[Closed] which bands/artists/singers make you change the channel/leave the room?

Petula Clark, (spits) the first bar of the intro to any of her drones has me reaching for my biggest mallet. Shooting would be too good for her.

Mumford and Sons can make me smash things, or risk serious personal injury in my haste to make it stop, at any cost.

most "R'n'B" (and I don't mean Rhythm and Blues)
most boy-bands
bloody gangam style!!!

I've turned into such a grumpy old sod that I can't abide any music on the radio whilst in the car. I listen to 5LIVE, but turn it off at any mention of Catholics, John Terry or horse meat.

Then I sit in seething silence.

Robbie Williams every time.

My mate still ribs me about the time we were in HMV and I walked out because they put Robbie Williams on. This was at least 15 years ago.
And Robbie's music has got WORSE.

There are loads of others, but he's a stand out.

I've turned into such a grumpy old sod that I can't abide any music on the radio whilst in the car. I listen to 5LIVE, but turn it off at any mention of Catholics, John Terry or horse meat.

Then I sit in seething silence.

Oh dear god, that's exactly what I do 😯

Morrisey

The kind of generic thrash metal they seem to put on bike videos

[i]Petula Clark[/i]

Where the hell do they still play Petula Clark songs??

David Bowie - well the new stuff!

Micheal Jackson

Coldplay

as for radio - Alan Carr...wtf is he all about? Giggling with some equally irritating woman just isn't a well used license fee!

Professor Green, sounds like he should be either an auctioneer or a horse race commentator.

Another one:

RUSH! Loads of fans on here, but I find their twiddly wee guitar ****ery and lispy high pitched vocals the most puke-inducing load of tosh ever.

The theme from The Archers for one.

Other than that, I'm no big fan of the harpsichord or frivolous chamber music, but most other things I'll listen to.

I can't listen to The XX either. Its bloody awful wishy-washy bed-wetters music anyway.

But I read an interview with Call-me-Dave where he said that him and SamCam used to like listening to it when they went for 'cuddles in the afternoon'. BLEURRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Too much bloody information Dave!!!! FFS!!! Now every time it comes on I just have this nightmare vision violate my thoughts. The bastard!!! I've made myself feel quite ill again just typing that! 😥

Apart from Justin Bieber. Get that shit right off the airwaves.

Oh, and generally most boy bands. And girl bands. And a lot of modern marketing produced music. And that X-Factor rubbish.

Queen
Morrisey/Smiths
Abba

Oh thanks binners! Ruin it for everybody else. Bastard!

Petula Clark (spits again!) regularly gets played on Radio 2 and the odd advert

2nd archers theme tune!

Pink does it for me, same old dreary tat with power rock chorus, just makes me imagine a room full of angry divorced women in their mid to late thirties with bleached blonde hair with a coloured fringe and bright orange faces.

Queen. Eminem (thankfully not much of a problem these days). Any X Factor participant.

Looks like you've tapped into a forum gold mine here senor j

another vote for the ****ery that is mumford & sons, the hooray hicks get turned straight off.

HA.I've just added the XX to my list .
Trying to mind wash callme dave out of my thoughts.

Klunk - Member
another vote for the ****ery that is mumford & sons, the hooray hicks get turned straight off.

Ah, the posh wurzels.

This seems to be the thread for this - anyone heard Michael Ball's "The Perfect Song"... that really is unbelievably bad.
A song all about writing a song. That really gets my back up that does.
(it's so hard not to SWEAR on this thread!!!)

I used to like The XX 🙁 Not any more. Thanks Binners. 😉

Sorry folks

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On the radio ... ads... would rather listen to any of the acts above rather than ads... especially ALL the nanny-state ads... (it's something like 30% radio ads are nanny state)

TV... Gok Wanger, Jimmy "I like to take a spade to his smug stupid round face" Carr, Embarrassing Bodies, ITV full stop (except the odd Thursday night when the Spurs are on... hopefully Tuesdays or Wednesday next year) and John Craven who spoils Country File.... wished they'd put him out to grass

(Edit... Not sure you asked for TV, but was on a role so put it in... and I feel better now, thanks)

Nothing is that bad, The Script and similar do get me a bit miffed though. 👿

Hot ******* Chip

Coldplay. End of thread 😉

Its usually the michael bubbly , jamie callous middle of the road liftmusicjazz that gets me reaching for the sickbucket , that and keane, music to boil cabbage to in a bedsit

Queen, U2, phil Collins and ..... whisper it...... Tina Turner!!! She makes my skin crawl.

