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"Hitler made the Jews wear flair" is probably the funniest line I've ever heard in a movie. The first time I heard it I couldn't stop laughing for hours.
I never liked him when he was in his prime, because when he sang it sounded like he was being strangled, but he was on The Masked Singer a few seasons ago and he has greatly improved. I was shocked! He sounded almost not bad.
In my town/high school we sneered at anything we considered "corporate" (or "arena rock" or "metal pop"). Journey, Styx, Foreigner, and of course Toto. If a band passed a certain threshold of airplay or popularity, that meant they sucked.
>If a band passed a certain threshold of airplay or popularity, that meant they sucked.
To me as older GenX that absolutely speaks to my early teens - when you're trying to be edgy and stand out, your songs can't be played on top 40 radio!!!
I remember Christopher Cross getting slammed really hard for this because his stuff was only slight less overplayed than 'You Light Up My Life' ... but listen to especially his debut album and it is stunningly good. Rick Beato on YouTube recently did an analysis of the 'out chorus solo' Cross played on Ride Like the Wind and it is scorching.
I worked as an auto mechanic in 79 when Christopher Cross's song "sailing" came out. We could only get 1 am radio station that played maybe 12 songs a day, and that song was on a loop that I swear played 6 times during a normal work day. I soo hated that song. But about 20 years later, I heard it again in passing, and it really is pretty cool. Took me straight back to 79.
All of the so-called ābubble gum popā artists like the Osmonds, Bobby Sherman, Lief Garrett, the Archies, The Partridge Family, etc. They were all fake and hyped. Your junior high girlfriend had their pictures on her bedroom wall, but we all hated them.
The real deal? I loved them but weren't they the first record company it band? They were put together by the label.
ETA that being said I loved The Monkees and their reunion tour was my first xoncertm
> Your junior high girlfriend had their pictures on her bedroom wall, but we all hated them.
Story time. Once upon a long time ago, in a land far away, there was another young couple living in the same apartment complex as my GF and I.
The lady of that couple was a tall, large, well proportioned blond with a crush on Roger Daltry, lead singer of The Who, to the point that there was a life sized poster of him on the wall at the foot of the bed.
Her boyfriend bore a striking resemblance.
I always wondered how that guy felt about it.
The Partridge Family is like Milli. Vanilli. The only one that actually sing in the family was David Cassidy and the girls just loved him for his hair. Speaking of no talent pretty boys with hair. Sean Cassidy. My wife stalked him.
This was always my impression as an elder millennial youth who watched too much Nick at Nite. We fucking loved Brady Bunch but the Partridge Family definitely sucked.
That said, hearing āI Woke Up in Love This Morningā in Crooklyn years laterā¦ some of those songs did in fact have something.
I've quoted that at least once a month...since that album came out.
If my wife says, "is that true?" There is no way I will respond with anything other than, "Girl you know it's, yes you know it's, girl you know it's true...ooowww owww owww".
Here you go:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BYdTiFAo7A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BYdTiFAo7A)
Fab learned to sing and isnt bad, and John Davis was one of the actual real singers
Frank Farian provided the male voice in studio. He produced Boney M, Milli Vanilli and others.
He said in an interview that he was to ugly to be succesful on stage, so he hired dancers to front for him. And everyone knew. No one really cared when the Milli Vanilli performance failed.
See him for yourself singin here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MZiB3Nqc68
Farian also produced some songs with Bobby Farrell in the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnOENuraXzI
Zamfir, Roger Whitaker and Slim Whitman take up way too much space in my memory due to the endless barrage of commercials featuring each of them. Sadly, Rodger Whitaker passed away in 2023. We missed the opportunity for a tour of the Big Three.
My parents had exactly five 8 track tapes. Roger whittaker was one of them. :(
If I remember correctly, the others were
John Denver (country boy album) Which, as a kid I quite liked
Nana Mouskuri (sp?)
Herb Alpert (sp?)
3 Dog night (which I also quite liked, but um ... not just these 5 tapes for soooo many cross country/multi day drives!!)
I spent most of my youth mocking Bryan Adams. The older I get, the more I love him. Just went to one of his concerts in Canada this summerā¦man, does he ever put on an AMAZING SHOW. The beauty isā¦ he knows his fans, knows that they want to sing along to all of his hits( of which there is FAR too many to choose fromā¦) just WOW. WHAT A SHOW. we had such an amazing night at that concert, and I wouldnāt even rate myself as a Bryan Adams fan. His concerts are a bucket list in terms of performance. High fives to Bryan for pure fever.
To be fair, I loved the Beatles and barely tolerated The Rolling Stones as musicians. Apparently I am from the really olden days. Itās ok; I can own that.
