Songs/Musicians you think you should like, but don't

@ JHM (it's me, Thwise): Joy Division have some really good tracks like Disorder, New Dawn, Interzone and The Eternal but most of their stuff just seems way too sterile and atmospherically weak for my tastes. Similarly with Chameleons, Less Tha Human is great but..you know how people sometimes say they could have been the next U2? Yeah, no thank you :(

Mmm.

Love me some Joy Division.

However, I cannot get into jazz. Specifically, Coltraine.

I don't get jazz. I've been trained in classical and contemporary music performance, but I've never really gotten into jazz. I always feel like it's something I should. I love the culture behind it.

The only real jazz-ish musician I have appreciated so far is Gil Scott Heron.

Just a dad into tropes. Not the father of tropes.

I love jazz, and even I haven't been able to get into Coltrane yet.

You listen to much swing or New Orleans jazz?

The thing about jazz is that there's so much variation within it that different subgenres (for example, swing and experimental) will sound like the most opposite things at times.

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I'm going to have to go with Radiohead. I respect them as artists. I think they're hugely talented. Thom Yorke has a really cool vocal style.

But aside from a couple of their earlier tracks, I cannot stand them. They just annoy me whenever I hear them. Yorke's voice grates on me.

I also hate classic rock. Just in general. Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, most of the output of the Beatles - I just can't listen to it.

There's also a ton of indie bands that I probably should enjoy, but who bore me.

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D':

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Classic Rock isn't really a genre, it's a radio format.

edited 2nd Jul '12 1:45:28 PM by DrStarky

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But it's also a good descriptor of musical taste, and less clunky than saying "rock music from the 1950s to (more or less) the 1980s as well as any other music that was seminal in any genre of rock."

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Precisely. When I say "classic rock," I mean, "anything from before 1990." And then I hear '90s songs on a classic radio station and I want to cry. But that's beside the point.

The point is, I don't like old people music.

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Pray tell, how old are you?

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Also the man currently in my avatar used to be one but I've long since warmed up to him.

edited 3rd Jul '12 1:06:49 PM by KingNerd

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I'm 27. So the music I grew up with shows up on classic rock stations now, too. But I'm going to remain blissfully delusional for a while yet, and insist that that doesn't make me old. When I find out the Strokes are being played on classic rock stations, that's when I'll get depressed. Luckily, I never listen to the radio.

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Deep Purple.

Unlike Tiamatty here, I really love classic rock. I love Zepp, Stones, Beatles, Zappa, Floyd, etc., so I don't really think Seinfeld is Unfunny plays a role here. It's just that, aside from Burn and Highway Star, all of their songs sound extremely generic to me. Machine Head, an album everyone considers to be a turning point in rock music, was (again, not counting Highway Star) like hearing the same song in a loop for me.

I like Machine Head, but it's not one of my favorite albums of the "genre" or anything. And I kind of didn't know there was any hype when I first listened to it - I mainly remember picking it up because "Oh hey, this CD is on sale and it has 'Smoke On The Water' and 'Highway Star' on it, I wonder if the rest is any good..."

Oh, and classic rock in general has never truly felt like "old person music" to me because of personal experience - Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and the like were listened to my parents' generation, but not my actual mom and dad, who I guess at the time preferred disco and folk or singer songwriter type material, respectively. I think it says a lot about my dad's tastes that once when we were talking about music he stated that Pink Floyd of all bands were "too heavy metal" for him.

edited 4th Jul '12 8:35:07 PM by MikeK

Both of my parents loved disco and my dad is EXTREMELY into doo-wop, so that sort of helped me get into those types of music and was the doorway to everything in between.

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I've never gotten into Obituary in spite of being an old school death metal maniac. John Tardy's voice is still awesome though.

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De La Soul.

I actually did like them back when I was first getting onto Hip-Hop, but nowadays,eh.

edited 18th Jul '12 9:00:43 AM by KingNerd

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Ratt. Poison kicks ass, Guns N' Roses kicks ass,Ratt...doesn't do it for me.

KISS. I can think of no word to describe my opinion of them except "cheesy". AC/DC felt raw, Queen felt spirited, Journey had its moments…but I just don't think much of "Detroit Rock City".

Mind you I only base my opinions because of certain songs, not their overall body of work. So I'm sure my positions are full of holes.

Aw, but cheese is delicious.

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