Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too?

@simao I agree. Dane is a great bassist, but Jimmy's playing style, tone, and lyrical soloing can't be replaced

Do any others on here have a similar artist, or artists that can trigger the same physical reaction?

No.

But this thread that's starts with a negative connotation does. 13 pages and counting. Misery loves company I guess.

@scott22: Consider giving "God Only Knows" a listen. Paul McCartney considers it the best Pop song ever written. It is Brian Wilson’s most sophisticated piece of writing, with a chord structure and modulation, use of inversion and counterpoint worthy of comparison to J.S. Bach. And luckily you can’t hear Mike Love’s voice. 

@macg19 “misery loves company”

Some things are not as bad as they look.

Not wanting to be in any way too negative, but didn’t your last discussion get not one reply post? 

Loosen up man. Why the serious look? Are not most light hearted jokes negative?

Most people love a laugh about some thing. Why not music?

In maths don’t two negatives multiplied together make a plus?

l make it 603 (so called) negatives on here so far. Never mind the near 26,000 views.

l class that as a “hit”…...beat that Mr. macg19 (from a newbie with 1 discussion)

Congratulations on your 1st post being a big hit!  Although it did take you 5 years to come up with it.

Now let's see your virtual system!

@macg19 

“it did take you 5 years to come up with it”

“Now let’s see your virtual system”

“5 years to come with it” You are so wrong. l joined in 2020 posted twice and was not overly impressed so l left it. This is a very recent surprise success after a near 5 year sojourn. Do some research on your Computer, iPad, phone or whatever.

The let’s see yours sounds very immature. Is yours bigger than mine? My hi-fi is of no concern to others….it’s not necessary. That’s not why l’m on here. Some may consider it high end or on the fringe of that holy grail audiophile label, but I’m quite happy to not brag. I leave that to those who want to show off theirs. Free country. Personally, l never bother to look at any “virtual systems”

A virtual system…. It means nothing to me. This means nothing to me. Ultravox.
 

@macg19 

Oh l forgot to add….

Thank you for posting today, it helps to keep this negative discussion in the charts for a third month.

All things must pass and nothing is forever. It is an inevitability that this thread will die a natural death this month, a mathematical probability. However, these conversations have been like a roller coaster ride. Thanks also to those @macg19 “negative” people out there that have made this discussion so debatable funny and entertaining.

“Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen to?” has made some readers claim they have laughed out loud ( @zx10 for one ) and another even admitted “I nearly pissed my pants” reading some of the crazy comments.

As l have said before, l am sure more people like the artists mentioned than those who deride the performers. Every dog has his day and everyone’s personal opinions count. I am sure no harm done. The artists mentioned will not think for one minute to donate (to any good causes) some of the royalties earned from the said underachieving/offending songs.

Not looking at others' systems seems somewhat shortsighted. It's interesting to see set-ups and gear and get some ideas for both. Plus, sometimes I'm just curious as to what others are using as in-person dynamics with other audiophiles is rare indeed. 

@simao A little off topic but an interesting perspective.

l am in agreement with you. I may be shortsighted but l can live without the visual reinforcement. Looks for me are not so important so l don’t care about what others look like. It is the end sound results that are my main concerns.
 

Two way conversations and personal learning from actual users and using my own ears are paramount in my purchasing choices. I spend more time listening to music  than anyone else l talk to. Some friends don’t even get the idea that someone can just listen to music for six or more hours in one day. Not everyday of course but when l’m in the zone it is totally focusing on the music, and the world is shut out.

Yes it is interesting to see other set-ups and gear but when l am in my element and  my system is doing its job right, l forget the, “is there something missing or better out there” At these times it is only ever about the music and how it revitalises and enervates me.

Yes again to your interactions with others and the dynamics is rare. In my estimation however talking with “music lovers” as apposed to “audiophiles” involves two different conversations and interests.

So l am guilty as charged as l spend very little time looking at other set ups…..l do prefer to listen up close and personal with fellow enthusiasts rather than worry about is there something that is not right, or should be fiddled with.