I've found some GREAT disco songs in the past year by deep digging. Once you get off the charts and into the stuff that was played in regional clubs it becomes more organic.
Yeah I was on The BeeGees hate train back in the day. I was a little into The Ramones and the punk rock music and then MTV came along and opened a whole new world of music that was easily accessible. But as I got older and started really listening, I appreciated that The BeeGees were actually great musicians. Except Andy Gibb; his music sucked.
My husband went to USC when Hootie was playing covers at frat parties. I went to school in VA when the Dave Matthews Band was up the road in Richmond and played every college event.
I saw Hootie play at the Covered Dish in Gainesville, FL in 1994, long before they became well known. My friend dragged me there, so it was not a band I would have gone to see.
Darius sang "Somewhere over the Rainbow" as the final song, and there was not a dry eye in the place. And this was a place more accustomed to Bongwater and Dinosaur Jr. than to the Hooties of the world.
I went up to Darius afterwards (he was just standing there by himself at the bar) and said "God DAMN can you sing."
"Aw, thank you!" he said.
"You better watch out, because you are fixing to be really famous."
He looked sort of spooked or something, but then the bartender handed me my Genesee Cream Ale and I staggered off somewhere.
Say what you will about Hootie, but old Darius Rucker can do some singing.
Fucking hated that Chumba crap, it was awful. Remember I was dating a guy who thought their song was the shit, so now when I hear that noise I have to think of him.
As an older teen, everybody kind of sneered at ABBA at the time, partly just because they were getting overplayed. The guy I was dating in my first year of college used to take me to a lot of concerts. Since he paid, he chose. We saw a lot of popular groups at the time, like Eagles and the Doobie Brothers, Bob Seger, etc and we had a great time at all of the concerts (except maybe Christopher Cross.) Anyway, when he told me he bought tickets to see ABBA, I was kind of wondering what he was thinking. It turned out to be a really fun concert! They did all of their hits, had a cool light show and did a bunch of goofy costume changes. We were both surprised.
We werenāt allowed to listen to those Kings In Satanās Service.
I swear thatās what we were told KISS stood for, and we couldnāt listen to it because they were apparently evil.
I had to check your handle to make sure we didn't grow up in the same fundamentalist minister's house. (Nope, i don't have a brother named Brian)
My dad couldn't even get behind Its a Wonderful Life.
The Bee Gees were so good in the 60ās and early 70ās when they did songs like Lonely Days and New York Mining Disasterā¦ when they went to disco is when the hate cameā¦ itās sad because they were really good..
They were my first concert when I was 6. I loved the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and even though they were cheesy they had some songs that I still love. Jive Talkin and boogie shoes, how deep is your love.
I remember seeing Tiny Tim when I was a kid. He appeared on a TV talk show and sang "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" with his ukulele.
I thought he was completely bizarre and asked my mother if he was a clown. I hated clowns.
You light up my life. I still remember being at my grandmother's house in the late 70's as a kid and it seemed like every time she turned the radio on, that song was on. It still annoys me to no end 40+ yrs later
I used to make fun of Barry Manilow to my older coworker, who adored him. One day she stood at her desk and demanded to know what was so awful about him. I hemmed and hawed and admitted that Barry was just fine.
My husband and I had one of our impromptu dance parties for two during the Barry Manilow holiday special.
ABBA was the only music my parents agreed on. I knew my college sweetheart was The One when the four of us were driving around, blasting ABBA, and I did not want to crawl under a rock in embarrassment.
Back in the early 2000s I worked with a young guy who was moving away from home for the first time. He was heading to his new city with his mom and dad the next weekend and wanted suggestions for music to play for their 3 hour ride.i suggested ABBA.
About 2 years later, he passed away unexpectedly, and when I showed up at the funeral, ABBA was playing over the speakers. During the service, his dad got up to say a few words and mentioned how a few years earlier theyād driven their son 3 hours to his new home, and had been dreading what sort of music theyād have to listen to on the way, and heād surprised them by playing ABBA. Thatās when they knew he was going to be ok because heād selected music that all 3 of the could enjoy. I canāt help but think of him whenever I hear an ABBA tune
Worked as a nanny one summer in Malibu. Durst ādatedā the other nanny and bet a 6 year old $20 to drink an entire bottle of Tabasco.
What an a-hole
And Maroon 5.
Never met a single person who said they liked Maroon 5. I have no idea where their fanbase is coming from. I remember people being upset that they were playing the Superbowl, and it turned into a bunch of memes. Who's getting them all these chart-topping hits???
When the rumors about Freddy being gay started, around Under Pressure", there were lots of boys in very strong denial. I often wonder what their brains did with the information once it was undeniable.
