00:00And when you have to write a song, like, when I look at the world, it says,
00:03hello, I have nothing left to say.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at bands whose work has been
00:09publicly criticized by members of other bands.
00:13I've always hated their band.
00:18Number 10.
00:19Muse.
00:20Tom York, Radiohead.
00:22Modern British alternative owes a lot to Radiohead.
00:30It's certainly no surprise that they were named an early influence by electronically
00:36infused prog rockers Muse.
00:38But that connection has gradually been downplayed, likely because of an unlikely band feud.
00:52Radiohead frontman Tom York aggressively charged Muse with ripping him off back in 2001.
00:58In a 2019 interview for Sunday Times, he slammed the reliability of music streaming
01:03algorithms by lamenting that he was recommended Muse.
01:14Apparently, York isn't mannerly about his disdain.
01:17In a 2010 Panorama interview, Muse drummer Dominic Howard described an encounter with
01:22York that nearly came to blows.
01:24He also insisted that he still respects Radiohead's music.
01:28But York suggests that it's knives out on his end.
01:38Number 9.
01:39Duran Duran.
01:40Robert Smith.
01:41The Cure.
01:48With funky anthems and a suave image, Duran Duran exemplified pop rock in the 80s.
01:54With The Cure exemplifying its cynical antithesis, Robert Smith was naturally not a fan.
02:07Sure, the goth rock pioneer has been an outspoken critic of the likes of Def Leppard, Morrissey
02:12and Queen.
02:13But in a 2018 NME interview, he called Duran Duran a particularly egregious example of
02:19music industry consumerism at the time.
02:24He also revealed that Simon Lebon and company were big fans of The Cure.
02:32Smith seemed upset about putting down his fellow 80s icons.
02:36But such candor goes to show how honestly anti-pop he is.
02:48Number 8.
02:49Led Zeppelin.
02:50Pete Townshend.
02:51The Who.
02:5470s rock doesn't get much louder or more loved than Led Zeppelin and The Who.
03:03Still, the latter's guitarist believes that his contemporaries weren't as innovative as
03:08fans thought.
03:15Granted, Pete Townshend is hardly the only musician to accuse Jimmy Page of stealing.
03:20He just stands out for claiming that a whole genre was stolen.
03:24Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
03:30Yes, indeed.
03:32Townshend has charged Zeppelin with being poor imitators in interviews for years.
03:36Finally, in 2019, he told the Toronto Sun that The Who sort of invented heavy metal.
03:43Whether that claim is valid, he just plain doesn't like Zeppelin's music.
03:54Both bands are respected as titans of one genre or another.
03:57But Townshend is quick to dismiss any comparisons.
04:01Number 7.
04:02Green Day.
04:03John Lydon.
04:04The Sex Pistols slash Public Image Limited.
04:14Since his days as Johnny Rotten, this legendary punk frontman has
04:18even been outspoken against fellow musicians.
04:22The rants against more commercial rockers suit John Lydon's public image.
04:25Yet his feud with Green Day is especially nasty.
04:28Oh, I heard it all before.
04:33One of the most prominent punk bands since Lydon's day surely has its roots in his work.
04:38In fact, he's publicly knocked them as poor imitators as far back as the 90s.
04:43He also expressed dismay over Green Day's hypocritical commercialization of blasting
04:48the system.
04:48Billy Joe Armstrong has in turn blasted Lydon for his openness about being in it for the money.
04:54Whether these artists represent some decline in punk's ideas, fans seem to favor solidarity
05:02more than Lydon and Armstrong.
05:04I am John, and I was born in London.
05:06I am no vulture, this is my culture.
05:10Number 6.
05:11Aerosmith.
05:12Mick Jagger.
05:13The Rolling Stones.
05:15Perhaps most rockstar singers are in some way influenced by the Rolling Stones frontman.
05:24Me too, hope you guessed my name.
05:29Still, Mick Jagger has gotten pretty candid about his dislike of progenies like the New
05:34York Dolls, The Stranglers, and Oasis.
05:37The most notable of these so-called rubbish groups is Aerosmith.
05:48Despite their innovative hard rock, Jagger accuses them of ripping off the stones.
05:52Especially with regard to Steven Tyler's stage presence.
05:56This is a sore spot for the legendary vocalist who told the magazine Rolling Stone that he
06:00resented early comparisons to Jagger.
06:05Jagger is clearly no less frustrated by this.
06:08Though he once described Tyler as almost too bloody sweet during an encounter, his emotions
06:13for Aerosmith's music are pretty bitter.
