Bands you don't like but everyone else does

[Joe Beamish]

Stevie Ray Vaughn, especially as a guitarist. I rather like his singing voice. But his playing leaves me cold. Should be limited to dorm rooms.

[Bowie]

Probably not a popular opinion around here but, Tommy Emmanuel. He's certainly very skilled, but his music just feels like soulless noodling to impress guitar players. It's not that I don't like solo guitar music. I can even appreciate Steve Vai as I feel he does what the music calls for. But, to take a tender, traditional song and noodle all over it grates on my nerves. Players like Eric Skye and Matt Palmer convey far more emotion to me and never feel like they are adding more than the piece calls for. Sometimes, less is more.

[catdaddy]

I acknowledge the fine musicianship of the following, but they just do me wrong:

Billy Joel
Fleetwood Mac (Stevie Nicks era)
Genesis (post Peter Gabriel)

[Joe Beamish]

Originally Posted by Bowie

Probably not a popular opinion around here but, Tommy Emmanuel. He's certainly very skilled, but his music just feels like soulless noodling to impress guitar players. It's not that I don't like solo guitar music. I can even appreciate Steve Vai as I feel he does what the music calls for. But, to take a tender, traditional song and noodle all over it grates on my nerves. Players like Eric Skye and Matt Palmer convey far more emotion to me and never feel like they are adding more than the piece calls for. Sometimes, less is more.

Agreed. Tommy Emmanuel seems like a good dude, but he just plays guitar. I like the people who play music.

That said, he’s not as bad as U2.

[Rickenbacker1]

To me Bruce Springsteen ..And the Eagles ………..

[Cabarone]

Van Halen (weren't so overrated w/the Red Rocker, though)
Cream
Derek and the Dominoes

[schmalex]

#1 is absolutely Eagles.

I can recognize that many of the songs they have written are classics, but in my opinion, most of their arrangements just don't rock at all... way too soft & bland sounding... they might as well be the Bee Gees, except the Eagles have always been positioned as a rock band, while the Bee Gees are disco and their sound fits that genre. And that's even before considering the fact that they refuse to allow their music to be used anywhere at all (even on people's social media accounts) and their insistence on being called "Eagles" as opposed to "The Eagles"...

U2 is probably next on my list, but I have less strong feelings about them. Their songs are generally just "ok" (somewhere along the lines of where I would place Coldplay), but then they act like they're The Rolling Stones or something when they're just nowhere close to being that cool...

[Acousticado]

Originally Posted by schmalex

#1 is absolutely Eagles.

I can recognize that many of the songs they have written are classics, but in my opinion, most of their arrangements just don't rock at all... way too soft & bland sounding... they might as well be the Bee Gees, except the Eagles have always been positioned as a rock band, while the Bee Gees are disco and their sound fits that genre. And that's even before considering the fact that they refuse to allow their music to be used anywhere at all (even on people's social media accounts) and their insistence on being called "Eagles" as opposed to "The Eagles".

I could be wrong, but my understanding is...not really. In their earlier days when Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner were still with the band, the Eagles were more on the country-ish side of music, but Glenn Frey in particular was never happy with their sound, wanting the Eagles to be more of a rock band. Not in agreement with the direction the band was heading, first Leadon, then Meisner left. Enter Don Felder, then hired gun Joe Walsh. Frey then had the “rock” band he’d always wanted. Personally, I LOVE the Eagles music...all of it, from. Ego I gotta to end. The backstory, not so much.

[RRuskin]

Grateful Dead
Hootie & the Blowfish

[schmalex]

Originally Posted by Acousticado

I could be wrong, but my understanding is...not really. In their earlier days when Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner were still with the band, the Eagles were more on the country-ish side of music, but Glenn Frey in particular was never happy with their sound, wanting the Eagles to be more of a rock band. Not in agreement with the direction the band was heading, first Leadon, then Meisner left. Enter Don Felder, then hired gun Joe Walsh. Frey then had the “rock” band he’d always wanted. Personally, I LOVE the Eagles music...all of it, from. Ego I gotta to end. The backstory, not so much.

Well I guess to me their music has never really sounded any more "country" than most other American classic rock bands from that era... they all sound a little country by more modern standards.

I do think it's odd that Frey would be the one pushing for more of a "rock band" vibe as Frey's vocals have always been one of the primary factors that gives the band the overly soft-rock sound that I mostly attribute to the band.

[DrunkUncles]

The Doors!

To me, its like organ - elevator music. Just not a fan.

Sorry...

[reeve21]

U2, Matthews, Phish.

Reo, Kansas, Styxx, Foreigner.

But I really didn’t go for Zep, The Beatles or Petty until I was in my 60’s, so maybe there is hope for me yet.

In the jazz world I have really tried to dig Ornette Coleman, but I guess I’m not hip enough to figure out his approach to melody or rhythm. Same thing with most jazz fusion. That Miles album with the initials BB, it’s not for me.

I’m a failed bluegrass fan. Love Marty Stuart (I know he crosses boundaries) but most of it I have a hard time with, unless I’m in a bar 😄

[maxed]

I'll ruffle some feathers here, but John Prine does nothing for me.

And Bob Dylan.

[frankmcr]

U2. What do people think is good about them?

[Bob from Brooklyn]

Originally Posted by frankmcr

U2. What do people think is good about them?

War was a good album but that was 40 years ago.