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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: Fritzinger on January 19, 2018, 02:38:44 AM
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Since I find the other thread about music you are surprised to like pretty interesting, I though I'd start a thread about music you should like (based on f.e. mutual tastes in music of friends) but just can't get into though.
For me it's Jimi Hendrix. Lots of colleagues and friends who listen to a lot of music I listen to too adore Jimi. I think he was a brilliant musician, but I just don't like listening to his stuff. I really can't explain why.
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First example that comes to mind is Opeth. Everyone I know is or was raving about Opeth, and I couldn't dig a song for the life of me. I don't like extreme metal with harsh vocals, ok, there are the more clean vocals songs... don't like them. They also made an acoustic album, cool.... I found it boring. I just have to accept that Opeth's music is not meant for me.
Also a lot of prog stuff here and there doesn't really captivate me too much. The point is that I don't listen to Dream Theater because I like prog, Dream Theater is the only reason why I even bother to check out other similar bands of the genre here and there. For example I tried giving a shot at Transatlantic but even though there's nothing I really dislike, as in "Bleah, what is this, I don't want to listen to it anymore", nothing really stands out to me (We All Need Some Light is cool though).
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Two bands comes to mind:
Rush and Marillion for some reason I have never got into those bands. I habe tried for YEARS to like them, but I just can’t.
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Foo Fighters. They seem to be everything I should like in a band, but I just don't get them at all. it's just a noise to me.
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Tool, NiN, The Deftones and Queens of the Stone Age.
Critically respected bands within genres I generally enjoy, I've tried numerous times with each of these acts - but aside from the odd song here and there, nothing really sticks for me.
Also Radiohead post OK Computer.
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Beatles, I recognize their influence but I just don't like almost all of their songs.
For me it's Jimi Hendrix. Lots of colleagues and friends who listen to a lot of music I listen to too adore Jimi. I think he was a brilliant musician, but I just don't like listening to his stuff. I really can't explain why.
And this, I like some of his songs but mostly when they are played by others.
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Some of the new prog rock/ prog metal bands, like Periphery and Between the Buried and Me.
I sometimes listen on occasion, but never got much into them..
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Two bands comes to mind:
Rush and Marillion for some reason I have never got into those bands. I habe tried for YEARS to like them, but I just can’t.
Thank you for naming my two all time favorite bands, with Dream Theater and Kansas being 3 and 4 respectfully.
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I am surprised I don't like David bowie that much. There's like a good 15 ish songs that I love, but I'm not that into his overall catalogue. Hopefully one day I acquire a taste.
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Stephen Wilson and Porcupine Tree. I like a song here and there but for the most part Wilson just does nothing for me.
Queensryche- LOVE Operation Mindcrime. Pretty much hate everything else. Probably because I don't like Tates voice.
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Foo Fighters. They seem to be everything I should like in a band, but I just don't get them at all. it's just a noise to me.
This one. I tried, I gave it the good effort, but it just doesn't click, outside of a handful of songs. Tom Petty is in this group as well.
Stephen Wilson. Lord, I've tried, but - and this is coming from a guy that loves ELP, Yes and Crimson - it just comes off as pretentious to me.
I suppose there are others, too. Steve Hackett's solo stuff. MSG stuff without Gary Barden (or Graham Bonnet). Brian May solo stuff.
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Nirvana.....nails on a chalk board to me.
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Most classic and modern prog.
Just can't get into Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Hakken, etc.
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- most classic prog, I just can't do. Yes? Genesis? ELP? You might as well put on Limp Bizkit - I'll be checking the time 30 seconds in regardless.
- all the rock bands that sound like Kings of Leon but aren't Kings of Leon. I absolutely love KoL. But every time last.fm or Spotify suggests an artist that's similar to them, I hate it.
- Judas Priest. I should love 'em, but they're atrocious
- most symphonic/power metal beyond the first decade of this millennium despite that being the genre I was most into growing up - it's all terrible
- any band with a lot of shredding - grew up loving that stuff but hearing it lately, I want to rip off my ears. Salieri was right, damn it
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- most symphonic/power metal beyond the first decade of this millennium despite that being the genre I was most into growing up - it's all terrible
More or less it's the same with me. I grew up with power metal, and I still follow the bands I discovered at the beginning (Helloween) or many years ago (Sonata Arctica), but I have absolutely no interest in checking out new power metal bands nowadays.
