Singers or bands you really wanted to like but could never get into...

Tori Amos - I remember my weird little group in middle school was all into her and I never really enjoyed her music.

Kate Bush: I like a few of her songs but don’t consider myself a fan by any means. I have a good friend who worships her, and I wanted to relate to him more about it, so I tried to get I to her music again but just couldn’t. It just doesn’t click with me.

Jim Neighbors

Why did you purchase several if you don't like them? I could possibly see a 2nd hopeful if dumb purchase. But to carry on after that?

The Rolling Stones. I tried for years to get what the big deal was and I still don't get it.

R5 TOTALLY. I was scrolling down to post the same. Any Stones fans out there, what am I missing?

Nirvana, iconic grunge, just couldn't get into it.

R6, thank you, I just don't get their appeal! If I wanted to listen to blues rock, there are many other bands I'd rather listen to, ones with actual singers.

Sinatra. I thought he was just okay, but nothing special.

Flaming lips

The Beatles.

I do enjoy some of their tunes, but their straw-clutching lyrics leave a lot to be desired.

It's like a genius wrote the music, but a regular child wrote the inane, nonsensical lyrics.

For me, the lyrics more often than not make the song, so I never warmed up to them.

R9, I will take Nat King Cole over Sinatra any day.

Joni Mitchell

Definitely, R12.

Bob Dylan

The Beatles....I like a few of their songs but if we're talking Top 20 favorite Musical acts, I'm not even sure they'd make it on the list....at most they'd scratch by to #20.

R16 here, oddly enough I do LOVE the Stones R6...now THEY would be in my top 3. Idk what you're missing...The Rolling Stones are very bluesy rock, if you don't like that genre, they might not be your taste. Gimme Shelter is the greatest anti war song ever written.

Stones: blues with pop hooks - what isn’t to like? Agreed with Tori Amos. Friends enjoyed Tori through the years & i found her to be a bag of cats. A few years ago I Tried Tori once more. A friend zipped a few of her recent things & left me cold. Otherwise - U2 for me. Saw them as a teenager in the 80’s & the show was great. The show also satisfied me for U2 for a lifetime

Not R16 here but I like bluesy rock and the electric blues but I just think Mick Jagger is a boring singer.

1960s: Bob Dylan

1970s: Tie between Joni Mitchell & Led Zeppelin

1980s: Michael Jackson & Eurythmics

1990s: Pearl Jam & Mariah Carey

2000s: Beyoncé & Linkin Park

Seconding (or thirding) Kate Bush.

The Pixies

They Might Be Giants -- most of my close friends love them, but WHY?

Fleetwood Mac for me. Don’t get it.

R22, tbh, the fact that so many younger people today love Rumors is kind of surprising to me. I understand why Thriller, Nevermind, Appetite for Destruction do, but Rumors? It seems kind of random.

Most popular music, I will be so bold to say, is more liked by its contemporaries in its social context than by those of later generations.

Classic example: The Beatles. If you didn't have to be there, it certainly helped/helps. But even we Boomers who went nuts after "Ed Sullivan" and couldn't get enough of them, the entire British Invasion, Carnaby Street, mini-skirts, "Shindig," etc., etc., don't play their music still, I'll bet. Or at least not in the same way when we were hungry for every new song.

As for the Stones: Oh, man, if "Brown Sugar," "Sympathy for the Devil," "Tumbling Dice," "Under My Thumb," "Start Me Up," and "Gimme Shelter" make no impact on you, I don't know what to say.

Gaga. I like Bad Romance, and I enjoy the ABBA-esque bvs in Scheiße, but other than that I just don't care for her. I never really saw the Madonna comparisons, either. A lot of her antics, the egg, the meat dress, the "these horns are real and come out when I'm inspired" all seemed aesthetically more of a commercialized Danielle Dax than Madonna.

Radiohead.

I've tried again and again but I just don't get it. I quite enjoyed The Bends, but the rest of it leaves me cold.

