Musical Acts that are good, but do nothing for you.

Arghus

I heard a Queen song earlier. I could tell it was good. I've heard Queen songs millions of times before and many of them have been well put together pieces of music: they were obviously a very talented bunch of guys.

But, no matter what, their music - aside from Bohemian Rhapsody - just leaves me kinda cold. Objectively, I can tell they were a good band, so it always amazes me that I can't get into them, but, yet, they really do little for me.

Any acts for you like this?

Wayne Jarvis

Fleetwood Mac. I just find them boring.

Duff

Coldplay and Muse. Also, never understood The Beatles hype.

odyssey06

Agree on Queen.

Disagree on Fleetwood Mac!

Test For Echo

Never could, and probably never will, get Led Zeppelin or The Who.

B_ecke_r

Ed Sheeran has been very lucky imo - he's good but overhyped and seemed to just arrive @ the right time.

Filmer Paradise

Rolling Stones. Love some of their songs, yet they somehow miss the mark with me.
Plus it’s been 40 years since they released anything decent.

Say Your Number

Hozier, you can tell he's talented but I find his music so bland, David Bowie too, I know he's highly regarded but I can't warm to any I've heard from him, Thin Lizzy are a band I should love but just leave me cold.

4068ac1elhodqr

Pink Floyd.

IAMAMORON

Way too generalised Arghus. Music is such a subjective thing. One mans(wo) meat loaf is another mans ( wo ) poison.

I sometimes dance around the kitchen to italian hip hop and a week later i am thinking what was I listening too?

But Boyzone and Westlife are shight, that I know to be true, sorry guys.

whisky_galore

Bruce Springsteen.

I know he's quality and worthy but nope.

Most singer/songwriter people wittering on about something profound.

stratowide

The Coronas

Was dragged to a concert once.They played the same song 18 times in a row I think.

Greyfox

Queen and Fleetwood mac are amazing, Elvis, Stone roses and Coldplay do nothing for me

RocketRaccoon

Radiohead

RocketRaccoon

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

Radiohead

No question they're technically proficient, but most of their muzak is navel-gazing mopery.

keano_afc

Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
Guns n Roses

Gregor Samsa

Hopefully this won't descend into a thread of people just listing bands/musicians they don't like, because the topic presented by the OP is much more interesting than that.

I think the Beatles would be a prime example of this for me. I know they're "good", I know they have a sacred place in musical history and I can see how they deserve it, but I've never ever felt the need, want or desire to listen to a Beatles song. Obviously I know a lot of their music just from hearing it around the place, but I've never once sought it out.

On a slightly more obscure note, there was a jazz bass player called Jaco Pastorius. He's widely regarded as the best bass player ever. I play bass myself, and I just don't get it. When I hear his music, I hear rubber bands twanging on a shoe box. I get absolutely nothing positive out of it. So many people regard him as an absolute genius, I simply must be wrong. But I just can't see how they can be right!

Boom_Bap

Wings. They're only the band The Beatles could have been.

THE DOORS.

Berlin (Take my breath away) Great video for the time looking back.

"Happiness" eyecandy but yeah, not much else.

Spicegirls ( ALL songs )

loyatemu

BROOOOOCE!

you're on the side of the working man, we get it...

also Steely Dan, I've tried but I just can't...

cj maxx

I Still listen to songs from the above bands, apart from boyzone and that shyte. Put ed Sheeran in with them

odyssey06

The Eagles.
Rolling Stones.

I would have had Van Morrison on the list until I saw his live Montreux performance.

CrankyHaus

Nine Inch Nails.

Just not for me, yet Trent Reznor seems bang on, highly talented and broadly influential (just found out he got writing credits for Old Town Road due to its sample FFS). Loved the scoring he did for PBS's Vietnam War series.

uch

U2, the Hedge is a decent Guitar player, but the other preachy cúnt annoys me and makes me not like them

CrankyHaus

uch wrote: »

U2, the Hedge is a decent Guitar player, but the other preachy cúnt annoys me and makes me not like them

He's certainly a perennial talent but needs to be trimmed down to size. Some evergreen solos no doubt

PsychoPete

Iron Maiden

loyatemu

uch wrote: »

U2, the Hedge is a decent Guitar player, but the other preachy cúnt annoys me and makes me not like them

he's not a particularly good guitar player, he just owns a lot of pedals.

Wayne Jarvis

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

On a slightly more obscure note, there was a jazz bass player called Jaco Pastorius. He's widely regarded as the best bass player ever. I play bass myself, and I just don't get it. When I hear his music, I hear rubber bands twanging on a shoe box. I get absolutely nothing positive out of it. So many people regard him as an absolute genius, I simply must be wrong. But I just can't see how they can be right!

You have to listen to the notes he's not playing.

jiltloop

I respect Bob Dylan, he's obviously talented and is loved all around the world but I just have never really liked any of his music.

hynesie08

The Rolling Stones, great riffs, decent lyrics and the poster boys for rock and roll debauchery, but they just do nothing for me....

Anus Von Skidmark

jiltloop wrote: »

I respect Bob Dylan, he's obviously talented and is loved all around the world but I just have never really liked any of his music.

He has a horrible whiny voice, his guitar playing is mediocre at best, and his harmonica playing is like non-consensual eardrum sodomy, but he wrote some cracking songs. His songs are generally at their best when performed by someone more, ehhh, musical than the man himself!

All Along The Watchtower done by Hendrix is the obvious example, but there are plenty more I can't think of off the top of my head.

Arghus

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Hopefully this won't descend into a thread of people just listing bands/musicians they don't like, because the topic presented by the OP is much more interesting than that.

