If you could unplug them...
 

Name a band...any band...a band whom you think should not be allowed to play or record anymore.

My pick: Matchbox Twenty.

I could mention any of a dozen boy-bands, but that's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy due to their short half-lives.

So: Goodbye, Aerosmith. And take Creed with you.

Agreed with the Aerosmith comment...please make it stop!

ANY rap group.

Is Everclear still releasing stuff these days? God, their one-trick slop got old quick.

Gotta go with Creed here. There's never been a band that annoyed me as much.

Sugar Ray?

True, Sugar Ray only had one or two decent songs, but I can only remember one Creed song that wasn't like fingernail clippers on my teeth.

radiohead. :D (kidding! dont hurt me!)

actually, i have to go with aerosmith on this too. i love their early work, but it started to go downhill with crazy/amazing/that other song that sounded just like the first two (didnt snl even make fun of this?), and became a train wreck the moment they appeared onstage with britney spears during a superbowl halftime show.

ugh.

~james

All the unplug suggestions are good, although Aerosmith gives me hope that there is life after death, albeit in some strange, Las Vegas, lounge lizard sort of way.

If the sound coming from my radio sucks, I turn it to somehting I do like, or shut it off and listen to a CD or my MP3 collection. The high burnout rate of the boy-girl-lemur-band de jour is entertaining.

What, just because Steve Tyler died in 1988 and nobody's told him yet?

Aerosmith was good until Steve got straight.;)

I'd say the official downhill slide began with Get a Grip and has picked up steam since. Don't get me wrong, I love Aerosmith, and I understand that bands change and evolve over time. But I ain't diggin' Aerosmith's slide towards outright pop.

But, I really dig One Way Street and Seasons of Wither.

     I got my wish Kurt CoBANG pulled the trigger. Of course, now I have to hear all these whiny bastards talk about how great he was. No, he was a weak loser. Once you have a child you lose all right to end your own life. Up untill then do what you want, but giving your own child the trauma of having his/her parent kill themselves is the act of one incredibly selfish bastard. Oh, I hated their music too.

Matchbox Twenty is an excellent call.
I have also instigated a blanket no play rule for Melissa Etheredge, Blues Traveler, Indigo Girls, and any of the designated diva vocal stylists (a rather large and annnoying grouping). Some rap is interesting, but is hard to find, as much of it sounds alike, or annoys me with its silly posturing. Very similar to my reaction to rockin' hair bands. So that would bring on a tug.
Dave Mathews...again? I've found my hand on the cord.

I'm sick of people telling me that Classical Music is superior to all other music.

Formerly popular bands who either broke up or just stopped playing/recording, whose members are now all over 40 (or more), that get back together and do a "reunion" tour.

But it's true. None of this crap the kids listen to today holds a candle the the classical geniuses.

Like the beatles or Grand Funk or....:p

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs...he's a great businessman, but he should never be allowed to pick up a microphone again.

Eminem....I think his music and merchandise and possibly the man himself should be dumped into the nearest sewer effluent.

Oh...and William Shatner should never be allowed to sing "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" again or it's death by concentrated phaser fire.:D

Mannheim Steamroller. Truly, the only answer is a wood chipper.

Hey!! I love them. Even made the pilgrimmage out to QVC Studio Park to see them live! (I am also a Big fan of Chip Davis' other project ... CW McCall)

Oh, man. Manheim Steamroller...

I spent the weekend at my brother's, and we were sitting around after just having seen The Matrix Reloaded. We were agreeing the Fresh Aire series is a guilty pleasure for us. I don't know why, but we had a copy of Fresh Aire III that was playing in the background continuously one summer long ago, so we were kind of inoculated, inured, I don't know.

We could sit and listen to it now, and not bat an eyebrow, but if my sister-in-law walked into the room, she'd give us that "special look" and ask all manner of needling questions about it, and we probably couldn't defend it. I don't even know if I could call it an acquired taste. It's magnificent orchestral themes sometimes set to weird beats, covered in a generous portion of cheese.

I have all 8 Fresh Aire CDs. I went out of my way to find them.

Shame. Shame on you both! Shame on me for buying that CW McCall album for my Mom when I was a kid. Now I'm culpable.

The Steamy roller reminded me of the worst concert performance I have ever endured... Pat Metheny. UGH. Talk about your overly processed cheese. ICK. He was interested in making his guitar sound like everything else in the world but a guitar. And it was annoying.