By the way this discussion has tonight reached 26,000 views. Must play some loud music and have a dance! Anyone for some William Shatner? The Light Years warped album?

Nathaniel Rateliff is one of the only currently active artists I can think of that just grates my nerves.  His voice is so fake and contrived. Truly hate it.

Just read a bunch of this mmathew's posts. A negative Dim who doesn't seem to like anyone except Springsteen. Good grief.

@zx10 , what I really like about Bruce is the way he triggers the snowflake sock-puppet accounts.  I am sure you can relate to that.

I was just wondering if l could inject some thoughts about the way this thread has developed.

Yes the theme is about recording artists who can inject some irrational rejection or abhorrence upon certain listeners. It stretched to songs or actions that can provoke in some way a vexing physical irritation.

No one has ever commented on another aspect of performance that can trigger a pushback…… Contrived videos that project a false reality. Pure trickery to play on fans who idolise their heroes. 
 
The strangest example that comes to mind and for me is pure hokum, is the Springsteen “live” concert filmed by Scorsese. Courtney Cox (unknown at the time) was “spontaneously” pulled from the audience by Bruce and danced with him on stage. It was meant to appear she was a lucky girl randomly chosen to butch up the performers sex appeal. She was in fact pre-chosen by the director for dramatic license and it was a contrived performance.

That video always makes me feel angry and indeed insults the intended audiences intelligence. Pure “hokus-pocus”….typically refers to deceptive or misleading actions words or rituals, often with a sense of magic or trickery. 🪄

By the way l like some of Bruce’s songs, but that particular video just doesn’t cut it for me. It would have been better if that segment had found its way onto the editors cutting room floor.

@immatthewj 

Sorry, but l have never heard of Dick Derringer.

Was he a great grandson of a gunsmith or gangster?

@mylogic  , here you are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbZq5idUJcI

. . . BTW, that was another part that @zx10 (aka guess who?) was turned down for.

@immatthewj 

Thank you… that video is so cool. I can place the singer and the song now. 🎶

Was the girl a jumping Jack rabbit breeder?

She certainly looks like she is housing or transporting two in her T shirt.

As far as fame goes, she didn’t make out quite as good as Courtney did, but if you are interested, here is a bit more on her:

https://www.qzvx.com/2021/09/20/deconstructing-a-myth-sloopy-girl-lisa-leonard-dalton/

@immatthewj 

Well, I have admit that the "Sloopy Girl" video is the closest thing to "whacking material" I've seen on an audio forum.

Thanks for sharing.

Be back shortly ...

So yes we know the 1975 “Sloopy Girl” video was staged and there was no attempt to imply otherwise. No conning the public and it is what it is, a pure mimed music video of it’s time with a gyrating wonder nox fluffy flora photogenic beaut.

Now fast forward 10 years……how about U2 and Bono’s off the peg girl dancing on stage during Live Aid, London in 1985? I know he had a habit of doing this sort of thing and with the first two girls it was just his normal show off antics.

l do wonder however if the moment when he “rescued” the girl from the crowd in danger of being crushed was a set up or not. The long hugging in front of the stage apron and kissing on the cheek. Was that pure amateur dramatics or was what we were witnessing a spontaneous event? I know he enjoyed it more than the band as they were a bit pissed and had to just keep strumming along. The resulting publicity stunt and time waste was at the expense of dropping a song from the scheduled play list….their latest hit single.

Was that good deed we witnessed genuine or not?
Was it just pure magic, or a cringeworthy moment?

Anyone?????

What you are saying, @mylogic , is that you prefer choreography that is poorly produced?  Each to his or her own. (And that includes certain sock accounts.)

Most country “artists.” 

@zx10  Plus 1000

He's suffering from terminal cloth eared syndrome.

 

Just read a bunch of this mmathew's posts.

A negative Dim who doesn't seem to like anyone except Springsteen.

Good grief.

