Nominations, people. Nominate the Blandest Band Ever.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

My first shot across the bows - Simple Minds.

[GOPisEvil]

1. UB40 - how reggae could sound boring and overproduced is a mystery,

but UB40 pulled it off.

[flamingyouth]

29. LOL, David

I'm actually not a big reggae fan, save for Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh, but yeah, I hear you. :D

[GOPisEvil]

40. I saw them open for The Police in about 1983.

I wanted to escort them off the stage so the REAL reggae-influenced band could start.

[flamingyouth]

45. OMG - so did I!

Ack! We're OLD!!! :)

[GOPisEvil]

48. You got six months on me!

You're a young-un!

[flamingyouth]

49. Yeah, that's right!

I was so close to being born in '69 - damn! :D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

38. It's a genre. Cod-reggae.

Fellow offender - Mick Hucknall of Simply Red.

[flamingyouth]

46. Yeah, and he might be even worse

If that's possible. :scared:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

50. Ahem.

:scared:

[GOPisEvil]

54. Oh dear God!

:scared:

[vi5]

2. No way.......

Simple Minds had some decently rocking songs.

They are nowhere near as bland as a Hootie and the Blowfish or a Matchbox 20.

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. Matchbox 20 is the instant oatmeal (plain flavored) of rock and roll

and hootie and the blowfish are the side of dry toast.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Matchbox 20 are a good example.

They're kinda, sorta bearable in small measures. That's bland.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. Simple Minds v2 say. Anything post-New Gold Dream is deeply bland.

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. Aerosmith

they just keep recording the same damn album over and over and over again.

[Lavender Brown]

7. Train

Beyond boring.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. 'nother good one.

[vi5]

17. A confession regarding Train....

By all accounts I should hate them, but for some unknown reason I find that I don't mind their 2-3 big songs that I know of.

There's just a slight (very slight mind you) hit of soul or passion there that I think is missing from the other bands of that ilk.

I still in a million years would never go so far as to say I like the band, but I also don't turn off the songs when they come on the radio.

[eyesroll]

9. The house band from the convention this week probably qualifies...

but don't they always?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. It's probably in their contract.

Don't do anything even vaguely controversial, don't attract any attention to yourself, don't upstage the speakers.

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. I hereby nominate Nickelback as blandest band ever.

Little contest.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. No, they're eight miles outside of Bland heading in the direction of Dire.

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. Oops , I forgot.

They are on the "pull your hair out by the roots, screaming and pounding your fists on the concrete" end of the Dire spectrum. :grr:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. Yeah, we're looking for bland, mediocre, limp, here.

not atrocities.

[terrya]

14. Hootie and the Blowfish.

I honestly can't remember one single song that they did.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. I do. But it was a cover!

[asthmaticeog]

18. Little River Band

*yawns*

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Hisssssssssssssssssssss!

I like Simple Minds. Now, i have to hate you! Don't want to. I have to!
The Professor

[Screaming Lord Byron]

20. Aw. Don't You Forget About Me, Professor!

It's partly familiarity breeding contempt. I'm from Glasgow, they're from Glasgow. They (along with U2, The Waterboys and The Pogues) provided the background music to a big chunk of my childhood.

[ProfessorGAC]

56. OK. I'll Take One or Two S's Off My Hiss

Cultural differences need to be addressed, and i understand. I cannot, however, completely take back my hiss. I'll just make it less intense. Then we can be friends again.
The Professor

[Screaming Lord Byron]

63. OK. Our relationship will survive this impasse, Prof!

[Richardo]

21. Bread.

Need I say more?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

22. Nope.

[underpants]

34. What about "Bread Double Live"?

or "Bread Comes Alive"? Dont even ACT like you don't still have it on vinyl AND 8Track (you used to CLICKCLICKCLICK it back to the start of Track 3 over and over-you know you did)

[tigereye]

68. yeah but I used to love them

when i was 13 and had no taste. Baby I'm a Want YOu... Baby I'm a Need you. Sorry, sorry, just had a flashback to 7th grade. Pieces of April was my prepubescent hint of things to come. Sigh.

[XNASA]

23. Fleetwood Mac (Buckingham/Nicks version)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

24. Yeah. Mostly bland. But.....

I'll forgive them anything for 'Go Your Own Way'.

[Lavender Brown]

25. Don't tell Bill Clinton that!

:D

[Magrittes Pipe]

26. Everclear.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

30. Oh yeah.

[Magrittes Pipe]

33. Koolzip will be very angry with us.

But seriosuly, brother. They are bland.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

36. Their chord structures facile, their beats mundane, their themes suburban

They, my dear boy, are bland.

[HuckleB]

42. Suburbia exists everywhere.

Why not have it represented in music or other arts? It's a part of the human quilt, whether it should be or not.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

53. Sure. But it is bland.

[HuckleB]

58. So art depicting a bland environment is automatically bland?

On one level, the answer is obviously, yes. But not necessarily, if done well. The layers are there tp be mined, regardless.

[Magrittes Pipe]

59. Your key caveat is:

"if done well."

[Screaming Lord Byron]

60. That's true. In Everclear's case, they can't articulate it well enough.

[HuckleB]

62. Yes, but I wasn't talking about Everclear.

Just making the point that "suburban" doesn't necessarily mean bland when put in context of music or other forms of art.

:)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

64. Agreed.

[mitchum]

61. Their lyrics read like high school he said/she saids with TONS...

of cocaine

[HuckleB]

27. The Beatles.

:)

[Lavender Brown]

28. What was that band with Bob Dylan's son?

I thought he was pretty dull.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

32. The Wallflowers.

Two good songs.

[HuckleB]

31. I'm shocked. No one has mentioned Creed yet.

What's going on here?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

37. They're not bland. They just suck.

[HuckleB]

39. When all your songs sound the same, that's what I call bland.

And, to me, all they're songs sound the same.

[underpants]

35. Air Supply

This thread is OVER!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

41. I'm all out of bland, I'm so lost without bland

I know you were bland, believing for so bland
I'm all out of bland, bland am I without bland
I bland be too late to bland that
I was so bland

[underpants]

44. LOL

Great that is my head now thanks.

[name not needed]

43. Nickelback

[SmileyBoy]

47. Blandest rock band: Three Days Grace

Blandest other band: Train

[DS1]

51. Creed

[Nevernose]

65. Seconded. Perfect for self-hypnosis

[jpgray]

52. Nickelback. I've heard white noise machines that are more dynamic (nt)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

55. Have you been to that site that splices their songs together?

Thus proving their near-total identicality?

[jpgray]

57. Yes. One of those things you long suspect but never bother to prove

:D

[Nevernose]

67. I never realized that they were different songs

Thanks for the info, a google search on "Nickelback Sucks" is pretty entertaining.

http://www.nintendorks.com/brandon/archives/000475.php

[Commendatori]

66. Europe, Asia, America

Europe and Asia were lame - just awful (Europe being the worse of the two, but Asia was an astonishingly boring band)

America was the absolute fucking worst - still to this day I can't get through one minute of "Tin Man."

Edited to soften the language :)