Elvis Presley! He was in his washed-up, worn-out stage where he was dressing in trashy polyester suits with glitter and sequins, looking like a cheap chandelier. Everyone was saying how pathetic he was, and wasn't it a shame because he used to be cool.
Rush. People in my community who loved Rush were called Rush geeks. Nerds who played D & D and couldn't get hot chicks. Girls who liked Rush? We didn't tell anyone. Which is why many male Rush fans are surprised to learn how much many of us actually loved Rush.
(GenX- this was the 80s)
Can I say that I legitimately dislike most disco because I think it sucks.
In the same way that I legitimately dislike a lot of early dance music.
But I love Motown and R&B.
So š¤·āāļø
Of course, no one likes every genre of music. You probably donāt have bumper stickers and tee shirts saying that you hate the kinds of music that you dislike. The anti-disco vitriol was excessive and bullying.
My wife loves a Japanese version of āTake Me Home, Country Roadsā; I was watching a John Denver concert on PBS and she thought he was some country hick and dismissed him immediately. Her reaction when he busted it out was priceless.
I sang āCountry Roadā with an Austrian monk and two Chinese backpackers in a youth hostel in Linz, Austria in 1991. They knew the words by heart. Say what you will about John Denver, his appeal reached the whole planet.
Went to High School in Colorado during the biggest period of his career and there was no middle ground on him, with my classmates either loving or hating him. I have no idea what the split was, but my friends were definitely in the hate category. But lots of them also loved him. Fifty or so years later I guess he is ok, but he is never played on any radio or streaming service I use and so I dont think about him much.
Ironically I got a chance to interview the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at this same time. I asked about what they listened to and there were some interesting artists. His name came up and one of them said that he always knew he had been away from home too long because heād get home and find a John Denver record on the turntable. I donāt recall this as a dis so much as just an observation.
For some reason, when I was in junior high and high school there was a sizeable contingent who actively and openly hated John Cougar Mellencamp, who was then at the height of his popularity. Also, if you were a male and admitted to liking Madonna, you were in for some intense mockery.
I'm 70 and like Imagine Dragons.
Back in the 60's people either loved or hated the Monkees.
In the 70's it was Abba. I cringe when I hear that crap.
In the 80's it was Culture Club and Duran Duran
The 90's it was Oasis. They bragged they were better than the Beatles. People just laughed at them.
Hey Duran Duran was some great music. The keyboard solo on Save on Prayer was better than the keyboard solo on All of My Love (Led Zepplin). I would listen to Duran Duran over and over their music was/is so good!!!
Letās see for my generation.
You either loved Ozzy or hated him.
Same with Nine Inch Nails.
You had to revel in how disgusting they are.
Iām really into music, so bands like The Rolling Stones arenāt really that good up against genius like Queen, Electric Light Orchestra, or Dire Straits. Or Led Zeppelin.
I wasnāt a big fan of KISS and their music sounds a lot like The Rolling Stones. They were average musicians with the face paint and tongue gimmicks.
Now, this post will get downvoted because The Rolling Stones, KISS, and Ozzy were all very popular in my generation. But thatās my opinion.
VANILLA ICE!!!!!
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK!!! I have always been a cynical little B***ch. I was about 9 years old when they came out & I was not impressed. I knew they were terrinle & corny. At 9, I remember thinking how stupid the girls who were infatuated with them looked (my neighborš¤” who I still know).
New Kids On The Block. But I loooooooove them and have front row tickets for June :). DUmb stupid shits in my Jr High making fun of me -- I'm super happy now!
I donāt think my generation really hated any artists.
Sure, we could repeat the phrase, āDisco sucks,ā but you could lay some Donna Summer on me anytime.
Some artists would produce a reflexive station turn on the radio, but it wasnāt aggressive. Just not my thing.
I was not cool enough to know, because a lot of who I hated were kind of popular, like hair bands. My wife (from the same generation - teens in 1980s) said "Oh, they weren't marketed for you. They were marketed for women, honey." Then she fanned herself.
I also remember Neil Diamond and a lot of 1970s crooners were considered complete disasters that couldn't compete in the 1980s. Vice President James Watt made a lot of people hate Wayne Newton for a while, too.
Imagine Dragons debut album hit #2 in 2012, when zoomers would have been 13.
Justin Bieber debuted in 2009 when zoomers would have been 10.
Theyāre definitely more millennial artists.
Boomers.OK technically, not a musician but a side effect of one. YOKO ONO by default. Is just a given. like getting Sand in your food.Saying you hate YOKO is totally redundant. It's like saying you hate smashing your knee cap on a pointy coffee table edge.
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Gen X - Michael Bolton
"Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks." (from the movie Office Space)
One of my favourite films.
