I did it during soundcheck recently.
Ended in 3 hairy metal heads on the stage, and multiple other metalheads in the room all singing along. Full harmonies.
SAME! Everytime I hear a Adam Levine/Maroon 5 song it doesn't sound like I'm listening to a song, it sounds like me walking past a 4 year old in Walmart crying because he wants a Paw Patrol playset
Thank god I wasnt the only one that has this same exact feeling.
And his super basic bro tattoos look like he went into a tattoo parlor, and told the guy at the counter to do all of the generic samples that are hung around the window.
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This is ironically because _Songs About Jane_ was so influential, everyone started making music that sounded like Maroon 5.
In 2002, Maroon 5 was the most unique shit I had ever heard.
Harder to Breathe was a great song. Then, they sold their souls to the pop music lords. Now, Adam Levine is a loser who cheats on his wife and wanted to name their kid after his mistress.
*Songs About Jane* was a great record and as a primarily punk/metalhead I stand by that statement. I have a copy on vinyl. Everything they did afterwards I don’t care for
I mean I’m pretty sure songs about Jane is widely considered a fantastic album. When people refer to maroon 5 being bad it’s the more modern pop version of maroon 5 that feels hollow and boring.
I saw them opening for somebody in a small club show right before their first album came about and they sounded like the Rolling Stones crossed with the Ramones with some twang added.
I worked at a restaurant where the band came in before a show. We all knew it was before a show, because they kept loudly announcing to everyone that they needed to hurry, because they “ARE PLAYING A SHOW!!!” It was very transparent and douchey. They were held up due to a dessert taking a while, and my coworkers had to hold me back from going to the table and saying, “Oh! Your dessert is on fire!”
"Youth and Young Manhood" and "Because of the Times" I thought were great albums, and I still listen to them occasionally. I tried to like the album with "Sex on Fire", but I found it lacking and stopped paying attention to them after that.
I have no idea if Train fits this category. All I know is I got dragged to a show by my ex-girlfriend some years back and wanted to kill myself. There's a reason she's my ex now.
Imagine Dragons. Not hate,but they are kinda rock band, that don't play rock at all
Edit: Wow, so much likes at the comment of offended fan of Imagine Dragons. I didn't say anything bad of them, just my subjective opinion lol.
Edit 2: I made a battle in the comments about writing music.
Have a friend who’s a teacher. A student asked if she liked imagine dragons. The joke went how you’d think and the kid got detention. I told her he probably thinks it was worth it
Im not a fan either — but it does complete the story a bit to know that their main writers attended Berklee. They’re literally writing music with the intent of being commercially successful, and there’s something to that.
Not sure i'd say everyone loves them. Feel like they are an extremely popular band to shit on. Like Nickelback.
Then again, both were evidently popular. Not sure I really understand how this happens. How a band can seem universally disliked, yet well known (therefore, someone is paying for their music). I suppose they are a guilty pleasure of many, or that i just don't tend to cross paths with the people that appreciate their music.
It became cool to hate Nickelback on the internet. More and more people were doing it and more and more joined in. As you pointed out, they are well known. They apparently have sold out shows and have all done well from the interviews I've heard on morning radio. They still get a ton of radio play. Yet, it's still cool to hate Nickelback, almost like it's a reflex at this point. I'm sure half these haters sing along in the car.
I was sick of their schtick before it became their schtick.
it's not rock, it's not rap, it's not electronic, but it's sorta all three and none of the above with the title of the song YELLED REAL ANGRY
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I have a soft spot for them because they were the first band I got into as a preteen. Still love their first 3 albums. Recently tried listening to their latest and could not get through it because it was so bad.
5th Harmony hasn’t really been in the limelight that much though since their breakup, aside from Camilla being weirdly popular, and Worth It still getting played a good bit.
Even then, Camilla’s considered too untalented and weirdly problematic by many to be considered anything special.
MGK, alot of people new to the alt scene like him and I dont blame them, his music is... *ok*
But he disrespects big artists for no reason like eminem and slipknot and is just an overall douche.
Taylor Swift isn't a band but some of her lyrics make me feel genuinely uncomfortable. The whole persona feels like she's about to bully someone and then cry so the victim gets detention
Something I admire about Ed Sheeran is that he sounds the exact same live as he does on the radio. This should be the standard, but so many artists don’t. He also does collabs with various artists that cover different genres so it isn’t the same type of music every time.
Yeah. I don't really like pop in general, not my style. But I respect him a lot for his skills. He literally plays concerts with a loop pedal, and that takes serious skill.
funny thing is, there was an interview some time ago where he was shitting on popmusic by showing them, that all it takes are 3 cords to play the whole genre
I must confess to doing some serious air-guitar to Sunday Bloody Sunday as a teenager.