Hey...Pat is a local guy...well, he was. From Lee's Summit, just next door to Grandview. I have a couple of friends who took guitar lessons from him back in the dark ages.

Not that I listen to his music or anything...but he uses guitar synths, and I admire that.

Can we PLEASE unplug all playlist based radio stations for the good of all humanity?

So, you're asking that we wipe out most radio stations in this country?

Sounds good to me.

Barring Black Sabbath who are outside of all rules. :cool:

I can't think of any bands that I want to unplug that won't do it themselves in time. Good Charlotte comes to mind, but they'll die out soon enough.

Actually, Blink 182 really piss me off. So do Sum 41. And Madonna just has to go.

As long as Ozzy sings.

Well, duh! ;) Black Sabbath isn't Black Sabbath without Ozzy (well, technically it is, but we all know it isn't) though some of the stuff they did w/o him was alright (but not bloody brilliant, as was the stuff with him :D ).

Ozzy--god
Dio--good
Tony Martin--god awful

Yup on the first two, but not on the last. More humour could be had if we said:
Tony Martin - good god! awful! :D

Well, maybe not.

Bitch session?
 

Wasn't the original topic who would we WANT to see unplugged, not who we wouldn't?
But before I get to that, isn't the claim that music is these days is worse a copout? How much cheesy pap was there back in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, and as long as there's been music? That kind of crap has always been around. Watch Amadeus.
That being said, I would love to see Eminem unplugged. Why? Listen to how he says what he does. Do you know anyone else in the pop world who is as openly self-examining and self-critical? Whether you like his creations, let's not call them straight music, he forces an opinion. Can anyone tell me how a montage was originally created and what the purpose of it was?
Besides, Eminem's original claim to fame is supposed to be his freestyle skills. Who wouldn't want to hear someone that's supposed to be the best at what they do?

Re: Bitch session?
 

It depends on how you stated your argument, headsplice. You might be right either way.

Sometimes in order to move forward, the old must be swept away completely. Yeah, kill most of the stations. Most of them (by far, most of them) suck heinously, and are whores for whoever has the biggest promo budget.

Remember when Payola was a scandal and triggered a Federal investigation? Now it is simply a way of doing business, just like any other form of crime.

Re: Bitch session?
 

[quote]Originally posted by headsplice
Wasn't the original topic who would we WANT to see unplugged, not who we wouldn't?[quote] Still mostly on-topic. :D

eah, but most of that stuff has unplugged tiself so we no longer have to worry about it. However, we do have to listen to the modern equivalent and can therefore wish for it to be unplugged.

Oh my goodness......Pat Metheny is a GENIUS. He and Lyle Mays are, IMHO, among our greatest contemporary composers. His complex and brilliant melodies and dreamlike orchestrations.........well, I just cannot imagine anyone with an ounce of passion in their heart not being awed by his work.

Jessica Simpson
Ashley Simpson
Ashley Judd
Brittany Spears
Christina Aguleria
Any actor or actress who thinks they can sing

Metallica. They have sullied thrash metal terribly these last years.

Springsteen - retroactively

Creed is a slam dunk. Suckitis.

Green Day. There are worse, but not many worse AND more annoying.

Him and Cradle of Filth.

Since we're not limiting this to bands, but are allowing soloists, I'll attempt to incur some wrath with the suggestion that Celene Dion be silenced.

Her heart might go on, but I wish her singing would stop.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA-MEN!

And make it hurt.

Anything Emo has just about worn my last nerve. Enough skinny boys whining and crying already. Turn up the damn guitars and make some noise, you wimps. :band:

modern metal also pisses me off. Tune your guitars back up from drop Z tuning and stop screaming about cumming blood and raping 8-week-old corpses, ya fucktards.

Emo is the worst though. I'd still pick Cannibal Corpse over Fall Out Boy and Death Cab for Cutie.

I wouldn't might if all the Tom Petty stuff would disappear from existence.

HERESY! Petty pwnz. He's been getting worse and worse as time goes on, but most things do. Mary Jane's Last Dance is good, ...all the tracks off his first couple albums are good.

Sorry. He's too whiny for me. Just one of those voices that is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

That Gretchen Wilson could make her way off the airwaves and I wouldn't be too upset.

Pearl Jam. Blech. Aqua is a close second.

And Tracy Chapman. She's another one I wouldn't miss.

Give her a fast car.

And let her drive.

Off a cliff.

You said it bro.

I should make it just fine without Kid Rock. Completely absent of talent.

As long as she promised not to sing, I could offer her a comfortable resting place in her retirement, though.