"Hitler made the Jews wear flair" is probably the funniest line I've ever heard in a movie. The first time I heard it I couldn't stop laughing for hours.
I celebrate the guy's entire catalog!
No talent ass clown. What he did to When A Man Loves A Woman should be a capital offense.
I never liked him when he was in his prime, because when he sang it sounded like he was being strangled, but he was on The Masked Singer a few seasons ago and he has greatly improved. I was shocked! He sounded almost not bad.
Also Jack Sparrow is an awesome song...
His appearance on John Oliver redeemed him for me: https://youtu.be/FJ_DgfhGJW4?si=7zsWJW-AACegxEWm
For my money, I don't know if it gets any better than when he sings "when a man loves a woman".
That ass clown
Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.
I honestly have thought of this quote several times regarding unrelated things and it's been kinda inspiring.
HOW AM I SUPOOOOOOSED TO LIIIIIVE WWITHOUT YOUOOOOO.. "PLEASE LET ME OUT OF THIS GROCERY STORE I CAN'T STAND IT..
But not the one on Office Space
Whenever we hear someone over-emoting when they sing, my husband and I say they have Michael Bolton Disease
I hated Frankie Goes to Hollywood. That fucking Relax song was played every 5 minutes and drove me insane.
For some reason I always connect Michael Bolton and Kenny G in my head. I hope they collaborated at some point.
[For my money, I don't think it gets any better than when he sings when a man loves a woman.](https://youtu.be/aypz6FgS_gM?si=4EEJFh8roTbWgoof)
In my town/high school we sneered at anything we considered "corporate" (or "arena rock" or "metal pop"). Journey, Styx, Foreigner, and of course Toto. If a band passed a certain threshold of airplay or popularity, that meant they sucked.
>If a band passed a certain threshold of airplay or popularity, that meant they sucked. To me as older GenX that absolutely speaks to my early teens - when you're trying to be edgy and stand out, your songs can't be played on top 40 radio!!! I remember Christopher Cross getting slammed really hard for this because his stuff was only slight less overplayed than 'You Light Up My Life' ... but listen to especially his debut album and it is stunningly good. Rick Beato on YouTube recently did an analysis of the 'out chorus solo' Cross played on Ride Like the Wind and it is scorching.
I worked as an auto mechanic in 79 when Christopher Cross's song "sailing" came out. We could only get 1 am radio station that played maybe 12 songs a day, and that song was on a loop that I swear played 6 times during a normal work day. I soo hated that song. But about 20 years later, I heard it again in passing, and it really is pretty cool. Took me straight back to 79.
> Rick Beato If you watch that you should also check out "What makes this song stink" by Pat Finnerty. It's hilarious!
I still suffer from that sort of dilemma in many areas of my life
Ah, the age-old contrarian claim that anybody popular must suck.
The Osmonds
Except for Crazy Horses.
Yes! That blew me away that they did something like that! Awesome song š
Thus starting the trend of every band I hate having that one song I really like.
Marie Osmond singing Paper Roses is pretty damn good as an old country song. Someone like Lainey Wilson ought to cover it.
One Bad Apple is pretty great too. It was passed up by the Jackson 5 and has great Motown musicians on it.
Not everyone hated them. š
All of the so-called ābubble gum popā artists like the Osmonds, Bobby Sherman, Lief Garrett, the Archies, The Partridge Family, etc. They were all fake and hyped. Your junior high girlfriend had their pictures on her bedroom wall, but we all hated them.
1910 Fruitgum Company. Yummy Yummy. š¤®
The 45 of this ended up in my hands as a kid. It sounded better played at 33 rpm.
How I loved Bobby Sherman! My first wall poster. Here Come the Brides!
I'm so glad you didn't mention The Monkees because they were the real deal.
no one hated the monkees unless you were into the Zappa/dylan progressive artsy crowd. most people enjoyed them to a degree.
The real deal? I loved them but weren't they the first record company it band? They were put together by the label. ETA that being said I loved The Monkees and their reunion tour was my first xoncertm
You just gave me a flashback to my dad telling me that when I was a kid and we were watching āthe Monkeesā on TVland. Nice memory - thanks
> Your junior high girlfriend had their pictures on her bedroom wall, but we all hated them. Story time. Once upon a long time ago, in a land far away, there was another young couple living in the same apartment complex as my GF and I. The lady of that couple was a tall, large, well proportioned blond with a crush on Roger Daltry, lead singer of The Who, to the point that there was a life sized poster of him on the wall at the foot of the bed. Her boyfriend bore a striking resemblance. I always wondered how that guy felt about it.