I can't even remember the most recent all out metal act I started to follow. I still follow the old ones but when it comes to new music I'm more driven to alternative stuff: folk / folk metal, weird theatric stuff, some occasional post rock here and there... I still consider myself a 100% metalhead but it's hard for a straight out, newcomer metal band to capture my interest.
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Love Steven Wilson but can't get into Porcupine Tree to save my life. Makes no sense; PT was almost a solo project anyway
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- most symphonic/power metal beyond the first decade of this millennium despite that being the genre I was most into growing up - it's all terrible
More or less it's the same with me. I grew up with power metal, and I still follow the bands I discovered at the beginning (Helloween) or many years ago (Sonata Arctica), but I have absolutely no interest in checking out new power metal bands nowadays.
I can't even remember the most recent all out metal act I started to follow. I still follow the old ones but when it comes to new music I'm more driven to alternative stuff: folk / folk metal, weird theatric stuff, some occasional post rock here and there... I still consider myself a 100% metalhead but it's hard for a straight out, newcomer metal band to capture my interest.
Same. I still love every band I grew up with (well, most of them) and follow them, but I tried the last few days to listen to dozens of power metal bands from the last 10 years and holy crap are they offensive to my ears haha. It takes a herculean effort from a PM band to really impress me. (And is it me or are there NO new good singers in the genre? That's what kills a lot of these bands to me... where are the next Timo Kotipeltos and Fabio Liones??)
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I'm a big prog metal fan, so I guess I'm surprised when there are prog metal bands that I really should like on paper, but I just don't.
On the other hand, I often don't care for a band that reminds me a little too much of Dream Theater or other prog metal bands, and yet other times, there will be a band that fits that description that I absolutely love.
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Genesis. I grew up loving Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Rush, Yes, Pink Floyd. Not sure what it is about them that I just don't get into.
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Genesis. I grew up loving Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Rush, Yes, Pink Floyd. Not sure what it is about them that I just don't get into.
Same here, I WANT to because so many people with tastes similar to mine do. For whatever reason it just doesn't stick.
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Mastodon
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Put me in the classic rock and prog group. I just can't get into much of the older stuff. Though partly because there's so much new music I don't have time to give the old stuff a ton of listening time.
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Yea, a lot fo classic prog, but I wouldn't say thats a surprise since it's essentially a whole genre, but a band liek Rush which is universally loved and I really can't get into them. I'd also add bands like Opeth and modern prog metal which seems right up my alley but just can't dig.
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Queensryche. They laid the groundwork for what would become my favorite band, DT; they are generally held in high regard by fans of other bands I enjoy; and they are from my area. When I listen to QR I enjoy the music, I just have never gone out of my way to do so, or really connected with the music like I feel I should.
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Queensryche. They laid the groundwork for what would become my favorite band, DT; they are generally held in high regard by fans of other bands I enjoy; and they are from my area. When I listen to QR I enjoy the music, I just have never gone out of my way to do so, or really connected with the music like I feel I should.
This is so much me. I tried, I really did, but none of their stuff ever clicked for me.
Also - others have mentioned a couple of mine as well - Yes, Genesis, ELP, Crimson, etc... just have never really done it for me.
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Mastodon is like the premier prog sludge band and a lot of bands I love are influenced by them but I have never been too into any mastodon album
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I've said this loads of times elsewhere (and maybe here) but Mastodon are the utmost example of a band that I *almost* like. They're not quite there for some reason
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^ While I do like Mastadon, I will say they are one band that sounds WAY worse live than in the studio. I love their studio work, but literally have zero interest in seeing them live as I can't even watch live videos of them.
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Foo Fighters. They seem to be everything I should like in a band, but I just don't get them at all. it's just a noise to me.
This one. I tried, I gave it the good effort, but it just doesn't click, outside of a handful of songs. Tom Petty is in this group as well.
Stephen Wilson. Lord, I've tried, but - and this is coming from a guy that loves ELP, Yes and Crimson - it just comes off as pretentious to me.
