Ha Trout Mask Replica is genius 🙂
I seem to appreciate most music that is deemed good - but that's not the sames as popular is it? Does anyone sensible like One Direction?
music over-hyped shocker
Coldplay, who goes to see them live? That must be the most boring gig ever.
Never really got why Bowie was such legend, but (as far as I know) the first i heard of him was lets dance, then the crap he did with jagger!!
Joe Cocker was shite as well.
Coldplay, who goes to see them live?
I did
That must be the most boring gig ever.
It really wasn't, although it's been a while since they did anything that tickled my fancy despite being quite a fan a few years back.
U2
Coldplay
Ed Sheeran
Eminem
Prince
Queen
Genesis
A lot of Hawkwind 😆
Loads, but watched that Amy Winehouse film the other night to see what all the fuss was about, all I heard was dirivitive Jazz-lite with the most horrendous pub singing over it. Her enunciation was worse than Paul Shane. Awful.
Good call Pigface - Genesis is the very worst sort of ****y self-indulgent claptrap. Bloody awful! I can't conceive of why anyone would sit down and listen to it through choice
For the ... didnt think much of them but actually, yeah fair enough they are blooming good
I'm an unashamed Bowie convert.
As for the... they are meant to be good but are just cr4p.
Clapton ..... twiddle off.... More is NOT more you greedy get.
Oh dear. I still listen to Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot and Selling England by the Pound quite a lot. Not as much as Yes though who I suppose are equally pretentious. Maybe it's time to settle down in a nice comfy leather chair with the Laptop of Death.
U2.
utter carp.
'whats the difference between God and bono from U2?'
'God hasnt been walking around belfast for the last 20 years thinking hes bono'
Thankfully, i get to choose what music i listen to.
'God hasnt been walking around belfast for the last 20 years thinking hes bono'
Does Bono walk around Belfast? I thought he was Irish.
Radio head.
A seemingly unending drawl, a morosse Cacophony, what a din and about as musical as a dog fart!
Same whiney twaddle about (insert name of well-known band) who some people don't 'get'.
It really doesn't get any less tiresome.
Nirvana/Pearl Jam, I just didn't get the whole grunge thing.
Oh and Milli Vanilli, just crap!
U2. 2 good songs? Rolling Stones.1 good song? More recently amy winehouse and a lot or rap...
Ed Sheeran
Bellowhead
Paul Carrick
Absolutely dire. I have no clue how they became popular. I switch the radio off. Bloody awful
I used to like Radiohead until they gave up music and decided to be an aural art project instead.
Pink Floyd I've never got either.
Just adding Queen to my list too. Never understood the attraction there.
Trout Mask Replica
...is kind of beyond anyone's critical opinion I think. Even if you hate it it's still absolutely, definitively classic. It just is, in all it's glorious weirdness, and it doesn't matter what you think, man.
I used to like Radiohead until they gave up music and decided to be an aural art project instead.
Yeah, this. Everyone hating Radiohead, have you heard The Bends and OK Computer? The records they released from Kid A onwards are definitely a bit, er, difficult to get into (putting it charitably), but the 1990s stuff is pretty damn good. They even have melodies, song structure, more-or-less comprehensible lyrics, everything!
I dunno, I could be wrong, maybe you needed to be an angsty teenager at the time.
Oh and Milli Vanilli, just crap!
I don't think anyone outside of a high-security mental hospital has ever claimed Milli Vanilli were classic in any way at all...
Isn't this tough in that there are a great many bands/artists who have produced multiple albums of unlistenable turgid bilgewater, such that listening to their back catalogue in one sitting would lead to a brain aneurism - but just once or twice, for just a few minutes, captured moments of sheer genius that makes them great?
I put the Stones, Oasis and U2 into that category, along with Leonard Cohen - I can't listen to a whole album, lord I've tried, but each of them deserves a place as great, even if it is on a compilation album.
I think there are a number of artists that have come to me through time and understanding - when younger I really couldn't appreciate Johnny Cash, Barry Manilow, Stevie Wonder or Neil Sedaka for instance...
Adele
Adele
and
Adele
That is all
Everyone hating Radiohead, have you heard The Bends and OK Computer?
Yes.
But I'm not a hater. More a misunderstander.
Can I just say that I hate these 'hater' threads
Nirvana/Pearl Jam, I just didn't get the whole grunge thing
I like Pearl Jam (well Ten, not 100% on the other albums) but I've never really got Nirvana and can't help thinking that a) there were much better bands than them and b) it Cobain hadn't killed himself then they wouldn't have been so popular.
I'll also vote for:
Bowie
Genesis
Oasis
Abba
Beetles
And a lot of modern stuff like Adele, Ed Sheeran etc.
