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[–] megabat@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Definitely Steven Seagal in that reggae song he did. This one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v4-zYghodc

[–] Trail@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I will upvote but I do not dare press the link. Yikes.

[–] zelifcam@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Evil_Opossum@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

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.

Ahh. The licorice jelly bean of music.

β€œGross… here, try it”

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[–] braindefragger@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tom DeLonge : Blink-182

Never hit right for me. Terrible voice. Nasally and whiny. Wanna be punk. Men in their mid to late 20s singing about the drama only a 15-year-old in high school would care about or experience. It was weird.

I had no issue with Billie Joe Armstrong and Greenday. I really enjoyed their career and catalog.

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[–] swab148@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Really surprised that no one's mentioned Yoko Ono.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The Plastic Ono Band... It is not good.

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[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

She's really not that bad if you've ever heard Linkin park.

[–] SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I posted it in reply to another comment, but I think this is worth it's own mention.

Puddle of Mud - About a Girl, live on Sirius

[–] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Sweet.... Jesus....

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[–] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.org 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

BEanS, bEAnS, BEanS,

JEsSiE ATe soMe bEanS,

SHe wAS HapPY, HapPY, HAppy

ThAT SHe aTe SOMe beaNS

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[–] Weirdmusic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. It's essentially unlistenable.

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It ain't easy listening, but there's nothing else like it. Pretty interesting how it was made.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Scruffy the cat.

Just the shittiest music. They were bad enough that despite it being over thirty years since the single listen I had of the one album I had, they still stand out for being bad.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago

Red Hot Chili Peppers, best band ever, but boy is Kiedis a bad vocalist. Kudos perhaps for not doing auto tune.

Fleas energy made up for it and the songs are all bangers so it kind of pushed you over it. But if you keep focused on the vocals it's shit.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago
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[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] rhacer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

My answer may not quite fit the topic. But I'll share anyway.

In the late 20-teens, ZZ Top and John Fogerty we're touring together. My wife and I saw them on the Jersey Shore (thanks VetTix!) and Fogerty opened the show and absolutely killed it. Then ZZ Top played and Billy Gibbons just didn't have it anymore. We left early.

Several weeks later they played Jones Beach Amphitheatre and thanks to VetTix we got to go again. Once again Fogerty knocked it out of the park and Billy was just not up to snuff.

It was sad.

Interestingly, Billy Gibbons is featured on one of the tracks of Slash's new album Orgy of the Damned. That track is the perfect fit for Gibbons and it holds together beautifully.

Rebecca Black.

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anyone remember The Fall?

Rest in peace, Mark E Smith, but fucking hell that was awful, but in a brilliant way

Thanks man

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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Not quite the answer to your question, but Cafe Tacvba. Great music, lousy singer, like that guy says about Red Hot Chili Peppers. Jesus Christ.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Shaggs, but I enjoy them anyway.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

David Lee Roth. Tone deaf

[–] UsefulInfoPlz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

David Lee Roth’s solo work… makes my ears bleed

[–] brrt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

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!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Crashing Gourds?, something like that

Smashing Pumpkins?

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

Probably not.

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[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Freespirit Graham.

My father used to book acts for a local club, and this guy played there once. He was awful. There's no nice way to say it, he just really wasn't very good. He played and sang songs that nobody recognised, and did it badly. To make things worse, he was paid, but went around with his hat at the end of the set asking people for money. Needless to say, he didn't get a good reception.

About a year or so later, my father booked another singer, and it was the same guy going under a different name. The music night was popular, so there was a decent sized crowd already there when he walked in, and quite a few of them remembered him. My father asked him what he was doing there, and he said that he thought it was worth a try.

He was told to leave without playing, as the people who remembered him were already annoyed, and weren't the type of people to suffer a fool kindly.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

I went to see The Offspring and Sublime (with Rome).

Offspring was pretty good though the arena had horrible sound. Sublime was hot garbage with Rome singing. The only thing saved it was the crowd knew all the words so we were all drowning out his shit singing.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

Florence Foster Jenkins singing the Queen of the Night's aria.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saw Hole play a show years ago and their opener was this god-awful band called Imperial Teen.

Hands-down the worst band I've ever seen.

Now, if you ask about the most disappointing concert I've ever seen, it was the Smashing Pumpkins' Horde Fest run. No one's showing up to hear you mix bongos into your songs and experiment with your music live.

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