Reply #74: Anything by:

[Whitacre D_WI]

-The hated Eagles
-Billy Joel
-Paul McCartney post-Beatles (excepting "Jet")
-for that matter, 90% of McCartney's Beatles songs after 1965
-The Grateful Dead
-U2 (other than the near-classic albums "Boy" and "Achtung Baby")
-Phish
-Sting
-The Moody Blues (with one exception, "Hey Now")
-Eric Clapton (solo -- I do like Cream)
-other wankers with Stratocasters who think they're playing the "blues."
-Rush
-Triumph
-Bryan Adams
-okay, most Canadian music
-post-1990 Metallica and Megadeth
-Crosby, Stills, and Nash (any group Neil Young could not make good REALLY SUCKS!)
-Any band named after a geographical location (Boston, Chicago, Kansas)
-Seal
-Dream Theater, Savatage, Fates Warning (eyesroll likes prog-metal :scared:)
-Sheryl Crow
-Kid Rock
-Kid Rock featuring Sheryl Crow
-Sheryl Crow featuring Kid Rock
-The Doors, when Morrison sings something stupid (about half their songs)
-Jimmy Fucking Buffett
-Whatever Screaming Lord Byron Likes

And, of course: Celine Dion, Kenny G, Yanni, Michael Bolton, Billy Ray Cyrus, Vanilla Ice -- but those hacks are no harder on my ears than the "artists" listed above.