should? there is no should in my life. i never feel like i should like a band for the sake of it. or because general concensus tells me i should. music has to grab me otherwise i'm not listening.
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Tool. I just imagine them appealing to all the goth people who will listen to anything that is dark. This obviously isn't true, but I just don't get them and can't get into them.
Tons of indie stuff. I like my rock with some power behind it. So much of the indie stuff out there is so soft, has no guitar solos, no power and is just plain wimpy.
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Pink Floyd!! I just can stand them that much!! my sister tell me "how can you say that you have great taste of music when you don't like Pink Floyd!?" well I just answer to her "Well, my favorite band it's Pearl Jam"
also Joy Division not that big fan but people tell me that I have to like them!! I like one song! that's ok right!?
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Tool. I just imagine them appealing to all the goth people who will listen to anything that is dark. This obviously isn't true, but I just don't get them and can't get into them.
Tons of indie stuff. I like my rock with some power behind it. So much of the indie stuff out there is so soft, has no guitar solos, no power and is just plain wimpy.
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Oh, yeah, Tool. I just thought they were a bit silly, but they're quite good, if you like that sort of thing. I'd never buy or download anything they do, and I've heard most of it. But good luck to them. Nope, for me, there are far worse bands than Tool, who have a reputation.
I have all of Zep's albums, but compared to Hendrix, they're nothing. Nothing at all. Wearisome, in fact. Music for the masses who don't like music but are sold on classic cool.
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I am ALWAYS getting torn by my friends for not liking these bands. I just don't get what the fuss is about. Yes I could probably name 1 or 2 songs by them that I like but it would be a struggle.
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Dream Theater comes to my mind.
I play drums so I know the quality of this band..but I...I don't know..I don't feel it. Drums solos are fenomenal, but as a whole it just doesn't do it for me (although I haven't listen to a lot of songs...um...so perhaps if I knew them better..maybe someday..)
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Jeff Buckley too – like someone else said I also didn’t find that magic people go on about. Like a friend of mine told me to buy grace and he was texting me as I was listening to it and was like ‘oh listen to this one’ and I’m like ‘well yeh I am… so???’. Yeh, the stuff was ok but nothing like how I thought it would be.
Soundgarden – there was only one band in the early 90s for me. Couple of decent songs but on the whole, quite diluted or something. So along with that:
Chris Cornell – I’d heard sooooo much about euphoria morning in this place that I thought ‘well I’m really gonna like this one’ and I listened and thought ‘what?’. Can’t remember where I’ve heard it before but I’ve heard it several times… I know it.
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Soundgarden – there was only one band in the early 90s for me. Couple of decent songs but on the whole, quite diluted or something. So along with that:
Chris Cornell – I’d heard sooooo much about euphoria morning in this place that I thought ‘well I’m really gonna like this one’ and I listened and thought ‘what?’. Can’t remember where I’ve heard it before but I’ve heard it several times… I know it.
oh aye Hells, me too!!!!!!!!!!
I've never got Soundgarden at all...
also Janes Addiction, his voice bugs the shit out of me...
Blind Melon... shit...
Alice in Chains... single fish!!!
The Clash - i like some songs, but when they go anywhere near Reggae shite then i hit next button... i detest reggae
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
Oasis: mediocre music performed by a couple of assholes
The fanbase of Oasis = mass delusion of a very grand scale. How do they not get bored? They ran out of ideas on their second album.
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I've never got Soundgarden at all...
also Janes Addiction, his voice bugs the shit out of me...
Blind Melon... shit...
Alice in Chains... single fish!!!
The Clash - i like some songs, but when they go anywhere near Reggae shite then i hit next button... i detest reggae
oh and my jury is still out on the ramones :cool: . I'm sure in THEIR DAY when it was new and different, it was cool... but I just can't see the big deal for people of MY age to go back and start listening.
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
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I never got into the whole Greatful Dead/Phish phenomena. I like some jam bands but these guys took it to a whole nother level that I could not get into.
I also don't get new country. Alot of people in my area love the pop country, I just don't get it. Toby Keith, Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban, I can't stand the music and the lyrics are usually retread from prior songs. I just don't like twang. I do like some old country though, but don't tell anyone.
