Bands that everyone loves but you don't

In reply to Tony Sestito :

I think I read that same article. It also mentions another game- Top Skater. I worked in an arcade in 1998, and we had a full sized rig. Big TV and all. I got extremely good at it (Assuming there were rankings at the time, I would have been ranked extremely highly, but no one was doing national tourneys on that game) and subesquently got deep into pennywise, as they did the soundtrack for that game. Sega had a thing for Epitaph records at the time, they used Pennywise, Bad Religion, and Offspring for sure. 

spitfirebill said:

Ok.  I guess that’s about everybody.  All bands suck.

There are exactly three good bands and no more.

GWAR, Weird Al, and Tenacious D.

Javelin said:

spitfirebill said:

Ok.  I guess that’s about everybody.  All bands suck.

There are exactly three good bands and no more.

GWAR, Weird Al, and Tenacious D.

May I suggest, for a fourth- The Beat Farmers?

In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :

Saw the Beat Farmers at a bar in St. Louis in 1988 or so.  GREAT show, good crowd.  Country Dick rode some guy's shoulders chicken-fight-style through the crowd from the stage to the bar, whereupon he stepped off onto the bar top and started juggling full (open) longnecks.  Without missing a line of the lyrics.

I miss the California Kid.  The world is a little smaller place without him in it.

Oh, and Tenacious D suck, so we're back down to 3 bands.

On a sidenote, speaking of Janis Joplin...

Google Becky Blue Band.  Local band I saw this weekend.  If you like Janis (which apparently few do), she puts on a really solid performance.

Appleseed said:

Is there a single soul/funk singer/group on this list? That might be saying something?

It's unfortunate that genre (including R&B) has mostly gone extinct.  I could listen to 1960s and 1970s soul, R&B and funk all day (except for Rubber Band Man by the Spinners.) 

Duke said:

Oh, and Tenacious D suck, so we're back down to 3 bands.

 

You're dead to me.

The Eagles. 

Pink Flyod. 

Phish.

Javelin said:

Duke said:

Oh, and Tenacious D suck, so we're back down to 3 bands.

You're dead to me.

I can only take Jack Black in extremely small doses, and mostly when he's not actually trying to be funny.

I'm gonna go ahead and pick on an entire genre.

berkeleying blues. Anything after 1960 or so. It became the most generic, parody of itself. Seriously, an entire genre based off of two scales and 4 chord progressions. All of it with some dude wanking on the guitar making ridiculous faces so you know just how much he is feeling it.

SRV, Bonamassa, Clapton, John Mayall, all of it can die in a fire. When 75 songs have lyrics about love lost, the same chords in the same scale with only a different solo it makes them all the same damn song, not 75 different ones. And for the love of whatever deity you hold dear, enough of the damn blues cliche song ending. | A A7/C# D7 D#dim7 | A Adim7 A7  is not interesting and hasn't been for 75 years.  I know, I know. I have heard it for years. "It's what is inbetween the notes" No it berkeleying isn't. No one waxes poetic about that pause you put in the minor pentatonic scale. 

Blues noodling/wanking is some of the most uninteresting guitar playing ever. Great thing that is all that 99.9% of guitar players know how to do. 

There. I went there. 

This thread reminds me that I can't *music* anymore. Thanks.

Jumper K Balls (Trent) said:

I'm gonna go ahead and pick on an entire genre.

 

Blues noodling/wanking is some of the most uninteresting guitar playing ever. Great thing that is all that 99.9% of guitar players know how to do. 

 

There. I went there. 

 

 

 

Love the genre, but I think the problem is that 99.9% of guitarists don't know how to do it. That's why you hate it so much, and that's why I hate so much of it. I include BB King in that group too.

Weird Al is like every one of those commercials that becomes popular because of some stupid tag line (Where's the beef?). Its funny the first time you hear it. There's no reason to hear it again. So Weird Al could have packed up and gone away after that first hit and I would have been good with that.

I would also include:

The Who

U2 - Somebody here once described the way they play as an economy of movement (or something like that). The response from somebody else was that it was actually an economy of talent. No truer words have ever been spoken

Beastie boys - Berkeleying B Boys just sound to me like a bunch of drunk white college kids with no rhythm and no talent.

Suprf1y said

Beastie boys - Berkeleying B Boys just sound to me like a bunch of drunk white college kids with no rhythm and no talent.

Listen to The In Sound from Way Out (1996) and understand they went from a bunch of drunk white college kids with no rhythm and no talent to being actual musicians in about 10 years.  Then 10 years later they backed it up with The Mix-Up.

"Every now and then I go down to my mailbox and there's a cheque in it. And by golly, it ain't so bad."

Ray Wylie Hubbard.

If I could get paid to be a drunk, white college kid, I'd do it.

Me too, but I still don't like their 'music'

In reply to Suprf1y :

Try the two albums I listed, if you haven't already.

Tenacious D. They are a joke band, in the same line as GWAR or ICP, and will be treated accordingly. I have not, nor will I,  indicate if that makes them bad or not.

I have intentionally skipped this thread, but I finally read the first page just now.

All I've got is this.

In reply to Duke :

I know we have similar tastes so when I read your post I checked them both out.

You're not wrong

I'm going to diverge a bit here.

I've heard songs that I didn't like at all done by another bad that changed the timing, tuning or something and *bam* I liked the song. It's no surprise- certain tunings, the timbre of a singer's voice, the production and arrangement on a song, the tempo- all of these things feed into what kind of music I tend to enjoy and define *why* I don't like other bands.

For example:
I like the Old Crow Medicine Show's version of "Wagon Wheel" and I absolutely can't *stand* Darius Rucker's version of it. The OCMS was built around a Bob Dylan riff, and I'm also 100% sure if I had first heard Dylan perform it, I would've hated it.

Don Henley's "The Boys Of Summer" is awful, but the Atari's cover of it is fine. The *song* itself isn't bad, I just don't like Henley, and don't care for him performing a song he actually wrote. In the same vein, Frog Leap Studios can take something like Madonna's "Vogue" and re-do it as a tongue in cheek metal parody, and suddenly it isn't so bad.

Hell, I remember back when the song "Epic" by Faith no more was new, the radio station where I lived somehow remixed it into a "radio-ized" version where they took out the low bass and thumping drum and didn't care for it, but when I heard it on the album, it sounded 1000x better.

Personal taste factors into this quite a bit, but I'm sure there is some musical theory behind some of it. Like, why neuter a song for the radio? Why is the Old Crow Medicine show twang fine, but Dylan's voice literally gives me a headache?

 

In reply to Jumper K Balls (Trent) :

Jazz is lousy

In reply to Wally :

Brilliant 

In reply to Brett_Murphy :

Ataris>Henley

Ocms>Hootie

In reply to Suprf1y :

You are entitled to your opinion regarding Weird Al, but you should know it's wrong.  He's a freaking genius.  And this opus proves it: