Bands/Artists You Like, But Shouldn't (1 Viewer)

[rockaction]

To be ashamed of liking Kanye seems shortsighted.

I don't think so, but you're welcome to disagree. He did run hip hop for the better part of this century, from beginning up through 808s, when he changed the game (I stole that bit about changing the game with 808s from Ilov80s), and continued to put out vital albums through 2016.

There were two reasons I didn't do it. One, I wanted to do somebody else. Two, it's not fun to explain away someone's personality and their egregious comments when that personality was the basis for their rap character and lyrics. Kanye wasn't a gangster rapper, nor a backpack rapper, nor anything that could be defined, because he put himself front and center in his lyrics. So that then becomes a problem when his person is saying stupid and anti-Semitic stuff, charging award shows, running for president, etc.

And I also didn't want to convince people on the board that aren't disposed to like hip hop that they should listen to this particular guy.

 

[Osaurus]

Sunny Day Real Estate

 

[Major]

To be ashamed of liking Kanye seems shortsighted.

I don't think so, but you're welcome to disagree. He did run hip hop for the better part of this century, from beginning up through 808s, when he changed the game (I stole that bit about changing the game with 808s from Ilov80s), and continued to put out vital albums through 2016.

There were two reasons I didn't do it. One, I wanted to do somebody else. Two, it's not fun to explain away someone's personality and their egregious comments when that personality was the basis for their rap character and lyrics. Kanye wasn't a gangster rapper, nor a backpack rapper, nor anything that could be defined, because he put himself front and center in his lyrics. So that then becomes a problem when his person is saying stupid and anti-Semitic stuff, charging award shows, running for president, etc.

And I also didn't want to convince people on the board that aren't disposed to like hip hop that they should listen to this particular guy.

Yeah, it's easy for me to separate the music from the person but I get your point. I knew Axl Rose was an a$$hole but I still loved Guns n Roses. I don't really keep up the tmz stuff so it's easier for me to enjoy the music and not worry about what he said last week. It will always be cool for me to see this young and hungry rap producer hustling to make beats in NYC (circa 2001) become an icon and surpassing anything I thought was possible.

 

[dkp993]

I don't have an issue with saying you don't like a band or artist or type of music. I just don't like when people say it sucks or that people shouldn't like it.

Yeah, but I have no problem saying some people (unnamed for the sake of those involved) should like Soundgarden.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Hootie & Blowfish

Their "Time" is infinitely better than the slow and plodding "Time" of Pink Floyd.

 

[Mr. Mojo]

I really liked the first Air Supply album...

 

[Ilov80s]

I like that one R Kelly Remix to Ignition song still but yeah f that guy

 

[squistion]

If you can get past the corny Revolutionary War costumes and the media overexposure, they actually had a few pretty good songs

What's corny about that?

JK. They were a lot better band than the average rock listener or critic gave them credit for. "The Great Airplane Strike" and other frat rockers like "Just Like Me" were good songs. They were compiled nicely on a double cassette/CD back in the nineties. If you can get a workable copy, there are tons of great songs on it. Lots of frat rock covers and the like.

I have been revisiting Paul Revere and The Raiders catalog the last couple days and many of their hits hold up pretty well. I was surprised to learn that they are not in The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame (or maybe that isn't so surprising since other 60's multiple hitmakers like The Association and The Guess Who aren't in either)

Relistening to "Just Like Me," it is a wild garage rocker with a heavy Kinks' influence. It turns that out it was actually a cover of The Wilde Knights (a Longview, WA band). The Raiders bought the rights to the song for $5,000 and rearranged it, giving it a punch the original lacked.

I also ran across a TV appearance of them doing "Kicks" on NBC's Hullaballo and the performance seems more like what songwriters Mann and Weil intended (when they wrote it for The Animals) with Mark Lindsay vocals giving a finesse to the lyrics that Eric Burdon might have lacked. The clip has some fun moments, like at around 1:34 mark where Paul Revere seems momentarily disturbed by the horse on stage directly behind him.

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[skol asylum]

Not that I shouldn't like, just out of my normal wheel house...

Hank Williams Jr
Sturgill Simpson
Chris Stapleton
Lana Del Rey

 

[UncleZen]

Milli Vanilli

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Ambrosia, REO Speedwagon, & Creed

Ambrosia makes my list for this category as well. They were extremely talented and did a lot more than just "yacht rock". Four out of the five albums they released are excellent.

