All groups that are very proud of themselves for no discernible reason
There are two types of group that make me want to thump passing midgets with mallets:

- the actively bad ones, like Linkin Park and Nickelback, where it's obvious what they're trying to do but they fail so hard at it that it makes your teeth ache; and

- the ones who manage to become famous despite a total lack of originality, inspiration, songwriting talent or personality, like The Police, Coldplay, M People (once memorably described as music for people who don't like music) and all X Factor circus freaks, whose every song is exactly the same and who are so bland, they barely make ripples in the audible spectrum.

If music were commercialised based on the actual skill involved in writing it, rather than based on how rich the record companies are, no-one would have ever heard of these people. The bland has, however, become the mainstream and the yardstick.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 17:20, 4 replies)

The charts has always been full of bland shite
thus endeth the lesson.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 17:29, closed)

Linkin Park
made one of the finest debut albums of the last 10 years. The last couple have been turds though.
( industrial_bunny, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 17:36, closed)

Internet lies.
They are boyband Nine Inch Nails with Michael McIntyre attempting to rap.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 18:34, closed)

One man's shit...
...is another man's sandwiches, or something like that.

I think pretty much all of the bands listed can be proud of themselves for the very solid reason; that they've made a fuck tonne of cash and can sit around snorting coke off a whore's tits for the rest of their lives should they so wish. I'd be proud of that.
(PCheese, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 19:03, closed)