Bands You Don't Like

LesbianWithAGun

I was 16 when The Darkness came out...
I knew better, there is no excuse, we had (me and my friends when I was 16) old Guns N' Roses records/Nirvana/Pantera/Metallica, and did not need or want The Darkness.

The Darkness getting signed said good bye to UK rock and it made rock as good as pop and UK rock has't recovered yet and it's 2018 soon, I hate UK rock today since the fans make me want to fight them with how Preppy/rude and insulting they are. Like check your privilege before giving me some attitude.

Royal Blood is okay, but, I only ever went to their show because this girl I was dating at the time took me and liked them and I was waiting for after the show. - Interesting what they do with a bass guitar, and probably my favourite UK band of today, but .... Royal Blood aren't even on the level of Nickelback from Canada...


UK, who had Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, the UK is now a joke for guitar bands.


I'm mean, coming from 1986, coming from 'The Big City' 'Soho'...
I can give a F**K about Pinewood Smile and want to release something else much more me.
Like Lesbian With A Gun and sing my songs about Brixton and Piccadilly Circus and anywhere else that I've happened to write about. F**K Pinewood Smile, F**K The Darkness and their hair metal Believe In Love B/S...
The Darkness were worse than Mötley Crüe ffs.

Even The Spice Girls rock, The Darkness suck. IMO.
At least The Spice Girls never claimed to be The Beatles during Spice Mania.

LesbianWithAGun

Why I don't like The Darkness is the same reason why I don't agree with London, Ontario...

It's posing.

London, my London, the real London, has The River Thames, in that other 'The Darkness' London in Ontario, Canada, they have The Thames River.
Naming the city after London is one thing, but the river too, that's The Darkness, that step too far. 

stickyfiddle

I still can’t even.

lasermonkey

Yeah, me too.

Sporky

stickyfiddle said:

I still can’t even.

I bet you could if you tried.

And there was an appropriate incentive.

equalsql

scrumhalf said:

The Darkness have their tongues firmly in their cheeks.

I don't even want to think where GnR have had their tongues. As I've said before, they are a semi-competent bar band with a singer that sounds like a cat being tortured and if their stuff had been released twenty years earlier they would, at best, have been a footnote in the history of rock music.

Couldn't have said it better @scrumhalf , have a Wiz.

MagicPigDetective

I don’t quite follow the gnr v darkness thing, did they say that they love a band and are influenced by them? It’s what the Manics did; GNR was a huge influence on their early music and they spoke about it a lot. Thankfully they substituted the dumb misogynistic lyrics with intelligence. 

darthed1981

Wow - this thread really went craaazzzyyy...

I f**king hated Scouting for Girls, just throwing that one out there.

Philly_Q

I don't want to wobble the foundations of this entire fine thread, and I can't be bothered to spend five hours on Google looking for Justin Hawkins quotes, but.... did The Darkness ever actually claim to be the new Guns N' Roses, or even say they were influenced by them?  I always thought they were more like a weird mix of AC/DC and Queen.

BloodEagle

Unbelievably brilliant thread - Hendrix cover the highlight so far

chugington

LesbianWithAGun said:

chugington said:

Bon Jovi - that covers it.

And Bon Jovi were Okay... New Jersey Rocks (the place, probably the album too).

IMO, it's Bon Jovi over Springsteen, but Living In America was a tune, I mean; c'mon.
*sings 'Living in America!..'

Bon Jovi over Springsteen? I really don't know what to say..... *Sigh*

Legionreturns

chugington said:

LesbianWithAGun said:

chugington said:

Bon Jovi - that covers it.

And Bon Jovi were Okay... New Jersey Rocks (the place, probably the album too).

IMO, it's Bon Jovi over Springsteen, but Living In America was a tune, I mean; c'mon.
*sings 'Living in America!..'

Bon Jovi over Springsteen? I really don't know what to say..... *Sigh*

I suppose that might be true...if you're putting together some telephone hold music and want to be as inoffensive and bland as possible. 

This thread is stranger than the time I went to a "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" themed party at a 90s pop bar. And that was pretty fucking weird! 

lustycourtier

Why would anyone hate the darkness that much to start a post about it? They’ve been very successful at making fun rock n roll and each time I’ve seen them live (and met Justin) they’ve been fantastic. 

bingefeller

Wow.

AlexC

I saw an interview once with Slash in which he stated 'the Top Hat thing was a nod to Marc Bolan.' Now, here's a fact for you - I like T.Rex, but don't like GNR. However, this does not eat into my life, corrode my very soul or cause me to take to the Internet and ramble on. Actually, that bloke out of The Fratellis wore a Top Hat didn't he? What a complete and utter bastard!

LesbianWithAGun

lustycourtier said:

Why would anyone hate the darkness that much to start a post about it? They’ve been very successful at making fun rock n roll and each time I’ve seen them live (and met Justin) they’ve been fantastic. 

Music is important to me/to all of us (it should be); but with bands like The Darkness, it's like agreeing with the record labels.
The record labels who are in the wrong.

Why would anyone defend The Darkness?
That's why I ought to be asking.

LesbianWithAGun

Philly_Q said:

I don't want to wobble the foundations of this entire fine thread, and I can't be bothered to spend five hours on Google looking for Justin Hawkins quotes, but.... did The Darkness ever actually claim to be the new Guns N' Roses, or even say they were influenced by them?  I always thought they were more like a weird mix of AC/DC and Queen.

Honestly, both's an insult to Guns N' Roses.

It's The Darkness FFS.

Their guitar work was lame yet they run around saying they saved rock when The Darkness actually pissed on Rock's door, gate crashed the party and acted like it knew all the cool bands inside.

Philly_Q

LesbianWithAGun said:

Philly_Q said:

I don't want to wobble the foundations of this entire fine thread, and I can't be bothered to spend five hours on Google looking for Justin Hawkins quotes, but.... did The Darkness ever actually claim to be the new Guns N' Roses, or even say they were influenced by them?  I always thought they were more like a weird mix of AC/DC and Queen.

Honestly, both's an insult to Guns N' Roses.

It's The Darkness FFS.

Their guitar work was lame yet they run around saying they saved rock when The Darkness actually pissed on Rock's door, gate crashed the party and acted like it knew all the cool bands inside.

You've taken my question and responded to it as if it was a statement.  Cheers.

Here's another question - did they ever "run around saying they saved rock"?  I don't remember that either.

LesbianWithAGun

Lame

LesbianWithAGun

Philly_Q said:

LesbianWithAGun said:

Philly_Q said:

I don't want to wobble the foundations of this entire fine thread, and I can't be bothered to spend five hours on Google looking for Justin Hawkins quotes, but.... did The Darkness ever actually claim to be the new Guns N' Roses, or even say they were influenced by them?  I always thought they were more like a weird mix of AC/DC and Queen.

Honestly, both's an insult to Guns N' Roses.

It's The Darkness FFS.

Their guitar work was lame yet they run around saying they saved rock when The Darkness actually pissed on Rock's door, gate crashed the party and acted like it knew all the cool bands inside.

You've taken my question and responded to it as if it was a statement.  Cheers.

Here's another question - did they ever "run around saying they saved rock"?  I don't remember that either.

Are you asking for a dedicated The Darkness suck thread?
What are you asking?
Stop asking for things.