OK Computer is meant to be some great pinnacle of rock music, but it does nothing for me.

I can easily name at least one or two songs I like from every artist listed here even if I'm not generally a fan of them.

For something I can never get into I'd have to name something truly horrendous like Flo-Rida or Ice Spice or something like that.

r26 Radiohead is an acquired taste for sure.

[quote] For something I can never get into I'd have to name something truly horrendous like Flo-Rida or Ice Spice or something like that.

I think the key part of OP's post is "you really WANTED to like...". Nobody really wants to like Flo-Rida or Ice Spice.

I thought radiohead was a nirvana rip off. Then a bjork knock off. Then - who cares? Fuck radiohead.

R24, I think that goes more for pop music (dance/electronic pop, adult contemporary ballads, etc.) than rock music. Many of the classic rock bands of the 60s and 70s still have big appeal to millennials. Compare that to Madonna, Celine and countless other pop stars who are barely listened to (by comparison).

Nick Cave, The Pixies, Yo la Tengo. Not that they're bad, they just don't resonate with me.

Dave Matthew's Band. Can't say I'd like to have been into their music, his voice just annoys the piss put of me.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

For years I tried. Happy Ending: I big Buffy fan and LSD fan introduced the combination to me and then I finally got it.

Monique Andrée Serf, known as Barbara

Brigitte Fontaine. The cool factor is off the charts. And I like weird singers with "bottom-less" flat voices - Nico, Nick Cave, Troye Sivan (😱). And I like Fontaine but just not that into her.

I agree with Goldfrapp, the Stones, Radiohead,and Nick Cave. On paper I "should" love David Bowie, who influenced so many other artists I like. I respect his legacy, and I like a few songs, of course, but more of them leave me cold.

Enzo Stuarti.....View the Ed Sullivan clip.....so compelling, I choke up everytime I hear this rendition. Makes me proud to be an Italian American

Bjork. I love her earlier solo work, from Homogenic through Volta there was usually a song or two that grabbed me right away, while the others took longer to sink in, and I grew to appreciate and love hem. Since then, however, she has become more and more experimental, and challenging to appreciate as enjoyable music.

I admire her restless creativity, and her commitment to her creative vision, but most of her later music doesn't really click with me as something I enjoy listening to. I keep trying, though.

R38 Reread the assignment.

R39 her pretension combined with her ex husband Barney's extremely pretentious contemporary artiness obliterated the enjoyable and coherent mass market side of Bjork. Pity.

Destiny's Child/Beyonce, any boy bands - 90s and now; Aaliyah, Foo Fighters, Muse, U2 after Achtung Baby.

I tried really hard to like them R4. I hoped I would like the second better.

I don't quite get the question because music either resonates with me or it doesn't. I never "wanted" to like someone and yet couldn't.

There are some artists I respect and understand why others like them, but they've never rung my bell. Springsteen's at the top of that list.

Some artists that I love, I didn't follow them as their output changed or evolved. Bjork is one, PJ Harvey another. I still love a lot of their work but some of their tangent were.....well, I appreciated them but didn't love them.

I never really went deep into grunge when it came out. I do like some of Nirvana's music now, but never cared for Pearl Jam, Bush or most other grunge bands. Same with Britpop - I liked a few key bands but never submerged myself in the whole "scene." I never got into Oasis, no matter how much others raved about them.

The Beatles and 1960s sub-Supremes Motown. I cringe when I hear these. I don't know why. Especially as I much prefer Wings and the 1970s did something magical to R&B.

You are just splitting hairs, R44. "There are some artists I respect and understand why others like them, but they've never rung my bell. Springsteen's at the top of that list." You do "get" the question, and you just refined it a bit.

Not songs, bands nor albums but genre: Rap. It seems like a lack of any musical ability to me. Yet it's been with us for just over 50 years. Have been waiting for this joke/scam to be over.

