This isn't meant as a derogatory question, and I hope the thread doesn't deteriorate at some point, but I'm curious as to what bands you folks just "don't get".

For example, I'm not a huge U2 fan (picking a band that has recently released an album), but I can certainly understand their appeal.

For me, the #1 band in the "I just don't get it" category is Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Seriously...I worked at a classic rock station for 3 years or so, and it seemed that LS comprised approximately 25% of the playlist...but that's neither here nor there. I really tried to like them, and I was exposed to their music almost constantly. I guess they're not my cup of tea or whatever, but "I just don't get it".

Keep in mind that I don't want anyone to try to explain why they think LS is great, or why I should give them a chance. I'll never like them, end of story. I just want to know who you "don't get". :thmbsp:

I hear what you are saying. It's like people asking me why I don't like apple pie when I tell them that cooked apple literally makes me vomit.


Kiss. Alice Cooper. Metallica. LS is definately in there. CCR too I reckon.
Most Metal. Most 'Dub' music. Lots of techno and that really, really stupid pop music that seems to infest the charts these days.

blondie

there are so many bands I think are over-rated, but what I don't get is why they are popular. I "get" the band, just don't think their talents warrant the attention.
I have repeated this quote from H. L. Menken before
"No one ever went broke under-estimating the tastes of the American public"

Steely Dan, Diana Krall. Both sound like everything I feared about growing older.

Beastie Boys

Don't kill me


The Beatles

Don't kill me


The Beatles

Seconded.

Yeah, they had a couple hits, yeah they used some cool tape effects, and yeah, some of their solo stuff is pretty cool, but I don't get why everyone likes them so much.

Also

Rolling Stones

I get all bands, as long as they sound good.

The music I like spans genre's. But there is defiantly a good sound, and a bad sound too me.

I generally prefer music with natural acoustic instruments.

Also

Rolling Stones

Wow. We have really similar dislikes in music, it seems!

Again, seconded.

blondie
*holds hand to chest, staggers as if mortally wounded*

A lot of bands I "get", but "can't stand".
The bands I don't get were/are rap, grunge or metal (speed, death, heavy, etc.).
EDIT: Forgot to add Nickelback.

Tom

new kids on the block (but are they really band? they don't play instruments)

Frank Sinatra also

Frank Sinatra also

And here we differ. :sigh:

But I do see your point. My mother is not fond of him, either.

Beatles

BTO

In that order lol

I guess I should make a list....

Beatles
Rolling Stones
Eagles Hotel California and after.
Most recent top 40 music....

Kids These Days

Seconded.

Yeah, they had a couple hits, yeah they used some cool tape effects, and yeah, some of their solo stuff is pretty cool, but I don't get why everyone likes them so much.

Thirded. I can understand their appeal, but they never did it for me.

another one: Metallica.

Well not that I hate these to follow, well except for Springstien and the Stones, but don't understand why there so beloved.

Bruce Springsteen
Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Metallica
ELO
The Eagles (I can understand why others like them I just cant get into them)

Out of some of the biggest names.Springsteen and Metallica.I like a few Springsteen cuts but don't get the rest.Metallica I just don't get.Beatle bashers shame on you.

I thought I was the only one that wasn't a Springsteen fan. I have tried... OHH Have I Tried to like him... but I don't get the mass appeal. I actually gave it another go the other day. Nope. Nadda. Zilch. Didn't trip my trigger.

I thought I was the only one that wasn't a Springsteen fan. I have tried... OHH Have I Tried to like him... but I don't get the mass appeal. I actually gave it another go the other day. Nope. Nadda. Zilch. Didn't trip my trigger.

I was in your boat for a long time, but I just can't handle him at all no matter how hard I've tried. The superbowl halftime was brutal to sit through this year......

Lots.

I guess I'll be most critical of ones that I actually like, but not to the level of worship that some people bestow upon them:

U2. Bono over-emotes in his singing, and the band don't really have much virtuosity (the Edge excepted, possibly). That isn't always a problem, but some bands make up for it better than others. They don't. These guys also try too hard to sound "awesome"

Yes. Ditto on the last point, but their music is more overblown and cheesy. Jon Anderson's voice is pretty weak, but not enough to be actively annoying. Fragile is a great album, though.

Led Zeppelin. Their creativity went downhill after their first album, but still had high points throughout their career. Their most scatterbrained album is Presence, with two or three phenomenal tracks mixed in with dreck. I also like In Through the Out Door much more than I know I should. :) There's something wonderful about hearing a band be so earnest and try to kick ass when their tank is running on fumes.

The Kinks. Love some of their stuff...WISH I loved some of the rest.

The Beach Boys. I want to like more than I do, but something about the sound of their music doesn't jive with me.

The Rolling Stones. Maybe they've just released way too much and I don't know enough from their better period. The best I've heard is great, but they'll never be my favourite band.

The Police. I recognize they're good, but sometimes the sound just doesn't appeal to me.

Nirvana. Maybe I just want to hate them because Cobain took his own life and is regarded as some kind of saint.

Pearl Jam. Vedder's affected voice stylings get to me, almost as much as Bono's.

The Velvet Underground. These guys are seen as the precursors of punk music? Are you kidding me?

Oasis. I'm not sure if it's that I'm not getting it, or that they're just crap. I lean towards the latter point of view. (Sorry to their fans.) The main songwriter (is it Noel? Is it Liam? Do I care?) has a better voice than his brother, so I don't understand why he needs the brother he supposedly hates or supposedly hates him.

Procul Harum. I wanted to like these guys from the descriptions I had read before hearing their music but was underwhelmed once I heard it for the most part.

Bob Dylan. Maybe I haven't heard enough. Or maybe I have. :P

Bruce Springsteen. I can't stand his music!

Genesis. I've tried, but mostly can't get too worked up about them.

The Moody Blues. Ditto.

Metallica. They're way too dark for me, usually. Wish I could like them more.

The Grateful Dead. They're pretty boring and samey. But in their mediocrity, they are inoffensive at the same time.

I'm in Canada, so there are some Canadian bands which have cult followings that I don't think should. The Barenaked Ladies? No thanks. Bachman-Turner Overdrive is vomit-inducing. Listening to them, it's almost impossible to believe Bachman was one-half of the writing team in the Guess Who (a band I like a lot).

Most jazz bands/performers, besides Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and a few other exceptions here and there (and even they are spotty), are seriously underwhelming to me, though I guess you could say I am still exploring despite my disappointment so far.

Then there are others who I don't dislike or care about enough to make my list (like Lynyrd Skynyrd).

*attempts dodging the numerous daggers that may be pulled on him*

Opera with female falsetto makes me think they should stick to singing in the shower.

For someone who loves music, I only like a little bit of every genre:

Black Sabbath is great, but Metallica sucks.
The Beatles are great, but Rolling Stones only a few songs are acceptable.
Bob Marley is a genius, most reggae is painful.
The Roots kick all other hiphop out of the pool.
Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, I love, but I can't listen to country radio for a second.

I could go on, but then THAT would suck. I think we recognize genuine-ness when we hear it, and that makes all the difference.

Lots.

I guess I'll be most critical of ones that I actually like, but not to the level of worship that some people bestow upon them:

U2. Bono over-emotes in his singing, and the band don't really have much virtuosity (the Edge excepted, possibly). That isn't always a problem, but some bands make up for it better than others. They don't. These guys also try too hard to sound "awesome"

Yes. Ditto on the last point, but their music is more overblown and cheesy. Jon Anderson's voice is pretty weak, but not enough to be actively annoying. Fragile is a great album, though.

Led Zeppelin. Their creativity went downhill after their first album, but still had high points throughout their career. Their most scatterbrained album is Presence, with two or three phenomenal tracks mixed in with dreck. I also like In Through the Out Door much more than I know I should. :) There's something wonderful about hearing a band be so earnest and try to kick ass when their tank is running on fumes.

The Kinks. Love some of their stuff...WISH I loved some of the rest.

The Beach Boys. I want to like more than I do, but something about the sound of their music doesn't jive with me.

The Rolling Stones. Maybe they've just released way too much and I don't know enough from their better period. The best I've heard is great, but they'll never be my favourite band.

The Police. I recognize they're good, but sometimes the sound just doesn't appeal to me.

Nirvana. Maybe I just want to hate them because Cobain took his own life and is regarded as some kind of saint.

Pearl Jam. Vedder's affected voice stylings get to me, almost as much as Bono's.

The Velvet Underground. These guys are seen as the precursors of punk music? Are you kidding me?

Oasis. I'm not sure if it's that I'm not getting it, or that they're just crap. I lean towards the latter point of view. (Sorry to their fans.) The main songwriter (is it Noel? Is it Liam? Do I care?) has a better voice than his brother, so I don't understand why he needs the brother he supposedly hates or supposedly hates him.

Procul Harum. I wanted to like these guys from the descriptions I had read before hearing their music but was underwhelmed once I heard it for the most part.

Bob Dylan. Maybe I haven't heard enough. Or maybe I have. :P

Bruce Springsteen. I can't stand his music!

Genesis. I've tried, but mostly can't get too worked up about them.

The Moody Blues. Ditto.

Metallica. They're way too dark for me, usually. Wish I could like them more.

I'm in Canada, so there are some Canadian bands which have cult followings that I don't think should. The Barenaked Ladies? No thanks. Bachman-Turner Overdrive is vomit-inducing. Listening to them, it's almost impossible to believe Bachman was one-half of the writing team in the Guess Who (a band I like a lot).

Most jazz bands/performers, besides Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and a few other exceptions here and there (and even they are spotty), are seriously underwhelming to me, though I guess you could say I am still exploring despite my disappointment so far.

Then there are others who I don't dislike or care about enough to make my list (like Lynyrd Skynyrd).

*attempts dodging the numerous daggers that may be pulled on him*

No need to hold back. ;)

No need to hold back. ;)

Yeah, I guess I got a little carried away...lol

I listen to everything, Classical, Big Band, Classic Rock to Rush, Metallica, Tool. All Country Music makes me want to heave and vomit. I don't get it, makes me uptight just thinking about it. Only good thing about Country is the woman.

Well, I was beaten to the punch, but, I'll say it again...

Led Zepplin.

I don't dig. It sounds like the lyrics are being made up along the way as they go along...remember that Dana Carvey SNL / Stand up thing "Choppin Broccoli"?

That reminds me of how I feel about LedZep....

I feel like people love them in a trendy following-the-pack sort of way...maybe I'm off...just how I feel...

Lots.

I guess I'll be most critical of ones that I actually like, but not to the level of worship that some people bestow upon them:

U2. Bono over-emotes in his singing, and the band don't really have much virtuosity (the Edge excepted, possibly). That isn't always a problem, but some bands make up for it better than others. They don't. These guys also try too hard to sound "awesome"

Yes. Ditto on the last point, but their music is more overblown and cheesy. Jon Anderson's voice is pretty weak, but not enough to be actively annoying. Fragile is a great album, though.

