Bands that you just don't get

[LTE]

Pain of Salvation just seems so bland to me.
Nirvana.

Nickleback


I remember when I didn't "get" Meshuggah.
Was I an idiot or what? 

[Seventh Son]

Radiohead
Muse
Neutral Milk Hotel
Symphony X
98% of Power Metal
A7X
Pain of Salvation
U2
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Sonata Arctica
Coheed and Cambria
The Beatles
Mastodon
RHCP
Pantera
Behemoth
Pretty much all metal/deathcore
The Rolling Stones
System of a Down
Queens of the Stone Age
Weezer
Uh, a lot of things that pitchfork faps over
A lot of things I'm forgetting, more than likely.

[73109]

Bruce Springsteen

I plan on fixing this. What have you heard.

[ZBomber]

Bruce Springsteen

I plan on fixing this. What have you heard.

The whole Born in the USA album. I can't stand his voice.

[73109]

I see. Then I am fucked. Although I can see where you are coming from. Good day to you, sir.

[j]

I see. Then I am fucked. Although I can see where you are coming from. Good day to you, sir.

 

-J

[Arcaeus]

WTF. I hated Bruce Springsteen too and then Jungleland put me in my place.

[Ben_Jamin]

Muse
Coheed and Cambria
Radiohead
U2

[Dr. SeaWolf]

Dream Theater

[Zook]

There is nothing generic about Circus Maximus.

[skydivingninja]

Bruce Springsteen

I plan on fixing this. What have you heard.

The whole Born in the USA album. I can't stand his voice.

You got the wrong album.  Born to Run is his best album, and, in fact, one of the best albums in existence.  Listen to "Thunder Road" and "Jungleland."

[ZBomber]

Bruce Springsteen

I plan on fixing this. What have you heard.

The whole Born in the USA album. I can't stand his voice.

You got the wrong album.  Born to Run is his best album, and, in fact, one of the best albums in existence.  Listen to "Thunder Road" and "Jungleland."

Still can't stand his voice.

[Sigz]

There is nothing generic about Circus Maximus.

lol


for me:

Pretty much all the 'classic' metal bands: Metallica, Megadeth, Maiden, Judas Priest, Slayer, Anthrax, etc.

[Arcaeus]

There is nothing generic about Circus Maximus.

Thanks man, you're bringing me some much needed lulz today. First the metalcore comment, now this

[ClairvoyantCat]

Oh, also a big one... Queensryche.  Not that I can't believe anyone would like their music, but their being praised as anything close to revolutionary, or anything new or different has always baffled me. 

[Gadough]

Mastodon - Vocals shitty enough to the point that I can't believe the masses have accepted them.
Fates Warning - not particularly bad, just plain boring and nothing special about them.
U2 - Again, just plain boring.
Nirvana - The sloppiest band that ever made it big, ever. Kurt was a mediocre lyricist, a bad guitar player, and a horrible songwriter. Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains were proof that grunge can be done right and well, but Nirvana was easily the most successful grunge band. That is something I will never "get".
The Who - I have no real reason for not getting them, I just flat out have never liked a single Who song I've heard.

[Dr. SeaWolf]

Oh, also a big one... Queensryche.  Not that I can't believe anyone would like their music, but their being praised as anything close to revolutionary, or anything new or different has always baffled me.  

You have to understand that the reason their music doesn't really sound revolutionary anymore now is because there are so many newer bands that were influenced by them.  They created something new and unique for the time.

[LCArenas]

Pain of Salvation
Coheed and Cambria
Rush (I haven't heard much of them though. So to all the Rush fans here, what album should I check first?)

[Jakartabassplayer]

The Who - I have no real reason for not getting them, I just flat out have never liked a single Who song I've heard.

[Dr. SeaWolf]

Pain of Salvation
Coheed and Cambria
Rush (I haven't heard much of them though. So to all the Rush fans here, what album should I check first?)

Moving Pictures, followed by Permanent Waves, Hemispheres, and A Farewell to Kings.

[skydivingninja]

The Who - I have no real reason for not getting them, I just flat out have never liked a single Who song I've heard.

[Gadough]

The Who - I have no real reason for not getting them, I just flat out have never liked a single Who song I've heard.

I've come to the conclusion that literally every single one of my opinions on music cause you to go into atomic rage mode and/or make you want to hate me to death.

[73109]

Ouch dude. I loved you up until about the second after I read the The Who comment.

[Zook]

Metalcore. Fuck that noise.

[Sigz]

Metalcore.

What a strange name for a band.

[Zook]

Wait, let me do what I do. ''Uh would you stop that?''

[Fluffy Lothario]

Nirvana - The sloppiest band that ever made it big, ever. Kurt was a mediocre lyricist, a bad guitar player, and a horrible songwriter. Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains were proof that grunge can be done right and well, but Nirvana was easily the most successful grunge band. That is something I will never "get".

Easily the most successful in what sense? Cobain was a very (overly) dramatic figure, so he was an obvious choice for the media darling from grunge (as much as he hated that fact himself). But the only album of theirs that actually sold really well was Nevermind, and Ten has consistently outsold it since release. And I've heard many people say that even in their heyday, outside of the world of MTV and music mags, most people just saw them as an okay rock band, except for maybe Teen Spirit. It might seem like it today, since their status within rock music has been overemphasised to hell due to Cobain's suicide (again, a phenomenon largely created by the media), but that aside, I really don't think Nirvana had such an overwhelming edge over the other bands in the genre.

[Jamesman42]

Oh, also a big one... Queensryche.  Not that I can't believe anyone would like their music, but their being praised as anything close to revolutionary, or anything new or different has always baffled me. 

Besides Spreading the Disease (Oh. My. GOD.), I couldn't get this band either.

[skydivingninja]

I've come to the conclusion that literally every single one of my opinions on music cause you to go into atomic rage mode and/or make you want to hate me to death.

Gadough is to Skydivingninja as Perpetual Change is to SonataFanica, I guess.

[Accelerando]

Opeth
A7X

[bmc]

Pain of Salvation, although Remedy Lane is good.  I can't seem to enjoy half the crap on Road Salt One though.


Transatlantic, slowly warming up to the Whirlwind though.  It just seems like a daunting task to listen to it.

[faemir]

The fail in this thread makes me cry

[wolfking]

Call me ignorant, but the amount of people saying Pain of Salvation astounds me, and shocks me really.

[lonestar]

Bruce Springsteen

I plan on fixing this. What have you heard.

*hugs, and holds hope for the future*

The Who - I have no real reason for not getting them, I just flat out have never liked a single Who song I've heard.

I really don't know what to say to this.  The Who was the ORIGINAL voice of teenage angst.  They paved the way for so many others to honestly express their aggression against the system, for they were the originals.  I am not saying you have to love there music, but for gods sake, respect them.  They INVENTED the concept of destroying instruments on stage!!!

[AwakeFromOctavarium]

Call me ignorant, but the amount of people saying Pain of Salvation astounds me, and shocks me really.

I was shocked before as well. I thought PoS had a pretty accessible sound.