Hang on Sloopy is trash, just a payday same as Jeff Beck's Hi Ho Silver Lining.

Warren Zevon, whom I highly admired, and still admire, took a payday with Werewolves of London but it was much better than the above two. However it turned off many people to his serious work which is highly underrated and frankly superb.

@immatthewj 

”What are you saying”

I am not saying anything at all. Not even generalising.

As long as dancing, prancing or posing looks good, l don’t care.

@waytoomuchstuff l agree with your observation. That “Sloopy Girl” with the untrained rabbits was hot and cool.

Bono on the other hand. Didn’t he look like a black mackintosh brigade slithery slimy sloppy boy.

l worked at two local cinemas in the 70s. One exhibited some seedy X rated films from time to time. I observed that black mackintosh look which was quite prevalent when those films were showing. Just a bit of first hand background knowledge from my job back then. 
 

Very hard to put hand and job in the same sentence without some connotation. (Never mind very hard)

Warren Zevon should have written a song titled Snowflakes Of London and dedicated it to Lord Snowflake.

"I saw a snowflake living in his mommy's basement 

he was triggered when he heard The Boss . . ."

@immatthewj 

Carry on Mathew….. l would love to hear some more of that song with a rhyme here and there. May l elaborate?

I saw a snowflake living in his mommy’s basement

He was triggered when he heard The Boss….

Every time he made a statement

Always thought it was pure dross….

Not taking sides as l have made this song to be interpreted two ways depending on how the reader views it.

@lordmelton ,

I'm partial to ' Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner' myself.

@thecarpathian  Thank you. Zevon had a great sense of history with Roland and also Veracruz among others.

His rendition of "Back in the High Life Again" completely outclasses Steve Winwood's version. One of my top 5 artists.

'Excitable Boy' and 'Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School', two of my favorites!

Yes two great tracks, "Excitable Boy" is absolutely hilarious if you have a dark sense of humour.

Check out "Carmelita" and "Mohamed's Radio" if you haven't already.

@immatthewj 

Here's another few bones for you to chew on. I also like Yes, Frank Zappa and Cream.

Clapton's later albums with the exceptions of Layla and Slowhand (hate Wonderful Tonight) are very, very mediocre,

My favourite guitarist is Mick Taylor, check out "Blues from Laurel Canyon".

This is all REAL music, not Boss malarky.

@lordmelton ,

Yes, both good tracks but I meant both albums!

@immatthewj wizardry…….The Twilight Zone…….skullduggery…....or sabotage?

Was it you that took down your own post on June 6th? There was nothing controversial at all in it
Just inquiring because l immediately replied to that post about Rick (Dick) of “Sloopy Girl” fame.

Your lead into that subject has just disappeared..vanished..like “A Kind of Magic”

@lordmelton 

Yes, l like Yes.    There…. I’ve gone and said it now!

Shameful with the earlier internal frictions and falling outs that were so bad, bad, bad. So bad l stopped following the group then. The fuss and bickering was unbearable and yes, it left a bad bitter taste. Two rival bands touring at one point, both claiming to be the real “Yes”

Now negatives over……

Not a great album collector but l do like their live concerts on Blu-ray/DVD

Live in Montreux 2003 Blu-ray (with Wakeman) for performance.

Symphonic - Live in Amsterdam 2002 DVD best for sound, and the orchestra blends in so seamlessly. One occasion that an orchestra and group concert works. You can see the orchestra players actually enjoying the meeting of musical styles.

In my opinion the early 2000s Yes reached the height of their writings and musicianship.

A YES from me.

@immatthewj wizardry…….The Twilight Zone…….skullduggery…....or sabotage?

Was it you that took down your own post on June 6th? There was nothing controversial at all in it

@mylogic , I just saw that myself.  You will have to check with lord snowflake and/or the new sock puppet account on that.  Those two are easily triggered.  

As far as lord snowflake, he probably thinks the name of the Warren Zevon album he is enamored with is Werewolves Of London (as he thought the self titled Dire Straits album was titled Sultans Of Swing because he likes the song).