Also America. Ignore the mostly awful lyrics -- they are top-tier in terms of arrangements and harmonies.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Paul Revere and the Raiders

Way better than many of their '60s contemporaries but left out of the "classic rock" pantheon. Maybe because of their outfits or something?

In the same category minus the outfits: Tommy James and the Shondells.

 

[zamboni]

Paul Revere and the Raiders

Way better than many of their '60s contemporaries but left out of the "classic rock" pantheon. Maybe because of their outfits or something?

Yeah, these guys were really good - I do think their campiness may have turned off some, but they always looked like they were having a good time. The bass player (Phil Volk) was a beast.

More lip synching goodness, this time from the Ed Sullivan Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9kP5vtz8RU

 

[3C's]

Muse

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Yeah, these guys were really good - I do think their campiness may have turned off some, but they always looked like they were having a good time.

I remember Mark Lindsay for his ubiquity on late night info-mercials in the 1990's hawking CD compilations, and talking about hanging out with members of the 1910 Fruitgum Company.

 

[zamboni]

Yeah, these guys were really good - I do think their campiness may have turned off some, but they always looked like they were having a good time.

I remember Mark Lindsay for his ubiquity on late night info-mercials in the 1990's hawking CD compilations, and talking about hanging out with members of the 1910 Fruitgum Company.

Also made a guest appearance on a very special Married...With Children episode in the early '90s:

Married With Children: Al "Axl" Bundy Plays A Sandwich

Married With Children: Al "Axl" Bundy Plays A Sandwich

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[Anarchy99]

Spent the last few days listening to a lot of The Fixx. I always liked a few of their songs and never did a deeper dive. Given that their early albums are 40+ years old, it seemed like a rather odd destination for me to travel to after all this time.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Spent the last few days listening to a lot of The Fixx. I always liked a few of their songs and never did a deeper dive. Given that their early albums are 40+ years old, it seemed like a rather odd destination for me to travel to after all this time.

Well, one thing leads to another.

 

[zamboni]

Spent the last few days listening to a lot of The Fixx. I always liked a few of their songs and never did a deeper dive. Given that their early albums are 40+ years old, it seemed like a rather odd destination for me to travel to after all this time.

Good band from that was a noticeable cut above most of its New Wave peers. I wore out Reach The Beach and Shuttered Room quite a bit - the former being one of the more memorable album covers of its time.

 

[Anarchy99]

Spent the last few days listening to a lot of The Fixx. I always liked a few of their songs and never did a deeper dive. Given that their early albums are 40+ years old, it seemed like a rather odd destination for me to travel to after all this time.

Well, one thing leads to another.

And then I got deeper and deeper.

 

[jb1020]

I have a pretty healthy obsession with Lana Del Rey. Honestly I didn't think much about it, but she had a concert here in Sept and I made my wife go with me. We were the oldest by about 15 years. Had no idea her core group of fans was 25 and younger. Wife didn't really care for her. Didn't hate it though.

After seeing a concert, I'm a bit more obsessed.

 

[zamboni]

I have a pretty healthy obsession with Lana Del Rey. Honestly I didn't think much about it, but she had a concert here in Sept and I made my wife go with me. We were the oldest by about 15 years. Had no idea her core group of fans was 25 and younger. Wife didn't really care for her. Didn't hate it though.

After seeing a concert, I'm a bit more obsessed.

Third best Lana after Lana Turner and the cougar living upstairs from Jack Tripper.

 

[Anarchy99]

I have a pretty healthy obsession with Lana Del Rey. Honestly I didn't think much about it, but she had a concert here in Sept and I made my wife go with me. We were the oldest by about 15 years. Had no idea her core group of fans was 25 and younger. Wife didn't really care for her. Didn't hate it though.

After seeing a concert, I'm a bit more obsessed.

Our daughter went to school in New York and went to a small venue / promo / club event 10 or so years ago and actually got to hang out with Lana. I don't remember the details, but she got to interview her for a class / club / radio station / blog or something like that. I don't know the first thing about her or her music, but I remember the daughter really liking her.

 

[skol asylum]

I have a pretty healthy obsession with Lana Del Rey. Honestly I didn't think much about it, but she had a concert here in Sept and I made my wife go with me. We were the oldest by about 15 years. Had no idea her core group of fans was 25 and younger. Wife didn't really care for her. Didn't hate it though.

After seeing a concert, I'm a bit more obsessed.

Our daughter went to school in New York and went to a small venue / promo / club event 10 or so years ago and actually got to hang out with Lana. I don't remember the details, but she got to interview her for a class / club / radio station / blog or something like that. I don't know the first thing about her or her music, but I remember the daughter really liking her.

Amazing voice/vibe. Check her out.

 

[Lehigh98]

New Order

I was always a "classic rock" guy at heart (still am), and I typically do not care for electronic dance/club style music. However their song Bizarre Love Triangle hit big in my early college years and I enjoyed it. I had a couple friends through college that would listen to New Order regularly, and I became familiar with a couple other songs. I actually purchased their compilation album, Substance, somewhere along the way and discovered several more catchy songs. I suppose it isn't coincidence that this was also during my peak mind altering years. Although I don't seek out their material routinely these days, I still enjoy listening to the Substance material from time to time when the mood hits me.

I like New Order too, took me too long to realize they are the remnants of Joy Division post Ian Curtis.

 

[Lehigh98]

I don’t think I buy into any kind of music being something one “shouldn’t like”.

Maybe a better way to describe it could be songs you turn down when driving past people with your windows down.

 

[Ghost Rider]

I have a pretty healthy obsession with Lana Del Rey. Honestly I didn't think much about it, but she had a concert here in Sept and I made my wife go with me. We were the oldest by about 15 years. Had no idea her core group of fans was 25 and younger. Wife didn't really care for her. Didn't hate it though.

After seeing a concert, I'm a bit more obsessed.

Her Norman Rockwell album from 2019 is pretty great. Just a wonderful album to chill out to for an hour or so. The younger me wouldn't have dug it, but the mellow middle-aged me totally digs it. Her album from last year is pretty darn good as well.

 

[jb1020]

I have a pretty healthy obsession with Lana Del Rey. Honestly I didn't think much about it, but she had a concert here in Sept and I made my wife go with me. We were the oldest by about 15 years. Had no idea her core group of fans was 25 and younger. Wife didn't really care for her. Didn't hate it though.

After seeing a concert, I'm a bit more obsessed.

Her Norman Rockwell album from 2019 is pretty great. Just a wonderful album to chill out to for an hour or so. The younger me wouldn't have dug it, but the mellow middle-aged me totally digs it. Her album from last year is pretty darn good as well.

Thats my favorite one. But like you said, younger me would not have really liked it...which is why I was so shocked there weren't dudes like me at her concert.

 

[rockaction]

But like you said, younger me would not have really liked it...which is why I was so shocked there weren't dudes like me at her concert.

I don't know her entire catalogue, and I can't listen to her for too long, but songs like "the greatest" and "Video Games" are achingly great.

 

[Doug B]

Milli Vanilli

Those songs were fantastic in that era. Kinda wish Charles Shaw and the other studio singers would've stayed together as a vocal group and pressed on. The not-much-later C&C Music Factory was not that different of a concept -- MV manager Frankie Farian just didn't realize at the time that it would've been OK for models/dancers to be the public faces of a music act. No need to try to fake-credit Rob & Fab with the vocals.

 

[foxco]

I really liked the first Air Supply album...

When I was living in Los Angeles in the early 2000s a buddy of mine asked if I was interested in going to see Air Supply and I immediately moved back to New York.

 

[Doug B]

Paul Revere and the Raiders

Way better than many of their '60s contemporaries but left out of the "classic rock" pantheon. Maybe because of their outfits or something?

In the same category minus the outfits: Tommy James and the Shondells.

Also left out of the Classic Rock pantheon ... I always thought it was because if you weren't a British act in the mid- to late-1960s, you just got excluded by some British-Invasion-related ground rule.

 

[Anarchy99]

I really liked the first Air Supply album...

When I was living in Los Angeles in the early 2000s a buddy of mine asked if I was interested in going to see Air Supply and I immediately moved back to New York.

I posted in one of the other rock music threads that you know you are getting old when Live Nation sends you a promo code for early access to Air Supply tickets before they go on sale to the public.

 

[Doug B]

I really liked the first Air Supply album...

People can hate on the material, but Russell Hitchcock (the shorter one) was one of the greatest tenor voices in 20th-century popular music.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I really liked the first Air Supply album...

When I was living in Los Angeles in the early 2000s a buddy of mine asked if I was interested in going to see Air Supply and I immediately moved back to New York.

I posted in one of the other rock music threads that you know you are getting old when Live Nation sends you a promo code for early access to Air Supply tickets before they go on sale to the public.

They're all out of love. What are they without you?

 

[Anarchy99]

I really liked the first Air Supply album...

