Urban 75's Most Hated Band - THE FINAL!!

[8ball]

I think on 'shiteness' grounds there's no way either band can compete with Westlife.

 

[Dubversion]

but then, and I've said this in other heats, i can't remember the last time I heard a Westlife song, or saw them in the paper or on TV. they just don't impinge on my world. whereas U2 are fucking everywhere, and have been for 20 years

 

[maomao]

I'm torn. Is this hatred on musical grounds or personal grounds? Bono's possibly the biggest cunt in the world but the music of Jamiroquai makes me want to stab children in the face in a way that U2's never could do.

 

[8ball]

They have a telly on in our canteen at work that has some music channel that plays Westlife

 

[stavros]

I kind of concur with what Dub says; can you honestly say that a Westlife song, however shite, ever lodges itself in your temperal memory in quite the same manner as the incisive, barbed, coarse, suicidal tones of Chris Martin?

 

[Skim]

Oh FFS I never even voted on the 3rd poll - was dithering too long

Me too – there were too many to chose from and I became overwhelmed with hate

Now I'm sitting in a froth looking at the finalists and can't make my mind up...

 

[Bernie Gunther]

I'm torn. Is this hatred on musical grounds or personal grounds? Bono's possibly the biggest cunt in the world but the music of Jamiroquai makes me want to stab children in the face in a way that U2's never could do.

For me, Bono's contribution to neo-liberal PR during Live 8 was decisive. I actually rather like their guitarist's work on the Jah Wobble/Holger Czukay collaboration 'Snake Charmer' for example, although U2 as such leaves me cold.

 

[Cerberus]

Well it appears (at least for now anyway) that the corporate brand that is U2 is heading for yet another award - Got the trophy polished and ready Dub?

Well done Bono and U2 - pricks

 

[Groucho]

There's some good strong arguments for Bono, but Bono is not on the list, U2 are

U2 are dull and their lead singer is a pompous hypocritical rich tax dodging sanctimonious idiot who sings in a dull band.

But come on folks 'Candle in the farting wind.'

How come Chris de fuckin Burgh and worst of all Cliff didn't make it to the final? Hated band? We should have a hated solo 'artist' poll.

 

[Skim]

I just had to go with James Blunt because he's so forgettable. I'm unmoved by Bono and Chris Martin and their mission to save the world – but at least they're trying to stand for something. Chris Martin's ham-fisted Make Poverty History logo on his hand makes me wince, but at least he seems passionate about something... you can't say that of Blunt. He's got no passion whatsoever. Dull, dull, dull. I don't care that he's an ex-army old Harrovian, I just hate his relentless mediocrity.

 

[psycherelic]

This poll will close IN TWO DAYS TIME. So no moaning if you forget / fall asleep / prevaricate so long you miss your chance to vote..

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Anyone want to buy ma vote?

 

[Crispy]

Forgone conclusion really.
Should have left the poll open for longer, though. Get more votes that way - better cross-section of the electorate

 

[Dubversion]

well i went for two days because that's what all the others had been, but i'm happy to let it run longer. Can the mods open it up till Friday or something?

 

[nonamenopackdrill]

Poll will only be fair if the bottom one is knocked out and it is re-run until there's a last two.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

well i went for two days because that's what all the others had been, but i'm happy to let it run longer. Can the mods open it up till Friday or something?

if you're gonna change the rules, then Sting must prevail...

....you mad bastards, you let him go

 

[RubyToogood]

Difficult poll. Half of them I don't know who they are or know who they are but haven't heard any/much of their stuff. The other half I don't mind. I don't like Celine Dion but I don't feel she's worthy of my vote for most hated artiste in the whole world ever. I just don't care about her enough.

 

[William of Walworth]

what else can we get Bono for?

Moving their company to Sweden (?, or Denmark or somewhere) to avoid paying taxes at home, and this after berating the Irish government for their lack of public funding.

Buying a share in the Forbes group

Suing some poor woman for a fucking HAT (which he's also had flown, in a private jet, when he forgot it).

