Top 5 albums Artists everyone seems to love but you hate

just wait for the backlash, it'll come!

the killers
i was hoping to like them but it sounds like lots of things i've heard before (which isn't a problem) only not as good (which is a problem)

the smiths
i can't stand morrissey's voice. i just hate it, which is annoying because the music is clearly fantastic. a similar problem ruins led zepp for me.

joss stone
i'm not sure if it's true that everybody likes her but she certainly seems to be a fave with the music press and i really can't see why. she's a very good karaoke singer but that's about it. if she was a black girl from deptford would the critics react the same way?

any modest mouse
futureheads
lil' jon
kanye west
bonnie 'prince' billy

I don't really hate most of those, but for the most part I either got nothing out of them or really struggled to get through their album(s). Junior Boys also do very little for me. [/heresy]

4 real

2. The Killers
The front man's vocals are enough to keep me away. How *dare* someone refer to them as the new Duran Duran....sacrilage!

3.Morissey
I'm just tired of indie kids and music nerds touting him as some sort of musical Jesus.

4.Eminem
Most of his songs are just...not good. The production on a lot of his songs is terrible and his media image annoys me. He should stick to doing funny songs though instead of the aggresive crap he puts out.

5.The Postal Service
I actually like "Such Great Heights" and some of Dntl's stuff before this band appeared, but they are hugely overrated. Ever since they appeared on *that soundtrack* to *that movie* I always associate them with people who identify themselves as "scene"......ewwww.

eminem
captain beefheart
the faint
99.9% of underground hiphop
the shins

Even more accurately, I have no idea why he's considered so important.

I can't think of more than those two.

Franz Ferdinand - duh.

Joss Stone - yes, she's "black and soulful", alright.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Oh, Alex, you left out a couple "y"s whe you spelled Lynyrd Skynyrd. It's fine you don't like them... I'm just sayin'... Know your enemy and all that.

I'll think of more later.

- Radiohead
- Pulp

There are plenty I don't understand the love for, but still quite like a bit.

could do a lot better, but needed to rush me five

another one that i've been holding off on though .m83. way better than I thought. Over hyped: slagged to bits.....good in my paltry book. sounds good.

I'd say Firehose too, but I don't think everyone likes them anymore. Living in the past here.

Franz Ferdinand
-- a bunch of people

Agreed.

1. Bright Eyes (no, wait, I HATE this one.)
2. Van Morrison
3. Gary Wilson
4. Echo & Bunnymen (oh yea, hate them, too.)
5. My Morning Jacket

More interesting, though...

Used to love, recently experiencing enigmatic, swelling dislike for:
1. Beach Boys
2. Spiritualized
3. Blur
4. Van Morrison
5. Interpol

Hate?

1. Sting
2. Jamie Callum
3. Toby Keith
4. Lenny Kravitz
5. Murder City Devils

Although I have long given up trying to enjoy Morrissey, Lambchop, or NRBQ, I don't hate them. I dislike them too much to actually qualify for hatred, i.e, I'm really not familiar enough with their work to "hate" it since I haven't been able to muster the wherewithal to listen to more than a few of their songs (all of which sucked balls).

Other innumerable mainstream shitfactories like DMB, Kravitz, or Usher are not championed by anyone I care about in the musical opinion department, so I won't waste anymore time outlining how deeply I loath these "artists"; it is outside the context of the thread title as I understand it.

That's fIREHOSE to you, mister. And I love their first album, Ragin' Full On.

1. The Pixies
2. fIREHOSE
3. Junior Boys
4. Arcade Fire
5. The Smiths

Just out of curiosity, what are (a) your favorite album of the last year and (b) your favorite album of all time?

1. Smashing Pumpkins
2. Radiohead
3. Beck
4. Afghan Whigs
5. Pavement.

Actually, I take back (5), I do hate Pavement. Fuck'em.

I am stunned that nobody's posted a top 5 comprised entirely of bands I really like. I am less stunned that few people are actually justifying their lists.

