New Wave Outpost Forum

I'll go first. This question was brought up at www.theloudestrock.com.

I HATE REM, Queen, Genesis, Phil Collins, The Police, The Barenaked Ladies, Metallica, Foreigner, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Who cares? I don't know any songs by Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, or Creed so I'll save my comments for now.

Something about the Red Hot Chili Peppers doesn't sit well with me either. Maybe it's the singer. Great drummer! I'll say that. Every time they release a new album it becomes the best album of the year. AND to quote Bryan Adam's manager Bruce Allen: "You'll never guess who got the best album of the year - The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Same music, same vocals!" He said this one night in January 2000.

REMs music is embedded on EVERY rock and pop station. And like I said over at theloudestrock.com: "They are NOT New Wave as was mentioned in December 2003 in The Province Newspaper. Their just plain annoying. A few years ago they booked stadiums across the United States with seating capacity of 16000+ and EVERY WHERE THEY WENT they only sold enough tickets to fill a theater where they had to move their concert. If Michael Stipes walked into my work, he gets treated no differently than anybody else from me."

Queen is another band I HATE! Their songs crop up on so many movie soundtracks. The next time I hear a Queen song at a cinema I'm going to yell "ENOUGH of F**king Queen!"

Phil Collins is a great guy but his music gets so much airplay why bother buying his music.

I also hate MY SHARONA by The Knack. Anybody know what happened to these guys. I don't care. I'll be back for more!

Well this board is bound to piss some people off...

I guess I too have come to hate R.E.M. I loved them in the 80s and I will always defend my belief that "Automatic For the People" is an amazing album. But dear God---Monster? That was crap! My husband

Ditto REM. This is going to sound petty but... I think it was just around the time of their first really popular album - Reckoning, well after the great Radio Free Europe - that everyone jumped on the bandwagon proclaiming how much they loved REM and "n

REM is arguably one of the greatest American "College Rock" bands of the 80's (I don't consider them a "New Wave Band"). I'm partial to jangle pop so I probably embraced them more than most modern rock fans.

With that said "Document" was their last gr

[quote]Originally posted by expo86
[br]I'll go first. This question was brought up at www.theloudestrock.com.

I HATE REM, Queen, Genesis, Phil Collins, The Police, The Barenaked Ladies, Metallica, Foreigner, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. W

Sorry, I get the write fast but think slow syndrome - bad habit for bulletin boards. I just meant that they were another band that came out about the same time with the more guitar focus, but I completely embraced them.

Your post is probably more accu

OK, time time to switch from REM bashing to someone who in my book tops the 80's can't stand 'artist'
Remember TACO? and that abhorrent retro throwback cover of "Puttin on The Ritz"? The video imagery still makes me retch. [xx(][xx(][xx(][xx(][xx(][xx(]

I feel so close to all of you now!!!
I HATE! HATE!! HATE!!! REM & U2 with a flaming passion.
Over rated self important twats, with whiney lead singers with over inflated egos. I wish the lot of them would just disappear.
I was so sick of everyone say

I don't if it's the popularity that makes us stop liking a band or the fact that the songwriting eventually wanes for whatever reason.

Not many bands are able to string more than a few good releases.

Hardcore, unobjective fans support artists not

I know I'm getting off topic, but....

you guys are touching on something I must've discussed with friends at least a dozen times - - the ongoing value (if any) of rem and U2...

I have a hard time thinking of either of these groups as new wave anymor

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"In both cases, however, I think my interest in these groups lessened the more "preachy" they started to appear..... Please refer to my new-wave universal truth:

New Wave + self-righteousness = BLAH"

&
"I don't (know)if it's the popularit

I feel it must be attributed to the overwhelming pressure the record companies place on these artists to churn out 'hit' material after they have signed their creative souls away in exchange for the obscene $$ figure contracts. Who could keep any semblanc

Don't confuse early U2 with anything after (or during) "Joshua Tree". "Boy" is about amazing a debut as any I've heard during that era. "October" was a great sophomore effort, "Gloria" being one of their very best songs.

[quote]Originally posted by KYYX4ever
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--and this may be hard to admit for some of us hardcore wavers--a big part of it

modern stuff like limp bizkit and korn and all that mess is just crap.
The only good modern metal to emerge from the 90s is Marilyn Manson.

Most popular modern crap just sucks hard ass IMHO.

Well, most people tend to find later 80s speed metal (A L