You know, I used to like Zeppelin. My friends and I would “borrow” our older brothers and sisters albums and play them. And then to hear them on the radio was such an oddity that it was cool. Then all of a sudden radio stations started playing the crap out of LZ and I actually got to where I can’t stand to hear some of the songs. It so very, very sad.
And I think I overexposed the Doors to myself. I still like the music, but I don’t need to hear it anymore. Does that make sense?
I like pretty much every 90s alternative rock band there is. But I can’t stand Everclear. Go figure. They’re okay musicians, and as soon as they record a song that doesn’t suck, maybe I’ll like them better…
Oh, then there’s the Rolling Stones. The exact opposite problem. I like the songs, but I hate the way Mick Jagger ruins them. Does that guy have any sense of rhythm at all?
I agree that the Beatles are overrated. i just don’t feel anything when I listen to them.
But the one I hate with all abandon is Alanis Morrisette. She is a terrible songwriter, can’t sing, and is all around annoying.
Since we’re here to slay rock and roll “gods”, may I humbly offer The Who. Arrggghhhh! Tommy? What a piece of pretentious turd.
Although the VH1 Behind the Music on Keith Moon was rivetting. Made me want to drink even more than I already do.
INFIDELS, ALL! I’ll be off somewhere, listening to the White Album, The Wall, and Tommy, three of my favorite albums. Damn kids…
Just have to second everyone excoriation of the Eagles. Good lord, what unmitigated crap. I heard “Hotel California” for the first time at university, and my jaw hung open in slack-jawed stupefaction at it’s utter awfulness.
Janes Addiction always annoyed me no end. Their giants in the genre, and while I like most of the other bands, these guys just press all the wrong buttons. I think it’s mostly Perry Farrel’s voice…
…which leads me to Smashing Pumpkins, whose music I rather like, but I can’t stand Billy Corgan’s voice about half the time. It was quite a revelation when I figured out I didn’t like them because of his voice, rather than the actual songs.
Red Hot Chili Peppers. Can’t stand 'em. I liked their first album, but after that, forget about it.
Velvet Underground has also always just left me cold.
Can’t stand Jethro Tull. Could be a voice thing again, but maybe it’s just that damn flute. Or it could be the pretentious songwriting. Or the histrionic “singing”. Or maybe they just suck.
I used to lump Queen in this group, but lately they’ve been growing on me, which is really weird.
Anything in the “progressive rock” genre from the 70’s/80’s I find stupefyingly bad–bloodless, pointless, pretentious and overplayed dirges…Yes being the prime example…the Beatles, on the other hand, rule…
I almost got into a fist fight with a buddy of mine once over Jim Morrison’s intellectual masturbation.
Me: What is it with you and the Doors anyway?
Him: Are you kidding?! Morrison’s the most brilliant poet of the twentieth century! Listen to the lyrics sometime!
Me: Oh yes - “Love me two times, I’m going away.” Only a truly tortured artist could come with something that brilliant.
Fortunately, the argument ended there. He was in the infantry at the time and I was a librarian, so it’s just as well we agreed to disagree.
Jethro Tull and…
Rush.
There. I said it.
…and before you Rush fans sit up in your chairs in horror, preparing to blast me in the Pit, listen to the melody of Tom Sawyer, break it down, and tell me it doesn’t sound like snippets of tunes you wrote in junior high strung together and overplayed on keyboards…
The lyrics are equally insipid.
Rush, man.
Yuck.
poohpah, we Rush fans are too dignified to trash someone just because they don’t appreciate the Canadian trio. I, for one, am never offended when someone else doesn’t share my taste in something - we’re all different, eh? Like any band, they’ve had the occasional clinker (surely everyone drops the ball now and then over the course of a 25 year career), but overall, I like them, so there.
HelloKitty, I can’t believe someone else thinks the Stones are ludicrously overrated. Hear hear! They’ve had a couple decent songs, but for the most part, bleeaach. Every time I see one of those ugly, pompous idiots prancing around on tv I want to smack somebody (preferably Mick first).
Seconds (or thirds, or whatever) on the Doors.