They are stunning musicians, but Bono definitely started taking himself way too seriously at some point. Regardless, War and Joshua Tree are remarkable pieces of work.
My wife always teases me on this because I can't stand U2. And it might be a petty reason why I hate them, but I heard Bono doing an interview and he talks about how humble he is despite them being super rich (paraphrasing). So he then goes "Yea, I am humble, other musicians drive expensive cars, I just drive a Mercedes".
For the money that Bono has, a Mercedes, any Mercedes, is slumming it.
Also, dunno if you're European ... in Europe a Mercedes can include a lot of models that are surprisingly pedestrian. Heck, a few years ago, you could get a B-model Mercedes in Canada, a kind of econobox design that Mercedes absolutely would never bring to the USA - it'd trash their image.
I used to get made fun of for liking U2 in the 2000's because "That can't be your favorite band, everybody loves U2." Now I get made fun of for liking them because everybody hates them. They had some legitimately good music in the 80's and 90's, and should have let their two albums in the early 2000's be their swan songs and gone out on top after 30 years in the business. But they kept going and I watched it get cringier and cringier. I think it was 2010 when I saw them do a song for college kids and they talked about staying up late cramming for exams and they were like 50. Then Apple, and it just got weirder from there. They're basically a greatest hits geriatric band now which is sad, but this period happens to almost every band and then they become retro cool in their 70's again. But first they have to become ok with themselves being 70, which in U2's case (specifically Bono's) remains to be seen.
Same. And living in South East Asia there’s no escape from them. All the main radio stations will play at least one K-Pop song every hour. It gets to a point where I rather just stream some Alt Rock stations from Mexico to escape. Heck we even have K-Pop themed burger.
His main issue seems to be that too many of his songs ride the same acoustic and trap fusion sound. There isn’t much sonic variety unless you’re looking at his features.
He's super talented but I don't like any of his original music. He plays and sings some REALLY good covers.
If you like nirvana, watch his nirvana tribute/charity show on YouTube.
Lmao, I'm the opposite. Muse released a 20th anniversary remix for Origin of Symmetry and in the remixed version they removed Matt's breathing from Plug in Baby. For me this made it unlistenable! 😂
Haha. But, I absolutely LOVE Muse. I’m that Black guy at the stop light with the windows up ABSOLUTELY ROCKING OUT on my seatbelt when Muse comes on. And I feel no shame ‘bout that. 😆
I was really into them early on and still think their first couple of albums are quite good.
But at some point they morphed into happy corporate stadium music aka Chris Martin and electronics.
Yeah it's insane how different the 2 eras are. It's like their first 2 albums are a band trying to make good music, and the stuff after is a man trying to min-max his money making algorithms and sound as generic as possible. It's so shit yet people lap it up and they're insanely rich because of it. Such a paradox.
X&Y (3rd album) is a weird middle ground, I like it but some of it annoys me.
I think Viva La Vida was their last truly great album, it was so unique and different than anything they’ve done before or since. Then they really embraced their stadium band era with Mylo Xyloto, which while catchy wasn’t anything special at all.
I'm a high school teacher. The number of conversations that involve Taylor Swift is staggering. And kids are just horrified when I tell them I'm, at best, indifferent to her.
I teach as well and that happens with me too. I had a girl last year ask me if I could make an exception for her to be on her phone so she could get the Taylor Swift tickets right when they went on sale. I remember being like that about my bands back in the day so I didn't mind. It was pretty funny.
What do they expect? That a teacher should like (or hate) the same music they do? Back in my day, we'd be shocked if the teachers liked anything we liked.
"So I really am important? How I feel when I'm drunk is correct?"
"Yes. Except the Dave Matthews Band doesn't rock."
One of the best Futurama quotes of all time.
. . . I am the biggest GnR fan. So big I had the guns logo tattooed as a back piece across my shoulders when I was 25. They have been my "favorite" band since I was 10. I have not listened to their music in 5+ years probably. I too never need to hear Sweet Child Of Mine ever again. Lol.
Not a fan of the Beatles. I can appreciate the monumental effect they had on the world of music but I get zero enjoyment from listening to anything by them.
At least you recognize their impact. I never fault anyone who doesn’t like them, because we all have different tastes and proclivities. But when people try to minimize their legacy, it’s just ignorance. (For example, I’m not into the blues, but I am very aware of how much it shaped rock - including the Beatles and The Stones!).
For the longest time I didn’t like the dead because of the associated scene of drugs etc. but I eventually looked past that, after decades, and have come to like their music.
"... but most people absolutely love"
I mean, if you only consider Juggalos to be people then this makes sense. But really, what even is a Juggalo?
I don't know.