The Partridge Family is like Milli. Vanilli. The only one that actually sing in the family was David Cassidy and the girls just loved him for his hair. Speaking of no talent pretty boys with hair. Sean Cassidy. My wife stalked him.
Wasn't Shirley Jones on The Partridge Family?
Yes, she was the other one of that "group" who actually sang. (She played Mrs. Partridge.)
This was always my impression as an elder millennial youth who watched too much Nick at Nite. We fucking loved Brady Bunch but the Partridge Family definitely sucked. That said, hearing āI Woke Up in Love This Morningā in Crooklyn years laterā¦ some of those songs did in fact have something.
Iām a millennial and I think those artists youāve mentioned are quite talented and not awful at all! But thatās just my opinion.Ā
Milli Vanilli
But the music was so good! I wish whoever sang it had kept on making records
I liked their music until I found out, well that it wasn't their music
I still like(d) it!!
Girl, you know itās true.
I've quoted that at least once a month...since that album came out. If my wife says, "is that true?" There is no way I will respond with anything other than, "Girl you know it's, yes you know it's, girl you know it's true...ooowww owww owww".
Here you go: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BYdTiFAo7A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BYdTiFAo7A) Fab learned to sing and isnt bad, and John Davis was one of the actual real singers
Ironic that Milli Vanilli were absolutely destroyed, but Boney M, by the same producers and largely also lip syncers got away with it.
Boney M were lip syncers? TIL
Frank Farian provided the male voice in studio. He produced Boney M, Milli Vanilli and others. He said in an interview that he was to ugly to be succesful on stage, so he hired dancers to front for him. And everyone knew. No one really cared when the Milli Vanilli performance failed. See him for yourself singin here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MZiB3Nqc68 Farian also produced some songs with Bobby Farrell in the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnOENuraXzI
Yup. The low male voice in Rasputin was the producer. The comment above says producers but IIRC both acts were creations of Frank Farian.
Zamfir "The Master of the pan flute" & Rodger Whitaker purely based on the endless commercials that were on.
And Slim Whitman; he was huge in the UK! He was a running joke to a lot of people but the dude sold over 70 million albums; not too shabby.
Never forget that his music saved us from the Martians!
Zamfir, Roger Whitaker and Slim Whitman take up way too much space in my memory due to the endless barrage of commercials featuring each of them. Sadly, Rodger Whitaker passed away in 2023. We missed the opportunity for a tour of the Big Three.
Boxcar Willie!
My parents had exactly five 8 track tapes. Roger whittaker was one of them. :( If I remember correctly, the others were John Denver (country boy album) Which, as a kid I quite liked Nana Mouskuri (sp?) Herb Alpert (sp?) 3 Dog night (which I also quite liked, but um ... not just these 5 tapes for soooo many cross country/multi day drives!!)
In the really olden days many folks expected you to choose between the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. You just couldn't like them both.
In Canada it was Corey Hart or Bryan Adams.
I spent most of my youth mocking Bryan Adams. The older I get, the more I love him. Just went to one of his concerts in Canada this summerā¦man, does he ever put on an AMAZING SHOW. The beauty isā¦ he knows his fans, knows that they want to sing along to all of his hits( of which there is FAR too many to choose fromā¦) just WOW. WHAT A SHOW. we had such an amazing night at that concert, and I wouldnāt even rate myself as a Bryan Adams fan. His concerts are a bucket list in terms of performance. High fives to Bryan for pure fever.
We just saw Bryan Adams in concert last Friday. Dude is a fantastic performer, whether or not you like his music. Put on a hell of a show.
Good! Iām going in two weeks.
That doesnāt even sound like a choice. Corey Hart canāt hold a candle to Bryan Adamsā catalog of work.
Haha!!! That must be why my mom ALWAYS say Rolling Stones are sooooooo great and the Beatles suck. Like she gets really mad about that!
To be fair, I loved the Beatles and barely tolerated The Rolling Stones as musicians. Apparently I am from the really olden days. Itās ok; I can own that.
For my Mum it was Wham or Duran Duran
The Metallica or Megadeth,/Sabbath or Zeppelin conundrum.
WingerĀ
Stewart from Beavis and Butthead's favorite band. That says it all, doesn't it?
Gen X ā The BeeGees backlash for overexposure during the Saturday Night Fever Disco craze. Now I enjoy both the band & the genre in general.
discoās a great genre, you just have to find the less common cuts
I've found some GREAT disco songs in the past year by deep digging. Once you get off the charts and into the stuff that was played in regional clubs it becomes more organic.
Yeah if you look at that soundtrack almost every song was released as a single.
Yeah, I just remember hearing that I had to hate disco. Pretty sure I had a Disco Sucks T-shirt.
