I hate Spam Calls, but their first two albums were OK.

“ Some of the guys in this band look better than some of the chicks I see around” LMAOOOO

OMG! I agree with absolutely every band you mentioned!!! Great job, Pete. Someone finally said how I felt.

Bon Jovi deserves it’s own video just for how awful they are... as does Nicklecrap

Bon Jovi is rock music for people who don't like rock music.

That was Vince Neil calling on the phone... he was gonna threaten to come sit on you.

I was with you every step of the way, but then you hit REM. You gotta understand that their hits (which often were indeed sappy) all came after they moved to Warner Brothers for one of the biggest advances ever at that time. Their indie stuff on IRS remains some of the most gorgeous and unique music of the 1980's; enigmatic, elegiac, energetic, well-played and arranged, and unlike anyone active at the time (and the Byrds/Velvets comparisons were very overcooked). Any of their first four albums could make my top-10 lifetime favorites. Not for everyone, I suppose. Oh, and that Dylan guy sure is good (except for a few disasters). But the rest of your list could have easily been my own.

Dylan between 62 and 1978 was astounding . After that , embarrassing at best . I also used to hate the voice . I changed my mind . I now LOVE his singing on most of those albums . Give the King another chance !

Pitbull is an absolute mystery. Seems like a parody

May I add “Dave Matthews Band”? 😋

Motley Crue's appeal was about being young and wild and sex crazed. For guys in their 50's and 60's trying to pull that off is beyond pathetic.

Discovered your channel yesterday and want to say THANK YOU for exactly what I think about the bands you mentioned here. I’m a big prog fan and enjoyed your top favs on those. Wow. Just love your style and personality. Keep up the great vids!

For a positive guy it didn't take much to take him over the edge to hate bands

It’s kinda satisfying seen Pete release this vitriol at these bands

As a person who actually does like quite a lot of the artists here, this was honestly kind of a nice change of pace. It's nice to hear differing opinions y'know?

I agree with each and every one of these. I would add to that list Hootie and the Blowfish, the Indigo Girls, and Coldplay. The 90s, in general, had very little that I enjoyed as well, punk is musical anathema to me and pop punk is hell on earth. That was the first decade where I completely tuned out the contemporary and the mainstream and listened solely to prog, fusion, and older music.

I'd rather have my eyes poked out with burning sticks than listen to Bon Jovi.

It's not often i agree with someone completly when it comes to music but THIS rant you are SPOT ON brother! spot on ...refreshing honesty!!!

The problem with most of these bands is they're way more famous than they deserve be.

I couldn't agree more with your entire list and for all the reasons you cited. You literally listed a who's who of popular bands that us younger X geners, now in our early to mid 40s, were inundated with on MTV from the time we were in the 6th grade up through college. I got into most of the bands you listed for like a minute when I was younger, when adolescent group conformity, peer pressure, and a recording industry hell-bent on marketing this stuff to our generation specifically, sort of brainwashed me into acting like I liked music I really didn't that much at all, but then eventually I went, "okay where did I place my Rush and Zeppelin albums?" And then I was reformed.

guns and roses are one of the most over rated bands ever , good call

Saw the Steely Dan shirt and got scared... thankfully he didn't include them. Probably my favorite band.

Hi Pete been missing for quite a while and our tastes are pretty similar… I have to say that this is the funniest episode and I laughed out loud some of the descriptions about what you don’t like about these bands just knocked me off my chair LOL I have to say this is probably the one video where our taste lined up 100% every man you named it for all the reasons you name them was so spot on… Keep on doing what you’re doing thanks!

I saw Nickelback at a festival years ago and the show was in a parking lot and 20 minutes into their set several people had to be transported to the hospital for splitting their heads on the pavement and the lead singer told us we were all idiots - like 4 or 5 people represented the intelligence of the entire crowd...I was blown away by the music (they were new then, not tired and old) but I never liked them after he insulted us.

Dave Matthews is peeking around the corner wondering if he's safe yet...

