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[Poll #1018696]

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[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Reasons for my ticks, now you can see my criteria:

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Ick, no. I like one or two songs tho
The Beatles - I like most of their songs, tickaroo
Radiohead - Overrated, but still pretty good. May rescind this tick.
Linkin Park - Underrated, borderline, but they deserve more ticks than they have.
The White Stripes - One of my 10 favorite bands of this decade. "Fell In Love With a Girl" = brilliant.
Muse - eeeh, no tick.
Coldplay - Lord no
Metallica - Pretty good for a metal band. Give em a tick. I like "Enter Sandman" and a few others.
Smashing Pumpkins - "1979" is good, but can't stand em for the most part. No tick.
The Killers - I've liked all of their singles that I've heard, 'cept "Read My Mind", but that's still about 3 or 4 singles that I really like, so that's tickworthy. Never heard an album of theirs, but suspect I'd probably like their first.
Nirvana - Maybe a touch overrated, still have lots o great pop tunes.
Arctic Monkeys - I ticked them but it was pretty generous as I know none of their songs apart from "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor". 100% hit rate of "any good at all" = tickworthy.
Green Day - Several great pop singles. Easy tick.
Pink Floyd - I like the Syd Barrett album, but easily counteracted by decades of trudging crap that followed.
System Of A Down - No.

Fall Out Boy - I really like their latest album. Tick.
Death Cab For Cutie - I saw them in concert once. They were horrible. God, I hate them.
Placebo - I have never knowingly heard a Placebo song, so I cannot in good conscience tick them.
Led Zeppelin - I have a massive, irrational hatred for Led, though they have a couple good songs, (eeh, "Tangerine", "Rock & Roll")
Queen - One of the all time greats. Easy tick.
Interpol - Didn't like their first album, never heard the second.
Bloc Party - Never heard a song of theirs I could even stand, much less like.
Incubus - Horrible. Deservedly at 0 ticks as of this writing. How are they in the top 30????
Arcade Fire - First album was OK, but don't like latest album so that pushes them out of tick.
U2 - Pretentious and overrated and Bono is a douche and etc., etc. They have a lot of crap and a pretty low hit rate, but they've released several pop singles I really enjoy (most of Joshua Tree, "Sweetest Thing", "Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me", etc.) "One" is probably the most overrated single of all time. Marginal tick.
Oasis - Of course not.
My Chemical Romance - I've enjoyed all of their singles I've heard but not heard a full album. Their two singles this year are both in my 2007 top 10 to this point.
Blink-182 - Several great pop tunes ("What's My Age Again", "Dammit") almost counteracted by lots of crap ("All the Small Things"), but not quite. Tick.
Snow Patrol - No.
Foo Fighters - I enjoy several of their songs, and "Everlong" is genuinely great.

Basic criteria was "can I construct a decent best-of CD for this band", but I did give demerits for particularly crap songs they've released.