1. Radiohead: I don't really hate Radiohead, and probably will decide that I love them 20 years from now when the critical acclaim dies down a bit (although that seems to already be starting).

2. Tim Buckley: Hate hate hate hate his voice. Hate it. Decent enough songwriter.

3. The Pogues: This is the soundtrack to every awful American "Irish pub" I've ever been to. Why do I keep going back?

4. Anything that falls under "pub rock": I love Nick Lowe so much, but this stuff just makes my eyes bleed. So very boring.

5. Xiu Xiu: Terrible voice, terrible lyrics. Also, no one who lives in San Jose should make music like this, come on.

6. Merzbow: This just sounds like noise to me.[/irony]

I imagine you're crushed by this.

Alex, I have come to realize that anyone who enjoys dancing is your enemy. So I'm not particularly mortified here.

I love fIREHOSE. Dare I say even more than the Minutemen - a band I appreciate, but don't really love. Mr. Machinery Operator is not very good, but Flyin' The Flannel is one of my favorite albums ever.

I think that's it. I'm not very hateful. I mean, hate is a strong word.

1. The Streets - what mood is his music supposed to put you in or create? To me it might as well be an audiobook.

2. Broken Social Scene - I'm not even joking when I say this: I put this on when I want to fall asleep. It's pleasant enough, I suppose. But hardly great.

3. The Stills - I have a friend who LOVES that Still in Love Song but the vocalist just doesn't have a strong presence. The album just drones on and on.

4. U2 - Is anyone else surprised about the amount of love this is getting from reviewers? With the exception of perhaps Crumbs From Your Table, it seems so forced.

5. Prefuse 73 - The first couple tracks on One Word Extinguisher blew me away but after that it gets downright annoying.

Uhhhh... I thought Franz Ferdinand were the UK pop Franz Ferdinand.

1. Sonic Youth
2. Elvis Presley
3. The Notorious B.I.G.
4. M.I.A.
5. Patti Smith

HONORABLE MENTION: Madonna (1995-present)

sebadoh
pumpkins
replacements
soundgarden
swervedriver

[...]

1. Sonic Youth
2. Elvis Presley
3. The Notorious B.I.G.
4. M.I.A.
5. Patti Smith

-- Mr. Snrub

That'd be it, then.

Aw HELL YEAH. SKYNARD HATUHZ UNITE! And the next time I hear someone - anyone yell out "Free Bird" as an encore at a gig, without even stopping to consider the fact that the music the act in question plays bears absolutely noooo resemblance to Skynard in the first place...when the hell did this trend start? Who started it? Are there just an army of people out there who go to gigs with the sole purpose of yelling out for this song? Don't they have anything better to do with their time?

Here's the rest of my list:

1. Van Morrison
2. The Streets
3. Pavement
4. Tim Buckley (polyphonic OTM - I just cannot DEAL with this man's voice/drawl. I'm a huge Jeff Buckley fan, too, which really complicates matters. Wish I could understand all the Tim love.)

Isn't that the point though? Irony and all that?

I don't know that much about Skynyrd myself but I really like "Sweet Home Alabama".

I was waiting for someone to say The Fall. Ouch.

In defence of the Franz Ferdinand selection, I think that the sheer volume of glowing accolades they've recieved in the past year make them a fair target. Who said that hate had to be "blindingly original?"

"is it me, or are half of the artists everyone's listing not "albums Artists"?

I read this to mean albums OR artists.

2. The Fucking Eagles - I can handle the rock if I must, but the countrified stuff make me want to kill myself and everyone around me.

3. Smashing Pumpkins - the most boring, overrated band of the '90s. Billy Corgan's voice is wretched and the songs are just bad metal dressed up in indie clothing ("1979" excepted, which is bad metal in New Order clothing and I like that).

4. ______________________ Insert your favourite mainstream/modern R&B performer.

5. Nine Inch Nails. See #3. I should hope people have grown out of them by now.

Just out of curiosity, what are (a) your favorite album of the last year and (b) your favorite album of all time?

