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I'm getting a bit of stick ATM for being a bit too outspoken with some, well, controversial views, namely:

• Bob Dylan - while having a fantastic talent for writing songs has a voice like a goose farting in the fog - his songs are best as covers from people who can sing.
• The Beatles were just another white boys rip off of black music in their day, & only started being creative when they hit the drugs
• Queen - while obviously talented were too theatrical & just don't rock my boat

So what's your musical heresy?

Elvis

Too many, I don't even know where to start tbh but I'll throw the Rolling Stones out there as a teaser.  :o

Oh yeah - talented performer - the Robbie Williams of his day.

David Bowie  :dontask:

Had a discussion about Bowie with someone that didn't like him and I defended him as I thought that he was ahead of his time and a great artist.  Since then though, I can't stand listening to him, not sure what happened to me that night....

arcade fire

bombay bicycle club

Robbie Williams. Utter knobhead.

are you 'supposed' to like him though? :dontask:

A hell of a lot do & I get the 'he's a performer/does a great show' argument but so's a trained seal - doesn't make them an 'artist'.

Agree on Elvis.

Queen, however, are the greatest band ever  ;grr;

Bob Dylan and U2 for me, to me they have written about 5 songs and just randomly release a diff version of one of them.

So wrong.  Of course the post 80s stuff was all terrible, but the early stuff is fantastic for its time.  The Beatles is so clearly wrong too.  

My Bloody Valentine are tough to like.  I have Loveless but it is very hard work.  

Primal Scream are right up there for jumping on the indie dance bandwagon and spending the next 20 years pretending it was all their idea.    

Agree on Bob Dylan obviously

what does 'Bands/Musicians you're supposed to like' mean?

Its Bono I think is a twat rather than U2 as such, I like a bit of their music.

A couple of great tunes - but that's it

Similarly with the Beatles (although they had a higher number of great tunes)


A bit ago my mum and stepdad bought a Beatle's themed guitar hero-y game - it really highlighted the fact that apart from the monster hits most of their output is either badly dated or was fairly average to start with. Everybody under 40 that Christmas (me, my sisters and my nieces) all agreed that it was a rubbish game if you were stuck with only that selection of music  :D

like why am I supposed to like 2 bands whose existence I'm only vaguely aware of and who I couldn't name/recognise a single song of?

maybe I should put this thread on the things you don't get thread

Gonna put on a flame proof suit and say Cold Play. What is Chris Martins problem? Top bird and a load of money from what IMO is tez music.

Any Bands/Musicians that I didn't decide to listen to.

Especially in shops, eateries, card-rooms &, (God help us all) the local park.

James. Dirge.


Beyonce. I watch the videos with the sound turned down

Rihanna. Yes we get it, its an um-um-um-ber-ella


Katy Perry. Filthy pap music


Supergrass. Never got it


Ocean Colour Scene. Never got it either.


Paolo Ntini. Nope.


Amy Winehouse, rest her soul. Musically, nah.







Stick that up your controversial channel and smoke it, lol

I thought this thread was supposed to be Legends of Music everyone is supposed to like not any random artist ?

Jimi Hendrix

Aren't we supposed to hate Coldplay?

Had a conversation about this last night funnily enough. My wife (who probably should have married Woodsey not me) generally just dismisses her as a druggie.  I think she was a genius although i am prepared to say it may have been Mark Ronson that was the real creative genius behind "Back to Black" but irrespective an amazing album that many have tried, and failed to emulate.

Agree with most of the others on this thread though.  Never really got the Beatles at all.

Lol oh ok, seems like I'm more in touch with the youth of today than I first thought

Rolling Stones overrated IMO. Longevity yes; consistently strong music no.

Rihanna's popularity is completely beyond me. Add your own jokes obv but her music is just super-tez. Flopping about in a napkin is an admission of guilt as far as I'm concerned. "Don't listen to this bilge, I've got my fwups out!"

Keane. They should play that in antisocial behaviour areas to disperse unruly teens.

For Keane and Ocean Colour Scene see the previous comment on Coldplay.

Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart.  Genii or proponents of unlistenable dirge?

you can join me in the not understanding what this thread is about corner

You cannot whack a bit of Beefheart!

How can you not love a guy that got his stage name like this.

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
Inspired by a strange Uncle of Don Van Vliet's who would expose himself, squeeze his penis until the head turned purple, then comment about it looking "like a big ole' beef heart"

LOL let's at least stick to the massive/legend type artists instead of random ones nobody has heard of,

Just usual blonde poker thread - meandering off the path.

In response to the less legendary mentions - Coldplay sucked at the start, since & always will suck. Amy Winehouse had a lovely voice and a talented producer, but dying young isn't enough to achieve legend status.

