In most case it's not really the music I detest.
I hate bands for all sorts of reasons. Being massively overhyped for instance. (Nirvana) Inspiring horrible music for most of the next decade (Nirvana) Having a twat of a frontman become worshipped as a Rock God (Nirvana) Being Nirvana.
Weirdly, I still think "Smells like Teen Spirit" is a decent song.

However, The Spice Girls were a shit band who performed shit music, got hyped into orbit to the point where the fuckers were everywhere, inspired the whole "Girl Power" thing-feminism as interpreted by thick chavettes- and had such a hold on the British media that I can only surmise that contracts written in blood and signed by Bill Z Bub were involved.
It says a lot that after all this time I still want them loaded onto a rocket and fired into the sun.
The Black Eyed Peas can take the spare seats.
(Big D, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 22:09, 5 replies)

with you on the spice girls
check out my post down the page a bit
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 22:15, closed)

Thumbs up, old chap.
I hate them so much I thought they deserved a second dose of bile.
(Big D, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 22:20, closed)

and a third
and a fourth
and a septic tank full of shit and snorkel-wearing scorpions
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 22:28, closed)

I really didn't like the fact that Nirvana were so popular (although SMTS was OK, yes)
it then became a massive shift that record companies preferred grunge and that killed the career of several bands I liked as they were dropped from labels to make way for the next bunch of Nirvanesque soundalikes.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 30 Dec 2010, 22:36, closed)

Oh, so with you on that.
I rather liked the metal/rock scene pre-grunge. There was some genuinely good bands there. Inside a year Kerrang was full of surly grobs from the Pacific Northwest and Heavy metal spent the rest of the nineties trying to be "Relevant, man" and being terrified of anything resembling melody.
(Big D, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 22:54, closed)