Just because I don't know any better, I'll answer. I don't really have single favorites, so
a) some albums from last year I've listened to a lot are Deerhoof's "Milk Man" and Byrne's "Grown Backwards." Also "SMiLE".
b) really no one favorite, but a few are The Fall's "Grotesque," the first Raincoats album (hm, the second one too), the Who "Sell Out", Faust "IV".

FWIW on the whole fIREHOSE thing I happen to think the Minutemen peaked before Double Nickles, so maybe I wouldn't have liked them in the fIREHOSE years either (i.e. w/the real d.Boon instead of the ersatz version).

2. Nirvanna -- hated them then, maybe sorta think a couple songs are ok now but still generally hate them

3. The Clash -- really I just think they're meh, not hateful

4. Fiery Furnaces -- but since every other post on this thread picks that, I guess it's not really an artist "everyone seems to love"

5. The Streets

7. PiL

8. Big Star -- BOOOOOOOORRRING. If they had actually "made it" back then they'd be ignored by now.

9. Sgt. Pepper's -- I'll say it, and I'm a Beatle's fan. It's a couple of decent songs and a lot of corny nonsense. But it has a "concept".

10. John Zorn

Oh man, I forgot about Nina. Not liking Nina is perhaps the thing I'm most ashamed of, musically. I really, really want to like her. Everyone I respect *adores* her. I admire her craft and originality, but get no enjoyment out of listening to her.

I would also like to submit for consideration Diana Krall.

Also, I would just like to add that, out of the pool of artists respected by virtually no one I respect, Josh Groban, Charlotte Church and Andrea Bocelli are among the ones I hate the very most.

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Well, everything I've ever heard by Masada or Naked City annoyed the crap out of me.

I can accept this, it's just not your thing.

If they had actually "made it" back then they'd be ignored by now.

Listen, just because you don't like something, it doesn't mean that the band's fans have some sort of hipster pretense for liking the band. Maybe Big Star would be ignored, but I'd still be in love with their first three albums.

Yeah, you're right. I hate it when other people make this kind of judgment so it's fair to call me out for it.

my logic here is simple -- i think that "common people" is a great single. the rest of that record -- indeed, most of the rest of pulp's oeuvre -- does nothing for me.

I'd attribute this to two things:

1. Most people think/thought of Beach Boys as "that surf band" and weren't aware of Pet Sounds and Smiley Smile

2. Uncle Jesse on Full House

lil' jon is the best answer.

bless you.

(as i sit here listening to joanna newsom, ha!)

So not true. But I pity those who enjoy dancing to crap.

ARTISTS:

1. BOB FUCKING DYLAN
2. pavement (see also sebadoh, built to spill, etc.)
3. hüsker dü
4. pulp (as i stated above)
5. FUCKING WILCO

ALBUMS:

1. anything by wilco (that's at least 5, right there)
2. anything by hüsker dü
3. abbey road (paul's half of it, anyway)
4. franz ferdinand
5. loaded (though i LOVE the other velvets' rekkids)

1. Destiny's Child -- i can take 'em or leave 'em, though i like 'em more than i dislike 'em
2. Michael Jackson -- some songs OK, many more aren't.
3. Van Morrison -- i LOVE astral weeks and moondance. i could do w/t the rest of his stuff.
4. Wilco -- see above
5. Bob Dylan -- see above
6. the Notorious B.I.G -- yer outta yer mind here, alex
7. Tupac Shakur -- see comment on biggie. his estate's habit of releasing EVERYTHING he's ever done, on the other hand.
8. Patti Smith -- in 100% agreement, here.
9. Usher -- yer insane here, alex.
10. Lynyrd Skynyrd -- i think that they're OK, occasionally great. but not the 1st thing i'd listen to.

