Music acts you just can't get into

its_steve116 · 04-04-2019 11:55pm #1

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

luketitz · 05-04-2019 12:00am

Interpol

gammygils · 05-04-2019 12:02am

Arcade Fire

Arghus · 05-04-2019 8:54pm

Queen: I appreciate the brilliance of a lot of their songs but at some level I don't care about them.

The National: They bore the arse off me.

Iron Maiden: I grew up listening to rock and metal and yet I could never find Maiden anything but cheese on toast.

Deagol · 05-04-2019 9:10pm

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.

Lorelli! · 05-04-2019 9:18pm

Im a bit hit and miss with The Who. I know technically they are a great band and I love some of their stuff but I hated The Tommy album and could not get into it at all so much so that I'm reminded of it every time I hear them.

Sorry but I was just quickly googling them there and this came up and made me laugh..Rodger Daltrey is like the mam of the band in this pic :pac: he actually does look great for his age now though!

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+who&oq=the+who&aqs=chrome..69i57.2160j0j9&client=ms-android-h3g-ie-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=8rnGor8_r7slnM:

bobsman · 05-04-2019 9:20pm

The National and Interpol.

invicta · 05-04-2019 9:27pm

Can’t stand U2, or Coldplay!

evolving_doors · 05-04-2019 9:29pm

Pixie

Erik Shun · 05-04-2019 9:31pm

Bob Dylan.... Christ I tried.... but I listened to "nuyuum, neeeah, woohah" and thought.. nope..not for me

Atlantic Dawn · 05-04-2019 9:31pm

The Beatles.

barney shamrock · 05-04-2019 9:36pm

Springsteen.
I know he's a legend to some but to me he's bellowing overrated rubbish, sorry.

Lorelli! · 05-04-2019 9:36pm

The Eagles are a bit meh

adocholiday · 05-04-2019 9:45pm

Pretty much any of the 'next big Irish bands' of the last few years. Walking on Cars and Picture This just immediately come to mind but there are plenty more. I just find it such epically generic sh1te.

Captain Red Beard · 05-04-2019 9:50pm

Modern hip hop. A lot of it leaves me cold.

4068ac1elhodqr · 05-04-2019 9:50pm

- LCD Soundsystem: it's noise, just tortuous noise.
- The Chainsmokers: Every rubbish track seem to have an annoying pulsating wavetone, creating slight abdominal sickness.
- Polyphonic spree: No idea what the story is here, too many spacecakes?
- Pink Floyd: Sorry to many, but would class this as stoner music, bar just a couple of good tunes.

Most of the above are ok, esp Arcade Fire who are, very good.
Yes, if the 'The National' was a painting, it would be edvard munch's scream (in mono blockprint).

Teepinaw · 06-04-2019 7:45am

Pixies, Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan.

Ugh.

theteal · 06-04-2019 8:06am

A few mentions for The National and Interpol. Are they making some kind of resurgence that I’m not aware of? Were they ever that big/regarded to begin with? I have the first album from each, they’re OK, decent additions to a playlist but I wouldn’t be in too much of a hurry to buy tickets.

Anyway, I’ll throw the likes of Neil Young, David Bowie and Muse into the mix as a few off the top of my head

liquoriceall · 06-04-2019 8:18am

Hozier
I'm sure he's a nice person but his music is so bland

Anesthetize · 06-04-2019 3:25pm

theteal wrote: »

A few mentions for The National and Interpol. Are they making some kind of resurgence that I’m not aware of? Were they ever that big/regarded to begin with? I have the first album from each, they’re OK, decent additions to a playlist but I wouldn’t be in too much of a hurry to buy tickets.

The National have been quite popular in Ireland for well over a decade now. Playing the likes of 3Arena and Live at the Marquee. Their albums are usually well-received by both fans and critics.
Interpol are not as popular now as they were in the mid-00's.