But then again I probably know ver little - one of my housemates at uni referred to my music taste / collection as death, death, die music.
I like Pearl Jam (well Ten, not 100% on the other albums) but I've never really got Nirvana and can't help thinking that a) there were much better bands than them and b) it Cobain hadn't killed himself then they wouldn't have been so popular.
You'll find that they were massively popular before he killed himself. It may have even been contributing factor. 🙄
Your knowledge of music was so limited that you weren't aware of him? You must have been the only person in the UK who couldn't hum Ashes to Ashes or Space Oddity?Never really got why Bowie was such legend, but (as far as I know) the first i heard of him was lets dance, then the crap he did with jagger!!
These threads are always amusing for their utter ignorance.
Snow patrol.
A rock band who's songs sound like they're always waiting to drop - but never do.
Kaiser Chiefs
U2 again
Anything wishy washy
On the other hand, music I love... Wolfmother, Soundgarden, Dr Octagon (rap), Bonobo (downtempo/chillout)
Go listen!
manic street preachers - just really annoyed me as I just couldn't see attraction...I know Richie disappeared and all but still....really?
suede - as above but without Richie disappearing
coldplay - no explanation needed
oasis.....although I still have a soft spot for Definitely Maybe as I bought it the day it came out and listened to it non-stop for 2 months. I was working 16 and working in McDonalds at the time, so that's my excuse.
red hot chilli peppers....utter toss
These threads are always amusing for their utter ignorance.
Then it's lucky you are here to educate! 😀
I think some peoples interpretation of 'great music' differs from mine! A lot of what's been mentioned is/was always shite (imnho). 
I never really liked Radiohead [i]until[/i] Kid A. Thief is my favourite album of theirs, no really. Punch up at a wedding very high up on my list of fave songs.
I never said I hated Trout Mask Replica, just I could never get into it.... And I've tried at various times over the years. It does qualify as 'great' though....
Never really managed Zappa neither.
Two standouts here for me
Snowpatrol
Oasis
I don't like Coldplay much but seen them live twice, once on Later, and they were better than I expected
Oh, and yes, Leonard Cohen... WTF?! Bad music for teenage girls 40 years ago... Enough.
Another vote for Bowie
Bob Dylan
Elbow / Guy Garvey
Sleaford Mods (I'd rather be deaf than listen to them)
I never really liked Radiohead until Kid A.
Same here.I like their move to more electronic music. They sound very innovative to me.
Others to add though
Fleetwood Mac (post Peter Green)
Kanye West
Guns n Roses
Double post
AC/DC really shite...and then just as you think it can't get any worse, there's the distressing howl of a cat being strangled by a Geordie, oh no wait...is he singing..?
Oh, and yes, Leonard Cohen... WTF?! Bad music for teenage girls 40 years ago... Enough.
Really?
Here's some sample lyrics for you, does this sound like music for teenage girls to you?
Give me back my broken night
My mirrored room, my secret life
It's lonely here
There's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
Over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby
That's an order
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
And stuff it up the hole
In your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
I've seen the future, brother
It is murder
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold and it has overturned
The order of the soul
When they said repent repent
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent repent
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent repent
I wonder what they meant
You don't know me from the wind
You never will, you never did
I'm the little Jew
Who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
But love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
To say it clear, to say it cold
It's over, it ain't going
Any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
You feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future
It is murder
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold and it has overturned
The order of the soul
When they said repent repent
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent repent
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent repent
I wonder what they meant
There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
And the white man dancing
You'll see a woman hanging upside down
Her features covered by her fallen gown
And all the lousy little poets coming round
Tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
And the white man dancin'
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
Give me Christ
Or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby
It is murder
Etc, etc, etc, so forth and so on...
Level 42, technically brilliant musicians, but after 30 seconds I'm bored out of my pants. A bit like Dire Straits really.
That song up there reads like a mantra that my mil would chant.
Like with Simon and Garfunkel, it's completely bereft of politics to sell a wider market.
Bowie is timeless and a good earworm. Manzanera and Eno's 'Diamond Head' is currently getting replayed a lot after 40 years.
I never stopped listening to China Pig.
vorlich - Member...does this sound like music for teenage girls to you?
blah blah angsty-emotional-blah
absolutely yes.
(not all teenage girls are into 1D and Bieber)
Elbow / Guy Garvey
Triumph of hype over substance. Likewise Adele, TBH I'd have rather heard the songs that Phil Collins wrote for her.
Nothing beats a 'music I don't like is officially shit' thread.
The only one listed here I would say is AC/DC.
The others have some bad songs but they also have some goods one.