My own infinitely flamable nomination - Neil Young. Whine, whine, whine (yeah, Dylan too) - and how can anybody play guitar for so many years and still sound like somebody’s brother plunking away on the couch in the basement?
P.S. Myrr21, your SD remark made me laugh.
The overrated Rolling Stones (if only Mick would use those ugly lips to suck Keith Richards’s face off)
The unmentionable America (Muskrat Love? bite me)
Led Zeppelin
Donovan (okay, he’s only one guy, but he’s bad enough to be a band)
The pretentious Police
Genesis (god bless South Park for skewering Phil Collins)
Pink Floyd
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
I love the Beatles, like Elvis and Dylan is growing on me. Ever hear “The Hurricane?” Amazing song.
There’s only one band that leaps to my mind immediately on this topic, and that is Rush. Probably the best drummer in a popular band in the world, interesting rhythms and music, lyrics that avoid the hackneyed themes of other pop music, and a distinctive lead voice, but I can’t stand them for the life of me.
I take the subject line literally – I find my loathing of Rush to be quite irrational, perhaps only explained if the total is far less than the sum of the parts. I feel the same way about Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, the best beer I hate. It’s in the category of unexplained things, like friends-you’re-sexually-attracted-to-for-no-real-reason.
panama jack
as a guitar player, every time i think i’ve heard a song enough, i can sit down and learn to play it and love it all over again. so i still dig all the overplayed classic rock stuff - zeppelin, floyd, beatles, etc.
the band that i should like that i can’t stand is ‘blues traveller’. ok, popper, we know you can play in the upper register, now do something worthwhile with it. and that guitar player they use sounds like he’s in junior high just learning his first ‘blue’ scales. ouch.
cygnus: I gotta admit, that was one classy response. I doff my cap.
Kurt Cobain.
There, I said it. Yes, Nirvana was pretty good (I was in High school during the whole grunge rock thing), but I’ve always like Pearl Jam better.
Come ON! You think Kurt was cool? He couldn’t stick it out.
Please.
David Bowie and glam rock, for the most part.
Hi, I’m tatertot, I’m 26 and despite having been as angst-ridden as the next teenager I never liked The Cure. I tried, believe me, oh how I tried, but I never could get past the fact that they totally suck. IMHO, of course.
I also don’t care much for the Grateful Dead or Phish. I’ve even been to a Phish concert, but I just didn’t get it. And when bands jam, it really bores me. Of course, I am tone deaf, so it’s more my problem than theirs.
Ooh, and I don’t like Pink Floyd either.
I HATE the Rolling Stones!!! God, they suck.
And the Doors too! I agree with Pipeliner. They’re pompous butt-wipes.
And Dylan and Neil Young and anyone else who thinks a harmonica sounds good.
Also the Eagles, Grateful Dead, Lou Reed, Allman Brothers.
I like the Beatles, but as solo acts they ALL suck.
Um, I thought Captain and Tenille (blech! Gag! Puke!) sang Muskrat Love…yeck.
For those who oppose The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Who . . . Chew on this:
The message of music appears to have fallen upon deaf ears of the past couple of generations, as technology reigns supreme in most people’s minds. These groups, as others like them created tribulations of love, transcendentally poignant thoughts that aroused one’s own senses or reflected the fear of nuclear destruction, which resonated in songs like the Grateful Dead’s “Morning Dew” or Quicksilver’s “Pride of Man”. The music dealt with issues of exploration: How to deal with emotional changes, where you stood in the universe, what life and death really meant. By singing about the situation, these musicians proclaimed themselves brothers in this quest.
Our music was a continuation of thoughts and actions that had happened in the past, our present, and your future. The times were like a coalescence of the free sexual revolution, the marijuana revolution, the drug revolution, political revolution, liberation movements of all kinds.
We were getting together to have a be-in. The purpose was to be there. That was the whole point, and the music brought us together as it did then, it still does today.
Enough of my rambling’s.
How about a “Kitchen Yoga” session? Anyone?
All ‘jam rock’ music, and the Rolling Stones.