Posted on 02/18/2021 5:37:28 AM PST by mylife
Music—specifically popular rock music—can have a polarizing effect on listeners. One fan's favorite band is the one another person detests most. As head-scratching as it may be, there are even people who hate the Beatles. That's because art is subjective by nature, so it's difficult to assess with an analytical or mathematical approach. But that didn't stop us from trying to do just that. At Best Life, we set out to use data to determine the most hated rock band of all time.
Once we had our list, we looked at five key metrics, from expert opinions to fan surveys. To start, we looked at LA Weekly's list of the top 20 worst bands of all time. Then we turned our attention to Vice's list of the 123 worst musicians of all time. Since the list was not ranked, if a band was on the list, it got points added to its score; if it wasn't, no points were added. Then we looked at the top 21 most overly hated bands according to Ultimate Guitar, a popular music and guitar instruction website. Finally, we used two polls from Ranker, the 102 most overrated bands and the 421 worst rock bands of all time.
We then assigned each metric a weighted value* before running them through our exclusive algorithm to see how each artist scored on our 100-point scale Hated Band Index. Read on to discover which group was deemed the most hated rock band of all time, based on the numbers.
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I vote Beachboys
Everything is opposite these days. So Rush Rules!!!
My list includes all of these bands who are anti American and anti TRUMP.
I would agree if it was Rush but I couldn’t bring myself to click on the link.
ya...U2 as well?
I KNEW nickleback would win the prize!
If you did a story on the most loved rock bands of all time several of these bands would be on that list too.
Um, the Dixie Chicks, Bruce Springsteen, Roger Waters
Nickelback...as expected!
One of the greatest bands of all time!
How shallow.
Nickleback wasn’t that bad. How about Creed. All there songs sounded the same. And there lead singer flaked out.
Putting Rush and The Doors in a Top 20 worst rock band list makes that list absolutely worthless!
The Doors, KISS, Bob Dylan? How the hell do they end up on the most hated list unless by most hated they really mean most original and non-corporate.
Motley Crue deserves to be in the top 10
We all knew nickelback would be there LOL
Worst - ALL the ‘hair bands’ of the 80s.
I’ve probably been to a dozen RUSH concerts over the last 40 years. RIP Neal.
I never like springsteen. Or the doors.
I didn’t know half of them.
I agreed with the other half........................
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