stepay Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Not intending this to be a slam thread as taste in music is subjective, but here's my current "don't get" musician... Robin Thicke I think he may be my least favorite signed recording artist ever, and when there's Air Supply and Wham! out there, that's saying something. By the way, I've heard people say that Thicke is just ripping off Justin Timberlake, and while I'm no fan of Justin Timberlake, I'll say I think he sings WAY better than Robin Thicke. Listening to Robin Thicke is painful. So, got one like that? Steve (Stevie Ray) "Do the chickens have large talons?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc002k Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 99% of Indie Rock, with the exception of maybe Wilco.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarr111111 Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 99% of Indie Rock, with the exception of maybe Wilco.. I'm not an Indie fan either, but check out a band called 'Pinback', specifically their EP titled 'Offcell'. Some of my all time favourite music, and a massive influence on my playing. What are you lots opinions on Les Claypool? Hes an artist you really need to 'get'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Zeger Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Mentioned in another thread: Tori Amos Bjork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarkus Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Cold Play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corner Pocket Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Hendrix. Especially since a lot of previously unreleased material is now out there, there is a lot of crap to sift through in the catalogue to find the "good" stuff. I find most of his recordings to sound like undisciplined wanking. The times his playing seems to be in control, (Are You Experienced and Electric Ladyland), the engineering and production is so gawdawful as to make the album almost unlistenable. The "drug years" of Stevie Ray Vaughan are just as bad. Who thought "Live Alive" was a good idea?????? At least SRV got his act together for "In Step". I LOVED the Spice Girls movie, the group a little less so. I don't get Andre Rieu (sp?) He plays the same tired classical repertoire with some rock spectacle production and somehow he's a superstar. Peace, Paul ---------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT156 Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Quote by rockincyanblues: "Hendrix. Especially since a lot of previously unreleased material is now out there, there is a lot of crap to sift through in the catalogue to find the "good" stuff. I find most of his recordings to sound like undisciplined wanking. The times his playing seems to be in control, (Are You Experienced and Electric Ladyland), the engineering and production is so gawdawful as to make the album almost unlistenable." and: "I LOVED the Spice Girls movie, the group a little less so". I don't know if you ever heard the saying "If you remember the sixties, you weren't there". A lot of the music from the sixties was best listened too when you were tripping on acid, or doing some other kind of drugs. There were no "formula music" groups at rock concerts in those days (you wouldn't see the Monkees being booked at Woodstock). There were a lot of "jam bands" like the Grateful Dead, and 10 years after, so maybe that's why you "don't get" Hendrix. The fact that you "enjoyed" the spice girls movie demonstrates that your musical taste as well as selection of movies you go to is quite the opposite of anything that I can remember about what was "popular" with the hippies in the sixties. Mike T. Yamaha Motif ES8, Alesis Ion, Prophet 5 Rev 3.2, 1979 Rhodes Mark 1 Suitcase 73 Piano, Arp Odyssey Md III, Roland R-70 Drum Machine, Digitech Vocalist Live Pro. Roland Boss Chorus Ensemble CE-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 To keep from deifying the 60s too much, remember that along with Cream, Santana, Hendrix, The Doors, and the Beatles, we also had Pat Boone, Dean Martin, and Bobby Goldsborough. I do remember the sixties because I was just about two years too young to participate. The early seventies however, that's another matter! Moe --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidLifeCrisis Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Hendrix. Paul, you must be a white caucasian. Don't you know you can't hear Jimi? Steve A Lifetime of Peace, Love and Protest Music www.rock-xtreme.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resigned Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I appreciate the comments about Hendrix... I was telling my wife how great a genius he was and then we watched his landmark Woodstock concert on TV one night, and though it's a historic performance it's a terrible recording made under bad circumstances (new band that was lost). Most of Hendrix's old recordings I wouldn't listen to today, but he was brilliant and I still love to play Little Wing. Oh yeah - my "don't get" pick would be The White Stripes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Horne Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I second Tori Amos. After she was featured on the cover of keyboard I went to the library and borrowed a CD. I was disappointed to say the least. I also never got The Rolling Stones so what do I know. No guitarists were harmed during the making of this message. In general, harmonic complexity is inversely proportional to the ratio between chording and non-chording instruments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfD Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Grateful Dead. I guess one has to "be there" in order to appreciate them. PD "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return."--E. Ahbez "Nature Boy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue JC Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I never got the appeal of the vocal gymnasts like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, etc, the list is endless. I think their popularity ruined a whole generation of singers who have no idea how to sing a simple melody without embellishment. Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer. W. C. Fields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverDragonSoun Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Grateful Dead. I guess one has to "be there" in order to appreciate them. I wonder how people were there but not really there and instead trip took their somewhere else? Begin the day with a friendly voice A companion, unobtrusive - Rush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverDragonSoun Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Here's a few bands/performers/musical things I'll never get. Culture Club Bjork Prince All the disco attire Most rap and hip pop Begin the day with a friendly voice A companion, unobtrusive - Rush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfD Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I never got the appeal of the vocal gymnasts like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, etc, the list is endless. I think their popularity ruined a whole generation of singers who have no idea how to sing a simple melody without embellishment. Right. Yodeling over a beat. Some have producers who will make them set up the song and save the Olympic games for the end. However, there are slew of "facsimile" singers who will run through every stop sign and carry a whole song in yodel mode. I'm hearing these mic beaters in every genre too. Thank goodness for instrumental music. PD "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return."