1. My Bloody Valentine. Granted, I've only listened to Loveless, but I've also given it many, many close listens. Up to "To Here Knows When" -- so far so good. After that, it starts boring me to fucking tears. Yeah, they're doing the wall of sound thing, but in the EXACT SAME 5-SECOND LOOP REPEATED FOR FIVE FUCKING MINUTES!!!!! It never changes and goes on and on and on. This seriously bugs the hell out of me, and I can never finish the record. Which is a shame, 'cuz by everyone's account it's exactly the sort of thing I'd LOVE, but in the end I only hear a few good songs and a bunch of really disappointing, boring ones -- to the point where I've seriously wondered, several times, if I was listening to a totally different cd then the one everyone talks about.

2. Mountain Goats. Similar situation to the above -- I've listened to "We Shall All Be Healed" and "Ghana" a million times, "Coroner's Gambit" and "Talahassee" a few times, tried to convince myself that the former are brilliant, then realized that his lyrics pull the same apocalyptic, things-are-sure-gonna-blow trick WAY too often without going any deeper, and that many of his songs sound like tepid coffee-house rock. I think he has a few truly brilliant moments -- "The Last Day of Jimi Hendrix's Life", "Family Happiness", "Palmcorder Yajna" -- but not enough to justify the rest.

3. Boredoms - Super AE. Boredoms are in my top-five of all time, mainly for VCN, Super Roots 5-8 (esp. 5) and Chocolate Synthesizer; I just can't get into Super AE (the repetition problem again).

4. VU - self-titled. Again, the repetition thing. I mean, repeating yourself over and over is fine, as long as there are some tiny variations to latch on to. When there aren't, it drives me crazy. (WL/WH is the antithesis to this because, thankfully, feedback is so dynamic.)

5. Belle and Sebastian. OK, "witty lyrics," yeah, nice try. Music = similarly bleh.

Please feel free to tell me why I'm wrong.

he's really only as good as the musicians he's with at a given moment, isn't he? e.g., you are the quarry sounds like sheryl crow's band, only w/ morrissey singing.

I don't have five and I wouldn't say I HATE them necessarily but I get a lot of shit for not liking Led Zeppelin and Radiohead.

Thanks to ILM there's no artist in my mind that "everyone" seems to love. Outside of the bubble though Kings of Leon get a lot of props and while I liked them before they were cool (ha ha I'm such a trendsetter) I really don't like their new stuff. I must say though that I have never met anyone who likes them and doesn't find at least one of them attractive so maybe that's my problem.

My list would go:

-Pink Floyd
-Led Zeppelin (this one should be on top on the merit that I find them not just unpleasant but plain awful. I wonder if I'm just missing the Led Zep gene or something)
-Radiohead (everything except "Creep")
-Pearl Jam
-The White Stripes

i hate the idea of U2 immensely, while being largely indifferent to their music these days. if that's enough to qualify them, i'm gonna go with that.

Love
The Rolling Stones
The Cure
Minutemen
Bruce Springsteen

The Streets
Manu Chao
Depeche Mode (except for their early, cheery tunes)
Company Flow
Eminem

Love
The Who
The Fall
Pavement
Jay Z

New List for `09

Mariah Carey
Erykah Badu
Kanye West
Arcade Fire
Feist
Lil Wayne

It's been the same list for years: U2, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, The Doors... and until about three years ago, the fifth name would have been Led Zeppelin. But I like Led Zep now, so there's a vacancy.

U2
Bruce Springsteen
Nirvana
the Doors
Velvet Underground

How could anyone hate the Velvet Underground?

Arcade Fire

Not goth enough.

I think they're quite easy to hate (xp)

Astonished Tom Waits hasn't been mentioned yet!

Arcade Fire

Not goth enough.

Not goth good enough.

Belle and Sebastian
Bob Dylan
Spiritualized
U2
The Verve

"How could anyone hate the Velvet Underground?"

Pretty simply. I think they suck. I might ask how anyone could hate Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Velvet Underground
Bob Dylan
The Who
Led Zeppelin
My Bloody Valentine

Dylan, Floyd, U2, Doors. Radiohead and Rolling Stones I like a few songs by each. I guess The Doors too, actually (like, three songs by them). Dylan, Floyd, U2, though, I have no interest in at all (bar Achtung Baby for U2).

