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

Arghus · 25-09-2019 02:19PM #1

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 · 25-09-2019 02:21PM

Fleetwood Mac. I just find them boring.

Duff · 25-09-2019 02:22PM

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

odyssey06 · 25-09-2019 02:23PM

Agree on Queen.

Disagree on Fleetwood Mac!

Test For Echo · 25-09-2019 02:23PM

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

B_ecke_r · 25-09-2019 02:24PM

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

Filmer Paradise · 25-09-2019 02:25PM

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 · 25-09-2019 02:27PM

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 · 25-09-2019 02:27PM

Pink Floyd.

IAMAMORON · 25-09-2019 02:29PM

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 · 25-09-2019 02:34PM

Bruce Springsteen.

I know he's quality and worthy but nope.

Most singer/songwriter people wittering on about something profound.

stratowide · 25-09-2019 02:35PM

The Coronas

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

Greyfox · 25-09-2019 02:36PM

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

RocketRaccoon · 25-09-2019 02:36PM

Radiohead

25-09-2019 02:43PM

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

Radiohead

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

keano_afc · 25-09-2019 02:46PM

Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
Guns n Roses

Gregor Samsa · 25-09-2019 02:47PM

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 · 25-09-2019 02:48PM

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

25-09-2019 02:53PM

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 · 25-09-2019 02:58PM

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 · 25-09-2019 03:06PM

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

odyssey06 · 25-09-2019 03:07PM

The Eagles.
Rolling Stones.

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

CrankyHaus · 25-09-2019 03:15PM

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 · 25-09-2019 03:16PM

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

CrankyHaus · 25-09-2019 03:20PM

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 · 25-09-2019 03:21PM

Iron Maiden

loyatemu · 25-09-2019 03:30PM

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 · 25-09-2019 03:32PM

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 · 25-09-2019 03:32PM

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 · 25-09-2019 03:35PM

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 · 25-09-2019 03:38PM

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.

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

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