Building a huge and ugly towerblock thing in the middle of Dublin against the wishes of the local people

Taking tea with Bush et al while kids are being battered and a young man dying in the street outside.

Letting his label sue the fuck out of Negativland for their U2 single - nearly wiping out the band and nearly bankrupting SST Records. And THEN going on to nick a lot of their ideas for the Zoo TV tour.

That appalling, self-aggrandising Live Aid Performance.

Tucking his jeans into his wanky little boots for most of the 80s.

Waving a twatting flag around on stage

what a total and utter fuck knuckle.

That post was on page 2, but U2 gets my vote now, clearly. Thanks Dub ...

But you yourself didn't make the pub, not that that's relevant ..

 

[William of Walworth]

Much as I'd loved to have voted Collins. The Thatcherite cunt

But I've voted U2 now, and don't regret that, the fact that I voted Bonoscum above Collins tells you something ...

 

[William of Walworth]

U2, coz bono is cuntier than a cunt at a cunt of the year show.

 

[William of Walworth]

Yayyy for all the Bono-haterz seeing the light at last! Yes, all the others on the list are hideous in there own ways, but the sheer scale and breadth of Bono's utter cuntishness drives me to utter fury. And his music is SHIT! Bono to win!

Landslideorama!!

 

[William of Walworth]

Ok Grandma Death, I'm worried I haven't explained my loathing of U2 adequately enough.

In a nutshell:

1. What Dub said.
2. Their music ruined a million student parties for me, as there was an actual law in Belfast in the late 80s /early 90s which allowed the paramilitaries to shoot on sight anyone approaching the decks to put on anything else. Or that's what it felt like anyway.
3. Their music is bombastic, turgid, and most of all SHIT.

 

[William of Walworth]

I hate U2's music because it's humourless, impotent, conservative, plodding, pompous, bombastic, christian proselytizing, radio clogging, stadium filling fodder, which in ever increasingly desperate attempts to appeal to changing market trends, tends to be (over)produced by whoever was deemed hip two or three years previously. It is pop corporatism at its most ruthless, opportunistic, cynical and shitty.

And most of all I hate them because they can't rock.

Saves me the bother of posting ....

 

[danny la rouge]

It is a hateful line up in that poll, and the ultimate "winner" can only be arbitrary, really. But I notice, with a shudder, that it looks horrifyingly like a friend's CD rack! They're a nice couple, but when the topic of music comes up, my missus always kicks my shins.

They've also got Woodhead, and the soundtrack to The Piano.

 

[William of Walworth]

You and yer uncool mtes

 

[danny la rouge]

That's right, mate.

 

[hatz]

I really had to think about that one. But in the end it had to be U2.

What would have been really cool (though possibly lots more hassle) would have been a poll where you could have 3 votes, so you could have 1st choice, 2nd choice and 3rd choice. Cos some bands are obviously heinously annoying, and would polarise people into choosing them as their number 1 most hated band. But then there's other bands that just foster a low lying but persistant hatred... Results might be interesting.

I'm not volunteering to do it though, I'm shit with numbers.

 

[Dubversion]

unfortunately - as explained elsewhere - it's either single choice or multiple choice, where someone could conceivably vote for all 12.

having a nominations thread and then 3 heats and a final is pretty fucking thorough, though, no?

 

[hatz]

I guess, I guess... Still, if it was possible to make polls so you could do that, it would be pretty cool though, right? A comprehensive survey of who is truly TRULY shit, and who is just sort of mediocre shit.

 

[brokenyolk]

this really does deserves to be put on newsnight, or maybe newsround - surely somebody can have a word with peter snow and the bbc graphics people to come up with something this week - they must have a spare hour that they need to fill. ten minutes for a compensatory sting slapping live in the studio, and then the rest would be many different graphs and stats of how much damage u2 have done to society, all the other groups in the poll saying that they too hate U2 and how they are launching a U2 offset plan for ensuring hat those who have contributed to the problem can also repair the damage.... perhaps also an anti U2 celebration concert at wembley.

and then ten more minutes of sting being slapped.....