I can not stand pop music. It is shoved down our throats by the media and it is crap. This goes for rock, rap, punk, and R&B. Anytime a producer and record label have more control over the music then the artists it is not a good thing. They ought to start naming the producer as the artist and featuring the band/vocalist.
I second The Racontours vote, Jack White should ditch this project and go back to White Stripes asap,
Wow... As much as I love the White Stripes, I think the Raconteurs album runs circles around the Stripes' stuff. Maybe it's just me, but with Brendan Benson on board and the dynamic of a full band, I think it's great.
Soundgarden – there was only one band in the early 90s for me. Couple of decent songs but on the whole, quite diluted or something. So along with that:
Chris Cornell – I’d heard sooooo much about euphoria morning in this place that I thought ‘well I’m really gonna like this one’ and I listened and thought ‘what?’. Can’t remember where I’ve heard it before but I’ve heard it several times… I know it.
The fanbase of Oasis = mass delusion of a very grand scale. How do they not get bored? They ran out of ideas on their second album.
sometimes i dont want to have to pay close attention to every note. sometimes i want something familiar and full of nothing but attitude and a good (even if ripped off) hook. that's when i listen to oasis. they make me feel like an arrogant prick and that's fun sometimes.
anyway, i need to add the white stripes to my list. i dont get it. annoying, screechy voice, mediocre songs, etc. just cos you dont know if he's fucking his sister or playing drums with his ex-wife and just becos he's weirder than fuck-all does NOT make him a musical genius.
Wow... As much as I love the White Stripes, I think the Raconteurs album runs circles around the Stripes' stuff. Maybe it's just me, but with Brendan Benson on board and the dynamic of a full band, I think it's great.
But that's just my opinion.
second. with exception of the runs circles around part. both are good to me.
my band i should like but dont is definately THE BLACK CROWES. i am from the south into all kinds of southern rock. i'm a huge zep fan, and felt wronged that the only meaningful project page did after zep was with the black crowes. everybody says i should like them and have tried to turn me into a fan for years but it never works. there isnt anything i dont like about them except chris robinson's voice sometimes, i just dont feel it. i guess i'll have to hear the "youre missing out on great band" stuff for forever.
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There are many bands that fall into this category for me. I really resent it when someone says to me "Listen to this, you'll really like it!" because 99 times out of 100, I won't. I don't like people presuming that i'll like something, because I like something elsethat's vaguely similar.
Right, anyway.
Tool. Many people have told me to get into them, mostly because i'm a big NIN fan, but...I just don't like Tool.
Radiohead. Again, so SO many of my friends worship ths band, a few because the music press and everyone else tells them to no doubt, but i've listened a lot, and I like a few songs, but that's it. Nothing to really inspire me there. I saw a clip of them live over the summer and it was basically just Thom Yorke screaming crap into the microphone from what I could hear. Maybe I just don't get it, but...I just don't get it!
The Strokes. Another band many people I know like. One of them even got personally offended when I told him i'd seen them live and thought they weren't very good.
Mother Love Bone. I'm sorry to all the people who love them, but I just don't like Andy's voice, and that makes them unlistenable for me.
Smashing Pumpkins. Once again, I can't stand Billy's voice. It makes me want to kill things.
Any many others, such as Sleater Kinney, Death Cab For Cutie, Wilco...
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second. with exception of the runs circles around part. both are good to me.
OK, maybe that was a bit of an overstatement... lol
Basically, from start to finish I think that Broken Boy Soldiers is simply incredible, whereas the Stripes always seem to have some hit or miss moments on their albums.
And it's funny you mentioned the Black Crowes because I just recently got an 80 gig iPod and have been working towards filling it up with everything by every artist I like to some degree. Anyways, I hadn't listened to a lot of Crowes lately but every time one of their songs comes on I'm really digging it. Oh well.
But since you reminded me of being in the south, I can't stand Lynyrd Skynyrd or the Allman Brothers Band. I don't know if it's their fans that have ruined it for me or what, but there's a total of about 3 songs between them that I can tolerate.
I never got into the whole Greatful Dead/Phish phenomena. I like some jam bands but these guys took it to a whole nother level that I could not get into.
I also don't get new country. Alot of people in my area love the pop country, I just don't get it. Toby Keith, Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban, I can't stand the music and the lyrics are usually retread from prior songs. I just don't like twang. I do like some old country though, but don't tell anyone.
