as it was pretty much ubiquitous, but I listened recently and really enjoyed it.
I remember my roommate said they should rename the album from ‘Play’ to ‘Songs for Adverts’, as it seemed like every commercial used a track from it at one point, which probably didn’t help the overplayed criticism.
Taylor Swift, the modern version. She used to be a genuinely talented singer songwriter but has gone way too far into the popstar life. I remember her playing solo songs on an acoustic guitar, and she was good.
i feel like you read the question (“actually not that bad”) wrong
Still works. She’s not that bad. Not that good either, but…
NOFX gets a lot of flack, I love their music.
Curious, what kind of flack do they get? I always thought they were well regarded
Elitist punks gatekeeping what counts as punk.
Probably my all time favourite band. Apart from the era where Fat Mike decided to dedicate entire albums to explain how hilarious it was to him that he is a kinky fuck who wear dresses and drink pee, while also having teenage children. One song would’ve sufficed. We got it.
