Re: Worst band ever?
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Please explain how personal preference and taste are very different from 'worst band ever.' Is there some objective measurement I'm unaware of?
The Dead had one great album, American Beauty, I'll concede that. As a matter of fact, I don't really hate their music, although I find very little more boring than an hour long noodly guitar solo. I personally put them up there b/c of the complete loathsomeness of the subculture they spawned while obliviously touring for thirty years high on heroin.
Eric Clapton, IMO, is the most overrated of all the sixties rock icons. What has he done, post-Layla, that's worth a crap? Crank out background music for Budweiser commercials, and gooey ballads for forty-somethings to woo each other with. He's also the ne plus ultra of white-boy blues shredding (remember "Blueshammer" from Ghost World).
Anyway, of course I'm not saying these bands are worse than 4 Non Blondes. For that matter, these 14 year olds that live down the street from me have a band that's worse than 4 Non Blondes, but what fun would it be to pick them?
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Read the goddamn thread title, Christ. One of your 'worst bands ever' had a 'great album'? Durr....
Atreyu gets my vote in a New York minute, but probably not popular enough. Honorable mention for Blink 182....all the good ones are taken!
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