Friday Afternoon Time Waster

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Good afternoon. So, it seems this group’s passion for music rivals our passion for Dawgs football. And, since Dawg news is fairly quiet, let’s keep the music theme going just a little longer.

Today though, I’m going to slam this thing into reverse. We’ve pontificated on artists that we formed our musical tastes with and artists we’ve enjoyed so much that we actually spend time and money to go see them actually play the songs we like so much. How about artists that just simply make you say… nope!

The Mount Flushmore of artists that will make you reach for the knob to change the channel every time. My list?

Whitney Houston
Cher
Bette Midler
Garth Brooks

My list may seem a little sexist but, I’m just being honest here. I will not listen to any of these 4. Yeah, Whitney had an amazing vocal range but, her choice of material, producers and sound was just awful. The other 3, just never released anything I ever want to hear. Hearing them is like nails on a chalkboard wrapped in flatulence.

So, who is on your mount?

PS: Please keep this civil, just because someone doesn’t like an artist you like, doesn’t mean it’s a direct attack on you and requires you to white knight for them.

PPS: If you have a suggestion for future time wasters, let me know in the comments.

Go Dawgs!

58 thoughts on “Friday Afternoon Time Waster”

  1. The Violent Femmes make me stabby. Same goes for any kind of “Bro’ Country” music; I’d name individual artists but they really are all alike.

    • Most fun as a show I ever had was the Femmes at Georgia Theater around 1990 or so.

    • Agree on “Bro” Country … anything and anyone in the genre is a no go for me.

      I saw the Femmes in 1985 at 688 during my senior year of high school. It was a legendary show … mainly because a mostly bootleg copy of their first album was part of the soundtrack of nearly every high school party in the early to mid 80’s in Roswell. Saw them at the first (?) Shaky Knees fest years later (along with the Replacements) … Gordon had not aged well.

  2. Starship (I shan’t name the song as I don’t want that earworm today) They were way cooler as Jefferson Airplane. Gotdam hippies, as Ranger Russ would say.

    Springsteen (except Glory Days and Pink Cadillac)

    Hootie.

    • Come on now, you KNOW you want to hear “We Built This City” on a continuous loop.

        • Sara is a masterpiece compared to “We Built This City”. That has to be one of the most annoying pieces of crap ever broadcast on the airways.

          Jefferson Airplane-Great
          Jefferson Starship- Pretty damn good (especially the early stuff with Marty Balin {Red Octopus was a masterpiece} and even the Mickey Thomas era with Find Your Way Back and Jane)
          Starship-SUX

  3. Generally:

    Mariah Carey
    Beyonce
    Jennifer Lopez
    Michael Bolton

    Usually I enjoy all types of music and can find one or two songs I genuinely like from even the most wretched of performance artist, but these four make me change the channel without fail. Close second list of folks that make me turn:

    Kenny G
    Adele
    Ed Sheeran
    Madonna

  5. For me, it’s pretty much anything after the mid to late 80’s. There will be an occasional catchy tune, but most of it is just noise (with the exception of Toby Keith…RIP).

  6. It all depends on the task at hand. Romancing a lady, Whitney Houston & Nora Jones.
    Drinking beer with my guys, Dylan, Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Hank Williams

  7. So many bad acts to choose from and, other than Violent Femmes and on rare occasions the Boss, I agree with what others have posted already. Here are four that will make me turn and leave a venue if they’re on the PA.

    – Stevie Nicks – though I’ll stick around if, by some miracle, I hear Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac. (And I think Christine McVie is all right.)
    – Led Zeppelin – one of the main reasons punk/new wave/alternative really needed to happen.
    – Grateful Dead – to quote a high school friend of mine’s reaction when we first plopped “Skeletons in the Closet” on the turntable, “My God, they suck!”
    – Loverboy – #4 could be a lot of other performers but Loverboy has always seemed especially soulless and shitty to me.

  8. I will expand to music genre’s to include instant off anytime I hear grund rock/K Cobain and any and all forms of rap. Rarely turn radio one to hear what is currently the new rage, since there is so muck fantastic music from mid 60’s to mid 80’s

  9. Love a wide variety of music primarily focusing on outlaw & classic country, classic Southern rock e.g. ABB, Lynyrd Skynyrd, MTB & jam/back scratchin music like Panic, Dead, et al. Also love classical for driving when working.

    Can’t stand any modern pop/bro country/ CRAP (country rap) e.g. Big & Rich, Luke Bryan (still a good dude from Lee County), Cane something. Modern pop country is garbage!

  10. Here are four popular bands that have no redeeming value, IMO.

    Jefferson Starship – particularly for creating “we Built this City of R&R.
    Hall & Oats – particularly for creating Maneater
    Foreigner – For all of their terrible music
    Grand Funk Railroad – For all of their terrible music

    • Jefferson Starship gave us the masterpiece “Red Octopus” and even a pretty good “Freedom at Point Zero”
      STARSHIP was the abomination that tortured us with “We Built This City”.

  14. I have a wide range that I like but favorites: Eagles, Boston, Journey etc. and those with fantastic lead and harmony. NO COUNTRY.