Not quite what you asked, but the shouty DJs favoured by Radio 1 have me reaching for the channel buttons, in the unlikely event that I've had the misfortune to hit the station in the first place. Zane Lowe, the Pound Shop Tim Westwood, for one. Actually, two, that self proclaimed 'big dog' has a face I'd never tire of slapping either.

U2
Coldplay
Mumford
Maroon 5
Any band/artist who wouldn't have a record deal/following if it wasn't for their haircuts.
Anything bland / songs that sound like someone's spent 5 minutes on the lyrics.

U2, Mumford & sons, Morrisey, Rush, Robbie Williams, Manic street preachers the list is long and varied.

How in the hell did these freaks get so ****ing famous?

Now I've had to add the XX too!

[u]DezB - Member[/u][b]

Another one:

RUSH! Loads of fans on here, but I find their twiddly wee guitar ****ery and lispy high pitched vocals the most puke-inducing load of tosh ever.

Are you my wife?

crikey - I had forgotten about Keane (& Jamie Cullum) ,they used to make me feel violent.

In terms of adverts, this one is pretty bad.

Annoying sparkly toothed sh*tweasel. Check.
Evil corporation. Check.
Excruciatingly bad. Check.

Bob Dylan.

[i]Zane Lowe[/i]

I try to listen to his show, he plays some decent music. But I can't - what a...

[i]Are you my wife?[/i]
If that's what you want 🙂

How could I forget - Elton John & Leo Sayer.

How do people listen their voices? Beyond me.

Leonard Cohen.

Now I appreciate it's probably because I'm a big dumb bloke with no soul or something but I've never heard so much crap in all my life. And poetry aside, he is a terrible singer. Other people sing his songs much, much better.

It doesn't help that my wife would almost certainly leave me for him if he asked. I know of plenty of other middle aged women who view him similarly. I just don't get it. Bad singer, very miserable, music to kill yourself to, mediocre poet... no idea.

I consider myself a fairly tolerant sort, but when Adele starts her warbling it fills me with a murderous rage.

[b]MUSE[/b]

sparkly toothed sh*tweasel

Meatloaf is on my list too.

Muse used to be good, been downhill since Origin of Symmetry though.. now they're just an embarrassingly poor Queen tribute act.

ACDC I can generally bear an intro, then Brian Johnson starts "singing". The interval between him starting and me getting to the off switch is too fast for instruments to measure.

Beatles Lennon, Mccartney - radio off material. The Doors - utter toss

Agree about Adele. Shouty cows voice goes through me. 👿

"ACDC I can generally bear an intro, then Brian Johnson starts "singing". The interval between him starting and me getting to the off switch is too fast for instruments to measure."

Burn him ... 😈

Florence and the Machine...

it's like an annoying posh girl at a party shouting 'I'm really crazy and interesting' at the top of her voice and out of tune.

.....and she ruined that Candi Statton Track.

Oasis.

And Kilo, you're first against the wall when the revolution comes.

[i]Burn him ... [/i]

🙁

As long as I don't have to listen to bilge metal while you do.

I never 'got' AC/DC. They're ok and all, but I really don't understand why they're as well regarded in rawk circles as they are. Bunch of self-important Donington ruiners.

With Bon Scott they were great, he had a proper swagger to his vocals.

Plus they had the classic 'died before his time' but combined it with the 'tribute singer raised from obscurity' mix with iconography and uniforms and you've got a nice safe dangerous hard rock band.

Don't dislike them with Johnson FWIW, just a bit vanilla.