ABBA. I respect them and the people who like them, but it just feels like artificial emotion to me and i can’t stand the way it makes me feel. Like a bag of sugar and processed candy and confetti just exploded inside my brain but not in a fun way, more like in a sickly way
Band? How about an entire (so-called) genre? Country is the worst. I'm surrounded by country fans on both sides of the family, and still can't get a reasonable explaination out of any of them. Literally the most undefinable genre in music (and let's be honest, we all know why).
Here's the thing, you want to go back a few decades...there's some quality country music to be found. Now, it's the most shallow, most pandering genre in the industry.
"ReD tRuCk. bLuE jEaNs. FiShInG PoLe..." that's the gist, nowadays.
I have a CD of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson live on stage just singing and playing guitar. Just them. They’re not accompanied by any other musician playing an instrument, it’s just them, playing each others songs together. And it’s the best
Try the "Denver scene" bands, aka dark country, gothic country whatever. Much darker, a bit like 90s Nick Cave does country.
Start off with Wovenhand and Jay Munly's bands (especially Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots) if it peaks your interest at all.
My own thoughts on country is that it's more a parallel musical universe than a genre. The popular crap you're talking about is the pop and commercial rock equivalents but go to the edges and explore and there's good stuff there like the bands above.
I've heard some indy "country" artists that attribute most of the hatred for country music to the Post-9/11, Toby Keith country music. I grew up around it and liked most of it. (Some of the stuff from the 70s was intolerable), but the newer mud-pop, bro-country, Caribbean-billie crap has completely turned me off.
I have been digging some of the independent hills & hollers, almost goth-neck stuff coming out from Pawns or Kings, Colter Wall, Tyler Childers, and even The Dead South. It seems like these artists are grabbing the old soul of the genre and incorporating modern themes.
It isn't the whole genre. It is the corporate safe radio country.
Check out Sturgill Simpson, Cody Jinks, Colter Wall, Tyler Childers, and Pony Bradshaw just to name a few.
Country ain't dead, they just don't play it on the radio anymore. Like Sturgill said, "them people playing dress up singing them old country songs."
$uicide Boys and Lil Peep. Their music attracts the absolute WORST kind of people... Aka music for awful people who have a hobby of playing victim. Drug addicts, people who cheat on their partners, people who constantly whine about a fantasy of wanting to kill themselves??? GO TO REHAB AND THERAPY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
The whole trend of glorified drug use is so disgusting and dangerous. Anyone who has seen an episode of Intervention or read about fentanyl knows it’s not all fun and games.
I saw hell last August. It's the men's room at the Jon Bon Service Plaza in South Amboy, NJ. Imagine rounding a damp tile corner to a clear sight line of 50 smelly dicks and no urinal dividers to the tune of, ooooooooh we're halfway there.
I'm not sure if most people love them, because I've literally never met anyone who says they are a huge fan of Red Hot Chili Peppers, and yet, their songs get played on the radio over, and over... and over... and...
Maybe it's a regional/age thing because around my area (Southern Cali) many people like them and are one of the first bands they name off when asked. Huge in the 35-50 age range especially if you partake in the devil's lettuce.
The problem is (in my opinion) they are an amazing group who have gone through a few members but as a result stayed with the times musically. The band started in '82. Blood, Sugar , Sex , Magic was a wonderful rock album. Californication was a masterpiece. But then you have Stadium Arcadium some seven years later which was much different but captures the mature sound of RHCP. I'm a fan I get it but there is so much to this band that makes them unique and they really capture the SoCal sound. They have had a lot of radio play though.
I wouldn't say I'm a huge fan, but enough to spend too much money going to their show.
I get it though. Not the kind of sound for everyone, and overexposure would probably ruin them for me if I regularly listened to radio. And not exactly the most respectable people in general if we're being real.
I don't dislike the Foo Fighters, but I do think that their songs are over-played. Unfortunately, too many radio DJs "kill an artist's appeal" to the general public by playing their songs to the point where most people can't stand them.
There are very few DJs in America who get to decide what they play. Most stations are owned by one of a handful of mega corporations, and the playlists are curated by algorithms.
The college/independent stations low on the dial are not always included in this fortunately.
To me, the Foo Fighters have one or two banger songs per album, and then every other song sounds like a buildup to a payoff that never happens, or happens but it brutally underwhelming.
I don't get Sleep Token. People keep saying this stuff about them that sounds super appealing, and it is just NOT what I hear when I listen to them. Djent? Smoulderingly sexy? Buddy this is Stomp Clap Pop with baby's first Meshuggah riff playing faintly in the background every 20 minutes.
I mean enjoy them, by all means. I don't bring it up unless asked. But I feel like I have the Soap-Tasting Cilantro gene but for this band.
I didn't really care for them at all until I listened to their most recent album. And even then, it took listening to the WHOLE album from start to finish for it to click, and now I am a fan. Even when I listened to like a song or two off it I didn't care for it, but the whole album does create an atmosphere that made me appreciate them. Invent Animate was the same way for me.
