Bands that get the most pointless hate

[Irish Rover Baird]

Here in Belgium, real punkbands like The Sex Pistols, GC5, Menace, Stiff Little Fingers, Bad religion (only oldskool Bad Religion, fuck their new albums) get bucketloads of shit tossed over them.
I don't understand the hate against them...
"Why do you hate punkbands?"
"BEcause they're scum!"
"Why are they scum?"
"Because they force people to express their own opinion, even if other people don't like it!"
"Okay, you can go back to your zombielife now...Idiot."


Oh, and Lady Gaga.
I'm not a Gaga fan, I don't even like her music, but I'm not going to give her any pointless hate, as I don't have an actual reason to hate her. She's just eccentric, but so am I, so who am I to judge her?

 

[CloggedDonkey]

Nicelback has been said (and yes, I do actually like their earlier stuff. Bight me), so I would say the Jonas Brothers. No, I do not like them, but they aren't as bad as people say they are. Do they suck? They're Christian Rock, what do you expect? Are they as horrible as people say they are? No. Some of their music doesn't make you're ears bleed and some of it is okay pop (I would like to point out I have a very low look on pop music). Not that they're good, but some people hate them too much.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Hell, any band. That's the great thing about music (and most things in general):

If you don't like them, you can ignore them. Like I do.

 

[theSovietConnection]

GAH. THAT'S THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO SHORT OF A TVTROPES LINK.

You mean like this? [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HateDumb] Hey, it's even related to this topic!

Anyways, I think a lot of the hate is pointless insofar as it seems to be people hating it just for the sake of hating it. Like a lot of pople who hate Nickelback. I know there are people who genuinely don't like them because they don't like the music, but there are an equal number, if not greater, of people who hate them and justify it with "because they're gay".

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Nickleback seems to be the top punching bag where I live.

 

[smithy_2045]

Every band.

All hate for bands is stupid, immature and undeserved.

 

[A random person]

Most mainstream bands, as much of their hate is due to their popularity. Not to say there aren't legitimate problems, but people would probably dismiss Nickelback as simply mediocre were they not relatively well-known.

 

[TeeBs]

In all honesty being the negative nilly here I think that there isn't exactly bad to hate an artist, the worst thing you can do to an artist is tell him his work is perfect when its not, and it should be the same for music, though this is a really hard topic to defend because I personally believe that the worst thing to happen to music is that it became and industry, but all the same I think there is to much hatred of pop idols in comparison to other genres that deserve a little bit more pressure.

Surjan Stevens recent EP got shit for reviews, and his last album did to, it was critically bombed and didn't sell because of it, but I still have mad respect for him, you know why? because he tried doing something new and it failed, he could have just done the same thing he did with Illinoise "A very critically acclaimed album" and the album probably would have sold, but he did what I believe every artist should do and change.

 

[Squirrel1328]

1) Slipknot; stupidest argument I've heard is, "they suck because they need 9 members to sound good," So they sound good but they suck because their different?

It's because they really are not that great (I find them merely alright, but that's not the point). And having nine members in your band and being out-done by a one-man project whose sole member is far younger than all of your members does not bode well for your band, really.

maybe some examples please?

Personally they aren't being outdone, and there not playing the same music, you can't judge one as better if they're not playing the same stuff. And the same could be said for any band with more than one member. Find me a one man band that could play 3 drums kits, 2 guitars, a bass, a turntable, media samples and sing at the same time

 

[Squirrel1328]

Any bands that get blamed for crimes because of their "violent lyrics", its not their fault for the crimes its the people who take it too seriously

 

[The Rockerfly]

The most correct answer is DragonForce. They are gods. Hating something for being amazing is possibly the most pointless form of hate.

As a very big Dragonforce fan I must say it's "Dragonforce" not "DragonForce"
I completely agree though, they play a few bad songs and it gives the idiots who dislike their style of playing something to go on about

If you go out and buy a ticket to see them today, you will hear that they sound just as good live as they do on their album

I was a little disappointed with Ultra Beatdown though, however the special edition version was an improvement

 

[Schmeev]

The most correct answer is DragonForce. They are gods. Hating something for being amazing is possibly the most pointless form of hate.

My hate for Dragonforce comes from them being a damn studio band. Herman Li and Sam Totman have improved since the older days, but they still can't play all of what they've recorded, and being a guitar player, it really bothers me that they do that. As much as I'd like to record some of the things I've written, I can't play all of it at my current low as hell skill level, so it's gonna sit there until I can. That being said, I do like their music, I just think they should be able to play their own songs live in their entirety.

OT: Coheed & Cambria seems to get a lot of hate because "THEIR SINGER SOUNDS LIKE A GIRL, SO I CAN'T ENJOY THEIR MUSICAL TALENT AT ALL". The correct statement is that he has a very high vocal range with a wicked accent, and his falsetto sounds like a girl. Also they are insanely talented musicians.

 

[Wardnath]

Find me a one man band that could play 3 drums kits, 2 guitars, a bass, a turntable, media samples and sing at the same time

There's an example right there, the hyperlink in the blue writing.

Edit: Removed part of this entry.

 

[Schmeev]

Regardless, there are somewhat objective ways to gauge musical talent, and that would be the technical difficulty of the musical piece in question. A guitar or violin solo of a high skill level is obviously a better quality piece of music than a song played on synth, which is why, regardless of personal taste, classical and metal music is always "better" than pop. You also get points for writing your own songs.

A solo on any instrument can be of a ridiculously high technical difficulty and not be better in quality than another piece that is simpler. Technical difficulty does not imply a good piece. Get to the Choppa by Austrian Death Machine certainly is more technically difficult than say, Moonage Daydream by David Bowie, but that doesn't make it better. It's how everything comes together in that piece to convey its feeling.

One way or another, it still comes down to what is pleasing to the ear, and that's still subjective.
OT: I forgot about this one...anyone ever mention a song by one band, only for it to be countered by "No, I like THIS band", like it's either you like this band or THIS band? I got that with The Beatles and The Beach Boys for some reason. It wasn't "No, I don't care much for their style", it was "No, I like The Beach Boys". Pointless hate? Maybe not hate, but a stupid as hell excuse.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Nickelback's first couple of albums were pretty good actually. Sure, they're generic and a bit repetitive, but they wrote some good riffs. Their later albums sucked a bit harder though.

Also Avenged Sevenfold. They look like a bunch of bellends but they're pretty damned talented (except maybe the singer. He's got better though and at least he can sing in tune unlike some people *cough*Tom Delonge*cough*) and they've written some great songs. Even if people don't like them I can't see why they deserve such extreme hatred.

 

[Littaly]

Is there any hate towards a band that isn't pointless?

 

[GiantRedButton]

I would have to say Justin Bieber. And most other pop stars.
If you don't want to listen to them, then don't. Don't hate.

But the problem with popstars is that you don't have that choice , isn't it?
They appear on Tv channels where they have no business appearing in, get played in malls etc.