Yeah I was on The BeeGees hate train back in the day. I was a little into The Ramones and the punk rock music and then MTV came along and opened a whole new world of music that was easily accessible. But as I got older and started really listening, I appreciated that The BeeGees were actually great musicians. Except Andy Gibb; his music sucked.
Hootie & the Blowfish, Chumbawamba
My husband went to USC when Hootie was playing covers at frat parties. I went to school in VA when the Dave Matthews Band was up the road in Richmond and played every college event.
I saw Hootie play at the Covered Dish in Gainesville, FL in 1994, long before they became well known. My friend dragged me there, so it was not a band I would have gone to see. Darius sang "Somewhere over the Rainbow" as the final song, and there was not a dry eye in the place. And this was a place more accustomed to Bongwater and Dinosaur Jr. than to the Hooties of the world. I went up to Darius afterwards (he was just standing there by himself at the bar) and said "God DAMN can you sing." "Aw, thank you!" he said. "You better watch out, because you are fixing to be really famous." He looked sort of spooked or something, but then the bartender handed me my Genesee Cream Ale and I staggered off somewhere. Say what you will about Hootie, but old Darius Rucker can do some singing.
Fucking hated that Chumba crap, it was awful. Remember I was dating a guy who thought their song was the shit, so now when I hear that noise I have to think of him.
Mid 70s - The Bay City Rollers, The Osmonds, the Bee Gees, ABBA.
We all secretly liked ABBA, but had to front. Now I'm an old man and I don't care who knows...ABBA rules!
As an older teen, everybody kind of sneered at ABBA at the time, partly just because they were getting overplayed. The guy I was dating in my first year of college used to take me to a lot of concerts. Since he paid, he chose. We saw a lot of popular groups at the time, like Eagles and the Doobie Brothers, Bob Seger, etc and we had a great time at all of the concerts (except maybe Christopher Cross.) Anyway, when he told me he bought tickets to see ABBA, I was kind of wondering what he was thinking. It turned out to be a really fun concert! They did all of their hits, had a cool light show and did a bunch of goofy costume changes. We were both surprised.
Bay City Rollers were my first concert
Barry Manilow was mine. :)
Don't forget Kiss, Generation Jones' version of Insane Clown Posse.
We werenāt allowed to listen to those Kings In Satanās Service. I swear thatās what we were told KISS stood for, and we couldnāt listen to it because they were apparently evil.
We were told Knights, not Kings.
lol, I hadn't heard that one. But we weren't allowed to watch the TV show "Happy Days" because my parents thought it was too promiscuous.
I had to check your handle to make sure we didn't grow up in the same fundamentalist minister's house. (Nope, i don't have a brother named Brian) My dad couldn't even get behind Its a Wonderful Life.
I love someone said that KISS was the 70's Insane Clown Posse.
The Bee Gees were so good in the 60ās and early 70ās when they did songs like Lonely Days and New York Mining Disasterā¦ when they went to disco is when the hate cameā¦ itās sad because they were really good..
They were my first concert when I was 6. I loved the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and even though they were cheesy they had some songs that I still love. Jive Talkin and boogie shoes, how deep is your love.
I have to add Barry Manilow to this list.
Donāt put Bee Gees in same category as Osmondās
The BeeGees. Everyone's love to hate, until the lights went down on the dance floor.
Tiny Tim. The singer, not the guy in the movie.
I remember seeing Tiny Tim when I was a kid. He appeared on a TV talk show and sang "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" with his ukulele. I thought he was completely bizarre and asked my mother if he was a clown. I hated clowns.
And then he proposed to Miss Vicki on TV and got married on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
He'll be remembered longer than we will.
I played him when I was at Keukenhof Park in Amsterdam. The people around me were not amused.
Air Supply
Oh fuck yeah! Along with Christopher Cross! \*shudder\* In the 70's when I was in high school, we hated everything disco.
My Gen X mother hates them too. I'm All Out of Love is one of her least favorite songs ever and I can see why lol
I'm a boomer, but just barely. It seems that most of my cultural influences and experiences are more Gen X in nature. I loved the '80s!
Debbie Boone, Barry Manilow, Captain and Tenile Lots of easy listening acts were hated but they also sold a ton of records, so who's the loser?
You light up my life. I still remember being at my grandmother's house in the late 70's as a kid and it seemed like every time she turned the radio on, that song was on. It still annoys me to no end 40+ yrs later
I kinda felt the same away about Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonny Tyler.
āDoes Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?ā
I used to make fun of Barry Manilow to my older coworker, who adored him. One day she stood at her desk and demanded to know what was so awful about him. I hemmed and hawed and admitted that Barry was just fine. My husband and I had one of our impromptu dance parties for two during the Barry Manilow holiday special.
