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

doujo

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Dream Theatre. Every time I tell someone I love Queensryche they tell me I will love Dream Theatre. Not so much.

Also The National.

Oh man, Dream Theater, Scenes From a Memory, is one of my favorite albums of all time.

Newch91

I'm adding Jack Johnson to my list. He bores me.

dcfaithful

Placebo. Can't get on board with it.

Zoso

Kloddz wrote:

I love Dave G. and the Mighty Fighters of the Foo. These, on the other hand, are the bands/artists that I probably should like (kinda), but don't:

Arcade Fire
My Morning Jacket
Kings of Leon
Bruce Springsteen
Radiohead
Dave Matthews Band
Phish
Wilco
Tool
...

Edit: Reading through the thread after I posted this, it looks like I'm just your average guy on most of these... :roll:

wow wilco, radiohead, mmj are my fav bands...

I personally think DMB, phish, KOL suck Foo fighters use to like them but grew out of them early on. They just sound to generic to me.

Sawyer

Phish---they just seem silly to me

Cake---what is this crap?

Pink Floyd

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meh

drmrkelley

The Champ wrote:

Many that have been mentioned--arcade fire, foo fighters, mmj, kol, radiohead etc...but the person that said The National should be beat with a big giant dildo, no doubt..

Bring on the foot long, Tyson! I've tried, I just can't get into his voice. Perhaps if I see them live I would change my mind. I'll admit I'm kind of a snob when it comes to new music. I don't know if music in the early 90s was really fantastic or if it was because of my age at the time and that I was easily influenced. Most of the bands I like nowadays started around then. As far as newer music, I really like Mumford and Sons. I've also recently discovered Glen Hansard and Joseph Arthur. I dig Jack Johnson every once in awhile, depending on the mood.

PearlJamaholic

Radiohead, tried and tried and will probably try again someday.

Jeff Buckley. dont know never hit me either

i shit and i stink

Captain Beefheart's 'Trout Mask Replica'. I've been told that it takes about 30 listens before you love it but I am stuck on 29.

UpSideDown

Queens of the Stone Age
Foo Fighters
Rush
Anything Jack White

FinsburyParkCarrots

Radiohead
Joni Mitchell

SatansFuton

i shit and i stink wrote:

Captain Beefheart's 'Trout Mask Replica'. I've been told that it takes about 30 listens before you love it but I am stuck on 29.

That's exactly what I was going to say. I always hear about what a "masterpiece" it is, and hear people sing its praises (including the 58 spot on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list) but it sounds like shit to me, and I've heard it more than 30 times probably.

Of course when I say I don't like it some pretentious asshole will always say "Well, you just don't get it". What's to get? It sounds like a bunch of hippies who didn't even know how to play an instrument hijacked a recording studio and recorded a terrible album. To which they'll say "It's supposed to be like that, it's bad on purpose". So the difference between a shitty album and a masterpiece is whether or not it's shitty on purpose?

I think a lot of people claim to like it, even if they don't. Because it's one of those albums that just having a negative opinion of it doesn't mean you have your own opinion, it means you "don't get it". And nobody wants to be the person that doesn't get it. But if getting it means listening to people bang away on drums with no sense of rhythm, guitars with no hint of musical talent, and some dude rambling on about God knows what (and doing so out of time because he wasn't even listening to the music when he dubbed the vocals) then I don't think I want to get it. I support it in theory, because he was truly doing his own thing, but not in actual practice.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Trout Mask Replica is perhaps one of my top three albums. Can't please everyone.

red mos

Sawyer wrote:

Phish---they just seem silly to me

Cake---what is this crap?

Pink Floyd

---

meh

Had a friend who was obsessed with Bands like Cake and BNL, They might be Giants ect. Not a huge fan of these kind of bands, but they do have some fun songs, and are very talented musicians. Bands like these don't take themselves to seriously, they just have fun. They also happen to be very talented musicians, but like I said, not something I could listen to every day.

i shit and i stink

SatansFuton wrote:

i shit and i stink wrote:

Captain Beefheart's 'Trout Mask Replica'. I've been told that it takes about 30 listens before you love it but I am stuck on 29.

That's exactly what I was going to say. I always hear about what a "masterpiece" it is, and hear people sing its praises (including the 58 spot on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list) but it sounds like shit to me, and I've heard it more than 30 times probably.

I think my problem is that I've never really listened to it in the right setting. It is not an album I should have on in my modern living room covered in kids' toys, on iTunes or while I'm working. I think it is an album that needs to be listened to outdoors on a sunny day. When I take the time to stop what I'm doing and listen to it, I can enjoy it and even love parts of it. If I owed something like the modern equilvalent of a walkman (whatever you all call one of those now), I would take that album out to the fields and listen to it there.

FinsburyParkCarrots

I think one way of 'getting' Trout Mask Replica is to follow Captain Beefheart's music from Safe As Milk onwards. You start here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSPf5Viwd0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_AOTkKPXdw

Then you start easing yourself in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Telzap-Z16k

Keep going:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV3FuDUHk-c (This was released in '71 but recorded in '68)

Now, watch the interplay between the band. They know exactly what they're doing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69JTKdU0mwQ

Okay. Now you're ready:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-61MIkKKbaE

But then, artists don't exist in a vacuum and creative development isn't purely maintained by internal forces. Listening to a bit of early Albert Ayler might give a bit of context.

Sian-of-the-dead

Soundgarden

Wilds

I might get slayed for this but as hard as I've tried I can't get into Radiohead.

They just don't do it for me.

Sian-of-the-dead

Wilds wrote:

I might get slayed for this but as hard as I've tried I can't get into Radiohead.

They just don't do it for me.

They're another one for me too

BinFrog

I've been offered tickets to a lot of shows that I turned down. 2 bands I've turned down more than once, and will contunue to do so:

DMB
Jimmy Buffett

BinFrog

Sawyer wrote:

Phish---they just seem silly to me

Cake---what is this crap?

Pink Floyd

---

meh

Phish - You have to listen to them for what they are. Don't get caught up in lyrical content and meanings. That's not what Phish is about. But the right jam (in the right mood) = Phish does better than anyone ever has in the history of rock. Their ability to take you on a purely musical journey is second to none.

Also, I wouldn't want Phish's lyrics to be too deep. It's escapism and if you were bogged down in anti-war lyrics or naval gazing, it just wouldn't be the same.

Cake - meh

Floyd - eh, I guess to each their own...but Floyd is straight up rock studio perfection.