Bands You Just Don't Get

[nkotb]

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of indie-friendly bands that I scratch my head at.  Arcade Fire are fine, I guess, but I have no clue why anyone is shitting their pants over them, and I think the Silversun Pickups are dreadfully boring.  And while I think Radiohead are just OK too, I have no idea how everyone in the world loves them, especially when they haven't released a radio-friendly single (or listener-friendly album) in almost a decade.
 
 But Maroon 5...man, I just don't get it.  I don't see anything that would incite as much praise as they get, and from such a large & diverse demographic.
 
 

Originally posted by le sonick:
  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.

[K8teebug]

I don't get how someone doesn't get Bob Dylan.

[xneverwherex]

Washington Social Club

[Brian_Wallace]

Originally posted by K8teebug:
  I don't get how someone doesn't get Bob Dylan.

I can. And I even LIKE some of his songs (the incredibly nasty, bitter ones: Idiot Wind, I Don't Believe You, Positively 4th Street, and Donâ??t Think Twice.)
 
 He's unintelligible. A lot of baby boomers think he's god. He's released as many bad albums as good ones. You can't dance to him. Sometimes rhyming nonsense is mistaken for genius ("A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall.") Every other baby boomer musician kisses his ass/covers him (I mean, he willingly participated in a "30th Anniversary Concert" for himself.) He's inspired a lot of bad singer/songwriters. He's overrated. The Traveling Wilburys. He's inscrutable (To some people, listening to "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" must seem like reading "War & Peace.") He insists upon himself.
 
 Need I go on?
 
 Brian

[Sage 703]

O.A.R.
 Dave Matthews Band
 Jimmy Buffett
 
 And bands that I know I "should" get, but I just flat out don't:
 
 The Stooges
 The Velvet Underground

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by callat703:
 
 The Velvet Underground

:eek:    :eek:    :eek:

[lagas]

Wilco
 Maroon 5
 Arcade Fire
 Dave Matthews band

[walkonby]

the stereotypical sounds that many gay guys love: (aretha, weather girls, whitney, jody whatley, crystal waters, cher, madonna, ect...)

[Brian_Wallace]

Originally posted by le sonick:
   

Originally posted by callat703:
 
 The Velvet Underground

:eek:      :eek:      :eek:  [/b]

I can see that, too.  A couple of good songs and the rest was attitude.
 
 Brian

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by walkonby:
  the stereotypical sounds that many gay guys love: (aretha, weather girls, whitney, jody whatley, crystal waters, cher, madonna, ect...)

There's nothing gay about Aretha.  At all.  You're talking about one of, if not the, best voice ever to touch a mic.
 
  This is one of the funkiest songs ever to pass out of speakers/headphones.  I'm almost positive you'll at least head nod.  No disrespect, but you don't look like much of a dancer.    

[SalParadise]

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
   

Originally posted by walkonby:
  the stereotypical sounds that many gay guys love: (aretha, weather girls, whitney, jody whatley, crystal waters, cher, madonna, ect...)

There's nothing gay about Aretha.  At all.  You're talking about one of, if not the, best voice ever to touch a mic.
 
  This is one of the funkiest songs ever to pass out of speakers/headphones.  I'm almost positive you'll at least head nod.  No disrespect, but you don't look like much of a dancer.      [/b]

i knew it was rocksteady before i clicked. classic classic classic.

[walkonby]

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
   

Originally posted by walkonby:
  the stereotypical sounds that many gay guys love: (aretha, weather girls, whitney, jody whatley, crystal waters, cher, madonna, ect...)

There's nothing gay about Aretha.  At all.  You're talking about one of, if not the, best voice ever to touch a mic.
 
  This is one of the funkiest songs ever to pass out of speakers/headphones.  I'm almost positive you'll at least head nod.  No disrespect, but you don't look like much of a dancer.      [/b]

i wasn't implying that any of the bands i mentioned were gay.  but aretha is ADORED, if not WORSHIPPED like a female jesus by the gay men community.  that is what i do not understand.  why do gay guys love black women so much?

[manimtired]

Arcade Fire
 The Smiths (leave me alone)
 Interpol

[walkonby]

No disrespect, but you don't look like much of a dancer.      [/QB]

never judge.

[bellenseb]

Originally posted by manimtired:
  Arcade Fire
 The Smiths (leave me alone)
 Interpol

Yeah, I can only handle Smiths songs when they're covered by someone else. Morrissey gives me hives. Some good songs, though.