Flame me, but I never warmed up to Bruce Springsteen. I can listen to a song or two every now and then, but I would never buy any of his discs.

Agree with the poster above about Dave Matthews Band.

The Beach Boys - never liked the whole "beach music" genre, mostly because it was douchebag frat bros who tended to play it.

Allman Brothers Band - whatever album has "Ramblin Man" on it was played incessantly my freshman year of college, and I really got sick of them. And that goes double for the right wing Lynyrd Skynyrd, also played to death.

Beyonce is ok. Works hard. Great Show. Musically has had all of maybe three or four songs I really liked, and only one came from her group. And I fucking love girl groups. It pains me greatly how many records Destiny's Child sold, almost as much as the Spice Girls.

U2. Always thought they were pretentious crap, but liked Achtung Baby as an album and thought it had their strongest singles.

REM. Loved Radio Free Europe and it stopped there for a while. ALL my friends fucking loved them - hugely, grossly, passionately - and I was inundated with them for about a decade. Then I bought and actually didn't mind Monster, which I was labeled for liking by their disciples. Then I stopped again.

Stones - Blues with pop hooks IS a great way of describing their shtick. I love the '60s Brian Jones era stones most, the wildest and most unpredictable rock gems, 70s ballad Mick and Disco Mick, and Exile On Main Street is just a perfect album. If you can't pick 12 Stones songs that you absolutely love you didn't look hard enough.

The Beatles changed everything. Not one bad single or album, and more turf covered in seven years than any band before or since. Again, if you can't find 12 masterpieces, we obviously don't look for the same things musically.

and you CAN learn to like things over time. (looking at you Led Zeppelin and Skynrd).

R46 sounds like the person splitting hairs is you, hon.

The Strokes

Well, I do happen to love Bowie, he is my favorite solo music artist by far however Bowie worshipped The Pixies, he always went on and on about them and, as a good Bowie fan, I tried to get into them, but nada. Left me cold, it all sounded the same. Bowie did turn me on to plenty of other musicians, but the band he basically considered the greatest contemporary one just did nothing for me.

Queen, Annie Lennox/Eurythmics

R35, same. I’m fascinated by her, the person, but just can’t get into her music. I’ve also really tried to love Sylvie Vartan but apart from a few songs, I just don’t find her material that good.

Kate Bush, Steve Winwood, The Eagles, Elvis Presly, Eminem, Elton John, Sarah McLauchlan, Traci Chapman & all of the rappers like S. Dogg.

Wow surprised to see so many mentions of the Pixies. Found them easy to get into and now one of my favorite bands.

If I had to think of anything it would maybe be My Bloody Valentine's Loveless. I like Only Shallow and Sometimes but the rest of the album was a slog to me.

I like the Pixies and the Breeders but sorta only on the intro level. I never became a very dedicated fan of theirs.

For me it was specific albums - Doolittle and Last Splash, respectively.

Drugs, R56. You need to do the right drugs. Then Loveless is an otherworldly masterpiece of epic, all-consuming, shimmering wonder and delight.

I loved disco and old house, but I just don't get most dance music songs from 1995 to present. They all sound like they were cut from the same cloth, so to speak. I wish I liked them more.

Dinosaur Jr. I tried and I tried to crack the code. I kind of get it on a cognitive level, but for me, there are so many other bands that rock out just as hard but also have songs that I remember and like. I can't remember a single Dino song no matter how many times I've heard them, save for their cover of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven," which is an abomination against nature.

And if you're wondering why I try and try, it's because I live down the street from J Mascis, and everyone in Western Mass is obsessed with them or with knowing one of them. So I've been to many shows because I get put on the list regularly due to being a musician and knowing people.

Funny, I saw My Bloody Valentine opening up for Dinosaur Jr 30 years ago in college. MBV had me enthralled and I still come back to Loveless thirty years later. I fell asleep during the Dino set.

