Bands you think you should like, but you dont

[pink_triangle]

Having this conversation in the pub yesterday. The types of bands we were thinking were

1. Bands that you hear on the radio, that sound like the type of music you normally like, you think they will grow on you but they never do.

2. Bands that friends who have very similar music tastes like but you just cant get into.

3. Bands that are described as sounding like acts you love but make no impression on you.

My choices were death cab for cutie, macabees and idlewild. Everything about these bands suggest I should love them, but despite putting the effort in I just cant get into their music. Any other opinions?

[jump]

Weirdest one I've got is Less Than Jake, I have a shit load of ska punk cds and out of 3/5 gigs I go to are ska punk bands I've seen dozens of times but I have no interest in Less Than Jake.

Edited April 21, 2011 by jump

[The Nal]

Radiohead

Elbow

Arcade Fire (except for half of Funeral)

The Verve

Most “Amereicana” bands

Pearl Jam

Beastie Boys

The Strokes

Arctic Monkeys

Kanye West

Franz Ferdinand

Post sell out Kings of Leon

Any band whos songs are based on a contstant down stoke on the same chord

Theres loads…

[harderfaster]

Biffy. There's just something I can't bring myself to like.

QOTSA... or anything involving Josh Homme. And I don't even dislike him as a person.

[Alcatraz]

The Doors

I just....don't get it

[Kowalski]

Radiohead

Elbow

Arcade Fire

Pink Floyd

[The_Spoon]

Elbow..... As my flatmate put it, "Coldplay with beards" Can't ever hear the name without thinking that now

[Banana Co]

Pendulum; all my friends like them but I think that they are utter shite. Their lyrics are most definitely some of the worst.

[The Nal]

Elbow..... As my flatmate put it, "Coldplay with beards"

[Banana Co]

Elbow..... As my flatmate put it, "Coldplay with beards" Can't ever hear the name without thinking that now

[Steve P]

The Pixies, just don't get the excitement

[precious_lillywhite]

Elbow and Pixies, don't get it, bore me

[swede]

AC/DC and Pink Floyd, it really puzzles me why I dont like either of them.

[Kyelo]

AC/DC

Interpol

Artic Monkeys

Oasis

Arcade Fire

Pearl Jam

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Blur

Coldplay

Guns'n'Roses

Metallica

Iron Maiden

The Charlatans

The Levellers

Alabama 3

...list goes on! haha

[Jackmypie]

Sonic youth.

I like a couple songs but all the rest I find boring and the lyrics don't really get to me anyway

[Purple Monkey]

I'm having trouble with this....I think I spend more time just listening exclusively to bands I know I like*, I don't honestly care enough to remember any bands or songs that I dislike. Maybe Coldplay and Red Hot Chilli Peppers - everyone talks them up, and they are huge, and I don't understand why they're so big, but then again they have the odd belter of a tune. I suppose I never remember bands that I think are universally awful.

*not listening to the radio, like, ever, helps me achieve this.

Edited April 21, 2011 by Purple Monkey

[Greeny_Musicchild]

I could probably name quite a lot I suppose, but Rise Against spring to mind. Also Primal Scream.

[t8yman]

anyone ever been put off a band after they saw them live? happened to me when I saw porcupine tree live. it was the most sterile, note perfect, album sounding gig I have ever witnessed, and as such completely sullied my opinion of steve wilsons output. irrational and mental I know, but I genuinely cant listen to them any more....

[The Nal]

anyone ever been put off a band after they saw them live?

[Kyelo]

anyone ever been put off a band after they saw them live? happened to me when I saw porcupine tree live. it was the most sterile, note perfect, album sounding gig I have ever witnessed, and as such completely sullied my opinion of steve wilsons output. irrational and mental I know, but I genuinely cant listen to them any more....

[Banana Co]

The Pixies, just don't get the excitement

[llcoolphil]

The Pixies, just don't get the excitement

[llcoolphil]

The Who

[Alcatraz]

Another one. The Velvet Underground. How can you like them unless you yourself are also a crack-addled transvestite heroin addict?

[The Nal]

Another one. The Velvet Underground. How can you like them unless you yourself are also a crack-addled transvestite heroin addict?