I think if you want bands being mythologised, then you can go no further than Guns And Roses and The Stone Roses, both of whom never produced more than an album worth of decent music, yet both are spoke about as some sort of God-like geniuses.

Certainly not bad bands, but their reputations certainly outstrip their actual talent and overall musical output.

On a similar note... The Specials. First album great, second album 'OK', third album should never have escaped the studio.

I think Muse are utterly terrible. Radiohead aren't much better but I can appreciate some of their stuff. I seem to be in a small minority here but Arcade Fire just do nothing for me either

Hate is a strong word though, it's just harmless crappy music.

I've seen Coldplay live and I thought they were brilliant. Their albums are pretty dull to me but I really enjoyed the concert and would see them again.

To be fair I think their latest single 'Doom and Gloom' is amongst their best work.

I forgot about Radiohead as well, can't sand them. I used o hate Muse and never understood what all the fuss was about until I saw them live, they really are a world class live band, and amazing musicians.

As I'm typing this I remebered that I can't stand anything Rod Stewart has done out of The Faces.

Can i nominate Westlife,Maroon 5 and Savage Garden?.

Anything from Pop Idol, X Factor.

Their later stuff maybe, but made some brilliant stuff in the 80s, give or take Stipes voice.

Cliff Richard.

Think that's what grates on me actually!

Beady Eye

The Vaccines

Limp Bizkit

Muse!!

And any of that emo 5hit like MCR, Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco etc.

Oh, and Kings Of Leon - talk about overrated crap!!!

Kings of Leon - Biggest sell outs in the history of modern music

Definitely Coldplay. Yuck.

I find myself less able to become exercised about music I don't like any more, as the modern output of watered down, manufactured, auto-tuned dribble is, in the vast majority, just hateful.

I do quite enjoy my heretical distaste for The Beatles - as Vasty alludes to, the sentimental Scouse industry that has grown up around them is crashingly dull and has created a mythology that in my view, isn't justified.

I also like to dislike Muse; they are a classic example of how a collection of excellent musicians does not necessarily equate to a good band. Dull, pseudo-intellectual, self-indulgent and sanitised - it's not for me, I'm out.

Finally, I can summon up a passionate dislike for Williams; smug, strutting and unable to play an instrument, sing or write a song, he has the singular talent of believing his own hype.

pete docherty........waste of skin and an oxygen thief to boot!

I'll go with that!

Is Williams even an artist or just a fairground Norman Wisdom impersonator.

His churlish behaviour to the nice but dull Gary Barlow is especially nauseating. Gary is not my cup of tea but what talent exists in the Take That orbit is clearly his.

Coldplay
Maroon 5
Any of today's chart music it's all R n B dance music rubbish.

Adele. Hands-down THE most over-hyped artist of the last 20 years, hands-down.

Im am glad this thread was about bands people hate which allows everyone to just vent their prejudices rather than bands you like where you would all have been trying to be crawling up each others backsides with pseudo intellectual bull.

Hating the beatles because they took the limelight away from The stones is hilarious.

The rolling stones are resposnible for that. If they had all died in a plane crash about 1980 they would have had a great music legacy and would have been regarded as a great band.

At least the Beatles had the good sense to break up before they become a laughing stock and a parody of a rock band and not release shoite for 3 decades.

As for not liking REM because they are miserable and not mentioning the Smiths or Morrisey at the same time is laughable.

REM were a great band and spoke to a lot of people at the time. Any band who can make people think that The one I love is a love song deserve respect.

Personally i hate any UK bands trying to be some sort of american gangstas , Garage and crooners like Jamie Cullum , Michael Buble and their copycat from the X factor

Why I hate The Beatles with a passion. A short essay by Scooter Nik.

Musical history revisionism isn't a new thing. Apparently Elvis invented Rock and Roll, despite his early material being covers of earlier hits by black artists. What he actually did was to popularise a music that most of the American record buying public (ie white college kids) wouldn't otherwise have come across, the charts being populated with Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and similar bland swing acts. Fair play to him there, he released a beast that is still chewing up the musical world 60 years on (He's dead though, get over it).

Move forward to the sixties, and you have a young group starting out. They start as every young group does, covering other people's material. The difference here is that although they're covering black artists, in much the way Elvis did, these acts are by this point well known amongst the young music fan of the day (Motown was a 'known', although not very important at this point, label). They took those songs, reworked them in a way that took any real passion out of them, and unleashed them on the unknowing British record buying masses (as opposed to 'music fan'), allying it to a cute and cuddly public image. The first boy band in short.
The Beatles 'invented' the British beat sound - by washing US R&B to the point where it was a pale copy of the originals. At the same time, other British bands - noteably The Stones, The Animals, Manfred Mann - were covering the same material in a more authentic, and thus less palatteable manner . Compare The Stones and The Beatles versions of Barratt Strong's 'Money' for a fine example of this.
But the lovable scouse moptops were credited with somehow inventing a 'new' sound. By p1shing the originals out.

Now let's move on to the mid 60s. The Beatles have continued to thrive, living high on the back of bland pop songs and a massive fan base, largely fuelled by media photos of them arriving wherever they went to screaming hordes of largely prepubescent females (Hi there Bay City Rollers and Take That, are you taking notes?) and the odd 'witty' soundbite from the 'rebel' in the band, Lennon.
The Beatles discover harder drugs, and a new sound coming out of the US. Jumping on the bandwagon, they appropriate this sound too, to the extent they are now often credited with inventing psychadelia, despite it having been kicking around in the US for a couple of years earlier!

Finally the band implodes. They play a famous gig on top of their property and call it a day.

This wonderful band fragments. McCartney vanishes off doing rather twee child-level songs (despite his proclaimed song writing genius), Lennon (Ever the master manipulator of the media) stays in bed with Yoko, declaring 'Give Peace A Chance' as if it is some hugely radical idea that no one has ever thought of before, despite people having marched against the bomb since the late 50s. Harrison comes off the best ironically, having saved his material/been sidelined by Lennon/McCartney throughout The Beatles carreer. Starr? Well... he was a drummer. Enough said.


And this is why I consider The Beatles the most overhyped band of all time.

Why I hate all musicians with a passion. A short essay by Durham Giant.

The world was full of birds and animals and wondrous sounds of nature.

Stone age man copied the sounds and invented instruments to recreate that sound even though it could be done better naturally by wildlife.

Then those men and women took over and made loads of money from it and the animals and birds were marginalised.

Music is about lots of things and means different things to different people. To suggest that in some way some musician is more authentic than someone else is ridiculous as eventually every generation or artist is influenced by what has gone before it.

I would argue that Folk music is more authentic than every band you have mentioned it is what happens. Chill out and get over it

Hmm, I obviously didn't make my point very well.

OK, hype over originality or passion.

Is that better?

Well i could probably agree with that.

Dont believe the hype Public Enemy
Stars in their eyes Just Jack

Anything to do with the x-factor, jls, onedirection, etc...

My most detested group of all time without a doubt is take that. They were awful the first time around and are even worse now.