I think the Beatles would be a prime example of this for me. I know they're "good", I know they have a sacred place in musical history and I can see how they deserve it, but I've never ever felt the need, want or desire to listen to a Beatles song. Obviously I know a lot of their music just from hearing it around the place, but I've never once sought it out.

On a slightly more obscure note, there was a jazz bass player called Jaco Pastorius. He's widely regarded as the best bass player ever. I play bass myself, and I just don't get it. When I hear his music, I hear rubber bands twanging on a shoe box. I get absolutely nothing positive out of it. So many people regard him as an absolute genius, I simply must be wrong. But I just can't see how they can be right!

Yeah, exactly, I wasn't saying list people you don't like. That's been done and it's a bit boring: people saying A is shyte, B is shyte....

It's more a case of acts you know have merits, but just leave you cold.

nthclare

Mõtley Crew I just cannot like them and other American hard rock band's.

I know they're popular in circles but I cannot warm to their music.

colm_mcm

Anus Von Skidmark wrote: »

All Along The Watchtower done by Hendrix is the obvious example, but there are plenty more I can't think of off the top of my head.

I might be in a minority, but I much prefer the Dylan version

jimmycrackcorm

Gareth Brooks.
It's unfathomable that there were going to be so many dates for him here a few years back that it looked as though attendances would be higher than a referendum vote.

Skylinehead

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Gareth Brooks.
It's unfathomable that there were going to be so many dates for him here a few years back that it looked as though attendances would be higher than a referendum vote.

But you think he's a good musical act?

DaeryssaOne

A lot of bands that I deem fantastic listed above (Fleetwood Mac, Bowie, Beatles, Pink Floyd etc) but some that I have tried and tried to like over the years but just can't get into are:

Bob Dylan
The Who
Jimi Hendrix
Bruce Springsteen
Eric Clapton
ACDC
Tom Waits

Arghus

The Who are another one for me. Clearly very talented, inventive musicians but I think they are so dull.

GLaDOS

As a big heavy metal fan I could never really get into Iron Maiden. I like a couple of their songs but could never get excited about them. All the elements are there but for whatever reason they just don't do it for me.

Wayne Jarvis

Nova played new songs by Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen today and they would be another two for me. They each have a couple of songs I like but again mostly it's just boring to me. The songs they played by both today could have been made in 1980 since they basically just make the same songs and albums over and over again. Though to be fair most bands/acts probably do that to a degree.

topper75

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

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On a slightly more obscure note, there was a jazz bass player called Jaco Pastorius. He's widely regarded as the best bass player ever. I play bass myself, and I just don't get it. When I hear his music, I hear rubber bands twanging on a shoe box. I get absolutely nothing positive out of it. So many people regard him as an absolute genius, I simply must be wrong. But I just can't see how they can be right!

I KNOW Jaco is a genius, but I've no inclination to buy or play his stuff.
Virtuosos often impress without making the soul connection with their compositions. Good call in the spirit of the thread.

harry Bailey esq

B_ecke_r wrote: »

Ed Sheeran has been very lucky imo - he's good but overhyped and seemed to just arrive @ the right time.

Sums up the thread title for me does ed, good call.
Hes very talented, his music is very catchy and he's a clever songwriter. If however, someone said to me that they'd a spare ticket for one of his shows I'd most likely be busy.

Arghus

GLaDOS wrote: »

As a big heavy metal fan I could never really get into Iron Maiden. I like a couple of their songs but could never get excited about them. All the elements are there but for whatever reason they just don't do it for me.

Feel exactly the same way. Was a big metal head growing up and could never get into Maiden, though every metalhead I know loves them. Always sounded too cheesy to me.

I had no interest in AC/DC growing up, even though a lot of friends of mine loved them and I'd heard all the big albums a few times, but then, I dunno, I was in a nightclub one night and there was a band belting out AC/DC covers and everybody in the place was going mental, screaming the choruses, drink and bodies flying everywhere, and it suddenly clicked for me that AC/DC were absolute songwriting geniuses and I had been completely, completely wrong. Love their stuff now, the Bon Scott era in particular. It's stupid, but it's smart stupid. Brian Johnson era is good too, but it's more downright stupid.

Conor Bourke

Primal Scream

Arghus

Primal Scream, jesus, yeah.

A lot of very good calls coming in here.

Arne_Saknussem

Another vote for Springsteen, neither his Fratboy Bob Dylan or his Working Class Meatloaf bombast do anything for me.


Oh and also Arctic Monkees

Anus Von Skidmark

I've never owned a Springsteen album, so I can't call myself a fan. What I do admire though is what seems to be his undying enthusiasm and love for music and gigging and putting on a great show. His shows seem to be the stuff of legend, from what I hear.

Badly Drunk Boy

Going back to the 90's, Oasis and Suede were the two bands that my friends were into that I just didn't get (even though I know they're technically good). I always thought it about Suede especially, but they still just leave me cold.

SuperGrover

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

On a slightly more obscure note, there was a jazz bass player called Jaco Pastorius. He's widely regarded as the best bass player ever. I play bass myself, and I just don't get it. When I hear his music, I hear rubber bands twanging on a shoe box. I get absolutely nothing positive out of it. So many people regard him as an absolute genius, I simply must be wrong. But I just can't see how they can be right!

Heh, yeah, same. I'm a bass player and although I recognize the proficiency, I get no joy from listening to him. Nothing.

jiltloop

Some good mentions so far, and some bad ones.... Garth Brooks, Spice Girls, I'm looking at you.

Arghus

I don't feel bad about not liking Oasis: I think they're flat out shyte.

Suede, on the other hand, I think were a decent band, but I never really want to listen to them. I think it's Brett Anderson's voice that puts me off.