Bands you should like, but don't.

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Ah yes, and those pseudo rock classic people. Hmmm Trans Siberian wotsits and the other ones I can't remember right now. Fake crap. They should have taken notes from ELO about classic/rock transition.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

there is a local radio station that has "beatle's for breakfast" on the weekend. I didn't realize how bad most of their stuff was until I got stuck listening to it for 2 hours one morning. After a couple big hits not much there.

I can understand the Beatles objections. I'm just in too deep with them to dig my way out though.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Ah yes, and those pseudo rock classic people. Hmmm Trans Siberian wotsits and the other ones I can't remember right now. Fake crap. They should have taken notes from ELO about classic/rock transition.

Remember the band 'YES'?

It's like Styx and ELO in one.

"One down, one to go...."

 

[hungrymonkey]

Elvis.

I cannot stand him. I know its not American. But seriously, hunka hunka burning love?

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Remember the band 'YES'?

It's like Styx and ELO in one.

"One down, one to go...."

I've been wondering about Yes. I loved them when i was younger, but can't see the appeal now. I'm still on the fence on that one.

 

[buffalobrewer]

reo speedwagon. outa tune fish sound better.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Elvis.

I cannot stand him. I know its not American. But seriously, hunka hunka burning love?

Funny that. Not liking Elvis is "Unamerican" It's funny 'cos it's true!

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

reo speedwagon. outa tune fish sounds better.

Not just bands you don't like, I intended it to be bands that you SHOULD like according to your preferences......but they fall short.

 

[bob1852]

And yet you took time out to post this.


Jimmy Buffett. There.

Chicago.

There.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Chicago.

There.

Boston.


It seems that bands named after towns are destined to be crap.

 

[j1laskey]

Wide Spread Panic.

 

[the_bird]

there is a local radio station that has "beatle's for breakfast" on the weekend. I didn't realize how bad most of their stuff was until I got stuck listening to it for 2 hours one morning. After a couple big hits not much there.

... my wife bought some Beatles "greatest hits"-type collection, and while I can appreciate the craftsmanship, and some of the songs are good... there just reall isn't THAT much that I really love.

It's not the right way to think about music, but I always think about bands as being opposed to each other. Like, if I'm a fan of one, I'm NOT a fan of another group that's somehow related to or similar to the. I grew up listening to Aerosmith, therefore I've never been a big fan of the Rolling Stones (even though I know the Stones preceded them by a good amount). I grew up a huge fan of The Who, which in my mind means that I grew up NOT a fan of the Beatles.... and still, thirty years on, even though I know bands aren't competing with each other I listen to The Who all the time and don't really care for much of the Beatles.

The Who just ****ing rocks out; the Beatles.... bunch of *******.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Oh yes!! The Who!!! Very imaginative, but a slave to Townsends big ideas and projects. Not a big fan of the who, but i know i should be.

BTW, In the UK at the time, the fights were beatles/stones, and Who/Kinks

I was pro Beatles and Kinks.

 

[the_bird]

See, I wouldn't consider myself a fan of the Beatles or the Stones, and never really listened enough to the Kinks to form too much of an opinion. Always though of Aerosmith/Stones because Aerosmith was always being compared (usually unfavorably) to the Stones (99% of the comparison being based on the lead singer's lips).

EDIT: If you're making me pick, ****ing Stones over Beatles all day. Have a real dislike for Paul McCartney.

 

[hal2814]

I really should like the original Genesis lineup. I love Peter Gabriel, especially his pre-So lineup. I love Genesis. I like Mike and the Mechanics. I like Phil solo. I even sort of like Calling All Stations. I prefer Peter Gabirel's singing and songwriting to Phil Collins' singing and songwriting. But is Gabriel-led Genesis a super group to me? Not really. Instead I get two songs I sorta like on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and a big stinking pile of meh.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

I really should like the original Genesis lineup. I love Peter Gabriel, especially his pre-So lineup. I love Genesis. I like Mike and the Mechanics. I like Phil solo. I even sort of like Calling All Stations. I prefer Peter Gabirel's singing and songwriting to Phil Collins' singing and songwriting. But is Gabriel-led Genesis a super group to me? Not really. Instead I get two songs I sorta like on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and a big stinking pile of meh.

