Smashing pumpkins. Booooooring. And Billy is an ass.
The Ramones. If ever a band deserved to be a 1-hit wonder, this is it.
Sleep Token.
And I’m not saying that because they’re currently popular. But I’m just about done with gimmicky pretentious bands like them. All of their songs are almost 10 minutes long too. Not listening to that. President recently did debut last year but all of that hype amounted to a wet fart.
Sleep token is the precursor to ai music.
I cant stand it myself.
Imagine Dragons, ugh, music designed for car commercials and 8th graders, fucking rip my ear drums out.
I’d just add that I think part of their popularity comes from their “safe” image. You put on an Imagine Dragons song, you know you’re getting a pretty apolitical “pop-rock” song, not like those dumb hippies from the 70s or those indie-rock losers. Which I think sucks, to be clear.
whats wrong with imagine dragons?
Ghost. It’s just not metal. You can be into it and I’m not going to judge you or anything, but just stop calling it metal, it’s arena rock. Sticking feathers up your ass doesn’t make you a chicken.
Its arena rock for sure, but they put on a damn good show and dont use any backing tracks, so much much respect compared to all the fake ass bands nowadays !
Metal does not always need to be about screaming lyrics, fast-paced instrumentals and catchy solos and riffs. It comes in a lot of forms. If you were expecting Ghost to be yet another band where the vocalist is barking lyrics or wailing them whichever, the instrumental to be just plain heavy, then yeah I can see why you’re disappointed.
Also Arena-Rock is quite frankly a more horrible thing to classify them as. They just simply don’t fit that mold whereas Journey would.
Same thing with Avril Lavigne when she first came out I remember a lot of people on TV as well in my personal life would call her the queen of punk no, she is not punk just because somebody wears leather arm guards and has a shitty attitude doesn’t make you punk.
You just don’t get it, man, punk isn’t about rebellion, community, individualism, and anti-authoritarianism, it’s about wearing ties with wifebeaters and singing about boys!
Now I’m gonna sing about a sk8er boy and sell t-shirts at hot topic.
That’s #punkasfuck
Why is it always KISS? People are making the mistake of treating KISS as musicians. They are showmen and good at their job. The music is just the background. I saw them live once and it was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
Gene Simmons is a bastard who recently played down Ace Frehley’s death.
KISS just never did it for me, I only liked maybe three songs from them. All that they were ever capable of, musically, was write songs about just plain love and cheesy at that. They were mostly a cheesy band just decked out in a gimmick more than anything and they merchandised the hell out of themselves for years. Nothing was off limits. But that didn’t make the music any better.
Also, KISS is enjoyable to listen to. I’m not putting on headphones, taking my choice of medication, and having a transcendental experience.
I’m Shouting Out Loud. I’m Lickin’ It Up. I’m Rock n’ Rolling All Nite (and Partying Every Day). I’m Detriot Rock City…ing.
To me a lot of hate comes from the showman part. They toured too long. Last time I saw them in 2014 or so, I walked out. It was awful. The music was the music. The show was painful.
If they put in the work establishing themselves, composing and playing music, recording, touring, and attracting a fan base, then they deserve every bit of it.
I can’t stand Kiss, and about 90% of all the other bullshit out there, but its not my place in the cosmos to harsh someone else’s buzz about the music they like. My tastes are extremely eclectic, and only a tiny percentage would be into the same stuff I’m into. I wouldn’t tolerate criticism of my musical tastes, and I’m not about to criticize someone else’s.
Like what you want, WTF should I care?
I think anther reason why I don’t like kiss is there fans. As an example I have a coworker in his late 50’s and he is a huge kiss fan. But not just he is a fan YOU have to be a fan too or he will be mad at you. You can’t say that they suck or he will yell at you like a child. And his whole wardrobe is either kiss, Harley Davison, or Trump.
That guy’s problem isn’t Kiss.
True
TIL that Taylor Swift is a band.
If anyone says Rush, I will find you…oh yes, I will find you.
Not really able to be overrated anymore as you’ll be hard pressed to find an under 30 who even knows them.
But also its impossible for them to be overrated ;)
Rush is goddamn terrible. Every song changes tempo 12 times so the drummer can show off.
The Pass changes tempo?
Now tool, it can get trippy and complex. But rush has 19 albums and theyre all pretty different, not a lot of them are actually that proggy.
Rush.
(Just saying that so you pop by, and we can listen to some Rush together, maybe also some Yes, Hawkwind, Floyd, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, early Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Dream Theater, Fleetwood Mac, and Golden Earing’s Radar Love.)
Count me in, thats a great lineup
I’ll say Rush, too, if it can get me in on this action.
the rolling stones are a singles band. they dont have even one solid album
You could really say that for a lot of bands like them, honestly. That’s why almost any classic rock band can only think of that one song from that one band.
Exile on Main Street, Sticky Fingers…
listened to both multiple times. total bore to me
Taylor Swift.
Why
Steven Patrick Morrissey. Fuck him and his whiney bitch voice. He’s also an asshole.
Sex Pistols. Don’t get me wrong I like them, but they were children who made one album and were barely a band for a year. Their hype really comes down to the story of Sid and Nancy’s deaths.
Weren’t they a manufactured boy band also? I think I read that somewhere
My understanding is that it was a more or less some kids that hung out at the same stores in a mall.
Edit: I looked it up. They hung out in Vivian’s Westwoods clothing store, Sex. Westwood and another fashion guy from those stores managed and styled them. Sounds like Westwood might have even fed them lines that became lyrics. They barely knew how to play their instruments for a solid chunk of that time.
Sounds like a boy band to me.
There is a sound bite on the pirates of destiny album where Lydon was recorded saying that sid couldn’t play anything so ig that confirms it
Well easy answer is Taylor Swift, she’s a fine singer but not amazing, samey lyrics, like the McDonald’s of music. Is she a band? Idk. Agree with KISS.
It sounds like you don’t like pop music. 1989 is an objectively good album. I don’t know anything else about any of her other music, but that single album is DENSE with well executed main stream pop.
Having said that, should tickets to see her be as expensive as they are? Should people be as obsessed with her as they are? No on both counts.
I like a lot of pop music, mostly synth pop, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Hall and Oates, Billy Ocean, Howard Jones, Michael Jackson (yea). I listened to the album, it’s definitely well produced and catchy but I didn’t hear anything new at all, it’s very formulaic, which is fine for pop music of course but she’s definitely not doing anything new or exciting so I don’t get the hype at all. It’s good pop music sure, but filling stadiums? People flying around the world? I dunno. It’s more a cult of personality.
For me, it’s Oasis. When they reformed recently to play some shows, it was headline news across the UK.
They’re an okay band, but far from being anything special.
Oasis always sounded like they were imitating the concept of emotion, in their music, rather than actually expressing any. I don’t believe Liam and Noel Gallagher have ever felt any emotions beyond disdain for one another
They’re musically enjoyable but I do feel like we, as a society, need to truly reckon with how bad Oasis’s lyrics are. My general thought is that they wrote the music first and then said “well let’s not worry about having coherent lyrics, let’s just have me singing words that sound good at the right time in the song”.
