I have strange music tastes.
My Southwestern Bell DSL account comes with a free subscription to Yahoo Music LaunchCast Plus. A nice feature is that I can create my own radio station. As it plays songs, I can rate the songs or authors or albums. The ratings influence the songs played so that songs and artists I like get played more often. After over a year of tweaking, I have ended up with a list of artists:
| Artists I Like | Artists That Suck |
| .38 Special 10cc 3 Doors Down 98 Degrees Abba ABC AC/DC Adam Sandler Aerosmith Alien Ant Farm Asia Berlin Blind Faith Blind Guardian Bobby Goldsboro Bon Jovi Bonnie McKee Boston Bread Bryan Adams Cameo Chad Kroeger Chicago Christopher Cross Coldplay Counting Crows Crosby, Stills & Nash Daryl Hall Deee-Lite Def Leppard Derek & The Dominos Dishwalla Duran Duran Elton John Eminem Erasure Evanescence Extreme Five For Fighting Foreigner Geri Halliwell Gerry Rafferty Goo Goo Dolls Guns N’ Roses Gwen Stefani Heart Hoobastank Hot Chocolate Hues Corporation Indigo Girls James James Taylor Jay-Kid Jim Croce Jimmy Fallon Joe Cocker John Mayer John Phillip Sousa Kim Carnes Krystal Lee Ann Womack Level 42 Limp Bizkit Luscious Jackson Madness Matchbox Twenty Me First & The Gimme Gimmes Meat Loaf Meredith Brooks Michael McDonald Modest Mouse Mud Natasha Bedingfield Neil Diamond Neil Sedaka Nelly Furtado New Radicals Nickelback Night Ranger No Doubt NoFx Oasis Oingo Boingo OK Go Our Lady Peace Outkast Papa Roach Play Poison Powerman 5000 Puddle Of Mudd R.E.M. Rachel’s Ray Scott Red Hot Chili Peppers Reel Big Fish Rob Zombie Robert Palmer Rupert Holmes S Club Saliva Sandie Shaw Scatman John Scorpions Sheryl Crow Simply Red Sinead O’Connor Siouxsie & The Banshees Sister 2 Sister Sister Hazel Slaughter Spin Doctors Starland Vocal Band Steely Dan Steppenwolf Swing Out Sister System Of A Down T.A.T.U. Talk Talk Tears For Fears Ted Nugent Tenacious D The All-American Rejects The Allman Brothers Band The B-52’s The Bee Gees The Black Crowes The Carpenters The Cranberries The Doobie Brothers The Free Design The Killers The Left Banke The Mamas & The Papas The Moffatts The Moody Blues The New Pornographers1 The Police The Pretenders The Prodigy The Righteous Brothers The Rumble Bees The Shangri-Las The White Stripes The Who They Might Be Giants Third Eye Blind Three Dog Night Tom Cochrane Tom Jones Tonic Trans-Siberian Orchestra U2 Ugly Kid Joe Van Halen Village People Warren Zevon Weird Al Yankovic White Zombie Wilson Phillips Yaz Yes Yvonne Elliman |
A Perfect Circle Bill Engvall Chris Rock Chumbawamba Cradle Of Filth Denis Leary Disturbed Eddie Murphy George Carlin Grace Jones Guerilla Black Hanson Jeff Foxworthy Jimi Hendrix Joan Rivers Lil’ Romeo Lil’ Wayne Linkin Park Lisa Marie Presley Lynyrd Skynyrd Michael Jackson Nirvana Pink Floyd Prince Ralphie May Rodney Carrington Rodney Dangerfield Ron White Why rate? William Hung Wu-Tang Clan |
1The New Pornographers is not about porn. It’s really a good band with a weird title.
This isn’t a comprehensive list. It’s only the ones I’ve rated. I tell Launchcast to exclude country music, so you don’t see many of them in the suck column.
Some artists may suck overall but have a couple of good songs. Because of the way Yahoo works, they end up in my good column. T.A.T.U. ended up in the good column for this reason. (I am getting sick of T.A.T.U. It seems like a concocted lesbian band with marginal talent.)