I Have Never Listened To:

[molly bloom]

What music have you never or rarely, listened to ?

I was watching a Channel Four programe on Sunday which was the result of a poll of its viewers being asked which were the 100 greatest albums of all time.

There were two Oasis albums in the top twenty, which was quite disturbing, only one jazz album in the whole 100 (Billy Holiday), and some of the usual suspects- the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and so on.


It occurred to me that I had never been interested in Led Zeppelin. Or Deep Purple, or Black Sabbath.

I had listened to them when I was in school, but for some reason I just didn't develop a love for them, or an interest in them.

So which big name groups, or singers, or genres, do you have a blind spot (or deaf spot) for ?


Who do you not groove to ?

THE 100 GREATEST ALBUMS (in descending order, 1-100)


RADIOHEAD - OK Computer
U2 - The Joshua Tree
NIRVANA - Nevermind
MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller
PINK FLOYD - Dark Side of the Moon
OASIS - Definitely Maybe
THE BEATLES - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
MADONNA - Like a Prayer
GUNS N' ROSES - Appetite For Destruction
THE BEATLES - Revolver
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
THE BEATLES - The White Album
QUEEN - A Night at the Opera
COLDPLAY - Parachutes
OASIS - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
ALANIS MORISSETTE - Jagged Little Pill
LED ZEPPELIN - Led Zeppelin IV
THE VERVE - Urban Hymns
JIMI HENDRIX - Are you Experienced
THE SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead
JOHN LENNON - Imagine
RADIOHEAD - The Bends
BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS - Exodus
THE STONE ROSES - The Stone Roses
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL - Bridge Over Troubled Water
BJORK - Debut
THE DOORS - The Doors
ABBA - Arrival
MICHAEL JACKSON - Off the Wall
DURAN DURAN - Rio
SEX PISTOLS - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
DAVID BOWIE - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
THE BEACH BOYS - Pet Sounds
JOY DIVISION - Closer
THE ROLLING STONES - Let It Bleed
BLUR - Parklife
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Born to Run
BILLIE HOLIDAY - Lady Sings the Blues
THE WHITE STRIPES - Elephant
BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid
THE SPECIALS - Specials
THE ROLLING STONES - Exile on Main Street
FRANK SINATRA - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
THE CLASH - London Calling
THE PRODIGY - The Fat of the Land
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - The Velvet Underground and Nico
DIRE STRAITS - Brothers in Arms
PIXIES - Doolittle
ARETHA FRANKLIN - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
THE LIBERTINES - The Libertines
HAPPY MONDAYS - Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches
PATTI SMITH - Horses
THE WHO - Tommy
LOU REED - Transformer
BOB DYLAN - Blood on the Tracks
PRINCE - Sign 'o' the Times
DIDO - No Angel
AIR - Moon Safari
ELTON JOHN - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
THE JAM - All Mod Cons
JEFF BUCKLEY - Grace
FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours
MOBY - Play
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
THE POLICE - Synchronicity
JONI MITCHELL - Blue
CURTIS MAYFIELD - Superfly
ELVIS PRESLEY - The Sun Sessions
OUTKAST - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
PULP - Different Class
KRAFTWERK - Trans-Europe Express
MASSIVE ATTACK - Blue Lines
BECK - Odelay
STEVIE WONDER - Songs in the Key of Life
KATE BUSH - Hounds of Love
TALKING HEADS - Fear of Music
EMINEM - The Marshall Mathers LP
MARVIN GAYE - What's Going On
GEORGE MICHAEL - Faith
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER - The Original Movie Soundtrack
PRIMAL SCREAM - Screamadelica
JOHN COLTRANE - A Love Supreme
LOVE - Forever Changes
PAUL SIMON - Graceland
NICK DRAKE - Five Leaves Left
MEAT LOAF - Bat Out of Hell
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - Dusty in Memphis
DE LA SOUL - 3 Feet High and Rising
THE STROKES - Is this It
MADNESS - One Step Beyond...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS - I've Been Expecting You
NEIL YOUNG - After the Gold Rush
PUBLIC ENEMY - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
BLONDIE - Parallel Lines
THE EAGLES - Hotel California
JAMES BROWN - Sex Machine
THE STREETS - A Grand Don't Come for Free
DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
ROD STEWART - Every Picture Tells a Story
The HUMAN LEAGUE - Dare!

[Adagio]

I've never cared about most of the artists in that list

[Provost Harrison]

I am pleased to see Pixies - Doolittle has made the top 100, shows there is taste out there after all

[Provost Harrison]

For the most part I find most uninteresting to say the least, and despite the huge success The Eagles seem to have garnered, I find them breathtakingly dull....

[Provost Harrison]

Hang on just one damn second...the no. 1 was OK Computer by Radiohead? Now The Bends (preceeding album) was pretty good but this is where Radiohead just went plain ridiculous. Paranoid Android was a cool song but the only thing of any worth here...the rest is miserable w@nkery and absolutely nothing to remember. I thought this album was cool at first but then I realised it wasn't, therefore the only long term memory of it is Paranoid Android...

[DeathByTheSword]

i listen to them but never liked them:

the beatles
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black sabbath
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that are the 2 major ones that everybody is always droling over but i dont give a **** because i dont like them


/me starts fortifying his position with elite choas gas needlejets, hoplites, leviathans and horsmen...

[C0ckney]

haven't really listened to a lot of the older stuff on that list, with some exceptions, but generally anything over 10-15 years old i won't know much about. it's certainly true to say that i don't like a lot of the stuff on there, but i guess that's the same for everyone.

btw isn't the john coltrane album a jazz album?

[Provost Harrison]

Blues IIRC...

[Adagio]

/me joins DeathByTheSword

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
For the most part I find most uninteresting to say the least, and despite the huge success The Eagles seem to have garnered, I find them breathtakingly dull....

My opinion exactly. I find also Oasis completely underwhelming. There are some in this list I've never heard about as well.

But then again, I have no passion for music, except only a few pieces.

[JohnT]

I've never been to a rock concert, except for the occassional bar band, and even those are never by my choice.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I've never understood the love for Radiohead. They are merely average to me.

Fleetwood Mac is also a 'meh' band for me.

FWIW, I do like the Eagles and Oasis (I probably own the most Oasis CDs by a non-Brit on this site... though I hadn't picked up their Live Disc and the last one ).

[SpencerH]

I dont know how that list was compiled but whomever did it was obviously in an "altered state".

The only music that I havent been able to listen to for more than 1 song at a time (despite having a few CD's) is hip hop/rap.

For the most part I despise the latest crop of whining teenage pop bands (where is this generations beatles/stones etc) and the yodeling gymnastics of the current crop of R&B singers (just sing the ****ing song will ya).

[Imran Siddiqui]

I dont know how that list was compiled

I was watching a Channel Four programe on Sunday which was the result of a poll of its viewers being asked which were the 100 greatest albums of all time.

[SpencerH]

Even a law student must've heard of rhetorical questions.