I was flipping around the radio stations on my way back to Philly from Allentown last night, frustrated by the fact that there are 1) too many commercials, 2) too much crappy R&B, and 3) too many bands who are overplayed as fuck.  I usually listen to my iPod, but I broke my third iPod-to-radio converter last week and, being the cheap bastard that I am, have yet to replace it.  So I’m stuck with the airwaves.  While I usually listen to WMMR (93.3) or Radio 104.5, last night they simultaneously played two bands whose music I never need to hear again. 

Thus, a blog was born.

It’s not because the bands themselves are untalented or their songs are bad, it’s just that their music is overplayed and all sounds the same.  The music itself has lost its luster from being in constant rotation.  Here are a couple bands I thought of that I never need to hear played ever again:

1) Everclear.  Art Alexakis - you have daddy issues.  I get it.  But all your songs are about this and if you couldn’t get it out in one album, you will never get over it.  All of your crap sounds the same and I hear you are a sanctimonious bastard anyway, so radio stations, please just stop playing their music.  Thanks. 

2) The Offspring.  Admittedly, I sing along when cover bands play “Keep ‘Em Separated.”  Their songs are damn catchy and I think that’s the problem – no matter which Offspring song gets stuck in your head, it is interchangeable with every other Offspring song that has ever been played.  I’m bored with it.  Dexter Holland never shows any emotion other than ‘snarky screamer’.  Maybe he and Avril Lavigne should be locked in a dark room with no windows and try to outsneer each other until their lips peel back and their heads explode.  That would be awesome.

3) Fergie/Black Eyed Peas.  Okay… this is because this music is kinda bad.  Although the post-Fergie BEP stuff has a good beat and is “danceable,” it’s too cheesy to really be taken seriously.  Here’s what you can expect from this motley foursome: cutesy, almost non-sensical lyrics, some degree of social consciousness (albeit clouded by the fact that they are not so much in the hood anymore… and Fergie is white), at least one attempt to get people retarded and the party started, and Fergie forgetting the fact that she can actually sing (I’ve seen her sing – live – and she is damn talented), but wastes it by pseudo-rapping.  Must be the tightness in the face from all the surgery.  Can’t open the pipes that well.

I’m sure I can think of more… like, the obvious Shania Twain or random-nameless-semi-talented-Puff-Daddy assembled group of identically dressed dancing 16 year olds.  What do you think… which bands (and I don’t mean crappy bands) do you really never need to hear again?  Comments, please!

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