Blender's 50 Worst Things to Happen To Music

[troutman]

http://music.aol.com/home/blender/rock-6

Pop's all-time lowest moments. What did they miss?

21. Nearly every hip-hop video:

We get it.

Your ride is pimped, your crib is a castle and at the drop of an ice-encrusted hat, you can have tons of scantily clad ho's pouring bottles of Cristal down your gullet while you kick it in the hot tub. Congratulations to a generation of hip-hop video directors for making decadence seem so … boring.


28. Loss of Indie Record Shops

Sure, the big-chain megamarts save you a few dollars. But do their employees know you by name? Will they hook you up with unexpected new imports? Will they ridicule you when you mispronounce Sufjan Stevens' name? For music geeks, losing the mom-and-pop stores is like losing a musty, nerd-filled home away from home.

[ken0042]

Can you post a few of them? That site is blocked at work due to "streaming music" reasons.

[habernac]

I'd add Nathan Gale and Boy Bands to that list.

[troutman]

14. Florida

Let us be perfectly clear: We are not besmirching Florida, the strong African-American matriarch of TV's 'Good Times.' We are besmirching Florida, the Sunshine State, unholy font of the BACKSTREET BOYS, 'NSYNC, O-TOWN, LIMP BIZKIT, 2 LIVE CREW, dangling chads and an army of drum-pummeling, grizzly-bear-mimicking death-metal bands with names too "evil" (i.e., moronic) to mention.

A curse upon the balmy southern realm!

[Hakan]

The florida one is the best. Infact there isn't much I disagree with in that list at all and a whole hell of a lot of stuff I adamently agree with.

[habernac]

how about the Bee Gees?

[Cheese]

#1 Kids Today!!!
Back in our day, we didn't have any of yer fancy iPods and ringtones and downloads. We didn't have the luxury and convenience of your scrotum-rings and your World Wide Web logs. When we wanted to steal the new URIAH HEEP album, we couldn't just troll the Internet for it, we had to do it the old-fashioned way -- by hiking to the store (uphill, both ways) and shoving 12" of vinyl under our sweaters (which we had to knit ourselves). That's why you sniveling whipper-snappers don't appreciate the real value of music. Or Uriah Heep. Now get the hell off our lawn!

[Cheese]

#7 Finding God!!

Once the Big Guy gets under an artist's skin, the work tends to suffer. AL GREEN went from making the sexiest music known to man to making gospel albums known to nobody. MASE quit hip-hop for the ministry, and when he returned, his skills didn't come with him. The less said about BOB DYLAN's born-again albums the better, but the idea of Jehovah's Witness PRINCE proselytizing door-to-door in purple pumps still brings a smile. Esther, née MADONNA, caused quite the mishegas by hopping aboard Kabbalah's Judaism-meets-New-Age-hooey bandwagon. And CAT STEVENS loved Islam so much, he named himself after it when he converted and then quit the music biz in 1979.

Silly rock stars -- you're supposed to be the ones being slavishly worshipped!

[Hakan]

Although he's rehabilitated his image in recent years by becoming an incorrigible drunk and trying to beat up 311, there's no getting around the music. The fourth-generation grunge he's peddled solo and with Creed might be harmless if it weren't swathed in quasi-religious pomposity and delivered with an arrogance that -- in light of his musical, er, gifts -- feels downright delusional.

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by Cheese

#7 Finding God!!

Once the Big Guy gets under an artist's skin, the work tends to suffer. AL GREEN went from making the sexiest music known to man to making gospel albums known to nobody. MASE quit hip-hop for the ministry, and when he returned, his skills didn't come with him. The less said about BOB DYLAN's born-again albums the better, but the idea of Jehovah's Witness PRINCE proselytizing door-to-door in purple pumps still brings a smile. Esther, née MADONNA, caused quite the mishegas by hopping aboard Kabbalah's Judaism-meets-New-Age-hooey bandwagon. And CAT STEVENS loved Islam so much, he named himself after it when he converted and then quit the music biz in 1979.

