Topic: Great bands you don't care for? (Read 82797 times)

camelpimp · « **on:** 13 Dec 2006, 11:49 »

I'll start!

Velvet Underground.

Johnny C · « **Reply #1 on:** 13 Dec 2006, 11:55 »

Actually we had this thread kinda recently but you'd have to do some digging to find it. I can't take a lot of classic rock, in particular Led Zepplin or The Doors. I've been getting into some of The Rolling Stones' stuff but other than that the only stuff I listen to a lot pre-1980 is early punk.

camelpimp · « **Reply #2 on:** 13 Dec 2006, 12:02 »

....aw, damn it.

Johnny C · « **Reply #3 on:** 13 Dec 2006, 12:06 »

It's okay! I had just finished thinking about Kill Your Idols when I made that thread. I recommend it to everyone. It's a great collection of essays that tear apart venerated, classic albums, from The Doors up to Wilco.

valley_parade · « **Reply #4 on:** 13 Dec 2006, 17:18 »

I can't think of any at the moment, but my dad absolutely hates the Beatles. o.O

doki · « **Reply #5 on:** 13 Dec 2006, 17:58 »

there are few bands that rate as highly on my wanton shit o meter than U2

guywithoutsocks · « **Reply #6 on:** 13 Dec 2006, 19:01 »

You must have misread the title, Doki - it says 'Great' bands, and you listed U2.

...just kidding, sorry, couldn't help myself there. (I like some of the stuff U2 did in the 80s, and have a fair amount of respect for Bono's activism, but I would generally have to agree.) But, so as not to derail the thread, I'm not especially fond of the Velvet Underground either.

Will · « **Reply #7 on:** 13 Dec 2006, 19:12 »

I said it last time when Johnny started this, and I haven't changed my mind, I really dislike the Beatles. A lot. I don't give much of a rat's ass for anything U2 has done in the last 10-15 years either.

thepugs · « **Reply #8 on:** 13 Dec 2006, 20:15 »

Me too Will!

Thrillho · « **Reply #9 on:** 13 Dec 2006, 20:55 »

Again this is most of their material. Some of it I do like:

Hendrix Experience
Led Zeppelin
U2
The Who

AlexAttack · « **Reply #10 on:** 13 Dec 2006, 21:25 »

i hate led zepplin......

Ernest · « **Reply #11 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 00:04 »

I don't care for The Smiths at all.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #12 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 00:42 »

The Clash
The Sex Pistols
The Ramones
Johnny Cash

Hat · « **Reply #13 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 00:47 »

I really just don't get the Rolling Stones. Admittedly, I have not heard a decent enough cross-section of their work, but what I've heard was really unimpressive.

Ernest · « **Reply #14 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 01:58 »

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I don't really like The Ramones either.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #15 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 02:38 »

Green River

Being a grunge junkie I should adore them... but really, meh.

El Opium · « **Reply #16 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 02:54 »

I've not been able to get into the rolling stones much, they'd probably be better if they'd called it a day towards the end of the 70s.

Joseph · « **Reply #17 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 04:56 »

As far as U2 goes, I can't stand it, other than Achtung Baby. I'm also not a big Rolling Stones fan, I have 40 Licks, and that's all the Stones I figure I'll ever need.

Zappanale · « **Reply #18 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 04:58 »

I've never liked Nirvana or Jimi Hendrix.

kallisti · « **Reply #19 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 05:03 »

I hope you're not from Seattle. You might get lynched or something.

Zappanale · « **Reply #20 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 05:09 »

I had a friend who really liked Nirvana and obsessed over Kurt Cobain. And one day we're listening to a Nirvana record, and I just let slip for whatever reason that I don't like Nirvana.

He freaked out like I'd just supported pedophilia or something.

kallisti · « **Reply #21 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 05:14 »

Yeah. Some people are pretty hardcore.

Tyler · « **Reply #22 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 06:13 »

grungecore.

jeph · « **Reply #23 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 06:15 »

Apparently I am supposed to like Sleater-Kinney but I find their music extremely dull to listen to.

camelpimp · « **Reply #24 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 08:10 »

It's okay, I forgive you.

...........

