dawhizz Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 It's one of the bands or albums that is considered seminal/influential/objectively great. You want to love it. You should love it. You love albums inspired by it. You love the genre it is supposed to be crucial to. It's a band or album that should be right up your alley. You would settle for liking it. But you don't get it. People bring it up and you just kind of nod and feign admiration, hoping no one asks you to comment on specific tracks. Maybe you even have the album in your collection, and listen every couple years in hopes that something will click. But it never does. And so it goes. Mine: -London Calling by the Clash (and pretty much everything else by the Clash) - I actually like the song London Calling, but I have almost no interest in anything else I've heard them do. I try to tell myself it's because I hate reggae. -Loveless by My Bloody Valentine - I should think this is beautiful, and I actually like a lot of shoegaze. But I just think it's boring and hate the vocals. This is meant to be a safe space. We'll see if it stays that way . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seangj Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Nirvana - All of it. I just can't get into it tittus, killerofjoy605, entendu and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amnstypls Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Anything by GY!BE and/or Sunn O)))). Just don't get it. I'll try again in a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtcohenour Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 It's one of the bands or albums that is considered seminal/influential/objectively great. You want to love it. You should love it. You love albums inspired by it. You love the genre it is supposed to be crucial to. It's a band or album that should be right up your alley. You would settle for liking it. But you don't get it. People bring it up and you just kind of nod and feign admiration, hoping no one asks you to comment on specific tracks. Maybe you even have the album in your collection, and listen every couple years in hopes that something will click. But it never does. And so it goes. Mine: -London Calling by the Clash (and pretty much everything else by the Clash) - I actually like the song London Calling, but I have almost no interest in anything else I've heard them do. I try to tell myself it's because I hate reggae. -Loveless by My Bloody Valentine - I should think this is beautiful, and I actually like a lot of shoegaze. But I just think it's boring and hate the vocals. This is meant to be a safe space. We'll see if it stays that way . . . I'm in the same boat as you with the Clash. While I respect their influence and contributions I just can't seem to get into their music. I feel the same way about Soundgarden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mameeshkamowskwoz Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 The Residents and Captain Beefheart are a couple of artists that a lot of people whose opinions I greatly value (and have pretty similar taste as) put on a pedestal and I just have tried and tried to get into and realized I should be trying this hard. I kind of feel this way about GY!BE, too.Saw them live and it took about 20 minutes before I felt like a song was beginning to form... enjoyed what the projectionist was doing far more than the people sitting on stage and I left pretty early since it was a bit of a drive to get home on a week day and I wasn't getting much out of it.Not embarrassed about any of this, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mameeshkamowskwoz Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Oh yeah, and Slayer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancy_raygun Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 The Beatles. Everything they did was so gimmicky. Their music feels more like jingles to me than anything else. FailureByDesign and alexschelldorf 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deafening Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 The Beatles. Everything they did was so gimmicky. Their music feels more like jingles to me than anything else. The early Beatles, I can kind of see where you would be coming from with this. Rubber Soul and after, not at all. and I've said this before but, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. The Vool and ADCP94 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADCP94 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 A good majority of the Rolling Stones, some of the Doors. Anything by GY!BE and/or Sunn O)))). Just don't get it. I'll try again in a few years. I don't even try with Sunn O)))). Oh yeah, and Slayer. It all really sounds the same, thrashy palm muted chugging and yelling.I also don't get why Nickelback is still a band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paynegretzky Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Nirvana - All of it. I just can't get into it Same boat as you. I don't think they're terrible or anything, and I appreciate the band, but I've never gotten into it. I own a Kurt Cobain Fender Mustang and my friends and people I jam with think I'm a nirvana fanboy, which is not the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock N Roll Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 The Smashing Pumpkins. ditc586 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeeMoreGlass Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Radiohead...all of it And I agree with the guy who said The Beatles....I don't get them either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gutzonborglum Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Led Zeppelin. Never have never will. Not once have I said, "you know what? I could really go for some Zeppelin right now". My wife on the other hand looooooves them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawhizz Posted February 2, 2014 Author Share Posted February 2, 2014 Led Zeppelin. Never have never will. Not once have I said, "you know what? I could really go for some Zeppelin right now". My wife on the other hand looooooves them. With you on Zepplin. Never cared for them and never really want to listen to them on purpose. Also the Velvet Underground. Though I sometimes like cover versions of their songs , so maybe it's a Lou Reed thing. Maybe I was just born too late to appreciate their impact on music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topher Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Can't really get into: GY!BE Neutral Milk Hotel Oasis (Except for Champagne Supernova) At The Drive-In That said, I respect all those bands, because they must be doing something good to get the kind of reaction they get around here. I draw the line with VC's worship of "middle-school core". It's like, we get it, being a grown-up sucks. Deal with it. "I'm gunna staay eiiiighteeen foreverrr!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADCP94 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 With you on Zepplin. Never cared for them and never really want to listen to them on purpose. Also the Velvet Underground. Though I sometimes like cover versions of their songs , so maybe it's a Lou Reed thing. Maybe I was just born too late to appreciate their impact on music. I also don't get the Velvet Underground. I can't get into it. Some Zeppelin, I can't, some I can. I work in a record store, you have no idea how many times I get asked how much I listen to Led Zeppelin and stuff like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Can't really get into: GY!BE Neutral Milk Hotel Oasis (Except for Champagne Supernova) At The Drive-In That said, I respect all those bands, because they must be doing something good to get the kind of reaction they get around here. I draw the line with VC's worship of "middle-school core". It's like, we get it, being a grown-up sucks. Deal with it. "I'm gunna staay eiiiighteeen foreverrr!" Those bands are worshipped outside of these boards. I don't think OP was gunning to insult our users based in their musical preferences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 It's not that I don't "get" Oasis. I just think they blow. Zero embarrassment, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topher Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 I'll add that when I first joined here, I listened to Hum for the first time, and I didn't think much of it. Gave it another go last month, and it blew my head off. Good stuff. videogamesandvinyl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deafening Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Glassjaw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Glassjaw. At the risk of sounding pretentious, I just wanted to say that I didn't get this band for the longest time - at which point they "clicked" and I enjoyed their discography for a while - but after a year or two I found myself completely over their sound. It may have to do with my shying away of the whole post-hardcore genre as a whole, for the most part. But I, too, don't really get their rabid fanbase. Their two albums are decent fun, but the newer material doesn't do much for me at all. The fact people put up with all their bullshit is just really baffling to me. This probably reads like a post that belongs in the Overrated Band thread, but it is what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacredheart Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Nirvana - All of it. I just can't get into it Nothing to be embarrassed about. I can't stand them. I also dont get the Foo Fighter thing, I get that he was in Nirvana so people were excited for the first album, but man people worship this band and they sound like generic arena rock shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cemeterytapes Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 The Mars Volta. Seriously, I think they're just unlistenable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marexdad Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 The Clash-I have London Calling and S/T. I don't get it. Also-I love Minnesota pop-punk and I'm not a fan of Jawbreaker. My lisr wouldnt be complete without spreading my hate for the Lawrence Arms-I want to punch Brendan Kelly in the face. sacredheart 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RivannaJunction Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Reinventing Axl Rose. I like Pints, Baby I'm An Anarchist and Walking Is Still Honest (plus most of the rest of Against Me!'s stuff), but that's it. Sounds to me like a different singer between this album and ...As the Eternal Cowboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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