Silly rock stars -- you're supposed to be the ones being slavishly worshipped!

Maybe it's just me, but I quite like the gospel stuff that Ben Harper does. He's always been that way, but the album he did with the Blind Boys of Alabama was great.

[Engine09]

Nickleback should be right up there.

[Cheese]

Originally Posted by kermitology

Maybe it's just me, but I quite like the gospel stuff that Ben Harper does. He's always been that way, but the album he did with the Blind Boys of Alabama was great.

Thast not EMO kermit!

[Frank the Tank]

Pretty funny stuff. Glad to see Fred Durst up there!

[Ironhorse]

03
The Star Spangled Banner

Here's an idea: Let's have the theme song for the world's biggest and most diverse democracy be: 1) boring; 2) violently militaristic; and 3) next to impossible to sing. Not enough? OK, now let's bring in ROSEANNE BARR to perform. She's too busy? Get me WILLIAM HUNG!

[J pold]

Originally Posted by Cheese

#1 Kids Today!!!
Back in our day, we didn't have any of yer fancy iPods and ringtones and downloads. We didn't have the luxury and convenience of your scrotum-rings and your World Wide Web logs. When we wanted to steal the new URIAH HEEP album, we couldn't just troll the Internet for it, we had to do it the old-fashioned way -- by hiking to the store (uphill, both ways) and shoving 12" of vinyl under our sweaters (which we had to knit ourselves). That's why you sniveling whipper-snappers don't appreciate the real value of music. Or Uriah Heep. Now get the hell off our lawn!

HA! that made my day I'm only 19 but having 2 younger sisters in the teens, and this hole "Music is my life, I love Indie Music" scene just needs to go away I mean kids nowadays don't appreciate music at all, as long as it feeds off of young peoples Teen angst people will buy/download it makes me sick…

[Displaced Flames fan]

I read the list because I get the magazine (1 time subscripition, worst music rag ever) and can't remember if this was on it, but it should be.

CORPORATE RADIO

Every station in each genre has the exact same playlist and there is no 'freelancing' when it comes to playing music on the radio. I hate that.

[Weiser Wonder]

I'll agree with the corporate radio, I hardly ever listen to radio because of it. I'll also agree that Blender is a horrible magazine. Their reviews of music are so unreliable, every single review I've read I disagree with. Thank god I didn't listen to them browsing reviews to find music to expand my collection. The critics are definitely entitled to their own opinion, but to me they steer readers in the wrong direction.

[Daradon]

As far as #21 goes. That's only because it still sells. Why is that, because people are selling to problem number #1. So my advice to you is. Buy more CD's be more media and music literate. I'm old enough to want to blame 'the kids today' but young enough to realise this is the biggest cop out of every generation. We live longer and are healthier than any generation thus far, lets take it back to these punks!

As far as #5 goes. There is a huge movement in elecronic music, and it's FAR more complicated than most know. I'm a metal head who loves Metallica, System of a Down, and above all Tool just to name a very few. I love and respect Van Halen, Def Lepard, Slayer, AC/DC and most of all The Led Zep. But seriously there is much coming out of electronic music nowadays, and it is varied and complex. Even Maynard seems to be embracing it with his remix efforts. It's the natural progression. If there was no evolution, we'd still be stuck with Buddy Holly. While he has his place, how much spin do you give him?

Oh yeah, and #7 will always kill it. I can think of a couple more recent examples.

[ernie]

Originally Posted by Daradon

Oh yeah, and #7 will always kill it. I can think of a couple more recent examples.

Yep. Was Alice Cooper dead before he found God? Actually while I don't think much of his later work (Dirty diamonds is not bad) Alice Cooper in concert is still a lot of fun.

[habernac]

as for #12, I think we should thak Kevin Federline. The longer he keeps Spears knocked up, the longer the world will go without hearing any new "music" from her.