Singers/bands that are very successful and good but you just can't like.

[pasty]

Music is about opinions, but can never understand why any one likes Madonna, so overrated, did anyone see her on Liveaid singing live ?, awful.

True. But I did have the serious hots for her in the Papa Don't Preach video. She was one very sexy lady back then.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Sticking to the question.

Manic Street Preachers and Radiohead.

Two hugely and rightly successful bands that friends outside my inner coterie would probably assume I adore. They both have a few songs that I quite like but if I was offered a free ticket to see them at the Concorde I'd turn it down as it would be wasted on me (as I did when offered a ticket for Foo Fighters).

Straying from the question.

Could be said that massive commercial success in popular culture by definition means it/ they is 'good' a in good at what it/they do. Didn't/don't like 'Avatar', Harry Potter books or films, goat or feta cheese.


Or lager.

 

[Icy Gull]

Bob Dylan may be clouded by the fact I saw him live in Sydney and he was dreadful, mumbling and incoherent. Snow Patrol are Coldplay lite. Awful.

Dylan is in my top three all time greats but he also heads by a margin the most disappointing live gig I have ever been to. Wembley in the early eighties I believe and it was just a wall of noise and immensely disappointing.

 

[BobbySmith]

True. But I did have the serious hots for her in the Papa Don't Preach video. She was one very sexy lady back then.

You seriously need to get out more?, Audrey Hepburn is sexy, Madonna as about as sexy as wet day in Skegness. See I am old.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Miley Cyrus
Bob Dylan
Foo Fighters
Justin Bieber
All boy/girl "bands", Take That being the worst offenders
Olly Murs
Michael Buble

Any band whose audience get lighters out when they sing a "love" song or whatever. That immediately and automatically means that they are crap.

 

[Gazwag]

Michael Jackson
Amy Whinehouse
The Smiths
Gary Barlow

 

[Guinness Boy]

Sticking to the question.

Manic Street Preachers and Radiohead.

Two hugely and rightly successful bands that friends outside my inner coterie would probably assume I adore. They both have a few songs that I quite like but if I was offered a free ticket to see them at the Concorde I'd turn it down as it would be wasted on me (as I did when offered a ticket for Foo Fighters).

Straying from the question.

Could be said that massive commercial success in popular culture by definition means it/ they is 'good' a in good at what it/they do. Didn't/don't like 'Avatar', Harry Potter books or films, goat or feta cheese.


Or lager.

Funnily enough MSP and Radiohead are two bands many who know me would assume I don't like but that I really, really do, especially Radiohead,

The second bit's almost a whole new thread isn't it? There's some popular things I really like (Warhol art, Peter James books, Australian Shiraz off the top of my head) and some I really really don't get the popularity of (Dan Brown, Disney, Pinot Grigio)

 

[Lower West Stander]

The current raft of insipid female singers who are more famous for their love lives and wearing skimpy clothes than any quality music.

Taylor Swift
Ellie Goulding
Pixie Lott

Oh and James Bay - Hold Back the River my a*rse

 

[Hotchilidog]

Can't believe we have got to page three without any mention of Phil Collins!

 

[LU7 RED]

Adele, - SURELY not that many can like that over indulgent, whiny, soulless rubbish. And also because it's so terribly DULL. Its 'singing' not 'music'.
Muse - Over theatrical rubbish apart from Supermassiveblackhole.
James Morrison (another Chris Martin look a like) and all their clones - Ed Sheeran, Odell, Blake, etc..all the same, more boring music.
Edit - oh yes, Taylor Swift, Ellie Goulding and the other raft of women who sing with that particular growl (basically can't sing that well so are taught to sing that way). Over emotional singing with a screwed up face is really annoying and comes across as even less soulful.

 

[DFL JCL]

I'll start with Gregory Porter

Whoa there, Gregory Porter is superb..... of all the successful artists out there to open with

Now Coldplay, don't get me started.

 

[Icy Gull]

Whoa there, Gregory Porter is superb..... of all the successful artists out there to open with

Now Coldplay, don't get me started.

There ya go, I feel the exact opposite to you

I don't deny Porter is very good but he bores the arse off me and I have to turn him off within minutes. Luckily we don't all like and loathe the same artists.

Coldplay are undoubtably the most disliked big artists on NSC.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Can't believe we have got to page three without any mention of Phil Collins!

Good point, well made.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

The Wombles - manufactured drivel.

Like everyone else.

 

[atfc village]

Queen
erm Queen
erm Queen what a pile of

 

[DFL JCL]

There ya go, I feel the exact opposite to you

I don't deny Porter is very good but he bores the arse off me and I have to turn him off within minutes. Luckily we don't all like and loathe the same artists.

Coldplay are undoubtably the most disliked big artists on NSC.

agreed, the world would be a very dull place if we all liked the same thing especially Coldplay

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Two words.
Bruno Marrs.

 

[227 BHA]

I'll start with Gregory Porter

Absolutely agree with the thread starter on Gregory Porter.
I actually find myself wanting to turn the radio off every time he comes on

 

[tigertim68]

The Beatles sorry just think they dreary ,

 

[pasty]

Queen
erm Queen
erm Queen what a pile of

Surprised this got to page 4 before Queen were mentioned. Personally love them but they do seem to attract a lot of derision.