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Bands you really tried to like - but failed.

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  • Must have been thirty years ago the BBC had one of those Rockplast gigs of the Dead late one night. I vaguely knew who they were and they were a rock band with long hair and electric guitars so they had to be good, innit? Waited up, had the TV on as loud as I dared and...well, disappointment city...
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    Grateful Dead. I can only assume that my mistake was listening to their stuff whilst stone cold sober.


    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • markvmarkv Frets: 459
    Frank Zappa. I try about once a year because I really should like it apparently but nope ...

    Stone Roses. Perfectly nice music and John Squire clearly knows his way round a guitar but I don't get what the big deal is for some people.
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  • octatonicoctatonic Frets: 33725
    markv said:
    Frank Zappa. I try about once a year because I really should like it apparently but nope ...

    Try 'Roxy and Elsewhere'.
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  • Yes.
    Captain Beefheart.
    Frank Zappa.


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  • Johnson/satriani/vai etc Pretty much any guitar virtuoso "artistes" 
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22516

    Graveyard.

    Their name and image says they should - or could - be a retro 1970s doom band.  They do indeed have a retro sound but to me it's more like late-'60s garage rock.  I buy all their albums but, hand on heart, I don't really like them that much.

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  • octatonicoctatonic Frets: 33725
    Drew_TNBD said:
    octatonic said:
    Periphery.
    I should love it but I just don't hear any songs.
    Sort of feel the same way. Love the tones and the production, but the riffs are a bit disjointed and difficult to really vibe with. The groove seems to take a back seat to cleverness a lot of the time.
    It feels like the musical equivalent of eating a bowl of sugar.
    Sweet/impressive but ultimately unsatisfying.
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30826
    edited September 2016
    U2.
    Stone Roses
    Foo Fighters

    *An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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  • ChuffolaChuffola Frets: 2014
    edited September 2016
    There's so much Zappa stuff that everyone should be able to find something the like!

    I've never got Springsteen or Bob Dylan. 

    I'd love to love them - huge back catalogues, massively influential, some great musicians.  

    Can't stand Bruce's full on saxomophone filled wall of sound stadium stuff and the acoustic / quieter stuff just leaves me cold. Dunno why.

    Dylan - can't get beyond the voice. Generally like his songs done by other people though. 

    My loss, I know ...
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  • The Doors sixth form poetry and no bass player. ugh
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71960
    Radiohead
    Placebo
    Incubus
    Skunk Anansie

    I've owned at least two albums from each of them and really tried to like them… but couldn't.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30826
    Kings of Leon.

    Inbred midwest hipster wannabees

    *An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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  • Did you really try though? Not sure you gave it the old college try...

    Gassage said:
    Kings of Leon.

    Inbred midwest hipster wannabees

    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22516
    ICBM said:
    Radiohead
    Placebo
    Incubus
    Skunk Anansie

    I've owned at least two albums from each of them and really tried to like them… but couldn't.

    I really liked Incubus for their first few albums, but then they got increasingly dull (although perhaps more successful and critically acclaimed).  I bought at least one album too many.

    Skunk Anansie's a good call, I never actually bought any of their albums but I could never see what all the fuss was about.

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  • Winny_PoohWinny_Pooh Frets: 7732
    edited September 2016
    ICBM said:
    Radiohead
    Placebo
    Incubus
    Skunk Anansie

    I've owned at least two albums from each of them and really tried to like them… but couldn't.
    Three of those bands are not worth trying to like.

    Mine is Bjork. Many people and musicians I admire love her stuff. I find it grooveless and hookless. 
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22516
    edited September 2016

    UFO

    Thin Lizzy

    Bear with me here.... good bands undoubtedly, both had great guitarists and classic live albums. 

    But I can never warm to their studio albums, no matter how much I might want to.  They all sound a bit twee, production-wise, and have a lot of songs which just don't match up their best work.

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  • Zep, Radiohead....
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  • Genesis
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  • BensonBenson Frets: 242
    Rush
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  • MossMoss Frets: 2409
    Any My Bloody Valentine pre or post Loveless
    Arctic Monkeys
    Elastica
    Oasis
    Paul Weller's solo stuff
    Dave Gilmour's solo stuff
    Stop crying, start buying
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