Worst live bands
 

My Chemical Romance. Hands down.

Seen them like 3 times live. Absolutely horrific.

They're not that bad... instrumentals and stuff are good, but the backup singing is horrible and the lead singer could use a lot of work.

Good Charlotte is pretty terrible...
Senses Fail is shit, SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO shit. Lost all respect when I saw them.
Hawthorne Heights aren't great, the screaming is pretty brutal, they have off and on nights I think.

Cave In


Christ almighty, but they suck anyways.

I've seen New Found Glory and Yellowcard supporting and they are both absolutely fucking awful.

I absolutely love Senses Fail so I have a hard time believing they are THAT BAD live. They didn't seem awful on the dvd.

Hawthorne Heights (from watching the DVD) is TERRIBLE live. Even their lead singer kinda sucks live. But the screamer.....

elbow. fucking utter shit and piss.

And I'd only just lost the urge to stab you in the face. :mad:

As for me, probably god awful British band Sugarcoma. Who have hopefully now split up.

I quite enjoyed Yellowcard when I saw them

Violin guy rules

Can you say "Fuck you guy's, bring on the Foo Fighter's?"

I also would like to nominate The Coral.

lol no he doesn't, he is really gay when he is on stage

they do put on a good live show though :y:

The singer is horrific and the backup screamer is horrible.

Download Senses Fail on Kimmel and Conan and you'll know what I mean. They have been really bad both times I've seen them.

Yeah I thought Hawthorne Heights were really bad on the DVD too, but they did a great show at Warped Tour this year. The screamer still sucked though.

Nah, QOTSA is pretty good. Was when they were here.

LOL the violin guy from Yellowcard. Like it is cool/unique or whatever to have a violin guy in a pop-punk band, but I mean, he thinks he is ROCKING OUT, which is absolutely ridiculous.

QOTSA tore shit up when I saw em at 'Looza.

Alter Bridge was pretty good when I saw em too.

That all girl band was pretty shittacular. The Donnas or whatever. Horrible. I wanted to shoot myself.

mudvayne started threating the state of Indiana on stage, because everyone was booing there shitty performance.

Later that night on the main stage Story of the Year opened the stage and was pretty good. They yelled for everyone in the grass area to come up to the pavilion and go nuts. So basically 7000 people hopped into the pavilion and went nuts. At the time i had dropped 5 hits and was all for burning the place down. So i thought it was great. Well apparently the headlining act wasnt to fond of this performance. According to the loca radio station and Godsmack themselves on stage , who actually said they " beat those punks ass " there was a fight between Godsmack crew and some members and the whole Story of the Year band. I guess Story of the year ggot there ass kicked backstage.

upload?

Blink-182 were pretty subpar when I saw them last year. :$

Blink182 when I saw them touring with Green Day. Green Day was awesome though.

Taking Back Sunday still holds the title as shittiest live band ever in my book.

I agree. I thought their performance was pretty horrid.

Penner, I downloaded "Lady In A Blue Dress" that was performed in London last year AND I downloaded "Rum Is For Drinking, Not For Burning" that was performed on Conan and to be perfectly honest, I thought both videos fucking ruled. :-\

Systematic.
The whole crowd had the same thoughts on them: :| .

I've heard that SOAD is god awful live.

yeah SOAD weren't great. they're a bit weird live. like you never think about it listening to CDs and stuff but when you get to a gig and want to jump around, their crazy time changes and all the weird shit stops you from doing that. plus serj didn't seem all that into it. Same goes for soulfly. Max Cavalera just didn't seem interested which gutted me a bit because soulfly were like my favourite band at the time, i've hardly been able to listen to them since.

Luckily for me I saw Mad Capsule Markets but on the most crazy energetic gig i've ever been to 2 days before, and it was utterly superb.

I'd also agree with the Coral and QOTSA for being shit, although they're shit anyway.

I've seen some terrible bands in my time, but I think the prize goes to Hungry And The Hunted, supporting King Prawn in 2003. They were unspeakably dull.

Download Buried A Lie and watch him try to hit the notes in chorus.

A live video or a live version of the song? I'll try to find it, if I can't... maybe it's just the odd one or two occasions where he fucks up.

Good times. :cool:

I saw queens when they opened for the chili peppers a year or so ago...and i could not want their set to be over any quicker...it was awful

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Audio Slave was terrible at HFS two or three years back.

upload plz

I've seen them live twice, and watched countless videos.

Northern State opened up for Cake and they were horrible. Don't even inquire about them.

