Bands that everyone likes but you don't

[Mr. President]

I never really got into dance music either. It mostly sucks to me. Only about two dance names have ever made their way into my heart: Shanks and Bigfoot, because I can count on them to be cute and nice (depressing music reeks); and, way back in the mid-90s, a reggae-dance hybrid act with the surprising name of Mr. President . . .

[Juggernaut]

U2
Rolling Stones
Elvis Presley
The Hives
Groove Armada
The Smiths
The Strokes
Travis

[Asher]

I wasn't aware anyone liked The Strokes.

They simply try too hard...

[Meticulous Man]

Opeth... most metallers claim it's "pure musical genius" and the other usual stuff... but listening to one of their songs just leaves me thinking "what the ****"

Maybe I'm not intelligent enough

[Dis]

backstreetn boys, 'n sync, 98 degrees

you get the picture...

[MikeH]

Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny
REM. What a load of mimsy, pretentious rubbish.

U2. Utter drivel.

YES!!!

[MikeH]

Also:

Category 1:
Creed - Why?
Staind - Cheer up!!!!
Nickelback - Please make them stop
POD - just when you thought things couldn't get any worse along come POD and prove you wrong

A housemate of mine who has some Creed albums said, when challenged, that it's music to listen to when you don't want to listen to music. I think that says it all for all these three bands.


Category 2:
Travis - Sing, sing, rain, rain, turn turn. It probably rains on you because you live in Scotland. ****!
Coldplay - *yawn*

The Verve did this stuff well, these guys are just boring.

There is so many more categories as well... for me the biggest crime is being boring though, add The Strokes into that.

[Asher]

Originally posted by MikeH
Nickelback - Please make them stop

A housemate of mine who has some Creed albums said, when challenged, that it's music to listen to when you don't want to listen to music. I think that says it all for all these three bands.

The people who usually have things against Nickelback tend to:
A) Not like Rock in general
B) Like Rock in general but assume all Rock has to be artistic, deep, and/or symbolic

I like Nickelback because I find the tunes to be quite catchy, I enjoy listening to them, they're simple yet not too simple. I like that once and a while.

Unfortunately because they're so simple, they don't have much replay value. But for the short while when the song or CD's still new to me, I really enjoy it.

[Jay Bee]

Originally posted by MikeH

Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny
REM. What a load of mimsy, pretentious rubbish.

U2. Utter drivel.

YES!!!

Same here.


Add me Prince to the list, please.

[Buck Birdseed]

Well, being someone else who hates Nickelback I can say it's neither of those reasons. The main reason is that they lack any form of originality, creativity and energy. Half-hearted music that sounds like it was recorded in the mid-eighties (and the bands then did it with much more finesse and better production). Extremely boring, extremely predictable, extremely not Rock.

[MikeH]

Yep, that's it. I love different bands from all parts of rock music from death metal and grindcore to early '60s proto punk and most stuff in between. Nickelback aren't doing anything that I haven't heard over and over again for the last 15 years, which isn't so bad in itself but they are doing it in a passionless, boring way.

I think that what you said about them being quite catchy but not having much replay value is a pretty good summary of why I don't like them. There's nothing behind the music which isn't necessarily a bad thing, we all like dumb music from time to time but Nickelback's stuff is not good enough to force it into your head and make you want to listen to it again and again which is what great dumb music can do.

[Bkeela]

Red Hot Chili Peppers

[Bas]

Well, I have to agree with a lot of the hopelessly unoriginal and derivative stuff that was mentioned, like:

Limp Bizkit
Staind
Creed
Kid Rock
Godsmack

I don't really dislike bands like Travis, Nickelback, U2, REM and Coldplay, even though I can name tons of more interesting bands.

But a lot of the bands I mentioned above are not really taken seriously by people who are interested in music, so here are a few others.

I completely agree with Aivopuoliso on Opeth. I can't figure out what's supposed to be so great about it, even though almost every metalhead thinks they're the greatest band on earth.

The Strokes. It's not bad, but it's very far from exciting, especially for a band that has been applauded by almost every music fan last year.

Mudhoney is often considered (especially by Nirvana fans) to be one of the best grunge bands. I disagree. A lot.

[drake]

Just about anything snappy recommends

[MikeH]

This is a thread for stuff everyone likes. No-one likes the stuff that Snapcase recommends.