Pink Floyd and the Dead, yes.
Also: Led Zeppelin. Seminal, fine. I just don’t want to listen to it.
The Kinks - Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Bob Dylan - voice of a generation or stoned hippy, you decide
See, just thinking about them caused me to foul up my coding!
And yes, Led Zepplin, too. Maybe that’s just because of my schooling. There were two junior high schools that fed into my high school. The people from my JHS liked Rush, while the people from the other JHS liked Zepplin. It was one or the other.
I can’t get into U2 at all, either. They’re a decent rock band, I guess, and they do marginally well on some songs. But I don’t get the hero worship thing that goes on with them. Then again, I’ve always heard that there are HUGE Depeche Mode fans and HUGE U2 fans and ne’er the two shall meet (people who casually like the bands often like both). I myself am a huge Depeche Mode fan and can’t get into U2 in the slightest, so it rings true by me.
Guns 'n Roses
Motley Crue (acclaimed or not, I just think they suck)
Black Sabbath
Journey
Oh yeah… Metallica.
Most boring collection of crapwork… ever.
Me thinks you got acclaimed and popular confused for this little bit. But I completely agree anyhow.
I can’t get into Metallica, Phish, Guns n’ Roses or 99% of metal. I don’t care how good the album is, I just can’t get into it.
U2 - boring. I have never understood how they have been able to build such a huge fanatic fan base. I have always felt that they should rename to Generic Modern Rock
Flaming Lips – yeah they write some really cool songs but who can listen to them? Wayne Coyne has without a doubt the worst singing voice I have ever heard. They are sometimes able to cover up his sea-lion orking with some loud instrumentals but if you have ever heard them live (as I have) you will never want to hear what they pass off as music ever again.
Rush
Never saw the allure.
Any of the rare, “trend of the week” musical acts that show up in Rolling Stone magazine.
Delta-32 Skee-do!
The Doors.
Three talented musicians hijacked and fronted by a pretetnious prettyboy would-be romantic poet and self-appointed voice of his generation who could never have made it as a solo act.
The Sex Pistols
Definitely Radiohead. “Creep” is one of my favorite songs of the 1990s, but everything else the band has ever done does not appeal to me at all.
I will also echo Smashing Pumpkins and Metallica.
To those of you who don’t like U2, I’m halfway with you. I thought I was the only one in the world that hated “The Joshua Tree”. For me, 1985 was their last good year.
The above goes for REM, too. I liked everything up to and including “Green”, but I’ve hated everything since.
There are few groups that had major success that didn’t have something going for them, but these are the ones whose sum total is unimpressive:
Rod Stewart – Good early on, but once he left Jeff Beck, he was a great voice who wouldn’t know a good song if it bit him.
Steve Miller Band – OK up until when Boz Scaggs left. Then quickly deteriorated into a bunch of third-rate boogie hits. If I hear them on the radio, I switch immediately.
Boz Scaggs – obviously, he wasn’t the reason why early Steve Miller was good.
Renaissance – the original incarnation was quite good, but by the second album they had turned to dull blandness.
Blood Sweat and Tears – Again, the Al Kooper original version was superb, but David Clayton-Thomas was bad and bombastic.
Chicago – another group that got worse and worse until they became popular. Two good albums and tons of crap afterwards.
King Crimson – Great first album, the rest unlistenable.
Got to agree on Bob Dylan. I like covers of Dylan songs.
Joanie Mitchell.
Linkin Park (worst band in radio rotation).
I like Floyd, but really only The Wall. I haven’t gotten into a lot of other stuff.
Red Hot Chili Peppers. I like their old stuff like, Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
Ditto on Foo Fighters. They used to be good.
Phish.
Grateful Dead.
Most, if not all, modern rap. I like the 80’s stuff.
Boston. All sounds the same to me.
**Rush. ** Ditto.
**Creed. ** Creed really, really sucks. If I ran a hard-rock radio station that would be our motto - ‘Creed really, really sucks.’
Unfortunately, these well thought-out and strongly held opinions do not prevent the local ‘Real Rock station, KSHE-95’ (St. Louis, MO) from playing Boston, Rush and Creed constantly - at least three songs a day from each band. Brutal.
And whoever said Oasis, - amen, brother. What a shitty band.
Oooh, yea, Dylan. I never got him at all.
Speaking of which: the Rolling Stones.
Yeah, remember them? And all those rock journalists who thought they were destined to be the Next Big Thing? I regret every penny I spent on that disc. Feh.
Actually, I think that the current holder of this title is Simple Plan (that is the name of that band isn’t it?)
Also, can somebody please explain the appeal of Aerosmith? They’ve sucked as long and as hard as most of the bands mentioned so far in this thread.