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What band of a music genre you like makes you run for zee hills? (1 Viewer)

Captain Cranks

Captain Cranks

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I'm a Gen Xer and naturally like 90s alternative, rock and grunge.  The Lithium channel on SiriusXM is my go-to music station.  While I don't love every song they play, rarely will I bother to change the station.  That is unless Sublime comes on.  I don't know what it is, but I can't stand them.  They make my skin crawl, actually.

Anyone else experience a similar phenomenon with a specific band in a genre they otherwise enjoy?

 
the rancid riff renderings of Rush being considered prog curdles my cerebral cortex as well as my tympanic membranes

 
MAC_32 said:
Were Smashing Pumpkins always this bad or did they just age very very badly?
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First two albums are still solid IMO, but there's probably some Chicago bias there. A gem or two on Melancholy. After that, with all due respect to Butch Vig and Shirley Manson, its garbage 

 
wikkidpissah said:
the rancid riff renderings of Rush being considered prog curdles my cerebral cortex as well as my tympanic membranes
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Don't want to get in too far off track here...I can see how you would consider the keyboard-era of the 80s and 90s to be non-progressive, but how is not mid to late-70s Rush considered Progressive Rock? Cygnus X-1, Xanadu, 2112?

 
Mr. Ected said:
Don't want to get in too far off track here...I can see how you would consider the keyboard-era of the 80s and 90s to be non-progressive, but how is not mid to late-70s Rush considered Progressive Rock? Cygnus X-1, Xanadu, 2112?
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because disconnected riffing, masturbatory imagery & porcine squealing is simply & distinctly anti-progressive

 
Limp Ditka said:
First two albums are still solid IMO, but there's probably some Chicago bias there. A gem or two on Melancholy. After that, with all due respect to Butch Vig and Shirley Manson, its garbage 
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Admittedly, XYU and Siva are still in my library. 

Probably have more Everclear :bag:

 
AC/DC. Listeened to them so much when i was in 5th grade, i cant stand them, anymore. And Aerosmith.

also, i agree with all the aforementioned, excepting Smashing Pumpkins, which i can still stomach, barely.

will add any Red Hot Chili Peppers from Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magick onward. What a traveshamockery of a sell out.

 
Mr. Ected said:
Ouch!
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Listen, the only reason i harp is that i moved away from following prog about the time Gabriel quit Genesis & Tull songs all became longer than most movies. Didn't pay any more attention to Rush than Greenslade, Hawkwind or any other of the pretenders. Years later, i heard Rush continually grouped with the masters, so i gave em a listen. I could figure out no level upon which their music could be considered prog, except for having a good drummer (called them Reo, Speedwagon & Palmer when i referred to em at all). To this day i see no effort to stretch boundaries, no theme and variation - just a lot of soloing, squealing & changes of tempo. G' ahead, enjoy - the world's big enough for Ged&Co. I just never will not smash that lob across the court. nufced

 
Captain Cranks said:
I'm a Gen Xer and naturally like 90s alternative, rock and grunge.  The Lithium channel on SiriusXM is my go-to music station.  While I don't love every song they play, rarely will I bother to change the station.  That is unless Sublime comes on.  I don't know what it is, but I can't stand them.  They make my skin crawl, actually.

Anyone else experience a similar phenomenon with a specific band in a genre they otherwise enjoy?
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Snort a Couple bags of heroin. You will love sublime.

 
GilbertGrape said:
I can't listen to The Cars anymore. 
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Both singers? I have always liked Ben Orr songs better.

Dan Lambskin said:
Radiohead

Led Zeppelin 

most newer country music 
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Doesn't most new country music sound like Pop? My wife likes it and we listen to it in the car, and sometimes it sounds like we're listening to a Pop station.

 
Mr. Ected said:
Both singers? I have always liked Ben Orr songs better.

Doesn't most new country music sound like Pop? My wife likes it and we listen to it in the car, and sometimes it sounds like we're listening to a Pop station.
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lot of it is very poppy especially the female singers. a lot of the male singers just have some god awful stupid lyrics though that I just can't take 

 
Dan Lambskin said:
lot of it is very poppy especially the female singers. a lot of the male singers just have some god awful stupid lyrics though that I just can't take 
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I know! 2/3 of guys songs  "Trucks, beer, girls!" All great things, mind you, but variety is better.

 
Early Blink-182 and pop punk. I like the pop punk genre and they were probably one of the worst to gain a lot of respectability within it.  

I actually like later Blink-182 and their side projects just fine. IIRC, I liked Boxcar Racer.  

 
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any country. any of that grunge rock bull#### from the 90s that wasn't Pearl Jam or Porno for Pyros/Jane's Addiction.

hard pass on heavy metal, hair metal, rock music from the 80s.

 
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Dan Lambskin said:
Mr. Ected said:
Both singers? I have always liked Ben Orr songs better.

