Music you like despite hating everything about it

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Blues credibility is a total joke to me. Not with a gun to my head will I care about "the roots" of music or honoring them. Classic rock is pretty much utter shit, and the canon is for people who care about rock critics. When I search them on soulseek I always see "Dave Mathews cover" or something like that, they've gone too long...

Yet, inexplicabbly, I love the Rolling Stones. They just have such charm, and such good songs.

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 13 September 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

mainstream hip hop and bubblegum

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 13 September 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Say Something Interesting About Green Day's American Idiot.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 13 September 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Why shouldn't you like the Rolling Stones? Rock critics, the canon, and Rolling Stone can't be wrong all the time.

― supercub, Monday, 13 September 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Despite the fact that they almost singularly embody everything that is wrong, false, corrrupt, bloated, avaricious, non-sensical, empty, childish and wilfully stupid about rock'n'roll, I am forever chained to fandom for KISS. There is no honorable discharge from the Kiss Army.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with Alex... KISS.

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Lifetime. I know they helped in their own small way to spawn Saves the Day and the general detrius of horrible MOR radio emo. It doesn't matter.

― Marianne, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd say.........
well, mainstream hip-hop, but somebody already said that.

― Nowell, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Sheryl Crow. So fucking calculated, so slick, so California, so Lance Armstrong, so catchy.

― frankE (frankE), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd say the same, except I'd replace "despite" with "because". My 2 main regrets are, however,

i) i like that Maroon 5 single, although everything about them tells me that they and their fans are twatmasters

ii) "In My Place" is a fantastic Echo and the Bunnymen remake, despite being recorded by a group of model airplane fans with low excitement thresholds.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"twatmasters"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

This sounds like a sort've crass compliment, like something Hugh Heffner, Gene Simmons and Fred Durst would love to be called.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Any music with nostalgia value works here:

Vangelis: soundtrack from "Entends-tu les chiens aboyer?"
Santa Esmeralda: "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
The Police: Anything from "Synchronicity"

― Thea (Thea), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Should I have gone with twatmeisters? I thought that sounded more fratboyesque. Also, twat possibly has different connotation in the UK, i.e. tends to signify a dickwad.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"cooch-collectors"

― Thea (Thea), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Fleetwood Mack
Billy Talent
U2

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got a soft spot for Coldplay, despite hating namby pamby indie.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That Dogs Die in Hot Cars song "Godhopping" - so corny, cheesy - piano line from the Sesame Street soundtrack -- etc. etc. etc. But goddamn if that isn't a catchy single that I like to play really loudly.

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Parts of OK Computer, maybe, but I haven't listened to that evil thing in years.

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't listen to it anywhere except at work.
I do not own any recordings of their type.
I can't stand the formatted regularity of the songs.
I think they all mostly use the same studio musicians.
But occasionally, I hear something that's not too bad.

Yes folks, it's today's pop country.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Fleetwood Mack = a collaboration between Mick Fleetwood and Mark Morrisson? (btw, what ever happened to the latter? Is he in prison? A 'Return of the Mack' isn't imminent, I am guessing).

Own nomination: Tortoise's studied nu-jazz. It should suck (and often does), so why do I like it?

― James Wood (sidmouthian), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Faith No More are the only ones that are coming to mind. There's actually very little music that I honestly hate "everything" about

― DJ Mencap0))), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"the canon"

oh dear god

― stelfox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Coldplay represent everything that by repels me about winsome guitar music, but yet I find them strangely compelling. P.S. I was in the same community service group that Marc Morrison pretended to be in. But not at the same time. Well done me.

― Beckett, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay Beckett.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark had a single out a few weeks ago. At the same time he was in another altercation with the Old Bill following him claiming to have had some £10,000 chain nicked in a nightclub. I'd say something about "see how the mighty have fallen" but mighty doesn't seem to be quite the right word here.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

There is no honorable discharge from the Kiss Army.
Two words: Court Martial.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 16 September 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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