yeah definitely the Pumpkins. Although I enjoy hating on Radiohead even more. is there a vomit smiley here?

i love hating screamo bands. they fucking ask for it when they name their bands "fear before the march of flames" or "dying in my lovers arms in siberia". i want to take all of their heads and just SHAVE OFF THE EMO HAIR. and give them some cialis.

Haha I still love my Pumpkins records man

I think I like The Doors, I can never decide whether or not its profound decade defining music or mindless pseudo-intellectual mumbo-jumbo. My Gut is in constant turmoil over that one (although I can be absolutely certain that the Doors movie is the biggest pile of cow shit to ever be shitted out through a cinema projector). I don't really enjoy hating them but the following offend me simply because of their 'middle-of-the-roadness' and inoffensiveness (if that makes sense):

Coldplay, Keane, The Kooks, Athlete, Franz Ferdinard, Kieser Chiefs etc, etc

i don't like hating the bands i hate, i think of it more like job that's not well paid or a service to the community.

Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Placebo, Arctic monkeys

According to the failed psychologist who chatted away to a stranger on a train, happiness is being able to sit your posterior on something comfortable or being able to find something for your hands to do that can transmit pleasure to the brain. According to the same person, hatred is the frustration in finding that neither things are at hand.

I get a big kick outta these ridiculously long band names, too. I wonder sometimes if the kids in these bands and the kids who love these bands have any concept of how music can be FUN.

A younger friend of mine was talking music with me a few weeks ago and said how ashamed he was of his generation, and this comment was inspired by a band that had just tried to befriend him on MySpace. They were football and wrestling jocks from his high school who used to make fun of him for being in a band. I forget what the band's name was, but it was five-or-so words aggrandizing pain and suffering, and in their band photo, the dudes were all dressed up like surgeons in scrubs with surgical masks over their faces which had black-taped X's across their mouths. The dudes had surgical tools in hand as they posed next to some wannabe Suicide Girl who was lying on the operating table.

The look on their faces was totally serious, too. It's as if they were completely unaware that it looked so ridiculous.

It's really hilarious how these bands and their fans are so wrapped up in being "intense" that they are so unconscious of how ridiculous they are.

Aside from that, I also get a kick outta hating on the Exploited.

But really, I don't like to obsess much about music I don't like. There's too much music to love, and not enough time to hear it all.

Yeah Yeah, hate is a serious word only if you apply it seriously.

Besides, I wasn't asking people simply to state the bands they hated but rather those they get some perverse joy out of disliking, for whatever reason. What's sometimes interesting about such bands is that they're often not THAT unlike those we like (Smashing Pumpkins being a good case in point). Of course, if you really felt that strongly about it you could've chosen not to post and therefore help it fall down the ranks into the thread cemetary.

I get a real kick out of hating Radiohead.

U2, The Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, any other tosser bands..

OASIS.

Hey Hey oasis is not bad...

True dat. I have some friends who are REALLY into screamo. I don't get it, and I LOVE making fun of it to their faces. Nothing else like this gives me so much pleasure. I mean, if I don't like something that I know somebody else does like, I usually don't like to argue it, because people are allowed to like what they like. I HATE nickelback, but if somebody loves them, I might tell them I don't, but I let it go. My kindness does not extend to my screamo friends though. They always regret bringing it up around me :)

While I know exactly where you are coming from, and I even believe the Doors to be the most overrated band in the history of rock, I just can't quite hate them. The band themselves were really good musicians, Ray Manzarek even great, and Morrison wasn't always as atrocious as his low points. "Horse Lattitudes" is actually a pretty decent poem, while the record he gets lauded for, "American Prayer" is the most horrid piece of bullshit ever passed off as human thought. Mostly the guy just had lots of sex appeal, and the type that really worked on heterosexual men the most. Perhaps it was his own downbringing.

I used to love hating Pearl Jam, but then it turned out that Eddie V. wasn't the self-obsessed moron I thought he was; that he cares about the right things, is politically pretty cool, and is even good friends with some friends of mine. So now I feel bad about hating them, even though I still do, since after all their music is not only horrible, but brought about even worse imitator bands like Stone Temple Pilots and so on.

I would probably relish hating Nine Inch Nails, except that obviously Trent Reznor would be thrilled to death about how much I hate them and find it to be some sort of affirmation for his self-loathing and all. Of course I still hate them as the group who may rival the Doors in overratedness and Pearl Jam as a horrible permanent influence on "alternative" music, not to mention Reznors general persona of being sort of like Morrisey would be if he thought he was tough, or the incredible disservice he has done by taking once genuine artists like Gary Numan and David Bowie and getting them to try sounding like him to revive their coked out has been careers. But my hate is undoubtedly a reward to him, so what's the point.

Simple Plan
Good Charlotte
MCR
Green Day

Just look at them. Ewwwwww.

I can't stand alot of bands. But I don't take joy in that. If I took joy in my depreciation for them, then I would enjoy them in some small aspect... or something.

the foo fighters which is weird becuz i love nirvana but dave grohl is such a twat he is like the anticobain generic song lyrics and such a sugaryness to them the theme from that nbc show "ed" was a foo fighters song what more do i have to say

Foo Fighters do seem like something that Cobain would have shook his head at. They have that radio rock sound that they all used to bag out.

ohh also i truly hate creed but i hate all christian rock mostly becuz its so formulaic it takes no creativity to write about how good god is or how you were once lost but now found now cursive's song "bad sects" thats some hip shit about catholicism

I can't get away from Josh Groban. His music creeps in when I least expect it. Anyone else notice it getting played at sporting events. Maybe it's only at Sacramento Kings games. "Don't Give Up" actually means something with this lousy floundering team.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers
they have two modes: dumb, frat party, funkless funk and dumb, narcissistic self-pity (i.e., whining while showing off their ‘pack’).

Arctic Monkeys
I'm mystified by their popularity. At least I can understand why Oasis were popular (big choruses, predictable songs, charismatic leadsinger). AM's songs don't seem to have any melodies or any dynamics, they stay on the same dirgeful, dull note all of the time. It’s… boring. And their lyrics are the same observations on small town life which The Jam, The Smiths, and Pulp (and everyone who has ever lived in a small town, ever) have made to the point of tedium.