Guilty Displeasures... (Those adored acts you just don't like!)

I'm a fan of The Velvet Underground and have been since my late-teens, but I fully understand where you're coming from. The first two albums are far from ear-pleasing, but that's what attracts me. Isn't taste a funny thing?

 

Yes I am! Deadwing is one of those albums you can wake me up for in the middle of the night. It's got Michael Ackerfeldt (did I spell that right) guesting on 1 or 2 songs, so I'd recommend you give that one a listen.

Other good ones to start with are In Absenstia, and Stupid Dream. The latter is more mellow.

 

Zappa- I recognize that he was a talented musician and I even like 'Shut Up and Play Your Guitar', but I bought about 9/10 discs of his and they did nothing for me. The humor didn't connect with me and that's all over his music.
Yes- I like prog but the vocals just grate so much to me that I can't listen to them. Similarly, Rush
The Monkees- not my cup of tea, and I'm not starting a war by listing what I don't like about them

 

I'm actually a Porcupine Tree fan, I just worded that badly (I've been meaning to take a listen to Opeth, but have a horrible feeling I won't like them!)
"Stupid Dream" is one of my favourite albums and I recently heard "Fear of a Blank Planet" for the first time and loved it (seven years late on that one!) Didn't realise Michael Ackerfeldt guests on "Deadwing"...

 

This I fully understand, I do have some prog leanings but desperately struggle with Yes (too 'good' for their own good?)
Rush I can't comment too much on, "The Spirit of Radio" is a great song and their musicianship is outstanding, but I don't feel compelled to listen to much more...

 

Captain Beefheart

 

It depends which album you start with. A big chunk of his catalog is extremely experimental and most people can't take it. Please, listen to "Hot Rats". Great album and easily digestible.

P.S.: I still can't get around avant-garde Zappa though.

 

I got a hold of "Freak Out!" and "Absolutely Free", I either haven't listened intently or they just haven't grabbed me...

 

I was just listening to "Safe as Milk", once again trying to see why despite it's five star reviews it just doesn't click with me...

 

Nirvana
ABBA

 

Janis Joplin. I know a lot of people who love her, but I've never been able to hear it.

 

OK, some more confessions:
U2 - I like some tracks, maybe one album. They become a blur to me when I play them.
Grateful Dead - Pleasant music, talented band, nice sonics, I own some albums. Only play them in small doses, usually just one side, then I'm done for awhile.
Ramones - After 2-3 tracks, all the songs sound the same to me.
Sex Pistols - Just don't get it.
Joni Mitchell - Nice, comforting music, after one side I'm done. guess I'm not sensitive enough.....

I saw the Stones listed - one of my top tier bands. I would never try to convert those that don't get them.....here's hoping this thread does NOT turn out that way. I am sure most of us have already tried and tested the bands we list many times over.

 

Some of these artists may have a random track or two that I like but overall they are artists I don't care for.

Eagles
Michael Jackson
Bob Seger
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Frank Zappa
Kiss
Bon Jovi
Def Leppard
Opeth
Stevie Ray Vaughn
James Taylor
Foreigner
Styx
Bad Company
Green Day
All 2nd wave grunge bands (too many to list)
Journey
Porcupine Tree
Sting (solo)
Joe Walsh/Don Henley
Post David Lee Roth Van Halen
Motley Crue
America
REO Speedwagon
Meatloaf
Toto
Loverboy
Bryan Adams
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Phish
Dave Matthews Band
Lenny Kravitz
Daft Punk
Ted Nugent
Most of the big pop artists from 1990 on
Duran Duran
Joan Baez
Hair metal bands
Huey Lewis
Bro-Cro
John Mayer

Really too many to list. I pretty much like all genres and eras, but what I don't like I don't like.

 

^^^WOW!!! Might have been easier to list whatcha' do like. I'm just funnin'.

 

Spot on, no need for conversions here, most of the musicians I've listed I've listened to more than enough to know there just isn't a 'click'

 

Bob Marley and James Brown. Christina Aguilera of the (relatively) modern singers. Though it would appear her career is in a similar state to Marley and Brown!

 

Oh I like a lot. If I could program a classic rock station it would sound so much better!

 

You have to place it in its historical context

 

I keep trying to get into Zappa as I feel I should like him based on my musical tastes. For example I like Beefheart. Other than a few tracks it hasn't clicked for me.

 

Beatles. But I like a lot of their individual stuff but I am in possession of one Beatles album. Can't stand it.
Oh, and Nirvana. Gads.

 

This guy


Also
U2
AC/DC
White Stripes
Bruce Springsteen
Daft Punk
Creed
Oasis
Pearl Jam
Aerosmith
NWOBHM groups,all of them
Yes
Emerson Lake and Palmer
The Eagles
The Doobie Brothers
Lady Gaga
Cake
Radiohead

 

So what do you like... I assume from your list you don't like any music that seems to have broad commercial appeal?!?

 

Lou Reed

 

We'll have to stage an intervention!

 

Qneen
Zappa
U2