They're two bands with very different career outcomes. Interpol came storming out of the blocks in 2002 with a critically-acclaimed album, Turn on the Bright Lights, but then spent the rest of their career trying and failing to live up it it.
The National on the other hand started with a very average debut album, their self-titled, but then improved and grew with each release, building up a fan-base along the way.

I like The National but I've never grown to like Interpol. Even though Turn on the Bright Lights is hailed as a 00's indie rock classic, any attempt to get into it has left me feeling underwhelmed.

Mike Guide 69 · 06-04-2019 10:20pm

Agree with the shouts about The National,don’t understand the hype,seen them twice live, just bang average for me,while Matt Berninger has a decent baritone voice,he ain’t no Stuart Staples,that’s for sure!!!!!

Sorry about that · 07-04-2019 9:42pm

The Verve. Mogwai. Portishead.

Mike Litoris · 12-04-2019 7:24pm

A few mentioned already - The Stones, Bob Dylan, Springsteen. That said there is at least one song from each that I like.

Sticking to well regarded acts Van Morrison is someone who's music I just cant stand.

Being into metal, I never really liked Metallica. Loved the other 3 of the big 4, even Anthrax

, but just couldn't really get into them.

Say Your Number · 12-04-2019 7:41pm

Thin Lizzy and Alter Bridge are bands that I should love in theory, but they just leave me cold, Hozier is a clearly talented man, but I find his music unrelentingly dull, most controversial one from me Led Zeppelin, I don't get it at all

fryup · 12-04-2019 8:19pm

Leonard Cohen & Tom Waits their popularity baffles me

RicketyCricket · 13-04-2019 11:53am

I don't get the hype over recent bands like Idles and Fontaines DC, find them irritating to be honest. Iron Maiden are a band I've listened to a few times over the years and can't get into them at all.

BENDYBINN · 13-04-2019 11:56am

Big Tom...the carrots from cloonoun song did nothing for me..

bodhrandude · 18-04-2019 7:31pm

Glen Hansard and the Frames, I just find it all an emotional whinge really, just can't get into it at all.

E mac · 18-04-2019 7:34pm

Anything in the charts right now...I can't remember the last time I listened to a new song I wanted on my iPod.

Anesthetize · 18-04-2019 8:23pm

Spiritualized
I've given Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space a few goes but never really latched on to it. I really like Jason Pierce‎'s first band Spacemen 3, but this just seems too safe in comparison.

Manic Street Preachers
I mean I like some of their songs, particularly from the Richey era, but I've never genuinely liked any of albums as a whole. James' vocals and vowel-mangling also annoy me to a degree.

Neutral Milk Hotel
I'm one of those people who can't wrap my head around why this band is held in such high regard. I do like lo-fi indie, but there are so many better lo-fi indie bands to listen to than these guys - Pavement, Guided by Voices, Modest Mouse, The Microphones, and Eric's Trip among others. NMH seem very run-of-the-mill in comparison.

sydthebeat · 18-04-2019 8:27pm

So many heathens gathered in one place....

js35 · 18-04-2019 8:40pm

Ed Sheeran
U2
Coldplay
Cardi b
Nicki minaj

khaldrogo · 18-04-2019 8:51pm

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 · 18-04-2019 8:57pm

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 · 18-04-2019 10:48pm

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 · 18-04-2019 10:53pm

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 · 18-04-2019 11:00pm

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 · 19-04-2019 4:38am

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

saintsaltynuts · 19-04-2019 6:40am

Robbie Williams
Eminem
Bob Dylan

mollser · 19-04-2019 6:50am

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 · 19-04-2019 10:15am

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 · 19-04-2019 10:36am

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 · 19-04-2019 10:38am

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 · 19-04-2019 1:04pm

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 · 25-04-2019 11:52am

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 · 25-04-2019 7:37pm

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

Birneybau · 26-04-2019 11:12am

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 · 26-04-2019 1:52pm

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! · 27-04-2019 9:35pm

Green Day annoy me.

Relikk · 07-05-2019 10:33am

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 · 07-05-2019 5:17pm

Bad religion - vocals angrier than the music!

Music acts you just can't get into

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