Led Zeppelin. Their creativity went downhill after their first album, but still had high points throughout their career. Their most scatterbrained album is Presence, with two or three phenomenal tracks mixed in with dreck. I also like In Through the Out Door much more than I know I should. :) There's something wonderful about hearing a band be so earnest and try to kick ass when their tank is running on fumes.

The Kinks. Love some of their stuff...WISH I loved some of the rest.

The Beach Boys. I want to like more than I do, but something about the sound of their music doesn't jive with me.

The Rolling Stones. Maybe they've just released way too much and I don't know enough from their better period. The best I've heard is great, but they'll never be my favourite band.

The Police. I recognize they're good, but sometimes the sound just doesn't appeal to me.

Nirvana. Maybe I just want to hate them because Cobain took his own life and is regarded as some kind of saint.

Pearl Jam. Vedder's affected voice stylings get to me, almost as much as Bono's.

The Velvet Underground. These guys are seen as the precursors of punk music? Are you kidding me?

Oasis. I'm not sure if it's that I'm not getting it, or that they're just crap. I lean towards the latter point of view. (Sorry to their fans.) The main songwriter (is it Noel? Is it Liam? Do I care?) has a better voice than his brother, so I don't understand why he needs the brother he supposedly hates or supposedly hates him.

Procul Harum. I wanted to like these guys from the descriptions I had read before hearing their music but was underwhelmed once I heard it for the most part.

Bob Dylan. Maybe I haven't heard enough. Or maybe I have. :P

Bruce Springsteen. I can't stand his music!

Genesis. I've tried, but mostly can't get too worked up about them.

The Moody Blues. Ditto.

Metallica. They're way too dark for me, usually. Wish I could like them more.

The Grateful Dead. They're pretty boring and samey. But in their mediocrity, they are inoffensive at the same time.

I'm in Canada, so there are some Canadian bands which have cult followings that I don't think should. The Barenaked Ladies? No thanks. Bachman-Turner Overdrive is vomit-inducing. Listening to them, it's almost impossible to believe Bachman was one-half of the writing team in the Guess Who (a band I like a lot).

Most jazz bands/performers, besides Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and a few other exceptions here and there (and even they are spotty), are seriously underwhelming to me, though I guess you could say I am still exploring despite my disappointment so far.

Then there are others who I don't dislike or care about enough to make my list (like Lynyrd Skynyrd).

*attempts dodging the numerous daggers that may be pulled on him*

HAHA What DO you like? Although I must confess... If I hear one more Pearl Jam song on the radio I'm gonna slit my wrists! ARRGGHHH!!! Oasis???? I have never seen the attraction either. Both Noel and Eddie come off Holier Than Thou.

Well, I was beaten to the punch, but, I'll say it again...

Led Zepplin.

I don't dig. It sounds like the lyrics are being made up along the way as they go along...remember that Dana Carvey SNL / Stand up thing "Choppin Broccoli"?

That reminds me of how I feel about LedZep....

I feel like people love them in a trendy following-the-pack sort of way...maybe I'm off...just how I feel...


You can make out the lyrics? All I hear is a guy who sounds like his nuts are being squeezed (or that he sucked on some helium on Houses of the Holy) saying "baby baby baby" every few words. :P

That joke being said, I think Mick Jagger might actually be more incomprehensible.

Techno, the new variety of disco stuff,
it's just too repetative and boring.
Maybe I'm not taking the right sort of pills.

HAHA What DO you like? Although I must confess... If I hear one more Pearl Jam song on the radio I'm gonna slit my wrists! ARRGGHHH!!! Oasis???? I have never seen the attraction either. Both Noel and Eddie come off Holier Than Thou.

Actually, I do like most of those bands (earlier in the list, particularly), though I like some others much more. I just don't understand the crazy reputation some of them have gotten because I don't think they are THAT good.

both very, very good points

Boston....yuck i can listen to most anything , but this band, my word, maybe there like a dogwhistle effect going here...i simply just cant listen to them and this from a guy who can tolerate air supply (my wife)

Starting with older artists and moving forward, I never "got":

Frank Sinatra (Completely over-rated mediocre singer with bad phrasing; he belongs in a B-grade hotel lounge act. To call him "the voice" is the ultimate irony, although possibly a pre-emptive stroke of marketing genius. He would have disappeared (basically did, early in his career!) if he hadn't had mafia friends supporting and promoting him behind the scenes. Don't get me started beyond that. He did play a few decent movie roles, though. Mostly just playing himself, rather than really acting, but at least they were enjoyable.)

Judy Garland (with the SOLE exception of "Over the Rainbow"; everything else she sang annoys me.)

Early Barbara Streisand (She improved tremendously over the years, to where I like some of her later stuff, but in the early days she flattened and distorted her fortissimos so unbearably badly that it drove me nuts!)

Jackson Five / Early Michael Jackson (How anyone could even stand, let alone like, that screechy little-kid's voice, has always been way beyond me! Some of his later stuff was okay/good, though.)

A lot of "boy band" stuff (Way, way, way over-produced with average voices doing so much gratuitous and distracting over-arpeggiation (:scratch2:Did I just make up a word?:D) and emotionless over-emoting (an oxymoron, I know, but used for lack of a better term) it makes me sick. Good for 13-year-old girls who find mostly ugly, seedy- and delinquent-looking (and not-so-secretly homosexual) boys attractive, I guess.)

97% or so of Hip-hop and rap. (I do "get" how it evolved and why, and appreciate some of the talent of some of the people in the genre, but I don't find it AT ALL attractive to actually listen to; in fact, I doubt you could deliberately design a music genre better calculated to make someone feel both more stupid and more aggressive, than this. To me, it is the opposite of what music should be, "aural medicine for the soul". Most of the 3 percent that is palatable is so only because of heavy sampling of good songs, and in most cases those original songs sound much better than the remixed butcher jobs; Eminem (yeah, the would-be-black white guy) and had a couple of listenable songs, and there are a few atypical ones from other artists I can listen to, but MOST of it is just really, really bad, not just musically but for one's mental health. Obviously doesn't hurt one's swimming ability, though, unless Michael Phelps swam so fast because he was trying to escape from the stuff! :D A few songs have come out from hip-hop artists that are good, because they aren't really hip-hop, like "Birds Flying High". Many more otherwise good songs have been ruined by the gratuitous insertion of rap into them, where it absolutely wasn't needed, but was stuck in as an "obligatory" nod to current trends!)

Oh, I forgot,
Robbie Williams

One of the things I dig most about AK is the passion folks show for music I don't get, they get it, I don't have to. Time is short, enjoy!

I thought I was the only one that wasn't a Springsteen fan. I have tried... OHH Have I Tried to like him... but I don't get the mass appeal. I actually gave it another go the other day. Nope. Nadda. Zilch. Didn't trip my trigger.
As far as I can tell, Springteen was the new Dylan. But it seems it only lasted one album-Greetings From Asbury Park-which I "get", after that, he's lost on me too.

Screaming bands, bands that imitate the awful drone of Pearl Jam, anything RAP. As George Harrison said "Garbage". Springsteen, "Chicky", and last and least anything from the last decade or so pretty much sux!

Starting with older artists and moving forward, I never "got":


97% or so of Hip-hop and rap. (I do "get" how it evolved and why, and appreciate some of the talent of some of the people in the genre, but I don't find it AT ALL attractive to actually listen to; in fact, I doubt you could deliberately design a music genre better calculated to make someone feel both more stupid and more aggressive, than this. To me, it is the opposite of what music should be, "aural medicine for the soul". Most of the 3 percent that is palatable is so only because of heavy sampling of good songs, and in most cases those original songs sound much better than the remixed butcher jobs; Eminem (yeah, the would-be-black white guy) and had a couple of listenable songs, and there are a few atypical ones from other artists I can listen to, but MOST of it is just really, really bad, not just musically but for one's mental health. Obviously doesn't hurt one's swimming ability, though, unless Michael Phelps swam so fast because he was trying to escape from the stuff! :D A few songs have come out from hip-hop artists that are good, because they aren't really hip-hop, like "Birds Flying High". Many more otherwise good songs have been ruined by the gratuitous insertion of rap into them, where it absolutely wasn't needed, but was stuck in as an "obligatory" nod to current trends!)

I'll second that !

Might be heresy but here goes...

Status Quo - too much signature sound, and not enough music
Santana - No idea why, just didn't like 'em. (Carlos is good on his own)

Wilco - I'd liked everything I'd heard from them and bought "A Ghost is Born". I was only able to listen to it ONCE all the way through...

Oasis - a few seconds of them and a different station or a CD will be playing...

Phil Collins, Bob Seger, John Mellencamp - likewise.

Journey, Rush, Foreigner, Boston, Oasis:boring:...
Metallica, Judas Priest, Uriah Heap :no:...
Contemporary, commercial and overproduced Nashville dreck :tears:...
Nearly all Rap and Hip Hop :rant:
Springsteen after "Asbury Park" and "E Street Shuffle":confused:
and last but not least ...
Bon Jovi:yuck:

Sounds like a long list, but there's a lot left to love:music:

Out of some of the biggest names.Springsteen and Metallica.I like a few Springsteen cuts but don't get the rest.Metallica I just don't get.Beatle bashers shame on you.

Beatles ........different strokes for different folks I guess I like em

being from Canada I might be shot but Rush and Neil Young. Rush I love there music but Geddy Lee's vocals ( if you can call them vocals?) his vocals just ruin it for me. Same goes for NY But Q107 in Toronto have shrines for them and are really over played

Might be heresy but here goes...

Status Quo - too much signature sound, and not enough music
Santana - No idea why, just didn't like 'em. (Carlos is good on his own)

Santana is Carlos?? saw him this yr in Casino Rama simply blew me away:music:

To you Rolling Stones non-fans:

Spend an evening and refamiliarize yourself with Beggar's Banquet and Exile on Main St. (beyond their Top 40 hits) and report back. Restore my faith.

Journey, Rush, Foreigner, Boston, Oasis:boring:...
Metallica, Judas Priest, Uriah Heap :no:...
Contemporary, commercial and overproduced Nashville dreck :tears:...
Nearly all Rap and Hip Hop :rant:
Springsteen after "Asbury Park" and "E Street Shuffle":confused:
and last but not least ...
Bon Jovi:yuck:

Sounds like a long list, but there's a lot left to love:music:
You and I think alike here. Except i know a lot of good rap and hip hop (you just gotta dig a little)

I'll add to your excellent list REO Speedwagon, Gentle Giant, Yes, ELP, Marillion, Fish (not to be confused with Phish), and Josh Grobin. :dunno:

You and I think alike here. Except i know a lot of good rap and hip hop (you just gotta dig a little)

I'll add to your excellent list REO Speedwagon, Gentle Giant, Yes, ELP, Marillion, Fish (not to be confused with Phish), and Josh Grobin. :dunno:

OK, I'll admit that my kids have caught me being entertained/amused by L'il Wayne, some Kanye West, and the popular Jewish rapper whose name escapes me.

And on the Josh Grobin theme, add Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Yanni and any such character's attempt at a Christmas album.:eek:

I was going to say Eric Clapton.

Please wait before you kill me.

