Imagine Dragons, ugh, music designed for car commercials and 8th graders, fucking rip my ear drums out.
To be honest? AC/DC; they’ve got plenty of good songs but plenty of duds as well. It’s pretty much become one of those bands that if you ask someone, who’s wearing their tshirt what their favourite song/album is, they either won’t be able to give you an answer, or pick a really obvious one (most likely either Highway to Hell or Hell’s Bells).
It’s the same with Metallica and, to a lesser extent, Iron Maiden.
If they put in the work establishing themselves, composing and playing music, recording, touring, and attracting a fan base, then they deserve every bit of it.
I can’t stand Kiss, and about 90% of all the other bullshit out there, but its not my place in the cosmos to harsh someone else’s buzz about the music they like. My tastes are extremely eclectic, and only a tiny percentage would be into the same stuff I’m into. I wouldn’t tolerate criticism of my musical tastes, and I’m not about to criticize someone else’s.
Like what you want, WTF should I care?
Weezer.
They have exactly two songs.
One song, Buddy Holly, is good.
Every other song of theirs is all the same song over and over again.
The Ramones. If ever a band deserved to be a 1-hit wonder, this is it.
Ghost. It’s just not metal. You can be into it and I’m not going to judge you or anything, but just stop calling it metal, it’s arena rock. Sticking feathers up your ass doesn’t make you a chicken.
the rolling stones are a singles band. they dont have even one solid album
Steven Patrick Morrissey. Fuck him and his whiney bitch voice. He’s also an asshole.
All of them. It’s just music.
I like the bands/albums/singles that I like, that’s enough.
Integrating a band into my identity is so far from likely that I won’t even buy or wear a fan t-shirt.
Sounds like you don’t like music, you just prefer it to silence
Not at all, I love music. But it’s a personal experience.
Sure, but you say it’s “just” music, whereas for me music is the greatest possible thing humans are capable of. It’s still personal, but in no way is it “just” music
Sorry. I’m not explaining myself well and “just” was a poor word choice.
I refuse to (try to) idolize anything (well anything tangible) and especially things that are important to me. So music is an art like any other art. Someone will love it others might hate it and that’s fine.
The “hype” is idolatry. Kind of in the biblical sense.
My relationship is with the music, not the artist. So no artist is with the “hype”.
Hmm. If your relationship is with the music though, by extension youd have to care about the artist somewhat… so there’s no artist where you like a majority of their songs? Did you grow up only listening to greatest hits of the decades playlists? I wonder if this is more common among those who didnt grow up with albums.
We’ve diverged from the OP’s question and descended into gatekeeping how to “music” properly.
Time to finish.
Well easy answer is Taylor Swift, she’s a fine singer but not amazing, samey lyrics, like the McDonald’s of music. Is she a band? Idk. Agree with KISS.
It sounds like you don’t like pop music. 1989 is an objectively good album. I don’t know anything else about any of her other music, but that single album is DENSE with well executed main stream pop.
Having said that, should tickets to see her be as expensive as they are? Should people be as obsessed with her as they are? No on both counts.
Exactly my thought, Kiss is like royalty free muzak rock.
I bought this album (Meatloaf, Bat out of Hell) back when you went to record stores and flipped through albums and bought something because the cover looked cool. I was already listening to Judas Priest, Iron Maiden… I was like wtf is this. Never understood that genre. And yeah, kiss sucks too.
Meatloaf just had this annoying voice that made his music unbearable, the instrumentation was kinda ok if you like bloated overdramatic arena rock.
Being an anti-wax asshat, he died of COVID a couple of years ago. He was gonna do anything for love, but he wouldn’t do that.
Coldplay.
Their music doesn’t move me in any way (except to turn it off). Can someone please point out any good bit of any song? I’m willing to try, but everything I’ve heard for years is just musical mush.
Have you listened to their first few albums? They really went down the soulless pop music route after Viva La Vida IMO
Theres a remix of the song Yellow by Khost and FKYA (no idea who they are) that slaps hard. But thats it.
Their songs The Scientist and Clocks are emotive and memorable. Besides those they sound like a safe and watered-down mid era Radiohead.
Coldplay is a band where I can recognize that there is talent, but I just cannot like them. The songs “Clocks,” “Yellow,” and “Viva la Vida” are good. Outside of those, I just don’t like them.
Coldplay is musical morphine: You’re either using it for a reason or you’re an addict.
Nirvana… And I say that as a pretty big fan of them. I have no idea how they became the biggest band in the world. They were really really good, but I’m surprised by how much commercial success they had.
There weren’t a lot of radio friendly songs. Nobody knew what the lyrics were. For all the bands that try so hard to be commercially successful, Nirvana didn’t try much at all and still succeeded.
Pink Floyd.
Some of their music is nice to listen to. Some of it is catchy. Most of it is just boring.
