I Don't Get It...

Hi.

Which bands and CDs do you think it is really silly lots of people like, but you do not like them at-all?
Also, which bands did you think you would like, but you do not?

I am not sure howcome lots of people really like Biffy Clyro and Kings Of Leon. - They are pretty good, sometimes, I think, but it is lots of hype and also Kings Of Leon are number one now, but I do not get it at-all.

:-[

Radiohead. One massive case of the emperors new robe.

I second the mention of Ash.

Add Foo Fighters to that as well.

I'll try not to go for all the easiest targets. Just the ones whose supporters can be reasonably intellectual, so no Nickelback.

(data gathered from last.fm top artists)
Linkin Park (10th, really!?)
Bloc Party
Queen
U2
Marilyn Manson (okay, that's pushing it on the 'intellectual' scale)
Vampire Weekend and most of that Alternative For Ugly People scene
Elvis Presley
NOFX

Not mentioned for the reaction, just because I don't get them, as I've said before:
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
They're just not for me. Influential, yes.

Observation: The Postal Service have a load of listens for a 'band' with just one album. But that's the huge Death Cab crowd on last.fm. They're at 113! And I'm surprised David Bowie's not in the top 20.

That'll do for now.

I thought I'd like The Verve but Urban Hymns really bored me.
I thought I'd like LFTRPLLR/Lifter Puller but it sounds quite messy and bad so far. I'm still determined to hear some more, though.
I thought I'd like Refused but same as with LFTRPLLR.

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David Bowie

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EDIT: Have you heard any of Hunky Dory?

I've heard quite a few Bowie tracks but I couldn't tell you what albums they were off. As Colin said let's not turn this into an argument/heated discussion thread and just leave it at 'it's not to my tastes and I don't understand why people like it'.

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No, I quite agree, I was just thread-drifting slightly. I started out not getting Bowie at all (it was the make up and campness that put me off I think) but his high voice is on top of some the best driving rock 'n' roll about. Not trying to start an argument, just pointing in a direction that showed me where the decent stuff was, a good place to start. I think I respect him more than straight up music-love him, and that's more for his 70s collaborations than Ziggy Stardust stuff.

Like I said before I've heard a fair amount of his tracks from throughout his career and I just cannot get into it or enjoy it, his voice in particular really grates on my nerves - I feel really wound up after listening to him.

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I was the same with Pink Floyd for ages, but the nursery rhyme blues of Syd Barrett really caught my head for a while. But to get back on topic band I just don't understand the appeal of;

I'm the opposite, can't get into Syd Barrett-era Floyd at all but I like and love a fair portion of their work afterwards (except The Wall, I've never enjoyed listening to that).

dance music. Pretty much all of it. Especially techno

Led Zeppellin
Pink Floyd
Muse (whiny vocals really p*ss me off)
Biffy Clyro post Blackened Sky
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Kasabian (awful music, awful people)
Metallica
Guns 'n' Roses
The Doors
Kings of Leon
Razorlight (or is that like saying Nickleback?)
Queen
John Lennon solo
Fleetwood Mac
Most of what Oasis have ever created

You're all wrong.

Green Day
Metallica
Arctic Monkeys
Oasis
Blur
Nine Inch Nails
Stone Roses
The Doors
Slipknot
Bowie
The Prodigy
White Stripes

Add me to the list for The Doors, too. And Embrace but they don't even seem that popular. Last I remember, everyone hated them for writing a football song.

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I am not sure howcome lots of people really like Biffy Clyro and Kings Of Leon. - They are pretty good, sometimes, I think, but it is lots of hype and also Kings Of Leon are number one now, but I do not get it at-all.

:-[

And Radiohead are geniuses, you are all wrong.

I get the feeling I've made this post before.

Yeah you have. You mentioned something about it being obvious but you're the only who sees it. Then i made fun of you for that comment successfully meeting the criteria of paranoid schizophrenic, and being wrong.

'Soulja Boy'

Just... what the f*ck.

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I am not sure howcome lots of people really like Biffy Clyro and Kings Of Leon. - They are pretty good, sometimes, I think, but it is lots of hype and also Kings Of Leon are number one now, but I do not get it at-all.

:-[

And Radiohead are geniuses, you are all wrong.

Yeah, I think I made this point. Whaddyagonnado?

I've always found it better to concentrate on things you do get, than try to belittle the other things you don't. I don't get half the stuff VRerers listen to, but don't feel the need to continually point it out.

Still all that horrid boom boom techno eh? It's all the same, innit?

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I'm still yet to hear that!

I've never even heard of it  :-[

Yeah but you're renowned for having no knowledge of any popular culture

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Anyhow, just to reiterate, I hate the Manics.

Oh yeah, I forgot about them. And Stereophonics.

C'mon, no one likes Stereophonics any more.

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And Stereophonics.

Also, the foos......liked monkey wrench and learn to fly but...the rest is meh!

On the contrary, the rest (minus In Your Honour, WHICH WAS sh*t, WASN'T IT DAVE?!?) was good and those 2 were awful. Breakout and Times Like These can f*ck off too.

Wattershed is the way forward.

As you probably know, my favourite Foo song.