Whoever mentioned Jimi Hendrix - GTFO - so ledge that Lennon & McCartney doing backing vocals on his Radio 1 sessions album almost got them off my meh list.

But it is too easy to dislike the rich/famous/legendary so I prefer to stick to the ones that were critically acclaimed/revolutionary.  On the subject of the rich.  Bono has a decent proportion of Elevation Partners.  They are owners of 2% of Facebook.  That is the same Facebook that listed for 100 bn dollars last week.  Bet you love him more now.  FWIW U2 were my favourite band for a long time when I was younger.  Though I always new that if you called yourself The Edge you were always a **** of the highest order

George Michael - I have tried (for the wife) but he is off key, can't hold a note and "sings" about death, loss and abuse, cheer up man.  Then about 2 Albums ago he found that bloody machine Cher sang through added a casio keyboard beat and got even worse.

U2 - since they were about 17 they just give the impression that they were more interested in image and revenue rather then music.  Such a shame as 2 of them are actually very talented and had something to say, sadly the other 2 have all the influence.

Florence - So disappointing, was expecting a new Kate Bush and got 2 albums of material that has rare listenable tracks.  She has also progressed little in 4 years, just does the same thing on bigger stages and looks more lost and alone then she ever did in the small venues.  One trick pony.

Motley Crue: - They are not heavy, they are not glam and yet they play big riffs and wear make up.  The singer can't sing.  1 saving grace is they have an amazing drummer who when coherent is usually worth a ticket price.

Steel Panther - First time it is all very funny, but each time they sing less songs and do more gags, and the gag's are poor, old, sexiest, homophobic and all a bit 1990's.

Hawkwind - WTF?  Even with Lemmy they were shit.

Genisis - WTF but longer and more drawn out and sadly never had Lemmy.

Calvin Harris - van Helden you ain't.  I just don't get it.

Aerosmith - Come on admit you stole that first album from someone else, as everything since has been awful.

Sure I could think of more

Hendrix is obv an abs boss, but like Dylan and The Beatles, he wasn't really a very good singer. For me though that's only a part of what makes a great Artist, and I'm a fan of all three.

Pink Floyd.

but I normally have some idea what the path was before we leave it

so still no idea what's going on but here's my comments on the artists that have been mentioned that I've seen live

bowie- immense. bowie at glastonbury is the best gig I've ever seen
coldplay- biggest waste of talent ever. superb musicians playing the most boring songs they could think of
robbie- average singer, world class entertainer, well worth seeing
u2- exactly what bobby says though I'm not sure they've done as many as 5 songs. just rehash the same old crap repeatedly
primal scream- amazing, screamadelica is one of the greatest albums of all time
beyonce- meh but puts on one hell of a live show
keane- yawn, time for bed

Jimi was best when he just played....

Another one - The Smiths - mournful dirges from a whiney tool, if i want to be miserable through music  I'll turn on the charts I don't need some twat trying to force it on me. And the music wasn't even that good.

Even Mond had it - so called legends who sucked in reality...

lol @ even mond

that's what I was assuming-ish but bombay bicycle club, arcade fire and my bloody valentine had already been mentioned before I opened the thread

The meander was more a swift run into left field......

Agree with Bob Dylan. Queen and The Beatles are awesome though obv. Might be the first time I've heard any hate for Queen? Sheltered life I guess.

The Who probably the biggest band that I've never really taken any interest in could barely name two songs.

No hate, just a big pile of Meh.

Supergrass I can kinda see it because people only really know Alright (released in 1995, so sigh) and I'd agree that they have kept going for too long. Their most recent album in 2008 was the only one of six to not make the top 10 in the UK albums chart so they've still got something!

Ocean Colour Scene are just incred. Their two-disc Anthology is probably one of my favourite albums ever. So chill.


I'm with you on Winehouse though

I came back to post this


and also agree with


Lana del Ray too

meh I read it as it said - groups/artists I'm supposed to like, but don't.  thread title misleading imo.

You're supposed to like the legendary bands/singers - mid-range famous it's not automatically assumed....

Doesn't matter - enjoying thread anyway.

Jazz - everyone I know claims to LOVE it yet doesn't own a single album from what I can tell, it's all nonsense really

Dylan

Early Beatles

Oh and Bay City Rollers  ;D



Grew up on Elvis, love Bowie and Queen.

Does Scatman John count?

Oh man, at last, at last - their popularity has always been utterly unfathomable to me.

You too ? Excellent Floyd dissing - however, you're dislike of Bombay Bicycle Club reveals a lack of depth imo

no - you're the real loser coz apparently I'm not even supposed to like them.

