Wayne Coyne disses Nirvana, The Kooks take on The Beach Boys, Craig Finn doesn't like The Doors...

 

Check out some of the more adament statements from The Guardian's article:

 

Nirvana, Nevermind
Nominated by Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips

 

"If you think you're going to hear an utterly original, powerful and freaky record when you put on Nevermind, as a young kid might, Christ you're going to be disappointed. You're going to think, 'Who is this band that sounds just like Nickelback? What are these drug addicts going on about?'"

 

 

The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Nominated by Luke Pritchard of the Kooks

 

"Of all the albums that get written about as 'classics', this one least deserves it."

 

 

The Strokes, Is This It
Nominated by Ian Williams of Battles

 

"The Strokes have, basically, been responsible for five or six years of a new form of hair metal, in the guise of something more tasteful. Their music is post-9/11 party music because it came out that week and everybody wanted to dance."

 

 

Television, Marquee Moon
Nominated by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand

 

"They were the Grateful Dead of punk, and I always hated all that jam-band stuff. They have the ethos of a jam-band but the aesthetic of a New York outfit."

 

 

The Beatles, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Nominated by Billy Childish, prime mover of British garage rock

 

"The main problem with Sgt Pepper is Sir Paul's maudlin obsession with his own self-importance and Dickensian misery."

 

 

Arcade Fire The Neon Bible
Nominated by Green Gartside of Scritti Politti

 

"People who enjoy this album may think I'm cloth-eared and unperceptive, and I accept it's the result of my personal shortcomings, but what I hear in Arcade Fire is an agglomeration of mannerisms, cliches and devices. I find it solidly unattractive, texturally nasty, a bit harmonically and melodically dull, bombastic and melodramatic, and the rhythms are pedestrian."

 

 

The Doors LA Woman
Nominated by Craig Finn of the Hold Steady

 

"People think of Jim Morrison as a brilliant rock'n'roll poet, but to me it's unlistenable. The music meanders, and Morrison was more like a drunk asshole than an intelligent poet. The worst of the worst is the last song, Riders on the Storm: 'There's a killer on the road/ His brain is squirming like a toad' - that's surely the worst line in rock'n'roll history."

 

 

 

 

That's quite a list. What would you nominate? My first choice would have to be:

 

Or anything by U2 or Oasis.