Comprehensive List of Bands That I've Seen but Wish I Hadn't (1 Viewer)

[rettucs]

Yeasayer

Future Islands

Kurt Vile

Tilly And The Wall

The Killers

Get Well Soon

 

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Deer Tick

Crocodiles

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Sticking to bands I like

Godspeed You Black Emperor
Slint
The Saints (20 odd years earlier I'm sure they would have been amazing)
Leatherface (at least a half dozen times,amazing records,suck live)
Khanate
Earth (saw them once and they were great,then another time and they were truly awful)
Foo Fighters (again,once great,once awful)
Radiators From Space (Again,20 odd years earlier could have been amazing)

probably loads more,but that's all I remember now.

Luckily bands that were just shit I usually forget about.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Of bands that I like I guess Pink Floyd are the only one I kinda regret seeing. I was 17, completely obsessed with them, they were boring and my illusions were shattered after that. Why I expected anything better from them after their late-80s escapades I don't know.

 

[rettucs]

Sticking to bands I like

thats fair enough. Of the ones I listed I saw them at gigs they were headlining and intentionally went to see them. The only exception is Get Well Soon who supported Bon Iver and are possibly the worst band in the entire world (worse than bands who have less ability than them because they take themselves so seriously)

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Wasn't having a dig.

 

[rettucs]

ah no I know. But it'd be too easy to start listing bands that were crap or that you never liked in the first place. It'll be a better thread if its more about disappointment following high expectations.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! in the Village. Lead guy played with his back to the crowd most of the night and gave a stern frowning to at anyone in his band who looked like they were having fun.

That's about all I can think of aside from every support act

Foo Fighters (again,once great,once awful)

oh me too but if we're talking about bands who got progressively worse each time you saw them we'll be here all night

 

[washingcattle]

Interpol.

Godspeed.

Dinosaur Jr.

Oxes.

Battles.

The Men.

No Age.

Morrisey. (not that he was bad just that he played loads of Smiths tunes, note perfect, which just made me more aware that I'll never see the Smiths)

At The Drive In (again they were amazing but having watched footage of them from back then, and realising they were actually completely shit, it makes me think that half the gigs I remember being amazing were probably total shit.)

U2 (for kind of the opposite reason of above, they were pretty amazing and I don't even want to consider that)

The Chemical Brothers (the crowd was like being in Gomorrah, No danger of anyone turning into pillar of salt mind, i couldn't get away quickly enough)

Shellac (every time after the first time)

 

[David Kronenbourg]

JAMC

 

[GO]

Jazes.I've seen fuck all bands.

 

[washingcattle]

Mars Volta.

Jesus they were fucking insulting.

 

[Jill Hives]

I can't think of any but there are bands I wish I never saw what they looked like.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Ian Brown
Babyshambles

 

[Lili Marlene]

Mars Volta.

Jesus they were fucking insulting.

They were great that time at Witnness. I stopped listening to them immediately after though.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Last time I saw both Fugazi and Nomeansno (different gigs of course)I thought it was rubbish.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Suicidal Tendencies (first time they played Ireland,whenever that was.Late 80's?)

 

[GO]

John Mayall in the Olympia.

Classic British blues it was'nt.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

High on Fire,I liked them,then saw them,then realised,I didn't actually like them at all.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Janelle Monae