# Popular bands everyone loves but you hate. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527 "2014-04-07T03:40:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/1 "2014-04-07T03:40:35Z")
Popular band means a group or solo artist that has had multiple hit albums, not one hit wonders. So no saying Men Without Hats. And hate means you dislike everything, or close to everything they’ve done, not just certain songs or albums. Mine will obviously be dated: **Chicago**. Can’t stand anything they did. Saw them in concert once in the 70’s (don’t ask why I went!:rolleyes: ). 3.5 hours which was a half hour longer than the Wings concert I saw in '76. Difference being I liked Wings. **Boston**. Blech! **Kansas**. Must be bands named after places always suck! **Fleetwood Mac**. Mac & Cheese if you ask me. Stevie Nicks does sing like a goat, I don’t care what anyone says. \*\* Yes\*\*. Um, no! Got dragged to a **Yes** concert last summer. They didn’t even play any of their newer work. It was all the weird sounding shit from '71. Agony! Your turn. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/2 "2014-04-07T03:57:48Z")
**Lynyrd Skynyrd** - how can so many people in one band sound so goddam awful? Big second on **Boston**. Did I mention **Lynyrd** fuckin’ **Skynyrd**? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/3 "2014-04-07T04:01:27Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > **Fleetwood Mac**. Mac & Cheese if you ask me. Stevie Nicks does sing like a goat, I don’t care what anyone says. > \*\* > Yes\*\*. Um, no! Got dragged to a **Yes** concert last summer. They didn’t even play any of their newer work. It was all the weird sounding shit from '71. Agony! It’s not really fair to put down a band’s live performance when they’re 30 years past their prime. Yes, some bands really should call it a day, but most of them do need some way to pay for their drug rehab bills and alimony checks. Personally – and this may be heresy – I’ve never understood the love for **The Beatles.** Sure, they were a catchy pop band who branched out into more experimental territory later in their career, and I certainly don’t “hate” them _per se_, but dear lord, so many people worship the ground they walk on, it’s crazy. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/4 "2014-04-07T04:13:07Z")
Nirvana is horribly overrated! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/5 "2014-04-07T04:13:24Z")
Yes is just an awful, awful band. Genesis was terrible as well. I don’t hate Springsteen but I really don’t get the love. The Grateful Dead just plain suck - if you have to be stones out of your mind on acid to appreciate music it’s probably shitty music. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/6 "2014-04-07T04:19:20Z")
U2. Unlistenable. The Rolling Stones. Just… boring. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/7 "2014-04-07T04:19:23Z")
I started to write a reply, realized that my list could take all day, and decided to settle on a top 3. Kate Bush. I know that not “everyone” loves her-- I suppose she’s actually obscure, at least to today’s popular music fans. So are acts like Kansas. Anyway, I don’t like the way she sings, I find her lyrics stupider than usual\*, and I don’t like the pedestal she’s on, albeit through no fault of her own. Green Day. I have enjoyed some of their stuff but my appreciation dried up when “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” got madly overplayed and died altogether with “American Idiot”, which I found to be pandering and simply not fun. The Beatles. You knew somebody was going to say it. Now, I appreciate them, and find them interesting in terms of their place in pop history, but I can’t say that I’ve enjoyed listening to their music in maybe a decade. I also think that they had a bad influence on pop music. Psychedelic pop was awful IMO (see America), and The Beatles had a lot to do with that nonsense. Also, the pedestal problem. And self indulgence. And how they turned out to be jerks. I don’t hate them, but I’d rather watch a documentary about them than listen to one of their albums.\*\* \*[Kate Bush - Mrs. Bartolozzi Lyrics | AZLyrics.com](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/katebush/mrsbartolozzi.html) > [@](#): > > I think I see you standing outside > But it’s just your shirt > Hanging on the washing line > Waving its arm as the wind blows by > And it looks so alive > Nice and white > Just like its climbed right out > Of my washing machine > Washing machine > Washing machine > > Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy \*\*On preview, I see that someone did indeed say The Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/8 "2014-04-07T04:20:22Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Nirvana is horribly overrated! You just have to [listen to the lyrics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY&feature=kp) and it will all make sense. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/9 "2014-04-07T04:29:46Z")