I suppose there are others, too. Steve Hackett's solo stuff. MSG stuff without Gary Barden (or Graham Bonnet). Brian May solo stuff.
Damn! ALL OF THIS......except Brian May......IF you place one of his solo tracks in a later Queen album, or in between Freddie and Roger solo tunes. As with the first eight band albums, his style and voice fits like a glove as a great change of pace.
Check out 'Teasin' Around' and 'I Do' for the heck of it. Fun stuff, and so 'Brian'.
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I've said this loads of times elsewhere (and maybe here) but Mastodon are the utmost example of a band that I *almost* like. They're not quite there for some reason
Mastodon
This is one band I *tried* getting into but as I got more and more of their albums, I slowly lost interest, and I found their music a bit too heavy for my tastes at the time. Funny enough, in the last few years, my tastes have mellowed out even more and I don't listen to much heavy stuff anymore, so I doubt I'll ever revisit this band ever again unless I'm really in the mood for something that heavy.
When it came to classic prog, when I was trying to discover many of the well-known and popular 70's prog acts, there were a few I tried but didn't seek out more than I did - Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, and Jethro Tull were three that I really wanted to get into, and I even bought a few VdGG albums (I enjoyed Pawn Hearts a bit, but the other two never stuck with me), and several Tull albums (from their debut up through TAAB, I think). I've given Tull more chances over the years and even bought a couple more albums of theirs to see if my changed-tastes find them a bit more interesting, and they did, but not enough for me to really dive into them at the moment, so I still consider them a failed-attempt at a band I tried liking but just don't really get. I do enjoy TAAB though - that's good fun.
-Marc.
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Haken, Pain of Salvation, and Porcupine Tree are the three that I've given repeated chances, but just don't click with me.
:dunno:
I could probably rhyme off a ton more, but those are the 3 biggest ones that come to mind that are generally beloved by DTF.
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Foo Fighters. They seem to be everything I should like in a band, but I just don't get them at all. it's just a noise to me.
This one. I tried, I gave it the good effort, but it just doesn't click, outside of a handful of songs. Tom Petty is in this group as well.
Stephen Wilson. Lord, I've tried, but - and this is coming from a guy that loves ELP, Yes and Crimson - it just comes off as pretentious to me.
I suppose there are others, too. Steve Hackett's solo stuff. MSG stuff without Gary Barden (or Graham Bonnet). Brian May solo stuff.
Damn! ALL OF THIS......except Brian May......IF you place one of his solo tracks in a later Queen album, or in between Freddie and Roger solo tunes. As with the first eight band albums, his style and voice fits like a glove as a great change of pace.
Check out 'Teasin' Around' and 'I Do' for the heck of it. Fun stuff, and so 'Brian'.
I'm a huge Queen fan, and have been binging on the band lately (I even went out and bought Hot Space - I actually like Action This Day and Calling All Girls) and Brian is an acquired taste. You hit the nail on the head: he fits nicely with the rest of the band and is a great change of pace. Doesn't sustain a whole album in my view.
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First example that comes to mind is Opeth.
Ditto with me too. Tried and tried and tried again to get into them, but they never clicked.
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While I wouldn't say I do not like them, I really thought Marillion would be a band I would go hog wild over it, but I never did. They have a dozen or so songs I really dig, but that's about it. And even those, I rarely listen to them. The vast majority of their material bored me to tears when I checked it out.
Gentle Giant is another. I remember getting into Spock's Beard and many saying, "if you like them, you'll really dig Gentle Giant," but it was the opposite. Gentle Giant is some of the worst shit I've ever heard.
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Devin Townsend. He's great and talented but I finally realized just two weeks ago why I can't get into him. Whenever I listen to his albums, I enjoy the first two to three songs then it suddenly becomes tiring. It's like there's a wall of sound and it's just too much and the songs start to blend together.
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Totally agree on Devin Townsend. Tried a few of his albums and he's just exhausting
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I agree with some people!! I never liked any of Devins music also. I like some Opeth songs, but I can't get into most of their stuff. Their older albums are just too death metal for me. Watershed is not bad, neither are their last two albums- but I'm not such a big fan of their melodies.
