# Well-regarded bands that you don't like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [August 1, 2024, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-regarded-bands-that-you-dont-like/1005105 "2024-08-01T13:12:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 139
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-regarded-bands-that-you-dont-like/1005105/139 "2024-08-06T18:37:44Z")
> [@veryfrank](#): > > This Hip are one of those bands that I like, but only their singles. If you have their best-of, you truly own everything you need to by the band. I’ve had a few full albums of theirs over the years, and the filler is utterly forgettable. Their output declined badly in the latter half of their run. The first three albums are absolutely terrific and there are still a lot of excellent singles on the next few, but after that it’s just like a band trying to be the Tragically Hip. And so in a way, the Hip are, to me, both sides of this question. For eight to ten years they were insanely great, producing a wild number of wonderful songs, and for another 15, they were widely regarded as a national treasure even though none of their music was actually very good and I couldn’t make it through many of those later albums more than once. “Road Apples” is one of the greatest rock albums humans have ever recorded; “Now For Plan A” does not have a single song that can be described as interesting, original, well written, or anything else positive - and yet it sold like hotcakes, 'cause “Tragically Hip.” Musicians run out of ideas at some point. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-regarded-bands-that-you-dont-like/1005105)._