Your Favorite Band Sucks - Podcast Rankings and reviews

This podcast does a fantastic job of both rightfully (and at times hyperbolically) barbecuing some of music’s most sacred cows, while also offering a pretty incisive satire of music criticism in general. I think the satire in this show is missed by a lot of the people who are giving negative reviews, that really only becomes apparent after hearing several episodes when they start purposefully contradicting themselves about what the good bands of a specific era are. (Ex. In the Slayer episode, they tell everyone to listen to Metallica, but in the Metallica episode, they tell everyone to listen to Slayer.) Even though Tyler and Mark present themselves as arrogant know-it-alls, ironically, I would say that the main lesson to take away from this show is that nobody should be on their high horse about their music tastes. No artist is beyond criticism. If your favorite band is Aerosmith, you have no business talking down to someone whose favorite band is Limp Bizkit. If you are secure in your music tastes and can take what they say with a grain of salt, there’s a lot of humor and insight to be found in this show. Some of my favorite episodes have been about bands that I absolutely love.

It’s like Celebrity Roasts but for bands. It’s funny when you hate the same band they are trashing. It’s just as funny when you like the band, just in a different way. If you’re offended easily, get out now and come back if you decide to man up.

The weaving of history with modern pop culture, the heartbreaking saga of George and Tammy... I'm not sure a better podcast is even possible.

Not for the faint of heart, but if you love music AND have a sense of humor and perspective about it, this is the podcast.

One request: can we have a Jimmy Buffett Memorial episode now please?

It’s unfortunate that these hosts think of themselves to be really funny, because this podcast has the potential to be so entertaining just based on the name of it alone. It could just be them making jokes at the expense of the bands they don’t like, and it even poke some harmless fun at the fans of those bands. Instead these guys take themselves way too seriously, and they come off as a couple of random, pretentious bored people. I think they see themselves as certified music critics or something, which is rough, because they don’t realize that they couldn’t be further from that. It also shows narrow their taste in music actually is. They really don’t know a lot about the genuinely good music outside their own bubble. And they’ve admitted to not doing the research that would be helpful to any intelligent conversation they want to have about music, that they do clearly want people to take seriously, which is ironic. But I don’t think anyone really does. They just make themselves look kind of goofy and ignorant. Definitely a missed opportunity to make something that’s both witty and genuinely informative and insightful at the same time. Just a lot potential, wasted. Sorry guys, but you dropped the ball, here.