I understand if people can't get into Bowie. I personally ADMIRE the dude and love a lot of music by him. Especially Blackstar - wow what a masterpiece. But I totally understand if people cannot get into his weird style.
Another band would be Radiohead. I listened to OKC once in the car, didn't like it. I bought it on vinyl the other day. Sometimes I get into albums when I listen to them on vinyl. Everyone calls it a masterpiece so I figured I'd give it another try. Haven't had time to listen to it yet though.
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Periphery. I tried many times to like their music, but it just doesn't work for me. The vocals don't help either.
Meshuggah. I like the first few seconds of Bleed and that's it, the rest is just heavy riffing with lots of growls and zero melody. Not my cup of tea.
BTBAM. Some songs have very cool moments and I like a few of the Coma Ecliptic tracks, but I could Never finish the album (and tried many times) from start to finish. It's very tiring and same-sounding. Also, too many growls.
Tried listening to Colors and my experience was worse, had to stop listening afer the first song.
I think it's just clear I don't like growling vocals :biggrin:
Devin Townsend. Same opinion as some of you, his songs are just an unstoppable wall of sound (for the most part), so it gets tiring to listen to and I feel like I listened to the same song over and over again through the album.
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Pain of Salvation. It has all of the elements of things I should like, but Daniel Gildenlow’s overall vibe prevents me from looking into them more. I think he takes himself way too seriously.
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Foo Fighters.. I enjoy a couple of songs but their sound is just so.. vanilla? I would definitely say they're a rockin' band. Grohl is a cool dude and his voice is great too but somehow I don't really care for Foo Fighters songs.
Machine Head. I can't stand the guy's voice even though I like that vocal style.
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I'm not even really a djent fan but I just don't really understand the love for Tesseract and Periphery. They are pretty well loved around these parts. I actually don't mind some Periphery but I think they are fairly overrated.
Tesseract though, I've tried many times and they just do nothing for me. I saw them supporting Devin Townsend and just wasn't into it at all. They seem like they should be something I'd like but I think they are overrated and they just don't click for me.
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Pain of Salvation. It has all of the elements of things I should like, but Daniel Gildenlow’s overall vibe prevents me from looking into them more. I think he takes himself way too seriously.
I couldn't of said it better myself.
I can't get into any of MP"s projects post DT. On paper they sound like they would work for me, drummer I like often paired with a great guitar and bass player but Flying Colors is bland and Adrenaline Mob is too psychosane for me.
Funny enough after these years I think I enjoy Sons of Apollo the most.
I can also echo the Devin Townsend comments. There are a few songs that are amazing and are some of my favorite but a large part of his work is forgettable to me.
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Evanescence.
It's the weirdest thing about them. I like their contemporaries (Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Halestorm, Shinedown (when they used to be so dang good), etc. I've tried a couple of times to get into them. I heard their Fallen album. I heard their Synthesis album, last year, where they remix a couple of their songs and added orchestration elements. I just cannot enjoy them the way I do their contemporaries and I can't put my finger why.
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Evanescence.
It's the weirdest thing about them. I like their contemporaries (Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Halestorm, Shinedown (when they used to be so dang good), etc. I've tried a couple of times to get into them. I heard their Fallen album. I heard their Synthesis album, last year, where they remix a couple of their songs and added orchestration elements. I just cannot enjoy them the way I do their contemporaries and I can't put my finger why.
Agreed on the most part, their first album is decent but I moved on from them rather quickly. I like Halestorm way better even though they have cheesey lyrics, lol!
I'll take Nightwish any day over these two bands. NW has way more substance in their music and much better lyrics..
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Gojira. I've tried and tried, bought several albums... The riffs and sound is amazing but the songs just aren't there. So dull. It might be the vocals? They're not really aggressive but are in the growl box. Shrug...
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Gojira is a good example. I've read good things about From Mars To Sirius and some samples sounded great. But when I heard the whole thing it was a huge letdown. I've tried and I've tried but I just don't like it.
Some riffs are cool and the more atmospheric stuff isn't bad, but the songs just aren't there, they mostly sound like random uninspired riffs thrown together. And the drummer at times sounds like he can't barely keep the timing.
