Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: What was this guy smoking?

I wonder what great accomplishment the critic ever did. I mean what is his claim to fame. Check this out from wiki

Wings had 12 top 10 singles (including one number 1) in the UK and 14 top 10 singles (including six number 1's) in the US. All 23 singles released by Wings reached the US top 40, and one double-sided single, "Junior's Farm"/"Sally G", reached the top 40 with each side. Of the nine albums released by Wings, all went top 10 in either the UK or the US, with five consecutive albums topping the US charts.

Oh and btw The Eagles really suck also (sarcasm)

With seven number-one singles, six Grammys, five American Music Awards, and six number one albums, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. At the end of the 20th century, two of their albums, Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and Hotel California, ranked among the 20 best-selling albums in the U.S. according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Hotel California is ranked 37th in Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", and the band was ranked No. 75 on the magazine's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[2]

They are one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time, having sold over 150 million records[3]—100 million in the U.S. alone—including 42 million copies of Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and 32 million copies of Hotel California. They are the fifth-highest-selling music act and highest-selling American band in US history. No American band sold more records than the Eagles during the 1970s.

According to the documentary "History of the Eagles", their greatest hits album was the best selling album of the 20th century. Since that century has now passed by, that reocord will not be surpassed (for that century).

I am a professional musician. Electric bass, guitar, vocals, keys.

That doesn't mean my opinion is worth more than anyone else. Not at all. But perhaps I look at music differently and appreciate different things about it than other listeners.

For Rush, DMB, and Phish to be on this list blows its credibility out of the water. Or at least makes the phrase "everyone is entitled to their opinion" ring more true than every.

If you want to argue that you don't like those bands, they bug you, you don't get it, etc. I'll buy that. The music is complex. Meter changes, key changes. Typically they don't follow the standard verse/chorus/verse/chorus/guitar solo/final chorus format that you find in so many songs. You can't dance to it (well, you can hippie dance to Phish I guess). It's challenging to listen to listen to because there's a lot going on.

But there is a ton of genius and creativity in the music they produce. In my band, I've played "Ants Marching" by DMB and "Heavy Things" by Phish. It's tough and fun and awesome and challenging.

I'm guessing the person who would create a list like this would also have AC/DC down as one of the best bands of all time, and in my opinion they are utter crap.

The same kind of person who watches the Academy Awards and hasn't seen a single "Best Picture" nominee, and wonders out loud why "Transformers 3" and "Magic Mike" didn't make the cut.

Yeah, I'm probably coming off as a bit of snob here. Oh well.

I like AC/DC but don't like Van Halen that much.

At one time Shirley Temple was the biggest movie star , Jacqueline Suzanne was the most popular novelist, and the Eagles had the biggest selling album ever. So much for popularity as the arbiter of greatness, huh?

Great bands stand the test of time, and the Eagles haven't. Are there any really good bands that they inspired or influenced? I can't think of one. Is there anyone under the age of 45 who is a fan? Young people will always be rediscovering the Beatles, the Dead, Springsteen, Hendrix, Mozart, Beethoven, Wood Guthrie - but the Eagles...not so much.

I can always predict an Eagles fan when someone says, "I used to like rock, but it changed, so now I like country." And that really is the Eagles legacy: top forty, homogenized, "new" country, where hey refer to "Hank" a lot, but don't sound a bit like him. And if your musical tastes haven't evolved in the last 30 years, that's just the ticket.

The country they play today isn't country. I live in Dallas and what they play now I believe would be played on AM radio in the 70s. It's pop, not country. Alan Jackson, George Strait, Dwight Yoakum and a few others actually play country.

What really surprises me is how many bands sight the Ramones as an influence for them. I started listening to them in college and still pull out their work from time to time. But I know a lot of people that believe their music is crap. I think it has to do with the lyrics "beat on the brat with a baseball bat" etc.

From wikipedia:

"However, recognition of the band's importance built over the years, and they are now cited in many assessments of all-time great rock music, such as the Rolling Stone list of the 50 Greatest Artists of All Time and VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. In 2002, the Ramones were ranked the second-greatest band of all time by Spin magazine, trailing only The Beatles. On March 18, 2002, the Ramones—including the three founders and drummers Tommy and Marky Ramone—were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2011, the group was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award."

I believe it was Joey Ramone that went on to produce a bunch of other artists.

Oh and BTW if anyone likes the Ramones, there is a movie coming out called CBGB starring Stana Katic from Castle.

When "This is Spinal Tap" was named the number 1 cult film, director Rob Reiner pointed out that anything named the number 1 cult film probably isn't a cult film.
On a related note, I question whether any band named one of the 20 worst could possibly be a bad band.
Now my college roommate's band. THEY were a bad band.

That is just it. The list is more aptly titled bands that a lot of people like that I think suck.

Red Solo cup, I fill you up...

Country music at its finest.

I'm really getting into Marching Band music. John Philip Sousa has stood the test of time.

Now that's music!

DonDiego especially enjoys: "Oh the Monkey Wrapped His Tail Around the Flagpole". Although the melody of the Horst Wessel Song, apparently based upon a Viennese folk tune, is also an excellent march.