Top Contender for "I Just Don't Get it..."?

[Supernova190188]

Stone roses - just simply don't see what people like about them!

[Crackie]

Billsnemesis said:

The Smiths

Tuneless dirges and hideously contorted vocal lines.

Definitely a love or hate band but most haters still acknowledge Johnny Marr's talent. Morrissey's voice is often hard work but disagree that Marr's music is tuneless.

[kiseca]

Crackie said:

Billsnemesis said:

The Smiths

Tuneless dirges and hideously contorted vocal lines.

Definitely a love or hate band but most haters still acknowledge Johnny Marr's talent. Morrissey's voice is often hard work but disagree that Marr's music is tuneless.

That's what this thread is about though, isn't it? Highly regarded bands that the poster can't see the good in.

[br d]

Funk said:

Anything by Die Antwoord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcXNPI-IPPM

Honestly, wtf? I love music but these guys make me want to perforate my eardrums with a blunt instrument.

I should hate this lot, I hate everything like, around and related to their music with a passion but for some reason I absolutely love Die Antwoord! After a few beers I can Youtube them for hours!

Ugly Boy is genius!

[anonymous-user]

Billsnemesis said:

The Smiths

One of their tracks turned up on the radio on the way home today and I just cannot see why they are popular, or even tolerated. Tuneless dirges and hideously contorted vocal lines.

I agree, the same as the Stone Roses as someone else pointed out.

[supertouring]

br d said:

Funk said:

Anything by Die Antwoord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcXNPI-IPPM

Honestly, wtf? I love music but these guys make me want to perforate my eardrums with a blunt instrument.

I should hate this lot, I hate everything like, around and related to their music with a passion but for some reason I absolutely love Die Antwoord! After a few beers I can Youtube them for hours!

Ugly Boy is genius!

But it is an "act" isn't it? Some form of conceptual art?

[Zod]

Raygun said:

Billsnemesis said:

The Smiths

One of their tracks turned up on the radio on the way home today and I just cannot see why they are popular, or even tolerated. Tuneless dirges and hideously contorted vocal lines.

I agree, the same as the Stone Roses as someone else pointed out.

Ia n Brown can't sing, but She Bangs the Drums and I am the Resurrection are brilliant tracks. Morrisey can sing. Hand in Glove, How Soon is Now, What Difference Does it Make are also brilliant tracks and that's just Hatful of Hollow.

Bands I don't get include Kasabian and Oasis. There is no discernible talent in the output of either.

[jbudgie]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Elvis. Ok, a good looking guy, an d perhaps a slightly better than average voice but, afaik, never wrote a song. Could he even play the guitar?

You would have got it if you had been a teenager in the '50s.

[br d]

supertouring said:

br d said:

Funk said:

Anything by Die Antwoord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcXNPI-IPPM

Honestly, wtf? I love music but these guys make me want to perforate my eardrums with a blunt instrument.

I should hate this lot, I hate everything like, around and related to their music with a passion but for some reason I absolutely love Die Antwoord! After a few beers I can Youtube them for hours!

Ugly Boy is genius!

But it is an "act" isn't it? Some form of conceptual art?

This is what I suspect but I don't know enough of the genre to be sure.

[Tom_C76]

Zod said:

Ia n Brown can't sing, but She Bangs the Drums and I am the Resurrection are brilliant tracks. Morrisey can sing. Hand in Glove, How Soon is Now, What Difference Does it Make are also brilliant tracks and that's just Hatful of Hollow.

Bands I don't get include Kasabian and Oasis. There is no discernible talent in the output of either.

Liam Gallagher just set out to ape Ian Brown. but Noel on his day has huge amounts of talent. Champagne Supernova is just beautiful, and most of the tracks on The Masterplan are way better than their peers.

With you on Kasabian though.

[Europa1]

The Beatles.

However, my judgement may be coloured by the fact that Paul McCartney comes over as a world class knobjockey.