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Rush's earliest material. I have no problem with high pitched prog vocalists, (I like Coheed and Cambria) and I have no problem with their instrumental tracks. I liked Clockwork Angels and Vapor Trails but there's something in their earlier albums that doesn't click, maybe It's poor man Geddy Lee's voice that I have a problem with. I don't understand it. Sorry :(
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Since it came up in another thread... Rage Against the Machine. They seem to have everything I love in music (minus political lyrics, but lyrics I can generally get over), yet I could never really enjoy it.
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Marillion. I treid a couple times to get into their music, but it just never clicked with me.
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The Who
Outside of a few songs I just can't get into them. Surprises me because I like a lot of classic rock (my parents were teens in the late 60's). Much of my childhood was spent listening to 60's and 70's rock. As a drummer, I admire the heck out of Keith Moon. Do I respect them? Absolutely. I just wish I liked them.
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The Who
Outside of a few songs I just can't get into them. Surprises me because I like a lot of classic rock (my parents were teens in the late 60's). Much of my childhood was spent listening to 60's and 70's rock. As a drummer, I admire the heck out of Keith Moon. Do I respect them? Absolutely. I just wish I liked them.
Same. I like a few songs, even LOVE some. But all in all. It's a cool band but nothing against, say, Led Zeppelin. Lots of people who love the same stuff that I love, admire The Who. I don't, but I don't know why.
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I bought a lot of Who disks on eBay a couple weeks ago and as I'm listening through... I feel like I'm always kind of just waiting for the stuff off Who's Next to come up. Not that it's their only album, but the Who is all over the map and not all of those places are civilization.
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Gentle Giant is another. I remember getting into Spock's Beard and many saying, "if you like them, you'll really dig Gentle Giant," but it was the opposite. Gentle Giant is some of the worst shit I've ever heard.
That is a really weird statement. I mean, at best one could say "Spock's Beard draw influence from Gentle Giant in places, maybe you'll enjoy it". But, they are overall very different. And yeah, GG is weird shit, you either love it or hate it :lol
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Gentle Giant is some of the worst shit I've ever heard.
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I was driving in the car the other day and this gem came on:
https://youtu.be/ZLMcef3geVY?t=43
I mean, gotta admit, that is some weird-ass shit! :lol
I still love it though.
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I was driving in the car the other day and this gem came on:
https://youtu.be/ZLMcef3geVY?t=43
I mean, gotta admit, that is some weird-ass shit! :lol
I still love it though.
On the radio? I love that album.
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Gentle Giant is another. I remember getting into Spock's Beard and many saying, "if you like them, you'll really dig Gentle Giant," but it was the opposite. Gentle Giant is some of the worst shit I've ever heard.
That is a really weird statement. I mean, at best one could say "Spock's Beard draw influence from Gentle Giant in places, maybe you'll enjoy it". But, they are overall very different. And yeah, GG is weird shit, you either love it or hate it :lol
I will take the latter for $200, Alex. :P
Gentle Giant is some of the worst shit I've ever heard.
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That Gentle Giant song sounds like a couple kids got loose in a Toys R Us and found some toy instruments.
I bought a lot of Who disks on eBay a couple weeks ago and as I'm listening through... I feel like I'm always kind of just waiting for the stuff off Who's Next to come up. Not that it's their only album, but the Who is all over the map and not all of those places are civilization.
Never thought of that. They were doing some fairly experimental (hate that word but can't think of a better one) stuff in the mid to late 60s for a British Invasion band, things like a 9.5 minute "A Quick One, While He's Away." Then Pete had the creative genius run of Tommy/Who's Next/Quadrophenia. Then they dipped a bit, but kept momentum till Keith died. They tried to press on but Pete might not have had much left in the creative tank. I sometimes forget about the post Quadrophenia (how are we supposed to abbreviate that??) albums, but even with the 6 albums up to that point, that is a hell of a lot of legendary classic rock material. Any band would love to have Tommy, Who's Next, or Q as part of their discography. Plus they had one of the most explosive (sometimes literally) live shows in rock.
Not sure where I am going with all this. The Beatles "were all over the map" too, as were The Stones. Maybe The Who strayed too far from their wheelhouse for you. Fair enough.
