artists you don't get

[The Czech Republic 0]

My first was Sheik Yerbouti, and man I love that one. A superior 1979 release to Joe's Garage. ok we need to bump an old Zappa thread

 

 

BACK ON TOPIC: A band I do not get the hype for is Modest Mouse

[Black Lushus 0]

I never got the hype for the following bands:

 

Queens Of The Stone Age

Weezer

Modest Mouse

Franz Ferdinand

Red Hot Chili Peppers

 

(just to name a few off the top of my head)

[The Czech Republic 0]

Weezer's not BAD, per se, just like Cheap Trick isn't bad. But man, the hype they get is wholly unwarranted. The case for Weezer is just "Blue Album, Pinkerton, Blue Album, Pinkerton, Blue Album, Pinkerton, Blue Album, Pinkerton, Blue Album, Pinkerton, hooks!" Personally, I don't even think those two are that good. The following three albums aren't good at all and everyone freely admits it. Rivers Cuomo is horribly overrated as a lyricist, and every guitar solo follows the vocal part practically note-for-note, it seems. The rest of the band beyond Cuomo is negligible. There's always a bunch of them standing in a row on the covers with that stupid deer-in-headlights look, but damned if I care who their revolving-door rhythm section is.

 

They're not doing anything that isn't being done better.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Pearl Jam

Slayer (I think Kerry King is an awesome guitarist. That out of the way, I just don't get them)

Most Progressive Rock

The Sigur Ros album ()

Green Day (I hate them with an undying passion)

The Cure

The Strokes

The White Stripes

Nine Inch Nails

Modest Mouse

Franz Ferdinand

The Mars Volta

Coheed and Cambria

The Sex Pistols (Actually, I don't like most British Punk Bands)

Tool (I only like the album Lateralus. Aenima is one of the most overrated albuns ever created)

[Black Lushus 0]

Most Progressive Rock

Green Day (I hate them with an undying passion)

The Cure

The Strokes

The White Stripes

Nine Inch Nails

The Mars Volta

Coheed and Cambria

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yes, there's some of the groups I couldn't think of at the time...

[Matt Young 0]

I tried and failed at The Arcade Fire.

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You and me both.

 

Since Franz Ferdinand was mentioned, I hated "Take Me Out" but ended up loving "Do You Want To" (especially the video) and now, when playing Burnout 3 and hearing the song, I enjoy "Take Me Out". I don't know about the rest of their material, but I don't loathe the band anymore.

 

As Czech knows, I don't get Radiohead at all.

[Black Lushus 0]

yeah there's more:

 

radiohead

coldplay

the beatles (BLASPHEMY~!)

U2

[nl5xsk1 0]

See, is this becoming a "bands that are popular that I just don't like" thread? Not to single you out, Lushus, but the Beatles? I mean, I hate them with a passion, but I don't have a hard time 'getting' why they're popular. And it's funny, I thought of them & Led Zeppelin pretty quickly ... but realized that while I hate both bands, I do recognize why they're so popular.

 

Rant over.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Zappa's sort of oriented towards other musicians, I think. Myself, and most other people that love the guy's stuff in a 30+ cds sort of way tend to have perfectionist attitudes towards their own music. He's got a great sense of humor though.

 

"To be a real country, you need a beer and an airline. Some sort of football team helps, but at the very least, you need a beer."

 

"This goes out to all the good looking people out there. Some of you might even be beautiful, but guess what...there's a lot more of us ugly motherfuckers than you are."

 

(paraphrasing)

 

I used to adore Led Zeppelin. I can barely listen to them outside of their debut now.

[swan 0]

Grateful Dead

Dave Matthews

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Houses of the Holy is my favorite Zeppelin these days. It's fun. Most of their catalogue isn't.