This made me laugh and I can't disagree on any of them.

I love watching this rant. I'm with Pete on all these ....it's like my voice of discontent with these bands. Only Motley got any $ from me for their first vinyl. Pearl Jam I got their first cd (record club), but the rest, just loved to hate. I love the feeling Pete puts into this, he really turns on the contempt in a funny way.

Oh yes ... Oasis ... they literally went into studios and captured boredom!

Marylin Manson = Alice Cooper without the talent!

"They got the shapely bods They got the Steely Dan T-shirt And for the coup-de-gras They're outrageous"

I agree with all your picks and for the same reasons, and yes as another commentator below said, please add U2 and the cult of Bono to the list

I agree with your list 100%, Pete. I think we are not too far off in age, and I totally get it. The 90s were a bad decade for music.

I have to add U2 to the list if I hear the start of I still havent found what Im looking for I cant change the station fast enough god I hate that fucking song.Good list thanks for the laughs !!

GnR never lived up to its potential. Wasted talent.

Damn bro....You nailed this. I agree 100% with you here. I would add that many of those shit buttrock bands are the reason why the 90's went to hell for metal. The fact that bands like poisen, winger, warrant, bullet boys, motley crew.......on and on, were classified as metal, soiled the genre. Also, I am so sick of bands like Pearl jam, GnR and Nirvana that literally have so little material, and then they are considered gods etc. Compared to so many of the bands that you speak of that have profound legacy, and extremely deep discogrophies to get no respect to these one hit wonders is a crime. I think of Opeth for example. The amount of great/complex music they have produced is amazing, and those other bands could not even attempt to achieve anything like that. Thanks for what you do.

Haha new subscriber, came over to some old vids and I love this rant haha. Made me laugh 😂 good stuff bro!

I lost it at Pitbull - immediate subscription.

True Story: Bob Dylan asked Slash to play guitar on one of his tracks in the mid-90s. The released version of the song had the Slash solo cut out .. according to Dylan: 'it sounded too much like GnR' .. lol :)

No way. It's like you are reading my mind. I was actually thinking of Counting Crows while watching the video. I hate all those bands except maybe Volbeat...though I don’t rlisten to them or own any of their albums. But wow, for a video you were reluctant to do, you totally nailed it. Do a video ranking the Eluveitie albums.

This is the first of your rant videos that I watch, and I'm laughing so hard. Especially at the poison bit. Funny to see a more "human" side of you. Cheers

You forgot Hootie and the Blowfish. I literally want to vomit every time I hear that voice. You can throw in Alanis Morisette for good measure.

Axl Rose= Edith Bunker on speed.

Great video! I love many of those, but hey its your opinion man and I totally get your points- and honestly, that was the one best Bob Dylan- Impression I ever heard (and I love this man as an artist!), so damn funny 😂👍

I could not agree MORE with you throughout this entire rant. NAILED IT. THANKS!

Motley Crüe. I can’t understand how they became famous.

i agree with EVERY pick here. I'd also add U2...

Thanks for that video Pete! I thought I was the only one who despised these bands. In Buffalo, they play a lot of Def Leppard who I can't stand.

I agree with all of these. Spot on. One more - Dave Mathews.

Nirvana, Pearl Jam...now you a fugitive in Seattle. ;)

Those aren't spam calls Pete.......it was Michael Stipe from REM calling to whine after your blast on him.

Pretty spot on! Totally agree with most of this video. Quite like Chronic Town through to Green by REM but agree they lost it in the nineties. Oddly Oasis usually had their best songs as b-sides: Acquiesce is their best record.

“Fun? Yeah fun if you like slitting your wrist’ - now that’s funny. Almost spit up my coffee 🤣

Geez, it's like Pete got a copy of my list and read it (or paraphrased it).

Early REM was awesome awesome! Particularly the IRS years! Very classy But if you don't like them, God bless you.

