Damn good point. If you can’t pick up on the single weirdest aspect of a band while ridiculing it…

Their great sin with listing Live was that they did so without mentioning that Ed, the singer, is a devotee of a cult leader who goes by “Adi Da”, but once called himself “Bubba Free John“.

Smelly gits who were jealous of the hard rockers in school/college. Prats.

On another note, the mix of customer and bot recommendations at Amazon.com is a mix of CR’s data-driven approach and Blender’s subjective style — and might deliver a much better list of recommendations than does either CR or Blender because of that.

The big difference between Blender and Consumer Reports — and it’s a huge difference — is that Consumer Reports is objective, measuring things like size, reliability (in concrete statistical ways), price and others. Blender, on the other hand, relies on the fact that they write for a magazine and you don’t for their authority. And the problem is, whereas Consumer Reports will be able to tell you pretty well whether you’re going to be happy with that new big-screen TV, Blender has no idea what music you’re going to like and any attempts to tell you such is way off-base and presumptuous.

That’s my beef.

Jane: Actually, Toto’s new album tested well among males.

Lucas: Jane, did you compare the percentage of male Toto fans to the incidence of homosexuality amongst males?

Yes, it’s been altered for my purposes.

Toto Sucks.

Greg

Frank Zappa ruled, at least up until Joe’s Garage. I think the ass cancer had got to his brain by then.

Obscure goodness: Letters From Cleo & the Tuesdays. Good 90′s girl-pop.

So there.

But I know you all have a favorite.

Mine “My Cherona” by The Knack, because… well, I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind. (8-o

Putting Kansas on the list, however, is pure ignorance. If “Carry On Wayward Son” isn’t one of the best rock tunes EVER, then I’m just not a real fan of rock and roll. Damn, how could anyone expect any more from a tune than they deliver in THAT one?

That said, I vote Spandau Ballet for the title of Worst Band Ever.

But listing Live? And blaming Live for Creed?! That’s damn near fightin’ words. How on earth can you blame Live for Creed any more than you could blame every other loud rock band with male vocalists that came before, like Nirvana, Metallica, or Black Sabbath? Please.

And then…Oingo Boingo.

Oh.

Oh, dear.

Well, then. That changes things. This is not a matter of offense, or poor musical taste.

This is a cry for help.

We’re dealing with a sad, joyless person. A troubled person, but still a fellow human being.

Anger is not the appropriate response. We must open our hearts so that we may…

…point and laugh. Loudly.

Also, why are libertarians knocking other people’s music? Shouldn’t you leave that to those nanny-music-industry types over at Blender who want to tell you what to listen to?

“Bereft of sex and emotion, Kansasâ??s music was a noxious fusion of Jethro Tull and Yes, appealing only to male sci-fi bores…”

God forbid someone write something other than maudlin, nausea-inducing love songs. Some of us get tired of listening to every half-formed piece of crap written by a horny teenager.

Bad bands are so bad, sometimes they’re good. Sometimes. Blender has listed the Worst 50 Musical Artists Ever. And here…