Who’s Worse? LFO vs. O-Town
September 13, 2007
I’m leaving for Austin City Limits today (Road Trip! Whoo!), and I won’t be back till Monday Night. Hopefully, I’ll be able to post a some pictures/reviews on the road, but until then here’s another edition of your favorite band-pitting-against-band feature, Who’s Worse.
I’ve been wanting to do a Who’s Worse with boys bands but I wanted to stray away from the whole Backstreet Boys vs. N’Sync deal. No, I’d much rather scrape through bottom of the barrel, picking out the boys bands that even other boys bands make fun of. Both LFO and O-Town push the boundaries of ridiculousness, farther than any boy band before or after them.
What really makes both of these bands so bad, is there complete originality and vomit-inducing lyrics. No matter how good it makes you feel there’s no excuse for “New Kids On The Block had a bunch of hits / Chinese Food makes me Sick / I think it’s fly when the girls stop by for the summer”. LFO were nothing but a wanna-be surf-pop-boy band with corporate sponsorship from Ambercrombie & Fitch and really great hair. O-Town’s lyrics though, were just as cringe-worthy and their “Making the Band” beginnings and constant and failing struggle to prove themselves as a “legitimate band” are just laughable (but really so is the name Ashley Parker Angel). I’ve never really listened to them, but I remember seeing a video to Liquid Dreams and wanting to gouge my eyes (LFO’s Summertime video is nothing to brag about either though).
As always it’s up to you to decide which one is worse. Cast your votes in the comments section, and make sure you have something in there to back up your claim, preferably something intelligent – this is a serious stuff. Also, please try to refrain from saying “Nickelback”. Trust me, their time will come.
MP3 LFO – Summertime Girls
MP3 O-Town – Liquid Dreams
See ya next week!
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September 13th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
holy crap, lfo sucks.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
LFO sucks but in the awesomely bad type of way. Summertime Girls is one of the songs you hate to love. O-Town is just garbage.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
LFO sucks more because they are fuglier and less diverse.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
LFO is far worse, but I’m almost tempted to vote for O-Town because they actually seemed to try. At least LFO put so little effort into their music that it can come across as comedic. O-Town actually tried to suck.
Still, my vote is for those pitiful Lyte Funky Ones. That name + Macaulay Culkin reference = TKO.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
I’ve literally sat staring at my screen for 10 solid minutes trying to comprehend the task at hand. Trying to justify one of these “bands” as being better than the other to my brain would be akin to opening the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders and not covering my eyes. For my sanity, I’m going to have to cop out and go with LFO-Town.
September 13th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
I’m gonna have to go with O-Town. They brought the horridness of “Liquid Dreams”…nothing like having preteens sing along to sexual fantasies!
September 13th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I’m going to say LFO is much worse, solely because they never starred in a horrible Reality TV Show Marathon that occupied an entire weekend of my life when I was 14.
September 13th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
LFO for the loss.
O-Town at least gave me some insight into the star of a boys liquid dreams.
Liking the new layout by the way!
September 13th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
LFO is the shit (in a good way). O-town was just lame. O-town is worse.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:40 am
I am making my son learn the guitar, just to make sure he will never be in a boy band. Playing an instrument is like boy band innoculation.
September 14th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
I’m disappointed that you even have mp3s posted… who cares. What would be more interesting: what’s worse, listening to one of the mp3s you have posted here, or searching for one of the new Poison mp3s on hype machine… Poison’d baby!
September 14th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
O-town is worse. I never actually heard any of their songs but “liquid dreams” just sounds creepy. At least I know LFO was catchy.
September 14th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
LFO is worse.
Reason:
*None of the members are in the “MAN BAND”.
-Mayra Flowers
September 14th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Correction on my comment,
I meant to say none of the members of O-Town are in the Man Band.
Sorrry.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Though both “bands” suck, O-Town’s matching outfits has made them more shitty in my eyes. Atleast the boys of LFO had their own take on the classic abercrombie outfit. therefore O-Town sucks more.
September 15th, 2007 at 8:13 am
o-town sucks more, definitely.. what kind of a name is o-town!?
September 15th, 2007 at 8:41 am
The fact that LFO can be enjoyed for its comedic value whereas O-Town just makes me feel like I need to shower means O-Town…loses more. Plus, as mentioned above, O-Town clearly tried harder.
September 15th, 2007 at 10:20 am
O-Town is far worse than LFO. I feel sorry for them in their coordinating outfits. LFO played like they were a one-album wonder (if that can even be said); whereas, O-Town actually thought they’d be the next big boy band. And their songs….pure shite!
September 15th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
I’ve got to say LFO is worse only because of Ashley Angel’s work with Working Designs and their kickass video games. I know it has nothing to do with either band’s musical talent, but those are some great games.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
lfo…
September 15th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
O-town is defenetly worse. Because LFO had that song about chinese food making them sick.
September 16th, 2007 at 9:12 am
O-Town is the worse of the two, because it took five of them to sound just as bad as the three guys in LFO.
September 16th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Tough choice, I had blissfully forgotten about both of these bands…until today. (thanks, Taylor)
After listening to the songs *shudder* that the lyrics from LFO are so completely disjointed that I have to give them the win. It’s like whoever wrote Summertime Girls just stuck a bunch of words and phrases together because they rhyme. That, and they used the word “fitch” without “bitch”?? That’s just not right. At least liquid dreams, as bad as it is (and its badness is epic) has a sense of direction.
“I love Kevin Bacon but hate footloose”?? Blasphemy.
September 16th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
I have to vote for O-Town. They can’t even count as a real band because they had a show about making them. This is akin to all the engagements that start on The Bachelor: they aren’t real relationships because there’s never a wedding, even if there IS a TV show. There might have been a TV show about this band, but that doesn’t make them a band.
September 21st, 2007 at 3:52 pm
These are actually bands?? I always thought they were both just ads for some sort of shitty baggy jeans.
September 25th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
lfo because o-town played their own instruments sometimes and wrote songs. (when i was 12 i kind of listened to boy bands… a lot)
March 20th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
nice work, bro
August 2nd, 2009 at 7:29 pm
They are both the wore band ever I don’t like neare of them.Cause they com do one albu and dapare for so lobg.And now they wann com back.Will good luck with that.At lat my fav grope never broke they are still toghter.Neth of them will be as popraly as Backstrert Boys
October 15th, 2009 at 4:35 am
O-Town are better!