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50 - Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/blender_worst/bl_w_50_img.jpg
- Has any record's influence upon music proved so malignant? Concept albums, progressive rock, Brian Wilson's nervous breakdown, baby boomers yammering away about the Summer of Love, musicians taking themselves more seriously than cancer surgeons -- all the Beatles' fault. And is there anyone alive who hasn't suffered a collapse of the will to live during 'When I'm Sixty-Four'?
49 - The dude that yells “Freebird” at every concert
48 - Hip-Hop Skits
- Smart rap fans know the drill: As soon as you burn a new album, instantly delete any track that's under a minute long. It's the best way to avoid the stupid banter, fake sound effects and unfunny phone calls that bog down 95 percent of all hip-hop albums. Except Snoop's 'Deeez Nuuuts' bit -- that's classic.
47 - Slash quits Guns N’ Roses
- Paradise City officially became uninhabitable in 1996 when Slash walked out on Axl Rose, shattering one of the best, most rewardingly volatile relationships in rock history. Not only did the split force us to endure Slash's Snakepit, but Guns n' Roses became forever an ego-tripping punch line, with Axl -- stubborn ex that he is -- running through multiple replacements (including Howard Stern look-a-like Buckethead) in a vain attempt to prove he doesn't need his old partner.
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/blender_worst/47-axl-rose.jpg
46 - Decency
- In 1967, the Rolling Stones were forced to change the lyrics of a not particularly salacious song to protect the tender sensibilities of the American television-viewing public. Thirty-nine years and one stray Super Bowl breast later, the Rolling Stones are forced to change the lyrics of a not particularly salacious song to protect the tender sensibilities of the American television-viewing public. Viva progress!
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/blender_worst/bl_w_45.gif
- In its desperation to make its new releases piracy-proof, Sony Music also managed to make them privacy-proof. The label was busted last year for releasing CDs with copy-protection software built in that, when played in PCs, could send data from your computer to the record company.
44 - Rock poets
- Memo to aspiring rock stars: Lyrics do not constitute poetry. Neither do pedestrian observations your lifecoach thinks are profound. And despite what Jim Morrison seemed to believe, disturbed Freudian ramblings you howl while waving your dick around onstage are also, alas, not poetry. Please "cc" Jewel, Billy Corgan and Jeff Tweedy on this memo.
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/blender_worst/bl_w_43.gif
- Don't get us wrong -- we love lesbians. Just so long as they're not playing music. From Melissa Etheridge to the Indigo Girls, real-live Sapphic rock stars are to blame for some truly awful trends: earnest coffeehouse confessionalism, the Lilith Fair, flannel.
Now t.A.T.u., on the other hand ...
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/blender_worst/bl_w_43_img.jpg
42 - Scott Stapp - 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.
41 - Melisma
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/music-blender/41-celine-dion.jpg
- It's a fact: Words like "girl" and "baby" do not have 25 syllables. But thanks to that R&B-spawned, 'Idol'-promulgated school of vocal histrionics -- wherein one overdoes gospel ululations like Whitney Houston with a noseful -- neither the shortest word nor sweetest melody can go unmolested by a uvula-spazzing "showstopper."
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/blender_worst/bl_w_40.gif
- For millions, Jimmy Buffett isn't just a guy who writes songs about putzing around the Caribbean -- he's a shining symbol of the "good life." That so few of them will get any closer to this life than hanging out in a dank bar called the Banana Boat, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, sipping a frozen daiquiri and waiting for their turn to karaoke 'Margaritaville' is monumentally depressing.
the source of the C&P
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/blender_worst/bl_w_50_img.jpg
- Has any record's influence upon music proved so malignant? Concept albums, progressive rock, Brian Wilson's nervous breakdown, baby boomers yammering away about the Summer of Love, musicians taking themselves more seriously than cancer surgeons -- all the Beatles' fault. And is there anyone alive who hasn't suffered a collapse of the will to live during 'When I'm Sixty-Four'?
49 - The dude that yells “Freebird” at every concert
48 - Hip-Hop Skits
- Smart rap fans know the drill: As soon as you burn a new album, instantly delete any track that's under a minute long. It's the best way to avoid the stupid banter, fake sound effects and unfunny phone calls that bog down 95 percent of all hip-hop albums. Except Snoop's 'Deeez Nuuuts' bit -- that's classic.
47 - Slash quits Guns N’ Roses
- Paradise City officially became uninhabitable in 1996 when Slash walked out on Axl Rose, shattering one of the best, most rewardingly volatile relationships in rock history. Not only did the split force us to endure Slash's Snakepit, but Guns n' Roses became forever an ego-tripping punch line, with Axl -- stubborn ex that he is -- running through multiple replacements (including Howard Stern look-a-like Buckethead) in a vain attempt to prove he doesn't need his old partner.
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/blender_worst/47-axl-rose.jpg
46 - Decency
- In 1967, the Rolling Stones were forced to change the lyrics of a not particularly salacious song to protect the tender sensibilities of the American television-viewing public. Thirty-nine years and one stray Super Bowl breast later, the Rolling Stones are forced to change the lyrics of a not particularly salacious song to protect the tender sensibilities of the American television-viewing public. Viva progress!
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/blender_worst/bl_w_45.gif
- In its desperation to make its new releases piracy-proof, Sony Music also managed to make them privacy-proof. The label was busted last year for releasing CDs with copy-protection software built in that, when played in PCs, could send data from your computer to the record company.
44 - Rock poets
- Memo to aspiring rock stars: Lyrics do not constitute poetry. Neither do pedestrian observations your lifecoach thinks are profound. And despite what Jim Morrison seemed to believe, disturbed Freudian ramblings you howl while waving your dick around onstage are also, alas, not poetry. Please "cc" Jewel, Billy Corgan and Jeff Tweedy on this memo.
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/blender_worst/bl_w_43.gif
- Don't get us wrong -- we love lesbians. Just so long as they're not playing music. From Melissa Etheridge to the Indigo Girls, real-live Sapphic rock stars are to blame for some truly awful trends: earnest coffeehouse confessionalism, the Lilith Fair, flannel.
Now t.A.T.u., on the other hand ...
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/blender_worst/bl_w_43_img.jpg
42 - Scott Stapp - 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.
41 - Melisma
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/music-blender/41-celine-dion.jpg
- It's a fact: Words like "girl" and "baby" do not have 25 syllables. But thanks to that R&B-spawned, 'Idol'-promulgated school of vocal histrionics -- wherein one overdoes gospel ululations like Whitney Houston with a noseful -- neither the shortest word nor sweetest melody can go unmolested by a uvula-spazzing "showstopper."
http://cdn.digitalcity.com/blender_worst/bl_w_40.gif
- For millions, Jimmy Buffett isn't just a guy who writes songs about putzing around the Caribbean -- he's a shining symbol of the "good life." That so few of them will get any closer to this life than hanging out in a dank bar called the Banana Boat, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, sipping a frozen daiquiri and waiting for their turn to karaoke 'Margaritaville' is monumentally depressing.
the source of the C&P
Blender!!!!!1