Doesn't most new country music sound like Pop? My wife likes it and we listen to it in the car, and sometimes it sounds like we're listening to a Pop station.
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lot of it is very poppy especially the female singers. a lot of the male singers just have some god awful stupid lyrics though that I just can't take 
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I find that some of the guys stuff sounds like their trying to rap. Sounds kinda goofy.

 
rockaction said:
Early Blink-182 and pop punk. I like the pop punk genre and they were probably one of the worst to gain a lot of respectability within it.  

I actually like later Blink-182 and their side projects just fine. IIRC, I liked Boxcar Racer.  
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I still jam out to Blink-182 and the 5-10% of the Smashing Pumpkins catalog that was good.

The older I get the less I enjoy listening to Led Zeppelin. 

FWIW - I'm in the odd black hole of guys thats to young to be a GenXer and not quite a millennial.  

 
jb1020 said:
I still jam out to Blink-182 and the 5-10% of the Smashing Pumpkins catalog that was good.

The older I get the less I enjoy listening to Led Zeppelin. 

FWIW - I'm in the odd black hole of guys thats to young to be a GenXer and not quite a millennial.  
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Yeah, I'm close, and maturity-wise, I always hung out with people either older than me or right in your age group because of music. 

 
rockaction said:
The AOR radio-friendly funk/rock genre, bud?  
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They get lumped in with general radio friendly alternative for me, which as long as we aren't talking post-grunge is a genre I really like and crosses over pretty heavily with whatever "indie" means today.  Spotify discover lists or Sirius Alt-Nation always have RHCP alongside The National and The Killers and the shins but man they're ####### irritating. RHCP are the reason I didn't even consider going to Bonnaroo this year - and I went to the one headlined by Imagine Dragons. 

My gut response to this question was Radiohead but it would have been a bit trolly in the "pick a band everyone loves" sense and it wouldn't be true because they have a dozen or more songs that I turn up rather than turn off but that's out of what, 150 songs? They remain the top band I don't get the love for.  I don't think they've done anything particularly innovative musically in 15 years and their "this song is fantastic, everyone will love it, let's never play it" attitude just grates on me. As does most of their music from the past decade.  But they have 'Paranoid Android' and 'Fake Plastic Trees' so they can't truly be my answer here.

 
Also, I blame continued acceptance of RHCP's bland awful white boy funk for Twenty-One Pilots not immediately being laughed out of the studio.

 
Northern Voice said:
They get lumped in with general radio friendly alternative for me, which as long as we aren't talking post-grunge is a genre I really like and crosses over pretty heavily with whatever "indie" means today.  Spotify discover lists or Sirius Alt-Nation always have RHCP alongside The National and The Killers and the shins but man they're ####### irritating. RHCP are the reason I didn't even consider going to Bonnaroo this year - and I went to the one headlined by Imagine Dragons. 

My gut response to this question was Radiohead but it would have been a bit trolly in the "pick a band everyone loves" sense and it wouldn't be true because they have a dozen or more songs that I turn up rather than turn off but that's out of what, 150 songs? They remain the top band I don't get the love for.  I don't think they've done anything particularly innovative musically in 15 years and their "this song is fantastic, everyone will love it, let's never play it" attitude just grates on me. As does most of their music from the past decade.  But they have 'Paranoid Android' and 'Fake Plastic Trees' so they can't truly be my answer here.
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Heh. I was just giving you stuff. I love RHCP for some reason. They're definitely a modern signifier of poor taste, but I love The Killers, so I can't be all that bad. 

I do get the love for Radiohead, and while I don't listen to most of their new stuff, I get the love for OK Computer, Kid A, and through my favorite, Amnesiac. I think it's around Hail To The Thief where they begin to lose me, or I grow up and out of my angst a little.  

 
rockaction said:
Heh. I was just giving you stuff. I love RHCP for some reason. They're definitely a modern signifier of poor taste, but I love The Killers, so I can't be all that bad. 

I do get the love for Radiohead, and while I don't listen to most of their new stuff, I get the love for OK Computer, Kid A, and through my favorite, Amnesiac. I think it's around Hail To The Thief where they begin to lose me, or I grow up and out of my angst a little.  
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RHCP is one of those bands whose albums I'd never download, errrrrrr, purchase, but I enjoy hearing on the radio.  For some reason their sound doesn't get old to me.

 
rockaction said:
Heh. I was just giving you stuff. I love RHCP for some reason. They're definitely a modern signifier of poor taste, but I love The Killers, so I can't be all that bad. 

I do get the love for Radiohead, and while I don't listen to most of their new stuff, I get the love for OK Computer, Kid A, and through my favorite, Amnesiac. I think it's around Hail To The Thief where they begin to lose me, or I grow up and out of my angst a little.  
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The Killers have taken way more risks and tried new styles more often than Radiohead over the past 15 years. #HotTake.

 
rockaction said:
Early Blink-182 and pop punk. I like the pop punk genre and they were probably one of the worst to gain a lot of respectability within it.  

I actually like later Blink-182 and their side projects just fine. IIRC, I liked Boxcar Racer.  
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Blink 182 is a good call. What a crap band.

 
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