Bands you have soured on....

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

For me it is the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I still enjoy them from time to time but if one of their songs comes on the ipod shuffle, 9/10 I reach for the skip button.

Does anybody else have those bands they still kinda like, but not as much as they used to?

catefrances

pearl jam.

but ive soured on a lot of unrelated stuff too so...

Still In Hiding

guns n roses, for obvious reasons (though still love the old albums)

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

Another one that doesn't do it like it used to for me are Deftones. There songs now seem to just annoy atm.

eeriepadave

Chili Peppers, Offspring, 311, and Weezer

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

^^^

Yeah Offspring is another good choice.

whulmef

I saw the King's of Leon about five years ago at the Cat's Cradle and thought they were awesome. I saw them at Bonnaroo this past year and thought they sucked (they really did). We left after a half hour or so and went back to the tent to drink beer. And now the whole world loves them, odd.

mookeywrench

Peppers, 311, Offspring, Incubus, MxPx, Deftones, Pearl Jam album songs(more in a I've heard it enough times already than a genuine dis-interest, if that makes sense), Ozzy, Sublime, Live, DMB, Foo Fighters

aspoonfulweighsaton

Definitely Weezer for me!

samjam

KoL for me lately

jr19

kings of leon.

jr19

whulmef wrote:

I saw the King's of Leon about five years ago at the Cat's Cradle and thought they were awesome. I saw them at Bonnaroo this past year and thought they sucked (they really did). We left after a half hour or so and went back to the tent to drink beer. And now the whole world loves them, odd.

i agree they have sucked hard the last few years but i thought the bonnaroo set was pretty good. it could be because of how bad they were the previous times i saw them, but i thought them playing Trani and Where is my mind was really cool.

jr19

and i forgot weezer but they have soured for me for so long i dont give a shit about them any longer.

nuffingman

catefrances wrote:

pearl jam.

but ive soured on a lot of unrelated stuff too so...

Are you looking to be flamed?

U2 for me. I still like a lot of the music but find it hard to enjoy when I consider the singer such a tosser.

Fifthelement

nuffingman wrote:

catefrances wrote:

pearl jam.

but ive soured on a lot of unrelated stuff too so...

Are you looking to be flamed?

U2 for me. I still like a lot of the music but find it hard to enjoy when I consider the singer such a tosser.

C'mon, it's cate you're talking to. She doesn't give a shit

I'm with you on U2, and for the same reasons actually :?

nuffingman

Fifthelement wrote:

I'm with you on U2, and for the same reasons actually :? [/color]

And I expect we aren't the only ones.

catefrances

nuffingman wrote:

catefrances wrote:

pearl jam.

but ive soured on a lot of unrelated stuff too so...

Are you looking to be flamed?

U2 for me. I still like a lot of the music but find it hard to enjoy when I consider the singer such a tosser.

just speaking the truth.

Gary Carter

blink-182
no doubt

catefrances

metsfan wrote:

blink-182
no doubt

i always thought blink 182 were a novelty toy in lifes big happy meal.

Gary Carter

catefrances wrote:

metsfan wrote:

blink-182
no doubt

i always thought blink 182 were a novelty toy in lifes big happy meal.

they were fine when i was a teen. the cursing and poop and piss jokes were funny but now that im 25 all that bs seems lame. travis barker is a damn good drummer. sham his talent is going to waste in blink 182

catefrances

metsfan wrote:

catefrances wrote:

metsfan wrote:

blink-182
no doubt

i always thought blink 182 were a novelty toy in lifes big happy meal.

they were fine when i was a teen. the cursing and poop and piss jokes were funny but now that im 25 all that bs seems lame. travis barker is a damn good drummer. sham his talent is going to waste in blink 182

travis barker is the reason for any interest i had in blink. toms a fool and marks just way too straight for me.

but all the small things video was classic.

Omaha_Jammer

whulmef wrote:

I saw the King's of Leon about five years ago at the Cat's Cradle and thought they were awesome. I saw them at Bonnaroo this past year and thought they sucked (they really did). We left after a half hour or so and went back to the tent to drink beer. And now the whole world loves them, odd.

I'll agree with this one. I know the term "sold out" gets WAY overused...but seriously, they really, really have. If they're truly happy with the music and image they're currently putting out there, then fuck me.

JL19851

I soured on U2 a long time ago. I don't think they are bad, I just don't think they are nearly as good as they get credit for. Like a C student being treated like a Rhodes Scholar.

I have soured on the National. I think the guys in that band are very talented, but this insistence on a song never reaching a crescendo or some sort of breaking point where you feel the song's gone somewhere reaches a level of frustration where it's just not worth listening to. Also, their level of hubris and self-importance dwarfs Arcade Fire's, which is what people seem to be complaining about around here.

Gardenparty

Ben Harper

JL19851

Here's the thing about Ben Harper that really gets me...in the 1990's he was certifiably awesome. Practically a mashup of Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, and at times almost Hendrix-like during live shows.

Sometime around 2002-03, he switched things up a little too much by firing half of what was the Innocent Criminals, and opted to rely more heavily on his singing voice than his writing and weissenborn chops. While there have been some great moments since then (the album with the Blind Boys of Alabama a good example), he's predominantly been stuck in this scattershot funk, where he can't decide what his voice is. I think that the Relentless7 stuff is the first in a while that showed that he had potential to make another run like in the 90s (albeit with a different sound), but I think there comes a point where you gotta commit to being great a something rather than be decent at a lot of things.

Due to all of this, I don't have the highest of expectations with his new project, which sounds like typical Ben Harper (a quick one off session turning into a whole album turning into a touring band and throwing everything else that was supposed to be on the table into flux).

helplessdancer

there is only 1

the doors

i just cant listen to them anymore
was a pretty big fan in my teenage years

oh well

Johnny Abruzzo

I'll go with Weezer. All their songs nowadays are gimmicks meant to make funny videos. They stopped making actual music a while ago.

myra

shiningstar wrote:

there is only 1

the doors

i just cant listen to them anymore
was a pretty big fan in my teenage years

oh well

I regretfully have to state them too.

I can't go past the image of Jim Morrison, totally drunk and way out of it on stage. That, which was cool somehow back then as a teen, is just pitiful to me now.
:(

dcfaithful

KOL comes to mind for me.

Also Sublime.

Gardenparty

JL19851 wrote:

Here's the thing about Ben Harper that really gets me...in the 1990's he was certifiably awesome. Practically a mashup of Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, and at times almost Hendrix-like during live shows.

Sometime around 2002-03, he switched things up a little too much by firing half of what was the Innocent Criminals, and opted to rely more heavily on his singing voice than his writing and weissenborn chops. While there have been some great moments since then (the album with the Blind Boys of Alabama a good example), he's predominantly been stuck in this scattershot funk, where he can't decide what his voice is.

This is pretty spot on.

I've never soured more on an artist. He was one of my favorites until around Burn To Shine. We had a nice run together though. Got to see him live about 15 times from 98-03 ish

eeriepadave

I'll throw in Coldplay also.