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Rolling Stones.....shite.

Go on, I'll bite.

Why are you 'supposed' to like any music? And in particular, who told you you were 'supposed' to like The Rolling Stones?

Well you aren't in theory, but there are certain bands that are held up in high esteem and that are cool to be seen to like, that's pretty much it.

Just a bit of fun mate that's all, nothing serious to start thinking deeply about  :) ;danafish;

Start a thread about something you are interested in and let's get involved.

No I get it, Rolling Stones are one of the all time 'Great Bands' etc. I like a few tracks but a lot of it just washes over me.

On a different level - Coldplay an incredibly popular group but so bloody dull I would rather try stapling my ears to window than enduring them...

Bob Marley

I kinda knew that.

For the record, I rather like The Stones. There's little they've released in the last 20years that I would rate, but the back catalogue prior to that....

queen for me out of the all time great bands.  Never liked any of their stuff at all.

Pink Floyd....I suspect a lot of my choices will be the old school rock bands lol.

Used to like them now find it hard to listen to any of it, think it is a growing up thing.


Now you are just having a laugh though..

Gonna get some stick for this one...but Michael Jackson. I just don't like it. The only song I like is Smooth Criminal...and I prefer the Alien Ant Farm cover version ffs.

agree alongside queen he was my other selection out of the true big boys.

Elvis

Minorly teed off to agree with woodsey.

Majorly teed off to see pink floyd mentioned before i could get in..Comfortably Numb.. not 'arf

Eric Clapton, why do you exist ?

I totally agree about MJ except the smooth criminal bit.

Phil Collins, Paul Weller, Sting - i kinda appreciated your first incarnation..as for the rest of your work..poke it

Nirvana :)

Absolutely this.

Went to the Elvis CdS show in Vgeas, was really looking forward to it.

But when you get beyond the myth, there are very very few top quality songs.

Just alot of meh.

Because he thinks?

The Who, I have tried.  I just don't get it.  I never saw them in their pomp and I am sure with Moon they were very different but everytime I have seen them they have been so flat.

The Police. His voice just grates on me. Unjust never believe that Sting actually enjoys playing live.

Florance and the Machine, one dimensional Kate Bush wannabe.

George Ezra/Sam Smith are they the same person? George Ezra live was one of the most painful hours of my life.

Paloma Faith grates on me a little bit because it sounds like she is just trying to copy Amy Winehouse...

Most of Led Zeppelin, though not all of it

funnily enough, as i should like them a lot with my tastes, Kasabian. they just try too hard. never hit it off with them and they are achingly trendy and a band you "should" like

Jazz

All my friends say 'hey let's go to this new Jazz bar' and im all like 'fuck off stop pretending you like jazz, nobody likes it'

Floyd/Zep/Coldplay and add Bob Dylan

And not on the same scale but Nick Cave seems to be one of those fashionable to like ones, I just don't get

Ponces  rotflmfao

Amy Winehouse

Metallica

Radiohead

ha, going through a massive Radiohead phase again.  Queen, Florence and the Machine, Mettalica and Bob Dylan good shouts. Paloma Faith I can live with out.   You are supposed to hate Coldplay FWIW, they are growing on me a bit because of this.   You are supposed to hate The Beautiful South too, yet they have no redeeming features whatsoever.  I remember Runrig too, unpopular outside Scotland, which is no surprise, who knows why anybody bought any of their dirge within Scotland.

I love music though, and am sure I like all the music I am supposed to. 


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Just had a look at this, and quite surprised how many of them I have a lot of time for, Dylan easily the highest I have no time for.  Will put up Little Richard, as he is way too high in that list, but can't see that been controversial enough.

Is it ok if we like lots of stuff when it's live, even though we might not play it ever at home?

Way too slow on this, but Primal Scream.

Primarily for Screamadelica which has somehow become some sort of pioneering indie dance crossover record.  Two years after wrote for luck, a year after fools gold, and after New Order released Technique and long after Blue Monday.

The Pet Shop Boys were more pioneering, you can add them to the list too, but definitely below Bobby Gillespie's crew.

Meh. 

The Beatles .

v much this, I don't get it at all.

I think that's the case with most of the 'greats', if they show a clip on TV of them they'll have really good music from them to back it up. But once you get beyond that you might get a few 'okay' ones - but after that it all gets a bit mediocre.

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Ocean Colour Scene was the best live band I've ever seen. Would never listen to a song of theirs at home

They were below average when I saw them a few years ago. The year before it was just two of them doing an acoustic gig. They were very good.

Half the bands or singers people have mentioned you're supposed not to like surely?

We've done this before but the Stone Roses and Ian Brown on his own. Meant to be incredible and created seminal albums. They're OK, but don't get me that excited.

A band I'm supposed to like are the Manic Street Preachers, mainly because they were one of my favourite bands pretty much up to the point Richey went missing. A lot of their stuff after that is just painful to listen to.

