[Closed] Bands that you just don't get.

Not so much a specific band as a genre. Dub step. Even the most whacked space cadets must find it difficult to dance to.
Surely the people who manufacture this drivel can find the arpeggiator button on their synth?

RHCP -never less than tedious (under the bridge excepted cos of the guitar stuff)

U2- still find the Joshua tree a good listen if for the variety of songs and the unforgettable fire is an epic tune.

David Bowie-very hit and miss. Can't understand the beebs fawning over appreciation of him.

Bruce Springsteen- pointless.

Nirvana-ran out of ideas towards the end but the early stuff veers towards rem in its classic alt American rock. And nevermind seemed somehow to articulate the nature of deep platonic friendships (the exception being polly)

It's tough - there are a lot of great 'singles' bands, who produce the odd piece of absolute gold amongst an everlasting flow of formulaic turgid awfulness - bands where you just can't listen to a whole album without hitting the next track button. I am very much looking at Oasis, U2 etc

Any band formed after 2006, and coldplay. But that may just be because I can't stand them.

Totally wrong. I could name plenty. They just don't get to air because they don't compete in a sing off.

Light House Family - surely we can all agree on them.

The Flaming Lips. Just nothing going on there at all to my ears.

Oasis. Average pub band who inexplicably became megastars.

Coldplay. Parachutes was really good, but I can't see why anybody is remotely interested in anything they've done since then.

Rolling Stones. A couple of good tracks from years ago, but massively overrated- maybe you had to be there when they were in their prime?

Stone Roses. Can only think their success was a product of the time and place, doesn't seem to be warranted musically as far as I can see.

The Fall

Kanye - the entourage almost counts as a "band"

I know I shouldn't bite but to say the Rolling Stones are overrated shows total ignorance of the ground breaking importance of what they did in the sixties. Why not just say you don't like them.

Coldplay
The Manic St Preachers (except for motorcycle emptiness)
Muse - just crap

Muse. They have good riffs but the songs go nowhere and matt bellamys voice does my head in.

The Libertines, The Vaccines, Mumford, Bastille, imagine dragons and all that kind of crap. Boring tedious limp shit for boring tedious limp people.

Never got Level 42, yes Mark king is a brilliant bass player, but the songs are as dull as dish water.

Another vote for Muse here to, listened to them thinking I should like this but just doesn't click for some reason.

john_drummer - Member
How can you be derivative of the stuff that came after you? Or is that a gag I'm missing

It was a joke. 😀

There are a lot of people on this thread who seem to be judging bands by contemporary standards. Yes, the Beatles, Stones, Bowie, Led Zep might be boring or dated these days but, seriously, how on earth can people say that they don't get why these bands were successful? Even U2 and Oasis stood out among the music that was around at the time, even if there were plenty of better bands who didn't make it. Just a quick google shows the bands that had number 1s around the time that Oasis broke - East 17, Rednex, Celine Dion, Take That, Livin' Joy, Robson and Jerome. Yeah, htf did Oasis and Blur make it? 🙄

(I'm not an Oasis fan btw, just picked them as an example.)

But anyway, the thread is turning into an'I hate' thread, so this is pretty irrelevant.

CountZero wrote:

most dance music; fine if you're dancing in a club, but who could possibly want to listen to one continual, 'doof doof doof doof doof doof'.

Err... me?
That pretty much describes over 90% of the music I listen to. 😀

Meatloaf, I bloody despise bloody Meatloaf. Bat out of Hell* indeed.

*mid-70s Zeitgeist eponymous album according to one reviewer!

[i]Meatloaf, I bloody despise bloody Meatloaf[/i]
Yay, someone I agree with at last.

Sleaford Mods
Belle and Sebastien

I noticed someone made a comment about Royal Blood and not getting them. They are a 2 piece. Drums and a guy playing a bass guitar. What? It sounds like a separate bass and lead player. Nope. He just puts his bass through different speakers and also an octave effects pedal and it sounds like a separate bass and lead. Some stunning musicianship IMHO. But each to their own...

I'm aware of that, I've seen them live. A clever party trick doesn't make them good...
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LOL.

What? It sounds like a separate bass and lead player. Nope. He just puts his bass through different speakers and also an octave effects pedal and it sounds like a separate bass and lead. Some stunning musicianship IMHO.

That reminds me of another set of musicians that haven't really come up yet, the "widdly widdly" guitar speed merchants of rock. I'm thinking of the likes of Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai. I like rock music, and I like a good guitar solo too, but to me a lot of that kind of playing is just technical showing off, and as a listener, it doesn't light my fire. To my ears BB King could fire off a solo that did more for me using two notes than the likes of Vai do with 27 notes per second.

Kind of the hard rock equivalent of the Mariah Carey school of singing, why sing one note when you can sing 47 different notes in one word? Because it sounds stupid and has much less emotional impact than one well chosen, well sung note does, that's why...

Yeah, Belle & Sebastian. Certainly don't get them.

Alvvays.
Current band, supposedly sound like "classic indie". If 'classic indie' is naff, monotonous songs with drippy girlie vocals, yeah. Awful.

Ha ha, Belle & Sebastian are my favourite band!

I quite like Alvvays but they are pretty bland. There's a lot of that around if you look through the rostas of the likes of Polyvinyl.

Ha ha, Belle & Sebastian are my favourite band!

Someone encouraged me to go and see them at Glasto a few years back. I really, really, didn't get it or the love the majority of the crowd had for them. The music in my opinion was dross to put it politely. Please try and make me get them.

I can certainly agree with Shitehouse Family.

Lightning Seeds. So limp, so lame. I actually shout at the radio before tuning out. The aural equivalent of a weak handshake.

I can certainly agree with Shitehouse Family.

Lightning Seeds. So limp, so lame. I actually shout at the radio before tuning out. The aural equivalent of a weak handshake.

All that kind of stuff, I mean - what's the point of it?

My missus likes Belle & Sebastian, but they bore me to tears.

Basically, I need an in... There's loads of music I just don't [i]get[/i], not that I dislike it but I just can't grapple with. Then along comes a bit of music or understanding that opens the doors a bit. Doesn't mean I end up liking everything but there's a difference between not getting and not liking, I think I've got to get music [i]before[/i] I can dislike it.

the Rolling Stones are overrated shows total ignorance of the ground breaking importance of what they did in the sixties.

Still, I don't like them.

Doesn't mean I end up liking everything

I finally caved on what was always kind of a point of principle, and started deleting tracks on albums that I really don't like. Tom Waits's fault. For every great track there's one that's 10 minutes of him round the back of asda, shouting at the bins.

For every great track there's one that's 10 minutes of him round the back of asda, shouting at the bins.

I'd buy that!

For every great track there's one that's 10 minutes of him round the back of asda....snip

I've got a playlist called 'Great Track Crap Album'!

I bet no-one shouts at bins like Tom Waits.

Quite a few for me (quite a few mentioned already)...

U2
Coldplay
Muse
Foos (the first two albums are great as were a few singles after that but they're heading for coffee table rock status)
Chilli's (I hate anything after Californication which had sone dud tracks on it)
Bowie
Kings of Leon
Nirvana (Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains were so much better)

But then again a lot of people won't get the attraction to some of the stuff I listen too which a housemate from uni referred to a death, death die music.