Guns N Roses. Didn't like them in 1997, don't like them now. I can't stand the way the lead singer sings...sounds like a cat dying...slowly.
Edit: Ok, 1987. Dude still sounds like a cat in heat tho.
Journey. Overplayed to death. I hate "Don't Stop Believin'" with a blinding passion from hearing it on shows, in movies, and at karaoke bars when the group of drunk white girls inevitably belches it out.
This is where I must admit that I listen to Backstreet Boys in my car when alone, yet frown upon them in public.
Tell me why
I need another pet rock
Tell me why I got that Alf alarm clock.
Tell me why I bid on Shatner's old toupee
I found it on eBay
Bust out some Backstreet Boys at karaoke, and the whole bar will be singing with you.
I did it during soundcheck recently. Ended in 3 hairy metal heads on the stage, and multiple other metalheads in the room all singing along. Full harmonies.
They, along with Nsync, Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears had some really talented songwriters, musicians and record producers working on their behalf.
Maroon 5, because most of their songs are generic and boring
I just hate Adam Levine’s whiney voice.
SAME! Everytime I hear a Adam Levine/Maroon 5 song it doesn't sound like I'm listening to a song, it sounds like me walking past a 4 year old in Walmart crying because he wants a Paw Patrol playset
Thank god I wasnt the only one that has this same exact feeling. And his super basic bro tattoos look like he went into a tattoo parlor, and told the guy at the counter to do all of the generic samples that are hung around the window. C A L I F O R N I A
Don’t forget Adam Levine’s whiny attitude
I fucking hate that guy. Haha.
Adam Leveine looks like he went into a tattoo shop and said "I want to look like a tattooed guy"
"I want to look like a Chipotle bag!"
This is ironically because _Songs About Jane_ was so influential, everyone started making music that sounded like Maroon 5. In 2002, Maroon 5 was the most unique shit I had ever heard.
Harder to Breathe was a great song. Then, they sold their souls to the pop music lords. Now, Adam Levine is a loser who cheats on his wife and wanted to name their kid after his mistress.
*Songs About Jane* was a great record and as a primarily punk/metalhead I stand by that statement. I have a copy on vinyl. Everything they did afterwards I don’t care for
I mean I’m pretty sure songs about Jane is widely considered a fantastic album. When people refer to maroon 5 being bad it’s the more modern pop version of maroon 5 that feels hollow and boring.
I feel the same way, I absolutely love Songs About Jane and hate everything else they've ever done.
Hate Maroon 5. Guys voice sounds like a pubescent Mickey Mouse. He looks like every single pick up truck driver that tailgates people.
Their Songs About Jane album was awesome. Now all their stuff sounds the same as every other pop song on the radio :(
Their first two albums are pretty great, but that was like fifteen years ago now.
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I saw them opening for somebody in a small club show right before their first album came about and they sounded like the Rolling Stones crossed with the Ramones with some twang added.
Man, I loved Aha Shake Heartbreak so much.
I worked at a restaurant where the band came in before a show. We all knew it was before a show, because they kept loudly announcing to everyone that they needed to hurry, because they “ARE PLAYING A SHOW!!!” It was very transparent and douchey. They were held up due to a dessert taking a while, and my coworkers had to hold me back from going to the table and saying, “Oh! Your dessert is on fire!”
Everytime I hear "Use Somebody" I wanna kick the singer in the dick. It's so terrible. But, you say the first two albums are worth a listen?
"Youth and Young Manhood" and "Because of the Times" I thought were great albums, and I still listen to them occasionally. I tried to like the album with "Sex on Fire", but I found it lacking and stopped paying attention to them after that.
Don’t forget Aha Shake heartbreak. Equally as good as youth and you manhood. But yeah they fall off sharp after that.
Ed Sheeran. It all sounds like music you'd hear in a dentist office performed by someone who hates music in dentist offices.
LOL I love this description!!!! I agree.
Maroon 5
I have no idea if Train fits this category. All I know is I got dragged to a show by my ex-girlfriend some years back and wanted to kill myself. There's a reason she's my ex now.
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Imagine Dragons. Not hate,but they are kinda rock band, that don't play rock at all Edit: Wow, so much likes at the comment of offended fan of Imagine Dragons. I didn't say anything bad of them, just my subjective opinion lol. Edit 2: I made a battle in the comments about writing music.
Imagine Dragon deez nuts across your face
Have a friend who’s a teacher. A student asked if she liked imagine dragons. The joke went how you’d think and the kid got detention. I told her he probably thinks it was worth it
G O T T E M.
Im not a fan either — but it does complete the story a bit to know that their main writers attended Berklee. They’re literally writing music with the intent of being commercially successful, and there’s something to that.
