Artists you don't think are wack, but just can't get into [Archive]

eckohed

12-12-06, 09:46 PM

The Strokes...they are cool and I like some of their songs, but I can't get into em thaaat much.

Radiohead...another group who's sh1t I like but I don't love. Only a few songs I've heard are as incredible as their reputation suggests. Their albums Kid A and OK Computer are cool, but I don't find myself wanting to go back to them that often.

GreenzEmpress12

12-12-06, 11:50 PM

The Killers

TheT Organization

12-13-06, 09:20 AM

Jan Jelinek.
I've listened, thoroughly, to all of his albums, and I just can't get into his work. Almost. But not quite.

Jan Jelinek is dope. I enjoy his compositions. Not quite for everyone. Very subdued experimental dub techno.

Keeping in vein with this thread....I'd have to say Broadcast.

Quarters

12-13-06, 10:14 AM

Radiohead. They are every critic's darlings but I don't get it. I listened to about 4 of their albums straight and didn't think they were that special. I don't think their wack, just not great and I can't get into it.

That new Joanna Newsom album that just came out which is getting is good review is also something I can't get into. I don't even know what the hell type of music that is. It was a waste of money. Again, not wack but I can't get into it.

Copper Scroll

12-13-06, 06:00 PM

Bob Dylan

U2

2Pac

(Btw... Radiohead is the best rock shiit that's happened in the past 30-something years.)

In My Dreams U Love

12-13-06, 06:14 PM

AFI
MY Chemical Romance
Chamillionaire
Robin Thicke
Mastadon (I tried and almost was a fan but something changed)
Deftones
TI

eckohed

12-14-06, 02:36 AM

Bob Dylan
U2
2Pac
(Btw... Radiohead is the best rock shiit that's happened in the past 30-something years.)
No way is Radiohead fukkin with the Chilis, Talking Heads, U2 or Nirvana

eckohed

12-14-06, 02:39 AM

JackDaCrack

12-14-06, 02:47 AM

Master P.

TheT Organization

12-14-06, 02:52 AM

Add to my list most punk rock. I can fukk with say The Clash or the older stuff but this AFI, My Chemical Romance, Blink 182 and Dropkick Murphys and most of that bullsh1t is terrible to me. White kids here in Berkeley and Oakland go nuts for Green Day too, I think they are pretty mediocre.

I hate new punk....I hate this disco punk trash tha usually is played by bands that start with the word "The".

I enjoy everything punk from the seventies onto the late nineties. I used to go apeshiit for Victory records stuff, Epitaph records stuff like Buried alive, Thumb, Catch 22, Swinging Utters, Reach the Sky, Sick of it All, Pennywise, Bad Religion, even some NOFX. I can't even fukk with most "punk" now.

_evidence

12-14-06, 03:02 AM

No way are the Chilis, Talking Heads, U2 or Nirvana fukkin with Radiohead

fixed

Clem

12-15-06, 11:24 PM

No way is Radiohead fukkin with the Chilis, Talking Heads, U2 or Nirvana
You pretty much have the worst taste ever. Who the **** calls 'em "The Chilis" anyway.

I'd go so far as saying I hate good portion of these bands:

Radiohead
Sufjan Stevens
Devendra Banhart
NOFX and their ilk.

I'll add more as I think of 'em.

skanky80

12-16-06, 04:48 AM

No way is Radiohead fukkin with the Chilis, Talking Heads, U2 or Nirvana
you are such a f*cking retard.
I hate Sufjan Stevens as well.

realgone

12-16-06, 12:38 PM

Radiohead. They are every critic's darlings but I don't get it. I listened to about 4 of their albums straight and didn't think they were that special. I don't think their wack, just not great and I can't get into it.
That new Joanna Newsom album that just came out which is getting is good review is also something I can't get into. I don't even know what the hell type of music that is. It was a waste of money. Again, not wack but I can't get into it.
Radioheaad is in my top ten. Absolutely Amazing.

I have never been able to get into Sublime. Everyone and their dog likes them at least where I live, but they do absolutely nothing for me.

RapMusicIsCool

12-16-06, 03:51 PM

Radiohead happens to be my favorite band, but damn I hate Radiohead fans. You think G-Unit stand are bad? Sheesh.

Prince makes dope music I know, but his music just doesnt click with me.

I could never really get into Sublime.

ALCHEMY

12-18-06, 04:05 PM

AFI
MY Chemical Romance
Chamillionaire
Robin Thicke
Mastadon (I tried and almost was a fan but something changed)
Deftones
TI

All of these bands other than the Deftones ARE wack.

skanky80

12-18-06, 04:58 PM

All of these bands other than the Deftones ARE wack.

Mastadon are far from wack.

Clem

12-18-06, 05:47 PM

One thing I never understood is how any self respecting human being could listen to Insane Clown Posse.

skanky80

12-18-06, 06:42 PM

Thats because people that listen to ICP are far far below the intelligence level of an average human, I'd say they are more akin to a slightly burnt piece of toast.