I am a proud Fan-ilow. Mandy, I Write The Songs, he's so smooth!
ABBA! I loved them then and still do
ABBA was the only music my parents agreed on. I knew my college sweetheart was The One when the four of us were driving around, blasting ABBA, and I did not want to crawl under a rock in embarrassment.
Back in the early 2000s I worked with a young guy who was moving away from home for the first time. He was heading to his new city with his mom and dad the next weekend and wanted suggestions for music to play for their 3 hour ride.i suggested ABBA. About 2 years later, he passed away unexpectedly, and when I showed up at the funeral, ABBA was playing over the speakers. During the service, his dad got up to say a few words and mentioned how a few years earlier theyād driven their son 3 hours to his new home, and had been dreading what sort of music theyād have to listen to on the way, and heād surprised them by playing ABBA. Thatās when they knew he was going to be ok because heād selected music that all 3 of the could enjoy. I canāt help but think of him whenever I hear an ABBA tune
Add in Starland vocal band...and Debbie Boone losses
It should be Limp Bizkit.
Funny I thought the same thingā¦Fred Durst especially. He was just so smug. But I think a lot of people liked them
I remember what they did at Woodstock 1999. Unforgivable.
Nookie was playing everywhere for a minute.
Worked as a nanny one summer in Malibu. Durst ādatedā the other nanny and bet a 6 year old $20 to drink an entire bottle of Tabasco. What an a-hole
And Maroon 5. Never met a single person who said they liked Maroon 5. I have no idea where their fanbase is coming from. I remember people being upset that they were playing the Superbowl, and it turned into a bunch of memes. Who's getting them all these chart-topping hits???
Creed also. Stole Soundgardenās vocal style, slowed it down a half step, and made it about Jesus.
Donny and Marie Osmond
Mozart. Why would God choose an obscene child to be His instrument?
Nice reference.
Yoko Ono
Kenny G
Heās a great player. He just plays mind-numbingly boring music.
Oh God, he came out with a Christmas album entitled simply Christmas. I retitled it. Christmas blows
The response to Boy George was fairly brutal from some people.
Today they call them homophobes. Ironically, those same people most likely loved Queen
When the rumors about Freddy being gay started, around Under Pressure", there were lots of boys in very strong denial. I often wonder what their brains did with the information once it was undeniable.
Huey Lewis, Rick Astley, Miley Cyrusās father
Oh, God yes!! What do you get when you cross Billy Ray Cyrus with a yeast infection? *An itchy twitchy twat* šššš
Elvis Presley! He was in his washed-up, worn-out stage where he was dressing in trashy polyester suits with glitter and sequins, looking like a cheap chandelier. Everyone was saying how pathetic he was, and wasn't it a shame because he used to be cool.
They are in my age group, but I couldnāt stand Tiffany or Debbie Gibson.
Debbie Gibson did back up vocals for the Circle Jerks
Itās ok to be wrong. š I miss the perfume Electric Youth.
Debbie Gibson has an account on Instagram. She has aged very well. Sheās really beautiful.
āShannon is drifting out to sea . . .ā
āBilly, donāt be a heroā¦ā
Leif Garrett
Rush. People in my community who loved Rush were called Rush geeks. Nerds who played D & D and couldn't get hot chicks. Girls who liked Rush? We didn't tell anyone. Which is why many male Rush fans are surprised to learn how much many of us actually loved Rush. (GenX- this was the 80s)
People were loud about hating disco. Iāll refrain from commenting on why, but IYKYK.
Can I say that I legitimately dislike most disco because I think it sucks. In the same way that I legitimately dislike a lot of early dance music. But I love Motown and R&B. So š¤·āāļø
Of course, no one likes every genre of music. You probably donāt have bumper stickers and tee shirts saying that you hate the kinds of music that you dislike. The anti-disco vitriol was excessive and bullying.
Seemed like a fun time to be alive. Better than the dancing we have today, basically having sex on the dance floor
I can think of two reasons, but theyāre very similar. Two different groups of people who were despised by straight white guys in rock bars.
Vanilla Ice. Milli Vanilli. Billy Ray Cyrus, Hootie and the Blowfish
John Denver... Although a lot of his haters secretly liked his stuff.
I really like John Denver. Annie's Song is one of my favorites.
Oddly, he ended up divorcing Annie.
My wife loves a Japanese version of āTake Me Home, Country Roadsā; I was watching a John Denver concert on PBS and she thought he was some country hick and dismissed him immediately. Her reaction when he busted it out was priceless.
John Denver wrote some great songs but had a dorky image. He also Leaving on a Jet Plane.
