who sucks more?

My Chemical Romance

They are awful

i love chemical brothers

i think out of the options above

'others'   sucks more

Not who, but what:

Rosescar wrote: All those bands aren't too bad if you're like... 8-11 year old. I just can't imagine all my classmates still love bullsh*t like Greenday and Blink182. When I heard someone liked Simple Plan, I just couldn't believe it; how obviously can something be ment for 10-year olds? When I was 13 or 14 I already thought I was lightyears ahead of my classmates in my taste of music (actually, in almost everything) but instead of them catching up the gap only gets bigger. What I'm wondering: did people think the same about prog from the 70's, or not? Is it just us youngsters that are part of some kind of idiot generation (thank MTV for that), or is it a normal phenonemon (sp)? I can already imagine they'd still listen to Greenday at the age of 22, but  on the other hand I can't imagine how someone can have such a bad taste.

No, I believe it's a very normal thing you describe, Rosecar. Back in the early 70s, when I was first getting into prog, most of my schoolmates, by far, listened to the popular stuff that they heard on the radio. Prog was always a fringe thing, for serious music fans only. Disco became huge.  Gentle Giant and VDGG never rose above cult status. 

The thing is, most people are just not serious or dedicated music fans (even less so, as they age, and the peer pressure to be seen to be "into" the popular stuff disappears). To them, it's mostly just background noise, to talk on top of, and perhaps to dance to. They greatly prefer TV as entertainment. They will own perhaps 10-20 discs, cannot name the tracks (they'll say things like "track 7 is good"), have never read the lyrics, can't name the bandmembers, and tend to be "stuck" in one musical era (many of my contemporaries are "stuck in the 70s.")

Serious music fans (and prog listeners tend to be serious music fans -- bored with the same old radio pap, we want something different and challenging) have always been a minority (just as with serious art, poetry, literature, drama, gourmet food fans, etc.), and always will be.

To use an analogy, many more will tune into "Fear Factor," "Cops" or "Survivor" than will tune into "Masterpiece Theatre," and there are many more readers of "People" magazine than there are those who've read "War and Peace." More will opt for McDonalds, than a tasty, challenging curry from a little restaurant. Many more will visit Disneyworld, than the Taj Mahal. More will shop at Walmart, than at a little specialty store.

That's just the way it goes, and always has.

It doesn't make those people "bad' or "dumb" (or you superior), it just makes them different. Music is not a high priority for them. The dedicated patrons of the "high arts" (and not just those who wish to appear "sophisticated") have always been a tiny -- usually educated, and thus more affluent, as well -- minority, or "elite." (But not "elite" as in "better," in any moral or "human" sense.)

That said, positive and frequent exposure to good music (or books, food, other cultures, etc.), especially at an early age (cultural education, if you will) can make a huge difference in the formation of a person's tastes in art.

Really, those who chart their own path (not just re art, but anything) rather than merely following the pack, always have, and always will, be a tiny minority. Independence of thought, and resistance to trends, is something to be proud of, IMO.

You're decidedly in the minority -- better get used to the idea!

WOW........that's deep,Peter. Soooo true though....well said. Oh,I'm Ken....btw.

I suppose they're all good at their type of music. I can tell you the "new rock" FM station in my area plays the hell out of Green Day,Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance,so they must be good right?

So the winner is..........Brittany Spears.

Ahhhh.....the heck with it, they all suck!!!!!!!!!!!!

Green Day...excellent POP music; "American Idiot" was, IMO, a great record.

Mariah Carey, on the other hand, was great when she started...but in the mid-90's, her music started to suck ass when she fell down into the morass that I like to call "hip-hop". Nowadays, she's getting her voice back...thank God!

Britney Spears...I can't speak badly of her music.  Some of it IS, IMO, catchy.  Remember, she's not a songwriter...at least she wasn't ambitious to write her own stuff until later on.

Never heard Fall Out Boy or My Chemical Romance, though some of my friends swear by them.

My vote: SLIPKNOT and KORN!!!!!!  OMFG!!!!! One of Slipknot's guitarists actually had the BALLS to compare his "band" to Rush! I was like..."Are you kidding me????"

Badabec wrote: sbrushfan wrote: Green Day...excellent POP music; "American Idiot" was, IMO, a great record. Mariah Carey, on the other hand, was great when she started...but in the mid-90's, her music started to suck ass when she fell down into the morass that I like to call "hip-hop". Nowadays, she's getting her voice back...thank God! Britney Spears...I can't speak badly of her music.  Some of it IS, IMO, catchy.  Remember, she's not a songwriter...at least she wasn't ambitious to write her own stuff until later on. Never heard Fall Out Boy or My Chemical Romance, though some of my friends swear by them. My vote: SLIPKNOT and KORN!!!!!!  OMFG!!!!! One of Slipknot's guitarists actually had the BALLS to compare his "band" to Rush! I was like..."Are you kidding me????"   There is no excellent pop today! American idiot sucks! Mariah Carey is horribly, Britney Spears is sooooo bad By the way you're not a good musician when singing what other people wrote for you. Good musicians write their own songs, so in that case even Green Day would be better than Britney Spears! Ok Slipknot isn't good, but it's a thousand times better than the other bands/people from the poll. Today Korn sucks, but in the past they made one really good album: Issues. I can't understand how you can like some of that stuff from the poll...

First off, whoever you are, I am a songwriter. I tend to take influence from almost everything I hear. This leads me to a broad spectrum of music, from rock to pop and a bit of R&B. Modern pop might seem crass and commerical to some people (how 'bout that Britney?) but, like it or not, and unless prog makes a MAJOR commerical case for itself(much to the chagrin of elitists like you) it's here to stay. So what if it's pablum?  It sells, and just because YOU don't like it does NOT mean other people don't. By the way...I never said Britney was a musician. She IS, however, a songwriter...she started co-writing some of her stuff in 2000 (...OOPS; I DID IT AGAIN).

Slipknot might be good too; I don't know about that, simply because when I heard them, I heard painfully detuned guitars (B Fsharp B E Gsharp Csharp; A E A D Fsharp B) and screaming "vocals". It sounded like a worse version of Nirvana (which I detested).

Korn is another band I take umbrage with. So what if they ARE talented? All they do is tune down (sigh) and play power chords all along the neck of their 7-strings. Whoopee-frickin-do. I could do that, and I don't even play guitar. I dread to think what you might think of people who actually PLAY their instruments, like, say, Hanson (another band I happen to like).

In short, if you don't like the bands listed, don't listen to them. That's your right. I have mine as well.

Spacemac wrote: Hmm it's always a matter of taste I think

PRECISELY, Sapcemac.  That's why I said "That's your right".  God...what an elitist.