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

[dinger]

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Patch1875 said:

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.

Just had a laugh out loud moment regarding those mods from Sleaford, switched on BBC2 the other night to have a gander at Jooles Holland and there they were.....all angry., attitude and shouty ,

Now can someone please explain what was the function or purpose of the pissed looking bloke swaying around next to the singer. It was like watching the univited guest at a wedding

Oh and I personally have. Problems getting " The Foos " .......runs for cover

Edited by dinger on Wednesday 21st October 14:59

[Nom de ploom]

rap in general has lost its roots imho...listen to early public enemy if you must but the modern stuff is terrible.

RnB - WTF?? its the same stuff remixed over and over and over again...wishy washy ste... not rhythym and blues I hasten to add which thankfully is alive and well.

Kanye west and various entourages....

no dissing metallica! its against the law! lol.

[Johnnytheboy]

Classical music then. I like bits of it, but generally it's the bits I have heard a lot.

As someone that was based on modern music, I find the fact that a long piece of music will have a very short section of an amazing tune, which will then not reappear, while there will be 20 minutes of seemingly random wibble around it.

I am 100% sure the fault is mine; as a fan of the three minute guitar track, I am just not musically sophisticated enough to appreciate something that isn't repetitive enough.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Jazz. Just awful. Some talented musicians.....if only they could agree to all play the same tune. Always seems to me each member of the band is playing a different song to the others.

[lockhart flawse]

Top of the list: Oasis. But also

Foo-Fighters - sure they can play but.....

Red Hot Chilis - singer can hardly sing, guitarist hugely over-rated, bassist better at getting his plonker out than playing bass and pretty standard drumming.

Smiths - I will change the channel rather than listen

Iron Maiden - great show but sorry they're just crap

ELP - crap piled on crap

All those interchangeable American rock bands - knucklehead etc etc

[Billsnemesis]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Jazz. Just awful. Some talented musicians.....if only they could agree to all play the same tune. Always seems to me each member of the band is playing a different song to the others.

A friend of mine who really likes jazz summed up the problem for me - very little in the way of dynamic range. Or as someone else put it, waiting an entire lifetime for a major triad and still being disappointed.

For me I also struggle with the vagaries of timing that go with jazz. I am more comfortable with very tightly controlled but not entirely metronomic rhythmic structures. Think Japanese drumming as a perfect example of how this works, or John Bonham.

And back on the subject of The Smiths I acknowledge that Johnny Marr did come up with some good guitar riffs but the melody lines that Morrisey put over the top where entirely tuneless. Try whistling one and see where you end up. And don't get me started on the argument about his biography coming out on the Penguin Classic imprint.

[Johnnytheboy]

K12beano said:

Richard Wagner - love opera, love classical, love ancient mythology...... Hate Wagner....!

Back to the OP, I forget who once observed something like "Wagner has some great moments and some terrible half hours".

[K12beano]

Johnnytheboy said:

K12beano said:

Richard Wagner - love opera, love classical, love ancient mythology...... Hate Wagner....!

Back to the OP, I forget who once observed something like "Wagner has some great moments and some terrible half hours".

Someone suggested that Rossini said that - or something similar.

I wholeheartedly agree. Then I might have added that the popularity of some 20th Century classical composers can baffle me. Many of them don't seem to have a great moment...

[Crackie]

SilverSixer said:

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.

would it have been quicker to list stuff you do "get" ?

[SilverSixer]

Crackie said:

SilverSixer said:

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.

would it have been quicker to list stuff you do "get" ?

Some say I'm very narrow minded. I say the opposite - at least I tried almost everything, but I've evidently decided I don't like most of it!

My CD collection is famously small.

[Funk]

dinger said:

Problems getting " The Foos " .......runs for cover

I like a couple of their tracks but most of it I can do without though.

That said, I love Dave Grohl even though I don't like his music.

[SilverSixer]

"Foals" is my latest one. Every song is just one long shout to the same sound. I won't even call it a tune.

Appalling.

And "Slaves".

Saw both at Reading Festival this summer, just do not get.

[Bradgate]

Another jazz-sceptic here.

I can appreciate that the musicianship is good, but the music never seems to 'go anywhere', and at worst Jazz just sounds to me like boring, pointless, tuneless noodling.