My contribution to this thread: Hot Chip. I've tried countless times to get into them, and it just isnt happening. Everything points to me liking them, but I just cant.

mansell

12-18-06, 07:45 PM

tupac (most of his stuff)
neyo...
new edition
guns and roses
greenday
nine inch nails
meat puppets
metallica
sublime
creed

Borg166

12-24-06, 03:53 PM

Thats because people that listen to ICP are far far below the intelligence level of an average human, I'd say they are more akin to a slightly burnt piece of toast.

haha

flapjacks

12-25-06, 11:10 PM

My contribution to this thread: Hot Chip. I've tried countless times to get into them, and it just isnt happening. Everything points to me liking them, but I just cant.

I felt the exact same way, then I stumbled upon a few gem songs of theirs. I listen to these in a playlist and start thinking about how weird it is that these guys AREN'T my favorite current band. Try these and let me know if they work for you: "Crap Kraft Dinner", "Boy from School", "Colours", "Over and Over", "Disguise". If you need them upped, let me know.

flapjacks

12-25-06, 11:15 PM

(Btw... Radiohead is the best rock shiit that's happened in the past 30-something years.)

Wow, and I thought I didn't understand Radiohead fanatics before . . . but I never would have thought one of those self-righteous ones would speak of their great music God as "rock shiit". :confused:

Anyone who thinks Kid A and anything after it are more than 3.5/5 albums needs to get better acquainted with Brian Eno and David Bowie and thereby realize that Radiohead are faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar from the innovators their little puzz-azz Oxford brains think they are.

OK Computer and the Bends are solid 4.5 albums, though. ;)

Copper Scroll

12-26-06, 08:40 AM

Wow, and I thought I didn't understand Radiohead fanatics before . . . but I never would have thought one of those self-righteous ones would speak of their great music God as "rock shiit". :confused:

Anyone who thinks Kid A and anything after it are more than 3.5/5 albums needs to get better acquainted with Brian Eno and David Bowie and thereby realize that Radiohead are faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar from the innovators their little puzz-azz Oxford brains think they are.

OK Computer and the Bends are solid 4.5 albums, though. ;)

I have some Brian Eno shiit and lots lots of David Bowie. Low is one of my favorite albums.

Granted, Radiohead borrows from that Eno stuff, but they definitely got their own innovations on top of being great songwriter(s). Some people hear it and love it (like me), some people hear it and don't like it (which I understand), and some people don't hear it at all (which is sad). I wouldn't change a thing about OK Computer, Kid A, or Amnesiac. And I happen to like them all more than Low or "Heroes".

EgoCrusher

12-26-06, 09:43 AM

Kiss

Bone Daddy

12-26-06, 10:34 AM

I have some Brian Eno shiit and lots lots of David Bowie. Low is one of my favorite albums.
Granted, Radiohead borrows from that Eno stuff, but they definitely got their own innovations on top of being great songwriter(s). Some people hear it and love it (like me), some people hear it and don't like it (which I understand), and some people don't hear it at all (which is sad). I wouldn't change a thing about OK Computer, Kid A, or Amnesiac. And I happen to like them all more than Low or "Heroes".
Radiohead was great from The Bends through OK Computer. After that they got joints for sure but it seems to me, to be?: a) far to contructed aka not organic song writing in the leas and b) far to easy to pick out exactly what they were listening to it's like " Oh yeah there's the little Eno part oh there's a little DJ Shadow, They were bumping that Wire in the studio"

To me TV On The Radio has succeeded in not falling into thse traps and making music in a very similar vein that sounds so much more natural.

Copper Scroll

12-26-06, 10:48 AM

Radiohead was great from The Bends through OK Computer. After that they got joints for sure but it seems to me, to be?: a) far to contructed aka not organic song writing in the leas and b) far to easy to pick out exactly what they were listening to it's like " Oh yeah there's the little Eno part oh there's a little DJ Shadow, They were bumping that Wire in the studio"
To me TV On The Radio has succeeded in not falling into thse traps and making music in a very similar vein that sounds so much more natural.
I've only heard one of their songs, and I thought it was good but nothing to motivate me to explore further. Do you have any recommendations?

Bone Daddy

12-26-06, 12:44 PM

I've only heard one of their songs, and I thought it was good but nothing to motivate me to explore further. Do you have any recommendations?
Really everything they've done is good, but might as well start with Return to Cookie Mountain, it's their newest and probably easiest to find.

flapjacks

12-26-06, 07:43 PM

I have some Brian Eno shiit and lots lots of David Bowie. Low is one of my favorite albums.
Granted, Radiohead borrows from that Eno stuff, but they definitely got their own innovations on top of being great songwriter(s). Some people hear it and love it (like me), some people hear it and don't like it (which I understand), and some people don't hear it at all (which is sad). I wouldn't change a thing about OK Computer, Kid A, or Amnesiac. And I happen to like them all more than Low or "Heroes".

I gotta respect that (I just love to jab at Radiohead sometimes, and use Bowie/Eno to do it). In my opinion The Lodger is > "Heroes"--and it never gets talked about. I think Another Green World by Eno is better than any of his collaborations with Bowie, though. I hope you've heard that.