Time to 'fess up: Which are the best bands that you don't like?

deefstes · 2012-08-08T10:36:31+00:00

The purpose of this thread is to come clean on which bands you hear everybody rave about but you just don't get. At the risk of getting lambasted from all sides, I'll get the ball rolling. 1. Pink Floyd - I must be the only person I know who just doesn't get the awesomeness of Pink Floyd. Considering how everybody I know goes bonkers at the mention of the name, I must be missing something. And I'll admit that they do have some awesome songs but if I'm being perfectly honest, the whole Pink Floyd cult and the band as a whole seems to leave me rather cold. I almost feel guilty for it because they could not have been such a massive success if they weren't brilliant, but I fail to appreciate that brilliance. 2. Rolling Stones - Similar story. Maybe I was just that little bit too young when they were really big. But having said that, there are other people of my age who are crazy about the Stones. Conversely, there are other bands, like the Beatles, which are even more before my time but whom I love. So I don't really understand exactly why I can't get into the Stones. As with Pink Floyd, there are songs of the Stones which I do enjoy but the infatuation with the band and the brand has never rubbed off on me. 3. Jimmi Hendrix - I go through phases with him. Some times I will listen to his stuff and be in awe at his ingenuity but sometimes it leaves me cold. I think the problem is that, for all the magician he was, his songs just don't seem to appeal to me; It's not the kind of music I tend to listen when I'm driving in my car or when I'm at work. So the only way I can enjoy Hendrix is if I sit down and pay attention and listen for the techniques and inventions rather than listening to the music as such. 4. Dave Matthews Band - Again, the odd good song but generally I don't like his voice and I often feel that the music has too much going on and too little clear structure. OK, that should give you enough ammo to blast me ? But I'm actually hoping you will rather join in the confession booth.

Averatu

Metalica. Compared to Slayer they just always seamed like the boy-band, and never had the energy of Kreator.

Hammeron

Averatu wrote Metalica. Compared to Slayer they just always seamed like the boy-band, and never had the energy of Kreator.

Bro, you are an extreme banger, NO doubt. \m/ No doubt.

deefstes

I think chris77 said it so well, I feel like quoting his post just to reiterate the point.

chris77 wrote The thread's title is Which are the best bands you don't like.

I don't think anybody is calling the bands/artists they list bad. Quite the opposite actually. All are great bands that just don't hit that specific listener's sweet spot.
Personally, I know the Beatles are great. I know how big their impact on the music world was. I can appreciate that they are/were amazingly talented individuals. But I don't like to listen to their music. Great harmonies and all that, but it's not my type of music. And I like watching them even less - too much of a boy band in the way they came accross.
It doesn't mean they're bad, just that I don't like them.

BMU

Hendrix, Beatles, any kind of blues, Metallica (except Ride the Lightning), Pink Floyd, U2, Muse... I hate 'em all haha.

The "good"/popular bands I do like would be a much shorter list.

Chabenda

Elvis! :yup:

Bob-Dubery

Chabenda wrote Elvis! :yup:

Which one? ?

makepeace

deefstes wrote I think chris77 said it so well, I feel like quoting his post just to reiterate the point.

chris77 wrote The thread's title is Which are the best bands you don't like.

I don't think anybody is calling the bands/artists they list bad. Quite the opposite actually. All are great bands that just don't hit that specific listener's sweet spot.
Personally, I know the Beatles are great. I know how big their impact on the music world was. I can appreciate that they are/were amazingly talented individuals. But I don't like to listen to their music. Great harmonies and all that, but it's not my type of music. And I like watching them even less - too much of a boy band in the way they came accross.
It doesn't mean they're bad, just that I don't like them.

It's actually quite a weird one.. By the fact that you don't like a band/artist: that says, for you, that there are more bad points than good. So by your opinion, you're catagorising them as bad overall/on average. But that's what makes it so interesting. Probably one of the most comprehensive threads regarding musical opinion on the forum.

BTW, and I can't believe I've put off giving them a try for so long - but the Bad Seeds and Grinderman are the cat's pajamas.
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Hammeron wrote How many bands just got better and better and better?

I'd say..

AlanRatcliffe

makepeace wrote It's actually quite a weird one.. By the fact that you don't like a band/artist: that says, for you, that there are more bad points than good.

Not really. I don't like Puccini (or any opera other than some of the Mozart), but it's good music by any stretch of the imagination. It just doesn't appeal to me. Likewise with a lot of bebop or light jazz, a lot of prog bands like Dream Theater, ELP (but I'm a huge King Crimson Fan, so go figure - Chad gets all flustered about that ?).

I have to say though, in most cases, I can usually nail down exactly why I don't enjoy some particular band or music, and I can usually see why other people do like it. So I like to think I learn something from even the bands I don't like.

Chabenda

X-rated Bob wrote
Chabenda wrote Elvis! :yup:
Which one? ?

The fat one that played everything live at a frenetic pace! He certainly had his moments though!

DDR4LYF

FRANK ZAPPA!!! Lots of people dig him and there are definitely great parts, but as a whole it's just a bit too "out there" for me...

Bob-Dubery

Hammeron wrote Strange how 99% of our favourite bands were always better early on and then seemed to fade.
How many bands just got better and better and better?
{ s'pose that's a topic on its own tho.}

It's like the subject we're discussing here - it depends on who you ask. It's subjective - or partly so - no matter how much we argue otherwise. There's people who still rave about every new Dylan release. I think he's been pants for decades now.

Even with the guys who sustain high quality over a long career, the graph never goes up all the time. And until the career is definitely over there's no knowing which way it may suddenly swerve.

Elvis Presley is mentioned elsewhere in this thread. He had a long run of rubbish (not all his fault, management and contracts put a lot of artistic matters beyond his control), then had a sudden & surprising return to form and some of his biggest hits in the late 60s, assembled a seriously good backing band and hit the road again. Of course it all had a bad ending, but it's an example where the quality graph was all over the place.

makepeace

Alan Ratcliffe wrote
makepeace wrote It's actually quite a weird one.. By the fact that you don't like a band/artist: that says, for you, that there are more bad points than good.
Not really. I don't like Puccini (or any opera other than some of the Mozart), but it's good music by any stretch of the imagination. It just doesn't appeal to me. Likewise with a lot of bebop or light jazz, a lot of prog bands like Dream Theater, ELP (but I'm a huge King Crimson Fan, so go figure - Chad gets all flustered about that ?).

I have to say though, in most cases, I can usually nail down exactly why I don't enjoy some particular band or music, and I can usually see why other people do like it. So I like to think I learn something from even the bands I don't like.

I disagree. My argument would take this onto uneven ground so I'll abstain :?.

symbolofmylife

F*kofpolisiekar (and with that anything that Van Coke moron does) I think is at the top of my list. I just never understood WTF people heard in their music that's supposedly so good? They suck.

U2...just dont get the hype...
All lo-fi bands
All indie bands and Euro-souding alternative rock
Nickelback
Limp Bizkit
Linkin Park
All "core" bands
Jethro Tull
In Flames
Slayer
Anything on 5fm

guidothepimmp

Phew.. Ok and round number 2

Lmfao
Katy perry
Rihanna
Lady gags
Boys2men
Backstr boys
Westlife
Dr dre
Fif cent
Nickelback
Staind
Linkin park
Some of those country n western wallies
Green day

(I'd rather pluck my nose hairs than listen to any of the above)

nicovlogg

ZZ Top

Sean

nicovlogg wrote ZZ Top

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