Kudos for making these statements- these bands also helped lead to the deterioration and destruction of rock and roll, along with many good established old bands that for whatever reason, mostly quit releasing albums with good production and quality publishing, or very intermittently over the last 20-30 years. Truly sad.

The reason a lot of bands in the 90s irritate people like you and me is because they were "products." Their image, their music, was all designed by formulae that record companies felt was attractive to young people based on a whole host of things that had been tried before. The antihero front man, a tragic figure struggling to keep his bangs out of his face as well as addiction. That sort of thing. When Generation Y rediscovered the Beatles, then every British pop group had to have a vocalist that whined like Lennon. I was dragged around to so many of these concerts in the 90s and early 2000s, and wanted to puke everytime I would see the whole audience jump up and down like my 8-year-old when I would tell him we're going to an amusement park. That jumping thing was a specific kind of behavior for fans of skater rock and pop punk of the era, like headbanging and "devil horns" were for metal, I guess. But anyway, you named all the bands and kind of music that drives me nuts. I also agree about Bob Dylan, but I must confess that his later albums, when he started growling more like Dr. John, really have started to grow on me. Thanks for the fun show and the memories!

Shout At The Devil was such a great album, but it just turned to shit after that.

Smashmouth...I always picture a Purple Dinosaur singing

Stopped by to watch this older RANT and pretty much agreed with Pete's choices....very entertaining video maybe it will be fun to make this RANT format a series...there is plenty of shitty popular bands now a days. Cheers!

Thank you for making this video, on my behalf!

"We built this city" Starship Makes me want to veer head-on into an oncoming log truck.

I cant stand coldplay

1st three bands you mentioned - I totally agree! I hate Poison, I don't like Motley Crue, and what can you say about GnR...When the debut came out, I was 15 and I loved it, I brought me to Rock and Metal...but I left GnR behind me quite quickly...

Fantastic video. Couldn’t agree more with your choices. I would also add Bad Wolves, Godsmack, Killswitch Engage, and Avenged Sevenfold.

“Fun if you like slitting your wrists” 😂😂

"Everybody huuuurts" - My ears hurt HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Thanks for the video. So interesting to me that my musical interests line up with a bunch of the bands you love (Dream Theater, Rush, etc.) but also with so many that you don’t (Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Dylan). Really highlights to me that each of us is different and has a unique set of likes and dislikes - it’s the flavor of life

You never mention U2 very much or haven't done an album rank about. I knew they were always good, but for some reason I stuck them in mish mash of commercial bands. You know, like the some of the ones you mention. However, when "Achtung Baby" came out, there was no way I could ever say a bad word about them. Yes, still commercial and all that, but that very interesting album hit a creative peak I certainly didn't expect. That said, I'm still not a big fan of U2, but I certainly could not deny their importance from that point on.

Most of the bands out today would ask you to hold their beer.

Paul McCartney on Oasis: "If you're going to be derivative, I'm glad it's from something I was involved in." LOL!

I'm waiting for part 2 please!!!

Really enjoyed your rants! Tweaked me a little with Dylan and REM, but all in all I totally agree with your reasons for hating the bands you mentioned.

Can't deny their impact but I don't like Kiss. They look like they'd be heavy as hell and then when they play it's like crappy pop rock. And Gene Simmons ugh.

Pitbull's songs are catchy? So is influenza.

Love this. Needed to be said. Agree with pretty much everything. Great rant man.

The rant on more modern music is more of an indictment as to the state of the industry itself. They aren't willing to take chances on new bands like they would in the 70's. Who needs artistry, soul or talent? We need $$ never mind a diversity of sound. Makes one wonder if we'll ever hear the thunder of a Moon, the lyrics of Fagen and Becker, the screams of a Gillan or the re-defining sounds of Jimi. The 70's were a time of experimentation and the diversification of sound was instantly recognizable and mainly unique. Take prog for an example, no one would ever confuse the sounds of Yes, King Crimson, ELP or Tull.

I certainly appreciate Nirvana and Pearl Jam for their influence, but in the grunge world, in my opinion, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, and of course Soundgarden all put out more substanstive and musically interesting albums.

