What song/band that everyone else loves do you hate?

I shouldn't have opened this thread. Reading about how people hate bands and songs that I love is just making my head spin. I mean, I understand someone not liking Dave Grohl or Bruce Springsteen as much as I do, but I just don't understand how someone could hate their music so much. I'm not saying you're wrong if you do, it just baffles me that we could perceive music so differently.

I don't like Springsteen. There. I said it, and I'm glad.

Bruce Springsteen is a fraud. He's the most overrated musical act in history. He lives and dies by acting like he's all blue collar and singing music for the working man when he's rich now and rich when he was a kid.

Next up for overrated crap is

Green day

Drake

Sting.

That guy is unbearable. He takes himself so seriously. Other people also take him seriously. It's like nobody's noticed that all of his songs suck.

Another band that sucks is Mumford and Sons. I mean, they're sort of OK, but only in the sense that like if you're little brother had a band with a few of his buddies, and they sounded like Mumford and Sons, you'd say, yeah, they're not all that bad. But they shouldn't be selling records. The great thing is, they know they suck, and admit in interviews that they don't understand how they got popular. So props to them for that. But they still suck.

I hate. Beyond reckoning.

Hotel California

Bruce Springsteen

Classic Rock - Beatles, Yes, Elton John, Lou Reed, Grateful Dead

New Rock - Green Day (they are horrific), Limp Biskit, Lincoln Park.

Alternative/Rap -Beastie Boys, Muse, Soundgarden

Songs -a lot of Beatles songs, but for now we'll go with Yellow Submarine (really, how bad is this song)!

-When September Comes (truly painful to listen to).

Billy Joel, Steve Forbert, Lucinda Williams. The latter two are examples of singers that are proclaimed to be authentic (Forbert was one of the many "next Dylans") but just seem to me to be trying and failing.

For more recent bands, I thought of the Dave Matthews band. I was amazed to find how overwhelming a negative response he got on this thread.

'Wake me up'- Aviici, I have no idea why people like this song.

Definitely have to say Dave Matthews. I will add the Grateful Dead, Phish, String Cheese Incident, and any of those other drug-addled pseudo-hippie jam bands.

As a counter point I will add that I love Sunny Day Real Estate and Jeremy Enigk's solo work. Especially the Rising Tide, How it Feels to be Something On, and Return of the Frog Queen albums.

redux wrote:

Definitely have to say Dave Matthews. I will add the Grateful Dead, Phish, String Cheese Incident, and any of those other drug-addled pseudo-hippie jam bands.

As a counter point I will add that I love Sunny Day Real Estate and Jeremy Enigk's solo work. Especially the Rising Tide, How it Feels to be Something On, and Return of the Frog Queen albums.

I also love Rising Tide. It wasn't very well received, but I like it a lot.

Sucks wrote:

Bruce Springsteen is a fraud. He's the most overrated musical act in history. He lives and dies by acting like he's all blue collar and singing music for the working man when he's rich now and rich when he was a kid.

Next up for overrated crap is

Green day

Drake

First of all, becoming rich later in life in no way negates Springsteen's blue-collar inspired music. I don't understand how you can even make that argument. What's he supposed to do? "Oh, no thanks. I don't want a record contract. I need to keep my street cred."

Second, are you sure about him growing up rich? Where did you come up with that? This is not my understanding based on what I've read about Bruce.

Finally, I don't think a songwriter's personal life needs to mirror the characters and subject matter in their music. They are artists. They are storytellers. What matters most is what the music means to the listener. Take Gillian Welch for example. She didn't grow up in the South, and she did not personally experience many of the things she sings about (for example, the song "Annabelle" is about the Great Depression). But she damn sure captures the spirit of traditional Southern-American music and its themes. She takes on a character and tells stories.

Josh Hamilton's Addiction wrote:

I've heard people praise Radiohead constantly. I don't hate them, but I've never been able to get into them. And I've made several real attempts.

me too. I've tried really hard to like radiohead. I spent two days listening to radiohead playlists on you tube. no dice. but a lot of smart interesting people are big fans so there has to be something there.

pearl jam - grimrock at a depressing level. lighten the f up, boys.

Is everyone on here 50? Why are you hearing these songs?

Dave Mathews, Nirvana. Anyone who was on the CMA awards that I was forced to watch last night. I wanted to run screaming from the room. Just seeing Taylor Swift makes me gag.

I don't hate them, but I've never been a big Beatles fans.

I like Skynyrd, especially 'That Smell', but 'Free Bird' is totally lame. It's not even good guitar playing. The solo is just two licks played about 470 times.

I went through a Beatles phase, but now when they pop up on the ipod I skip it.

I dont know if: Im just plain tired of hearing their stuff, the godding up of each of these guys, or if the music just sounds dated now. Whatever reason, Ive pretty much purged them from my collection.

Beatles, ugh. Also Led Zepp, Springsteen, DMB, U2, Nickelback goes w/o saying. All grunge. Dylan. Not into Rush.

Among recent/current stuff. Radioactive is horrid, why is this played so much? Aviici, also don't get it.

I'm surprised by the mentions ACDC has gotten. They have a handful of the greatest tunes ever, I think.

Artist I hate that everyone else loves:

Jack Johnson

Artists I love that everyone else hates:

Dave Matthews Band