Not a huge fan of his Yardbirds stuff (prefer Jeff and Jimmy).

Bluesbreakers w/ EC was so by-the-book, you'd think an electric Pete Seeger (I know, impossible) was responsible for that glee club dreck.

Then there's Cream. Most of their album cuts are really stupid, but their good stuff is mind-blowingly excellent. And live, good golly EC was in some kind of guitar God trance (e.g., "Crossroads").

EC was also in Blind Faith. Amazing band on album and live. Unassuming, yet amazing guitar.

Finally, we get to his solo stuff. I had a mint German Polydor LP pressing of Layla in my hand a few months ago and put it down. I don't like "Bell Bottom Blues" and the only part I like about "Layla" is the piano coda used in "Goodfellas." And I LOVE Duane Allman. I will blame the drugs.

So, to bottom line it, I "get" EC because when he was good, he was fantastic, but when he was bad, he was pedestrian (e.g., Michelob mix of "After Midnight").

Ken

right on, john vf.

*holds hand to chest, staggers as if mortally wounded*

A lot of bands I "get", but "can't stand".
The bands I don't get were/are rap, grunge or metal (speed, death, heavy, etc.).
EDIT: Forgot to add Nickelback.

Tom

AKK!!! :rockon: :rant::uzi::pistols: demz fighting words brutha

One of the things I dig most about AK is the passion folks show for music I don't get, they get it, I don't have to. Time is short, enjoy!
Well said. How boring would this planet be if everybody dug the same music.

Prince
U2
Nickelback

...when he was good, he was fantastic.


The "trance state" Eric Clapton of whom you spake was often phenomenal.


...when he was bad, he was pedestrian...


...and drunk, usually.

Any (C)rap music.

I was going to say Eric Clapton.

Please wait before you kill me....


Ken

Excellent post. You had the audacity to put into words something about EC that I have long felt but rarely had the cojones to share among EC worshippers. He's absolutely stellar at times (Crossroads is a great example, Strange Brew and Swlabr are also good), quite pedestrian at others (too frequent to mention).

I guess what I don't get about EC is how a number of folks will reflexively put his name at the very top of the list of the all-time guitar greats. Granted, he was part of some super groups, but his guitar work rarely bowled me over and made me mumble like a fool (present post excepted).

Yah...another one here who just doesn't get Rush. I realize they're musically extremely proficient (my drummer son holds Peart in high regard)...but i've never been able to make the connection. Used to be a diehard Stones lover...but "Some Girls" was probably the end of the line for me. Sinatra? His very earliest recordings were disinctively different from everything else at the time, and you could see why the bobbysoxers swooned en masse over "Frankie". Some of his '50s stuff was quite well done...but he essentially sold out in the 60s. Now, Tony Bennett, on the other hand.....

And, I must concur re: Clapton. A real snore with isolated instances of brilliance.

OK, I'll come out and agree that I don't really get Eric Clapton either. A very obsessive guitar player friend of mine told me his gift is his ability to play like the true blues masters, technically speaking--maybe the word "impeccable" would apply. But that doesn't amount to greatness in my book. At best, it makes me want to listen to the players he's emulating.

Eric himself seems to have just combined the sound of Otis Rush with JJ Cale and sold it as a brand. So maybe I do get it, but just don't like it.

FYI- The 1981 flick, "Sound of the City: London 1964-73," is playing on Palladia TV (in hi-def!). It is listed as "Rock City" if you get the Palladia channel.

It has some groovy performances of Otis Redding, the Stones, Cream, the Faces, and many other classic rockers performing at various venues in London, many with clumsy analog psychedelic effects.

It is a grab bag of the just plain weird ("2000 Light Years from Home") and the just plain stunning (Otis!). If you think you don't "get" certain bands, this flick may confirm your bias. In my case, I had the opposite experience and the Cream performance reminded me why EC is so admired in spite of "Wonderful Tonight."

Ken

To you Rolling Stones non-fans:

Spend an evening and refamiliarize yourself with Beggar's Banquet and Exile on Main St. (beyond their Top 40 hits) and report back. Restore my faith.

I have I really did try and get into them (my father gave me alot of their catologe on Vinyl) but in the end it just made me hate them more. So sorry I could not restore your faith:no:

I was going to say Eric Clapton.

Please wait before you kill me.


I would have to agree with you 100%

Well said. How boring would this planet be if everybody dug the same music.

Thanks!

My ex-girlfriend couldn't stand Geddy Lee's singing, so naturally I used to enjoy torturing her with it. :D

Neil Young's voice isn't very nice either, but I've learned to tolerate both of these guys.

There's a lot of bands that I 'got' when I was younger that do absolutely nothing for me after I discovered what was essentially the music that was reacting AGAINST the music I grew up with. When I was in junior high, even early high school, I could listen and really get into bands like Journey and Boston or Styx. Even REO Speedwagon. The stuff you hear every time you turn on the radio. I'd get a kick out of something like Nazareth singing "now you're messing with a...a son of a bitch!". Then I moved to a different place and my new friends introduced me to what back then was basically 'college rock'. Post punk, Indie, etc. And for whatever reason, almost overnight, that stuff I listened to before seemed completely false, manufactured, and without an ounce of real emotion. Steve Perry belting out "I'll run to youuuuuu.. with ooooopen arms" just seemed laughably bloated and saccharine compared to something like Joy Division, where what was being sung about felt like the relationships and moods I actually had, where those relationships were faulty and bittersweet.

So I don't get Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, etc etc anymore. But they did it for me at one time. When I hear them on the radio now, I don't scream and race to turn it off. I just think, hey, 8th grade was pretty cool.

I never have got U2- OK, they're pretty good 'n' all, but I don't think they're the Gods Who Know Better Than Any Of The Rest Of Us that some make 'em out to be. And I think Bono's glasses are an absurd affectation...A grown man wearing little girl's clown glasses..Gimme a break !

Journey, Rush, Foreigner, Boston, Oasis:boring:...
Metallica, Judas Priest, Uriah Heap :no:...
Contemporary, commercial and overproduced Nashville dreck :tears:...
Nearly all Rap and Hip Hop :rant:
Springsteen after "Asbury Park" and "E Street Shuffle":confused:
and last but not least ...
Bon Jovi:yuck:

Sounds like a long list, but there's a lot left to love:music:

You are right on and that is one short list there! :yes:

Lets not forget Clapton (so boring)

As I was reading this thread I found myself thinking much along the lines of what JohnVF said in his post. Many of the bands that have been discussed in this thread were (if not favorites of mine) at least tolerable when I was growing up; but now I can't stand a lot of that music. Journey, REO Speedwagon, Boston (a band that I loved in 1977-78), Styx etc...

But thinking about bands that I never liked, and couldn't understand their popularity, only a few classic names come to mind. The Doors would be at the top of that list.

U2
Van Halen

Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Dave Matthews - never have, never will.

Of course, I once thought that of Patti Smith. She covered "When Doves Cry" and all became clear.

I thought I was the only one that wasn't a Springsteen fan. I have tried... OHH Have I Tried to like him... but I don't get the mass appeal. I actually gave it another go the other day. Nope. Nadda. Zilch. Didn't trip my trigger.


You are not alone. I can't stand his music.

Beattles
dave matthews
later clapton
later eagles
There are more...

I'll just bash an entire genre rather than singleing out any particular band for abuse. What is it with the modern style of female singing that they feel compelled to carry notes forever? The endless trilling is what passes for true emotional performance these days. Great, we get it, you have an impressive vocal range. That doesn't mean you have to make it sound like someone is killing the cat on every tune. You know who you are: Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilara, and countless others. The problem is some of these singers really do have talent but choose overproduced lackluster material that passes for modern music. Stop before you trill again!
and while we're at it, could we please stop torturing our national anthem? It is a very specific piece of martial music that is to be played and sung at a precise pace. It is not to be mangled and treated as a pop or rock tune. Oh and if you are to perform it at an event SING THE SONG instead of depending on a pre-recorded studio version. i.e. Whitney Houston, Ms. Sparks.
Thanks you, rant over.

I cannot stand anything by BOWIE. In my opinion that was when music really started to take a dive when that clown hit the stage. But again, I would have to say I caught myself here. Music is something really different than what we have been talking about in this thread. Most of this muck is just noise. The music is what we prefer!

There is no reason why everyone should like every artist/band/genre. That just wouldn't make sense.

I don't like some of the bands or artists mentioned here. Then again, I really like some of the ones that others don't. The variable is, for me, anyway, is that I like some songs by bands that I mostly don't like.

The beauty of it all is that we get such great enjoyment out of the ones we really do like a lot. :yes:

and while we're at it, could we please stop torturing our national anthem?

Oh, man, this really irks me to no end. :yes:

As someone who loves the Dead and Bob Dylan, I can't believe we've made it 76 posts without someone saying they don't "get them"!
Things are looking up around here.
:thmbsp:

As someone who loves the Dead and Bob Dylan, I can't believe we've made it 76 posts without someone saying they don't "get them"!
Things are looking up around here.
:thmbsp:

If someone dares speak the ultimate blasphemy and trashes Bob Dylan :ntwrthy:, I'll have to enlist the renegade computer programmer, Boris, from the James Bond film Goldeneye to "spike" his computer. I came close to doing so when someone chimed in about The Doors a few posts back.

By the way, to whoever started this thread, good job! It's been very entertaining. :tresbon:

Ah, yes, U2. I just heard Sunday Bloody Sunday while making a lunch run from the office. I don't get them from around the time of Achtung Baby onward.

Prior to Achtung Baby I thought they were the greatest band in the world. After Achtung Baby, they thought they were the greatest band in the world.

I have to say, this has been a very good thread. If this had come up on other groups I've been a member of, it would have turned ugly after five or six posts. There's something about the group here where it's a given that we're all into different stuff, but we're into it for the right reasons. So, right on.

Oh, and I don't get the Dead...:D

Journey, Rush, Foreigner, Boston, Oasis:boring:...
Metallica, Judas Priest, Uriah Heap :no:...

Sounds like a long list, but there's a lot left to love:music:


Wait a minute....now you're getting personal!

Uriah

I'll just bash an entire genre rather than singling out any particular band for abuse.

I'll take Christina A's voice over RT's any day. Granted, he's a better guitar player by quite a ways. Actually he's a better guitar player than about anyone else in the universe. RT isn't a bad entertainer, but I'd rather watch CA.

Although Jimmy LaFave does awesome Dylan covers. I saw him at a small venue in Denver for about $12 and was awestruck. I wouln't pay $1.20 to see BD. So Dylan is a great song writer, crappy performer.

To further fuel the fire:

I've never been able to listen to an entire Dylan OR Dead album. mumbling and warbling dreck, IMO.

For the most part, I'm not in tune with most "stadium" style acts, like U2, Eagles, etc. Mostly because I can't see spending more than a hundred a seat when that same Franklin can pay for several evenings at local, more intimate clubs and theaters.

Clapton I get, when he's on. I've seen him a handful of times and only once did he impress me.

But yeah, Dylan and the Dead, I can't stand listening to them.

But that's my problem, not yours, eh?