Radiohead - like some stuff from OK Computer, Kid A and Amnesiac, but not enough to care about. Despite Pablo Honey, the Bends, Hail to the Queef, that boring one with Faux arp or whatever it was called.
Lot of people putting U2 here, so I will too, although I'm not really sure everyone likes them.
The Doors - always thought that Jim Morrison was a dilettante, alcoholic spouting nonsense who got taken seriously because he was way handsome and had the right look.
Led Zep - Just don't like them.
The Rolling Stones - Same as above.

despise even, jeez

"How could anyone hate the Velvet Underground?"

Pretty simply. I think they suck. I might ask how anyone could hate Lynyrd Skynyrd.

At least the VU brought something genuinely new to the table. Fuck have Skynyrd ever done other that reinforcing slackjawed Southern stereotypes and boring the world senseless with interminable, masturbatory guitar solos?

My answer to this question is invariably The Smiths

smiths seconded in a heartbeat.

Beatles
Springsteen
Dylan
Joni Mitchell
Tom Waits

^ don't really hate any of these though

I hate Joni Mitchell.

She's inherently hateable.

I have never, ever seen the appeal in Springsteen but he has written a nice, if forgettable, tune or two

Rolling Stones are also on my 'not appreciated' list

Springsteen seems like a nice enough guy (y'know, despite cheating on his wives and all that), but I just can't behind his music.

You don't want to behind his music, really.

Joan Baez
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Kings of Leon

^ these I hate

Agreed with RHCP

... and Snow Patrol

Oh Christ, of COURSE! I'm filling the vacancy left by Led Zep's departure with:

Scott.
Bloody.
Walker.

you
are
crazy

;-)

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I'm always amused by how vocal the Dylan haters are out there; they're practically foaming at the mouth with bile. I don't see that happening with many other artists. It's like listening to Yankees fans bitch about the Red Sox, or vice versa. ("You actually enjoy listening to that old geezer sing with razor blades in his throat? He sucks!") As if any of Dylan's admirers give a shit.

The haters don't give a shit that the admirers don't give a shit, so everyone's a winner

backlash against the backlash against the croaking fraud

Not so much "hate" as never really got, but anyway:

The Cure
The Clash
Patti Smith
Leonard Cohen
and sorry, but Bob Dylan

admirers don't give a shit

Oh but sometimes they do. I've been practically yelled at for not liking L Zep before. Granted that person was an asshole but still. Have also been accused of not really liking or knowing anything about music because of the same. Riiiight. Idiots.

springsteen
black-eyed piss
eminem
motley crue
van halen

bon jovi are probably my most-hated of all time but I can't be alone right? also scott OTM on nina simone. cabaret blues - ugh.

"Fuck have Skynyrd ever done other that reinforcing slackjawed Southern stereotypes and boring the world senseless with interminable, masturbatory guitar solos?"

Yeah, man, nice argument. You really got me there.

Right on.

Astonished Tom Waits hasn't been mentioned yet!

― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:31 (1 hour ago)

lol, he's the only artist i can think of who really fits the thread title for me.

hello.

Hated: Yes, PinkFloyd (past the first two), ELP, LedZep (did get Physgraf recently, it's mmm, alright, um), Dire Straits, Queen, OK you get the gist, right?

yeah everyone seems to love yes

Nick Drake
Talking Heads
Bruce Springsteen
Tom Waits
Arcade Fire

Oh, Talking Heads! Never been able to fathom that lot

Would like to add Queen to my list as well!

Would like to add REM to my list kthx

interminable, masturbatory guitar solos?

Alex, you've never had much use for ANY guitar solos, have you?. Or the concept of instrumental soloing in general?

This isn't a challenge - I'm truly interested in yr views

well, that's my 'I dinnae like' list, the ones that get love from 'everyone'? LedZep, PinkFloyd out of that list I suppose.

But then, both have been mentioned so that precludes them from being 'loved by everyone' dunnit?