If someone can tell me what makes Dino stand out I am willing to listen. It truly is the one band that I would like to like but don't.

Someone beat me to Bjork and The Strokes, so I'll add The White Stripes. I felt like I should have been into that circa-2000 rock revival stuff, but I just didn't care for those bands.

Deanna Durbin.

Sonic Youth. There's no "there" there. It's ugly and rather generic sounding to me. And yet, there I was, in college, buying Goo, hoping it made me cool.

It's not tuneful music. I love hard guitar music, I like it loud. But give me a hook.

The Modern Lovers. I really liked Roadrunner so I ran out and got o couple of their albums..they sucked

It took me a few decades to crack the code with the Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan. And then, lo and behold, one day a few years ago, it finally clicked. I would never normally put that much time or effort into trying to connect with a band that doesn't speak to me on first (or second, or third) blush. But Lou Reed and Dylan are both considered seminal artists, and I felt like, "What the hell is wrong with me that I don't feel anything when I listen to this stuff?"

Turns out, I had to get into my 40s, and then a lot of stuff I wrote off in my youth started to make sense.

Often when we talk about "I really WANTED to like such-and-such band, but I just couldn't get into them," we are talking about having a best friend or a friend group or a boyfriend or partner that is just crazy about a particular band. So we want to be able to participate in their enthusiasm and share that with them. So we try. But if it doesn't hit, it doesn't hit.

I tried to get into Phish when I was dating a Phish-head. Boy did I try. It just isn't for me. Neither was the guy. He was also a Grateful Dead fan. In fact, loving The Dead unironically is now an instant red flag for me when dating. I wish no ill-will to those of you who get off on The Dead. I just can't date you. We will not work out, the cultural divide is simply too great. It cannot be bridged.

Coldplay. Their music is just bland, shallow and generic.

Lana Del Rey....a friend raved about her music and I just could not see what all the fuss was about. Cold and snoozy and lacks charisma.

r66 What is it about Deadheads that you find them undateable?

I never understood why people say they "wanted to like" something like a singer or a band. What does that mean? Why did you want to like them? Either you like something or you don't, right?

I really wanted to like the new ABBA album, but it just fell flat for me

You didn't read R66, did you, R70?

I never really think about my thoughts, let alone my preferences. I like some stuff and don't like other stuff. Who cares why? Do you? I never self-reflect. And I only know that because people have observed that I've got the intellect of a gnat.

R72 Guilty. I didn't.

But speaking only for myself, I never wanted to like something if a friend liked it. It seems pointless.

We’re all different. We all have differing tastes. Do not question ‘why’ that is, like it’s some sort of defect, be happy you have your own likes and dislikes. I do not try and force myself to like something that the pop culture media or pop culture critics tell me to like, when I do not. It’s called being an individual. Maturity. Your own tastes in music.

Kay Starr.

Wire, The Fall, Throbbing Gristle, Coil. I didn’t get it then and I don't get it now.

Duran Duran

Bjork. Just a couple songs out of 100s. I like offbeat artists who experiment and take chances. But she just seems to get off on her own quirkiness. She needs an outside producer who can tell her 'okay, but let's add a refrain, some hooks and a beat'.

"I never understood why people say they "wanted to like" something like a singer or a band."

Because they had promise- a certain something- but could never maintain it. Or maybe just once or twice again. Then they waltzed off into inscrutability and never found their way back.

R69, Perhaps it's because I find the idea of spending a huge portion of my life high, or tripping on acid or mushrooms, and following a band around -- rather than being sober, productive and self-directed -- just isn't my thang.

It feels like a sheeple mentality to me. I love the idea of community, but this isn't the community that I feel any kind of kinship with. I can own that. That's just how the chips fell.

I often find that the people who are the most into the Dead scene tend to be really flaky and escapist in life. But I also realize I am generalizing, because I know in real life, nothing is purely binary.