If this had come up on other groups I've been a member of, it would have turned ugly after five or six posts.

+1
That's why I love this place!

BTW, I love the Dead too!:music:

I cannot stand anything by BOWIE.

I was waiting for Ziggy to come up.

I like David Bowie to no end, but I actually understand not getting him more than I understand getting him.

I dare say, I probably don't "get" him even though I love his music. Just what is the "Bewlay Brothers" all about?

Lots of bands I don't get.
Lately its System of a Down. I can't understand what Serge is screeching much less the message that is purported to be in the songs. They seem to have a lot of fans but not for me thanks.

To you Rolling Stones non-fans:

Spend an evening and refamiliarize yourself with Beggar's Banquet and Exile on Main St. (beyond their Top 40 hits) and report back. Restore my faith.

I like a lot of the Stones, but nothing, for me, tops their 1978 album, Some Girls. I dunno why. It has a lot of humor in it (Faraway Eyes and Some Girls). I like bits and pieces of the Stones throughout their career, but to me, their most consistently excellent disk is Some Girls.

What's weird is that the album is over 30 years old, and yet, to me, it marks the beginning of "New Stones". I don't think they did anything after it that's worht listening to.

But that's just me.

I wouln't pay $1.20 to see BD. So Dylan is a great song writer, crappy performer.

As much as it pains me to agree, Dylan hasn't been on top of his performance game for many years. Even as an absolute Dylan freak, I probably wouldn't pay $1.20 to see him now either. That said, in his prime (which was pretty long stint), he was great. His Rolling Thunder Review tour of 1975-1976 was legendary in its greatness. I was awestruck by this performance.

See the lineup here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Thunder_Revue

That was Dylan's last gasp and he needed Johnny Cash to kick it off.

Hey, I feel pretty good. While I've pretty much been in line with a lot of the "don't get" selections, I feel pretty good that at least some of my faves didn't show up in here (well, they may have, but I just didn't seem them posted). So I feel good (in fact, to paraphrase Was Not Was, I feel better than James Brown) that Zappa hasn't appeared. Neither have Talking Heads/David Byrne, or the Who.

Good for me!!!

I only get Bowie about half the time, and it's not really time or album specific. I can't sit through a whole album except maybe Low and Ziggy, and even then I'm always tempted at some point or another to get up and move the needle forward. But there are times where he just inspires me. I think I'd lump Queen in with that feeling, to. When they're on, they are ON but man do they miss the mark sometimes. I guess that's what happens when you swing for the fences.

The variable is, for me, anyway, is that I like some songs by bands that I mostly don't like.



But for me, that is the problem. A lot of bands today have one or three songs that I like, but the rest, I dislike. Whatever it is I like about those three songs, is not repeatable in the remainder of their songs.

As for bands I do not “get” well Velvet Underground has never turned my crank.:scratch2:

I am sitting here sorting through a hundred LP’s my co-worker gave me. Wow, half the groups, I do not know or care to judging by the first few cuts. Eg: listing to Bob Welch, on the forth cut, thinking yuck. Moving on to Gary Numan, wish me luck…….:no:

If someone dares speak the ultimate blasphemy and trashes Bob Dylan :ntwrthy:, I'll have to enlist the renegade computer programmer, Boris, from the James Bond film Goldeneye to "spike" his computer. I came close to doing so when someone chimed in about The Doors a few posts back.

By the way, to whoever started this thread, good job! It's been very entertaining. :tresbon:

I don't know if this counts as "trashing", but, I dislike Dylan. I do not like his voice... :thumbsdn:

To each their own.

For me, the one band that instantly comes to mind as "I don't get" is ... Dave Matthews Band. I also happen to not like them very, very much.

I don't mean to offend anyone or dis them or their fans. There are bands I really don't get INTO that I get... in other words I can see how some might dig them.

DMB is so foreign to my musical aesthetic that I find liking them incomprehensible. Like someone saying "my favorite color is Henry David Thoreau." EDIT: I'm not saying there's anything wrong with liking them. If you dig 'em, cool, rock on.. I just have no ability to understand why.

Michael

Heh. I second Dave Matthews. I respect him, seems like a cool guy, great musicians in the band, you can even see him in your local supermarket around the PNW...and the music is actually not BAD bad, I just don't get the seven nights at a big outdoor venue level of adulation. Sorry Dave!

Sting/The Police - can't sing
Prince - not as good as he thinks
Michael Bolton - no explanation needed
Nirvana - if I sounded like Cobain I'd kill myself too
Alanis Morissette - just an angry bee-och
Mariah Carey - beyond my hearing range
Duran Duran - puh-leeze puh-leeze
Any and all disco

But for me, that is the problem. A lot of bands today have one or three songs that I like, but the rest, I dislike. Whatever it is I like about those three songs, is not repeatable in the remainder of their songs.

Absolutely. I have been known to buy music for 1 or 2 songs only. Sometimes, I'll like some of the others, but rarely. That's just me, though.

Also, I'll buy a CD, unheard, because I have always liked 99% of everything they put out. And, 99% of the time, I don't get disappointed.

Someone mentioned His Bobness and the Dead...:puke:

But, there ya go. :smoke:

Sting/The Police - can't sing
Prince - not as good as he thinks
Michael Bolton - no explanation needed
Nirvana - if I sounded like Cobain I'd kill myself too
Alanis Morissette - just an angry bee-och
Mariah Carey - beyond my hearing range
Duran Duran - puh-leeze puh-leeze
Any and all disco

Though I don't completely agree with your list (and heck who does - that's not the point of this thread), your captions for each selection are priceless. Had me laughing out loud.:thmbsp:

Well not that I hate these to follow, well except for Springstien and the Stones, but don't understand why there so beloved.

Bruce Springsteen
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His voice sounds like my garbage disposal.....Never got Sinatra, either..There is a guy here in local radio, been playing his stuff for over 40 years, I don't get the ratings....Anyone who doesn't sing the National Anthem correctly.( that would be most). Great thread. I nodded alot here.

I must add metalica to my list. I LOVE 80's metal. Just about all of it exept metallica.

Hey, I feel pretty good. While I've pretty much been in line with a lot of the "don't get" selections, I feel pretty good that at least some of my faves didn't show up in here (well, they may have, but I just didn't seem them posted). So I feel good (in fact, to paraphrase Was Not Was, I feel better than James Brown) that Zappa hasn't appeared. Neither have Talking Heads/David Byrne, or the Who.

Good for me!!!

Well I will burst your bubble, cwall. Never really got Talking Heads/ David Byrne. I can listen to some and enjoy but "get it?" - no.

As far as country, much of what is passed off these days as country, I don't get - Big and Rich, Keith Urban, Taylor Swift.........And I never "got" Faith Hill having a country hit with a cover of Piece Of My Heart.

Also, quite a few singer/songwriters should remain simply songwriters. Ray Lamontagne comes to mind..........

And I have to mention Coldplay.

Alan

Only good thing about Country is the woman.


Which one? :naughty: Gotta be Dolly ;-)

What, no ABBA haters here - I'm shocked :yikes: (I like them, BTW)

Linkin park--Never understood the appeal:scratch2:

Lionel Richie

Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead. I have over 4600 mp3 files. Just checked and have 2 GD and 4 PF songs. Just don't like most of their music.

As for bands I do not “get” well Velvet Underground has never turned my crank.:scratch2:


Me neither; I've tried to get into them, but just don't like it.

Other bands I can't get into:
Grateful Dead
Phish
Ramones
Black Sabbath (anyone else thing Ozzy solo is better?)
Led Zeppelin (flame on)
Morrissey/The Smiths

If you define “Get” as understand the songs then I would have to say Pearl Jam. I don’t understand many for their lyrics, particularly the song “Daughter”. I like the song but I have no idea what it is about.

Nirvana is another band I just don’t “Get” (cool music though)

If you define “Get” as understand the songs then I would have to say Pearl Jam. I don’t understand many for their lyrics, particularly the song “Daughter”. I like the song but I have no idea what it is about.

Nirvana is another band I just don’t “Get” (cool music though)

Get - verb - to not understand the appeal of

Get - verb - to not understand the appeal of

Oh….Thats what I thought.

So bands that “I do not understand the appeal of...”
The White Stripes*
Metallica*

*Disclaimer* - I am not attempting to say anything negative about these bands. I simply do not understand their appeal!

Prince - not as good as he thinks

I am an insufferable Prince fanatic, and I approve this message. His ego should have started it's own solo career years ago!

For my part, I gave up long ago trying to comprehend the intricacies (or lack thereof) of my musical tastes. The only thing I've managed to discern with any certainty is that it seems as if most people, after finding something they enjoy, will set out on a mission to find more of it. Unfortunately for me I am not one of those people. I've tried to like Journey and Boston, but all I hear are people who want to sound like Jim Steinman, and fail miserably. I had always read that Queen were written off by many early on as Led Zep wannabe's. But for the life of me I can't figure out where the similarities are. As hard as I tried to like them, I finally had to dismiss Zep as mildly creative noise by comparison. I found it especially difficult in my youth as a teenage guitarist to relate to other musicians, even if their interests were similar to my own. Conversation would invariably lead to... "Well - if you like Nuno Bettencourt you must like Eddie VanHalen!". Or... "If you dig Buddy Guy, you'l love this new BB King album!" Like Sam Jackson once said - "Don't make assumptions. You make an ass out of "U" and "Umption"". Even today people will look through my music selections, and only remark on the fact that I have every Deftones album, and nothing by Korn. Or they'll see the Megadeth section, and ask where my Metallica section went. My favorite by far is when they find the lone eMOTIVe CD, and start frantically searching for the others by A Perfect Circle and/or Tool. I have to wonder how much easier my life would have been if I lived in the same box as everyone around me...

Great thread!

Quick question. :headscrat Has anyone here written a song or songs that have been recorded, published and played on radio? Have any of you toiled and practiced your ass off, playing shit hole halls and clubs with ten paying customers and getting paid squat... because you love what you doing. Have you cut demo after demo and pushed and pushed so your music can be heard? How do you think most if not all of the acts you "don't get" got their start in the music business? I "don't get" what you all are saying here. :nono: Try walking in their shoes...they paid their dues.
Just my 2 cents.
Peace

I can appreciate the whole "paid their dues" concept, but I still don't HAVE to like them! :no:

Good thread! :thmbsp:

I liked the Beatles early material but not as much the later stuff.

I absolutely do not understand the appeal of "Birthday", but the "classic rock" station seems to thrive on it! :scratch2:

Didn't care much for the Eagles output after "Hotel California". :scratch2:

I could like Rush if Geddy Lee kept quiet.

I could like some of the Guns & Roses stuff if I didn't have to listen to Axl Rose.

Individual taste is exactly that - individual!

Just because you don't "get it" isn't an insult to anyone else!

I love that "haters". I love the internet!

They are everywhere when you mention a band.

Makes for a good evenings entertainment.

This isn't meant as a derogatory question, and I hope the thread doesn't deteriorate at some point, but I'm curious as to what bands you folks just "don't get".

