There's no band/artist I hate more...

Coldplay = Asda music.

They make Keane look dangerous.

 

Just laughed my balls off at that Keane comment

 

I think Jarvis Cocker's stage interuption when MJ thought he was Jesus Christ was the last time i watched the Brits.


Prior to that i think it was the Sam Fox/Mick Fleetwood poetry in motion night.

 

Chris Martin has a very insipid droning monotone voice, no passion other than, ooh look how much I am into my feminine side!!

Johnson gives a energetic, lively performance, if I am spending cash I want to be entertained not encouraged to slash my wrists !!
I realise I am old and know nothing about anything anymore, but Coldplay just leave me Cold.

 

Can't be half as irritating as whichever Gallagher does vocals for Oasis!

 

They both did, but Liam did most vocals I think.
Awful accent I agree

 

I'm a bit too old to be getting worked up about hating bands, but there are many that I wold choose not to listen to. Actually, the opening of Shout by Lulu is the only song that can see me breaking the world land speed record to get to the off button. But For the past 10-11 months I have been listening to my complete iTunes in alphabetical order. It helped that I was working from home, so I could get through a fair amount each day, but having now been out of work for a couple of months it has slowed down somewhat. After 10-11 months I am currently up to D (the much underrated Daryl Hall and John Oates to be specific!).

This meant that not too long ago I reached my wife's three Coldplay albums. As I say, I wouldn't be bothered with hating bands, but with Coldplay I just can't see what the fuss is about and how they have become so massive. There are a couple of okayish songs on their first album (the singles, basically), but those apart it is just bland rubbish. When there are bands with great songs and melodies that should be appealing to the mass public but get nowhere, like Pernice Brothers, The Go-Betweens, Teenage Fanclub, etc I just cannot see how Coldplay have become one of the biggest selling bands on the planet. Each to their own I suppose.

But there's really no point in hating it when all audio visual equipment comes complete with an off button. Save your hatred for clueless upper class politicians and dirty Leeds midfielders.

 

You seem to be slightly incorrect with that statement. I think you mean 1975 instead of 2005. For decades the NME journalists have been bandwagon jumping and picking up-and-coming bands at random and hoping to make them famous so they can brag about it.

Just about every major music movement since that time has made it big before the NME (and back in the day Sounds/Melody Maker) had heard of it and they spent time catching up and claiming to have been there first....

 

Spot on sir

 

Well said, sir.

 

You say that, but music is a commercial product like anything else and there is a hard sell aspect as there is with anything else. If people take offence to the corporate trade fair that is the Brits and the handful of products they would rather we all bought, that becomes a commercial/creative objection as valid as any social/political stance.

I'd rather everyone had exposure to all kinds of creative arts, variety literally is the spice of life. Kids can chose what they like and what they find interesting, then exchange ideas and discuss. Not be spoon fed a limited choice and groomed for a life of zombified consumption. The establishment do not want kids to be inspired or have independent thought and they certainly don't want them talking to each other eloquently and with purpose.

I do despair sometimes, anyone would think punk rock never happened.