Music Stuff That Sucked In 2014

We've talked a lot about the postive things to come out of this year: our best albums, tracks and highlights. But 2014 has also seen some terrible things happen in music from U2 forcing their album on every living person with a computer to the inexorable rise of Sam Smith. We asked our writers to nominate one thing they hated about 2014 and this is what they came up with.

It’s a toss up between Morrissey getting cancer and Tom Odell covering “Real Love” for John Lewis. Iain Pettifer

When Just Jam at The Barbican was cancelled and Elijah (Butterz) tweeted something like, ‘“Big up all the publications covering Just Jams cancellation but hadn’t covered the event in the first place.” Sian Anderson

Elton John saying modern singers are processed performers who lack humanity, and Roger Daltrey bemoaning the lack of “musical movements”, like two whiny old gits in the corner of the pub who feel threatened when the kids get on the jukebox. Not only are they deeply out of touch, but the only reason we’re even hearing from either of these filthy rich coffin dodgers is because they have tragically enduring reissues to promote, key criminals in the bizarre retromania of the unforgivable re-rise of vinyl sales. Joe Zadeh

ISIS songs like this, complete with marching feet and gunfire – brainwashing music so you think it’s cool to cut peoples heads off.

Peter Culshaw

This. Emma Garland

The Sun Kil Moon/War on Drugs feud really scraped the barrel. Absolute lowest ebb was when Kozelek made the savage PR miscalculation of releasing that crap twelve-bar-blues recording of the other guy’s press statement. It felt like walking into your big brother’s stoner den and realising everything you’ve been told about adulthood is a myth. Jazz Monroe

I've only managed to bring myself to listen to Nicki Minaj's "Only" once, when it came out, and I'm still not ready to talk about it yet. A collection of the worst rap verses - or just the worst artistic ideas had by any sentient beings - in 2014. Still hopeful for The Pink Print. Aimee Cliff

This year, as every year, my lowest musical point of the year was Radio 1’s Rock Week. Can’t decide what I hate about it more, having to listen to Of Mice & Men while I’m eating my Alpen or just how much Fearne seems to enjoy it. Sam Wolfson

When hardcore Marxist and boyband big-thinker Jason Orange left Take That because he couldn’t stand the pong of Gary Barlow’s tax avoidance one minute longer. And when hardcore pie eater and boyband little-thinker Matt Helders failed to do likewise. Gavin Haynes