It's amazing how many people just casually dismiss dance music and jazz as if it's a few niche artists in a tiny percentage of popular music. The sheer quantity of music which could come under the dance banner is enormous and the influence of jazz equally so.

THE SMITHS! Hate them with a passion. They make Leornard Cohen sound happy-clappy.

Ah, The Smiths. You either get them or you don't, and if you don't get them the first time you hear them you never will. Personally, I love their happy miserabilism, it's disco music for masochists.

I feel the same way; much like Radiohead, it's easy to label them as miserable - but if you actually listen to Morrisey's lyrics, his arch, kitchen sink writing style contains a fair amount of humour - albeit delivered with an arrogant sneer, which understandably es a lot of people off. For me, the greatest lyricist of his generation, if only for this line:



"If a double-decker bus crashes into us / To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die / And if a 10-ton truck kills the both of us / To die by your side, the pleasure, the privilege is mine.”

U2/Bono.I really don't understand how they are so successful. Average at best. Maybe Bonos hobby of collecting friends in high places has helped.

George Ezra

The Pet Shop Boys.

Morrissey- lite lyrics droned over a sub Giorgio Moroder electo track. Same old schtick over and over again since the mid 80s.

Anne-Marie

And nowt changes

I used to love The Smiths, despite taking flak from workmates etc for doing so - but find it very difficult to listen to them or any of Morrissey's solo stuff , not since he came out for Britain First.

I always thought he was on my side, and the side of the 'outsider' for want of a better word. Turns out he's a fascist sympathiser. Feels like a betrayal, and personal to boot.

He's dead to me now.

Catatonia (horrible wailing voice).

Bananarama (no harmonies)

Squeeze (crap, jokey music)

In general, the list is quite large. In reality, there are so many mediocre singers these days that I just don’t want to list them all. My small list ....Train, Glee, Biffy Clyro, Sex Pistols ... ​can be continued for a long time