Other bands you just don't "get"

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  • FrankY59
    FrankY59 Posts: 1,052
    fox_mulderX wrote:
    I'll never understand when people say you don't "get" something. It's like they're telling you that you're just unable to comprehend the music. It's okay to say you don't like something because you think it's shit. This is in no way aimed at the OP because so many people use the term and it's been bugging me for years.

    Now, a few bands that I think are shit that others like are:
    -Tool (pretentious ten minute songs with lyrics that believe they're deeper than that actually are)
    -Led Zeppelin (Robert Plant ruins this band. He's arguably the biggest d-bag frontman ever. They have a few great songs, but I will never put them on the pedestal that others do)
    -Death Grips (Bullshit mumbles disguised as something that's smart. White people who read Pitchfork LOVE to jerk off to these guys)
    -Kanye West (Again, the white male, Pitchfork reader, version of a genius)
    -The Black Keys (Fuck these guys)

    Sorry if anyone here reads Pitchfork.

    You just made me so sad with your TOOL comment. So. Sad.
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    fox_mulderX wrote:
    I'll never understand when people say you don't "get" something. It's like they're telling you that you're just unable to comprehend the music. It's okay to say you don't like something because you think it's shit. This is in no way aimed at the OP because so many people use the term and it's been bugging me for years.

    Now, a few bands that I think are shit that others like are:
    -Tool (pretentious ten minute songs with lyrics that believe they're deeper than that actually are)
    -Led Zeppelin (Robert Plant ruins this band. He's arguably the biggest d-bag frontman ever. They have a few great songs, but I will never put them on the pedestal that others do)
    -Death Grips (Bullshit mumbles disguised as something that's smart. White people who read Pitchfork LOVE to jerk off to these guys)
    -Kanye West (Again, the white male, Pitchfork reader, version of a genius)
    -The Black Keys (Fuck these guys)

    Sorry if anyone here reads Pitchfork.

    Tool is definitely over the top and you could easily say they're pretentious, bit their lyrics show a real depth of emotion and knowledge on the topics MJK writes about.

    Not the first I've heard about Robert Plant ruining Zeppelin, but the first time I've seen anyone call him a douchebag.
  • AndyVanSlyke
    AndyVanSlyke Posts: 183
    crazygeo wrote:
    celine dion

    I like her older stuff. Everything after Titanic was crap!



    :lol:


    I just like using that classic music-critique line
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  • AndyVanSlyke
    AndyVanSlyke Posts: 183
    seriously though:

    AC/DC
    Guns n Roses - being 5 when appetite came out, I guess I missed the hype/affect on culture
    Soundgarden
    Gaslight Anthem
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  • lukinlinda
    lukinlinda Posts: 46
    I thought Mumford & Son were popular in America - well you can have them along with Muse. Best quote I heard about the Mumfords was from Liam Gallagher who said they looked as if they had nits.
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,624
    AndyVanSlyke wrote:
    seriously though:

    AC/DC
    Guns n Roses - being 5 when appetite came out, I guess I missed the hype/affect on culture
    Soundgarden
    Gaslight Anthem

    GNR were the best band in the world for awhile. It was great for the time so I see how you wouldn't get them.

    Great OG Post.

    I do not get...

    The Beatles
    Bob Dylan
    Phish
    The Who
    Pink Floyd
    P Funk
    The Flaming Lips
    The Sex Pistols
    David Bowie
    Tom Waits
    Slayer
    Elvis Costello
    Warren Zevon
    Justin Beiber
    One Direction
    Any version of Van Halen that doesn't include David Lee Roth
  • duffer
    duffer Posts: 145
    Hope Ed doesn't read this...
    Ramones !! :o
    Never liked em,love old school punk but just don't see whats so good about them(apart from the cool look)
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  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    Led Zeppelin -- I like a handful of their songs but, frankly, I prefer the Yardbirds, by a LOT.

    RHCP -- I like their song -- thing is, as far as I can tell, they've only made one song. I think they're funny guys, though, very entertaining.