 

For the multitudes who don't get Radiohead, I will, for probably about the 30th time on this board, encourage you to listen to The Bends, which is devoid of everything you probably think when you think of Radiohead (re: pretentiousness, screechy Thom Yorke vocals, etc.). I mean, who can't dig "Just" and "The Bends" and "Fake Plastic Trees." Take or leave the rest of their catalog as you please but you do yourself a disservice if you miss out on that one.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

For me, Most classical music.

 

There's pieces I really like, and just thousands I can't recognize from another. I'm a rube.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Incidentally, The Bends is the only Radiohead album I like all the way through.

[Black Lushus 0]

See, is this becoming a "bands that are popular that I just don't like" thread?  Not to single you out, Lushus, but the Beatles?  I mean, I hate them with a passion, but I don't have a hard time 'getting' why they're popular.  And it's funny, I thought of them & Led Zeppelin pretty quickly ... but realized that while I hate both bands, I do recognize why they're so popular.

 

Rant over.

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uh it's bands I don't get I.E. i don't get what was so special about them and their music...duh...

[Slayer 0]

For the multitudes who don't get Radiohead, I will, for probably about the 30th time on this board, encourage you to listen to The Bends, which is devoid of everything you probably think when you think of Radiohead (re: pretentiousness, screechy Thom Yorke vocals, etc.).  I mean, who can't dig "Just" and "The Bends" and "Fake Plastic Trees."  Take or leave the rest of their catalog as you please but you do yourself a disservice if you miss out on that one.

As said here, I re-evaluate some things every few years or so (essentially whenever it pops in my head) and after conversing with Czech a couple weeks ago I tried several songs, including some from The Bends, and I'm still not feeling it.

 

Besides, I thought OKC was the pinnacle of their discography... at least that's what I kept hearing from the Radiohead fans I knew in past forums/chats I went to

[Nighthawk 0]

It is, sort of, but that's by a different standard. It's like comparing High Voltage to Back in Black.

[The Man in Blak 0]

For me, Most classical music.

 

There's pieces I really like, and just thousands I can't recognize from another. I'm a rube.

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Part of the problem behind this is that many of the current purveyors of the genre (classical radio, metropolitan symphonies) are overly focused on snatching the common music listener, so much so that they just flood the air with The Standards (Beethoven, Bach, Mozart) and just discard a lot of the other more interesting music. If you're fed a steady diet of those three, with little sprinkles of Brahms or whatever, then hell yeah, it all sounds the same.

 

Sometimes you'll see somebody crank out "Rite of Spring" or maybe some Webern or Bartok, but it's all too rare.

[Slayer 0]

I dunno, whenever I tune into the public radio station (the one that plays classical music when it isn't playing NPR news) they play some pretty obscure stuff and I never hear notable composer names.

 

You could always play some Schoenberg and make people go "What the fuck..."

[Annabelle 0]

how can people not get the beatles? its pretty much the basis behind all pop/indie music. you might as well turned in your ear drums now.

 

both zeppelin & radiohead suffer from their singers having agonizing singing voices.

[Anorak 0]

There's plenty of bands I don't get.....but I don't hate any of them with an undying passion.

[Black Lushus 0]

how can people not get the beatles? its pretty much the basis behind all pop/indie music.  you might as well turned in your ear drums now.

 

both zeppelin & radiohead suffer from their singers having agonizing singing voices.

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*shrugs*

 

based on the bands you all randomly spout out, I have no taste in music anyway...

[Vyce 0]

yeah there's more:

 

radiohead

coldplay

the beatles (BLASPHEMY~!)

U2

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I 'get' Radiohead, I just feel like some of their later albums aren't as good or inspiring as their earlier work.

 

I am ashamed to say that I like Coldplay, but these days they're pretty much just concerned with cementing themselves as the new U2.

 

I'm with Czech on Weezer. I've thought that a few of their songs are OKAY. Not really bad, but certainly nothing that noteworthy, and why they're so popular with some people confounds me. For example, I absolutely hate that "Beverly Hills" single.

