Asklemmy

I went to see The Offspring and Sublime (with Rome).

Offspring was pretty good though the arena had horrible sound. Sublime was hot garbage with Rome singing. The only thing saved it was the crowd knew all the words so we were all drowning out his shit singing.

(FYI, I hold different views than this instance)

TL;DR: for me it's current russian warsongs and covers of 80-90s classics that put the opposite meaning into them. Polina Gagarina, Shaman are the most known artists due to being banned from YT, but there are dozens of them. What and why - I'd try to explain in following paragraphs.

They don't feel either inspired or honest, most of the worthy artists don't want that mark in their resume so it's left either for newbie artists or oldies who fear they are losing relevance. The western-in-everything 'Я русский' is the only catchy tune local media empires could produce, others are even more cringe like '333', they don't even compare to what repressed guys did and do.

Surprisingly, the same notion is shared with my relatives who do support the war (unlike me) or at least our men there. We still have a tradition of singing along the songs of old over the table when we meet with our elders, or over the fire if camping or meeting in the countryside, mostly soviet songs with inclusion of 90-00s. And itso happens there's none of the promoted ones in the menu.

But that also tracks with the concerts on the TV we sometimes put on. It's all older stuff by mostly aging artists. The contemporary russian music culture, as I suppose, was castrated by some sort of negative selection and I can't think otherwise.

And what is really embarassing for me personally to hear is appropriation of songs that are either anti-war or asking for changes (namely KINO's ones) sang in this day and this year by those who support both the regime and the war on state TV. That's like this one republican guy just one hair width from discovering what RatM's songs are about. There's some second-hand shame you want to wash off in a bathroom right after hearing.

Florence Foster Jenkins singing the Queen of the Night's aria.

Can't stand the voice on Matt Bellamy from Muse. I could probably tolerate them with a different singer.

Trickhay on YouTube... Learned about him when he posted an ad on Craigslist looking for a singer for his music. He's become an inside joke for my SO and I. I think my favorite is "hoop dance".

A support band for Madness. To call them crap would be an insult to all the genuinely crap bands out there. They went through crap and came out the other side. Then they went through whatever level of shitness that was and came out the other side. I don't think anyone applauded them, except when they stopped making whatever ungodly racket they were making and went offstage. I've never been more relieved to hear a bunch of unmusical talent-free potty-mouthed morons finally STFU.

Guy from lost prophets

There many songs that I hate more than anything by the Carpenters but they are the only band with bad songs that I've had the misfortune of listening to more than one bad song of. I can't stand the treacly, cutesy bullshit they put out.

I would also put the person who sang " ON THE WINGS OF LOOOOOOOVE" on here but I can't be arsed to look them up.

i think untitled black is by sault has some of the most unemotional bland pathetic excuse for vocal delivery ive ever heard. it makes the entire record sound like a corporate mandated album

couple of songs are decent tho, like wildfires and the one with michael kiwanuka, but everything else is plagued with uninspired lyrics and mindnumbingly boring instrumentals. on top of flat "i was going to close in 5 minutes but a customer just walked in" vocals

Guns and Roses in '91 or so. God I loved them so, every song. When we got a chance to see them in OKC, with some band I'd never heard of, Crashing Gourds?, something like that.

We were tripping acid and the crowd was wild, should have been fun. They came out 2-hours late, screamed shit into the microphone, beat their instruments and left. Sometimes I couldn't even tell which song they were playing, that bad.

And worse, the opening band, who later became wildly popular, was apparently booed. We were late and had missed them.

This guy... https://m.youtube.com/@danmoon8886

I have been fighting my way through the "1,001 albums you must listen to before you die' list, and there have been some truly terrible albums.

New York Dolls, debut album

Brian Eno, my life in the bush of ghosts

Marquee Moon, television

Slade, slayed?

Sugarcube, life's too good

Barry Adamson, Oedipus Schmoedipus

Animal collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion

Heaven 17, Penthouse And Pavement

And the worst album I have ever heard on my life, king of garbage music Lou Reed and his garbage band of notmusic and pretention: The velvet underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico

I have a perhaps unreasonable dislike of The Best Day by Atmosphere.