Singers/Bands you can't stand

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Hakan

Put me under the Pink Floyd is overrated camp. It's funny Bobble that the more I listened to Floyd the less impressed I became. On the surface veneer is amazing intricate deep music but the more I listened the more manufactured and simplistic it started to sound. The only good Floyd album in my opinion is Animals. Oddly that's the album that gets almost ZERO air play.

I find the Wall to be possibly one of the most overrated piles of crap rock'n'roll has ever produced. A 90 minute opus to Roger Waters' overbearing mother and jealousy issues wrapped up in a convenient totalitarian zeitgeist to give the listener the impression that it's something bigger than a typical self centered artistic whine column. Blech.

Since it came up, I've had "Goobye Blue Sky" going through my head. First time I heard The Wall, I didn't like that song at all. And "Run Like Hell" and "Comfortably Numb" are some of the best songs in my experience. There are a lot of people who don't like it, and thats fine. I don't think not liking something makes it overrated.

Personally, I like a lot of The Rolling Stones (mainly the earlier stuff), but current rock culture makes so much of them that I think they are overrated. Good, but not anywhere near as good as it seems a lot of people make them out to be.

Heck, at the Toronto Sars Festival, AC/DC stole the show, kicked the Stones collective asses.

[bluejays]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

Personally, I like a lot of The Rolling Stones (mainly the earlier stuff), but current rock culture makes so much of them that I think they are overrated. Good, but not anywhere near as good as it seems a lot of people make them out to be.

Heck, at the Toronto Sars Festival, AC/DC stole the show, kicked the Stones collective asses.

I remember reading before going, about what to look for, and the preparation taken before the concert and whatnot, and the Toronto Sun gave 5 stars or should I say "sars" predicting that AC/DC will be a larger draw in comparison to the Rolling Stones who were given 4 Stars. I was like WTF? After the concert, I somewhat understood. AC/DC seemed more down to earth, and really were enjoying themselves. While the Stones were...well...see them once, you seen every concert of theirs. It was one heck of a day...dehydration and dust were the words of the day.

[Sparks]

Green Day has been crap since they became more mainstream. That September Ends song is god awful, Time of your Life sucks, thier last two albums are much worse than Dookie. I would say that Green Day is a perfect example of a band that began to suck once they decided to go more mainstream.

When were they not mainstream? Don't get me wrong - I loved Dookie when it came out, and I still like to throw it on occasionally. But I think they were mainstream to the T from the very start.

(I'm with you on the new stuff though. I can't stand it.)

[moon]

Originally Posted by Sparks

When were they not mainstream? Don't get me wrong - I loved Dookie when it came out, and I still like to throw it on occasionally. But I think they were mainstream to the T from the very start.

(I'm with you on the new stuff though. I can't stand it.)

I would say with songs like September Ends and Time of your life which are played on not only rock stations but crappy stations like Vibe, Lite 96 etc.
Those songs seem to have made them more of a mainstream band then when they came out with Dookie.

[calgaryred]

A group that I can't stand

any boy band

and Wilson Phillips

[goaliegirl]

The Doors every single song of thiers sounds the same and they all put me to sleep!

[steveo]

p-cat dolls, black eyed peas, theory of a nickeldefault, hedley, simple plan, massari, kelly clarkson, some rap, some hip hop, some rock, ect. but mostly the names i point out, i think they are all poo poo!

[CaramonLS]

Originally Posted by transplant99

Never thought I would see something like this....as the band appeals to so many different tastes and genres.

Some of the most intricate and melodic "rock" ever written is mediocre?

Each to their own I suppose.

Count me in on the crowd that absolutely hates Pink Floyd.

I just can't stand the way they sound to be quite honest, and I think "Money" is one of the worst songs ever made.

[Jake]

All of that popular techno mixed in with singing crap. I hate music that sounds like it doesn't have any classic music instrument in it.

Maroon 5 also blows. Def Leppard can get annoying.

I happen to love Pink Floyd, but Aerosmith will always be my favorite.