06:16I thought that was awesome.
06:18I have three things to say about it.
06:20Ow, wow, and bop bop bop bop bop!
06:25Number 5.
06:26The Monkees.
06:27Jimi Hendrix.
06:28The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
06:30To promote their band in the US, Jimi Hendrix's UK-based band opened for The Monkees in 1967.
06:43The pop superstars were glad to help the guitar wizard break out back home.
06:47But it was a rough gig for Hendrix, who later told journalist Steve Barker that he hated
06:52The Monkees' music.
06:58He actually considered them a national embarrassment.
07:01And as much as the band appreciated the blues rocker's different style, concertgoers did
07:06not.
07:06The tension eventually prompted the Experience to depart in the middle of the tour.
07:11Hendrix ultimately didn't need The Monkees to become a permanent global phenomenon.
07:15Considering his embarrassing experience with them, that must have been a relief.
07:26Number 4.
07:27Bikini Kill.
07:28Courtney Love.
07:30Hole.
07:30Bikini Kill and Hole were two of the leading female-led punk and alternative rock bands
07:36of the 90s.
07:38But solidarity was a tall order for Hole singer Courtney Love.
07:42She and Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hannah famously got in a fight backstage at Lollapalooza in
07:471995.
07:48That's the whole thing that pissed me off is that later people were like, they fought.
07:52There was this rivalry and they fought.
07:53It's like, dude, I was standing there watching a band and Courtney walked up and attacked
07:58me.
07:59Twenty-four years later, Love took to social media to dub Bikini Kill and Hole as her
08:02favorite band.
08:04Twenty-four years later, Love took to social media to dub Bikini Kill the biggest hoax
08:09in the history of rock and roll.
08:11She then elaborated that she found them amateurish and superficial.
08:22Hannah never learned where the violent hostility came from, having never met Love before their
08:26brawl.
08:27She was said to be in a bad place after the deaths of husband Kurt Cobain and bassist
08:32Kristen Pfaff.
08:33Whatever is behind her feud, Love's musical taste is one certain factor.
08:56Both exemplifying California's groovy psychedelia scene in the 60s, The Grateful Dead and The
09:01Doors were known for their devoted followings.
09:10It sounds like the bands would be each other's biggest fans.
09:13Well, as nice as Jerry Garcia was, he didn't have kind words for The Doors.
09:25It went deeper than his objection to singer Jim Morrison's grim and vulgar brand.
09:30In Blair Jackson's book Conversations with the Dead, Garcia extensively criticized Morrison's
09:35eccentric style and the band's altogether brittle sound.
09:46That may not be a fair assessment when The Doors had three instrumentalists to The Dead's
09:50huge ensemble.
09:52Still, while history supports Morrison's pretenses of cult stardom, he never lit Garcia's
09:56fire.
10:002.
10:04Pearl Jam – Kurt Cobain, Nirvana Nirvana's Kurt Cobain made some rather
10:08disparaging remarks about Pearl Jam's music, which he thought was too commercial to be
10:12truly alternative.
10:14Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was never shy about scolding commercialism or the bands
10:18he felt represented it.
10:20Pearl Jam were far from fluff like Lamb Metal, but not far enough for their fellow Seattle
10:25grunge leader.
10:31He lambasted Pearl Jam's corporate-friendly classic rock influences in multiple interviews.
10:36He went so far as to call them posers who exploited the grunge movement.
10:47While they really did come from the same underground as Nirvana, Pearl Jam indeed buried its punk
10:53roots under a sound Cobain despised.
10:55This one-sided feud has played a key role in debates about the best and most successful
11:00grunge acts.
11:01For Cobain, the real debate was whether Pearl Jam were grunge at all.
11:051.
11:26The Beatles – Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground It's almost a prerequisite for rock stars
11:31to love The Beatles or at least appear to.
11:35The Velvet Underground leader-turned-legendary solo artist Lou Reed once praised the Fab
11:46Four's prolific experimental pop.
11:48He's quoted as saying, they just have to be the most incredible songwriters ever.
11:52In later interviews, however, he claimed he never liked them.
11:56Reed directly dismissed previous praise and lamented the band's legacy.
12:05He even maintained that he was the far better art rocker, calling The Beatles' pretentious
12:10later work worse than stupid rock and roll.
12:20While Reed was always frank about his musical tastes, his hot take on The Beatles is
12:25complicated.
12:26Drummer Ringo Starr accepted the criticism but was glad that most people liked his band.
12:31What's your favorite unfavorable comments from one musician to another?
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