The Resume

(1979-1995)
Formed in Los Angeles
They were Danny Elfman: frontman
Steve Bartek: lead guitar
Kerry Hatch: bass guitar (1979-1985)
John Avila: bass guitar (1985-1995)
Johnny 'Vatos' Hernandez: drums
Sam 'Sluggo' Phipps: saxophone
Leon Schneiderman: trumpet
George McMullen: trombone
Warren Fitzgerald: guitar
Marc Mann: keyboards
Doug Lacy: accordian/alternative percussion
Katurah Clarke: alternative percussion
Recorded 'Weird Science,' 'Dead Man's Party,' 'Just Another Day,' 'Private Life,' 'We Close Our Eyes,' 'Violent Love,' 'Only A Lad,' 'Wild Sex (In the Working Class,)' 'Dead or Alive,' 'When the Lights Go Out,' 'Grey Matter,' 'Skin,' 'Out of Control,' 'Glory Be,' 'Long Breakdown,' 'Flesh n' Blood,' 'Run Away (the Escape Song,)' 'Dream Somehow,' 'Is This,' 'Right to Know,' 'Try to Believe,' 'Insanity,' 'Little Girls' and 'Mary'

Why they might be annoying:

Their songs 'Nothing to Fear (But Fear Itself)' and 'Ain't This the Life?' glorify cocaine use.
They made Blender's list of the Worst Artists of All Time.
Blender also named their 'Only a Lad' album the worst of all time.
Their 'Little Girls' video premiered at the 8:00 prime time hour on MTV, but after receiving an outpour of angry phone calls from viewers who found it disturbing, it was moved to the 3:00 AM slot.
Their video for 'Insanity' was banned from MTV.
'Insanity' itself is a sick, demented, twisted song.
Danny Elfman wrote all the songs and was the lead singer for all of them, taking the attention away from the rest of the band.

Why they might not be annoying:

Their sound evolved tremendously.
Danny Elfman's voice went from terrible to beautiful.
Their music is so unique it can't be categorized.
Unlike most bands, their horn section added to the quality of their sound.
Danny Elfman went on to enormous success as a film composer, with Boingo guitarist Steve Bartek as his orchestrator.
Elfman has scored all of Tim Burton's films with the exception of Ed Wood.

Credit: S Jayne

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Beavis and Butthead Mocked My Video
• Blender Magazine's 50 Worst Artist in Music History [September 2003] (Ranked: 16)
• CNN's Top 10 Geek Anthems of All Time (Ranked: 10)
• Entertainers Loved by Geeks and Nerds
• Gong Show Contestants
• I Appeared on Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethon [N-R]
• I Covered a Beatles Song
• I Performed on American Bandstand [L-Q]
• I Sing About Mary
• I Sing About Spiders
• Look at Me, I'm Armed
• MCA's 20th Century Master Artists
• My Music was Lost in the 2008 Universal Studios Fire
• My Song is Featured on Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
• My Song is Featured on Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
• My Song is on Rhino's 'Like Omigod! The 80's Pop Culture Box'
• My Song was Temporarily Banned After 9/11
• National Review's 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs [2006] (Ranked: 26)
• Profiles 11251-11500 (Ranked: 11395)
• Punk Rockers

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 20 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 20 Votes: 65.00% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 25 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 26 Votes: 69.23% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 43 Votes: 62.79% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 91 Votes: 69.23% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 153 Votes: 65.36% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 225 Votes: 59.56% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 232 Votes: 58.19% Annoying