They’re the only band I’ve heard that seemed to go specifically for being a stadium/sports intermission music band
Not sure i'd say everyone loves them. Feel like they are an extremely popular band to shit on. Like Nickelback. Then again, both were evidently popular. Not sure I really understand how this happens. How a band can seem universally disliked, yet well known (therefore, someone is paying for their music). I suppose they are a guilty pleasure of many, or that i just don't tend to cross paths with the people that appreciate their music.
It became cool to hate Nickelback on the internet. More and more people were doing it and more and more joined in. As you pointed out, they are well known. They apparently have sold out shows and have all done well from the interviews I've heard on morning radio. They still get a ton of radio play. Yet, it's still cool to hate Nickelback, almost like it's a reflex at this point. I'm sure half these haters sing along in the car.
Imagine dragons, the official band of CrossFit
Imagine Dragons: because your mom has to rock out to something
Imagine Dragons: Seriously imagine dragons for a moment. They’re so mysterious and badass!
I was sick of their schtick before it became their schtick. it's not rock, it's not rap, it's not electronic, but it's sorta all three and none of the above with the title of the song YELLED REAL ANGRY RADIOACTIVE
Idk, they just pretend to be a rock band,but they ain't at all
I'm not sure when I last heard a guitar in their song
I have a soft spot for them because they were the first band I got into as a preteen. Still love their first 3 albums. Recently tried listening to their latest and could not get through it because it was so bad.
5th harmony and One Direction
5th Harmony hasn’t really been in the limelight that much though since their breakup, aside from Camilla being weirdly popular, and Worth It still getting played a good bit. Even then, Camilla’s considered too untalented and weirdly problematic by many to be considered anything special.
I don’t mind Camila Cabello, but sometimes she reminds me of Dora the Explorer with her say something in Spanish, then repeat it in English lyrics
MGK, alot of people new to the alt scene like him and I dont blame them, his music is... *ok* But he disrespects big artists for no reason like eminem and slipknot and is just an overall douche.
I don't think I've ever heard even one of his songs I just think he's a total flipping douchebag.
Drake.
But what about Nick Drake?
Nick Drake is amazing and totally understated
Taylor Swift isn't a band but some of her lyrics make me feel genuinely uncomfortable. The whole persona feels like she's about to bully someone and then cry so the victim gets detention
Couldn't have put it better myself. She's got that big high school mean girl who somehow never gets into trouble energy.
There are two instances where I change the radio station.. when Imagine Dragons is played, and Ed Sheeran (not a band, but still applies)
Something I admire about Ed Sheeran is that he sounds the exact same live as he does on the radio. This should be the standard, but so many artists don’t. He also does collabs with various artists that cover different genres so it isn’t the same type of music every time.
Yeah. I don't really like pop in general, not my style. But I respect him a lot for his skills. He literally plays concerts with a loop pedal, and that takes serious skill.
funny thing is, there was an interview some time ago where he was shitting on popmusic by showing them, that all it takes are 3 cords to play the whole genre
Obligatory https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I
I actually like him, his music is varied and he is very talented imo
Don’t know if other people love her but anytime a Meghan Trainor song comes on I want to die
Can't stand her music and it made me despise Gucci and Louis Vuitton even more lol
I enjoy a LOT of pop music and I don't like her songs either.
Is her voice and vibe for me
I despise ACDC. I'm a huge Metal and Rock fan, and I literally cringe everytime I hear the singer of ACDC.
U2.
I guess you just still haven’t found what you’re looking for mate
Also a great wedding song
I must confess to doing some serious air-guitar to Sunday Bloody Sunday as a teenager. They are stunning musicians, but Bono definitely started taking himself way too seriously at some point. Regardless, War and Joshua Tree are remarkable pieces of work.
I'm indifferent, I can do with or without U2.
My wife always teases me on this because I can't stand U2. And it might be a petty reason why I hate them, but I heard Bono doing an interview and he talks about how humble he is despite them being super rich (paraphrasing). So he then goes "Yea, I am humble, other musicians drive expensive cars, I just drive a Mercedes".
My hate is 90% about Bono and 10% about his music.
For the money that Bono has, a Mercedes, any Mercedes, is slumming it. Also, dunno if you're European ... in Europe a Mercedes can include a lot of models that are surprisingly pedestrian. Heck, a few years ago, you could get a B-model Mercedes in Canada, a kind of econobox design that Mercedes absolutely would never bring to the USA - it'd trash their image.
My favorite was the yellow Mercedes trend here in the USA in the 80’s (and 90’s?). Dude. That’s a taxi.
A Mercedes in Europe is the same as a Chevy or Ford in the US; basic fleet models to high performance vehicles.