    Kanye West -- Does anyone, other than Kanye West, really think he's a genius? I'm sorry, there's just no there there.

    Guns N'Roses --Never, ever, ever saw the appeal. Never. Led Zep and RHCP, I can nderstand the source of the appeal, GnR and Kanye, I am just mystified.
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  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,383
    U2 - For me they have to be one of the most overrated bands of all time.
    DMB
    Muse
    Green Day - (just terrible IMO)
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,766
    crazygeo wrote:
    celine dion
    Barbara streisdan
    :corn:
    Yeah, I REALLY don't get Celine Dion... She's sold 300 million records or something crazy like that, and I am just left wondering who in the fuck all.of those people are, because it's weird to imagine that many people sitting around and actually putting on her albums and thinking that is a good way to spend their time. :lol: Plus, she seems pretty unlikeable as a person, so that doesn't help either.
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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,005
    Bruce Springsteen and the E. Street Band
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  • retropony
    retropony Myrtle Beach SC Posts: 352
    K_jam wrote:
    WhyGo91 wrote:
    Arcade Fire, Coldplay, and The Killers.

    I've got friends who are really into these bands, but I just can't do it.


    Coldplay are the worst!!!! As bad as nikelback and creed.

    nothing is as bad as nickelback, they take bad to a whole new level!
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  • jumbojet
    jumbojet Posts: 1,484
    This is the kind of thread that makes you wanna say Fuck you in your face, lots of lots of times.

    Then again, it if fun. No argument over tastes. 8-):lol: :roll: :)

    Bands I don't get:

    Foo Fighters (understand the Wembley show and the Led Zeppelin connection but still Yikes.)
    Muse (cheesy with capital letters)
    Mumford and Sons (they just seem to make music from 100 years ago)
    Gaslight Anthem
    Nine Inch Nails
    Bruce Springsteen (good but over-hyped)
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  • Kearn5y
    Kearn5y Ireland Posts: 3,038
    Placebo
    Kings of leon
    Killers
    RHCP
    Mumford & Son
    Kearnsy
  • aurynsdad
    aurynsdad Posts: 863
    Agg wrote:
    Caveeze wrote:
    Somebody said AIC???

    how do you not get that?

    anyhow.. I dont get any act that has ever used auto-tune.. Just let 'er rip you pussy!!!

    :lol: I was the one that said AIC. I just never heard a song of theirs that I enjoyed. I love Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Soundgarden a lot, but cannot stand AIC for some reason.

    On the very slim chance that you haven't hear the EP's Sap and Jar of Flies, those are very uncharacteristic of AIC's sound, and might hold some tunes you could enjoy (softer, more accessible and arguably more "musical"). Especially Jar of Flies. Not that I'm trying to get you to like them. Just an offering.
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  • Pjzepp67
    Pjzepp67 Posts: 445
    Pearl Jam... :corn:
  • aurynsdad
    aurynsdad Posts: 863
    Pjzepp67 wrote:
    Pearl Jam... :corn:

    Well duh. They suck. Everyone here knows that. :roll:
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  • giventofly69
    giventofly69 Vancouver Posts: 850
    Dave Matthews Band
    the Beatles
    Coldplay (ugh)
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  • veddertown
    veddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
    The Killers, Foo Fighters (post Colour And The Shape), Arcade Fire, DMB, most of the current fashion conscious metal scene. Not that fond of where Coldplay and U2 seem to have ended up. Chris Cornell solo doesn't do much for me either and as hard as I try to continue to love RHCP they are a faint shadow of what they once were.

    Past, The Who (sorry)

    Love Gomez to death and anyone who doesn't get Muse hasn't seen them live. They are beyond tremendous!
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  • evenflow82
    evenflow82 Posts: 3,892
    Pixies
    Sonic Youth
    The Eagles
    Kiss
    Radiohead (after 1998)
    Arcade Fire
    Fleetwood Mac
    Foo Fighters
    RHCP
    Tool
    Dave Matthews
    Billy Joel
    U2
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