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

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...