[BenWRXSEi]

Crackie said:

Billsnemesis said:

The Smiths

Tuneless dirges and hideously contorted vocal lines.

Definitely a love or hate band but most haters still acknowledge Johnny Marr's talent. Morrissey's voice is often hard work but disagree that Marr's music is tuneless.

Anything with Morrissey 'singing' will have me leaping across the room to turn the radio off. Years ago I actually stopped listening to XFM for several weeks after Irish Blood, English Heart was released.

Whiny miserable prick.

[wal 45]

BenWRXSEi said:

Crackie said:

Billsnemesis said:

The Smiths

Tuneless dirges and hideously contorted vocal lines.

Definitely a love or hate band but most haters still acknowledge Johnny Marr's talent. Morrissey's voice is often hard work but disagree that Marr's music is tuneless.

Anything with Morrissey 'singing' will have me leaping across the room to turn the radio off. Years ago I actually stopped listening to XFM for several weeks after Irish Blood, English Heart was released.

Whiny miserable prick.

I saw Johnny Marr last Saturday (excellent and highly recommended)and Mrs Wal and I both said how much better The Smiths songs he played sounded better with him singing than Morrissey. Can't agree that The Smiths musical output was tuneless but unimpressed with Morrissey both live and with his attitude to the rest of the band.

Ian Brown is either very good or bad live in my experience, generally the latter and put it this way seeing them first time round was enough.

[ajprice]

After watching TFI Friday, I nominate Slaves.

[SilverSixer]

Ska. Reggae. Jazz. Prefab Sprout. The Smiths. Bob Dylan. Rap. RnB (modern, slick, video generation borderline sexist crap, not the original 60s sound). Most Opera. God Save the Queen. The Cure. The Beatles (the original over hyped, over marketed boy band). Boy bands. Girl bands. Groups of singers called bands but which don't have any instrument players in them - or singers, usually, come to that. Any guest performer on the Graham Norton Show. Years and Years. Keane. Coldplay.

I could go on. I often do.

Edited by SilverSixer on Tuesday 20th October 13:45

[MitchT]

spikey78 said:

AdeTuono said:

If I have to listen Sam Smith whine his way through that steaming pile of bat droppings that passes for the latest Bond theme, I swear I'll have to clean my ears out with a corkscrew. Whoever told the talentless tt that he could have a career as a singer needs shooting.

Honestly, there should be a law against it...

Too right, blooming awful. Sounds like one hand is squeezing his nuts and the other sticking fingers up his nose. Dreadful

I was going to say he sounds like he has a snooker ball in his mouth.

[Johnnytheboy]

Is thread just going to turn into "artists I don't like"?

[Patch1875]

For all the reggae haters listen to Bob Marleys 'Survival' album.

I'm open to most stuff but not getting the love for Sleaford Mods.

[vournikas]

Johnnytheboy said:

Is thread just going to turn into "artists I don't like"?

I'm hoping not.

I previously mentioned the works of Schoenberg and Ravel, of which many classical music aficionados have plenty of time for. I, personally, don't. I appreciate that as composers, they had a talent I could only imagine in my wildest dreams of attaining. But their work - IMHO - is just repetitive, tuneless drivel. Gershwin is another; I admire his compositional abilities, but his tunes leave me cold. I don't "get" them.

Maybe we need to differentiate between :-

i) I don't "get" why artist "A" is successful. They're just talentless and amateurish

ii) I don't "get" artist "A"'s music, or why they play that style, but I appreciate their ability

iii) I don't "get" musical genre "A". It all sounds shyte

iv) I don't "get" a particular music genre, and why it's so popular, but - occasionally - it releases a very good tune

<shrugs>

Just thinking aloud, there.

[Zod]

Johnnytheboy said:

Is thread just going to turn into "artists I don't like"?

It's better than most such threads so far. I think it's "bands that seem to be considered credible, but that I just don't get".