Anyway, as far as Warren Zevon, this link is for lord snowflake:

the Bruce Springsteen-Warren Zevon connection

@immatthewj wizardry…….The Twilight Zone…….skullduggery…....or sabotage?

Was it you that took down your own post on June 6th? There was nothing controversial at all in it

@mylogic , check with lord snowflake and/or the newest sock account, but I guess this email that I just opened says it all?

@immatthewj  Well, I guess the Mods think Brucie is a knob too! He has been voted most despised artist on this thread!

@thecarpathian  Apologies both great albums.

@immatthewj  Well, I guess the Mods think Brucie is a knob too! He has been voted most despised artist on this thread!

Lord snowflake, the mods only delete what the snowflakes (and in this thread, a sock account or two) report.  Since the name snowflake fits you well, wear it proudly.

On The Boss and Warren Zevon:

The Boss and Warren Zevon

And who can take a snowflake (or AI generated bot) that thinks Dire Straits had an album titled Sultans Of Swing?

@mylogic 

My Yes discography is primarily limited to everything before and including "Going For The One".

There are a few rough diamonds after that but they lost their magic after Rick Wakeman's departure. Can you believe that Yes were paying 99 pence on the Pound in tax in the early '70s and went to playing as a resident band in a Spanish club for peanuts.

FYI I have at least twenty versions of Close To The Edge including vinyl, cds, blu-ray, sacds, hdcds etc. but the best of all I've found is the UHQCD Japan version.

Here's another one for lord snowflake:

"snow flakes keep falling on my head . . ." as sung to the tune of Rain Drops Keep Fallin' On My Head.  

@immatthewj 

Now you have got me going…..

Butch Bacharach should never have been given that job of scoring Boss Cassidy and the Sundunce Kid.The music didn’t fit and the song was stupid. I didn’t see any ☔️🚲
 

The film was a success on account of the two leading men, but l still can’t stand hearing that song. It was played to death at the time, so that’s probably the reason why?
 

Even to this day l am sure that the film would have been much more enjoyable with an original dramatic Jerry Goldsmith or John Williams soundtrack. Much more likely to have been critically acclaimed without that awful pastiche music and the commercial sickly sweet “pop song” 

@mylogic , since Snowflakes Keep Falling On My Head didn't do it for you, how about one about lord snowflake by Bob Dylan?  Snowflakes in The Wind?

How many posts must lord snowflake report

when his Bruce Derangement Syndrome kicks in,

the answer my fiend

is snowflakes in the wind

the answer is snowflakes in the wind.

Maybe I'll work on something by Frank's Crappa for lord snowflake as well.  Lord  snowflake is probably busy right now listening to his rare Dire Straits album which is titled Sultans Of Swing, but when he has finished he will probably report this thread and others.  

@lordmelton ,

Wondering if you’re also a Concrete Blonde fan.

A lot of terrific often off beat songs, that are quite ’Zevonish'.

@thecarpathian  “Off beat songs”

l have heard that Zevon had an offbeat “Monty Pythonesque” style of wit and humour in his writings.

In that case l am pretty sure he would have no cause for complaint if his music was performed on an Aldis lamp.
 

And no one else could have any just cause to complain about it. I reckon he would have loved that scenario.  Is that zany or what?

@immatthewj 

Warren Zevon uses Bruce’s leftovers??
 

Hardly likely, Zevon is gone and his ashes scattered to the four winds. Long gone….Ohhh arrrhh mee ‘aarty…..

I know that and I’m in Devon, England……from Long (gone) John Silver territory.

Zevon would probably have found the Monty Python one legged Long John Silver football match right up his street.

I would have thought that it would have been easy to click on the link and see that it was an article about Warren Zevon's past use of a Bruce left over, but apparently I was mistaken.  I'll self-delete and repost clarifying that I was referring to past tense.

The Bruce leftover that Warren Zevon used