I can not stand pop music. It is shoved down our throats by the media and it is crap. This goes for rock, rap, punk, and R&B. Anytime a producer and record label have more control over the music then the artists it is not a good thing. They ought to start naming the producer as the artist and featuring the band/vocalist.
Off my box for now. Thanks for the thread.
you didn't mention why you think you *should* like this music though.
Okay, I know this thread is a place to express opinion but just from reading through, I feel like commenting on a couple things. To the guy who said Blind Melon is 'Shit', I just can't understand that. Blind Melon had it all, amazing vocals, great lyrics, fantastic riffs, I just don't get it whenever I see hate thrown their way (also when I see them included in some shitty ONE HIT WONDER show, man does that ever piss me off...)
Also, to the people mentioning the Beatles. Have you ever listened to Abbey Road? Beginning to end? That album is easily one of the best rock records ever recorded, bar none. And that's only the tip of the iceberg.
Now as for Tool, I can understand that. Bleak, depressing music, played extremely well, but bleak and depressing all the same. Same for Radiohead, loved them up until Kid A. I did not read up on that album before purchasing it, and sat there dumbstruck through the whole thing, waiting for some sort of guitar, or anything really, considering I really dug the first three albums.
My own personal vote goes to The Deftones. Hell, to me, they are very bland and I don't feel their music at all. Even saw them in concert once at this small venue in Michigan, and it was just an indecipherable wall of sound. I met the singer, bought a couple CDs, and have never been able to enjoy them.
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the allman bros. have some hit and miss moments. i mean nobody needs to hear a 23 minute jam, but overall i like them. skynyrd i can understand not liking, they aren't my favorites but have some good songs.
as far as the raconteurs go i dont really like the song yellow sun, and hands gets on my nerves sometime. level and store bought bones are my favs. i like just about every white stripes song that i consider a "real" attempt at a song, some of them are just inside jokes between jack and meg. ex. the last one on elephant that goes "i love jack white like a little brother" sorry i spaced on the title.
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Tons of indie stuff. I like my rock with some power behind it. So much of the indie stuff out there is so soft, has no guitar solos, no power and is just plain wimpy.
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also Joy Division not that big fan but people tell me that I have to like them!! I like one song! that's ok right!?
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I have all of Zep's albums, but compared to Hendrix, they're nothing. Nothing at all. Wearisome, in fact. Music for the masses who don't like music but are sold on classic cool.
But again, they're okay.
Edit: teasing.
But I like Hendrix more.
Tool
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The Smashing Pumpkins: I'm waiting for the tribute album, so I can hear some of these great songs sung by decent voices.
Oasis: mediocre music performed by a couple of assholes
The Smiths: Morrissey to me is like ground glass in my ears. What a bunch of whining.
I play drums so I know the quality of this band..but I...I don't know..I don't feel it. Drums solos are fenomenal, but as a whole it just doesn't do it for me (although I haven't listen to a lot of songs...um...so perhaps if I knew them better..maybe someday..)
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Soundgarden – there was only one band in the early 90s for me. Couple of decent songs but on the whole, quite diluted or something. So along with that:
Chris Cornell – I’d heard sooooo much about euphoria morning in this place that I thought ‘well I’m really gonna like this one’ and I listened and thought ‘what?’. Can’t remember where I’ve heard it before but I’ve heard it several times… I know it.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
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Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
oh aye Hells, me too!!!!!!!!!!
I've never got Soundgarden at all...
also Janes Addiction, his voice bugs the shit out of me...
Blind Melon... shit...
Alice in Chains... single fish!!!
The Clash - i like some songs, but when they go anywhere near Reggae shite then i hit next button... i detest reggae
The fanbase of Oasis = mass delusion of a very grand scale. How do they not get bored? They ran out of ideas on their second album.
- the great Sir Leo Harrison
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
I also don't get new country. Alot of people in my area love the pop country, I just don't get it. Toby Keith, Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban, I can't stand the music and the lyrics are usually retread from prior songs. I just don't like twang. I do like some old country though, but don't tell anyone.