Will you "Friend" me so that I can unfriend you?

 

[buffalobrewer]

i roomed with a genesis fan for a year in college. It was too much genesis to like them afterwards.

 

[Homercidal]

I didn't include Aerosmith because of their early stuff.

And I don't think we should include any bands formed or who became popular 90s or later. They ALL suck and don't warrant consideration.

And I like Boston, but I can' listen to more than like 1/2 hour of them.

 

[the_bird]

I also love me some cheesy classic rock. I would rock out (semi-ironically) to KISS, if Gene Simmons weren't such a complete, absolute, 100%, total, unabashed douchenozzle. Should be a band that I crank up when they're on VH1 or when they come on the radio on a roadtrip, but my personal disgust for Simmons overrides everything.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

I also love me some cheesy classic rock. I would rock out (semi-ironically) to KISS, if Gene Simmons weren't such a complete, absolute, 100%, total, unabashed douchenozzle. Should be a band that I crank up when they're on VH1 or when they come on the radio on a roadtrip, but my personal disgust for Simmons overrides everything.

See guys? The Bird gets the point of the thread!! You GOTTA say why you SHOULD like them.......But don't!

 

[j1laskey]

Oh now I get it...then going back...I listen to a lot of jammy stuff, and every god damn hippy seems to like the DMB, or Wide Spread Panic...and I hate them both...and my other post about Jimmy Buffet was soley because I hate Buffet....

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Oh!! Talking of hippies. Neil Young! Lots of thoughtful lyrics put to good music......Whiney cringing apologist moron. I can listen to a couple of songs, but man, he gets depressing.

 

[hungrymonkey]

Funny that. Not liking Elvis is "Unamerican" It's funny 'cos it's true!

There are two types of people in this world.

People who like Elvis, and people who like Johnny Cash.
If you think you are neither, then you have never really thought about it.

 

[DromJohn]

Pandora keeps thinking I like Rush.
And then there's the 100th best band out of Athens, R.E.M.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Pandora keeps thinking I like Rush.
And then there's the 100th best band out of Athens, R.E.M.

Damn! i wish I'd thought of mentioning Pandora in the first post. I think Pandora was the underlying reason i made the OP in the first place.

 

[Rhoobarb]

For me, it's Rush, hands down. Another one I'll toss out - Def Leppard. I should like them b/c they are all about my age, they play AC/DC-style pounding, simplistic music, but they come off as week. And the screaming-in-harmony vocals are awful. BTO could pull of the screaming-in-harmony vocals. Not DL. As soon as I hear them on the radio, I turn the station.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

For me, it's Rush, hands down. Another one I'll toss out - Def Leppard. I should like them b/c they are all about my age, they play AC/DC-style pounding, simplistic music, but they come off as week. And the screaming-in-harmony vocals are awful. BTO could pull of the screaming-in-harmony vocals. Not DL. As soon as I hear them on the radio, I turn the station.

definitely on the def crap list. I don't care how many arms the drummer has.

 

[olllllo]

Jimmy Buffet exists to take other people's money.

 

[j1laskey]

Judas Priest. I am a big fan of late 80's early 90's metal...grew up on it...but never got Judas Priest...I know they are more early 80's metal, but man they suck...Sabbath is the reason for metal and too many people give Judas Priest WAY TOO MUCH credit for the laying the foundation of metal:rockin:

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Jimmy Buffett. There.

buffet is the WORST!....ahhh I feel better....

Jimmy Buffet exists to take other people's money.

Forgive them O Lord, for they know not what they say..............




Uh, guys?

Metallica sucks. And the Beatles weren't much better.