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Bands that you don't get the appeal of?
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terrisus
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I do hate movies, don't really care for most anything on television, and I covered the games thing above. As far as talking to people and going outside, those have obvious necessities to them, and to use them as an example is obvious hyperbole.
As for the second part - yet again, obviously everyone is different.
I like the thinly veiled stabs at hipsters. Sucks that certain things have hipster connotations tho, because you can find great music in those labels.
Bold. Daring even.
teruterubozu
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Grateful Dead
Eric Clapton
Bruce Springsteen
Bob Dylan
Eric Clapton
Bruce Springsteen
Bob Dylan
The Maverick
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This thread ended very early. Add Vampire Weekend to this as well.
I'm thinking about adding everyone that said Radiohead to my block list, it's that real out here.
Also agree with Dylan and Springsteen.
Serious business...
I can't stand the whiny voice of the singer. I don't need links where he sings differently. Just not for me.
Death/doom metal also annoys me.
Band called 69 Eyes is also awful. Why can't you sing with your normal voice. Sounds like an idiot with the too low key.
It really depends on how you define country. There's no line to be drawn between country and folk, except that folk musicians tend to be more progressive (politically and musically) and don't always have Southern accents. I would probably advise you to avoid all modern country music altogether. It's marketed toward an extremely specific audience (poor white rural people), and everybody else isn't that likely to "get it".
Country music is really weird because it specifically targets one demographic in a way that I don't think other genres do. While most rap is meant for Black urban audiences, there are hundreds of rap artists that market themselves towards a "mainstream" audience, and then there are artists like Mackelmore who directly target white audiences. If you play country-sounding music and you don't appeal to "country people", you won't be seen as a country musician.
What kind because most people use the word inaccurately.
I don't get what people see in Eminem. I think he's just a mediocre radio rapper.
Yeah, arguably there are only three trip hop groups. All of whom are worth the hype IMO.
Yeah, arguably there are only three trip hop groups. All of whom are worth the hype IMO.
What is a 'radio' rapper? And how does it differ from other varieties of rappers?
now I'm really certain you are using it in the artificially narrowed context
which groups btw?
I guess too mainstream for the cool kids.
GuitarAtomik
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Spoon.
I usually hear them described as a really good indie rock band, with their albums ending up on best of lists, but I haven't heard one from song from them that wasn't extremely blah and non-descript. It outright bores me.
I usually hear them described as a really good indie rock band, with their albums ending up on best of lists, but I haven't heard one from song from them that wasn't extremely blah and non-descript. It outright bores me.
MilkLizard
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Lately Deafheaven. I really don't get the hype.
The Maverick
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I can't disagree any harder. Eminem is one of the best ever. Sunbather was an awesome album, and thanks for reminding me to play it again. Can I get some reasons folks?
You're talking about Neutral Milk? I only like Oh Comely, but I cannot understand the critical acclaim behind these guys. Voice turns me off immediately. Content is just all over the place. Nope.
I like Radiohead, but after King of Limbs I sometimes I feel like this guy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHS3ci9H_Uc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHS3ci9H_Uc
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Meatloaf. I just don't get it!
kurisu1974
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Frank Black / Pixies is another great example of non metal screaming.
You sound like heaps of fun. Also ignorant.
freenudemacusers
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The Maverick
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Lmfao. Loved them in my early teens.
Screaming Meat
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No Portishead, Massive Attack or Tricky? Odd.
Oh yeah forgot them as well. Kind of ironic since I like blink who have whiny vocals but Axl Rose's does my head in.
i cannot stand their wankery.
samus i am
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Animal Collective. I don't get it at all.
Red Blaster
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i don't get why so many college students like dave matthews
a fat, balding guy playing c-grade jam bandy rock doesn't fit that demographic at all
a fat, balding guy playing c-grade jam bandy rock doesn't fit that demographic at all
Have you tried listening to a full album, maybe a couple of times? A lot of stuff i love is meant to be experienced that way, listening random song in shuffle is a shitty way to enjoy more complicated music.
Dion Blaster
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Listen to this man. Listen to Bends or OK Computer all the way through.
He's a lot of peoples' first exposure to "real" music. It feels authentic and different because of the violin and sax, and the songs aren't typical pop-radio stuff while still being safe.
Not a fan of the band, but that's my theory. It does seem like his popularity is waning, though. The late 90s and early 2000s was DMB's peak.
Yeah them too. I never could get into them. Brutally boring.
Jonny Greenwood is god.
freenudemacusers
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I agree these groups are trip-hop, and it's certainly what I first came to know the genre by. But I would argue that this is hardly related to the hip-hop seen that everything grew out of.
These groups represent a small branch of the whole, and unfortunately are most synonymous with the name that best describes pioneers of the genre.
terrisus
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So it's "ignorant" to have a particular preference now? Interesting.
equippedwithtowel
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If it's a preference that results in you being ignorant then sure. It's an objective statement. If you categorically hear music as noise then you are in ignorance of it.
CarpeDeezNutz
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Jam bands like Phish and the Grateful Dead, although I have not heard many songs by them.
terrisus
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I'm aware of it, I know of its existence and its appeal to other people.
I just don't like it.
equippedwithtowel
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I'm aware that Indonesia has a political system, I still wouldn't claim to not be in utter ignorance of it.
JinjoUnchained
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The Eagles, Steve Miller Band, and any Fleetwood Mac song not written by or featuring Stevie Nicks. I'm not saying that bands have to be virtuosos or anything, but these groups have barely any chops and don't make up for it other ways.
The Doors were pretty amateurish, but they made it work with Morrison's charisma, Manzarek's soloing, and having their own sound. The Beatles weren't Cream or anything, but they made it work with amazing song writing, harmonization, and versatility.
Eagles/Steve Miller/Fleetwood Mac: I just don't get it, there's nothing there. They aren't great musicians, write boring lyrics, and their subject matter is generic. Peaceful, Easy, Feeling sounds like it was written and performed by a 1st grader on Recess break. Rocking Me Baby, cool intro aside, is completely one note and features almost no instrumentation. And don't get me started on Christine McVie: soulless, cheesy, bland (see You Make Loving Fun or Say You Love Me).
The Doors were pretty amateurish, but they made it work with Morrison's charisma, Manzarek's soloing, and having their own sound. The Beatles weren't Cream or anything, but they made it work with amazing song writing, harmonization, and versatility.
Eagles/Steve Miller/Fleetwood Mac: I just don't get it, there's nothing there. They aren't great musicians, write boring lyrics, and their subject matter is generic. Peaceful, Easy, Feeling sounds like it was written and performed by a 1st grader on Recess break. Rocking Me Baby, cool intro aside, is completely one note and features almost no instrumentation. And don't get me started on Christine McVie: soulless, cheesy, bland (see You Make Loving Fun or Say You Love Me).
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