A mate of mine is a big jazz fan; her dad got her into it. She keeps threatening to take me to Ronnie Scott's to be converted, but I'm not sure she will succeed!

[Adamski69]

Nice thread and God there are so many...

U2 - Absolutely do not get. Back in the sixth form (many moons back) a bunch of idiots played them in the common room pretty much all day every day for 18mths until someone else (me) took the then tape out of the machine and threw it out of the window. I can not bear them.
Smiths / Morrisey - Girlfreind in a coma? Even if you do want to go out tonight but haven't got a stitch to wear, just stay at home ****!
REM - Shine happy people...? As Dennis Leary once very aptly put it... Hey hey hey! pull that bus over to the side of the pretentiousness turnpike pal, I want all the shiney people over here and all the happy people over there... I represent gun toting meat eating f******g people... Shut the f**k up Michael... and I have lost my religion. Idiot.
Sam smith - please just stop
Jessy Jay - just WTF!!!!!!! Total torture in every respect you screeching banshee
Elbow - Now this one I really don't get in any way shape or form. Not any. At all. Ever.
Taylor Swift - Cack.
I can feel myself getting angry just thinking about some of these....
And the list goes on....

Edited by Adamski69 on Thursday 22 October 15:31

[Zod]

Adamski69 said:

Nice thread and God there are so many...

U2 - Absolutely do not get. Back in the sixth form (many moons back) a bunch of idiots played them in the common room pretty much all day every day for 18mths until someone else (me) took the then tape out of the machine and threw it out of the window. I can not bear them.
Smiths / Morrisey - Girlfreind in a coma? Even if you do want to go out tonight but haven't got a stitch to wear, just stay at home ****!
REM - Shine happy people...? As Dennis Leary once very aptly put it... Hey hey hey! pull that bus over to the side of the pretentiousness turnpike pal, I want all the shiney people over here and all the happy people over there... I represent gun toting meat eating f******g people... Shut the f**k up Michael... and I have lost my religion. Idiot.
Sam smith - please just stop
Jessy Jay - just WTF!!!!!!! Total torture in every respect you screeching banshee
Elbow - Now this one I really don't get in any way shape or form. Not any. At all. Ever.
Taylor Swift - Cack.
I can feel myself getting angry just thinking about some of these....
And the list goes on....

Edited by Adamski69 on Thursday 22 October 15:31

You've got this wrong. It's not "Artists I don't like".

[anonymous-user]

Has to be Jazz, I went to a jazz bar in New York a few years back with my boss and heard Coltrane's son play. Awesome music, he was joined by two other equally talented musicians, when they played together they were brilliant, but they went all freeform and doing their own stuff.

The crowd seemed to loved it, I left as it was just frustrating and annoying to listen to.

[slybynight]

Put me down for U2 also. People have been recommending them to me my whole life as apparently its my type of thing?
Its rubbish! How on earth did they sell so much of it?

[Adamski69]

Zod said:

You've got this wrong. It's not "Artists I don't like".

Thanks, but I'll be the judge of that. Plenty I don't like, These I don't get why anyone would.

[anonymous-user]

lockhart flawse said:

Top of the list: Oasis. But also

Foo-Fighters - sure they can play but.....

Red Hot Chilis - singer can hardly sing, guitarist hugely over-rated, bassist better at getting his plonker out than playing bass and pretty standard drumming.

Smiths - I will change the channel rather than listen

Iron Maiden - great show but sorry they're just crap

ELP - crap piled on crap

All those interchangeable American rock bands - knucklehead etc etc

I'm with you especially with your top of the list and number 4.

[Funk]

Raygun said:

lockhart flawse said:

Top of the list: Oasis. But also

Foo-Fighters - sure they can play but.....

Red Hot Chilis - singer can hardly sing, guitarist hugely over-rated, bassist better at getting his plonker out than playing bass and pretty standard drumming.

Smiths - I will change the channel rather than listen

Iron Maiden - great show but sorry they're just crap

ELP - crap piled on crap

All those interchangeable American rock bands - knucklehead etc etc

I'm with you especially with your top of the list and number 4.

I also have no idea how the Smiths were so popular; it's tuneless dirges fronted by a complete prick (not that that influenced my hatred of it at all).