 

I don't get Frank Zappa at all. I don't think I've ever heard a Zappa song that I've even remotely liked. Unless it was a song that I didn't realize was done by Zappa, maybe that's happened before.

[The Czech Republic 0]

I don't get Frank Zappa at all.  I don't think I've ever heard a Zappa song that I've even remotely liked.  Unless it was a song that I didn't realize was done by Zappa, maybe that's happened before.

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Guy has over 75 albums spanning rock, jazz, fusion, symphonic, electronic, big band, audio collage, and you can't find ONE fucking song you like? You're not trying.

Freak Out! - You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here, Trouble Every Day

Absolutely Free - Brown Shoes Don't Make It

We're Only . . . - Concentration Moon, Mom and Dad

Uncle Meat - King Kong VI: The Underwood Ramifications

Hot Rats - all of it

Burnt Weeny Sandwich - The Little House I Used To Live In

Weasels Ripped My Flesh - Oh No, The Orange County Lumber Truck

Waka/Jawaka - Big Swifty, title track

The Grand Wazoo - title track

Studio Tan - Revised Music For Guitar & Low-Budget Orchestra, RDNZL

Sheik Yerbouti - Bobby Brown Goes Down, Jewish Princess, Wild Love

Joe's Garage - Watermelon In Easter Hay

Mothers of Prevention - What's New In Baltimore?, Porn Wars

Jazz From Hell - Night School

Broadway the Hard Way - Any Kind Of Pain, Outside Now, Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk

The Yellow Shark - G-Spot Tornado

 

 

and that's just off the top of my head in two minutes. You can't find something you like off that list, you fucking suck, there's no way around it. Seriously go on AIM I'll send you anything you want from my collection

[Annabelle 0]

weezer was good because of their simplicity. but just like other one trick ponies, their shit can be sustained over several albums. in fact i think they really milked that tit as much as they could with the mindless bubble gum pop of the blue album & the "faux-confessional" gimmick of pinkerton. what else would they do with what they have?

[Kinetic 0]

I don't think that any number of listens will ever convince me that Trout Mask Replica is anything other than completely awful. I second the Sonic Youth nomination, as well.

 

And John Cale's solo albums are better than Lou Reed's, but they're also really traditional and not at all edgy. I would say that Lou Reed had the more interesting solo career because of unlistenable garbage like Metal Machine Music and the absolute balls it must have taken to have presented that record to an unsuspecting public. Ditto Berlin, especially coming after the having a pop hit with "Walk on the Wild Side" and a thoroughly accessible David Bowie-produced record like Transformer.

[Kinetic 0]

I also don't understand why Supertramp is beloved by so many across the world.

Edited December 1, 2005 by Kinetic

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Czech forgot all about Overnite Sensation which is easily Zappa's most accessible album.

 

And "Eat that Question" is better than "The Grand Wazoo." George Duke's left hand transgressing into the bass guitar line. Holy fuck that's sharp.

 

I had to learn that immediately after listening to it.

 

My newest project is "Inca Roads" and man.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Hey, it's Kinetic. Discussion sidebar for which you might be helpful. If I recall, your member title used to be "All I want is easy action," the line from T. Rex's "Solid Gold Easy Action." A month or so ago I heard a song in a music store using that same line, but it clearly wasn't T. Rex. Sounded more like Will Oldham or someone of that ilk. I have not been able to find out what it was or who it was. Perhaps you have some inkling.

 

Once I get a new hard drive and have room to download stuff, I guess I'll burn through Czech and Agent's Zappa lists there. I've heard almost nothing by the man.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Just check out Freak Out!, Overnite Sensation (or) Sheik Yerbouti, and Hot Rats in their entirety. If there's nothing there you fancy, add him to the list of artists you don't get. Guy's the master of the concept album.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

T-Rex is pretty good, I think. I have Electric Warrior which is fantastic and apparently their best, and one which might be self-titled, though I'm not sure. Rarely listen to it.