I found the movies of that series more interesting than the books. To me, Tolkein’s writing style is literary Sominex.
I’m with you there, I just find them bland sounding. I don’t mind hearing them as background music, but I can’t imagine deliberately adding them to a playlist or seeking out their albums. It’s just kind of a neutral buzzing noise to me, nothing stands out or hooks me. I like plenty of other bands in the same genre, it’s specifically them.
Most health care workers consider his recommendations to be things that people should NOT do.
I figured the Beastie Boys would be a one-hit wonder with “You Gotta Fight…” and don’t understand the adulation for them.
I never even finished the first book, although I would read 50-plus pages at a sitting.
I’ve never understood why everyone has such a hard-on for the Beatles.
Queen is another one. I recognize that Freddie Mercury was one of the greatest vocalists of all time. I recognize that Brian May is an exceptional guitarist. But their music has an element of… stupidity to it, for lack of a better term. I’ve never been able to get past it.
I don’t care for the Grateful Dead.
AND, I’ve been a guitarist in a noodley bluesy band, and I can’t listen to them.:rolleyes:
I’ve tried Frank Zappa too, can’t do it. But I’ll listen to him talk ALL DAY.
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Nina Simone.
Oh, come off that sacred ledge!
Exactly.
Elvis Costello. I get that he’s a cool dude and all, but his music affects me like fingernails on a black board (do people still say that?).
**Cheese **(the food). I don’t know if this thread was meant to be about music but I will take any chance I get to vent my spleen about that most odious of dairy byproducts.
As for music, maybe Beyonce?She’s always kind of gotten on my nerves and actively makes me not want to see the new Lion King.
Movies:Anything by Monty Python. Love all the individual members but not the sum of their parts.
;)Also, I really hate misspellings in thread titles. :p;)
See post #29. 
Heh, really like the band, but hated that song from the first time I heard it. Not really fond of “Rooster”, either.
I don’t really care for Bob Marley.
Al Roker. So sue me.
Also:
Prince
Most of the female singers today who search through the scales trying to find the right note; I call it ‘warbling’.
New Dylan
Cher
Dave Matthews Band: I’ve tried, because my kids are fans, but they guy can’t sing a lick and most of their music sounds just like the rest of their music.
Harry Potter: unless I’m suffering from insomnia.
Long held dislike of the Grateful Dead, Journey, and Eagles.
Don’t care for comic books > No interest ever in superhero movies > No interest therefor in comicons of any stripe.
I really dislike professional sports entirely.
I might as well add: Renaissance fairs. OMG.
<wow, I sound so sour>
Jazz.
I physically cannot be in the same room. I have left a restaurant before ordering because of the jazz.
Curiously I enjoyed the film “Whiplash” partly because I found the music so horrible that it emphasised the emptiness of the main character’s “victories”.
Ooo-er - so nobody has said this, but…
I can’t stand rap music.
Now, there was a time, way back in the '80s, when rap was new, original, fresh and exciting. I thought, at the time, that The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was a modern wonder of the world, and pointed the way forwards to a new golden age of music. And then - what happened? There doesn’t seem to have been any progress in decades.
If I notice a rap record now it’s because it stands out by being more shouty, more abusive, more violent or more misogynistic than the average rap. There was always a certain lack of musicality in the template, but talent could overcome that. Now, everything sounds the same (to me) - even Dizzee bores me these days.
I’ll shut up now.
j