The Resume

(September 23, 1926-July 17, 1967)
Recorded 'Blue Train,' 'Giant Steps,' 'My Favorite Things,' 'A Love Supreme,' 'Ascension,' 'Stellar Regions' and 'Coltrane Plays The Blues'

Why he might be annoying:

He was an alcoholic and drug-abuser (most notably, heroin).
He was fired from many bands due to his heroin addiction.
He smoked.
Many of his album titles are a play on his last name ('Blue Train,' 'The Last Trane,' 'Traneing In').
His name sounds like a toilet on a train loaded with coal.

Why he might not be annoying:

His father, uncle, and grandparents died when he was 14.
He was in the Navy for 2 years.
He recorded many landmark jazz albums.
After kicking his heroin habit, he recorded one of the most critically acclaimed jazz albums, 'A Love Supreme.'
He played in 'the Miles Davis Quintet' and 'Dizzy Gillespie's Orchestra.'
He was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1980).
He was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992, 25 years after his death.
He died of liver cancer.
His son, Ravi Coltrane, followed in his foot steps and became a saxophonist.

Credit: Jughead

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Amazon's Top 10 Albums [2005] (Ranked: 6)
• Billboard's Top 10 Albums [2005] (Ranked: 7)
• Black Men Loved by Whites
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [September] (Ranked: 9231926)
• Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (Ranked: 1992)
• I Abused Heroin
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [A-C]
• I Covered Eden Ahbez's 'Nature Boy'
• I Died in 1967 (Ranked: 40)
• I Recorded ‘Autumn Leaves’
• I Sing About New York
• Jazz Artists
• Joy of Sax(ophone)
• Lycos' Top 10 Jazz Searches [June 2000] (Ranked: 3)
• My Music was Lost in the 2008 Universal Studios Fire
• My Song was Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1998)
• My Song was Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Ranked: 2007)
• My Song was Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Ranked: 2001)
• My Song was Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1999)
• My Song was Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Ranked: 2000)
• New Musical Express' Greatest Albums of the 1960's (Ranked: 23)
• New Musical Express' Top 100 Albums of All Time [1985] (Ranked: 77)
• New Musical Express' Top 100 Albums of All Time [1993] (Ranked: 36)
• New Musical Express' Top Albums [1985] (Ranked: 45)
• NPR's 50 Greatest Jazz Vocals [2013] (Ranked: 46)
• People with John or Mary in their Names
• Profiles 13751-14000 (Ranked: 13942)
• Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - 101-200 [Performers] (Ranked: 102)
• Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - 1-100 [2020] (Ranked: 66)
• Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - 1-100 [Performers] (Ranked: 47)
• Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - 201-300 [2020] (Ranked: 232)
• Teetotalers
• VH-1's 100 Greatest Artists of Rock (Ranked: 77)
• Wire's Top Albums [1995] (Ranked: 18)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 9 Votes: 22.22% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 1158 Votes: 37.13% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 23 Votes: 56.52% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 12 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 21 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 42 Votes: 45.24% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 82 Votes: 40.24% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 74 Votes: 55.41% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 200 Votes: 41.50% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 387 Votes: 43.41% Annoying