When I was living in Los Angeles in the early 2000s a buddy of mine asked if I was interested in going to see Air Supply and I immediately moved back to New York.

I posted in one of the other rock music threads that you know you are getting old when Live Nation sends you a promo code for early access to Air Supply tickets before they go on sale to the public.

They're all out of love. What are they without you?

Two Less Lonely People In The World?

 

[jb1020]

But like you said, younger me would not have really liked it...which is why I was so shocked there weren't dudes like me at her concert.

I don't know her entire catalogue, and I can't listen to her for too long, but songs like "the greatest" and "Video Games" are achingly great.

Blue Bannisters came out right after NFR. I probably rank it right behind NFR as far as listening thru the album.

 

[rockaction]

You guys are making love out of nothing at all. I'm impressed.

 

[rockaction]

Blue Bannisters came out right after NFR. I probably rank it right behind NFR as far as listening thru the album.

She's rather prolific. Not sure I need album-length treatments of her melancholia, but like I said, she has some truly great songs in her repertoire.

I think it's really the noir-ish melancholy that leads me to shut it off after a while. It's great in small doses, but listening too long is an overdose.

 

[rockaction]

Sunny Day Real Estate

Just out of curiosity—and I know this is an old post—but why Sunny Day Real Estate as somebody you shouldn't like?

Once upon a time, I listened to them quite a bit.

 

[Osaurus]

Sunny Day Real Estate

Just out of curiosity—and I know this is an old post—but why Sunny Day Real Estate as somebody you shouldn't like?

Once upon a time, I listened to them quite a bit.

Definitely outside of my musical tastes and my friends let me know about it all the time.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Sunny Day Real Estate

Just out of curiosity—and I know this is an old post—but why Sunny Day Real Estate as somebody you shouldn't like?

Once upon a time, I listened to them quite a bit.

They're associated with emo and maybe some people perceive that others perceive emo as embarrassing?

Reminds me of an exchange I, born in the middle of Gen X, had with a direct report, born at the end of Gen X/beginning of Millenials, in the '00s.

Her: I went to a concert in Asbury Park last night.

Me: Who did you see?

Her: Don't hate me, but Jimmy Eat World.

 

[zamboni]

I really liked the first Air Supply album...

People can hate on the material, but Russell Hitchcock (the shorter one) was one of the greatest tenor voices in 20th-century popular music.

I would never have admitted back in the day, but they had some quality tunes.

Nowadays, they make a nice natural alphabetical flow after Accept in my iTunes library.

 

[rockaction]

Reminds me of an exchange I, born in the middle of Gen X, had with a direct report, born at the end of Gen X/beginning of Millenials, in the '00s.

It's so wild. I'm a Gen X'er who, due to my own lost years, embraced emo from the jump. I do indeed get what you are saying.

Definitely outside of my musical tastes and my friends let me know about it all the time.

Yeah, that seems more guitar-driven that what you'd normally like, if I'm not mistaken. Or am I?

 

[zamboni]

https://x.com/super70ssports/status/1732525761263718732?s=46&t=kXp9uTPT7MTZKlfkEtBQZw

 

[Osaurus]

Reminds me of an exchange I, born in the middle of Gen X, had with a direct report, born at the end of Gen X/beginning of Millenials, in the '00s.

It's so wild. I'm a Gen X'er who, due to my own lost years, embraced emo from the jump. I do indeed get what you are saying.

Definitely outside of my musical tastes and my friends let me know about it all the time.

Yeah, that seems more guitar-driven that what you'd normally like, if I'm not mistaken. Or am I?

You are correct in your assumption

 

[skol asylum]

But like you said, younger me would not have really liked it...which is why I was so shocked there weren't dudes like me at her concert.

I don't know her entire catalogue, and I can't listen to her for too long, but songs like "the greatest" and "Video Games" are achingly great.

Blue Bannisters came out right after NFR. I probably rank it right behind NFR as far as listening thru the album.

Haven't listened to either of those yet. Have her first on vinyl and her second (EP) ordered. Both are great. Ultraviolence which I really really also like and which my kid says is her best is arriving today, also on vinyl. That one was produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys apparently.

 

[Todem]

Coldplay, Lil Pump and Limp Bizkit (their early stuff still hits)

1st 3 Coldplay records are absolutely gold.

The rest....one giant meh.

 

[Todem]

Yeah, I gotta admit, the first two Coldplay albums were pretty good. Since then...

X and Y kicks *** agree with you on the rest.

 

[Todem]

Muse

What!!!! Muse are a fantastic band.