Great bands that you just never "got".

[Dangit2019]

There always seems to be that one band that is either insanely popular with/praised by mainstream media and critics alike that you can't personally get into.

Mine right now is the Grateful Dead. Every time I hear them, I just kind of try to let it soak in, but I can't do it. It's not their fault at all, it's just that I can't make sense of the all-encompassing greatness. I'm going to keep trying though.

So, what's that band that everybody else agreed on that you just couldn't appreciate?

Captcha: friend zone

Hey, stop trying to boil the pot, Captcha, this is a music thread.

 

[klown]

One band comes to mind for me, and that's Nirvana. To me, I just never could get into the grudge rock scene, and while I respect them as great artists, they just aren't my cup of tea. It's strange, Lyrically I think they were amazing, but whenever I hear it on the radio, I have to change the station. I can't stand it at all.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

Bob Dylan
Great song writer, just don't let that man sing.

 

[lacktheknack]

Sex Pistols. I'm told over and over that they're one of the most important bands in mainstream history, and I say "yes, but are they any more listenable this time?"

The answer is no. It is always no.

 

[Vault101]

beatles
bob dylan
any classic rock from the 60/70's.....eeehhhh

especially ACDC (damn bogan BS)

Queen on the other hand....

 

[SoranMBane]

The Beatles. I can see that their music is genuinely well-made, I understand how important they must have been at the time, and I even enjoy some of their quirkier songs (like Octopus's Garden and Maxwell's Silver Hammer), but for the most part they just never appealed to me. In fact, the entire classic rock genre is pretty much all bands that I can see the importance of, but that I'll never actually be able to enjoy listening to beyond a few key songs.

 

[drh1975]

Rush. The singer's voice is just shrill, terrible and borderline torture.
Led Zepplin. Stairway to Heaven aside, their music just isn't that great.
The Beatles. Most people say they're the geatest band in the world. I just don't see it.

 

[Fumbles]

I wholly agree with the Grateful Dead.
I also want to throw out Muse, I just don't get it.
Thirdly, I just don't like Slipknot.

 

[xplosive59]

Never liked Deftones, Chino's voice just really annoys me and although the music is good Nu-Metal, it is still Nu-Metal.

 

[Jazoni89]

The Silversun Pickups are praised to high heaven in Shoegaze circles, but I find them absolutely unbearable. The Singer is so goddamn whiny, that it sounds like the singer from Placebo if he was whacked out on helium for twenty years.

Also, I'm a Punk fan, but I really don't like The Clash, or Sex Pistols. They pale in comparison to the lesser known Punk groups in the UK at the time.

 

[Nimzabaat]

"I mean, the Grateful Dead is probably s***ty music. It's impossible ? it's theoretically impossible to make a video game as bad as the Grateful Dead. I throw that out there as a challenge." Penn Jillette

You're not alone.

For me: U2. I like Sunday Bloody Sunday but otherwise they're pretty crappy.
The Rolling Stones. Painted Black is pretty good, everything else isn't.
Aerosmith. Not a single redeeming song.

 

[gigastar]

All of them. When I follow music by the songs and not the bands i dont see why i should follow the activites of people who usually end up having problems with various types of intoxication.

 

[repeating integers]

Note: in the following post, mentally place the word "IMO" wherever needed.

-Metallica
It's like listening to blank white wallpaper. No component of their music accomplishes anything at all. Just can't understand the hype.

-R.E.M
Good bass. Everything else is just boring. Also, the Michael Stipe's voice is just bad, sorry - emotionless (even when it's trying not to be) and grating.

-Bob Dylan
Bad instrumentation, bad singer, overrated lyrics that are the focus of the songs (something to avoid, generally). "Soul" is no replacement for musical ideas.

 

[Total LOLige]

Nirvana, when I tell people that I get the same look I'd get if I had kicked a kitten in the face. Radiohead I only like the album Pablo Honey everything else is a bit boring.

 

[Woodsey]

Sex Pistols. I'm told over and over that they're one of the most important bands in mainstream history, and I say "yes, but are they any more listenable this time?"

The answer is no. It is always no.

Yeah, and John Lydon also happens to be the world's biggest, most insufferable twat.

 

[MetalMagpie]

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Muse

I just find the music of both those bands really boring. I guess it's just not my thing.

 

[Yopaz]

Sex Pistols. I'm told over and over that they're one of the most important bands in mainstream history, and I say "yes, but are they any more listenable this time?"

The answer is no. It is always no.

Well, to be fair to Sex Pistols the band wasn't as much about sounding good as it was about a social protest. They have clearly made an important impact on modern music and all of that.

Now none of those arguments say Sex Pistols sound good, do they? I agree with your opinion on them. They fit into a niche, but that's the only good thing I can say about them...

 

[mitchell271]

Sex Pistols. I'm told over and over that they're one of the most important bands in mainstream history, and I say "yes, but are they any more listenable this time?"

The answer is no. It is always no.

I'm just post this quote from Questionable Content. "Thank God. The Sex Pistols were fucking terrible."

OT: Green Day. They are simultaneously the most punk band at the moment and the biggest sellouts. At the iHeart Radio show in Vegas this year, Billy Joel Armstrong stopped the band mid song, started complaining that they should be allowed to play longer instead of the pop "artists" and smashed his guitar. But then they apologize for it. They made American Idiot (just the song) and then there's American Idiot: The Musical. Music is good I just wish they'd make up their mind about what kind of people they are.

 

[catalyst8]

I also agree with The Grateful Dead & would add The Jimi Hendrix Experience, as well as any jazz outfit I've ever heard that people rave about (Miller, Coltrane, Goodman, etc.). To me jazz just seems like masturbatory self-indulgence on a grand scale.

Ah yes, & this:

Sex Pistols. I'm told over and over that they're one of the most important bands in mainstream history, and I say "yes, but are they any more listenable this time?"

The answer is no. It is always no.

Yeah, and John Lydon also happens to be the world's biggest, most insufferable twat.

Lydon really is a cretinous little prick, he's such a wanker he should be in a jazz band.

 

[Bucht]

I wouldn't exactly call the bands I don't get "great".
But for some reason most of my friends like AC/DC and the old Metallica albums.
I've tried listening to those a lot, but it just doesn't fit.