Topic: Great bands that you just don't like (Read 2085 times)

nimrod · « **on:** August 02, 2012, 01:03:45 AM »

Was working with a woman last week who had great taste in music, but she just 'didn't get' The Beach Boys, she knew she should like them, but just didn't and couldn't explain why.

I'm the same with REM & U2. I just don't like them.
So what great bands do you just 'not get?'

tkitna · « **Reply #1 on:** August 02, 2012, 01:48:08 AM »

Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, CCR, Eagles, Queen, AC/DC, Van Morrison, Nirvana.

Cant stand any of them.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #2 on:** August 02, 2012, 02:09:21 AM »

"Different strokes for different folks." I guess that sums it up.

I was a reporter on my college newspaper. I had a great beat...The Music Scene. And I got to interview a lot of the performers. One night, I was sent to a concert where Van Morrison was opening for the New Riders Of The Purple Sage. The audience was a New Riders crowd and was booing Van Morrison continuously. In the middle of a song, Mr. Morrison stopped singing and let his microphone hit the stage floor with a resounding THUD. Then he just walked off stage.

I was looking forward to interviewing him after his act, but he left the theater.


Them - Gloria (Live)

Hombre_de_ningun_lugar · « **Reply #3 on:** August 02, 2012, 02:25:49 AM »

Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin may be the greatest bands that I don't like, but I still respect them. I don't like Queen as well, but I don't respect them that much.

stevie · « **Reply #4 on:** August 02, 2012, 02:58:23 AM »

I loathe U2. They used to be great up until about 1993. Then they began bringing out rubbish

I'm don't mind Floyd but I have none of their albums. Same with the Eagles.

I loathe Coldplay with a passion but they aren't in the same league as the great bands anyway

Mairi · « **Reply #5 on:** August 02, 2012, 04:16:54 AM »

I hate the Eagles. But, they are not a great band.

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #6 on:** August 02, 2012, 04:55:37 AM »

Quote from: Mairi on August 02, 2012, 04:16:54 AM

I hate the Eagles. But, they are not a great band.

They wrote the greatest break-up song ever!


Already Gone The Eagles

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #7 on:** August 02, 2012, 05:25:34 AM »

^

2:03

Some pretty fine guitar harmony right there!

Dmitry · « **Reply #8 on:** August 02, 2012, 05:33:06 AM »

Quote from: Mairi on August 02, 2012, 04:16:54 AM

I hate the Eagles. But, they are not a great band.

I hate the Kiss, that's why they are not a great band

We should create topic like `Not great bands which you hate'

or `Not great bands which you love'

Oh! And I also don't like U2 at all, and they are not great band too, just too much popular

Hello Goodbye · « **Reply #9 on:** August 02, 2012, 05:48:05 AM »

Quote from: Dmitry on August 02, 2012, 05:33:06 AM

I hate the Kiss, that's why they are not a great band

Quod erat demonstrandum.

tkitna · « **Reply #10 on:** August 02, 2012, 06:55:00 AM »

Quote from: Dmitry on August 02, 2012, 05:33:06 AM

I hate the Kiss, that's why they are not a great band

I dont hate KISS, but I agree with this. I still dont think they would have ever made it if not for the makeup and shock value of it all. They just werent that good.

Bobber · « **Reply #11 on:** August 02, 2012, 07:10:22 AM »

I can't listen to Pink Floyd. It doesn't do anything for me.
Dire Straits is another band that a lot of people seem to like. I turn it off immediately.

tkitna · « **Reply #12 on:** August 02, 2012, 07:59:02 AM »

I dont like Dire Straits either.

nimrod · « **Reply #13 on:** August 02, 2012, 08:01:12 AM »

Cant stand the Ramones or Genesis post 80's

Detest Phil Collins and Simply Red

Sir John Johns · « **Reply #14 on:** August 02, 2012, 08:13:06 PM »

If I don't like a band I don't consider them 'great'

stevie · « **Reply #15 on:** August 02, 2012, 09:12:47 PM »

Quote from: nimrod on August 02, 2012, 08:01:12 AM

Cant stand the Ramones or Genesis post 80's

Detest Phil Collins and Simply Red

Nim, you don't have to actually mention you detest Phil Collins...

98 % of the world's population does

Klang · « **Reply #16 on:** August 02, 2012, 09:22:01 PM »

Odd, I was thinking earlier today about KISS - how little I think of them - before I saw this thread.

U2 also. Every song sounds the same to me.

REM - a few catchy tunes, but overall...feh!

I agree with a lot of comments here. I do think The Eagles do what they do pretty well, for that genre. One thing I'll say, they do a good show. Worked crew for one of their gigs a few years ago and they played 3+ hours pitch perfect. Joe Walsh's solo and James Gang catalog thrown in, too. They've been played to death on the radio, though. Way overexposed. A never-ending elevator ride.

ibanez_ax · « **Reply #17 on:** August 02, 2012, 10:53:33 PM »

Led Zep
Journey
Nirvana
Sex Pistols
Jefferson Starship

blmeanie · « **Reply #18 on:** August 02, 2012, 10:57:47 PM »

to each his own, almost every "hate" you all have mentioned has generated something I like, maybe Kiss is the exception

Dire Straits is the other mentioned previously that I will turn immediately. Bob Segar is no "great" but I will physically slam whatever device starts playing that crap.

nimrod · « **Reply #19 on:** August 02, 2012, 11:49:42 PM »

Quote from: stevie on August 02, 2012, 09:12:47 PM

Nim, you don't have to actually mention you detest Phil Collins...

98 % of the world's population does

haha
I went completely off him when I heard him singing about homeless people, meanwhile he had an empty castle in Scotland, house in Switzerland, London and America

So what I want to know is, who the hell DOES like U2, they are one of the biggest selling bands of all time, somebody must like them ??

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