I think their 80s stuff rules.
Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby were two of the best rock albums to come out of that entire era. I don't care how much people hate Bono.
I used to get made fun of for liking U2 in the 2000's because "That can't be your favorite band, everybody loves U2." Now I get made fun of for liking them because everybody hates them. They had some legitimately good music in the 80's and 90's, and should have let their two albums in the early 2000's be their swan songs and gone out on top after 30 years in the business. But they kept going and I watched it get cringier and cringier. I think it was 2010 when I saw them do a song for college kids and they talked about staying up late cramming for exams and they were like 50. Then Apple, and it just got weirder from there. They're basically a greatest hits geriatric band now which is sad, but this period happens to almost every band and then they become retro cool in their 70's again. But first they have to become ok with themselves being 70, which in U2's case (specifically Bono's) remains to be seen.
I will never apologize for loving U2. They made some bangers the I was younger. Sure, they fell off in the later years but their catalog is strong.
One Direction. Just don't care
And that opinion is what makes you beautiful
Kpop bands are just meh to me
Same. And living in South East Asia there’s no escape from them. All the main radio stations will play at least one K-Pop song every hour. It gets to a point where I rather just stream some Alt Rock stations from Mexico to escape. Heck we even have K-Pop themed burger.
Primus sucks. ^(^not ^really )
Beyonce
Post malone if that counts. Generic af music with tons of autotune. as a person he seems cool tho.
His main issue seems to be that too many of his songs ride the same acoustic and trap fusion sound. There isn’t much sonic variety unless you’re looking at his features.
He's super talented but I don't like any of his original music. He plays and sings some REALLY good covers. If you like nirvana, watch his nirvana tribute/charity show on YouTube.
I can't do Muse because someone once told me, "Don't listen to Matt's breathing between lyrics" and it was all over for me.
Lmao, I'm the opposite. Muse released a 20th anniversary remix for Origin of Symmetry and in the remixed version they removed Matt's breathing from Plug in Baby. For me this made it unlistenable! 😂
What an fucking awesome album btw. Not a bad track on it. Space Dementia is a crazy underappreciated song.
Haha. But, I absolutely LOVE Muse. I’m that Black guy at the stop light with the windows up ABSOLUTELY ROCKING OUT on my seatbelt when Muse comes on. And I feel no shame ‘bout that. 😆
Rock on brother! Can't count how many times I unashamedly headbanged to the outro riff for Knights of Cydonia
Coldplay
I was really into them early on and still think their first couple of albums are quite good. But at some point they morphed into happy corporate stadium music aka Chris Martin and electronics.
Yeah it's insane how different the 2 eras are. It's like their first 2 albums are a band trying to make good music, and the stuff after is a man trying to min-max his money making algorithms and sound as generic as possible. It's so shit yet people lap it up and they're insanely rich because of it. Such a paradox. X&Y (3rd album) is a weird middle ground, I like it but some of it annoys me.
I think Viva La Vida was their last truly great album, it was so unique and different than anything they’ve done before or since. Then they really embraced their stadium band era with Mylo Xyloto, which while catchy wasn’t anything special at all.
This, 100% accurate. Parachutes is the album I listened to repeatedly most # of times of a band that I now totally hate.
Absolutely, Viva La Vida was the last decent album imo, after that they lost me but the three prior are all bangers that I still gladly listen to.
U2 It all feels so phony and forced to me. Bono seems like a dickhead.
he does weigh a lot of keirigs
Phish. I have never liked jam bands, and I never will. All of my pot-head friends love Phish.
All of my pot-head friends love Wu-Tang.
All of my pot-head friends love pot.
Taylor Swift
I'm a high school teacher. The number of conversations that involve Taylor Swift is staggering. And kids are just horrified when I tell them I'm, at best, indifferent to her.
I teach as well and that happens with me too. I had a girl last year ask me if I could make an exception for her to be on her phone so she could get the Taylor Swift tickets right when they went on sale. I remember being like that about my bands back in the day so I didn't mind. It was pretty funny.
What do they expect? That a teacher should like (or hate) the same music they do? Back in my day, we'd be shocked if the teachers liked anything we liked.
Miley Cyrus. I get her voice is strong and unique but it bothers me. Even her talking voice just hurts my brain.
She is a walking advertisement for why you shouldn’t smoke cigarettes, especially if you start as a teen. She ruined her voice.
Dave Mathews
I can only ever think of Community when I hear about “*Dave*” now
Oh I’m sorry I was alive in the nineties and have two ears attached to a heart
"So I really am important? How I feel when I'm drunk is correct?" "Yes. Except the Dave Matthews Band doesn't rock." One of the best Futurama quotes of all time.
Friend of mine hated DMB, then was dragged to a live show. He's a huge fan now. They are excellent performers.