+1 to jazz

I'm gonna throw Bruce Springsteen in too.  Seems to be a lot of love for him round here.  He's ok, but that's about it imo.

Another one best seen live - no fuss, no fancy effects just the most professional band there is with a great back catalogue & willing to put on a show at least 3 hours long to deliver a great selection from it.

Radiohead post OK Computer.  I've tried, but just don't like the more obscure/abstract sound of their albums from Kid A onwards.  That's not to say I don't like that genre in general (I quite like Sigur Rós and Fleet Foxes for example), I just don't like Radiohead's stuff.

Oh, and Bob Marley and reggae in general, boring.

Status Quo

Boring one chord repetitive crap for 35 years

Fuck off.

Radiohead is a good call.

A band I'm meant to like is the Manic Street Preachers, I say meant to like because I loved their first three and a half albums, and went to see them live countless times in their early years. But since then I can't even get remotely interested in their stuff. Do they count?

Nearly forgot, a band I think are pretty average yet are revered by many; the Stone Roses.

;hide;

Radiohead the abs nap, well played that man. I mean wtf is that all about?

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Another band who failed to keep me in front of the main stage at Leeds.

They played a 'secret gig' at Glastonbury last year. Got a huge crowd and then fucked everyone off by only playing the new, inaccessible on first hearing, album.

With all the great acts, I have usually found something I like about their music and understand the appeal to the masses, so i was have trouble coming up with something. Then Tighty posted this:


summed it up perfectly

I'm pretty sure we're all supposed to think status quo are shite?

60 chart hits, 22 top 10s, millions of records sold

revered by many



I thought that, re-reading the Op, wasn't specifically about the universally considered great acts anyway. so there.

Just bands that many people like that you find unfathomable

ok.

+1 status quo then.

Anything to keep the status quo.

Although you can say whatever you want.

On the same idea, Cliff Richard. I mean, WTF?

Wired for Sound is an immense tune.

but without Cliff Flight of the Conchords couldn't have homaged this gem which includes the line 'demon woman, you sit on a rock looking nice in your frock but you're scaring my livestock'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnU62CUevn4

I don't get Flight of the Conchords.

I'm really getting confused about what thread I should be in now :/

typical anti-christian nonsense

what's not to get? one of the greatest comedies ever

they don't make me lol.

This, abs brill.

Abba.

Anything that has James Bond and Mr Darcy singing with Mrs Overall and Maggie Thatcher has to go straight into Room101

Not a big fan of the show but the song Albi The Racist Dragon is still on the ipod and its not going anywhere

I'd even forgotten that side of him. The nutter.

Up in Glasgow this week for work and staying right by the SECC which a big conference venue where I'm working this week. Just went down to my hotel bar about 20 mins ago to get a glass of wine and fuck me the bar was rammed with birds, its monday night WTF?

Turns out there was a Barry Manilow concert on next door. Now if I had a wingman with me I might have stayed down there for a bit.......  :D

Judging by the fact that we get an endless cycle of it year after year, it appears I'm supposed to like the endless dirge churned out by X Factor, BGT, The Voice, Pop Idol, Popstars, etc.  The only highlight turned out to be Myleene Klass for non-musical reasons.

Others:

Coldplay - quite literally the most boring band on earth

The Fall - sorry Mr Peel, but on this one you were wrong.  They're my best mate's absolute favourite band ever too, but I just never got it.

Pretty sure I'm not supposed to like them, but Westlife deserve a place on this list.  For recording a duet with Mariah Carey of a Phil Collins song and releasing it into the public domain they deserve a whole lot worse.

Not a band, but the song Whisky in the Jar.  Doesn't do it for me, it's ok, but it's not one of the greatest ever.

Rubber?

Love that song. Not sure whose version is my favourite, bit might well be Thin Lizzy's.

This is a great call.  The amount of time I have invested in trying to get The Fall because friends, who share my tastes in just about everything else, love them is frightening.

This has been bugging me since I first read it.

Shame on you. Influential on so many bands, and with a huge catalogue of great tracks.

Find a cd of Live at Leeds and be amazed

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDqBUGHf1Lg

This thread is tilting the crap out of me.

Never hear of them

Saw them play it live on Sunday, was awesome.

Don't get why Adele is so popular - songs are fookin awful.

Did your mates try playing "Eat Yourself Fitter" over and over again too, and then look at you with a puzzled expression when you said "so what?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCOt6wbm80

I challenge anyone to make it the whole way through and then explain what's so good about it!

The Kaiser Chiefs and Franz Ferdinand. Absolute guff.

The Fall on the other hand are a great band. 34 years and still going strong.

FYP

By the way, your post doesn't surprise me in the slightest.  You and my mate appear to have very similar tastes.

