I'm going with Jimmy Buffett

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KISS

Great at marketing, horrible at Rock n Roll.

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Another good one

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Pi Theory

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Asphyx

Jimmy Buffett's early work was actually very good. He saw $$ and followed it. Can't say i blame him, but I understand the hate.

KISS.....Gene and Paul are certainly un-likeable but Destroyer through Love Gun is credible rock. Creatures of the Night is also very good. Yes, they were always marketing over music, but there is some quality there. Plus....I fucking love Ace Frehley's guitar playing.

For me personally:
1. Def Leppard - Post Pyromania
2. Shania Twain

There's a theme here....anything touched by Mutt Lange is complete garbage.

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Modern Day Metallica

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I know I'm 15 years late, but i'll add
GOOD CHARLOTTE

My God I remember a drum student of mine (at the time) mentioning them. I listened and thought "yep....we're doomed".

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DMB

There are a lot of cookie cutter bands around right now that all seem to have choirs or large choruses for background vocals...horrible sounds.

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what arcade fire has become is among the worst music ever recorded

Aren't most of the acts being named pop acts?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Kash, and Don

The Suburbs is about where I stopped with them...rightly so.

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Yeah, awful

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Yea Shania Twain is the actual definition of a pop act.

Shame, too, for a band that was really good. Used to be a staple of classroom listening.

Pi-Theory was smut rock.

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Funeral and Neon Bible were 2 of my favorite albums of the mid 2000's

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it there any act that had a more sudden and steep fall? aside from people who died or whatever.

Funeral holds an immensely special place in my heart as The Record that really turned me onto indie rock as a teenager, but seriously the Suburbs was no less great than the two albums that preceeded it.

Most crazy-metal is pretty awful--black metal, white metal, cookie monster vocals, etc--but at least I respect their commitment to their vision, like those really bad punk bands that would play in front of 53 people in a dilapidated Rogers Park storefront with brown butcher paper lining the windows. I also grudgingly admire doom metal's attempts to bring back the world of Beowulf and occasionally give classical violinists work.

DMB is a great entry.
Great musicianship in the band, but absolute garbage songwriting. I can list maybe 3 songs of theirs that are decent. Just a whole catalog of complete horseshit.

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That's a good question.

The Kinks, maybe, but they had split up I think? Genesis had a few solid albums after Gabriel left, but then they became pop vomit.

She may suck as an artist, but she could sure fill out a pair of jeans back in the day

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

even among the one-record-wonders nobody had a sophomore slump as abysmal as Reflektor, and then whats followed Reflektor is even worse!

I submit to you....Candlebox

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I dont know if bands that were always destined to play wedsneday night shows at Jack Binion's can really qualify.

The Kinks were relevant for at least 20 years. Then they broke up. Ray has remained relevant for nearly the entire time since the early/mid 60s.

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Rod Stewart's entire solo career.

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