I can not stand pop music. It is shoved down our throats by the media and it is crap. This goes for rock, rap, punk, and R&B. Anytime a producer and record label have more control over the music then the artists it is not a good thing. They ought to start naming the producer as the artist and featuring the band/vocalist.
Off my box for now. Thanks for the thread.
Wow... As much as I love the White Stripes, I think the Raconteurs album runs circles around the Stripes' stuff. Maybe it's just me, but with Brendan Benson on board and the dynamic of a full band, I think it's great.
But that's just my opinion.
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sometimes i dont want to have to pay close attention to every note. sometimes i want something familiar and full of nothing but attitude and a good (even if ripped off) hook. that's when i listen to oasis. they make me feel like an arrogant prick and that's fun sometimes.
anyway, i need to add the white stripes to my list. i dont get it. annoying, screechy voice, mediocre songs, etc. just cos you dont know if he's fucking his sister or playing drums with his ex-wife and just becos he's weirder than fuck-all does NOT make him a musical genius.
second. with exception of the runs circles around part. both are good to me.
my band i should like but dont is definately THE BLACK CROWES. i am from the south into all kinds of southern rock. i'm a huge zep fan, and felt wronged that the only meaningful project page did after zep was with the black crowes. everybody says i should like them and have tried to turn me into a fan for years but it never works. there isnt anything i dont like about them except chris robinson's voice sometimes, i just dont feel it. i guess i'll have to hear the "youre missing out on great band" stuff for forever.
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Right, anyway.
Tool. Many people have told me to get into them, mostly because i'm a big NIN fan, but...I just don't like Tool.
Radiohead. Again, so SO many of my friends worship ths band, a few because the music press and everyone else tells them to no doubt, but i've listened a lot, and I like a few songs, but that's it. Nothing to really inspire me there. I saw a clip of them live over the summer and it was basically just Thom Yorke screaming crap into the microphone from what I could hear. Maybe I just don't get it, but...I just don't get it!
The Strokes. Another band many people I know like. One of them even got personally offended when I told him i'd seen them live and thought they weren't very good.
Mother Love Bone. I'm sorry to all the people who love them, but I just don't like Andy's voice, and that makes them unlistenable for me.
Smashing Pumpkins. Once again, I can't stand Billy's voice. It makes me want to kill things.
Any many others, such as Sleater Kinney, Death Cab For Cutie, Wilco...
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OK, maybe that was a bit of an overstatement... lol
Basically, from start to finish I think that Broken Boy Soldiers is simply incredible, whereas the Stripes always seem to have some hit or miss moments on their albums.
And it's funny you mentioned the Black Crowes because I just recently got an 80 gig iPod and have been working towards filling it up with everything by every artist I like to some degree. Anyways, I hadn't listened to a lot of Crowes lately but every time one of their songs comes on I'm really digging it. Oh well.
But since you reminded me of being in the south, I can't stand Lynyrd Skynyrd or the Allman Brothers Band. I don't know if it's their fans that have ruined it for me or what, but there's a total of about 3 songs between them that I can tolerate.
Audioslave - they have two good songs, but when it comes down to it I would rather hear Chris Cornell solo or with Soundgarden
Rage Against the Machine - I appreciate the social commentary, but I can't stand the rap/metal
Led Zepplin, the Rolling Stones, The Beatles...the singles are ok but 70% of the music is garbage
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I also can't get into the mars volta. some of it is "ok."
I do like queens of the stone age though. but I do understand that some of their stuff is really undigestible. when they rock they rock though.
you didn't mention why you think you *should* like this music though.
Also, to the people mentioning the Beatles. Have you ever listened to Abbey Road? Beginning to end? That album is easily one of the best rock records ever recorded, bar none. And that's only the tip of the iceberg.
Now as for Tool, I can understand that. Bleak, depressing music, played extremely well, but bleak and depressing all the same. Same for Radiohead, loved them up until Kid A. I did not read up on that album before purchasing it, and sat there dumbstruck through the whole thing, waiting for some sort of guitar, or anything really, considering I really dug the first three albums.
My own personal vote goes to The Deftones. Hell, to me, they are very bland and I don't feel their music at all. Even saw them in concert once at this small venue in Michigan, and it was just an indecipherable wall of sound. I met the singer, bought a couple CDs, and have never been able to enjoy them.
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