To be honest, you can't beat a bit of AC/DC when sitting in the back of a Wokka scooting across the desert. Maybe a bit of RATM or Rollins as well.

Me neither Cougar, never owned any ACDC, couldn't name a track, can't stand the singers voice, don't get the school boy thing, they seem like the "Clarkson" of bands*

* by that I mean music for MOR middle aged, dance like your dad, ironed be-jeaned white males.

Elton bloody John
Bon blinkin Jovi
any of the boyband sh*tbirds onth telly
Gangnam bloomin Style

Florence and the Machine, again.

semi-operatic warbling. It just sounds awful

Queen I absolutely hate Queen, and Meathead ARRRGGGGGHHHHH

Nicki Minaj.

Like a trout connected to a compressor.

In terms of adverts

Andrex, 'scrunch or fold' you can tell who scrunches and they smell of poo as they're not wiping their blooming bum properly and that flipping wet wipes for the toilet 👿 agh!

Florence and the Machine...

+100000000

Queen. Absolutely dreadful. Surely the worst band ever to be considered a bunch of musical geniuses by a significant minority?

Pink Floyd. Turgid, interminably self-indulgent drudgery.

Robbie Williams - I can just picture his far away look, haunted man of mystery pose he uses all the time to no effect, he looks more like he has filled his trousers with porridge...

Muse - Since it was pointed out to me you can hear him breathing in between lines it annoys me no end.

N-Dubz - Get a mental image of Dappy - induces vomit.

Stone Roses - It was 20 years ago! they were crap then and worse now.

Vampire Weekend, Snow Patrol and another +10000000 for Florence and the Machine.

Have to add the XX to that list now purely down to the sweaty forehead.

Just turn on Radio 1.
Oh, and Manic Street Preachers.

Each to their own and all that, but don't really understand the hatred for Queen.. totally appreciate certain songs have been over played, but they have a pretty extensive and diverse back catalogue, as well as arguably the greatest front man ever?

Totally agree that since Freddie died they should have quit, and Brian May should stop saying yes to people (Buckingham Palace etc) - but overall you don't get many musicians criticising Queen for their musical output?

just some to list that i cannot stand.
adele (shouty pompous full of it ear violator)

emilie sande (a year ago no one had ever heard of her,now you cannot get away from her)

robbie williams (a great big c*ck)

justin beeper (aaargh 😡

bon jovdge (a load of old rubbish)

eric clapton (slow hand/slow w*nk more like)

beatles (just never done anything for me)

oasis (best band in the world my a&se)

I consider myself a fairly tolerant sort, but when Adele starts her warbling it fills me with a murderous rage

Adele is ace, she's brought Reeves & Mortimer club style singing to the masses!

LET THE SKY FO!
EE WILL CRUM BO!
WEE WILL STAN TOW!

As for me, Oasis, Blur, Deftones and Coldplay all make me a bit sick in my mouth.

Robbie Williams
Michael Bubble
Beiber

All make my skin crawl

In the 1980s the following BBC DJs were obsolete and knackers yard material:
Tony Blackburn, Bob Harris, That other one, Terry Wogan and yet, AND YET.......
They are all on R2 in 2013. What next, Simon Bates with Our Tune?
BBC, take then round the back and put them out of their (and our) misery FFS!

er and Stereophonics

Three pages and no one has mentioned Olly Murs?

[i]no one has mentioned Olly Murs?[/i]
Who?

[i]arguably the greatest front man ever[/i]

Yes, I'd certain argue against that point

Somebody did mention Gok Wan earlier, so I'm off: How it is that somebody who dresses as badly as him/her (i'm never quite sure) is considered to be some sort of authority on style is a total mystery to me.

I personally believe there is plenty of subject matter to keep this to a music thread...

Too many to mention but a team of vindictive scientists have taken the very worst of Maroon 5 put it in a big computer and have puked up Train. You can just imagine them guesting in every white toothed American teen series.
Hate them with a passion.

Any band/artist who wouldn't have a record deal/following if it wasn't for their haircuts.
Anything bland / songs that sound like someone's spent 5 minutes on the lyrics.

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