For example, I'm not a huge U2 fan (picking a band that has recently released an album), but I can certainly understand their appeal.



Seems like there have been several pages that adhered pretty well to the spirit of the original post. Not much real trashing going on, just guys saying "XXX is not my cup of tea" for the most part. Some even touting the potential appeal of the band/artist they don't get.

But maybe some just don't get it.

Alan

I can appreciate the whole "paid their dues" concept, but I still don't HAVE to like them! :no:

Good thread! :thmbsp:

I liked the Beatles early material but not as much the later stuff.

I absolutely do not understand the appeal of "Birthday", but the "classic rock" station seems to thrive on it! :scratch2:

Didn't care much for the Eagles output after "Hotel California". :scratch2:

I could like Rush if Geddy Lee kept quiet.

I could like some of the Guns & Roses stuff if I didn't have to listen to Axl Rose.

Individual taste is exactly that - individual!

Just because you don't "get it" isn't an insult to anyone else!

You will never "get it" my friend.

Bad Company (and to think they evolved out of King Krimson, Free and Mott the Hoople). What happened?

With regard to bands I used to like (quite a bit even), but just can't find their way on to my turntable in the past decade or two, here are a couple of offerings. I can't exactly say why, but they rest comfortably inside their jackets and will remain there until every bit of obscure wax I own gets a fresh spin:

Doobie Bros.
Fleetwood Mac (after Nicks/Buckingham came onboard)
Jimmy Buffett

The Pixies

I'm a big fan of alternative rock (used to DJ college radio back before the term "alternative rock" was coined) and also a big fan of the 4AD record label. The Pixies (and Frank Black in particular) just never did it for me. Their music never has caused me to leave the room like music I cannot stand (as has, say, Mariah Carey), but I find their music uninteresting and uninvolving and boring.

Except for their cover of The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Head On," which makes me think it is Frank Black's songwriting that keeps me from enjoying their music.

The Eagles, KISS and Phil Collins era Genesis. I keep thinking one day there's gonna be a big gotcha announcement but I refuse to hold my breath.

Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Dave Matthews - never have, never will.
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Seconded, with great passion! Just can't stand Dave Matthews.

Always sounds like he's singing while playing the part of a mole in a giant whack-a-mole game!

The tragically hip makes me wonder just how easy it is to become famous.

Quick question. :headscrat Has anyone here written a song or songs that have been recorded, published and played on radio? Have any of you toiled and practiced your ass off, playing shit hole halls and clubs with ten paying customers and getting paid squat... because you love what you doing. Have you cut demo after demo and pushed and pushed so your music can be heard? How do you think most if not all of the acts you "don't get" got their start in the music business? I "don't get" what you all are saying here. :nono: Try walking in their shoes...they paid their dues.
Just my 2 cents.
Peace

Ok... cool. So you're saying until I pay my dues I can't have an opinion about what music I like or don't like? I am obligated by the moral code of the universe to "get" every band in existence?

Excellent! :banana:

Michael

You will never "get it" my friend.

:banana:

Quick question. :headscrat Has anyone here written a song or songs that have been recorded, published and played on radio? Have any of you toiled and practiced your ass off, playing shit hole halls and clubs with ten paying customers and getting paid squat... because you love what you doing. Have you cut demo after demo and pushed and pushed so your music can be heard? How do you think most if not all of the acts you "don't get" got their start in the music business? I "don't get" what you all are saying here. :nono: Try walking in their shoes...they paid their dues.
Just my 2 cents.
Peace

Other than the "published" part - yes. And so have millions of other artists that nobody in this forum has ever heard of because they never got out of the basement. Paying your dues doesn't mean that anybody owes you anything. In fact I tend to think the opposite. If you're ambitious enough to work that hard for something you love without promise of reward, chances are you're doing it because you feel that you owe something to everyone else. For my part, I can acknowledge that VanHalen, Hendrix, Rush, and many others are immensely talented artists who have had the heaviest of hands in the evolution of rock music. But I absolutely loath the notion that those facts are some sort of binding contract requiring me to enjoy their art. Furthermore, I'm confident that any true artist would agree that it is far better that people choose what they enjoy (and what they don't), as opposed to the notion that one must enjoy something simply because of some sort of "social stature" that an artist has attained. From an artists viewpoint there is no reward in being "required listening".

This isn't meant as a derogatory question, and I hope the thread doesn't deteriorate at some point, but I'm curious as to what bands you folks just "don't get".

For example, I'm not a huge U2 fan (picking a band that has recently released an album), but I can certainly understand their appeal.

For me, the #1 band in the "I just don't get it" category is Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Seriously...I worked at a classic rock station for 3 years or so, and it seemed that LS comprised approximately 25% of the playlist...but that's neither here nor there. I really tried to like them, and I was exposed to their music almost constantly. I guess they're not my cup of tea or whatever, but "I just don't get it".

Keep in mind that I don't want anyone to try to explain why they think LS is great, or why I should give them a chance. I'll never like them, end of story. I just want to know who you "don't get". :thmbsp:

It seems this thread is loosing its origional intent. I don’t think people need to be scolded for answering the origional post.

Quick question. :headscrat Has anyone here written a song or songs that have been recorded, published and played on radio? Have any of you toiled and practiced your ass off, playing shit hole halls and clubs with ten paying customers and getting paid squat... because you love what you doing. Have you cut demo after demo and pushed and pushed so your music can be heard? How do you think most if not all of the acts you "don't get" got their start in the music business? I "don't get" what you all are saying here. :nono: Try walking in their shoes...they paid their dues.
Just my 2 cents.
Peace

I like what I like and I won't be scolded for it. take your finger wagging and ....

ah never mind, its all good. :smoke:

Quick question. :headscrat Has anyone here written a song or songs that have been recorded, published and played on radio? Have any of you toiled and practiced your ass off, playing shit hole halls and clubs with ten paying customers and getting paid squat... because you love what you doing. Have you cut demo after demo and pushed and pushed so your music can be heard? How do you think most if not all of the acts you "don't get" got their start in the music business? I "don't get" what you all are saying here. :nono: Try walking in their shoes...they paid their dues.
Just my 2 cents.
Peace

Dude! Just because they chose a potentially sh*tty life, that is no reason I have to like them, or get them.

I don't get Rahsaan Roland Kirk! Every time I hear him on XM jazz, I have to change the station! :puke:

Quick question. :headscrat Has anyone here written a song or songs that have been recorded, published and played on radio? Have any of you toiled and practiced your ass off, playing shit hole halls and clubs with ten paying customers and getting paid squat... because you love what you doing. Have you cut demo after demo and pushed and pushed so your music can be heard? How do you think most if not all of the acts you "don't get" got their start in the music business? I "don't get" what you all are saying here. :nono: Try walking in their shoes...they paid their dues.
Just my 2 cents.
Peace

I've recorded 4 albums in my basement/bedroom and never felt the need to tour or toil for something I didn't want to do for a living. I did it as my own personal art and didn't care what other people thought, except for a few. And to that end, I don't think anybody has to 'get' what I did, because of the hours or whatever I put into it. That goes completely against the idea of art. You do it for various reasons, but nobody has to like it nor should they because of the simple fact that you chose to do it.

LOL

Anyway, wow, lots of awesome posts on a thread I almost didn't post last night because, as someone mentioned, on most other sites, this type of thread would have degenerated into a flame-war. Awesome! :thmbsp:

A couple more to add to my list:
Bob Seger
"Modern" country music - yes, all of it. :-)

I'll also add that, as big of a Metallica fan as I am, I can certainly see why people wouldn't dig them, regardless of how long they've been around.

The Dead...my uncle is a HUGE Dead fan - used to follow them around and all that. I've listened to his LP's before. The music and lyrics are alright, but I don't get what all of the fuss is about.

Same with Zappa. Brilliant writing, but the music really doesn't appeal to me.

hmmmmm... newer bands, how did they get signed? really... disturbed? hinder? nickelback? don't get me wrong i like a lot of newer bands, many genres... but these bands?

There's too many to mention.:smoke:

I'm an oldtimer but the Grateful Dead never did grow on me. Although I like some of Bob Weirs solo stuff........

My brother-in-law loves Lucinda Williams, but everything I've heard of her sounds the same ................ kind of monotonous.

Another of the brother-in-law's favorites is Springsteen ............. doesn't do anything for me.

Okay I don't think any of you have gone here yet.

I just don't get the big deal about Elvis. Never have and never will. Yeah he broke some of the music barriers but so much of his stuff is cheesy trash.

okay shoot me if you disagree but what a waste of adoration the american public has with this artist.

It was his swiveling hips, greased back hair & those great movies that sent the women swooning:yes:

i honestly don't get any band that came out after nirvana.

i honestly don't get any band that came out after nirvana.

So you're saying that they changed your life and are the last band you'll ever need?:D Just kidding. I'll add Nirvana to my list as well. I first head them in a car, without knowing what they looked like, and just thought they were another cheesy hair band. I guess image plays a lot in how things are perceived.

Though I own a couple of their albums—I bought them mostly out of curiosity—I never quite got Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I can certainly respect and appreciate their virtuosity, but musically they always struck me as a bit self-important and overblown, like a lot of so-called progressive rock of the '70s.

A genre I just don’t get is classical. I know it’s immensely popular in audiophile circles, and a lot of it requires serious musical talent to perform, but most of it just bores me to tears. I’m a rocker at heart, I guess. :D

i honestly don't get any band that came out after nirvana.

Regardless of genre??? If you are speaking of bands that are of the same genre as Nirvana, I agree. I never got or like Nirvana so, more of the same seems pointless to me...

I just don't get Rap. Music is a diversion and something to enjoy. It doesn't have to be happy but I just don't get Rap.

Uriah

Black Metal :puke:

Santana is Carlos?? saw him this yr in Casino Rama simply blew me away:music:

I like his mid 70's stuff.Festival,Moonflower etc..Great on JBL's.

As someone who loves the Dead and Bob Dylan, I can't believe we've made it 76 posts without someone saying they don't "get them"!
Things are looking up around here.
:thmbsp:

Now that you mention it.... I can deal with a couple of cuts from each but don't understand the mass appeal of the Dead.Believe me I have tried.Same with Dylan.

Speaking as a Doors fan who can (and does occaisionally) play not only an album, but their entire catalogue (excluding the post-humous stuff) from self-titled through LA Woman in one sitting, I can still see how some wouldn't get it. Kind of like some of the wierd-ass shit like Mr. Bungle or MC Chris. Hell, I can't always say why i like it, something inside me must vibrate at the same frequency or something....

