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I would add pretty much any artist/band that the BBC inexplicably decides to give far too much airtime to and blow smoke up the arse of.
Royal Blood is a great example..
The Smashing Pumpkins.
Smashing Pumpkins for me fall into the same category as bands like the Stone Roses and QOTSA, They clearly one or maybe a couple of albums in them tops and not necessarily their first either, and then they should've stopped. Siamese Dreams is an amazing album, the rest of their [his] output is pedestrian by comparison.
Agreed. Went to see QOTSA the other night. Very mid apart from a few bangers. Same to be said for the support acts.
I just find them a bit boring or something I don't relate to and there's so much more interesting, engaging music out there
The fact that we are even still listening to them at all 60 years after they were at their peak is amazing. I really only got into the Beatles later in life, especially when I started learning the guitar as their musicality and talent became more obvious. There really is something special about the Beatles and the Stones to me but its all wrapped up in the personalities, the life stories and the construction of the songs. I'm not sure random Beatles songs taken off an album and out of context with no back story stand up individually as well as the whole body of work. There are a couple of exceptions like Yesterday, Let it Be and Hey Jude maybe (and of course Lennon's solo Imagine) but most need the rest of the album to anchor them. Who listens to the absolutely stunning A Day in The Life on its own? Just doesn't make sense unless its the finale on one of the most innovative albums of its generation.
U2…..just how have they managed to fill stadiums?
The Joshua Tree is a seminal album, no doubt; and at the time they were huge. But I'm inclined to agree, which living in Ireland is a problem.
QOTSA just not my cuppa tea; but I don't feel like there's much pressure to like them.
Right now, though, Oasis; and I've had to admit to myself (and others), that everything up to and including Whatever* and the Masterplan is good; everything after that (including What's the Story) is utter gash.
* trying to explain the concept of a non-album single now, or an album of B-Sides like The Masterplan or Sci-Fi Lullabies, is just... beyond difficult
Oooh yeah Royal Blood - forgot about them, thought they were great when they first came out, saw them touring their first album, they were great.
Saw them a Glasto a few years later & they were just like a modern day Oasis - all their new songs sounded like poor copies of their old ones. Worse their live show was just dull dull dull.
Then in 2000 I begrudgingly saw him perform at Glastonbury. Everything about it was so good... and I realised I knew most of the songs reasonably well - mostly older stuff. Prompted me to buy the Bowie at the Beeb album which is great. But, I stay away from the weirder stuff he did.
I was at that Glastonbury, aged 20. The only thing I knew of Bowie in 2000 was his execrable single Little Wonder, and so I just had him pegged as some embarrassing hasbeen trying to be down with the kids. I went to see Roni Size instead.
These days i'm still not the biggest Bowie fan, but I do like some of his stuff and I'd probably go and see him now if I was in the same field!
I love the Beatles but prefer their earlier pop hits to the later stuff the critics adore. I also absolutely hate Hey Jude and cant stand the way it is used as a classic pub singalong anthem (see also pretty much anything by Queen).