Music acts you just can't get into

js35

Ed Sheeran
U2
Coldplay
Cardi b
Nicki minaj

khaldrogo

its_steve116 wrote:

Who are some artists you have given a go listening to, but just can't get into their music try as you might?

Anything after 1996

Anesthetize

I don't understand people who claim to be big fans of music who think that music ceased to be good after a certain year.

Zeek12

RicketyCricket wrote: »

I don't get the hype over recent bands like Idles and Fontaines DC, find them irritating to be honest.

Fontaines DC are a band 7-8 years ago I'd have gladly ignored.

Now I'm practically praying with thanks to them. Not that I'm necessarily a huge fan.

But my God the amount of wimpish whiney miserable Irish bands we've had to listen to recently. Not good!

We're in the age of the moaney male-oriented irish "music". And its pretty awful. (I'd rather not name and shame - but they know who they are.)

Good luck to the Fontaines!!

Genghis

Zeek12 wrote: »

Fontaines DC are a band 7-8 years ago I'd have gladly ignored.

Now I'm practically praying with thanks to them. Not that I'm necessarily a huge fan.

But my God the amount of wimpish whiney miserable Irish bands we've had to listen to recently. Not good!

We're in the age of the moaney male-oriented irish "music". And its pretty awful. (I'd rather not name and shame - but they know who they are.)

Good luck to the Fontaines!!

Well said.

Genghis

Kendrick Lamar - just can't see it, gave him a chance at EP last year and still couldn't see it

Pink Floyd - boring / rock by numbers

Hozier - nothing exciting, highly over rated

Thrashssacre

Nirvana..... I really don’t get them at all three albums of absolute rubbish, the unplugged was alright mind you.

saintsaltynuts

Robbie Williams
Eminem
Bob Dylan

mollser

Zeek12 wrote: »

But my God the amount of wimpish whiney miserable Irish bands we've had to listen to recently. Not good!

We're in the age of the moaney male-oriented irish "music". And its pretty awful. (I'd rather not name and shame - but they know who they are.)

This x10. Same with DJ's on the radio. Seems you have to be this high pitched whiney voiced Male to get a gig nowadays. So annoying and weird

Cienciano

Deagol wrote: »

Anything post-2000. Getting old or music has just turned to crap I don't know but haven't found anything i can get into for almost 20 years now

What makes me wonder if it's not an age thing is that I found lots of older music I've never heard before that interested me.

I'm the same. Better off going back and listening to stuff I missed out on the first time round

smacl

Anesthetize wrote: »

I don't understand people who claim to be big fans of music who think that music ceased to be good after a certain year.

Very much the same, tend to listen to older music more often than new purely because of my age, but love finding new or old music I haven't heard before. Spotify daily mix has come up with some gems here.

Stuff I don't like, most X factor boy bands, Abba, Oasis, AC/DC, U2, Chris De Burgh and I guess loads more that thankfully don't come to mind.

sydthebeat

Genghis wrote: »

Kendrick Lamar - just can't see it, gave him a chance at EP last year and still couldn't see it

Pink Floyd - boring / rock by numbers

Hozier - nothing exciting, highly over rated

just had to call you up on this......

Pink Floyd can be accused of many things.... and yes boring can be one... but absolutely cannot be considered 'rock by numbers'... as they were one of the most musically progressive bands that ever existed.

They existed and progressed from hippy dippy late sixties, through the "inner space" experimentation of the 70s to drug fuelled pomp of the 80s

They had a guitarist who many would consider among the best ever... with the old saying that "Gilmour could do more with one note than many guitarists can do with a whole fret-board"

They had a lyricist who played it anything but safe.... denigrating the music industry they worked in, and even worse, denigrating the fans who came and paid money to see them....

they put on record breaking and mold breaking live shows which are still events of legend and myth.

so you might consider them boring, definitely pretentious.....

but one thing they absolutely 100% were not... is "rock by numbers"

Birneybau

I think the meaning of the thread has been lost. I can't get into Pink Floyd though God knows I've tried. I do not want to 'get into' Robbie Williams because I believe his music has no merit whatsoever so I'm never going to listen to him nor feel like I'm missing out. See also Ed Sheeran.

I have persevered with the likes of Scott Walker's later stuff, Aphex Twin and other such experimentalists and found rewarding, complicated music.

But no, not Robbie Williams.

eviltimeban

The Who
The Kinks (I like the singles mind you)
Bob Dylan
Janis Joplin
David Bowie
The Rolling Stones (with a few exceptions)
The Smiths (though I love certain songs)
Sex Pistols
New Order
Rush (and I love prog rock)
Emerson Lake & Palmer (ditto)
The Ramones
Joy Division
Sonic Youth (and I really, really want to like Sonic Youth)
REM
Talking Heads (I'm still trying)
Primal Scream
Alice In Chains
Guns N Roses
The National
The Flaming Lips
Pulp
Arcade Fire (it's safe to say I f**king hate them)
post-2000 U2
The Strokes
Interpol
Muse (hate them too)
Foals
MGMT (just couldn't get into noughties indie)

emilynxlan

Billie Eilish. A lot of my peers are into her but I just don't get her.

Birneybau

eviltimeban wrote: »

The Who
The Kinks (I like the singles mind you)
Bob Dylan
Janis Joplin
David Bowie
The Rolling Stones (with a few exceptions)
The Smiths (though I love certain songs)
Sex Pistols
New Order
Rush (and I love prog rock)
Emerson Lake & Palmer (ditto)
The Ramones
Joy Division
Sonic Youth (and I really, really want to like Sonic Youth)
REM
Talking Heads (I'm still trying)
Primal Scream
Alice In Chains
Guns N Roses
The National
The Flaming Lips
Pulp
Arcade Fire (it's safe to say I f**king hate them)
post-2000 U2
The Strokes
Interpol
Muse (hate them too)
Foals
MGMT (just couldn't get into noughties indie)

Don't bother, pish compared to previous.

eviltimeban

Birneybau wrote: »

Don't bother, pish compared to previous.

Don't I know it, every album since has been a disappointment. There were a few moments on "Songs of Innocence" but the most recent one has to be their worst yet.

LorelliPop!

Green Day annoy me.

Relikk

eviltimeban wrote: »

Emerson Lake & Palmer (ditto)

Brain Salad Surgery was the first album I heard, mainly because of recommendations and I didn't really get along with it until I heard Tarkus. Tarkus was the one that twigged ELP for me, and Trilogy to a lesser extent.

vriesmays

Bad religion - vocals angrier than the music!

Kolido

I wouldn't call any music crap as its subjective and some somewhere like it, but some bands I could never warm to, though I would like few songs are Oasis, Beatles, Rolling stones, U2.

Probably to a lesser extent, I can never seem to listen to a full AC/DC or Nirvana album.

loyatemu

Broooce - loved by lots of people whose musical opinions I respect, and I like the odd song (I'm on Fire is a classic) but I just can't get into him and his sweaty blue-collar anthems.

Tauriel

To name but a few:
Prince
David Bowie
The Foo Fighters
Beyonce
Jay Z
Eminem
Calvin Harris
Dua Lipa
One Direction (incl all of their solo stuff)

I have to change channels whenever they come on. I also hate most music coming out these days and I wouldn't be old.

I'm happy to stick with my symphonic metal.

The Princess Bride

I like songs and artists from the 60s up to and including this decade.

But I don't get the interest in either The Cranberries or Florence and The Machine.
Just mediocre, if even.