What I don't get is fret-board masturbation. Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, most of the "metal" from the 80's. To me it just sounds like soul-less guitar-vomit. Are they technical masters? I guess. A better term might be "amazing dexterity". Don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with a blistering solo, ala Tony Iomi or martin Barre. Maybe I'm just spoiled. I saw Gary Hoey at Antone's a couple of years ago. He remarked that his manager didn't book him in Texas for 20 years cause guitar-slingers just didn't sell in Texas. The term he used was "dime-a-dozen," I believe. At first, I couldn't believe he would say that. He was SO good! About halfway through the show, I could understand. Yes, he was technically perfect. Yes, he was LIGHTNING fast. Yes, he had licks, and showmanship. Problem was, you could get 95% of that in any almost any club in Austin, almost any night of the week. Plus a whole lot of something he didn't have. Now, I'm not saying you are gonna walk up on a guitar-god sixstring virtuoso every time you turn the corner. What I'm saying is, virtuosity doesn't amount to much if it's not followed up with an equal amount of soul. Hell, with enough soul, vituosity takes a back seat, and probably won't be missed...providing a modicum of talent, of course. So, no. I didn't enjoy his show nearly as much as others I've been to where the dudes may not have had Gary's talent, but where he played excellent technique, they played with heart.

Oh, yeah. and I hate boybands, too.

I never really got The Who. All of these pianos and keyboards in songs from a band that didn't have a keyboardist. And just what Pete's songs and their music in general was about. I've never really been able to find an identity in it, but I know that they are a great band.

I never really got The Who. All of these pianos and keyboards in songs from a band that didn't have a keyboardist. And just what Pete's songs and their music in general was about. I've never really been able to find an identity in it, but I know that they are a great band.

Listening to "Baba O'Riley" at a significant volume level with my Crown amps and JBLs is a guilty pleasure for me! :yes:

Listening to "Baba O'Riley" at a significant volume level with my Crown amps and JBLs is a guilty pleasure for me! :yes:

I know that there's something really tremendous going on here with this group. I've just never been able to get a handle on it artistically.

I know that there's something really tremendous going on here with this group. I've just never been able to get a handle on it artistically.

It's all a matter of personal taste!

I could name dozens of very popular artists or groups that don't "do it" for me. There is probably no definitive reason for who we like or don't. :scratch2:

Some of it is probably generational, but we are each unique individuals wth our own likes and dislikes!

I used to have a friend that was a #1 Rush fan! I just don't like the sound of Geddy Lee's voice! Go figure!

Tool. There are fanatics out there that will eat up anything this band puts out; I just don't understand why. I guess I'm not that "deep".

It's all a matter of personal taste!

I could name dozens of very popular artists or groups that don't "do it" for me. There is probably no definitive reason for who we like or don't. :scratch2:

Some of it is probably generational, but we are each unique individuals wth our own likes and dislikes!

I used to have a friend that was a #1 Rush fan! I just don't like the sound of Geddy Lee's voice! Go figure!

There were two ways to go with the original question -- a lot of the answers seem to be in the vein of "I don't like this, and don't get why anyone else does"... my answer was more of a scratching-my-head don't "get" The Who. But I really like them as a band.

I mean, what does "teenage wasteland" have to do with "Baba O'Reilly"? Makes no sense to me. Great song, though.

In my travels I found .MPGs online of an outdoor concert they did that was shot in black and white film, I think in 1969. I don't know where it was played, but it appears to be from about when Tommy came out. Really good stuff.

I think you're right. :yes:

There are a lot of bands that I know are good bands or artists that I just don't "get". Lots of them even have several songs that I really like!

There are many albums and CDs in my collection that are the only album or CD from artists that have had a prolific output! I didn't "get" the whole thing, but did like one song or album enough to buy it!

Then again, there are artists that I have essentially every album or CD that they have produced. I guess we would say that I "get it" with them! :scratch2:

For my part, I gave up long ago trying to comprehend the intricacies (or lack thereof) of my musical tastes. The only thing I've managed to discern with any certainty is that it seems as if most people, after finding something they enjoy, will set out on a mission to find more of it.

Great thread!

Guilty here

Not defending any one or any band but......
Listen to The Who "Live At Leeds" If you don't get it you don't understand rock music
Dylan wrote possibly the greatest songs from rock and roll. I can see anyone not liking him or his music, but his songs never.
Just my 2 cents, you know what they say about opinions.

The Grateful Dead...I get it and still don't get it. Two big thumbs down.

I don't "get" rap/hip hop or whatever you choose to call it. I listen to music for enjoyment, not to have angry young men yell at me to booming beats. I also have a serious problem because of the way women are "treated" and portrayed.

What I don't get is fret-board masturbation. Steve Vai, Joe Satriani

Ha ha, oh, man I am so with you on this. I urge everybody who feels the same to go here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG74eVb6V10

and skip forward to about 1:50. You are in for one of the cheesiest but strangley most awesome things you've ever seen. Rawk on.

Ha ha, oh, man I am so with you on this. I urge everybody who feels the same to go here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG74eVb6V10

and skip forward to about 1:50. You are in for one of the cheesiest but strangley most awesome things you've ever seen. Rawk on.

Yeh, but he has a real cute haircut. Somehow this fretful folly reminds me of "Hocus Pocus" by Focus.

Listen to The Who "Live At Leeds" If you don't get it you don't understand rock music

:scratch2: <shrugs> :music:

Ha ha, oh, man I am so with you on this. I urge everybody who feels the same to go here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG74eVb6V10

and skip forward to about 1:50. You are in for one of the cheesiest but strangley most awesome things you've ever seen. Rawk on.


I don't get the hair. Is that a bad rug? :D

I don't get: The Dead, Guns and Roses and most, if not all, metal bands...

Techno, House, no problem with that!

A genre I just don’t get is classical. I know it’s immensely popular in audiophile circles, and a lot of it requires serious musical talent to perform, but most of it just bores me to tears. I’m a rocker at heart, I guess. :D

First - love your handle and avatar - one of my wife's favorite actors - whatever.

When I was a teenager in the early 70's, I elicited a lot of strange looks and comments when my friends would get into my '71 Fiat and see that my 8-track collection ranged from Grand Funk Railroad, the Carpenters, Santana, and Beethoven. Without the benefit of an exposure to a classical musical education, somehow I realized that there where some guys way before me that had a handle on music that could twirl my beanie 200 years later. And they still do, while I still get a rise from some current youngsters like the All -American Rejects. Guess I ain't dead yet, even though some of those guys are.

A band I've never understood is Aerosmith. I just don't like their music and find Mr. Tyler really annoying. They don't bother me, though, because I have learned to ignore the music I dislike.

The great 60s philosopher and funkmaster supreme Sly Stone said it best when he said, "Different strokes for different folks." TRANSLATION: Man, if you don't like my bag, go get your own!

this is easy

Led Zeppelin.

never liked them, never will.

kill me if you like, at least then i will never have to hear the most whiny, pig squealing, nails on a chalkboard vocals ever again.

musically there awesome, but lack MAJOR in the vocal department which in turn makes them totally un-listenable.

oh well, what can ya do. one less band i have to track down vinyl for.

i also don't get the Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana or the Dave Mathews Band.

but besides them, i will listen to just about anything. in the long run I'm not picky at all.

I don't get: The Dead, Guns and Roses and most, if not all, metal bands...

Techno, House, no problem with that!

how the hell does one not "get" guns 'n' roses?? if you had a pulse in the late 80's/early 90's then you "get" g'n'r, if not you're a complete idiot. as to the guys who don't get the dead and led zeppelin, there's absolutely no hope for you, you should stop listening to music.

its all tastes and opinions man. theres no rule as to which type of music we can enjoy. no point getting all bent out of shape because some have different tastes and opinions than yourself. your ideas on what we should all "get", like and enjoy aren't a set of guidelines that we all should follow to make it acceptable to listen to music.

what makes your taste in music so superior to others?

Steely Dan, Diana Krall. Both sound like everything I feared about growing older.

This made me laugh hard! I've been creeped out by Steely Dan for thirty years.

I don't get Tiny Tim ever even bacame part of the rock culture, or culture at all, that is except possibly later he could have got with Culture Club, and what about THAT guy.

Excuse me while I puke and die...

Might be heresy but here goes...

Status Quo - too much signature sound, and not enough music
Santana - No idea why, just didn't like 'em. (Carlos is good on his own)

Santana, Carlos,same thing. The guy has been playing the same licks for 30
yrs. Someone shoud tell him that you can buy effects pedals,that change
the sound of your guitar!

how the hell does one not "get" guns 'n' roses?? if you had a pulse in the late 80's/early 90's then you "get" g'n'r, if not you're a complete idiot. as to the guys who don't get the dead and led zeppelin, there's absolutely no hope for you, you should stop listening to music.

It is real easy to "not get" or dislike GnR. They only have two songs that I like, and one of them is a cover song. The rest are just hard rock pablum. During the late 80s/early 90s, I was getting into The Moody Blues.

Just because it is being played on the radio, does not mean I have to listen to it. Get it?

I don't get Tiny Tim ever even bacame part of the rock culture, or culture at all, that is except possibly later he could have got with Culture Club, and what about THAT guy.

Excuse me while I puke and die...

When speaking of that era of music, always keep in mind the mind altering drugs that were available. LSD did for bad artists of the 60s, what the auto-tune plugin does for bad artists of the 21st century.

how the hell does one not "get" guns 'n' roses?? if you had a pulse in the late 80's/early 90's then you "get" g'n'r, if not you're a complete idiot. as to the guys who don't get the dead and led zeppelin, there's absolutely no hope for you, you should stop listening to music.

Fortunately for the rest of the music-loving world, neither you nor I are the final arbiters of good taste in all things musical. And I'll keep right on listening, thanks.

how the hell does one not "get" guns 'n' roses?? if you had a pulse in the late 80's/early 90's then you "get" g'n'r, if not you're a complete idiot. as to the guys who don't get the dead and led zeppelin, there's absolutely no hope for you, you should stop listening to music.

I guess I'm a complete idiot with no hope. I do like LZ, but "g'n'r" and the dead is just useless noise to me.

But don't worry, you can't insult me cuz I just don't care!

All right, there's a number of beloved acts that I just plain don't like. One that I don't like and don't get is the Talking Heads. Tried liking them many times, had some albums in my teens, just could never get past the "why doesn't it sound like you guys are trying hard?" thing.

Don't get?

Queen, never did, never will.

Don't get?

Queen, never did, never will.

We will, we will rock you (NOT!!!) :boring:

It's not like I didn't try, a few times.:dunno:

When speaking of that era of music, always keep in mind the mind altering drugs that were available. LSD did for bad artists of the 60s, what the auto-tune plugin does for bad artists of the 21st century.
I guess we all need our input corrected every once in a while.

Santana, Carlos,same thing. The guy has been playing the same licks for 30
yrs. Someone shoud tell him that you can buy effects pedals,that change
the sound of your guitar!

Why change one helluva good thing? Actually the man and the band have been through quite a few changes through the decades, however it does usually all seem to come back to that sinature style and sound. Why? Because it did years ago, and continues to blow peoples minds today. Also, not everyone has been listening to the same sounds for a good portion of their life. There are younger people who might have just discovered an old Santana album. I would like to be younger myself and discover any of the first three or four albums!:thmbsp::thmbsp: I have heard them for MOST of my life, but for me at least they don't really hit the burnout factor that others have.