I sang āCountry Roadā with an Austrian monk and two Chinese backpackers in a youth hostel in Linz, Austria in 1991. They knew the words by heart. Say what you will about John Denver, his appeal reached the whole planet.
Went to High School in Colorado during the biggest period of his career and there was no middle ground on him, with my classmates either loving or hating him. I have no idea what the split was, but my friends were definitely in the hate category. But lots of them also loved him. Fifty or so years later I guess he is ok, but he is never played on any radio or streaming service I use and so I dont think about him much. Ironically I got a chance to interview the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at this same time. I asked about what they listened to and there were some interesting artists. His name came up and one of them said that he always knew he had been away from home too long because heād get home and find a John Denver record on the turntable. I donāt recall this as a dis so much as just an observation.
My favorite Christmas Album is Jon Denver and the Muppets, fight me.
For some reason, when I was in junior high and high school there was a sizeable contingent who actively and openly hated John Cougar Mellencamp, who was then at the height of his popularity. Also, if you were a male and admitted to liking Madonna, you were in for some intense mockery.
Gen X: New Kids on the Block.
The āhair bandsā. Warrant, Poison, Winger, Bon Jovi, etc.
I adore them. Funny, everyone claims they hated them but somebody had to be buying those millions of records. They ruled.
Bread. Mush rock at its worst.
The Partridge Family
Loverboy š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
New Kids on the Block, Hansen, The Moffats
Boomer. Barry Manilow
I'm 70 and like Imagine Dragons. Back in the 60's people either loved or hated the Monkees. In the 70's it was Abba. I cringe when I hear that crap. In the 80's it was Culture Club and Duran Duran The 90's it was Oasis. They bragged they were better than the Beatles. People just laughed at them.
I don't remember people hating Culture Club and Duran Duran unless they were just generally anti-New Wave.
Yea. Most people I know love the British new wave era - CC, DD, Depeche Mode, Yazoo and more.
Hey Duran Duran was some great music. The keyboard solo on Save on Prayer was better than the keyboard solo on All of My Love (Led Zepplin). I would listen to Duran Duran over and over their music was/is so good!!!
Hootie.
Letās see for my generation. You either loved Ozzy or hated him. Same with Nine Inch Nails. You had to revel in how disgusting they are. Iām really into music, so bands like The Rolling Stones arenāt really that good up against genius like Queen, Electric Light Orchestra, or Dire Straits. Or Led Zeppelin. I wasnāt a big fan of KISS and their music sounds a lot like The Rolling Stones. They were average musicians with the face paint and tongue gimmicks. Now, this post will get downvoted because The Rolling Stones, KISS, and Ozzy were all very popular in my generation. But thatās my opinion.
Pat Boone
VANILLA ICE!!!!! NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK!!! I have always been a cynical little B***ch. I was about 9 years old when they came out & I was not impressed. I knew they were terrinle & corny. At 9, I remember thinking how stupid the girls who were infatuated with them looked (my neighborš¤” who I still know).
Richard Marx. REO speedwagon
The Archies
GenX and the Spin Doctors
I still physically cringe when I hear Two Princes, it was so overplayed.
New Kids On The Block. But I loooooooove them and have front row tickets for June :). DUmb stupid shits in my Jr High making fun of me -- I'm super happy now!
The Monkeys. Everyone had a love, hate relationship with them
The Monkees?
I donāt think my generation really hated any artists. Sure, we could repeat the phrase, āDisco sucks,ā but you could lay some Donna Summer on me anytime. Some artists would produce a reflexive station turn on the radio, but it wasnāt aggressive. Just not my thing.
Rod Stewart, mainly because he went from great to schlock
The Osmonds
Gen X here, I remember New Kids on the Block was despised by all my friends. We were metalheads.
I was not cool enough to know, because a lot of who I hated were kind of popular, like hair bands. My wife (from the same generation - teens in 1980s) said "Oh, they weren't marketed for you. They were marketed for women, honey." Then she fanned herself. I also remember Neil Diamond and a lot of 1970s crooners were considered complete disasters that couldn't compete in the 1980s. Vice President James Watt made a lot of people hate Wayne Newton for a while, too.
Pat Boone. What he did to Little Richardās music should be against the law.
Imagine Dragons debut album hit #2 in 2012, when zoomers would have been 13. Justin Bieber debuted in 2009 when zoomers would have been 10. Theyāre definitely more millennial artists.
Mel Torme
Kenny G
We hated New Kids On The Block in my middle school. It was fun to mock them.
Boomers.OK technically, not a musician but a side effect of one. YOKO ONO by default. Is just a given. like getting Sand in your food.Saying you hate YOKO is totally redundant. It's like saying you hate smashing your knee cap on a pointy coffee table edge.
Possibly the Osmonds.
Donny Osmond