  15. Rush – bad memories of my younger brother listening to it almost exclusively for 2-3 years…..

  16. Celine Dion – All the subtlety of a tornado siren
    Michael Bolton – Sounds like he’s having an aneurysm
    U2 – The most pretentious bunch of assholes ever assembled
    Neil Young – Fingernails on a chalkboard

  18. Conway Twitty.
    The Oak Ridge Boys
    Elvis
    Alabama (FBothTMF)
    I used to not care for Willie Nelson until Uncle Gene (aka “Deke” because he was head deacon and took it very seriously) went to a Willie concert in the late 80’s, apparently thinking he was going to see the 1950’s version of Willie Nelson. According to my cousins he came back sorely disappointed and somewhat contact buzzed. “That Willie Nelson is nothing but a dirty, smelly, dang country hippie!” I’ve been a WN fan ever since.
    Bro Country
    Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger”
    Bon Jovi
    John Cougar Mellencamp
    John Conley
    Shit. This could take a while…

  20. As a professional hater I wouldn’t even know where to start. Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean if I had to go with 4 off the top of my head, but that list isn’t remotely exhaustive.

  21. Blink-182. Can’t change the channel fast enough.
    Funny enough, just saw a TikTok yesterday where someone was saying their sleep paralysis demon was Dave Matthew’s doing an acoustic set.

  22. Like list, Hank Williams sr & jr, Gene Watson, Tom T Hall, Etc. Channel changers, Garth Brooks, Tim Magraw, all rap.
    This by no means. Complete list!! Everybody got somebody!!

  23. Wow … A lot of head shaking in agreement on these lists. I will not to duplicate but …

    Bro Country (any of them)
    Kid Rock
    Jam Band stuff – especially the Dead, Phish and WSP (which was the single worst musical experience of my life and I had to see Roger Whitakker)
    Roger Whitakker
    Norah Jones – the former wife loved her AND thought she could sing like her … the both are terrible
    Virtually any artist that is part musician, part actor, part tik tok influencer

    • Here’s a question: Is a band that does jams only some of the time a jam band? I like the Allman Brothers. Well, except for their jams, which I invariably skip.

      These guys had it figured out.

  24. Outside of a few rare exceptions, pretty much any and every artist/group in the last decade or so. So instead of a Mt Rushmore I have more of an entire mountain range. Finding the older I get the more I like diving headfirst into genres from days ago that I previously ignored rather than try to find anything that I can tolerate out of the current crap they call music,

      • Lol there was a concert thread on here recently and I was trying work in a Coldplay/kiss cam reference but I couldn’t make it work.

  27. I’m taking it in a slightly different and controversial direction. Although I certainly like a handful of songs from each of these artists/bands except the last one, I don’t understand the reason they are so popular:

    Springsteen (movie was a bore too)
    U2 (early stuff was decent, but definitely not worth the hype in the 90’s)
    Pearl Jam (Sorry!I know they are a lot of people’s faves)
    John Legend (music and personality doesn’t appeal to me whatsoever)

    • Your first 3 were candidates for my list but, each one does have a song or two I will listen to even though I don’t much care for any of the three. John Legend isn’t even on the radar.

  28. This is tough for a couple of reasons. One, there are too many to possibly list. Two, I haven’t listened to the radio since about 1998, so it isn’t really an issue anymore.

    I guess I could just blindly add anything my 13-year-old daughter plays when she’s allowed to commandeer the CarPlay. No idea who/what any of that sh!t is, though. 😂

  30. Belgian beers are a flowing!
    On the like list…
    Waylon motherfucking Jennings
    The Allman Brothers Band
    Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
    Eric Clapton
    Elvis
    Elvis Costello
    Don Williams
    Motley Crüe
    The Rolling Stones
    ACDC
    Aretha Franklin
    The Band
    Jimmy Buffet
    Bob Marley
    Jerry Reed
    Jerry Jeff Walker
    Johnny Cash
    The Pogues
    Stevie Ray Vaughn
    Sprayberry’s favorite son Travis Tritt
    Van Morrison
    Jackson Browne
    George Strait
    George Jones
    Frank Sinatra
    Eagles
    Hank Williams jr
    John Anderson
    The Chieftans
    Sade

  31. I’m just shocked no one mentioned Nickelback. They’re the most popular band in the world….to hate!

  32. Jazz.

    I also remember back in the late 80’s Dan Rather was host of the CBS Evening News and closed a Friday evening with a story on the growing NYC rap music scene by saying…as if he knew…”Rap is here to stay” All I thought was how stupid that declaration was. MFer was right and unbelievable how pervasive it is now in nearly all music genres. An Italian rap artist was featured last night during the Olympic opening ceremony and we’ll have the upcoming Super Bowl halftime debacle.

    Blinded by the Light is my all time most hated radio song and you all KNOW he’s saying “douche” not “deuce”.

  33. 1. Red Hot Chili Peppers – ugh
    2. Coldplay
    3. DMB
    4. That amalgam of 90s bands that, to me, are the same: Blind Melon/Spin Doctors/Nickleback/Creed/Hootie/Sister Hazel/Blues Traveler (and others I am trying to forget)

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