I don't like the actual music. I don't like the jingle jangle guitar tones or the off-key singing of Jerry. I did finally get to the point where I could appreciate the homegrown honeyed warmth of the aesthetic in small doses. But I don't care about all of the bootlegs and the fifty different performances of the same song, and the listening to it all day every day as the literal soundtrack of life

My personal observations are that there are two primary types of Dead Heads:

1. You are obsessed with the Dead and your Dead Head friends. You are concretized as THAT, the Dead has become a primary part of your personality. You are not very attuned to me as your partner, or open to exploring my likes or new shared discoveries, because you are Dead Head Guy. You are also up your own ass, waking and baking, living in a haze, living in an alternate reality. You think those of us who don't live and breathe the Dead "just don't fucking get it." You can't understand why someone wouldn't want to obsess about the Dead. You look down on those who don't enjoy the music or the scene.

2. You are older, or your dad finally convinced you to get a real job. You have sobered up, or you save your weed and shrooming for Saturday night only. You are more focused on working your job and being responsible. Maybe you have kids now. But you are constantly taking about "the good ole days" and telling the same stories about when you USED to follow the Dead and how amazing it was. How hard you used to trip. How many times you saw them. How that one version of Truckin' from the 1980 Phoenix show was for sure the best version out of all 17,000 times they've played Truckin'. You still have 200 cassettes and CD-R bootlegs in your closet, in the back with your old tie dye t shirts with the dancing gummy bears on them. And you fantasize constantly about quitting your job and leaving your wife and kids to go follow Dead and Friends in an RV.

Now having said ALL OF THAT, I love that people love what they love. There's no harm in everyone liking differing kinds of music and co-existing on the planet together. Music is joy, and that is a great thing.

Micheal Jackson.

I never got why he was such a big deal. King of Pop, bla, bla, bla. Whatever. That was his own self made title. So he can sing high pitch, spin on one foot and fake walk backwards. Yawn.

[quote] But I don't care about all of the bootlegs and the fifty different performances of the same song, and the listening to it all day every day as the literal soundtrack of life

I've never been so much of a fan of ANY act that I was a completist at that level. I know people that are, though. I have 20K digital songs and close to 1K vinyl albums, but with maybe two or three exceptions, none of them are different versions of the same song. I'm not even a fan of many live recordings - only a few that are really exceptional or iconic.

Joni Mitchell's label is doing a very elaborate reissue campaign of her work but a lot of is is old live recordings/bootlegs/etc and so much of it, except for the first record where it was "Joan Anderson" recordin - is just 17 different versions of one of her songs. I'm a huge fan of her work but ugh, no, I don't need that. Glad it's there for anyone who might, though.

Primus.

My cousin was really into them and I tried to get into them because he got us tickets to see them live. I will say, the live show was totally great. But I have never been able to listen to an album, I get bored after about five seconds.

Les Claypool is more of a performance artist than a musician, and it's best in a live setting.

Same with Gwar, x1000. Great live, horrible to have to sit and listen to an album.

I don't understand obsession, stans, etc. at all. Through the years I've met guys who were enthralled with Rocky Horror, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Game Of Thrones, Dolly Parton... it makes me think less of people.

I could never get into Pink Floyd. I hate Roger Water’s voice. The lyrics are all so corny, they seem like they are written by an angry adolescent trying too hard to be “deep”.

I also never got into Radiohead for similar reasons. I actually like their first album (the one that die-hard Radiohead fans hate) but I thought the music was catchy. Everything after Pablo Honey was too experimental for me.

This is one of the few good Radiohead songs, IMO:

Cocteau Twins. I used to think I liked them but listened recently and they just give me a headache. Same with Stereolab. I do love the Liz Frazer /Massive Attack song.

If we’re talking about contemporary acts…I never understood the hype around Lana Del Rey. She doesn’t really sing, she just sort of mumbles her way through songs. Her plastic face also gives me uncanny valley vibes.