(Hmm that phrase, 'loved by everyone'. Is it from some kids TV prog?)

Alex, you've never had much use for ANY guitar solos, have you?. Or the concept of instrumental soloing in general?

Geordie did the occasional, right?

kids tv prog = gentle giant, shurely

rings no bells, soz not that one.

led zep
radiohead
arcade fire
doors

basically hte same list as jim, above.

so far my list is

The Smiths
Bruce Springsteen
RHCP
Talking Heads
REM

^^^litany of yawnz

er, replace RHCP with Rolling Stones, seeing as RHCP really aren't universally loved

Not a fan of Bjork either

and sorry, but Bob Dylan
And this is the other side of the coin — the apologetic haters. Again, hate away! I don't give a shit.

Panda Bear
Phoenix
David Sylvian
Echo and the Bunnymen
R. Kelly

There's enough Smiths/Morrissey hate out there that I'm not sure 'everyone seems to love' even applies. It's funny to me to see artists popular in my time whom all the youths 'don't get'. I'm sure it has been so since the dawn of recorded music. Most of the bands I once hated, I have learned to tolerate or at least admire one or two songs. Among the exceptions:

Kings of Leon
Talking Heads
Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mariah Carey

Elvis Costello

Most of the bands I once hated, I have learned to tolerate or at least admire one or two songs.

It's worked the other way round with Elvis Costello, he's got increasingly less easy to tolerate as his career has gone on

Tom Waits - especially the mumbly, clangy stuff
Talking Heads - the guy's singing hurts my teeth
Patti Smith - too much attitude, for what?...yeah I read Rimbaud when I was 21 too.
Mariah
John Lennon solo bothers me a lot too

Ooh, Pearl Jam is a good one.

Hahaha, I think Tom Waits is best when he's being mumbly and clangy.

these days, there's very little that i hate. maybe super-compressed contemporary mainstream rock. contemporary country-pop. maybe. super-compressed cheese that only gets played in romantic comedies.

i have trouble hating on much besides those genres.

there's too much music that i've complete shunned, hated, or yawned at that i've gone back a few years later and find out that there's something totally worth loving. never know when i'm gonna be in a certain mood and that record that i hated on actually offers exactly what i'm looking for

Yep, sign me up for Pearl Jam too

I can't really hate Elvis Costello, though, or rather for me the ultimate diss is basically indifference. I can 'hate' Bon Jovi, for example but there's probably a song I will actually react to, whereas with the bands I listed they're demonstrably popular without having ever made me feel anything besides sleepy.

Bjork is a good one.

Anyone said Primal Scream yet?

ILM faves I can't get into:

Iggy Pop
Mariah Carey
Bjork
Battles

Fleetwood Mac post Peter Green.
Eagles, love the song "In the City" can't listen to anything else.
Sting
Dave Mathews
Killers

Tried to stick to bands that play styles I listen to. Could have put any of the recenthits by Beyonce, Britney, Eminem etc.
but I don't listen/hear that stuff enough to actually hate it. It's simply not part of my life.

radiohead
arcade fire
sufjan stevens
bob dylan
nick drake

there are more

Geordie did the occasional, right?

You can count the proper guitar solos Geordie's ever recorded with KJ on one hand.

I do like the odd solo -- hell, I'm a Kiss fan -- but there's something about the tireless wankery that is "Freebird" that forever condemns Skynyrd in my ears. That's not to say that their other songs don't bother me, though. Hell, I just don't like'em. Sue me.

Nick Cave, sadly, 'cos I used to like him

I can't think of anything "everyone" likes, but here are five I actively hate (and have never heard anything I've liked by), who I have gotten into heated arguments about with friends. This list was difficult to come up with and required some thought.

T-Pain
Bon Jovi
New Model Army
Mariah Carey
Roni Size

It's worked the other way round with Elvis Costello, he's got increasingly less easy to tolerate as his career has gone on

yeah oddly I can't think of too many people I used to LOVE that I now don't give a shit about. I haven't been able to finish listening to an album he's made since When I Was Cruel and even that one is rough going. I did see him live with orchestra a few years ago and it was alright but I think I'm done.

