The 'Bands I don't Get' thread (4 Viewers)

[Denny Oubidoux]

Cool, I was right

 

[Jim Daniels]

No offense with the WTFs there @Diumraid ... but I love Galaxie 500 and Smog/ Bill C.

I think with certain bands, if you weren't in to them from the early days, then it makes it easier to dismiss them later. Or maybe that's bullshit.

 

[hugh]

I think they're a terrible band (that early single, Big Me, aside. At least as far as I remember it from 20 years ago) but Grohl seems like a personable sort of guy.

You watching his TV series? It's great.

 

[Unicron]

You watching his TV series? It's great.

Haven't got round to it yet but have heard only good things.

 

[Diumraid]

No offense with the WTFs there @Diumraid ... but I love Galaxie 500 and Smog/ Bill C.

I think with certain bands, if you weren't in to them from the early days, then it makes it easier to dismiss them later. Or maybe that's bullshit.

No offence taken - I like a lot of things that are like those two acts and I usually come to things late but they're both strangely flat experiences for me, there's a spooky emptiness where my joy should be ... can't account for it.
Also
Will Oldham
Gram Parsons (including Sweetheart of the Rodeo)
Neutral Milk Hotel
Philip Glass
John Adams


all mad popular ... all made-to-measure for my taste and yet ... tumbleweeds

 

[ann post]

Foo Fighters
If I could secretly kill someone with impunity, it would be Dave Grohl

I have no time for foo fighters. Grand, its stadium sports rock for driving to/from work. Grohl is much better when he stays on the other side of the kit.

Also to deflect any conversation i might end up in:

Q: what kind of person can maintain a nice guy image for 20 years

A: a cunt.

 

[hydromancer]

Foo Fighters for Slane next summer, says Dave Grohl

 

[Lili Marlene]

Still love those first two Foos albums meself. I was probably the right age though

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[Jim Daniels]

No offence taken - I like a lot of things that are like those two acts and I usually come to things late but they're both strangely flat experiences for me, there's a spooky emptiness where my joy should be ... can't account for it.
Also
Will Oldham
Gram Parsons (including Sweetheart of the Rodeo)
Neutral Milk Hotel
Philip Glass
John Adams

all mad popular ... all made-to-measure for my taste and yet ... tumbleweeds

- I'm hit or miss with Will Oldham. Love a lot of his stuff, but am flummoxed by the banality of other efforts.
- Love N.M.H
- I only know certain Philip Glass pieces, but thought he was great in the Concert Hall a few years ago.

Never got Gram Parsons myself.

 

[ann post]

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hmmm

 

[Jerry Twig]

Q: what kind of person can maintain a nice guy image for 20 years

A: a cunt.

Haha, classic Thumped.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

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hmmm

What is he ever on about?

Oh, smarmy self-advancement, that's right.

 

[ernesto]

FKA Twigs

what is?

anyone post a link of a song of hers i might actually 'get'

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Kinda thinking that Sleaford Mods are shit too. Was told to buy a ticket to their next Whelans show. I might but it is mad Park Lifey Fall malarkey over and over. I didn't think a bunch of auld lads like themselves would be making such a racket in this day and age but sure this is it.

 

[rettucs]

FKA Twigs

what is?

anyone post a link of a song of hers i might actually 'get'

that Two Weeks one is deadly

see the FKA Twigs thread

 

[ernesto]

that Two Weeks one is deadly

see the FKA Twigs thread

The effort to find that on this phone probably won't be worth it

 

[Lili Marlene]

I'm with you on FKA Twigs @ernesto.

She's very worthy and all and but it musically does nothing for me.

 

[george mcfly]

Kinda thinking that Sleaford Mods are shit too. Was told to buy a ticket to their next Whelans show. I might but it is mad Park Lifey Fall malarkey over and over. I didn't think a bunch of auld lads like themselves would be making such a racket in this day and age but sure this is it.

I really like them. They sound like a boisterous Dalek after a bag of cans

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Does anyone listen to any music in a vacuum at all?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

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