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Music that everyone else loves but you just don't

Like the thread title says, there's some music that everyone else seems to love but I don't.
I don't have their albums, I switch stations if I hear it, my eyes glaze over when yet another thread starts up about how great the remaster of the remastered tapes begins...get a grip I wanna yell it's elevator muzak! :p

Who's on your list then?

Here's some of mine:

Eagles (Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...run's a country mile to get away)
DSOTM
ACDC
Dianna Krall
The Boss (but if he's in a backing band then that's OK(think Warren Zevon) )
Madonna
All Boy Bands
All Girl Bands
ABBA
The Stones...basically everything
Nickleback
Fleetwood Mac (everything since P.Green left)
Adele
The twenty thousand clones of Aretha Franklin
Johnny Winter
Grateful Dead
Lots and lots of Neil Young
U2
Steely Dan all albums except CDTE
The Doors
Led Zep after Houses of the Holy

There's more but that's a start.

I think growing up listening to Grand Funk Railroad ruined me for heavy metal music....nothing compares I'm afraid to Mark, Don and Mel.

......

Yep, I know there's a lot of elevator muzak a lot of Mall muzak in there but ...hey that's where this stuff tends to end up or on baby boomer FM stations.

Now don't get angry, don't get cranky if your favourite music appears in someone's list...just chill and write your own. This is just a thread for people who mightn't like what everybody else likes. Some harmless fun if you like.

You could of course put an alternative to your disliked band/singer/musician in brackets. Even though I didn't, feel free to do so yourself.

Cheers :D
thelid

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thelid OP
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Yeah GFR, I wasn't being totally serious but they were good in their day especially as a three piece.

I didn't want to mention C+W in case I got jumped on.

I do have a couple of Ozark Mountain Daredevils albums though: Is that classed as C+W ? (hope not)
thelid OP
15 posts
 
Well to be fair I really like Countdown To Ecstasy and it took me years to work out why I only really liked this album and a couple of tracks off their first...Jeff'Skunk' Baxter...end of story

and yeah your right Exile on Mainstreet is good but it gets lost under the mountains of dross the geriatrics have put out over the millennia.

I watched a recent youtube clip of Johhny Winter, I think it was live in Tokoyo or Japan somewhere and the guitarist who did an intro for a couple of minutes and then started saying..."put your hands together for the one an only...." yada yada yada...was better than JW!

Never listened to Kid Rock
thelid OP
15 posts
 
Ha ha! Some great replys guys and no aggro either which is great.
Yeah it's all subjective isn't it and I'm not gonna pay out someone for likeing Dianna Krall or The Stones or Barry Manilow or that woman they make the horse jokes about...each to his own.

I'm just glad to see i'm not the only one who dont like a lot of old mainstream music...yeah I like GFR but it's an occasional thing, the kind you chuck on your system when yer kicking back and a few cold beers are hitting the spot and the handbrakes either away or she's in a good mood! Ya know what I mean.

But most other times I like to keep exploring and someone said above ...internet radio has been a blessing hasn't it, you canjust tune in to the most obscure music being played by stations you've never heard of and it opens your eyes up your ears actually but you know what I mean.

Last time i did a speaker audition in a shop the young dude pulled out DSOTM and I just rolled my eyes and told him to put the cd I'd brought along on...he was gobsmacked by the sound and the production values: The music your wondering? An obscure East London Jazz/acid/Nu/beat/soul/house grouping with fantastic production values...now that's what i'm chasing all the time...something new. Can be hard to find but is doubly pleasurable when found.

Keep it going guys.

I don't own an Elton John album or a beach boys one but i like that Van Halen guys California girls...go figure...sheeze!
thelid OP
15 posts
 
@08-13-12: Timrhu.

Ha ha, yeah I saw it and I thought: "This guy's just checking, so I'll let it go through to the keeper."

My turn now. Your wondering; "What the...hell is the keeper?"

Oh, and yeah I am pretty thick on a lot of things: Thick= dense...lol it's all a bit of fun.

I bought a few second hand cd's for about 5 bucks in mint condition and they arrived in the post well packaged and in immaculate mint condition..one was unopened, completely minty.
I'm listening to my first ever recording by Eva Cassidy and I'm wondering what all the fuss is about? She died young(tragically?)and did three albums[?].
Yep she has a nice voice and the acoustic guitar is nice and a couple of the arrangements...but gee whiz, I dont find a lot there that represents 'Icon' status. Do you guys?
thelid OP
15 posts
 
Just checking the CD I have...

Time after Time. Did I grab the lessor of her albums then?

I might not like what the 'Madding Crowd' likes but I don't have a closed mind to music...I like YES for ...* sake :D

'At the Blues Alley' duly noted. Thank you Z(excuse the abbreviation!)
thelid OP
15 posts
 
Nodding my head at a lot of choices here and also noting that the majority of them are pretty long in the tooth.

Clapton is pretty boring isn't he but he's forgiven as he was the mastermind behind ' Concert for George' and that was a ripper!

Just tried some Winston Marsarlis(wrong spelling I know) for the first time, it's a live concert and I was somewhat underwhelmed by it all. Makes you not want to try the rest of an album when you pull it off after the first track.
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