--E. Ahbez "Nature Boy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT156 Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Quote by Matt_stubb: "To keep from deifying the 60s too much, remember that along with Cream, Santana, Hendrix, The Doors, and the Beatles, we also had Pat Boone, Dean Martin, and Bobby Goldsborough." Rest assured, the "hippies" didn't listen to Pat Boone, Dean Martin, and Bobby Goldsborough. My mother did. I loved the Allman Brothers, still do. Didn't care much for the Grateful Dead back in those days. I know that's Blasphemy with dead heads, oh well. I don't get Britany Spears, the thin one or the current fat, bald one. Mike T. Yamaha Motif ES8, Alesis Ion, Prophet 5 Rev 3.2, 1979 Rhodes Mark 1 Suitcase 73 Piano, Arp Odyssey Md III, Roland R-70 Drum Machine, Digitech Vocalist Live Pro. Roland Boss Chorus Ensemble CE-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bridog6996 Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I never got the appeal of the vocal gymnasts like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, etc, the list is endless. I think their popularity ruined a whole generation of singers who have no idea how to sing a simple melody without embellishment. How true that is. I just watched "Dreamgirls" the other night and that exact thing hit home with me as I was watching it. Every single musical number in that movie was a huge "tour de force" production with the singers belting out these ridiculously embellished vocals. By about halfway through the movie, you just become numb to it, and after a while it actually became comical. Every song was almost exactly the same. Geez, give me Billy Holiday any day. My YouTube Channel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corner Pocket Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I started a similar thread on the guitar forum. Apparently Hendrix is sacred to guitar players. https://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=19&Number=1508619&Searchpage=1&Main=111259&Words=artists+rockincyanblues&topic=0&Search=true#Post1508619 Peace, Paul ---------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magpel Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Jimi was cool, but Mitch Mitchell was the real reason to listen to The Experience I'm only partially kidding... as to artists I don't get, well, I guess the reputed genius of Neil Young is pretty much lost on me, though I adore his songs with Buffalo Springfield, and Harvest is pretty cool. I "get" the VU but so much of their acclaim seems to be due to extra-musical, politco-cultural reasons that I choose to say I don't get them...just to be an anti-hip contrarian. Actually, I like a lot of VU. I have a similar issue with Coltrane. It's not that I don't think he was an all-time jazz great and a genius--of course he was--but so many people, esp. in the rock world, claim devotion to Coltrane but wouldn't know Canonball Adderly if he jumped in their swimming pool. It seems to me the singular privileging of Coltrane above all others is a posture more than anything else. It is for some cultural reason, very important to "get" Coltrane, but not to get Bill Evans or Jim Hall...so in order to rectify this gross imbalance, I will sometimes claim not to "get" John Coltrane and to prefer Adderly's solos on Kind of Blue. Of course, there is plenty of Coltrane that I actually don't get, so this is not entirely anti-hip contrarian posturing. Check out the Sweet Clementines CD at bandcamp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidLifeCrisis Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Jimi was cool, but Mitch Mitchell was the real reason to listen to The Experience I'm only partially kidding... +1 Mitch was one of the great rock drummers of that era. Smoothest rolls on the planet. Steve A Lifetime of Peace, Love and Protest Music www.rock-xtreme.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil W Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Genesis, Pink Floyd, U2, The Smiths, most stuff from the 80s, The Who, Mary J Blige . . . I love Erykah Badu's live album but haven't enjoyed her studio albums at all Mariah, Whitney and their ilk are great technicians in search of musicality, they don't communicate anything to me. I'd listen to anything Jimi did but I prefer The Band of Gypsies http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Tori Amos Bjork W3rd. Genesis, Pink Floyd Hmmm...where is that ban button..? dB ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Professional Affiliations: Royer Labs • Music Player Network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 I wonder how people were there but not really there and instead trip took their somewhere else? Well, I would be amongst that number. I went to a Dead show once. Don't remember much of anything about the music except when they went into the "Space" and "Drums" segments, I was peaking hard on about 15 hits of acid, and as a result completely mesmerized, albeit barely coherent... Rest of the show? Don't remember much except a real serious paranoid streak I hit when they shined the spots around on the crowd, and one stopped directly in my eyes, which made me briefly worry that the entire stadium was staring at me as I sat there wigging out inside my head... That was a memorable weekend, with few actual memories... A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Oh - and I actually like Tori Amos and Bjork, for obviously very different reasons. What I don't get? "Arena" rock (you know, those dorky 70's bands like Skynyrd, Bad Company, et al) 98% of new music on the radio. A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finale Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Hmmmm... Musicians I don't get... This guy? :grin: http://snoot.org/i/wuss/yanni.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffinator Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 Yanni? I get him, I just don't dig him... A bunch of loud, obnoxious music I USED to make with friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaurusT Posted May 16, 2007 Share Posted May 16, 2007 yawny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delirium Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 I don't know if you ever heard the saying "If you remember the sixties, you weren't there". A lot of the music from the sixties was best listened too when you were tripping on acid, or doing some other kind of drugs. There were no "formula music" groups at rock concerts in those days (you wouldn't see the Monkees being booked at Woodstock). There were a lot of "jam bands" like the Grateful Dead, and 10 years after, so maybe that's why you "don't get" Hendrix. The fact that you "enjoyed" the spice girls movie demonstrates that your musical taste as well as selection of movies you go to is quite the opposite of anything that I can remember about what was "popular" with the hippies in the sixties. Mike T. sixties, seventies - for me the best music ever. What I don't get is most of todays music, all alike and without the soul. ♫♫♫ motif XS6, RD700GX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Stanley Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 For better or worse it is not an exageration to say that there was pop music in general and guitar playing in particular before Hendrix and after Hendrix and they are significantly different. You don't have to be too young to have been there to recognize that either. I'd wager that even the Spice Girls know that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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