Bands/artists you could never get into..

[darkseid26]

Journey
Slayer
Beach Boys
Black Sabbath (i like a good amount of their stuff, but some times it gets very boring)

 

[JackIvyGB]

I can't stand Kings of Leon, mostly cause of the vocals.

However, I am in love with Paramore's cover of their song "Use Somebody".

I'd list alot more, but I'd probably get kicked off the internet.

 

[Motown Marvel]

aha shake heartbreak is a fantastic album from kings of leon. i was pretty amazed by it when i first heard it and still enjoy it greatly from beginning to end. everything after that sucks. this new crap their doing now i cant even comprehend it. where the hell did that come from? how they went from one to the other is completely beyond me.

i mean, lets compare something:

Band: Kings of Leon
Album: Aha Shake Heartbreak (2005)
Song: Four Kicks
Lyrics: You with your switchblade posse,
I'll get my guns from the south,
We'll take to the yard like a cockfight
Four kicks whose strutting now.
Video:


Band: Kings of Leon
Album: Only by the Night (2008)
Song: Use Somebody
Lyrics: Someone like you and all you know and how you speak
Countless lovers under cover of the street
You know that I could use somebody
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you
Video:


now what the hell is that?!
p.s. i hope everyone can appreciate how hard it is for me not to call your mothers worthless ****es whilst you say not good things about the beatles and bob dylan.

 

[SuperFerret]

I honestly don't understand this particular problem. If you said you just didn't like them as a whole or whatever I would understand that, but to dislike them because they actually stretch themselves creatively and do different types of things is what I don't understand. That's what all bands should do.

I figured that was clear.

 

[Addendum]

p.s. i hope everyone can appreciate how hard it is for me not to call your mothers worthless ****es whilst you say not good things about the beatles and bob dylan.

No one has said they hate either

 

[Motown Marvel]

No one has said they hate either

its best you dont tempt my irrational and undying, always enduring, complete and utter passion for the beatles.

 

[Addendum]

meh

 

[chamber-music]

aha shake heartbreak is a fantastic album from kings of leon. i was pretty amazed by it when i first heard it and still enjoy it greatly from beginning to end. everything after that sucks. this new crap their doing now i cant even comprehend it. where the hell did that come from? how they went from one to the other is completely beyond me.

I agree Motown Aha Shake Heartbreak is by far their best album.

 

[david icke]

I figured that was clear.

Yes, but you didn't just say that, emphasis on the word 'just' in the part of my quote you bolded. You gave your reason for dislike. That you somehow couldn't handle the fact that they were very diverse in their creativity. Whereas, on the other hand, most bands go stale for a lack of that. I still don't understand that reason.

 

[SuperFerret]

When I "get into" a band, I like all of their material. I therefore can't "get into" the Beatles because I don't like all of their material. It's not very hard to understand

 

[Kurosawa]

Journey
Slayer
Beach Boys
Black Sabbath (i like a good amount of their stuff, but some times it gets very boring)

Journey are awesome if you are in a singing in the car mood. Slayer I know are great but the only metal band I like a lot besides the old Zep/Purple/Sabbath trio is Maiden.

As for the Beach Boys, whatever you think of them, Pet Sounds is something every fan of music needs to hear.

And I love the Beatles and Queen both. The Who are by far my favorite band of all time.

 

[david icke]

The Who are by far my favorite band of all time.

I like the one John Entwhistle wrote, 'Boris the Spider'.
The rest sound like typical 60s stuff, some i find alright if they come on the radio, 'I can see for miles' being one, but i don't think they are as good as their top tier peers, the Beatles, stones, doors, pink floyd.
and i thought they were absolutely awful on 'Rock and roll circus', I don't know whay they get any kudos for that.
I have friends who really like them, but I have never been able to get that into them.

edit: just remembered , I like the one 'Whoooo are you' they used for CSI.
Pinball Wizard i uused to like but then a friends band covered it and ruined it for me as i heard their version a lot, and i mean a lot. so i suppose there are more of their songs i like than i thought of originally.

Re: the beach boys, Pet sounds is a masterpiece, but their all time underrated classic is 'surf's up', apart from the mike love song on it, which is a terrible reworking of cell block no9 called student demonstration time.


Superferret: The way you put it originally, you liked some of their stuff, but the fact that they did different approaches to their music put you off, that was what puzzled me. anyway, doesn't matter.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

'Behind Blue Eyes' is brilliant.

 

[Paroxysm]

any of that limp wrist top 40 ****.

 

[Addendum]

A couple more that have never done anything for me: The Cure and Michael Jackson

 

[david icke]

Some more big names that have occured to me that I truly cannot stand...

