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Merkava:
I think everyone already knows how much I dislike The Decemberists. In my stupider days I used to bring it up at every opprotunity.

It's Colin Meloy's voice coupled with the lame pirate gimmick. Ugh. I hear Crane Wife is different though, maybe I'll check it out.

!!!CPAOI!!!:

--- Quote ---As for Zep, they were just major masturbators. Their live shows were just the musical equivalent of wanking for two hours, with occasionaly good bits in between. I also hate 'Stairway To Heaven.' It's got obvious chords, terrible lyrics, and a rudimentary solo that I could play within about two minutes of listening to the song for the first time. It's awful. And Jimmy Page's Satanism fixation just means I can't take them seriously.
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This is coming from the kid who digs Blink 182.

Go home.

ImRonBurgundy?:
Robert Plant is a slimy fuck
John Bonham man, he really sucked
Those greedy fuckers, those phony shits
They made their money off idiots

I hate Led Zeppelin

12 dollar concerts were all the rage
They bought cocaine for Jimmy Page
"Stairway to Heaven" makes me see red
Bonzo's buried, only three more left

I hate Led Zeppelin

--Screeching Weasel, c.1989

Inlander:
Hmm . . . If you don't mind me cheating a little, I'm going to nominate one artist and two albums:

"Classic" pop/rockish stuff: not too keen on Bob Dylan.  Can't sing for shit, can't play a guitar for shit, can't play the harmonica for shit, and to my ear his lyric-writing is wildly over-rated.

More recent stuff: Modest Mouse.  I've only heard The Moon & Antarctica, but I cannot for the life of me see why everyone gushes over it so much.  Killer first two songs, one or two other good ones in there, but my god it draaaaaaaaags in the middle.

And perhaps the big one: Kind of Blue by Miles Davis.  For several years I listened almost exclusively to jazz, but I could never get into this album.  I mean it's lovely, sure, but it's just too static: jazz has to have a bit of bounce to it, it has to swing, for god's sake!  Kind of Blue just hits a groove and pretty much stays there for three-quarters-of-an-hour.  I'm a fan of all the musicians involved in the record, but the record itself just doesn't go anywhere.  When it comes to Miles Davis, give me the first quintet any day.

Gryff:
Um, I DISAGREE with everything you just said, Innie. Especially about Dylan. But okay! That is what this thread is for.


--- Quote from: Johnny C on 01 Oct 2006, 13:51 ---Also everyone who likes music reviewing and discussion of the popular music canon should read Kill Your Idols, a book in which albums from Exile On Main St. to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are ripped apart in essays by critics who hate the album, the artists involved, or both.

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JC, this is a very good book. My girlfriend bought it for me a while back. It's fun reading about how shit all your favourite albums are!

As for me, I think Zep are overrated to some extent, although I still dig 'em, especially their first album, and other songs like 'Houses of the Holy' and 'When the Levee Breaks'.

Hmm, what else? I find it hard to listen to Pink Floyd these days because they got so thrashed by some of my friends during high school. I don't like The Eagles much (probably not alone on this one I suspect), and I hate most of the songs Queen put out.

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