# Music you like by artists you don't like

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 18, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-like-by-artists-you-dont-like/493581 "2009-04-18T22:52:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-like-by-artists-you-dont-like/493581/1 "2009-04-18T22:52:15Z")

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In the grocery store this morning, I was poking around the produce section and the store’s pleasant ambient music system pulled up Michael Jackson’s **Off the Wall**. Well, I just couldn’t help bouncing and really had all I could do not to make a real spectacle of myself grooving to that song while grabbing lemons and asparagus. I made a mental note to download it as soon as I got home, and realized that despite MJ’s freakishness and squicky bizarre history, I do love me some Michael Jackson music.

On my iPod I have:  
**The Way You Make Me Feel  
Bad  
Smooth Criminal  
Rock With You  
Man In the Mirror  
Beat It  
Billie Jean**  
and now, of course, **Off the Wall**

Almost enough for a MJ playlist. And I don’t like him! But I love when those tunes come up during my workout. I guess I’ve reconciled my Michael-Jackson-the-person distaste with my appreciation for his music.

Who do you listen to that you personally can’t stand?

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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-like-by-artists-you-dont-like/493581/2 "2009-04-18T23:07:49Z")

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I love Michael Jackson’s music, myself. I certainly don’t care who knows it or what they think of me. I’ll shout it from the rooftops, I’ll blare it out the window.

Back in the day I hated Huey Lewis and the News. Blah smug frat boy crap, fronted by an ugly geek pretending to be 15 years younger than he really was. They had one excellent song that I loved, go figure. I was deeply conflicted. If they came out with other good music, what would I do??? Luckily, they vanished into obscurity fairly soon after.

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**Author:** ![MisterPeabody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@MisterPeabody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterPeabody)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-like-by-artists-you-dont-like/493581/3 "2009-04-19T02:43:18Z")

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Same here. I hate Michael Jackson turned into a freak but I still like his old stuff Off The Wall and Thriller.

Also like Ted Nugent’s music but can’t stand to hear him talk politics.  
And on the other side I really like some of Sinead O’Connor’s stuff from the  
'80s but can’t stand to hear her talk politics.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-like-by-artists-you-dont-like/493581/4 "2009-04-19T03:44:17Z")

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On a purely personal level, I dislike a HUGE number of my favorite musical artists.

I love Led Zeppelin, but Jimmy Page is a pedophilic coke-head.

I love CCR, but John Fogerty strikes me as an arrogant, vindictive, self-righteous prick.

I love much of what King Crimson has recorded, but feel sure I’d have strangled Robert Fripp if I’d ever had to work with him.

I think John Lennon was one of the 3 or 4 greatest songwriters who ever lived, but he was a contemptible (if often charming) human being.

Is that enough?

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-you-like-by-artists-you-dont-like/493581/5 "2009-04-19T06:36:11Z")

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The album **Prince & the Revolution** had some _really_ good singles, notably “When Doves Cry.” I don’t normally dig Prince, though.