Blender's worst artists in music history

[Nerdius Maximus]

http://www.blender.com/lists/67198/50-worst-artists-in-music-history.html

This list is a joke. The Doors? Come on. Blind Melon, Live, Skinny Puppy, Primus, Oingo Boingo and Kansas are on there too. No list of "the worst artists of all time" that includes The Doors and excludes Justin Bieber has any credibility whatsoever.

 

[23skidoo]

Wow, that writer isn't going to make many friends. He probably just put The Doors in there so it generated some controversy over an article no one would otherwise give a damn about. I'm surprised he didn't include Elvis Presley or Bob Dylan, because from his comments on Crash Test Dummies, he seems to have a thing against singers with funny voices like Dylan (that's a joke - Dylan fans please don't firebomb me or singers who get fat like Jim Morrison and Elvis.

Alex

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Bad enough to have The Doors on the list but no worst music artists list is complete without the likes of Nickelback, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, Backstreet Boys....

 

[Pingfah]

I totally agree with what is at no.1 though.

But any list that brands Jamiroquai as "talentless" is worthy of nought but the bin. Jay Kay might be ripping off Stevie Wonder, but the band are anything but talentless.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

Bad enough to have The Doors on the list but no worst music artists list is complete without the likes of Nickelback, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, Backstreet Boys....

I've seen that list before and, to be honest, I enjoyed reading it. It probably helps that I'm not a fan of any of the acts on the list (including The Doors), but come on, no one wants to read an article like that and find a roll call of forgettable teen idols, do they?

 

[Owain Taggart]

The article just comes across as someone who hates music. He also also seems to have a thing against Canadian musicians, and by that, I mean that they list an artist's appalling fact as being Canadian. This alone discredits the article for me.

 

[Jetfire]

1 INSANE CLOWN POSSE
They sound even stupider than they look
Two trailer-trash types who wear face paint, pretend to be a street gang and drench cult devotees in cheap soda called Faygo, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope are more notorious for their beef with Eminem (who pistol-whipped an ICP homey in 2001) than their ham-fisted rap-rock music. They claim that a “dark carnival” visited them one night, prophesied impending apocalypse and made them its messengers. Between this circus gospel, they find plenty of time to rap about 40-ouncers and venereal disease.
Appalling fact While appearing on The Howard Stern Show in 1999, Shaggy 2 Dope told Sharon Osbourne to “buff my pickle.” She declined.
Worst CD The Wraith: Shangri-La (D3, 2002)

That is what makes them great!

 

[Garak]

28 CRASH TEST DUMMIES
They said Brad Roberts’s voice was so deep it could be heard only by whales. Not true, sadly
If you want to be recognized as serious recording artists with a whimsical, folksy bent, it’s probably best not to notch your only hit with a daft novelty song based around the world’s silliest lead vocal and title it “Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm.” The remainder of God Shuffled His Feet, this Canadian band’s second album, was much worse. They released I Don’t Care That You Don’t Mind in 2001. No one cared.
Appalling fact: They’re Canadian.

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Crash Test Dummies are ok, but all their songs sound the same to me.

Seems he left a lot off the list that deserve to be included.

Color Me Badd though, I remember when I was a kid and I hated them with a fiery passion.

 

[Amaris]

Yeah, this music list is the list of a wanna be hater. It's like Rolling Stone's 50 Best lists, which just go with the flow of the teen scene. Plus, it's from Maxim. They're too busy selling Axe deodorant, and showing side boob and top crack, to know anything about music.

 

[Captaindemotion]

No list that omits UB40 can be taken seriously.

 

[Aragorn]

Blender's worst movies of all time:

1. BloodRayne
2. Highlander 2: The Quickening
3. The Godfather
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Batman & Robin
6. Meet the Spartans
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. E.T.
9. White Chicks
10. Raiders of the Lost Ark

 

[Owain Taggart]

28 CRASH TEST DUMMIES
They said Brad Roberts’s voice was so deep it could be heard only by whales. Not true, sadly
If you want to be recognized as serious recording artists with a whimsical, folksy bent, it’s probably best not to notch your only hit with a daft novelty song based around the world’s silliest lead vocal and title it “Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm.” The remainder of God Shuffled His Feet, this Canadian band’s second album, was much worse. They released I Don’t Care That You Don’t Mind in 2001. No one cared.
Appalling fact: They’re Canadian.

^

Crash Test Dummies are ok, but all their songs sound the same to me.

Seems he left a lot off the list that deserve to be included.

Color Me Badd though, I remember when I was a kid and I hated them with a fiery passion.

Yeah, that appalling fact. I like them. They can at least claim to sound unique, unlike say, Nickelback and any of their copycats.

 

[DeafPoet]

Any list like this that doesn't include The Eagles, let alone place them at #1 with a bullet is complete horseshit. That is all.

 

[Nowhere Man]

Any list like this that doesn't include The Eagles, let alone place them at #1 with a bullet is complete horseshit. That is all.

First off, The Eagles are awsome. I can't stand Music magazines these days, they aren't worth a shit. The only one that has any credible journalists is Rolling Stone. All that bieng said, I can't say I disagree with this list all that much. I do disagree with The Doors bieng on the list. I also disagree with Arested Development and Blind Melon bieng on the list. This guy does seem like a jagoff though.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

What a strange list. It seems equal parts obvious criticism of artists everyone knows are terrible and then rage-filled backlash at bands that achieved popularity.

A better name for this list would be, "50 Artists That Undeservedly Achieved Popularity," because that's what it really is.

 

[Rett Mikhal]

What a strange list. It seems equal parts obvious criticism of artists everyone knows are terrible and then rage-filled backlash at bands that achieved popularity.

A better name for this list would be, "50 Artists That Undeservedly Achieved Popularity," because that's what it really is.

They already have that list.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

Bad enough to have The Doors on the list but no worst music artists list is complete without the likes of Nickelback, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, Backstreet Boys....

Add in Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit also. But the list was written at the start of year, so most people wouldn't known of Bieber I think.

I totally agree with what is at no.1 though.

Agreed, but Nickelback will always be the worse band in my eyes. This list kinder reminds me of the Max's A to Z of Shit Music

 

[Orac Zen]

The list doesn't include Savage Garden and thus is even more utterly meaningless than these sorts of lists usually are. Pure, unadulterated shit in recorded form.

Any list like this that doesn't include The Eagles, let alone place them at #1 with a bullet is complete horseshit. That is all.

Another worthy contender.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

It seems to be a combination of the usual suspects(Celine, Kenny, Michael) which doesn't show much imagination, and a kind of "I know what real rock & roll is" pomposity, so he has to include bands like ELP and Kansas to show that prog rock "isn't real rock maaaaaannnnnnn".

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

1 INSANE CLOWN POSSE
They sound even stupider than they look
Two trailer-trash types who wear face paint, pretend to be a street gang and drench cult devotees in cheap soda called Faygo, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope are more notorious for their beef with Eminem (who pistol-whipped an ICP homey in 2001) than their ham-fisted rap-rock music. They claim that a “dark carnival” visited them one night, prophesied impending apocalypse and made them its messengers. Between this circus gospel, they find plenty of time to rap about 40-ouncers and venereal disease.
Appalling fact While appearing on The Howard Stern Show in 1999, Shaggy 2 Dope told Sharon Osbourne to “buff my pickle.” She declined.
Worst CD The Wraith: Shangri-La (D3, 2002)

That is what makes them great!

Their mid-to-late '90s stuff is hilarious. After that they started taking themselves seriously, and that's where they failed.