The Thrills also sucked when they opened up for The Pixies.

I didn't much like Sparta before Pearl Jam either. But I dealt with it.

Usher is pretty terrible live. 75% of the song is taped.

Patti Labelle puts on a great show. :eek:

^exactly. Ten Thousand Fists rocks also.

Yeah, I'll agree that the Senses Fail performance on Conan sucked ass, he didn't even know the words for the first verse.

I'm d/ling Lady In The Blue Dress off punkrockvids right now.

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Oasis. Seen them twice and both times they just could not be arsed.

Not surprising, since they're huge dicks.

adema is pretty bad live

Lots of mad people. Yes thank god that Sugarcoma have split up.

My Chemical Romance were great when I saw them live, the second time I saw them some dick spilt a drink on the PA system so they played most of the set without a PA and still sounded great and tight.

Taking Back Sunday were great the first time I saw them, Adam was mental but mediocre next time I saw them.

Yea I saw Queens of the Stone Age live and they were incredible.

To be fair, I have that Conan performance dl'd and I'm pretty sure it just sounded fucked up on the first verse because his mic was screwed up, notice how he walks back and looks offstage right before it gets louder. :-\

I forgot about Bloc Party. Both times I've seen them, their sound as been awful. Either it is technical problems, or their production is just fucking shit. The vocals are always completely lost (the guy's voice isn't particularly strong to begin with) and the lead guitar is too low. The bass and drums over-power everything, and it sounds fucking rubbish.

I saw SOAD live, and they were the complete opposite of what you said. Their music was awesome, everybody jumped around like crazy, and Serj was into it big time, jumping and dancing all over the stage. I guess it only means that live, every band can suck or rule, depending on their mood.

Worst band I've seen live: Bad Acid Trip. They were supporting SOAD, and they were so bad the singer tried to resort to shock value to get a reaction, raping a doll onstage and stuff like that. One lonely guy was in the middle of the pit, moshing alone. Pretty funny though.

Young Buck

I'm not surprised to hear some of the bands listed here are shit. I mean, My Chemical Romance and other screamo, emo pansy ass bands like that are bound to suck anyway.


Worst band I saw live was at a festival so there was no choice but to cope, and they were named Scratching Post. The chick was hot though.

I have seen SOAD gig on tv and they were fricking amazing.

Bands have off-days and on-days... Taking Back Sunday on their headline UK tour in January were awesome, as were the supporting My Chemical Romance, but then MCR were pretty dire at Download and TBS were dull and confusing supporting Green Day.

System Of A Down, Cave In and Audioslave ruled when I saw each of them (both times for Audioslave).

Word. Seen them twice now and they were boring both times. I would also like to put forward The Bravery. They were late on at T and then proceeded to be slightly bottled. Cue the singer go "Wow you guys are good bottle throwers". Stupidest thing to say ever. Like 100 bottles thrown during the next song and the singer takes shelter. 0 crowd reaction till "Honest Mistake". Then start "Unconditional" as the last song and get cut off after about 10 seconds. No one cared.

i'm not saying system were shit or anything, it just wasn't as crazy as i thought it'd be. When you think of system you don't tend to think of all the quiet balladish parts and weird time signatures.

And Serj did look like he couldn't be arsed at all when i saw them.

I heard Dire Straights were pretty dull

Ya System were pretty freakin awesome when I saw them too. Actually Daran seemed most into it (probably cause he knew he'd have like 70687508674 groupies around later) but he's kinda nuts anyway so it's hard to tell. If anything though their style was better for live I found cause some songs I wouldn't have thought were that good for it came across really well and the place went nuts.

So yeah :-\ Maybe it was the depressing Manchester air Southwood :'(

Scratching Post sucks shit, I saw them with The Salads and Clarknova.

I've always found Blink to be terrible live as well.

i agree

I'm pretty sure he fucked up the words.

I saw Disturbed for the second time tonight and they were awesome. Lead singer was a bit bitchy about a few bad reviews they got though. Going to see Alter Bridge next month so hopefully they will be good.

Only band I have seen live and really didn't like were CKY

The Dwarves were fucking awful when I saw them a couple years back.

I've had the misfortune of seeing Elbow and Bowling For Soup

Wasn't that the same time the vocalist screwed up his lines, then suffered mic failure? Shafted my equipment AND lack of talent.

He's a bit of a pretentious egomaniac. He tried to peg "Shout" as being anti authority, and some shit about it being against the mainstream or something. I wonder if he remembers that this was a big fucking POP hit?