I suddenly want a Steely Dan t-shirt!

I found this rather late but I have to agree with a ton of your choices. My only defence would be R.E.M. I'm into sophisticated instrumental music and a lot of stuff you rave about is right down my musical alley. R.E.M are my release from the intense stuff, particularly the first two albums. I grew up with 70's Punk Rock so I tend to be forgiving in this area. If I return to something it would be R.E.M. I also liked the Punk bands of the 90's because so many guitar players grew up learning this stuff and teaching it is fun. Green day, Blink 182, The Offspring etc. No, I don't sit and listen to this stuff regularly but I don't have a problem with it. Now if you talk about British Synth Pop from the early '80's....Grrrrrr!!!

I’d add slipknot. I just don’t get it.

Those are not SPAM calls. They are Eminem, REM, Motley Crue, Poison, and the ghost of Kurt Cobain calling to cuss you out. But you never answer, so instead they are leaving thumbs-downs.

Hey Pete. Fun show! I know you don’t like Motley Crüe but what do you think of the band Sixx A.M. ? I think they have some good songs and I think DJ Ashba is a great guitar player.

I think you should also have mentioned "anything by Queensryche after Empire" too. I saw that band with five friends on the "Empire" tour and it was the first time they did all of "Operation Mindcrime" live - it was just out of this world, absolutely stunning, we came out of that theatre totally buzzing, definitely one of the top five live gigs I have ever been to. Cut to 2003-ish, virtually the same group of us went to see them on "Operation Mindcrime II" when they did both albums live and we were treated to Geoff Tate running around on stage with a giant rubber syringe. We left about the third song into "Mindcrime II", utter rubbish and having witnessed a "Mindcrime I" that was just awful. We were actually laughing and shaking our heads as we left. I had all of the albums up to Mindcrime II, after that concert I sold everything that was "Promised Land" and beyond. I've ignored anything by Geoff Tate since because he's a complete twat, the few tracks I've heard of Queensryche with the ex-Crimson Glory singer (whatever his name is) seem nothing special to me. What a really sad parody of themselves that band became!

What did you think of Limp Bizkit? Me I never liked them, I personally thought they sucked.

Pete, this is a dang solid list. I agree 100%.

You can add Neil Young (great songwriter, sings like a door hinge) and The Boss - his music - unlistenable, I don't get , I just don't get it, rant over.

Love this dudes evaluation of music and classic rock.entertaining funny clear and well spoken.

If you can't sleep put on the Counting Crowes. You'll fall asleep...

That’s mr Dylan on the phone, mate...

Holy shit! No wonder I enjoy your content, this list is spot-on!

Can we get a part two pls!

"I will be a happy man if I never hear another Oasis song again"...ME TOO!

My favorite was Marylan Mansion genius of what?? Looking like a freak?!! 😂😂😂😂😂 I died!!! Ah Shee it! 😂😂😂😂😂

Came back to watch this and I agree with just about everyone you mention. Your rant actually has me feeling better knowing it's not just me. Counting Crows and The Black Crowes, I'd rather listen to the crows in the trees around my house here in Maine, the ones that begin piping at the exact moment of dawn, the actual pipers at the gates of dawn, I'll take those real crows over the crow bands anytime.

Did the Motley Crue/Poison tour ever happen the following year?

Wow, my list is pretty identical, but a lot longer.

I have no idea why anyone would listen to Coldplay let alone like them.

Thanks Pete! I got a kick out of that. As a stagehand for 40 years, I’d add The Melvins, Helmet, Dinosaur Jr, (later years) Ted Nugent, Vince Gill, Alan Jackson and (Billy Squire’s first band) Piper….who supported KISS….to my list of bands that suck live.

The more I watch your videos the more I think that we are long lost brothers.

Since you can’t stand Dylan’s voice, I bet you don’t care for Tom waits or Leonard Cohen. Their voices are an acquired taste too.