The main point I guess is if it aint broke, dont fix it.......:music::smoke:

As someone who loves the Dead and Bob Dylan, I can't believe we've made it 76 posts without someone saying they don't "get them"!
Things are looking up around here.
:thmbsp:


Uhh...actually, I mentioned them on page 2, but I guess my post was so long-winded that you just skimmed through it. ;)

I have to agree with JohnVF that sometimes you can like music at a certain point in your life, then look back on it and not get it anymore. I mentioned Yes back in my first post. Well, I liked them more a few years ago, along with some other prog rock. Now, even when I do like something, I almost feel embarassed for liking it. Yes are fruity yet pretentious at the same time. Bands that aim at a "universal" message usually fall on their butts in my opinion.

Count me in as another person who doesn't get the Dave Matthews Band at all. I mean...at ALL! They seem to be quite popular among the supposedly intellectual university types. I say supposedly because if they were that intellectual they'd be listening to something better. :P

I see that the Grateful Dead are often one of the bands people don't "get". But IMO don't judge the Grateful Dead until you hear their Live at the Cow Palace New Year's Eve 1976 CD set. It's different band than the one that did all the sort of whiney meandering stuff I'd heard over the radio. They launch into a song like Sugar Magnolia with a rhythmic drive that whaps you upside the head.

Part of it's due to a recording that does justice to the bass (for a change), part of it's because the Dead are focused and self disciplined.

And they had their moments on their Live Dead album, with St. Stephen/the Eleven/Turn on Your Love Light. Of course, there was Dark Star, which probably explains some of the hatin' directed at the Dead.

When they weren't futzing around, the Dead had the talent to do amazing stuff.

Is that an official release or a bootleg?

My complaint with the Dead isn't that they're whiny, it's just that an entire album sounds like the same song over and over. (Mind you, I have only heard American Beauty and Skulls from the Closet, or whatever it's called.)

fortunately for the rest of the music-loving world, neither you nor i are the final arbiters of good taste in all things musical. And i'll keep right on listening, thanks.

+1...

Not aimed at anyone in particular, but there are plenty of morons in this world, and they need music too!

:)

I just read this whole thread, and in 180 some posts, there's not one hater of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, CSNY, or Simon and Garfunkel. And it's not going to be me that hates on them, I love all 4 artists. Just interesting that these 4 artists are very significant, and nobody has mentioned them yet. As far as what I don't get, any of those ripoffs of Nirvana (Nickelback, creed, etc., and on and on). I don't get Nirvana either, to make that clear. The Rolling Stones are a little bit hit and miss.

Bands that I don't get: big hair bands from the 80's.

I just read this whole thread, and in 180 some posts, there's not one hater of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, CSNY, or Simon and Garfunkel. And it's not going to be me that hates on them, I love all 4 artists. Just interesting that these 4 artists are very significant, and nobody has mentioned them yet. As far as what I don't get, any of those ripoffs of Nirvana (Nickelback, creed, etc., and on and on). I don't get Nirvana either, to make that clear. The Rolling Stones are a little bit hit and miss.


Thanks for reminding me. I will add CSNY to the "don't get" or "don't like" list. The other three are fine by me. :thmbsp:

Seconded.

Yeah, they had a couple hits, yeah they used some cool tape effects, and yeah, some of their solo stuff is pretty cool, but I don't get why everyone likes them so much.

Dont Kill me

The Beatles

Youngsters, go to your room!!

Regards,

D-Ray

I think we recognize genuine-ness when we hear it, and that makes all the difference.

Genuine. That is my favorite word when it comes to describing music I like. Even in genre that I'm not particularly fond of (see country) those who are original and creative get my respect. I don't mind a band or song becoming hugely successful, but where I have a problem is music being written, produced and performed with an idea toward its mass appeal.

That being said, there are hooks that catch me and music the I like despite the above. I am usually more forgiving in rock than other genre, but when there is rock that seems too commercial, I will just call it pop.

For the Springsteen Haters, I can see how the hype following Born in the USA and some others would turn people off, but some of his earllier stuff was creative. I appreciated the focus of his lyrics on the working class.

In response to the OP:

Boy bands.
Kanye West
John Mayer - What I don't get is why someone with such obvious talent, particularly on the guitar, will regularly record pablum.
Guns 'n Roses

Regards,

D-Ray

I'll just bash an entire genre rather than singleing out any particular band for abuse. What is it with the modern style of female singing that they feel compelled to carry notes forever? The endless trilling is what passes for true emotional performance these days. Great, we get it, you have an impressive vocal range. That doesn't mean you have to make it sound like someone is killing the cat on every tune. You know who you are: Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilara, and countless others. The problem is some of these singers really do have talent but choose overproduced lackluster material that passes for modern music. Stop before you trill again!
and while we're at it, could we please stop torturing our national anthem? It is a very specific piece of martial music that is to be played and sung at a precise pace. It is not to be mangled and treated as a pop or rock tune. Oh and if you are to perform it at an event SING THE SONG instead of depending on a pre-recorded studio version. i.e. Whitney Houston, Ms. Sparks.
Thanks you, rant over.

I'll agree with the first part completely, and take minor exception with the second part. I really dug Jose Feliciano's version of the Star Spangled Banner at the '68 World Series, but have to acknowledge that he customized it a bit. For the most part though, I prefer to hear a well-trained voice sing the anthem. A music professor at OU gave a great baritone delivery of it at basketball games. One rendition of it that blew me away was when this tall, skinny country singer that I hadn't heard of performed it at the '06 Series - Trace Adkins. That amazingly deep voice was extremely faithful to the anthem, and the effect wasn't hurt by a military jet doing a flyover at the end.

Regards,

D-Ray

I guess I'm a complete idiot with no hope. I do like LZ, but "g'n'r" and the dead is just useless noise to me.

But don't worry, you can't insult me cuz I just don't care!

Come on! You're not a complete idiot. You're a special idiot.:D

We must be the same generation. I get LZ, but not GNR. Maybe its because, even though they ripped a lot of it off, Zep appreciated the blues.

Regards,

D-Ray

p.s. Sorry for the multiple posts. I came late to this thread, and it is lots of fun. Can't keep my mouth shut - or my fingers off of the keyboard.

IMHO, civil and intelligent discussion is always welcome! :thmbsp:

The tragically hip makes me wonder just how easy it is to become famous.

It probably doesn't hurt to have a clever name.

Regards,

D-Ray

I thought I was the only one that wasn't a Springsteen fan. I have tried... OHH Have I Tried to like him... but I don't get the mass appeal. I actually gave it another go the other day. Nope. Nadda. Zilch. Didn't trip my trigger.

His voice is like fingernails on a blackboard to my ears. To each his/her own I guess

I like a lot of the Stones, but nothing, for me, tops their 1978 album, Some Girls. I dunno why. It has a lot of humor in it (Faraway Eyes and Some Girls). I like bits and pieces of the Stones throughout their career, but to me, their most consistently excellent disk is Some Girls.

What's weird is that the album is over 30 years old, and yet, to me, it marks the beginning of "New Stones". I don't think they did anything after it that's worht listening to.

But that's just me.

+1 :thmbsp: Don't forget "Shattered" . . . sha-doobie.

Regards,

D-Ray

I'm not a huge Springsteen fan, but give a close listen to "I wish I were blind" from the "Human Touch" album.

There's some real emotion there, IMHO.

"Man's job" from the same album is pretty strong as well.

But as far as the whole "worship" thing goes, I don't "get it".

I have seen him live and he does put on quite a show!

Once he lost the latin inspired, street-groove creativity of his two first albums, it seems his whole shtick turned to stadium rock (with the obvious exception of Nebraska :boring:). I think the positive influence/contributions of Vini Lopez and David Sanscious on the first two LP's cannot be overemphasized.

The vast majority of them that get record contracts.

Madonna.

The vast majority of them that get record contracts.

Well your album collection must be a thin one... :D

Madonna.

Rock and Roll Hall of fame???!! How the @/#*!&.

Regards,

D-Ray

Well your album collection must be a thin one... :D

:scratch2:

how the hell does one not "get" guns 'n' roses?? if you had a pulse in the late 80's/early 90's then you "get" g'n'r, if not you're a complete idiot. as to the guys who don't get the dead and led zeppelin, there's absolutely no hope for you, you should stop listening to music.

I like a lot of g'n'r & grew up on Zep .................. but like I said, other than some of Bob Weir's solo work ............. just never could get into much of the Dead.

I dunno. I used to really like Led Zeppelin but I've grown tired of them. Too many crummy albums (LZII and CODA completely blow) and their good stuff is either way overexposed (as in KASHMIR and STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN and DAZED AND CONFUSED) or completely ignored (as in almost everything else) AND they were often terrible live. A band I don't think lives up to its reputation.

:Well your album collection must be a thin one... :D

And I can't bleeping stand Kashmir, either.

Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Rush
Metallica
The Grateful Dead
U2
Emerson, Lake, Palmer
Yes
Lynyrd Skynyrd

and loads more

I dunno. I used to really like Led Zeppelin but I've grown tired of them. Too many crummy albums (LZII and CODA completely blow) and their good stuff is either way overexposed (as in KASHMIR and STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN and DAZED AND CONFUSED) or completely ignored (as in almost everything else) AND they were often terrible live. A band I don't think lives up to its reputation.

And that could be the start of a whole new thread, "What bands have you grown tired of?"

I feel the same way about a lot of rock music these days.

D-Ray 657, I remember the Feliciano version, I think it was reflective of the times and the social changes on the horizon in our society. I have no problem with a certain amount of artistic latitude as long as the material is respected. At NY football Giants games, Robert Merrill from the Metropolitan opera company always sang the national anthem accompanied by a single trumpet player, simply beautiful.

Special Idiot, I agree that Christina Aguilara is easy on the eyes, in a naughty girl kind of way. I also said that she has talent and hope as she matures, she will evolve into an artist that does more serious music as she certainly has the pipes to do so. I can easily see her morphing into a modern jazz type of singer. I'm glad you enjoy Richard Thompson's guitar playing, it can be frighteningly good.

Rock and Roll Hall of fame???!! How the @/#*!&.

Regards,

D-Ray

Agreed and I beleive Deep Purple are not in????

Is that an official release or a bootleg?

My complaint with the Dead isn't that they're whiny, it's just that an entire album sounds like the same song over and over. (Mind you, I have only heard American Beauty and Skulls from the Closet, or whatever it's called.)

If you don't like American Beauty I would continue to avoid the Dead. They are just not for you. :dunno:

Live At The cow Palace 1976 is not a bootleg, it can be found at any CD retail site.

Once he lost the latin inspired, street-groove creativity of his two first albums, it seems his whole shtick turned to stadium rock (with the obvious exception of Nebraska :boring:). I think the positive influence/contributions of Vini Lopez and David Sanscious on the first two LP's cannot be overemphasized.

I agree.
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, Bruce's best. IMHO of course.

Is that an official release or a bootleg?

My complaint with the Dead isn't that they're whiny, it's just that an entire album sounds like the same song over and over. (Mind you, I have only heard American Beauty and Skulls from the Closet, or whatever it's called.)

The Dead's Live at the Cow Palace, New Year's Eve 1976 is an official release; I got mine online from the usual site, Amazon.