Pearl Jam - just ****ing rank, sound like a bunch of corporate sweaty b***s***ters.

Iron Maiden - a complete and utter embaressment. They have probably put a lot of people off rock music. I'm talking Bruce Dickinson, 'The Phantom of the opera' off the 1st album is fantastic.
Everything that can wrong with rock goes on in an Iron Maiden song. and the only thing worse than an Iron Madien record is a Bruce Dikinson solo record.

The Boomtown Rats and Bob Geldof - if you have never seen a Boomtown rats video, i invite you to track one down and feast your eyes on the man who is unequivocaly the worst, most embaressing frontman rock and roll has ever produced. Geldof is like a Mick Jagger from a world that has never known a single moment of genuine entertainment. An absolute travesty of a performer. If I could get onto youtube i would post one up but i can't access it.
edit: 'I don't like Mondays' is an insincere, exploitative piece of s***, and you can hear that in his pointless little voice.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

p.s. i hope everyone can appreciate how hard it is for me not to call your mothers worthless ****es whilst you say not good things about the beatles and bob dylan.

Agreed.

 

[[A]]

p.s. i hope everyone can appreciate how hard it is for me not to call your mothers worthless ****es whilst you say not good things about the beatles and bob dylan.

Your avatar reminded me of another example: the White Stripes.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Like all things [A] this thread is actually about hating something. I propose the title be changed so as to accurately represent the intent of the thread.

 

[CrimsonMist]

Double post. Oops.

 

[CrimsonMist]

Got into a small argument earlier today over The Beatles and Elvis with my friend's girlfriend. She said "**** The Beatles and **** Elvis", things incomprehensible to my mind. I mean, it's one thing to just not like either of them. But they're taking it to that next level, which people shouldn't be allowed to go. Then her friend said that Elvis is good only for old people and that fans of this stuff should really "update their lives", whatever the hell that means. Things like that offend me.

Anyways, I can't get into anything Led Zeppelin after their second album. I had everything up to Physical Graffiti, and from Zeppelin 3 onwards, there are a few songs I can fill a mix cd with, but i can do without those albums. Gimme Zeppelin I and II. That's all i need.

Same with Pink Floyd. The first 2 albums, with Syd Barret, are the albums I like. Everything else, to me, is boring. I don't hate it and if i'm with someone who likes everything else, i'll put up with it. Just not my cup of tea, i guess. The Barret stuff is just really exciting and interesting and fun, whereas everything else just bores me to tears. To quote Captain Sensible from The Damned, "There are 2 Pink Floyds, the one that made innovative, experimental music and the other band who made music for estate agents." I prefer the former.

Not a big Doors fan, despite owning all their albums in various formats. Good stuff all around, i just don't go crazy for them.

and i HATE Radiohead and Coldplay. HATE THEM. Can't stand Slayer anymore either, starting with "God Hates Us All"...that album was a novelty for me, as I only listened to it to get a good laugh from the use of the F word atleast 100 times before the album was over. I also preferred "Hell Awaits" over "Reign In Blood". I'm also a Clash fan up to London Calling. Sandinista and Combat Rock aren't very good in my opinion. Both albums have some good songs, but i can't get through either album.

 

[khaur]

I don't get Nirvana. Teen spirit was the only song I liked.

 

[Motown Marvel]

and i thought they were absolutely awful on 'Rock and roll circus', I don't know whay they get any kudos for that.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! that performance is sheer brilliance! i cant watch that video without getting goseebumps. keith is a god damn madman!

 

[CrimsonMist]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! that performance is sheer brilliance! i cant watch that video without getting goseebumps. keith is a god damn madman!

If im not mistaken, The Who and The Rolling Stones were in discussion to go on a tour together. Until The Who played that performance, blowing The Stones out of the water. It was decided that the tour wouldn't happen anymore.

The best version of "A Quick One While He's Away" though is the "Live At Leeds" version. The greatest live album recorded by anyone. The two-disc set that came out a few years ago is just amazing.

Fun fact: The Rock N Roll Circus film documents the only live performance of Jethro Tull with Tony Iommi when he briefly left Black Sabbath(then known as Earth). He left shortly thereafter, joined back up with Ozzy, Geezer and Bill and became Black Sabbath.

 

[Motown Marvel]

If im not mistaken, The Who and The Rolling Stones were in discussion to go on a tour together. Until The Who played that performance, blowing The Stones out of the water. It was decided that the tour wouldn't happen anymore.

i didnt hear about that. but i did always hear that the who blowing the stones out of the water was the reason is took so many decades for the program to be released on home video. the "dirty mac" supergroup was another phenomenal highlight of that show! that has to be the most ridiculous line up any band has ever had.