A lot
of obvious candidates here, The Smiths, Beatles, U2, REM, Coldplay, etc.
But I can't decide which group I hate/loathe/moderately dislike or has a complete dickhead as a band member.
Instead I vote for an entire genre of music - Jazz.
A more self-indulgent form of aural masturbation and senseless drivel than I have ever had the misfortune to come across.
"You have to learn to appreciate jazz" it is said. No you fucking don't. You have to listen to a bunch of twats aimlessly noodle their soul-destroying egotistical tuneless shite in a manner that would put a dead paraplegic to shame.
"You'll understand when you get older" Well, I'm in my 40s now, and I'm still fucking waiting.
"Good Jazz" v "Bad Jazz" You mean there's a fucking difference? What is it then?

Jazz mags are a completely different matter.
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Mon 3 Jan 2011, 23:50, 7 replies)

Jazz
Jazz is my favourite thing in the whole world. On boxing day I walked two hour through a blizzard and spent $30 I don't have to see a fairly low key jazz musician who was working back in the 50s. And it was one of the best things I've done all year. I came out grinning like a loon. My soul was nourished, my mind fed, no stupid vocals getting in the way of the actual music like in almost every other genre (vocals can be sublime sometimes, don't get me wrong, but for me if you NEED words to communicate then you aren't a good enough musician), and I was transfixed all the way through. All the nuances, all the interplay between the performers, the past, present and future, every decision made in each moment of the song creating something beautiful and unique... If you told me now I could be a jazz musician if I never had sex again in my life, then I wouldn't hesitate to pick jazz.

I don't mind that you think it's self-indulgent and soulless, really. I just want you to know that for me it is transcendent.
(WarneMarsh My priority for frivolity begets quality jollity, Tue 4 Jan 2011, 1:50, closed)

When I hear Jazz
I realise why it's so intertwined with Heroin. It makes me want to take an overdose.
(Rsoles, Tue 4 Jan 2011, 2:19, closed)

What you have to remember is
that there are many, many different kinds of Jazz.


And they're all shit.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 4 Jan 2011, 10:28, closed)

Mmm....
nice.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebUMhJAKSM
( admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Tue 4 Jan 2011, 13:51, closed)

Well....
Whoever told you that you have to learn to appreciate it needs a good slap. If you have to ask, you'll never know, as the Red Hot Chili Peppers once said. It's a personal thing.

By the way, the theme tune from "Police Squad" and "The Naked Gun" is jazz. It's not too aimless or noodly. Perhaps there are exceptions, even if there aren't many?

And I like the mags reference. Reminds me of something from "The Eleven O Clock Show", when Daisy Donovan interviewed Glenda Jackson.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Tue 4 Jan 2011, 13:59, closed)

Eh?
Jazz ranges from bluesy and melodic to slappy and harsh (and a lot of other ranges too) -- while it is entirely possible you do not like any Jazz I do think it's more likely you've not heard that much Jazz.
As an example: Miles Davis' "Kind Of Blue" is a very melidic and pleasing album, though many Jazz fans may find it mainstream and dull.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 21:04, closed)

Well see what you think of these:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0MTQpDgSFc - Django Reinhardt - Brazil
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7YAYQxmLh0 - George Benson - Breezin'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1-pQziWiKk - Humphrey Lyttelton - Bad Penny Blues

If you don't like any of them, fine. But they're hardly tuneless noodling.
(Cuthbert Annihilator, Wed 5 Jan 2011, 23:06, closed)