Nickelback fucking ruined rock music by taking any sense of menace or skill out of it. They began what I call "the factory rock" movement, rock that sounds like it was assembled in a factory and then recorded in an abandoned warehouse. I hate them for that, but their personal songs aren't that atrocious, so I'm not gonna post them.
Creed is like if Nickelback was squared, though. Their shit is almost offensively referred to as rock, and gets play on alt-rock stations between Jane's Addiction and Alice in Chains. FUCK CREED, is basically what I'm saying.
Chris Brown is an insufferable prick and should not be allowed to make music anymore. This is mostly because he is a detestable human being, but his music is also nothing special in comparison to dudes like Usher, R. Kelly, even Ne-Yo! So why does he still have a career?!? This song more expresses his prickishness than his usual style, which is whiny generic R&B.
I wish I could like The Smashing Pumpkins, but Billy Corgan's voice just annoys me too much once he starts screaming/howling/cat noises? It's my least-favorite rock vocalist voice. Well, okay, you could probably find somebody worse (BrokenCYDE style) but that band is just going to be garbage all-around, while The Smashing Pumpkins are actually pretty awesome outside of Corgan's voice.
And then, well, there's my granddaddy king of bands I hate. This one was not an instantaneous thing, but more a slow burn. Every time somebody would ask me why I didn't love one band or another, I'd say something like, "Well, they're all just showing off, and I prefer drummers that keep to the backbeat and support everyone else in the band. It's kind of the same problem I have with Rush." Rush is a band of extremely talented people who have written a few great songs that don't fall to their usual traps; Spirit of the Radio, Tom Sawyer, Limelight, these are EXCELLENT songs. But most of the time, it's like a competition to show off who's the best, and in doing so they forever lose me. Geddy Lee's voice is insufferable and is at times worse than Corgan's howl. Neil Peart's drumming is the most ridiculous showoff-y nonsense I've ever heard, and they write their songs around Peart and Lee competing for backbeat stardom rather than trying to actually write a decent goddamned song. "Fly By Night" is probably the epitome of my problems with the band, especially because there's definitely a decent song being drowned by the fact that everyone is playing a different song.
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