bands that don't do it for you

Matt F said:
Hey - lay off The Smiths! One of the best guitarists around - a fantastic riff-meister and not too shabby on the old 12 string acoustic - plus a great (opinionated) lyricist.

Matt.
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Hear hear!!! :)

I've never got...

Guns'n'Roses - the most cliched of cliched 'heavy' rock.
 
I have to add Radiohead. I am a big fan but why did they get such heavy profiling on Radio 3 as the face of new music plus album of the year (OK Computer). Good they maybe but groundbreaking geniuses, well let's see in a few decades shall we?
 
must.... resist... radiohead... shite.... feck.... arse..... nooooooooo....

radiohead the most overated pile of old jism i've ever heard. pretentious up their own arse crap. i'm sure they are sniggering deep into the night about all the arty types who 'get' them when all they did was get spannered on various powders and tinctures and hit a few musical instruments with hammers in a recording studio.
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julian
 
REM's a good call - I don't get why they're so popular either. I'm a huge fan, and I think their music is mostly brilliant (still not convinced about Reveal, and Up is very hit-and-miss) but it took me many years of gentle immersion to get to the point where I really like them, and most of their albums take me several years to get to like. They strike me as being rather "difficult" and inaccessible - not the stuff of "biggest band in the world" as I've seen them called.

Of course, they come out with the occasional pop superhit ('Losing My Religion', 'Everybody Hurts'), but somebody out there other than myself and the other diehard REM fans must buy whole albums or they'd never be as popular as they are. Shrug.

Having said all that, I suggest anyone who doesn't "get" REM have a listen to their first two albums, Murmur and Reckoning, from way back in 1983 and '84 (?). Simple, energetic, wonderful fun.

Dunc
 
julian2002 said:
must.... resist... radiohead... shite.... feck.... arse..... nooooooooo....

radiohead the most overated pile of old jism i've ever heard. pretentious up their own arse crap. i'm sure they are sniggering deep into the night about all the arty types who 'get' them when all they did was get spannered on various powders and tinctures and hit a few musical instruments with hammers in a recording studio.
cheers


julian
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What do you think now after you've borrowed a couple of albums? Still not like them, or have they grown on you?

Their random tunelessness came into play IMHO in the last 2-3 albums.. the first few albums were brilliant I think.
 
Over-rated sh*te:
Beatles (I'll never forgive them for "I wanna hold your hand")
Bob Dylan (great songwriter, terrible singer)
Genesis (Phil Collins, nuff said)
Yes (if they'd got rid of the singer, mebbe)
Smiths
REM (tedious humourless nonsense)
Coldplay (they need to rock out!!!!!)
Keane (same as above)
Travis
Jam/Weller
Red Hot Chilli Peppers (loved them until BSSM, now look at them!!!)

Plus of course all boy/girl band pap, Mariah Caarey and Celine dion..
 
I was thinking about this subject today (over-rated music).

It led me to think about the guitar bands I grew up listening to in the 80's.

It seems to me that the musicianship has gone from a lot of the guitar based bands that came on board in the later half of the 90's and early 00's.

I mean, in the rock bands I used to listen to the musical ability was first rate (admitedly the songs were often not so great!).

So has it now become the accepted norm to start a guitar band without the ability to play your instruments very well? Have standards dropped?

I think so.
 
oasis
the who
the jam
frans ferdinand
red hot chilli peppers
madonna
michael jackson
 
How in God's name can anyone say the Beatles are over rated sh*te???

They changed everything & created some of the best songs ever written. Surely some things are above criticism, I'd say the Beatles is one of them.
 

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