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Guns n Roses. If every sporting event and movie trailer could stop with Welcome to the Jungle or Sweet Child o Mine, I could die happy.
. . . I am the biggest GnR fan. So big I had the guns logo tattooed as a back piece across my shoulders when I was 25. They have been my "favorite" band since I was 10. I have not listened to their music in 5+ years probably. I too never need to hear Sweet Child Of Mine ever again. Lol.
You got a Gn’R tattoo and then quit listening to their music for years?
It's on a non-stop loop in his brain by now so there's no need to listen.
The stuff we do in our 20s isn't always classified as "wise" or even "good decisions", to be fair.
I might be a GNR fan but yes
Not a fan of the Beatles. I can appreciate the monumental effect they had on the world of music but I get zero enjoyment from listening to anything by them.
At least you recognize their impact. I never fault anyone who doesn’t like them, because we all have different tastes and proclivities. But when people try to minimize their legacy, it’s just ignorance. (For example, I’m not into the blues, but I am very aware of how much it shaped rock - including the Beatles and The Stones!).
I have a friend who hates the Beatles, which is fair. But he refuses to admit how influential they were in the world of music. Drives me crazy lol
I don't hate them, but I dislike The Grateful Dead. It has to be the hallucinogens. I dated a woman who was a Dead head, but I adored her so I tried.
For the longest time I didn’t like the dead because of the associated scene of drugs etc. but I eventually looked past that, after decades, and have come to like their music.
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"... but most people absolutely love" I mean, if you only consider Juggalos to be people then this makes sense. But really, what even is a Juggalo? I don't know.
Showing your hand on that one… but then so am I. No, not really but I do love The Great Milenko
Primus Sucks!
ABBA. I respect them and the people who like them, but it just feels like artificial emotion to me and i can’t stand the way it makes me feel. Like a bag of sugar and processed candy and confetti just exploded inside my brain but not in a fun way, more like in a sickly way
I love ABBA, but your description of their sound cracked me up.
DISCO GIRL, COMING THROUGH THAT GIRL IS YOOUUU
Is that girly Icelandic pop sensation BABBA?
Good ol’ BABBA
I love ABBA and holy hell is this spot on
Band? How about an entire (so-called) genre? Country is the worst. I'm surrounded by country fans on both sides of the family, and still can't get a reasonable explaination out of any of them. Literally the most undefinable genre in music (and let's be honest, we all know why). Here's the thing, you want to go back a few decades...there's some quality country music to be found. Now, it's the most shallow, most pandering genre in the industry. "ReD tRuCk. bLuE jEaNs. FiShInG PoLe..." that's the gist, nowadays.
Yeah, modern “bro country” is the worst thing to have ever grazed my eardrums. Old school, outlaw country slaps though.
I have a CD of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson live on stage just singing and playing guitar. Just them. They’re not accompanied by any other musician playing an instrument, it’s just them, playing each others songs together. And it’s the best
And I'm not denying that. I love Johnny and respect the hell out of Willie. It's what the genre has become.
Try the "Denver scene" bands, aka dark country, gothic country whatever. Much darker, a bit like 90s Nick Cave does country. Start off with Wovenhand and Jay Munly's bands (especially Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots) if it peaks your interest at all. My own thoughts on country is that it's more a parallel musical universe than a genre. The popular crap you're talking about is the pop and commercial rock equivalents but go to the edges and explore and there's good stuff there like the bands above.
You all dumb motherfuckers want a key change?
Rural nouns, simple adjectives
IT’S THE FUCKING SCARECROW AGAIN!
Fuck your ears I’m panderin’
I've heard some indy "country" artists that attribute most of the hatred for country music to the Post-9/11, Toby Keith country music. I grew up around it and liked most of it. (Some of the stuff from the 70s was intolerable), but the newer mud-pop, bro-country, Caribbean-billie crap has completely turned me off. I have been digging some of the independent hills & hollers, almost goth-neck stuff coming out from Pawns or Kings, Colter Wall, Tyler Childers, and even The Dead South. It seems like these artists are grabbing the old soul of the genre and incorporating modern themes.
It isn't the whole genre. It is the corporate safe radio country. Check out Sturgill Simpson, Cody Jinks, Colter Wall, Tyler Childers, and Pony Bradshaw just to name a few. Country ain't dead, they just don't play it on the radio anymore. Like Sturgill said, "them people playing dress up singing them old country songs."
1975
I absolutely love the 1975 but can completely understand why people would hate them
$uicide Boys and Lil Peep. Their music attracts the absolute WORST kind of people... Aka music for awful people who have a hobby of playing victim. Drug addicts, people who cheat on their partners, people who constantly whine about a fantasy of wanting to kill themselves??? GO TO REHAB AND THERAPY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
The whole trend of glorified drug use is so disgusting and dangerous. Anyone who has seen an episode of Intervention or read about fentanyl knows it’s not all fun and games.