Agree about Pink Floyd

I was in college when the Dead released “Touch of Grey” and some hacky sack douche down the hall played it over and over for what seemed like hours. That was enough.

You had sufficient, R90.

R90 I’m sorry you had to endure that shitty song for that long of a time 35+ yrs ago.

“Hackeysack douche” is the perfect descriptor, r90.

I had friends who were very much into that mid/late 80s indie/new wave vibe which included Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Cure, the Smiths, and so on (I liked them all).

They also loved Dead or Alive but I could never understand the music. You Spin Me Round was obviously catchy but after hearing it a million times that was quite enough for me.

I also was not very enamored of the Pet Shop Boys in their earlier times. As with DOA my friends raved about it and while I liked a few catchy hits, I was not a fanatic. I came to appreciate them later - "Very" was my way in, so to speak, and then I really liked Actually and "Being Boring" and started to appreciate them more as a whole, once I heard more than just the radio hits.

The Beatles

R86, I feel similary about Radiohead but I love The Bends, one of my favorite 90s rock albums.

Radiohead⁹

Same here R71. I was a huge fan of ABBA from my childhood and was thrilled they were releasing something new. But ultimately - it just didn't work in this day and age. The hit track I Still Have Faith In You was ok but very bland. I purchased the new CD but only played it a couple of times and then totally forgot about it until your post in this thread. Maybe I'll go and hunt it down and give it another go.

Grateful Dead

Jackson Browne. I like(d) some of his songs, I thought he was really cute, but I guess it’s his voice. It grates on me. Went to one of his concerts with some friends in the 70s.

David Bowie. I just didn’t relate to Bowie, his singing, his music, his look. Found him likable but never cold listen to him.

Bette Midler. basically the same thing.

*could

I've written here about travels to Europe my late husband and his passing away from dementia, and other people posted of similar.

But I'll bet this one is unique on DL, to wit: In his last decade, my spouse---who when I met him in 1971 was a Rock and Roller and before that a serious fan of Jazz---became a veritable STAN of English hymns and Anglican chants! CD after CD, with choirs from many cathedrals, but especially King's College, Cambridge.

God love him, but I never could "get into" that particular musical taste!

The Cure - which, if you were an 80's alt/new-wave person, is considered blasphemy. Mumbling lyrics and he swings from being silly to over-the-top melancholy drama.

His whole look was stolen from Siouxsie when he was in her band - he just messed it up a bit with the lipstick and such and nobody acknowledges that at all. Siouxsie has a unique voice, style, wide range of music, and good lyrics. Robert Smith owns none of that.

Also DRAKE! For the life of me, I have no understanding why everyone thinks he's some sort of God. Never heard a song of his that I thought was fresh or even entertaining.

R90 did he have dreads, smell like weed, and let his hairy heavy junk swing free in his bizarrely-cut esoteric ethnic drawstring trousers? I had a fuckbuddy like that. Northfield Mount Hermon grad no less. He happened to be a gorgeous bisexual hacky sack douche with 8 veiny uncut inches and a colossal trust fund.

I’m an old millennial hipster-type, I guess… A bunch of my friends have always loved the National. I think they’re BORING.

Same for current Sirius XMU darling Phoebe Bridgers and her zzzzzzzzz side band Boygenius.

Blink-182. I love pop punk and a lot of pop punk bands, so do some of my friends, most of them love Blink-182. I could never get into them, their sound or their songs at all. I’ve seen them live because I went with friends who are younger than me. They played with Fall Out Boy, who I do like.

......

To this day, I will never understand how Garth Brooks had such a strangle-hold on so much of America in the 90's.

The absolute definition of 'mid'.

I'm convinced there was some shilling with some bands in the 90's by music companies. I recall seeing 30 minute advertorials on VH1 for Hootie & The Blowfish in the early 90's and I was like - who the fuck is this and why are they getting so much attention that VH1 would dedicate 30 minute special to a band with no hits yet?

