What band have you given countless chances and still no go?

elvistheking44
elvistheking44 Posts: 4,547
edited January 2012 in Other Music
Foo Fighters for me. I just cant get into these guys. I really want to, but it just aint happenin for me.
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  • benjs
    benjs Toronto, ON Posts: 9,396
    Funny you say that... I've been tearing my hair out trying to find a ticket for Foo Fighters for tonight's show in Toronto for face value all morning :lol:

    For me, I love those guys. High-energy, don't take themselves too seriously, and they seem like genuine people who love to make music, and love to share it.

    Generally, when I give a band countless chances, I start to notice things about it that make me appreciate it for what it is, and nuances that make it unique. If I can't like a band, I can often like things about it, if that makes sense.
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    ofthegirl99 wrote:
    Foo Fighters for me. I just cant get into these guys. I really want to, but it just aint happenin for me.

    Kinda the same for me. I don't really like anything other than the singles and I think those are really their best tunes for the most part. Usually with great bands the other tunes are what really hooks you in. I don't think FF have that.

    I think a good portion of their tunes sounds repetitive. They're like a much cooler version of Nickelback, which still doesn't put them very high on my list.
  • elvistheking44
    elvistheking44 Posts: 4,547
    DewieCox wrote:
    ofthegirl99 wrote:
    Foo Fighters for me. I just cant get into these guys. I really want to, but it just aint happenin for me.

    Kinda the same for me. I don't really like anything other than the singles and I think those are really their best tunes for the most part. Usually with great bands the other tunes are what really hooks you in. I don't think FF have that.

    I think a good portion of their tunes sounds repetitive. They're like a much cooler version of Nickelback, which still doesn't put them very high on my list.

    I've been searching for the right words when people ask me "how can you not like the Foo's!?", Im going to quote you word for word and stress with great importance the Nickelback reference!
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    My Morning Jacket and Arcade Fire for me.
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  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    Wilco, kings of Leon
  • elvistheking44
    elvistheking44 Posts: 4,547
    Newch91 wrote:
    My Morning Jacket and Arcade Fire for me.

    I feel you on the Arcade Fire.
  • Cool Face Ryan
    Cool Face Ryan Posts: 1,254
    Newch91 wrote:
    My Morning Jacket and Arcade Fire for me.
    ditto
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    Add Arcade Fire to my list. Wake Up is fantastic, but the rest of it just boring. They have a few songs that start off ok, but none of them go anywhere.
  • drumkitinthewoods
    drumkitinthewoods Posts: 54
    Arcade Fire and Radiohead. Tried, just make me hate myself.

    Foos are great, the music is good, but the live show is out of this world. General admission on the floor still feels like 1992.
    They have so many songs built for live-shows.
    Dave writes his songs from the heart, not so he can score chicks and theme-song WWE Raw - a la Nickelback.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,860
    Music is so personal...for example why do people like new country music?
    for me: foo fighters are sick...only saw them once at at tiny club with Mike Watt and EV in NYC back in 1995...i'd go see them again if i had a pot to p**s in...all $$$ are now invested to support the Canadian economy by chasing PJ around a bit
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Wow. To each their own I guess. Arcade Fire is awesome to me.

    I'm so easy to please. I pretty much like everything.
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  • drlovemonkey
    drlovemonkey Posts: 394
    A lot of mine have already been mentioned...

    Radiohead, MMJ, Arcade Fire
  • drmrkelley
    drmrkelley Posts: 141
    The National, My Morning Jacket, Arcade Fire.

    Though Arcade Fire seems to get better the more I try it.
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  • SVRDhand13
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    ofthegirl99 wrote:
    Foo Fighters for me. I just cant get into these guys. I really want to, but it just aint happenin for me.

    I agree. Way too generic of a sound to me.
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  • F5AgainstOne
    F5AgainstOne New Hampshire, USA Posts: 1,462
    There have been a few bands that I was really, really into, and now (after listening too much I guess), I just can't listen to them anymore.

    Grateful Dead
    Phish
    Allman Brothers

    I don't know what happened, i just don't like them anymore.

    I still like Jerry Garcia's solo stuff though.
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    Arcade Fire

    In concert - The RHCP, so boring live.
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    One band comes to mind...Nirvana. I like some of their stuff, but not enough to own any of their albums.
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  • capthowdy1027
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    Phish, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, MMJ... that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    edited August 2011
    sleater Kinney- without bashing them, and I'm not, I tried, I really did. I liked "Modern Girl" and "Jumpers" but couldn't get into anything else. I really did try. :oops:

    Phish is a mixed bag for me. A friend in High school bought their "Farmhouse" album- and I loved it. Also liked "Billy Breathes" alot cause my cousin had that. Listend to a few more like "joy" and didn't connect with it as well, same with "round room. " I did see Trey Anastasio open for Tom Petty a few years ago, and thought he was good- like I said, a mixed bag. 8-)
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  • Mamasan23
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    mfc2006 wrote:
    One band comes to mind...Nirvana. I like some of their stuff, but not enough to own any of their albums.

    +1
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