12-03-2002 03:37									#1
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Obviously, we're not talking about any mass marketed crap like Backstreet Boys or anything like that. Rather, we are talking about bands that are very popular amongst people of, well, a crowd like us, that you just don't get.

For me, there are two biggies for this.

Nirvana. I mean, I've listened to some Nirvana, and they're... well, OK. The band plays well, but there's something in Kurt's singing style that just doesn't click, and overall it just doesn't quite register why the band's so popular. Maybe it's because in upper elementary school I knew this one guy who was a total Nirvana fan, and he also was quite an arsehole.

Ramones. Yes, I know, they defined punk, yaddayaddayadda. Whatever. There are, AFAIK, two good Ramones songs, one of which is "I Wanna Be Sedated" and other is "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg". Others... blech.

So, what are your bands-that-everyone-loves-but-you?

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REM. What a load of mimsy, pretentious rubbish.

U2. Utter drivel.

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REM

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Rolling Stones

The "Seattle scene" in general

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Great thread Stefu!

REM gets my vote.

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Yeah, I didn't really get Nirvana either. I much prefer Foo Fighters.

U2 and REM I always saw as a little bland.

I never dug the Stones either.

Along the punk lines, I always found Bad Religion fairly ordinary, which is rather surprising...

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No Doubt and Rolling Stones

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Linkin Park, Korn, basically anything "alternative". Expressive my a** . . . All the tracks are is three to five minutes of screaming, swearing, and crying. Even less value than Tataristani blank verse.

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U2!

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quote: Originally posted by Mr. President Linkin Park, Korn, basically anything "alternative". Expressive my a** . . . All the tracks are is three to five minutes of screaming, swearing, and crying. Even less value than Tataristani blank verse.

Actually, there is no cursing on Linkin Park's album.

	12-03-2002 04:31									#11
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Slipknot, Linkin Park, Korn... I prefer musical instruments played, not tortured.
Metallica, Aerosmith and Nirvana could also be mentioned.

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Personally, I've never liked the Beatles much. One or two tracks yeah, but the rest

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Rolling Stones and Elvis Presley music.

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I don't like this nu-metal music, P.O.D, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, they all sound and they even dress the same...
Its quite funny, white people trying to rap and play 2 riffs per album and they even call it metal....

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The Specials. Lah-di-dah politically appropriate white-boy pale copies of real reggae. It's so... flat when compared to the real thing.

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I don't see the attraction of Coldplay or U2
Radiohead are also hugely overated IMO

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hmmm,

don't like emo-rock bands, slipknot, other punk bands...

I guess I kinda grew outta that whole "anti-conformist" immatture crap that some of my friends still listen to...

I'm more of a techno, ska, and old skool rock myself.

Like Earth,Wind,Fire...Benny Goodman, stuff like that.

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Beatles, Korn, and of course: Abba

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See, I tried to pick a band that someone with my musical tastes would be presumed to like. I mean, Julio Iglesias has thousands of fans, yet it's irrelevant that I don't like him since, er, "no-one" likes him. No one, that is, with my kind of musical tastes. I could list thousands of popular bands that I hate, from Pink Floyd to Radiohead and beyond, but "no-one" who I care about the tastes of likes those bands.

Second entry: Joy Division. Oh I am a depressed poet lah-di-dah it gives me a licence to write boring songs.

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I hate Don MacLean's "American Pie". What a bunch of overwraught feces. Everyone tells me about the deeper meaning of "the day the music died", and all I hear is a bunch of crap about a jester and levies.

MacLean's technically not in a band, but I had to get that one off my chest. Rage Against the Machine also drives me mad. I don't care if you like it, I just hate it popping on the damn radio so much. Also, P.O.D.'s "Youth of a Nation" is the early frontrunner for the 2002 "Excellence in Copying Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' Award".

Creed lyric template: Take a vowel, and stress it as hard as you can. Add a mild religious feel, and continue with another vowel.

An' I said OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..... So I held my head up HIGH, blah blah blah (con't). Drivel, drivel, drivel.

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Hmmm, let's see. I hate a lot of bands most people like:

Blink 182
Linkin Park
Creed
ACDC
Tool (a good name for a crappy band, whatta bunch of tools)
Staind

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quote: Originally posted by Hobbes Tool (a good name for a crappy band, whatta bunch of tools) Staind

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Beatles
Pink Floyd
REM
Phish
Greatful Dead
Jethro Tull
Allman Brother's Band
ZZ Top
Weezer
Blink-182
Aerosmith
StainD
Nickleback
The Strokes
Michael Jackson (ok, a person...so what?)

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kid rock
creed
staind
dc talk (you must understand my environment)
POD
beatles
rolling stones
pink floyd (just can't get into them)
stereomud
blink 182
no doubt
godsmack
selena
ricky martin
britney spears
hanson (back in the day)
bbmak
nsync/bbb's
98 degrees...etc etc etc..all the pop crap
enrique iglesias
metallica

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Top thread!!!

all the new depressing Brit bands:

Coldplay
Travis
Starsailor
et al....

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Radiohead. Well, ok, OK Computer was pretty good and The Bends has some damn fine musicianship. But Bends falters in some of its lyrics ("fake plastic trees"? what?), though everything post-OK Computer just had lyrics that meant little or nothing, much like Weezer's work as of late ("dope nose"? please, I'm not retarded). And the music on everything after OK Computer seemed like they were trying too hard to 'change' music. No, you don't change music by trying to fake it; you change it by doing what you do. An honest revolutionary is always best.

The Strokes. Sorry, but I don't like it when bands intentionally change their sound to make themselves seem more 'indie' or 'garage'. Drummers intentionally missing beats is a no-no. If it's honest, it's honest. And Strokes lyrics rarely make sense.

I understand people's disgust with Tool. I always passed them off as being another lame heavy metal band until I paid attention to the lyrics. And as a drummer I can attest to the percussion genious behind Tool. But I still understand why others don't like them.

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Agreed regarding Radiohead.

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creed: they have one or two decent songs that get played out VERY fast
kid rock
limp bizkit
godsmack, aside from one song or two.
and others, i'm sure. . .

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cairo, is your sig Madness?

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The Cure. What any ever saw in this band i have no idea. Pure dribble.

Oh yes, and most of the others mentioned here were too