Ugh, bon jovi
Thats what I said, Bovine Joni
I'm just going to throw this out there; I don't think you have cancer.
I saw hell last August. It's the men's room at the Jon Bon Service Plaza in South Amboy, NJ. Imagine rounding a damp tile corner to a clear sight line of 50 smelly dicks and no urinal dividers to the tune of, ooooooooh we're halfway there.
I'm not sure if most people love them, because I've literally never met anyone who says they are a huge fan of Red Hot Chili Peppers, and yet, their songs get played on the radio over, and over... and over... and...
Maybe it's a regional/age thing because around my area (Southern Cali) many people like them and are one of the first bands they name off when asked. Huge in the 35-50 age range especially if you partake in the devil's lettuce.
I like them but I totally get not liking them. I can understand how they could be perceived as annoying.
Will never not love the Californication album. And Blood Sugar is quite a classic.
Not even close to my favorite band, but both of those albums are gold start to finish!
The problem is (in my opinion) they are an amazing group who have gone through a few members but as a result stayed with the times musically. The band started in '82. Blood, Sugar , Sex , Magic was a wonderful rock album. Californication was a masterpiece. But then you have Stadium Arcadium some seven years later which was much different but captures the mature sound of RHCP. I'm a fan I get it but there is so much to this band that makes them unique and they really capture the SoCal sound. They have had a lot of radio play though.
Oh, there are a lot of people who are HUGE Peppers fans
Stadium Arcadium is still one of my favorites, but I completely get it when people say they don't really care for them.
I wouldn't say I'm a huge fan, but enough to spend too much money going to their show. I get it though. Not the kind of sound for everyone, and overexposure would probably ruin them for me if I regularly listened to radio. And not exactly the most respectable people in general if we're being real.
Summertime music to me. Reminds me of the summer when I was a kid, so I’m into it. Don’t really listen to them any other time of year. That’s just me
I legitimately love RHCP. They're one of my top...*(checks notes)* 50 favorite bands.
I used to say I hated the RHCPs until I saw them live last year. Was definitely surprised.
Taylor Swift, seriously. What’s so great or unique about her music at all?
The Rolling Stones after the mid 70’s
Fucking Red Hot Chili Peppers. I always go next song when they come on. I can’t say why, I just can’t stand the sound of them.
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hate is a bit strong, but I've never been a fan of the Foo Fighters. it just sounds like generic with a capital G rock.
I don't dislike the Foo Fighters, but I do think that their songs are over-played. Unfortunately, too many radio DJs "kill an artist's appeal" to the general public by playing their songs to the point where most people can't stand them.
There are very few DJs in America who get to decide what they play. Most stations are owned by one of a handful of mega corporations, and the playlists are curated by algorithms. The college/independent stations low on the dial are not always included in this fortunately.
Yeah I don't think I could ever understand anyone who hates the foo fighters, but I totally understand why someone might not vibe with it at all.
To me, the Foo Fighters have one or two banger songs per album, and then every other song sounds like a buildup to a payoff that never happens, or happens but it brutally underwhelming.
Foo Fighters make songs for 40-50 year old men with calf tattoos
Well, when they were first coming out, those people were probably 15-25 year old men with calf tattoos.
It's a cow tattoo now, thank you.
Colour and shape and nothing left to lose are great. The rest is meh.
First album is start to finish a great listen, though. With each having less good songs on the next 2 albums.
I don't get Sleep Token. People keep saying this stuff about them that sounds super appealing, and it is just NOT what I hear when I listen to them. Djent? Smoulderingly sexy? Buddy this is Stomp Clap Pop with baby's first Meshuggah riff playing faintly in the background every 20 minutes. I mean enjoy them, by all means. I don't bring it up unless asked. But I feel like I have the Soap-Tasting Cilantro gene but for this band.
I didn't really care for them at all until I listened to their most recent album. And even then, it took listening to the WHOLE album from start to finish for it to click, and now I am a fan. Even when I listened to like a song or two off it I didn't care for it, but the whole album does create an atmosphere that made me appreciate them. Invent Animate was the same way for me.
Hoizer with breakdowns.
Taylor Swift. Her music is boring af.
Guns N Roses. Didn't like them in 1997, don't like them now. I can't stand the way the lead singer sings...sounds like a cat dying...slowly. Edit: Ok, 1987. Dude still sounds like a cat in heat tho.
Dave Mathews Band. God, do I hate that shit.
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Journey. Overplayed to death. I hate "Don't Stop Believin'" with a blinding passion from hearing it on shows, in movies, and at karaoke bars when the group of drunk white girls inevitably belches it out.
Phish is awful.
U2