I harp on this CD collection whenever the Dead come up in online discussions, because it changed my perspective on them so. The Dead, uhm, came to life on this one.

As for playing the same song over and over again, that's strictly a judgement call. Any musical form, or even one composer's body of work, has similarities, giving it a distinct sound. Are the variations within that form enough to keep your interest? Definitely up to the individual - YMMV rules here.

Of course, when something really, really new comes along, it's often confused with noise at first. So it's surprising that there's so much that's delightful.

The ones that get away with being called musicians when they are merely hacks.

I will leave it up to you to decide which is which...

♫

And that could be the start of a whole new thread, "What bands have you grown tired of?"



Our AK friend & member thedelihaus more or less took us into this territory nearly three years ago - 12 September 2006 to be exact - with a thread titled "Favorite bands that are overplayed". As I recalled (and I did, correctly), the Might Zeppelin figured prominently in that discussion, too.

Enjoy: http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=81779&highlight=zeppelin

Motley Crue:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/motley%20crue/sergei_luvver/motley%20crue%20and%20stuff/motleycrue.jpg?o=10

What I don't get is that the ladies were attracted to these guys!

Ok - you're still not convinced??? How about Poison:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/poison%20band/AnarchyPancakes/Other%20Misc%20Band%20Pictures/poison.jpg?o=9

I was scared to death at the time that this trend was going to stick!

U2. What a bunch of posers.

The Grateful Dead and Dave Mathews Band come to mind.

The Grateful Dead and Dave Mathews Band come to mind.

No doubt. More posers!

May I bring up the tragically hip one more time?

My complaint with the Dead isn't that they're whiny, it's just that an entire album sounds like the same song over and over. (Mind you, I have only heard American Beauty and Skulls from the Closet, or whatever it's called.)

I just had to come back to this one because I don't get it. There is a point to be made of a lot of Dead songs having the same or similar sound or style about them. Maestro however, has only heard American Beauty, and (Skeletons?) "Skulls from the Closet."

I'm no huge Dead fan. I have seen the spectacle in concert, and a spectacle it was. To hear a lot of their live stuff can be a bit boring at times to me due to the main factor of not being THERE.:smoke::music: Take "there" any of the ways you might and you will probably be right in gathering my point.:thmbsp:

The reason I am here though is I can't get how this fellow got his perception based on the material that he claims to have heard. I have always thought that American Beauty was a great studio effort by what I call a concert band. The songs are about the furthest from sounding "the same or similar" as anything they ever did IMHO. I'm not flaming this person for his opinion.:yes: After all, freedom of opinion is one of the beautys of this website.:D I guess I really didn't get where the opinion was coming from in relation to a band with probably more recorded media available than any other, and the individual having heard only two albums. :scratch2:

I am surprised at some of the responses here. Seems some of you guys hate many of the bands/artists that I really like (...and some that I can't stand, as well).

The band that really makes me want to blow chunks is Hootie & The Blowfish. Every fecking song they've done sounds exactly the same and that nasal-sounding Darius Rucker has got the talent of a dead possum.

This thread is hilarious :lmao:

This thread is hilarious :lmao:

We aim to please.

I still "don't get" Madonna.

I didn't "get" Love in college.

My pal bought the "Forever Changes" LP and we gave it a few spins and went back to the Led Zep and Violent Femmes (speaking of a band that has grown weary on the ears).

Now, I "get" Love and love Love. Tastes change.

I don't get the high voiced male vocal groups. Hell I don't even know the names of them, but they remind me of a mutant offspring of "The Carpenters" and "The Temptations" or some such. I am thinking of the likes of N-sync(?) and Boyz2Men type. Hey I have an idea, let's fill up the CD player with the Christmas albums these groups put out. Oh, yeah, I already have to put up with that every Christmas when I visit the sister-in-laws family (love her, but the music is awful)

I don't get the high voiced male vocal groups. Hell I don't even know the names of them, but they remind me of a mutant offspring of "The Carpenters" and "The Temptations" or some such. I am thinking of the likes of N-sync(?) and Boyz2Men type. Hey I have an idea, let's fill up the CD player with the Christmas albums these groups put out. Oh, yeah, I already have to put up with that every Christmas when I visit the sister-in-laws family (love her, but the music is awful)


New thread subject: "Relatives you don't get" :D

there are bands that I just don't like - opeth for example my ear just isn't attuned to growling death metal. and I don't particularly care for the beatles or the stones but the question was what bands don't you get

i just don't get Captain Beefheart

there are bands that I just don't like - opeth for example...and I don't particularly care for the beatles or the stones...

the question was what bands don't you get



I don't like the music of Madonna. I (still) don't get her, either.

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast n' bulbous...Got me? -C.B.
i just don't get Captain Beefheart

Great thread! It is interesting with all the comments.
Never could get into:
Dave Matthews Band. Don't get it.
Grateful Dead. I just don't get the following. They had a few hits, but I think one must smoke some pot in order to enjoy them.
Rap music - sounds the same. I do like Run DMC, but that's it.
Mostly everyone else is okay with me. Even great groups made occasional clunkers once in awhile.

Grateful Dead. I just don't get the following. They had a few hits, but I think one must smoke some pot in order to enjoy them.
There's some truth in this for me. After 10+ years of touring/tape collecting, once I stopped getting high, I pretty much stopped listening to the Dead. I definitely "get" them for sure, and will always have a special place in my heart/mind for their craft. But sober, it ain't so captivating to me.

I don't like the music of Madonna. I (still) don't get her, either.

You're the only one that didn't get her. Heard she's been around the block:D

You're the only one that didn't get her. Heard she's been around the block:D



Alright, who on this list besides Mystic, has not had Madonna? :D:D:D

I'm also not a particular Metallica fan, but its not the type of music I really like. I cant STAND their freaking new song. I listen to an Alternative station in my car and my LORD how many freaking times did they want to play that crap! uuuughgh

Anyways, I'll add one to the list which isnt here yet: Foo Fighters. To me just so generic and un-interesting. Not one song I can enjoy.

I can enjoy all music except really heavy stuff and that thrashing crap with like 4billion BPM, any Trance is poo, and yeah, alot of the Top 40 crap although admittedly there is a song every now and then which is OK. The heaviest I have enjoyed listening to is System of a Down and I really enjoy some of their music if Im in the mood. I still have never really given Jazz a listen but I think I might like it!

Excellent thread, I really love most music, but here are a few i "just didn't get"

Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Doors, CSN, Creedence - all pretty boring

Mott the Hoople, The Who, Beatles, Rolling Stones - fed up with the hype...

BB King, Eric Clapton, Robin Trower, SRV - all excellent guitar players, just redundant

Roxy music - where's the magic???

Country music - oxymoron

Rap = crap - overproduced trash

Dylan, Springsteen, great writers for sure, but not such great singers...

Just my opinion of course!

Excellent thread, I really love most music, but here are a few i "just didn't get"

Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Doors, CSN, Creedence - all pretty boring

Mott the Hoople, The Who, Beatles, Rolling Stones - fed up with the hype...

BB King, Eric Clapton, Robin Trower, SRV - all excellent guitar players, just redundant

Roxy music - where's the magic???

Country music - oxymoron

Rap = crap - overproduced trash

Dylan, Springsteen, great writers for sure, but not such great singers...

Just my opinion of course!


Let's see. That leaves the Backstreet Boys, In Sync and, oh yes, Madonna. Pump up de volume.

Just funnin', of course.:D

Excellent thread, I really love most music, but here are a few i "just didn't get"

Janis Joplin . . .boring

Try to catch her performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. She was anything but boring in that show. Of course everyone there was pretty much overshadowed by Jimi.

Regards,

D-Ray

Try to catch her performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. She was anything but boring in that show. Of course everyone there was pretty much overshadowed by Jimi.

Regards,

D-Ray

Nope, saw it and I just don't get her screeching vocals. :thumbsdn:

Nope, saw it and I just don't get her screeching vocals. :thumbsdn:

So what do you "get"? :D

Excellent thread, I really love most music, but here are a few i "just didn't get"

Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Doors, CSN, Creedence - all pretty boring

Mott the Hoople, The Who, Beatles, Rolling Stones - fed up with the hype...

BB King, Eric Clapton, Robin Trower, SRV - all excellent guitar players, just redundant

Roxy music - where's the magic???

Country music - oxymoron

Rap = crap - overproduced trash

Dylan, Springsteen, great writers for sure, but not such great singers...

Just my opinion of course!

:lurk:

So what do you "get"? :D

A headache? :D

Nope, saw it and I just don't get her screeching vocals. :thumbsdn:
her voice is the sound of death knocking at the door. It's just pathos.

A headache? :D

Take two aspirin and then listen to some Janis...you'll feel much better :thmbsp:

Take two aspirin and then listen to some Janis...you'll feel much better :thmbsp:

I like your caption( quote) at the bottom. I saw Pink Floyd in 1977 in NYC for the "Animals" tour. Very cool show. :thmbsp:

I never got into Joplin. I'm more into the musicians. Maybe if she played the piano or guitar...but to me she was just 'popular'.

I think she would have been rejected by Simon.

Then, again, she set the tone for screaming blues fems.

Excellent thread, I really love most music, but here are a few i "just didn't get"

Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Doors, CSN, Creedence - all pretty boring

Mott the Hoople, The Who, Beatles, Rolling Stones - fed up with the hype...

BB King, Eric Clapton, Robin Trower, SRV - all excellent guitar players, just redundant

Roxy music - where's the magic???

Country music - oxymoron

Rap = crap - overproduced trash

Dylan, Springsteen, great writers for sure, but not such great singers...

Just my opinion of course!


Who do you consider worthy?

Take two aspirin and then listen to some Janis...you'll feel much better :thmbsp:

I may feel better, however, she will not sound any better, and therin lies the rub...

Who do you consider worthy?

Hi _fiman...At least half of what you don't.:D Country music.(the old stuff)...oxymoron?:screwy:

Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Beatles...and most Rock-n-Roll from the era. MarkW thinks I'm funny...:rolleyes::saywhat:

Speaking of Madonna, I do not like her "pop" stuff either. However, her work in the movie Evita was excellent!

I may feel better, however, she will not sound any better, and therin lies the rub...

These Joplin posts remind me a bit of a recent "best relatively unknown guitar player" where someone made the astute observation (IMHO) that it isn't all about technical skill, per se, but how much "soul" an artist puts into their music. I'll stipulate that Celine Dionne or Mariah Carey have better pipes than Janis, but I'll listen to "Summertime" time and time again before I'd subject myself to one listen to Celine or Mariah. I can hardly think of another female vocalist who pours herself into her music more than Janis.

I like your caption( quote) at the bottom. I saw Pink Floyd in 1977 in NYC for the "Animals" tour. Very cool show. :thmbsp:

Very cool :thmbsp: I was fortunate enough to see The Wall (L.A.) and The Division Bell (Foxborough, Ma) and Roger Waters ~ Dark Side of the Moon Live 2006 (Holmdel NJ).

Cheers