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

I thought that was his shining moment on audio. That's just me though.

 

Dave Matthews Band

Any hip hop

 

What poet isn't a drunk? And what rock star from the 60s/70s wasn't. At least Morrison had the b*lls to bad mouth and stay away from the heavy stuff...until the end. *sigh*

I'm not sure Morrison beat it down that he was poet, but rather he was aspiring to be. It's his fans that project that hard and fast rule upon him.

But yeah, great music. I need that Mono vinyl on RSD this year!

 

You are probably right that it's that fans that made Morrison out to be a poet. As a moderate Doors fan, all I know is I like it when he's singing and hit the next button the rare times he's reading poetry.

 

The Beach Boys
solo John Lennon
virtually all "grunge" music
The Doors
Springsteen after The River
REM after Lifes Rich Pageant

Thing is, I'm not the least bit 'guilty' about not liking what I don't like. But that's just me.

 

So much great hip hop from the 80s and early 90s Run DMC,NWA,Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five are some of my favorites.

Spinning Straight Outta Compton on the Thorens right now.A real classic.

Just ask Michael Fremer.

 

Beatles.
Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan

 

75% of popular music.

 

Springsteen
patti Smith
journey, reo speedwagon and co

 

i forgot zappa

 

Thats sad.. weell you cant love everything, and some People dont understand quality

 

There are many popular act that I don't like, but I don't feel guilty about it. The only two that I totally don't get, but I feel uneasy when I have to admit it (because they are so universally praised and adored) are Frank Sinatra and Jimi Hendrix.

 

Bob Dylan
Nirvana
The Black Keys
Klaus Schulze

 

Everyone has their own personal taste, your idea of 'quality' isn't a universal standard... It's rather arrogant to believe we that someone doesn't 'understand quality' because their tastes don't match your own...

 

When I said 'guilty' I probably meant 'uneasy' as in it makes you uneasy to tell other 'music fans' that you haven't clicked with particular artists.
As seen just above there is a culture of assuming that if someone doesn't like something they not cultured or intelligent enough to 'understand quality'. That's what gets my goat, this supposed gold standard of 'quality' that some artists have attained and goodness help anyone that goes against the grain when it comes to those artists that are highly regarded.

Hendrix I've never entirely got into, although I enjoy some of his music and feel like I should like more. But I don't. Yet.
Sinatra I just cannot click with. To paraphrase The Smiths 'because the music that he constantly sings, it says nothing to me about my life'!

 

well said, but still if you dont like them , you know they are good artists

 

For me, probably Metallica. They are alright, but very overrated, in my book.

 

Dylan, Jethro Tull, Neil Young, Dina Ross, Joy Division........I will stop here as I could easily list another 50 and don't want to have to defend my choices against the whole Steve Hoffman Forum!!

 

Everything sucks. And I'm proud of my uncompromising standards.

 

That would be Kiss. Blunt radio friendly rock most of all sounding like posh back ground noise. No danger, no melodies, no heart. Only thing they proved was bad make-up can sell records.

 

Artists I completely appreciate yet just can't "click" with:

Guns and Roses
Pink Floyd
Dire Straits
Bruce Springsteen

 

Christina Aguilera. I mean, obviously...

In an industry full of bellowing cows, she still bellows loudest of all.

 

If You'd kindly consider to remove some of the Ross/Supremes sixties cuts, a couple of Young/Buffalo Springfield ones and Jethro Tull from Your list I'm in

 

U2,
Roger Waters,
Mumford & Sons,
Guns and Roses,
and Kanye, of course.

 

Aretha Franklin.

She's been dreadful for at least 30 years. Soul singers get away with murder!

Listen to this wretched piece of tuneless over-singing. And this was from when she was supposed to be good!