Bands You Just Don't Get

[nkotb]

Maybe this is too easy of a target, but I really don't get why Maroon 5 is popular.  The band is one of the homeliest groups I've ever seen; they look like a non-model version of the Kings of Leon.  Adam Levine is easily the best looking, but even he's about 5 shades too geeky.  And on top of that, his singing isn't even good.  I caught the band on the Today Show this morning, and live they're about the most boring sight I've seen.  Hell, I dance better than these goofs.
 
 Just to prove I'm not totally biased against the mainstream, I can totally get the appeal of bands like Fall Out Boy or My Chemical Romance.  Hell, if I was in high school now and saw a bunch of guys with tattoos jumping all over the place and screaming, I'd be psyched too.  But this Maroon 5 shit is beyond me.

[K8teebug]

agreed.  About Maroon 5.
 
 I also feel that way about Nickelback or 3 Doors Down, or any of those other jock cock "rock bands" that all sound the same.

[Relaxer]

Hell, that's just shooting fish in an Elmo bowl. Here are some groups who are lauded on this site that I don't get:
 
 Daft Punk
 Decemberists
 LCD Soundsystem
 Silversun Pickups
 Spoon
 Modest Mouse
 Panda Bear
 Yo La Tengo (I don't dislike them, but I've tried again and again to get into Heart Beats as One and the new one, and they just don't grab me)

[sonickteam2]

yeah, radio bands are too easy, because we all know they are only popular because of record label promotion, hype and MTV support, not because of real talent or anything like that.
 
 indie bands i dont get:
 
 Mates of State
 Sleater-Kinney
 Guided By Voices
 Wilco (wait, i get Wilco, they just arent good)

[Firebutt McGee]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

[dfmcpete]

Animal Collective
 
 Also, any of the psychfreakfolk bands
 Wooden Wand
 Cocorosie
 Devendra
 etc.

[thirsty moore]

I get them, but their singer bothers the hell out of me.
 
 

Originally posted by ixkpd-bk:
  Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

[bearman🐻]

Same here Econo. He's like a bipolar David Byrne.

[eros]

Bob Dylan
 
 Don't get it one bit.

[bellenseb]

Sufjan Stevens. So blandly twee, songwriting that compensates for lack of melody with bells and whistles...don't get it.

[miss pretentious]

I also don't get Silversun Pickups.

[Bags]

Completely with you on Yo La Tengo.

[SalParadise]

Originally posted by nkotb:
  Maybe this is too easy of a target, but I really don't get why Maroon 5 is popular.    

i could be wrong, but: "this love"
 
 that song was huge...like on a "hey ya"/"crazy" level (regardless of dudes voice, i think it had a great hook). i haven't listened to the radio on a regular basis since like 1987, but that tune somehow got lodged in my head at it's peak (03, 04?).. i couldn't avoid it, it was everywhere.
 
 they can now sell out arenas because millions of people are willing to pay $62.50 to stand in a beer garden for an hour and a half until they hear the opening notes of that song and rush over to their seat and get their woohoo on.
 
 *flips over "Captain Save-a-Band" cape*
 
 *flies away*

[beetsnotbeats]

Jimmy Buffett. But then, I don't get drunk.

[Bombay Chutney]

Radiohead
 Bjork
 Sufjan