Rush, I really fucking hate Rush. Actually, what I really hate is Geddy’s voice. He’s a great bass player, the drums and guitar are great It’s just that screechy voice. I don’t understand how people can listen to that. I remember driving around when I was younger, turning on the radio and hearing this great instrumental part of song and getting really into it, then the vocals came back and I heard “and I guess that’s why they call me, they call me the working man” and I was like, oh, it’s you. I already didn’t like them (because of Geddy) just not well enough to recognize a song in the middle of it. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/10 "2014-04-07T04:30:41Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > \*\* > Yes\*\*. Um, no! Got dragged to a **Yes** concert last summer. They didn’t even play any of their newer work. It was all the weird sounding shit from '71. Agony! I don’t think everybody loves Yes. You got your prog guys who like the older prog stuff and sort of groove on the newer stuff, and you got your 80s people who really dug “Owner of a Lonely Heart”. I kind of see Yes as being a one-hit wonder if you aren’t in to prog. I don’t really see people digging too deep in to the Boston or Kansas catalogs either. Their popular songs are popular yes but they’re not on par with say, The Eagles. Sounds like you just don’t like classic rock. Or don’t like prog-tinged classic rock…or Fleetwood Mac. Might be more worthwhile to start a thread trying to curate a list of “bands everybody likes”! Like Billy Joel. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/11 "2014-04-07T05:04:25Z")
The \*\*Rolling Stones \*\*and **Frank Zappa**. They hurt my ears and my brain. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/12 "2014-04-07T05:08:17Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) This is also one of those songs that isn’t what most people seem to think it’s about, kind of like Extreme’s “More Than Words”. I love early 70s Yes, but don’t have a lot of use for the rest of it. I’ve never gotten the big deal about Eminem. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/13 "2014-04-07T05:26:41Z")
I can’t stand Maroon 5 mostly because of Adam Levine’s whiny voice. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/14 "2014-04-07T05:35:15Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I don’t think everybody loves Yes. You got your prog guys who like the older prog stuff and sort of groove on the newer stuff, and you got your 80s people who really dug “Owner of a Lonely Heart”. I kind of see Yes as being a one-hit wonder if you aren’t in to prog. > > I don’t really see people digging too deep in to the Boston or Kansas catalogs either. Sigh.:rolleyes: Missy, you weren’t even around in the early/mid 70’s. Did you read the part where I posted my list would be dated? Yes, Boston, and Kansas were immensely popular during the stadium rock concert and album rock radio station days. Their albums/music were everywhere and I hated them! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/15 "2014-04-07T05:50:38Z")
Moving on over to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/16 "2014-04-07T09:40:59Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Rush, I really fucking hate Rush. > > Actually, what I really hate is Geddy’s voice. He’s a great bass player, the drums and guitar are great It’s just that screechy voice. I don’t understand how people can listen to that. I remember driving around when I was younger, turning on the radio and hearing this great instrumental part of song and getting really into it, then the vocals came back and I heard “and I guess that’s why they call me, they call me the working man” and I was like, oh, it’s you. > I already didn’t like them (because of Geddy) just not well enough to recognize a song in the middle of it. You have my complete support, and some people have acted like it makes me un-Canadian, but I can’t help it. Awful, awful voice. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/17 "2014-04-07T10:20:23Z")
Pearl Jam. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/18 "2014-04-07T10:49:07Z")
Pink Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/19 "2014-04-07T11:10:49Z")
Rush, and the Beatles. Really can’t stand either of them and have no idea why people are still crazy over them. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527/20 "2014-04-07T11:27:01Z")
Wow. I must be easy to please, musically. So far I disagree with every post! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-bands-everyone-loves-but-you-hate/685527.md?page=2)