Love Gedge, Hate E Smith (might get that put on a t-shirt just to annoy him!)

Agree with Kaiser Chiefs, what a waste, total crap, just rhyming words for the sake of it.

Lol.

I haven't seen The Fall for a few years, but it's always a bit of a lottery as to what sort of mood he would be in. If he doesn't fancy it there's always a chance he'll just walk off. All part of the charm i guess.

They predicted a riot though, people should've listened to them.

Fairly meh musically - but their gigs are surprisingly good fun.

Very much this, they're a proper live band and are very good at it, the relative simplicity of the songs means that the entire audience know all the words which creates a great atmosphere

I only saw the Kaiser Chiefs once, at a V festival just around the time their first album was released.  Found them pretty annoying, getting the crowd to chant their name etc.  I like some of their tunes though - easily listening kinda stuff.

Oasis. Annoying, whiney, undertalented/overhyped, derivative, boorish. How people can get into them is beyond me. Mind you I do like Blur a lot, but it's not just that.

fuck all you dylan haters    YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM

To plagiarise Mock The Week - sounds like a wookie having a tricky shit.

Saying that Bob didn't mind a bit of plagiarism anyway.....

it's not the mid 90s anymore, you're allowed to like both blur and oasis. I do though I was on the blur side of the fence during the britpop wars, prefer oasis now though

I like Blur's music, I think they are genuinely talented, the songs are varied, inventive, and catchy, with often great lyrics. Probably because I find these things appealing, I find Oasis quite repugnant. Strum-a-strum-a-strum derivative guitar play, some guy who can't really sing just groaning his heart out, to what I find pretty boring  and contrived lyrics. I only took sides because I loved one and genuinely hated the other as bands, I know for some it can be a north/south or perceived class thing.

I don't even like mentioning the band that made this

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQVIIWq9gIQ

with the band that made this

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3C7DECI0jU

in the same sentence. It doesn't really help that I strongly dislike the brothers. But I think they were just writing crap songs that would sell to cash in on the Britpop thing. Whereas Blur, just oozing with talent, and with something to say, will stand the test of time.

Completely different view to this. Blur now quite dated, Oasis some tremendous songs that everyone will remember long after the Albarn has gone onto his fifteenth pop incarnation

lolz, I love champagne supernova

and much as I like blur they did country house

People will be remembering and singing Oasis songs for years to come because they're catchy and sometimes anthemic.  I don't think that makes them tremendous though.  Lyrically they're pretty shite.

and Damon Albarn is hot.

alex james makes cheese so that's a plus for blur

Blur put Jo Guest in the Country House video

Another plus

and one more for the cute little milk carton in coffee and tv imo

And one more for dating Justine Frischmann but writing graciously and poignantly about the loss afterwards. Compare and contrast

It's over
You don't need to tell me
I hope you're with someone who makes you
feel safe in your sleeping tonight
I won't kill myself, trying to stay in your life
I got no distance left to run



with


She's electric ,She's in a family full of eccentrics , She's done things I've never expected , And I need more time
She's got a sister ,And God only knows how I've missed her , And on the palm of her hand is a blister , And I need more time

yeah but you missed the next verse where it gets really deep and the rhymes are much cleverer

She's got a brother, we don't get on with one another, but I quite fancy her mother, and I think that she likes me
She's got a cousin, in fact she's got about a dozen, and she's got one in the oven, but it's nothing to do with me

I used to have a proper crush on frischmann. would rate elastica above blur actually, one of the best debut albums ever, though they are responsible for the most disappointing gig ever

Intense!

Quite anthemic, yes.
They clearly just sat around stoned at 2am trying to find anything that rhymed.


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Pretty nice I agree gatso. Used to break down in tears after the split, on hearing his songs about her. Now an artist (painting) in magic America, married to some prof.

Both bands big favourites of mine pretty much from the first listen but Oasis will enjoy more longevity than Blur have for sure though. Just from a quick google/wiki the estimates put record sales at 60-70 million for Oasis and 15-20 million for Blur. Oasis had the Knebworth gigs too which were obv huge.

If one has to be banished to Room 101 I'd be Oasis for me though. Graham Coxon is just too good a guitarist.

good video:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9kdHXrJYF8

not sure which is the most ridiculous post, this one or milligan's one about ennis and pendleton

greatest band ever, just been watching some of last night's first gig back

That's my point, they're not bad - but greatest band ever? Just don't get it.

You are right to hide under that chair Boshi...........

Not the greatest band ever, but they released the greatest album ever.

As a debut album it was quite brilliant. Amazing impact for so few songs really

How on earth did you guess I wasn't tallking about 'The Second Coming'?

 ;marks;