The problem here is that any view is clouded by hindsight and, likely, overexposure. Which bands NOW do you think will change musical direction in 10 years time? Art has to be viewed in context. Muse - even though they are my home town's most famous export.
Yep, Radiohead seem like very smart, switched on people.
Who just happen to make a miserable, caterwauling din.
Were Muse trying to do a "pop" version of them? I have similar, but more intense feelings about their music.
Prince was making some of the best pop music in the world for a few years.
Abba
Unbelievable dirge
Useful thread this, anything named is likely to go down well when busking (with the exception of Pink Floyd, I couldn't bring myself to play that even if people threw tenners in the hat)
Struggling to think of an artist I can't stand that's held in high regard as I can usually find a song I like or appreciate one of the musicians in the group/band having some decent skill. The closest I can think of is the Beatles or U2 but they're more to do with how they're perceived now rather than the actual music as they both have the odd good song in their back catalogue.
Will have a think.
Abba
Unbelievable dirge
Like 'em or not, you need to brush up on your understanding of the word 'dirge', cos they are definitely not that.
Radiohead
Pink floyd
Rolling stones
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Michael Jackson
Mariah Carey
She is the reason I no longer mind Last Christmas and the Lennon Christmas song as at least its not her.
Beatles I just don’t get, clearly unaware of the history but I do think it was purely right place-right time and were the fist produced boy band (happy to have people correct me on that, but afraid my view won’t change).
I think it's unfair to call the Beatles a boy band, that term generally carries the connotations that the band was put together by a record label and the creative input from the band's members is minimal. While I've never particularly clicked with the Beatles (I don't dislike them, I just don't give them much attention) I don't believe that either of those connotations apply to them.
Mariah Carey
I give up
Depends on which Michael Jackson we are talking about, Off the Wall and Thriller are stone cold classics - the later period gets progressively worse, coinciding with Quincy Jones deciding to do one.
I played in a function band that had an ABBA medley (too much like Partridge for comfort) and that sealed the deal on ABBA for me, can't bear them now.
Prince.
Re the Beatles, I didn't think about them too much til I tried to play Yesterday in the guitar. Not a huge technical challenge, but it's quite unlike most other pop songs especially from the era whilst not sounding like it. Only.proper musicians do stuff.like that, most pop bands just re-use the standard forms.
I would agree with Adele (above) who seems to have replaced Annie Lennox as the female singer trotted out at every event/awards ceremony as some sort of beacon. Also, I'm not sure what defines "critically lauded" but, how the hell do Ant and Dec win the TV award every single year?
trawled all the way through the thread expecting to see many posts stating/slating U2. iz disappoint.
so.....U2.
how the hell do Ant and Dec win the TV award every single year?
Public vote innit?
U2.
Not univerally critically lauded at all.
Red hot chilli peppers
U2
REM
Cold play
all so full of themselves have disappeared up their own arseholes, thankfully
how the hell do Ant and Dec win the TV award every single year?
Cos the public vote for it, and we all know how the voting public cannot be relied upon...
Nirvana.
Cold play
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U2.
Not univerally critically lauded at all.
maybe not by you, but i think its fair to say they were in the 80`s.
maybe not by you, but i think its fair to say they were in the 80`s.
I took the thread title to imply that the acts should be critically acclaimed now, or throughout their working life.
Perhaps we need an adjudication from the OP?
Shouty Florence of Florence and the Machine. That ain't singing that's shouting.
U2
Perhaps we need an adjudication from the OP?
I shall allow it, ditto Micko Jacko
The Smiths / Morrissey. Absolutely horrendous dirge.
Agree with Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Beatles especially McCartney.
We all agree Bananerama are brilliant though, yes?
Sam Smith, a whiney needy cockbag
Ok, I'm going to stir the hornet's nest here.
I can't stand;
Morrissey, or The Smiths
McCartney
Beatles
Dylan
Bowie
Lennon
Ac/dc
Metallica
Oasis
NKOTB!
We all agree Bananerama are brilliant though, yes?
Mais oui, bien sur.