Gridgm · « **Reply #25 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 09:19 »

Quote from: Zappanale on 14 Dec 2006, 05:09

I had a friend who really liked Nirvana and obsessed over Kurt Cobain. And one day we're listening to a Nirvana record, and I just let slip for whatever reason that I don't like Nirvana.

He freaked out like I'd just supported pedophilia or something.

anyone here read preacher...if so arseface

hoax · « **Reply #26 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 09:33 »

I don't know if anyone would call them a "Great Bands" yet, but I really, really, don't like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or Animal Collective, and everyone keeps telling me I should.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #27 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 10:50 »

Dream Theatre. James Labrie can go fuck a snail or something. I can't fucking stand his voice. That being said, I don't mind their instrumental tracks as much, but I can't figure out why...

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #28 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 10:57 »

the thread title implies that the banmds mentioned must be considered great, so i don't see how Dream Theatre belongs here

Joseph · « **Reply #29 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 11:01 »

Oh, I forgot to add The Hold Steady. I just find them really dull. I love Springsteen, hell, I'd say that he may even be my favourite artist these days, but The Hold Steady just don't pull it off.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #30 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 11:01 »

Quote from: E. Spaceman on 14 Dec 2006, 10:57

the thread title implies that the banmds mentioned must be considered great, so i don't see how Dream Theatre belongs here

depends on your definition of great. I'm putting them because at Virginia Tech, it's the cool thing to listen to Dream Theatre.

pat101 · « **Reply #31 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 11:11 »

Quote from: jeph on 14 Dec 2006, 06:15

Apparently I am supposed to like Sleater-Kinney but I find their music extremely dull to listen to.

I once felt like this, but one day I was listening to one of their albums by chance and bam! One of my new favourite bands, it was weird and great.

amok · « **Reply #32 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 11:49 »

Red Hot Chili Peppers are so boring.

Shut up about California! I've never even been and I'm sick of the place!

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #33 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 12:10 »

Quote from: Dimmukane on 14 Dec 2006, 11:01

depends on your definition of great. I'm putting them because at Virginia Tech, it's the cool thing to listen to Dream Theatre.

exactly, my definition of great.

CutMan · « **Reply #34 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 12:18 »

Let's see, bands that are great that even I admittedly respect, and in a way understand why they're considered great, but that I can't stand... Sure, let's see...

Pink Floyd [Except for The Wall and some other material. It's not that I dislikethem, it's just that I cant get into them for some reason...]
Led Zepplin [I can't help it, I cringe. I respect them for the most part, but I cringe.]
Nirvana [I can actually stand them, but I mention them because very few of their songs appeal to me enough to actually want to hear them when they start playing. Heart Shaped Box, On A Plane, and Come as You Are are exceptions.]

Quote from: E. Spaceman on 14 Dec 2006, 12:10

exactly, my definition of great.

Man, I'm so glad you're helping to contribute good, useful stuffs to the interwebs, and not just saying random- possibly jokingly, egotistical things for fun.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #35 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 12:48 »

I like how most people are so filled with hate in this thread they can't even bother to spell the names correctly.

I really just don't like black metal as a genre. It might just be because usually the sound quality makes it almost unlistenable, but something about the sound just puts me off. Unless it's like, Absu, which isn't as much straight BM as it is blackened thrash anyway.

Johnny C · « **Reply #36 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 13:16 »

Here is actually the most hate I've ever heard directed at music:

Me: *conversation with Other Dude* "Oh, yeah. Run DMC!"
Friend-Girl M.: "Run DMC? They're a band?"
Me: *gapes*
F-G M: "I thought they were a clothing label."
Me: *is stunned*

How could you hate music so much as to not know who Run DMC are?

Zappanale · « **Reply #37 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 13:16 »

Quote from: Gridgm on 14 Dec 2006, 09:19

Quote from: Zappanale on 14 Dec 2006, 05:09
I had a friend who really liked Nirvana and obsessed over Kurt Cobain. And one day we're listening to a Nirvana record, and I just let slip for whatever reason that I don't like Nirvana.