The Doors.

Actually you just reminded me, the Stone Roses.

Never liked them, every single one of my male friends loves them and assumes I do the same.

Oasis

This

Although "times were different then "  lyrics like this are hardly genius

"I don't wanna be a tiger
Cause tigers play too rough
I don't wanna be a lion
Cause lions ain't the kind
you love enough."

Elvis was a good looking guy who performed well to a new niche market of adolescent screaming girls

This

Load of rubbish

I think a lot of dislikes or preferences could be dictated by mood or certain periods in ones life

Groups such as Floyd,The Doors,Massive Attack,Radiohead and Led Zep etc are not the most up beat with their lyrics but they have delivered some classic tunes

One of my favourite groups of all times are the Smiths .Morrisey is a literary genius and his melodramas and irony are both clever and extremely funny

That said if I've just been done by a two outer or a last minute equaliser I'm not likely to reach for a copy of " Girlfriend in a Coma "

The Smiths

Nearly forgot.

David Bowie.

Now you've gone too far.

Bowie is a genius.

I can't take anyone seriously if they don't like Martin Lewis.

Don't particularly like the Rolling Stones, but love 'Gimme Shelter', and there are odd songs that I really like from most bands, even if on the most part I think they're crap.

:D

This.

I like a couple of his defining songs, but the majority of what he has churned out has been drivel. Emperors news clothes IMO.

You serious Adz?


Nirvana is spot on here, they all moved away from what they done well.

Bowie on the other hand continued to reincarnate throughout the decades, some not so good, however one of Britains greatest imho.

Geo

Agreed

Geo

Is anyone "supposed" toi like Phil Collins?

Complete wanker isn't he?

As "complete wankers" go, a goodly number of people seem to like him.


Collins is one of only three recording artists (along with Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson) who have sold over 100 million albums worldwide both as solo artists and (separately) as principal members of a band

He is also an "LVO", which is an Honour personally bestowed by our Monarch, none other than Her Royal Queen-Ness. Accolades don't come higher than that.

In fact, I'd go a stage further. It may well be an Act of Treason to diss someone who HM The Queen clearly respects, & it's entirely possible she could order your head be removed.

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Phil Collins is one of those acts your supposed not to like, but obviously many do.  Need another thread of 'guilty pleasures' of bands and artists you're not supposed to like, but you do.

The Beatles.

Anyone who doesn't like The Beatles needs their bottom smacked.

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Pretty much this.

As I get older and there is less "now" stuff I like, I am almost pleased to hear anything, and Bowie fits into this category, but for years was an immediate turn off/over artist for me.

U2

I'd be more inclined to put this in the other thread, most people seem to have a right go at U2 these days.  Bono can't do anything right without a massive backlash.

Jazz

Another band that I should like because I was a big fan back in the day.  Saw them at Wembley in 1992 and it was the bet stadium gig I've ever been to. Amazing music, amazing stage-show.

However, now they just roll out hackneyed bullshit rock that would be instantly forgettable if it didn't sound like all the other stuff they're making now.

People seem to love musicals and the music from them.  I think there are a handful of musicals I've enjoyed, and a few I've endured, but otherwise I find it tedious nonsense on the whole.  I'm probably just a heathen.

With you on the musicals, they don't do it for me.  Les Mis was ok though.

That is exactly my POV too, its like they have made 1 record in ten years but keep releasing it under a different name.

Pink Floyd, Arcade Fire, Kaiser Chiefs (used to like them until I saw them at a festival and Wilson's on-stage arrogance just put me off them), Muse (for the most part).

I still like U2, but don't think I've heard anything by them since You've got to go there to Come Back (or whatever it was called).

Book of Mormon should be the exception to this rule.  Still quite probably the funniest thing I've ever watched and no number of repeat visits can replicate seeing it for the first time.

Not seen it yet, but from what I've heard yes, it'll probably be an exception :D

Two David Bowie's really

1971-1984 great

Pre 1971 (Laughing Gnome anyone?) and post 1984 dire

Oh and P J Harvey, just don't get "it"

Basically every artist that has won the Mercury Music prize :)

PJ Harvey, I'm with you on that one.

Arctic Monkeys must be an exception surely?

Just checked the list and I possess music by ten of the winners, so maybe not the best example :)

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Ban :D

Dislike most of the singers/groups you are supposed to like but special mention would have to go to The Beatles and Oasis

wrong thread lol! oops

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Music. In restaurants, shops, card rooms....


I'm supposed to like it,


BUT I DON'T

Beatles (more like they never did anything for me rather than a dislike), One Direction!!!!, Take That I could go on.

I don't think you're "meant" to like One Direction unless you're a teenage girl to be fair

True but when you have an 9 year old girl most of the magazines, programmes seem to think they are the best thing since sliced bread. To be fair my daughter can't stand them either, she has even listened to Jethro Tull (and liked it) as she is learning the flute!