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That Gentle Giant song sounds like a couple kids got loose in a Toys R Us and found some toy instruments.
I bought a lot of Who disks on eBay a couple weeks ago and as I'm listening through... I feel like I'm always kind of just waiting for the stuff off Who's Next to come up. Not that it's their only album, but the Who is all over the map and not all of those places are civilization.
Never thought of that. They were doing some fairly experimental (hate that word but can't think of a better one) stuff in the mid to late 60s for a British Invasion band, things like a 9.5 minute "A Quick One, While He's Away." Then Pete had the creative genius run of Tommy/Who's Next/Quadrophenia. Then they dipped a bit, but kept momentum till Keith died. They tried to press on but Pete might not have had much left in the creative tank. I sometimes forget about the post Quadrophenia (how are we supposed to abbreviate that??) albums, but even with the 6 albums up to that point, that is a hell of a lot of legendary classic rock material. Any band would love to have Tommy, Who's Next, or Q as part of their discography. Plus they had one of the most explosive (sometimes literally) live shows in rock.
Not sure where I am going with all this. The Beatles "were all over the map" too, as were The Stones. Maybe The Who strayed too far from their wheelhouse for you. Fair enough.
I really agree with everything you said about The Who. It's not like I find those albums shite, I can acknowledge that they are very good albums, I just personally don't like them that much.
That being said, I think the Who album I like most is Who's Next (ok I'll run now).
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I was surprised how much I loved Gentle Giant. They were a quirkier, nerdier Genesis, in my opinion. Now Haken, I can't get into those guys.
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Between the Buried and Me
Based off of everything I had read about them, I figured I'd love them so I impulsively bought one of their albums (Colors) a while back when I was looking for something new to listen to. I don't think it's a bad album by any means, but I couldn't get into it for the life of me. I know the album gets a lot of praise and the genre is up my alley, but it just never clicked with me.
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The only Between the Buried and Me song I actually enjoy start to finish is Selkies.
Most of the time their songs just sound like noise with really bad screams thrown on top, but every description of the band points out that I should like them. I don't know.
I'll throw in Opeth, another band that I can't seem to get into.
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Fates Warning. Just haven't heard anything I can get into at all... I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't for the fact that I really like the first couple of OSI records.
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That Gentle Giant song sounds like a couple kids got loose in a Toys R Us and found some toy instruments.
I bought a lot of Who disks on eBay a couple weeks ago and as I'm listening through... I feel like I'm always kind of just waiting for the stuff off Who's Next to come up. Not that it's their only album, but the Who is all over the map and not all of those places are civilization.
Never thought of that. They were doing some fairly experimental (hate that word but can't think of a better one) stuff in the mid to late 60s for a British Invasion band, things like a 9.5 minute "A Quick One, While He's Away." Then Pete had the creative genius run of Tommy/Who's Next/Quadrophenia. Then they dipped a bit, but kept momentum till Keith died. They tried to press on but Pete might not have had much left in the creative tank. I sometimes forget about the post Quadrophenia (how are we supposed to abbreviate that??) albums, but even with the 6 albums up to that point, that is a hell of a lot of legendary classic rock material. Any band would love to have Tommy, Who's Next, or Q as part of their discography. Plus they had one of the most explosive (sometimes literally) live shows in rock.
Not sure where I am going with all this. The Beatles "were all over the map" too, as were The Stones. Maybe The Who strayed too far from their wheelhouse for you. Fair enough.
I really agree with everything you said about The Who. It's not like I find those albums shite, I can acknowledge that they are very good albums, I just personally don't like them that much.
That being said, I think the Who album I like most is Who's Next (ok I'll run now).
You don't have to run; that's almost exactly what I said. It's not that I DON'T like the other stuff, but it's quirky, and while I like A Quick One, it's a weird piece, and less a "song" than it is a collage. I LOVE "I Can See For Miles", but it's very different than "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere". I don't know; I don't know how else to explain it, because as some one else pointed out, the Beatles were the same way and I LOVE the Beatles.
I'm still going to continue digging in, maybe it'll click. And don't misunderstand; as I listen to more and more, my admiration for Townsend grows. I knew the Who were influential, but I had no idea the EXTENT to which they influenced 100s of bands to come later.