How can you hate both Mariah Carey *AND* New Model Army? That's like hating the Wicked Witch of the West *AND* Dorothy.

i think mark cl is really otm on this one. when people ask me about an artist that i don't like, i generally just say "i haven't gotten into them yet."
i'd add that a genre that i am having alot of trouble with is underground hip hop in the 00's. boring, overly serious raps, nostalgia, uninspired production, and a lack of hooks have really been sucking things dry in this decade for me, with only a few exceptions many of which are more inbetween underground and indie hip hop, or dirty south (i'm thinking madlib, ugk and the likes.)

Hate is such a strong word. Substituting "Dislike and am convinced that their fans are making a horrible mistake" my list would be:

1. Talking Heads
2. Fountains of Wayne (odd timing, since their thread just got revived)
3. Radiohead (but only up to a point)
4. U2 (ditto)
5. Tilly and the Wall seemed to represent the apex of some really awful tendencies, but it seemed kind of mean-spirited to dwell on it.

...and that's about it.

I can't imagine Bon Jovi is a band that "everyone seems to love"...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xEKcUm4jkbU/R2s6d8gi24I/AAAAAAAAB4U/Y-lfHi0UVKo/s400/Bon_Jovi-100000000_Bon_Jovi_Fans_Can_t_Be_Wrong-Frontal.jpg

Ah, okay, I thought the thread was about artists "every one of your music snob friends seem to love", not best-selling acts.

I took it as meaning any popular band, however you wanna define popular + mind-blowing iconoclasm

i don't ~hate~, but really have very little feeling for Beck, Wilco and Radiohead, aside from a very few songs/tunes by each.
white rabbits is a newer one that friends like a lot, and i do not

2: devendra banhart
3: fiery furnaces
4: ariel pink
5: futureheads
― owen reading, Tuesday, January 18, 2005 5:30 PM (4 years ago)

What a difference four years makes.

"I can't imagine Bon Jovi is a band that "everyone seems to love"..."

What in god's name are you talking about?

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/GeirH/most_overrated_albums_ever

And, well, a list of actual acts could be:

Captain Beefheart
Sex Pistols
Jay-Z
Stooges
The Fall

~could~ be, except now you are crossing into absolute crazy talk, Herr G....Capt. Beefheart overrated? not that you'd appreciate, but i know you've never sat and listened to Doc at the Radar Station, Bat Chain Puller, or Lick my decals, Baby (no, a single cursory listen does not count)

6. Captain Beefheart
7. The Fall
8. Missy Elliot
9. The Arcade Fire
10. The Pixies

(no, a single cursory listen does not count)

There is way too much great music (melodic, harmonic, catchy, singalong quality, tunes that stick) in the world for me to waste several listens on something that sounds completely like shit and contains nothing of what I always require good music to have.

I can't say I actively HATE any of these guys but I don't care about them, never listen to them, and find the endless paeans to their brilliance deeply irritating:

1. Radiohead
2. Michael Jackson
3. 50 Cent
4. The Decembrists
5. Puffy (<<<okay I do actually hate him)

funny reading my post from 4 years ago. don't mind pavement much these days (though i still think they're overrated), i have come to like (but not love) built to spill, still can't stand sebadoh or wilco.

can't believe i forgot to mention that i loathe pearl jam and sigur ros. and i share michael white's opinion of elvis costello -- i stopped giving a shit about him 20 years ago, he's like the woody allen of pop music or something (brilliant start tapering off to increasing meh-ness as he becomes that which he mocked or stood aloof from during his early days).

RIP The Decemberists

I'm coming to the tentative but startling (to me) realization that solo Michael Jackson may be my answer to this question. (Musically, I guess I'm indifferent rather than hateful.)

