Smashing Pumpkins

Thank God James Iha isn't there anymore, if he wrote one more song I'll kill myself.

Umm....Dresden Dolls.

Amanda needs to shave her fucking armpits? Lol. All I can think of.

When is step two...?

Deerhunter

'Turn it Up ***got' has two good songs, and a bunch of second rate art rock, and 'Cryptograms' takes at least 7 months to get into the ambient stuff. Although I wonder if I actually like it, or if Ive just tried to get into it so much that my brain gave up.

Step 2.....take your favorite album of your favorite band and toss it off an overpass.

That's gross.

Nick Cave
Some of the songs on Nocturama are overlong, and maybe even a bit rushed.

Steely Dan
Gaucho is a lame album. Except Third World Man, that's an awesome song. Katy Lied isn't very spectacular either.

David Bowie
I actually think Reality was a pretty mediocre album. Two or three great songs, the rest of it very forgettable. I just hope it isn't the last album he'll ever release

Sufjan Stevens

What the hell was he thinking when he made Enjoy Your Rabbit?

Symphony X: I love you, but really...the first album sucked vocally.

Rise Against
We get it. You hate bush. Now play some songs that don't sound the same.

AC/DC
You should have stopped 18 years ago.

Isnt though. She's very attractive minus the armpit hair that she could probably braid.....but shes all feminist and doesnt believe she should have to shave. I would hate to see her legs or even worse her..............!

Lol, this made me ****.

Madvillain:
Even you guys must know that the narration gets inane and boring.

Faith No More

To Mike:
The early years were great, man. You have extraordinary vocal talent and you made some awesome music in the middle stages of FNM's development. But goddammit, you're a shithead. Big Jim was the largest creative force in the band and you kicked him out because...he wanted to make music-oriented music? And boy, Album of the Year fucking BLEW. There were no redeeming qualities. Perhaps you should have called it "Mike Patton Plays Soft Alternative Dross, Accompanied by Four Other Musicians." No one could have misinterpreted that.

Bob Dylan
The Never Ending Tour sucks. Really sucks. It's been awful since 1989. Bob, how can you make great albums like Time Out Of Mind and then go on the road and butcher your songs?

Bruce Springsteen
Man, you need to fire Brendan O'Brien. He's made your last three albums of original songs worse than Human Touch. Worse than Human Touch! Who would have thought that possible?

Chuck Berry
How could you record the 50's greatest rock songs, make a decent 60's album (St. Louis To Liverpool) and still be able to record crap like Merry Christmas Baby, Sad Day Long Night, and Woodpecker? Some of that generic material he recorded in the 60's is worse than My-Ding-A-Ling, and we all know what that means. (Actually, I don't think My-Ding-A-Ling is that bad; of his famous songs, only School Day is truly awful. But I digress).

The Sex Pistols
(This should be self explanatory if you have any idea what they've been up to in the past few years. If not, I think we can all agree that Johnny Rotten, despite his immense talent, is a complete jag.)

XTC
Er, how come you guys haven't made any records since 2000? Come on, eight years is a long time! (That's the best I can do, short of blaming them for the horrendous 2000 remasters of their back catalogue).

The Stone Roses
Garage Flower is better than that trainwreck of an album you called "Second Coming," Ten Storey Love Song and Tears notwithstanding. There, I said it. Oh, and live, Ian Brown is awful. The famous Blackpool gig is amazingly painful to listen to.

Andy Partridge said in his newspaper column that he doesn't even know where Colin Moulding lives and they have no interest in working with each other , so XTC is effectively over.

The Beatles

As much as I love these guys, their early work can be pretty sh*tty at times.. I mean seriously, how many generic 1950s-esque love songs could they churn out before realizing that they could do SO much better???

The Who

After Keith died, they should have too. But noooooooooo.........

I'd say that they should have stopped making records. But still do some reunions.

Tool
10,000 Days feels just a mite too rehash in an otherwise steller discography. Would it really kill you to experiment a bit more Maynard?

Led Zeppelin
You were great while you lasted, but for the love of God please do not reform anytime soon. (rumors of a new vocalist replacing Plant? Wtf???)

Pink Floyd
Division Bell was lame, The Wall was weak, and King Crimson outclassed you even in your days of glory. And don't even think about reforming now that Wright's kicked the bucket...

Tool

I hate your fans. Also stop pretending that you don't think you're gods of music or something pretentious like that.

I'm sorry, I don't think I understand that.

A lot of the time they insist that they are media shy because they don't want to make a big deal out of themselves and that they are just a bunch of regular people who love music, and that they aren't sellouts, etc etc. But then you go to their shows and they have these hugeeee elaborate performances and stage set-ups and everything. Their CDs get released and it's a huge big deal with people going crazy everywhere. I'm not sure if I can explain what I mean. Don't get me wrong Tool are my favourite band. I don't know who's fault it is that this kind of pretentiousness gets emitted, but it does.

Ok, I get it now. Basically that theres a lot of hype over something and they are acting very humble. But when it's time for a concert they go over the top? Is that it?

Yeah pretty much. They act like their supposedly humble. They insist that they won't give into any kind of commercialism or commodification. But then the whole concept of them as a band is over the top in so many aspects - not just concerts. But yeah - pretty much.

Ok, I would say that they are a good band either way though. But I see where you're coming from.

They act like they're humble even though you know they ****ing love it. I see the same thing in Radiohead at times.

Same. But I'm helping to combat the spread of fanboyism!

Lol, same could be said for Anti-Flag and NOFX. They're so irritating.

But I don't like them, so I don't have to put up with it.

Don't compare NOFX to **** like Rise Against and Anti-Flag

Well, at least NOFX can be fun... when they want to be.

Rise Against and Anti-Flag are all like "BE VEGAN AND VOTE DEMOCRAT".

I'm curious...if you feel King Crimson outclassed even Pink Floyd's best stuff, why is Pink Floyd one of your three faves, and King Crimson isn't?

If you are referring to that ancient post where I listed the ten albums that got me into music, then that has nothing to do with my opinion now. All I said was that Pink Floyd was the group that got me interested in seeking out music; I never said they were better than other bands I started listening to afterwards.

Basically, they make good songs but for just about every good song they have a sappy political one.

I have no idea what post you're referring to. I'm referring only to the post I responded to. Since this thread was supposed to be about "taking shots at your favourite band" and you listed three bands, I assumed that they were (roughly) your three favourites.

Also, it was simply curiosity, not criticism.

Andrew Bird

You're starting to bore me (particularly the latest album).

Cursive

Thanks for making me wait for Happy Hollow when only 2 songs are worth a damn. Also, the album cover for Domestica is awful. So thanks again, this time for offending my eyes instead of my ears.

OH! *facepalm* Well, someone already dissed King Crimson, and since I happen to like a lot of bands, I just picked a few that seemed conveniant.

tiny hawks - you died too young.

Time Out Of Mind>>>You. Katy Lied is incredible, dunno what you're on about.

I've just never been able to get into it like I have with Can't Buy a Thrill, Pretzel Logic or Aja. I probably need to give it a bit more of a chance though (in which case I retract my previous comment about it)