He freaked out like I'd just supported pedophilia or something.

anyone here read preacher...if so arseface

Hell yes, man. Preacher rocks. Just finished reading the third collection.

kallisti · « **Reply #38 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 13:59 »

Quote from: Teresias216 on 14 Dec 2006, 06:13

grungecore.

shut your wordhole. I meant "hardcore" as in "really into"/"really serious about", not the damn musical genre.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #39 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 14:05 »

Quote from: CutMan on 14 Dec 2006, 12:18

Man, I'm so glad you're helping to contribute good, useful stuffs to the interwebs, and not just saying random- possibly jokingly, egotistical things for fun.

man, i'm not even jokingly egotistical. I do like to think i'm kinda useful though, maybe you'd like some of the music i posted on the circle jerk thread

CutMan · « **Reply #40 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 14:08 »

*opens mouth and closes mouth* *hesitates* *raises finger and opens mouth as if to say something again* *closes hesitantly and shrugs* Whatever, have fun. I might as well go see what you're talking about.

Gridgm · « **Reply #41 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 15:10 »

Quote from: kallisti on 14 Dec 2006, 13:59

Quote from: Teresias216 on 14 Dec 2006, 06:13
grungecore.

shut your wordhole. I meant "hardcore" as in "really into"/"really serious about", not the damn musical genre.

take a joke

kallisti · « **Reply #42 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 16:11 »

Quote from: Gridgm on 14 Dec 2006, 15:10

Quote from: kallisti on 14 Dec 2006, 13:59
Quote from: Teresias216 on 14 Dec 2006, 06:13
grungecore.

shut your wordhole. I meant "hardcore" as in "really into"/"really serious about", not the damn musical genre.

take a joke

I do not know this "joke" of which you speak.

Thrillho · « **Reply #43 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 18:15 »

Quote from: amok on 14 Dec 2006, 11:49

Red Hot Chili Peppers are so boring.

Shut up about California! I've never even been and I'm sick of the place!

I agree to the max here. I think the best material they did was with Dave Navarro because he actually did some songs with them that didn't just sound like EVERYTHING they've ever done.

I find it amusing that people take the piss out of Oasis for them having not learned a new chord since 1994. The Chilis haven't learned a new chord since about 1982.

ScrambledGregs · « **Reply #44 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 21:05 »

This thread depresses the shit out of me.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #45 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 21:51 »

Quote from: DynamiteKid on 14 Dec 2006, 18:15

I find it amusing that people take the piss out of Oasis for them having not learned a new chord since 1994. The Chilis haven't learned a new chord since about 1982.

Don't even get me started on Oasis. What a shitty band.

Brian Majestic · « **Reply #46 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 22:07 »

Quote from: KharBevNor on 14 Dec 2006, 21:51

Quote from: DynamiteKid on 14 Dec 2006, 18:15
I find it amusing that people take the piss out of Oasis for them having not learned a new chord since 1994. The Chilis haven't learned a new chord since about 1982.

Don't even get me started on Oasis. What a shitty band.

Kar, you love the Meteors and hate Oasis? Marry me now. You can decide on who has to wear the dress.

Rocinante · « **Reply #47 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 22:29 »

Quote from: Dimmukane on 14 Dec 2006, 10:50

Dream Theatre. James Labrie can go fuck a snail or something. I can't fucking stand his voice. That being said, I don't mind their instrumental tracks as much, but I can't figure out why...

Grrrrr. I agree, his voice is something of an acquired taste. But John Petrucci kicks so much ass that no one usually seems to mind.

Rocinante · « **Reply #48 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 22:32 »

While I enjoy the Beatles, I don't really dig the Rolling Stones. They should have quit a long time ago. I'm gonna agree with others on the Sex Pistols too. But then again, they weren't supposed to be good.

camelpimp · « **Reply #49 on:** 14 Dec 2006, 23:21 »

Quote from: amok on 14 Dec 2006, 11:49

Red Hot Chili Peppers are so boring.

Shut up about California! I've never even been and I'm sick of the place!

....uh, were the Chilis considered great at some point?

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camelpimp

camelpimp

doki

guywithoutsocks

thepugs

AlexAttack

TrueNeutral

El Opium

Zappanale

Zappanale

camelpimp

Zappanale

ScrambledGregs

Rocinante

Rocinante

camelpimp