What bands are critically acclaimed or well-respected by critics and fans alike, but you don’t care for? I’m particularly interested in bands who’s music is in genres that you otherwise enjoy and that, in theory at least, would be right up your alley. To kick things off, for me, I’m generally a big fan of college and modern rock, but I really do not care for Radiohead. I know “Ok Computer” is considered groundbreaking and a modern classic, and I can appreciate the concepts explored in the album, but the music is just not interesting or enjoyable for me.
I guess I’ll start off with a bang: The Beatles. I’ve never understood what all the fuss is about. I recognize that they brought about a massive change to rock music, opening the doors for future bands that, IMO, were a lot better. But being the first does not equate to being the best.
Journey. I think they’re well-regarded but maybe not.
System of a Down. The lead singer’s voice and tone give my ears the sadz 
, but from what I understand the band is critically acclaimed and commercially successful.
Radiohead fits the bill for me as well. Also Cat Power. Her name comes up in conversations about music I like and radio stations I listen to have hosted/promoted her and she has a bunch of albums but my attempts to listen to her have ended cold.
Prince. He was undoubtedly talented and could make a decent pop song but his output was mostly self-indulgent crap. He was a talented multi-instrumentalist but he was no where near being a virtuoso on any instrument. He’s called a great guitar player because it’s surprising to see someone (other than hired guns) making essentially dance music be competent on an instrument. He was good but there are many guitar players that are better.
I’ll run with the interpretation of “well-regarded” meaning “popular” with a light dusting of “critically liked” as I don’t know what the music press thought of some of these at the time but…
I loathe the Eagles. Smug and unrelatable studio hackwork. Never could understand the appeal of Jethro Tull. I recognize that Sam Cooke was a terrific songwriter, but overexposure at work to his easy-listening hits (particularly “You Send Me,” “Cupid” and “Wonderful World”) soured him for me forever.
When I finally broke down and gave it a listen several years back, I was massively underwhelmed. Let’s see: painfully off-key vocals (as I’ve said before, Thom Yorke NEVER shows up in the “bad singers” threads we periodically get here), pathetic to nonexistent dynamics/key shifts/chord changes, crap musicianship, pathetic lyrics. It is basically just warmed-over post-grunge with some electronica pretensions in the margins, which is what gets the hipsters all hot and bothered apparently.
OK, “groundbreaking” and a “classic”-whatever you [generic] say. Note I am not the least bit afraid of anything avant garde. Radiohead however isn’t avant garde diddly squat, but has fooled a lot of individuals into thinking that they are.
I’ll stop there because we aren’t in the Pit. I’ll just say they epitomize where the underground/indie scene/2nd tier/sub-mainstream has all gone wrong in the last 27 years since its release. If I hear a newer act ignoring/defying their influence, I tend to be rather surprised if not shocked anymore.
I’m not going to try and change your mind at all. SOAD is niche music suited for the time and genre it came out. They have success but I wouldn’t call it widespread. Serj’s voice on the records is a style choice. You can find him singing other things in other styles and hear that he has a rich, powerful baritone with a pretty big range.
Bands that hate the songs that made them rich and sneer at the fans that like their hits annoy me. Radiohead is at the top of that list.
Rush.
Our son likes them. He played me a bunch of their videos. The operatic singing style of the singer really grated on me.
I have some friends who are in to The Pixies. Wow, that’s boring & pretentious stuff. I don’t understand the appeal.
I never really got into the Rolling Stones, or the Who. Both bands have a couple of songs which I like, but overall, just not much of a fan of either group.
With both there are certainly eras that are better and worse. Probably similar in both. Both bands had lightweight catchy tunes in the early part of their career. Both peaked in the 1970s. Both put out mostly crap after that.
Seconding Rush and The Beatles.
No love for Van Halen, either singer.
I used to like Led Zeppelin and then I got tired of their shtick.
There are a bunch in hip-hop but the biggest one is Eminem. I can’t deny that he’s talented and there are a couple of songs from him that are okay but most of his work is too angry for me.
Also never liked 2Pac or Biggie.
With most of the big name rappers over the past 20 years, I could not recognize their material if my life depended on it. Kendrick Lamar? I have no idea what he sounds like. Drake? I don’t know a single song. So I might like them but I have no exposure to them.
I thought I would like Childish Gambino but I listened to a bunch of his songs on Spotify and they did nothing for me.
B. B. King. Seems to be playing the same licks over and over. I don’t get it.
Taylor Swift. I don’t get the appeal. Just boring, over-produced, pop music to my ears.
Yes. Over-produced sound, and pretentious. Ugh.
Come to think of it, I don’t care for 95% of “well-regarded” bands, so I’ll stop right there. 
I could never stand Pink Floyd, and that was even before I found out about Roger Waters’ antisemitism and other political views.
I’m with you on Pink Floyd. Meanwhile, my little brother took a half year sabbatical from work in order to follow the band, attending concert after concert on their tour. I forget the year. Weird dude, he might have been adopted.
Ponch8 beat me too Pink Floyd by four minutes. I would grant that they are technically talented musicians, but the music they produce is just so depressing.
Throw in Roger Waters’ anti-semitism and I switch the radio anytime one of their songs comes on. Every time.
Also Rush. And specifically Geddy’s voice. I think they’re all amazing musicians, but as soon as the solo/intro/bridge finishes and he comes screeching back into the mix, I’m turning it off.