R108, re: "Mid" Garth Brooks.

See: Curve, Bell.

I sort of like B52s songs until that nasal sounding guy starts singtalking offkey.

This old advertisement expresses my thoughts.

Björk ought to tick all the boxes but…just not a fan of the half-speaking/half-singing style and what I can’t help view as pretentiousness.

Britney Spears, what is the point really?

Currently, YouTube and every music service I use recommends Jungle (the current band by that name, not the 90's music genre) to me.

There was even a Jungle thread here.

I cannot stand them.

[quote] Britney Spears, what is the point really?

R113, you don't like vegetables?

I could never get into Beyoncé or Lady Gaga, except for one or two songs each. Gay blasphemy I know.

I like many male singers today but can't think of a single female singer (who’s young, or younger than, say 50) who I like. I like many female singers of the past. Big difference in vocal style and voices themselves, I guess.

[quote] Britney Spears, what is the point really?

She's just a blank canvas that her fans seem to dump all their hopes/fantasies onto. You want a gay icon (who does the bare minimum for gays)? You got it. You want an exceptional dancer (whose dance moves all come from elsehwere)? Done. You want soemone with a good voice (who sounds like she's a little girl mixed with Baby Bop)? All yours!

I was a teen in the 90s and indie music was everything to me. But there were some bands I just couldn't like. Even if Cobain told me to!

The Melvins

Butthole Surfers

The Jesus and Mary Chain (I really tried with this one. And I do like a few songs.)

Depeche Mode

David Bowie

Annie Lennox

The Rolling Stones

R118 If she’s an exceptional dancer with a good voice, I guess that would be the point.

R121, no, you missed the point of what I'm saying. They BELIEVE she is all those things. But reality tells a different story.

122 Oh, sorry - okay.

R122^

I can't get into any band or singer.

Their security won't let me within 10 feet of them.

My distaste for Tori Amos knows no bounds. It's nothing personal of course, but I truly hate every piece of music of hers that I've ever heard.

Don’t like Adele. My boss loved her and played her big album from a few years ago all the time in her office. Not my speed.

And yeah I don’t get Drake at all, in spite of liking a lot of rap/hip hop.

Michael Jackson - had a boyfriend who loved him. Never could do it. Only liked him as a young guy with the Jackson 5, as a singer. Liked their sound as a group, I guess.

Those pub-sounding bands back in the early aughts. Alternative folk or whatever. Mumford and Sons. The Lumineers.

(Or rather, mid-aughts)

Most of the Britpop groups were boring to me, apart from Suede. I only enjoyed a few random songs from Blur, Elastica, etc. I hated Oasis and still do.

R126, I'm sorry that you feel that way. But I understand!

Elton John. Sure, he's talented, but his music does nothing for me.

Another vote for the Grateful Dead and Drake. Not so much that I wanted to like them, but that I thought for a while I must be missing something that would explain their large fanbases. I’m sure there is, but it’s lost on me.

Drake. He sounds bored with his own music.

My ex tried to get me into Tori Amos. I can’t stand her now simply because she reminds me of him.

Boston and Journey. I grew up with my parents blaring this shit endlessly, which probably didn't do any favors. I find them loud and boring. Steve Perry is a yelling Dago, his voice is literally nails on a chalkboard to me. He's like if Eric Carmen sang while swallowing knives. I HATE Steve Perry's shitty voice. I'm not a huge Nirvana fan but I even find Kurt Cobain more pleasing to my ear.

Boston is redundant sounding, with the same lame 70s post-glitter corporate rock track after track. "Amanda" is a lovely song but otherwise the rest of it could be shitcanned.

My mother is a huge The Cars fan. I can bear them, but honestly, I find limited appeal in a band that sounds and feels like it was led by Napoleon Dynamite.

Pink Floyd is training wheels for actually decent rock groups out there. They're a very surface-level music choice. I call DSOTM "fake jazz."

R135 Dago?