COMPLETE U-TURN: BIG BANDS you DON'T LIKE

Bruce Springsteen & Bob Seger - Just never could get into that blue collar rock sound.

I once dated a gal who really liked Seger. I bought tickets to a Seger concert for us, but I broke up with her just before the show and gave her the tickets. I just couldn't put myself through it.

I don't like any bands that are just products of the market, look good say the right thing get a cool video and wind up in a teen magazine, that just doesn't appeal to me at all.
Buckcherry is a band I just really don't like. Don't know exactly why, but every time I see them on T.V it makes me want to throw up.... Never was much for Korn either, just couldn't see what the buzz was about....

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Just too many to count.

I don't like noise.  Bands that don't have any concept of rise and fall, building of themes, etc., I have no time for.   They rely heavily on effects.  So I don't much like bands that rely on effects either.  If your music relies more on your sound engineer than on your musicianship, I have not time for your band.  Though I may care to meet your engineer.  Judas Priest fits this.  At least the former point of noise.  They have great lyrics, but I can't stand that they start in the middle of the song, have the middle of the song, and then end in the middle of the song.  And the whole middle of the song, which is all of it, is noise that I cannot differentiate the drums from the guitar from the screaming of the lyrics.  Pure crap from my perspective. 

Ridiculous reliance upon cliches.  I have a title for it - Cliche Rock.  It is closely related to Oxymoron Rock.  I don't like either.  Oxymoron rock is those bands that have lyrics that contradict themselves in an effort to be deep.  Cliche rock relies on cliches as an alternative to thinking.  Either way, yuck.  REM's first couple of albums contained schlock from each of these categories.  Fortunately, they got better. 

Songs about getting laid.  I really don't care if the singer or the guitar player gets any.  I love Van Morrison, but G-L-O-R-I-A is one of the worst songs in the history of mankind, with the possible exception of MacArthur Park.  There's a HUGE inventory of songs in popular music about getting laid.  About the only band that does sex songs that work is ZZ Top and many of those are annoying but when they get a good one it makes up the difference.

I do like CCR ZZ-Top, driving in a car, mile after mile.

I DON'T LIKE THE ALWAYS TANNED and THEIR ALWAYS PERFECT HAIR, WHITE TEETHED  BOYS BANDS, like Boyzone.
RAP, some songs I like, but I hate all the ***bands. Their songs, after removing all their ****would change into a song using 1 word: YO, yeh Yo, takaboom, tak YO, my brother in law's name is JO (a common Flemish name) JO, takaboom, JO, he married my siter Jo, takaboom boom, JO.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEE such bands.

By the way, if you watch a movie, the heroes hair will ALWAYS be perfect, surviving attacks, fights, water, fire. Also, what kind of bed cover do they use: probably shorter on the man's site, seeing his "hairy" chest, and longer at the woman's side, she has to be covered because in the SAME bed, you just see her head.

I'm glad, it fits well, the rap phrase.

Well Charlotte, I do agree. U2, before RATTLE and HUM, or JOSHUA TREE, well I don't understand how they started to be poular with albums like OCTOBER, in fact their first albums.
They told me, being back stage doc on one of the biggest ROCK EVENTS, that they owe a lot to the man who organised their concerts, and even not liking them, live=very good. Their success story, talking international started in fact here in BELGIUM.
What about James BLUNT. He sold millions of albums, everyone telling HOW GREAT, followed by a kind of overexposure, and listening to him was NOT longer DONE.
He has a brandnew album, and again a MILLION SELLER.
So who are those people: liars, hypocrites? They praised him, adored him at first, and now again.

I HATE bon jovi, I forgot to mention that one. I used to just ignore him and didn't feel strongly one way or another, that is untill I turned on my country radio and there he was singing that horrible song with that horrible band Sugarland, another one I forgot to mention that I absolutely hate. That woman is so full of herself it makes me sick!

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Def Leppard.  OMG they were the crappiest band to ever strap on guitars.

I'm particuarly not fond of todays EMO bands.  Fall Out Boy, and the like.  Horrid.