Prince. One good track about alphabeti spaghetti, and the rest is tiresome 80s soft rock
I can let a lot of things slide, each to their own and all that. But i must respond to this. You simply haven't heard any of his music, it is very clear. The man was a genius. I am right and you are wrong 🙂
Oasis
The Beatles
U2
Prince
As a big Hendrix and funkadelic fan I should love him but apart from sign of the times and purple rain. Meh!
My other half had his greatest hits and it had the batman theme and diamonds and pearls on. Double meh
Some "tiresome '80s soft rock"...
And probably my favourite (it's a DJ re-edit of I Wanna Be Your Lover)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYVcRtPDoCs
Pink Floyd , Led Zepp , Tom Waits , Leonard Cohen . I'd also say 90% of Oasis tracks are really overated . Of the big hitters I do like they all have a fair chunk of duff tracks , The Beatles , the Who and the Stones.
I always thought the Beatles were overrated, but one day i just ‘got’ them, cant get enough of them now, I think they thoroughly deserving of their place in music history, and history in general!!
Always loved floyd too, especially early Sid Barret stuff, years ahead of its time!
Manic street preachers music is a dreary, miserable dirge imo (except for motorcycle emptiness - still miserable, but less dreary)
Hmmm. Never understood what so many see in the work of David Hockney. Not that it's terrible necessarily.
With music I can pretty easily ignore the poorly played, predictable or manufactured stuff.
Edit: At The Drive In. Having played in several bands with guitarists who worshipped these guys - nah, don't get it at all. Mars Volta, sure, but not their previous band.
Just so we're clear;
dirge noun
Definition of dirge
1: a song or hymn of grief or lamentation
especially : one intended to accompany funeral or memorial rites
a funeral dirge
2: a slow, solemn, and mournful piece of music
3: something (such as a poem) that has the qualities of a dirge
Not indulging in the pointless exercise of contradicting anyone's choices, but gotta wonder what shite oldmanmtb2 and creakingdoor [i]do[/i] like...
Yeah, I'd say the Manics were more of a bland AOR drone than a dirge.
I agree they are shite, obvs.
Firstly, if anyone can find me any examples of Coldplay being 'critically lorded' by anyone bar Ken Bruce on Radio 2 I'd be interested to read it. Any reviews I've read deride it, rightfully, for the bedwetting drivel that it is
Prince. One good track about alphabeti spaghetti, and the rest is tiresome 80s soft rock. Clearly talented at what he did, just a shame what he did was so crap.
I never understood the reverence for Prince as some great musician. He produced a succession of mediocre pop songs until he disappeared up his own arse and it then became absolutely unlistenable
And anyone slagging off Amy Winehouse needs to have a word with themselves. She was an incredible, unique talent, and was absolutely amazing live. You have to bear in mind that she was writing all that stuff from when she was about 16. Well worth watching the film 'Amy' to see the early live footage. Its not an easy watch, mind, she had a shit life!
So, my list goes
green day - same song recycled over and over
guns n roses - just for being unoriginal MOR shit
Mettalica - see above, with added neuroses
kayne west - never has so much be written about an artist with so little to say himself
razorlight - they came - they went
I've had periods in my life where I've obsessively listened to pretty much all of the artists mentioned so far and I love them all. Except ABBA.
green day – same song recycled over and over
See, also, Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Surprised nobody has mentioned Stormzy yet. Seems to be universally loved by critics but I can't stand his music or anything of the latest style of UK rap
NickC sed> – just for being unoriginal MOR shit
Mettalica – see above, with added neuroses
Really? Hetfield is an extraordinary guitar player, incredible right hand. Nothing much like them at their peak.
Metallica need to be lorded for being so completely lacking in self-awareness that they allowed both the filming and then the release of 'Some Kind of Monster' and imagining their behavior was that of sane human beings
if you've not watched it, it's mesmerizing viewing. It's more Spinal Tap than Spinal Tap. They are all absolutely ridiculous. It's absolute comedy gold! 🙂
On the modern tip... Kendrick Lamar.
Yes I know it's supposed to be genre-defying, barrier-breaking, creative hip-hop - I just find his stuff dull and irritating.