[HitterD]

Originally Posted by moon

I would say with songs like September Ends and Time of your life which are played on not only rock stations but crappy stations like Vibe, Lite 96 etc.
Those songs seem to have made them more of a mainstream band then when they came out with Dookie.

See, I used to hate that "time of your life" song, because it was always used as a stupid graduation song. Funny thing is, the song is not at all intended to be happy.

I really appreciated the song once more once I learned (interview with Billy Joe in Guitar World Mag) what the interntion of the song actually was. It is written as a bitter goodbye to a longtime girlfriend who left him because he was always on tour. Listen to the words in that song, he is actually implying "i hope you had the time of your life while you were with me, because now you wont ever have this chance again."

I guess I learn to appreciate a song as poetry sometimes, and can appreciate a song more once I learn why it was written and what the lyrics actually mean.

Anyway, just an interesting (hopefully) tidbit.

[DuffMan]

So I am listening to "Us & Them" on an internet station and I am reminded of why I think PF is on one of the most creative, ingenius bands I have ever heard.

[RedMan12]

only Pink Floyd I like is from a cover band. Forget what they are called but its a reggae cover of Dark Side of the Moon called Dub Side of the Moon.

[Dynamic]

Originally Posted by Sparks

When were they not mainstream? Don't get me wrong - I loved Dookie when it came out, and I still like to throw it on occasionally. But I think they were mainstream to the T from the very start.

(I'm with you on the new stuff though. I can't stand it.)

Dookie wasn't their first album. Kerplunk was released in 92 and a compilation of all their ep's and such in 1990.

[Sparks]

Dookie wasn't their first album. Kerplunk was released in 92

Haven't heard any of their pre-Dookie stuff, so I should change my post to "They've been mainstream since they've been... popular." Although that sounds a little dumb.

[troutman]

The Soundtrack in Hell:

http://www.woxy.com/boards/showthrea...8&page=1&pp=20

I am troutman there too:

Beach Boys - Kokomo (Bermuda, Bahama, Come on Pretty Mama)

Sting - Free Free Set Them Free (repeat x 1,000,000)

Dixie Chicks - Goodbye Earl

[FurnaceFace]

[Flames_18_22_12]

Originally Posted by FurnaceFace

Why don't you change your name to Mike.... instead of Michael?

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Flames_18_22_12

Why don't you change your name to Mike.... instead of Michael?

LOL...

"When he sings "When a Man Loves a Woman" it just doesn't get any better than that for me..."

[the crispy badger]

Pink Floyd has some amazing songs that no one outside the hardcore fans ever truly hears...try this one.."gunners dream" from the Final Cut..one of my favorite songs of all time..it's extremely powerful..and of course ANY cut from Animals...that album is the one of the most underrated gems every made

[Mightyfire89]

Agreed badger. Big Floyd fan here. I don't think a lot of people who 'hate' them have listened to the lesser known PF albums like Meddle (20 or so minute long title track is simply phenomenal), Animals (fantastic from start to finish), Atom Heart Mother (a bit of an acquired taste, but nonetheless a great album) and like you mentioned, The Final Cut, which, while a little hit and miss, still contains some powerful and creative songs. Not to mention the earlier stuff with Syd, which is, for the most part, completely off the wall (at times, they took 'psychedelia' to the extreme), but again, still quite good. I can fully understand, however, that they may not be everyone's cup o' tea, and that's fine.

I have fairly wide ranging tastes in music. I can go from Natalie Merchant to Metallica to Jimmy Buffett to Radiohead to Johnny Cash to Pink Floyd to Garbage to Blue Rodeo to Pearl Jam to The Sex pistols to Wagner to NWA to Blondie to The Clash to Gordon Lightfoot to Beethoven to Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to Coldplay to Sisters of Mercy to W.A.S.P. to Joe Jackson to Anthrax to Seal to...ahh, I think you get the picture.

All that being said, you know what I hate? What makes me want to stick foot long spikes into my ears? That goddamned 'Roxy Roller' song. It brings homicide to mind...