Worst reason you ever heard for not liking a band.
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I feel the same way about Bono, and yet I'm listening to Achtung Baby as we speak. I don't care about Bono's outside life, he has a good voice, and the Edge is a great guitarist. To each their own, I guess. I just think that the way a person is off-stage shouldn't influence whether you like the music or not.Eskay said:
Well I'll help things along then.TundraWolf said:
I can't find the exact quote, but Steward Lee was talking about interviewing this really talented Jazz musician, and the guy said...
'You know , all my life, I've had my fans come up to me and say, "You know its great how you've never sold out!", and I'm in my 40s and a lollipop man on minimum wage still renting a tiny flat, and I'd quite like to sell out now please.'
(lollipop man - someone who stands in the road with a big lollipop shaped stick and stops traffic so school children can cross safely.)
People need to realise there's a big difference between 'selling out' and 'being successful'
My personal legend, Mike Patton did a collaborative CD called 'Peeping Tom' recently and it was moderately successful, and there's talks of a fresh Faith No More reunion tour this year.
That is not selling out.
Mike Patton announces that he's doing a cover album of current Disney hits, including Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers, and he does it completely 'straight', that would be selling out.
If he did it in his own style, hell I'd at least listen to it
To be fair, we've all got an 'image' as a country, no matter how wrong it might be as a reflection of out national musical identity.
Over here in Britain, we let Bob the Builder and Teletubbies have the number 1 spot all the time, due to people not being able to put up with wailing brats, and buying them the single to shut them up. The rest of the chart is beepy club anthem tracks and TV karaoke show winners from the X factor and pop idol and the like.
In America, They're perceived as only having rap and R'n'B in the whole top 40, with the occasional Disney tune and denim clad country guy.
In Japan they listen to nothing but squeaky J pop by teen girls in pink.
Europe only make dancey techno music and comedy Eurovision songs sung by fat bearded men in lederhosen, (yes I mean all of Europe, as this is stereotyping)
Nowhere else makes any, last I remember of Australia was Men without hats and Kylie.
OF course most of this is bollocks, or true but only relevant to the charts, which anyone who actually enjoys music should disregard anyways.
I'm of course not saying popular = bad,just that popular does not automatically = good too.
I do wonder however, if your favourite band showed up on MTV tomorrow looking like the backstreet boys, or pussycat dolls, with a full image makeover, not changing their music in any way, but having been utterly styled to appeal to the teen female demographic, would that affect your liking of them?
I sense it shouldn't, but probably would at least a bit to most people.
Over here in Britain, we let Bob the Builder and Teletubbies have the number 1 spot all the time, due to people not being able to put up with wailing brats, and buying them the single to shut them up. The rest of the chart is beepy club anthem tracks and TV karaoke show winners from the X factor and pop idol and the like.
In America, They're perceived as only having rap and R'n'B in the whole top 40, with the occasional Disney tune and denim clad country guy.
In Japan they listen to nothing but squeaky J pop by teen girls in pink.
Europe only make dancey techno music and comedy Eurovision songs sung by fat bearded men in lederhosen, (yes I mean all of Europe, as this is stereotyping)
Nowhere else makes any, last I remember of Australia was Men without hats and Kylie.
OF course most of this is bollocks, or true but only relevant to the charts, which anyone who actually enjoys music should disregard anyways.
I'm of course not saying popular = bad,just that popular does not automatically = good too.
I do wonder however, if your favourite band showed up on MTV tomorrow looking like the backstreet boys, or pussycat dolls, with a full image makeover, not changing their music in any way, but having been utterly styled to appeal to the teen female demographic, would that affect your liking of them?
I sense it shouldn't, but probably would at least a bit to most people.
I'm a fan of some shred, but shredding just for the hell of it is what Vai does, there's no context or meaning behind it when I hear his stuff. As I said, merely an exercise in music theory ("Let's see how fast I can play this scale!") and boring as heck to listen to. At least Satriani can write some good melodies, Petrucci can bring the heavy, Gilbert can do some fun stuff, and Buckethead plays with some soul.dnnydllr said:
I think Bill Ward's awesomeness level is somewhere around 9000% all by himself, and he's the drummer. Geezer, Tony, and Ozzy are just the epitome of amazing.PersianLlama said:
Oh, yes, Tool and their phallic imagery. Not liking a band because of this does seem pretty stupid.ace_of_something said:
The worst I've heard, which is admittedly not that bad, is because 'you can't dance to it', it being Protest the Hero.
i actually had someone tell me they hated elton johns music because he is gay
but on another note i dont like rage against the machine because they support a cop killer
but on another note i dont like rage against the machine because they support a cop killer
Well, someone once told me that John Lennon could beat up Marilyn Manson. I conceded this was very likely true, and asked why I would care. Apparently the person I was speaking to had somehow got the idea that Manson's spindly, cross-dressing Goth Bowie schtick was supposed to project a "tough" image. I've heard many reasons why people don't like Marilyn Manson, but that has to be the one I'd pick as being not only retarded but slightly insane.
Hehe, try being surreptitious next time, Damon Albarn was Blur's frontman prior to Gorillaz, if she liked Blur, she should be at least open to Gorillaz. :3Panken said:
Plus the Demon Days in Manchester DVD thing was a pretty awesome live performance...
I dunno about worst but it's sad when people hate something for being from a particular genre they don't normally listen to, I don't listen to much rap or country & western, but there are exceptions.
You can't sing along to it -- friends who are into radio-pop.
It's too happy -- friends who are into metal.
It's too happy -- friends who are into metal.