Ummm...how about sensible people?

Fuck, that reminds me, I saw a book on Sting in the library on display the other day, so I read the back out of boredom. It said something along the lines of:
"Sting has been the single most important figure in music for 25 years..."
It made me want to puke. Tosser

Devendra Banhart has this Tyrannosaurus Rex thing going for him (his latest album not as much though) and that is what got me listening to him...all the comparisons to Marc Bolan, who is pretty much the greatest person to ever live. Anyway, I hear his music called "freak folk", which I know absolutely nothing about, but mostly I'd imagine it all sounds like the entire My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows album. I guess I support that.

i don't get the hatred for devendra. the guy is friends with tonnes of people who are virtually universally respected here, has a prolificness the sort of which is generally adored, promotes the music he likes at every opportunity, selflessly tours as vetiver's guitarist when he could be making a lot more money and earning a lot more popularity doing his own thing, etc. is the problem the fact that being an eccentric combined with getting popular immediately makes him some kind of poseur faker?

well who is anyone to call anyone a poser or faker without actually knoing them personally, know there motives, the way they conduct themselves in private with their friends etc, the only people i would have had on that list are manufactured boybands and idol winners

yea, it's amazing to me how some people seem to have these amazing powers that allow them to assume they know a group or artist's motives based on their limited perception of the artist's music or performances.

possibly, if you had read books about some of these bands, you would have an adequate idea of their motives. but i can't imagine reading a book about a band i didn't like. also, based on the books i've read, i'd say you are 100% wrong about the doors and the beatles, at least.

this whole list is a combination of really shallow and really presumptious. who cares what the fuck a band looks like? and if we're gonna go throuhg all the bands that don't sound right you have to name every band that you don't like. it's a matter of personal preference. it's stupid to suppose you can come up with an ultimate list of evil bands. and for doing it for the wrong reasons, how the fuck do YOU know why a band does what it does? and who are you to define the right reasons?

Devendra's first album was pretty rad if you ask me. Not the biggest fan but in what way is he doing it for all the wrong reasons?

Another completely retarded post brought to you by Rupert.

That list looks might fine if you take off Radiohead. Sure, Radiohead look wrong and are probably doing it for the wrong reasons but they still fucking own up on any shitty band like Pearl Jam.

haha,

i wasnt so much saying the bands i listed looked wrong or sound wrong or are doing it for the wrong reasons,

this just seemed like a good place to list some shite bands, and they are shite and i shouldnt need to justify that as everyone should agree upon hearing them,

I don't think Radiohead own up on Pearl Jam at all... Pearl Jam's ethnic surfer melancholia rock can hold up on its own. No Code was an excellent album. Radiohead are difficult to get into, but they are a rewarding listen to the patient listener. The Bends might just be one of the best albums in the history of mankind.

As for bands trying to look cool and doing it for the wrong reasons... I cannot even begin to comprehend why no one has yet to beat up on Fred Durst. Or Coldplay.

Pearl Jam sucks. Get over it.

No they don't. Fall Out Boy sucks. All-American Rejects suck.

Fall Out Boy suck and blow at the same time. They are on a whole new level. Not even comparable to Pearl Jam no matter how unlistenably boring Pearl Jam is.

Exactly, except for the unlistenably boring part.

its true, pearl jam are extreamly bland, listening to pearl jam is like chewing on cardboard, maybe you like the predictability of no flavour but ill take and a juicy steak music any day

the bends is a pretty lame radiohead album too, although my iron lung is a great song, the good radiohead albums are amnesiac and kid a the rest is pretty hit and miss

The emotional timbre of Eddie Vedder's voice, accompanied by the classic rock riffs and melodies of Pearl Jam the band; Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament and the bounding rhythms of Matt Cameron, one of the best rock drummers ever; by the way; is anything but cardboard.

As for The Bends; as I said, rewarding for the patient listener. Layers of textures and hidden lines, all smoothed together within a locking groove of modern rock. And Thom Yorke's voice brings an etherealness that counterpoints the background. Sort of a twisted altar boy alter-ego.

Shoot me now.

So, uhmm, when is anyone going to start ripping into Coldplay?

Bang.