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What bands don't you "get"?

Arkay said:
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!)
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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:
 
superdog said:
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.
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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
 
Hyperion said:
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)
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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.
 
finnbow said:
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:
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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:
 
Brett a said:
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:
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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
 
OvenMaster said:
*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
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AKK!!! :rockon: :rant::uzi::pistols: demz fighting words brutha
 
KeninDC said:
I was going to say Eric Clapton.

Please wait before you kill me....


Ken
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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.
 
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