1. Michael Jackson
2. Michael Jackson
3. Michael Jackson
4. Michael Jackson
5. Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson
Jermaine Jackson
Tito Jackson
Jackie Jackson
Marlon Jackson

Mahalia Jackson
Randy Jackson
Alan Jackson
O'Shea Jackson
John Jackson

Some ILX favourites:

1. LCD soundsystem
2. Daft Punk
3. The Juan MacLean
4. Taylor Swift (OK I don't hate her, but compared to how most people feel about her I kind of do)
5. Radiohead

James Brown
Sex Pistols
Elvis Presley
Captain Beefheart
Sonic Youth

elvis pressley was an albums artist?

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE,JOANA NEWSOM,MANIC STREET PREACHERS,SPRINGSTEEN,THE LIBERTINES

kanye west
radiohead
the smiths
eminem & 50 cent
lady gaga

Muse
MIA
Slater Kenny
The Knife
The Ramones

the clash
beach boys
kaleidoscope (UK; love the US kaleidoscope.)
T. Rex (only song i like iirc is "cosmic dancer.")
screamers

less controversial hate:
talking heads, smiths/morrisey, cold cave, animal collective, white stripes, lots of assorted other popular indie rock.

jane's addiction
steely dan
fiery furnaces
dave matthews
captain + tennille

ian, you are gonna end up liking the beach boys. it's inevitable. give it time...

1.) Death Cab for Cutie
2.) Postal Service

* Ben Gibbard is my mortal enemy and I hope he burns in the fiery pits of hell for merely existing, but additionally having to pollute my aural environment*

3.) The xx and anything that came out last year... you're all boring.
4.) Arctic Monkeys
5.) She & Him- Yes, I get it, you're adorable. But you ruined my favorite character [Trillian] in HHGTTG, and M. Ward does not give you bonus credit because he is pretentious and boring as well... but doesn't have the adorable-factor to excuse him.

Actually, I am quite dismayed that I could make this list much longer.

yeah xx what the hell? don't think i hate them though

The xx and anything that came out last year... you're all boring.

And ugly.

how the hell could anyone hate sleater-kinney? thats like hating kittens.

Am I the only one that loves Radiohead and Springsteen? Never thought that would be a minority opinion, lol.

this thread is boring and stupid

There are definitely ILM canon bands I'm in the minority regarding. Chief among which is LCD Soundsystem. But hey KIP and all that so w/e, judgement has been cast

Top 5 musicians everyone seems to love but I hate (rapist and child molester edition):

Michael Jackson
R. Kelly
Isaac Brock/Modest Mouse

Open to suggestions for the remaining two spots...

70s-era prog in general. I've tried so many times..

I'm not sure that everyone loves 70s prog now. Popular around here (at least Yes, VDGG & some others) to an extent but I still hear a lot of blanket dismissals IRL.

captain + tennille

lol

this thread is boring and stupid

my taste is so unique & independent! im such an iconoclast!

xxp - Exceptions noted in cases of prog/kraut or prog/space overlap. It is mainly the muso-baroque end of it that I can't get past. Early Genesis, for example, I have tried repeatedly to get into but it is just not happening.

I find it really hard to answer questions like this these days, I've come around to most canonical favourites to some degree. However if I take 'everyone' to mean 'loads of people I know whose tastes I respect' then it'd be someone like, I dunno, Florence & The Machine.

Some ILX favourites:

1. LCD soundsystem
2. Daft Punk
3. The Juan MacLean
4. Taylor Swift (OK I don't hate her, but compared to how most people feel about her I kind of do)
5. Radiohead

― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), 28. maaliskuuta 2010 2:16 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This kinda could be my list, except that I don't know who Juan McLean is, and I like some Daft Punk tunes, but I never understoof why they're considered the best dance act ever or something.

I can list just one and get myself SB'ed, probably: Depeche Mode.

Not trolling, either. Never got them, never much wanted to get them. Could almost sorta tolerate "I Feel You" (rockist!) but have absolutely no use for any of their work otherwise.

I can understand not liking DM... sorta.

But what's there to "get" anyway? They are a pretty straightforward sort of band...