You-can't-possibly-hate-them bands

[MidnightViper88]

Yes, everyone has different opinions and tastes on which bands they like, while also going as far as saying which bands they think suck...But screw opinions; It's a fact that this band is so phenominal and musically intelligent that it's almost a sacrilege to even think about not liking them...

What bands are they?

[gaekwad2]

Boredoms

[Schmeet]

It's that band... the one with guitars and drums in it...

[eheiney]

My picks: Tool and Nine Inch Nails

I just love 'em! I can't see why anyone could possibly hate them!

[gaekwad2]

How about

Nine Inch Nails for first ripping off Ministry, then completely selling out.

And Tool for a singer who sounds like a cross between Thom Yorke and Scott Stapp (actually the whole band sounds like Radiohead meets Creed).



(seriously, it's very easy to hate both of them just for being over-hyped)

[eheiney]

Never!

I knew that post would draw some responses, but I still don't care.

[skryingbreath]

I see no reason why people hate Opeth or Steve Vai. Both have incredible guitar arrangements. Opeth has some of the most stunning lyrics ever to be spoken. Both are genius.

[Mr_007]

Marilyn Manson And Cradle Of Filth Specially From Cradle to inslave Cradle of filth video that made in year2002.

[Spazz333]

Call it sacrilige but I hate Cradle of Filth. Hate is actually too weak of a word. I hate them so much I'd rather push a pen through one ear and out the other, it's just that much less painful.

Anyway, enough flaming. I'd have to say Pink Floyd or Black Sabbath for the can't possibly hate them.

::edit:: Just had to say. I don't see NIN ripping off Ministry. The little I've heard of Ministry sounds nothing like Pretty Hate Machine. The Downward Spiral does have a resemblance, but if one band was ripping off another, shouldn't I like both? I, for one, don't like Ministry but love NIN.

[Cylob]

Originally posted by Spazz333
::edit:: Just had to say. I don't see NIN ripping off Ministry. The little I've heard of Ministry sounds nothing like Pretty Hate Machine. The Downward Spiral does have a resemblance, but if one band was ripping off another, shouldn't I like both? I, for one, don't like Ministry but love NIN.

Their paths did converge in the early 90's (Psalm 69 is similar to Pretty Hate Machine) but then most industial bands were using the same formula. I much preferred Ministry's 80's output, when they sounded like an intelligent/angry post-punk outfit. The "same old same old" industrial of the 90's had a cleansed, clinical feel (basically it was shit).

Do we have to respond to Marilyn Manson???!

Everyone loves Curve....

[gaekwad2]

Originally posted by Cylob
Everyone loves Curve....

BZZZT!

Indie-Eurythmics


And about Pink Floyd: In the 80s they were the band everybody (who was hip) loved to hate. Even in'91 when Massive Attack said they liked them it caused a lot of raised eyebrows.

[zootm]

Annie Lennox/Eurythmics

ADMIT IT.

[gaekwad2]

Do Not Want!

[Cylob]

Originally posted by gaekwad2
BZZZT!

Indie-Eurythmics


And about Pink Floyd: In the 80s they were the band everybody (who was hip) loved to hate. Even in'91 when Massive Attack said they liked them it caused a lot of raised eyebrows.

I can live with indie-eurythmics, they weren't a bad band at all. Much much better than indie-erasure.

I'm still not comfortable with Pink Floyd, the anti-prog-rock-lobby of the 80's did a good hatchet job. What makes me laugh is, Floyd fans get irritated when you label them 'prog rock', despite the fact many tracks take the length of a whole Buzzcocks single to even begin. What is it then?

Magnum, there's a band everyone loves.

[gaekwad2]

I wonder who'd be Indie-Erasure. Gene?

[Cylob]

Laugh, I nearly choked to death.

Close, but I'd say..... Goldfrapp....?

[gaekwad2]

Goldfrapp are Indie-Yazoo of course. Right up to the singers' first names.

[Lewis Holt]

Originally posted by zootm
Annie Lennox/Eurythmics

ADMIT IT.

I'll admit she's nothing without the miracles of studio technology (reverb, multilayering her voice, etc.) I heard her perform sans audio enhancements...she had nothing to fall back on

Annie Lennox's version of Neil Young's "Don't Let It Bring You Down" from the movie "American Beauty" was commendable though

[gaekwad2]

But only until you hear Victoria Williams' version.

[zootm]

Originally posted by Lewis Holt
I'll admit she's nothing without the miracles of studio technology (reverb, multilayering her voice, etc.) I heard her perform sans audio enhancements...she had nothing to fall back on

It's strange, I've heard a few unenhanced live/acoustic performances, and she always sounded great...

[Cylob]

She has a great voice, but she does need someone like Dave Stewart who knows how to use it. Her solo career was a pale imitation of Eurythmics, which proves the point that the best voice in the world is nothing without a decent tune.

[dlichterman]

The Rolling Stones....


or now more aptly called the "Strolling Bones"

[zootm]

Originally posted by Cylob
Her solo career was a pale imitation of Eurythmics, which proves the point that the best voice in the world is nothing without a decent tune.

This is fairly true. If I remember correctly most of her best solo work was covers, which is quite telling.

[Mattress]

I'd have to say Shpongle. Even if you hate psychedelic trance/dub as a genre, they do it better than anyone.

[k_rock923]

Beatles. Pink Floyd. The Doors.

[Cylob]

Daft Punk, Les Rythmes Digitales, Stardust.

[Mattress]

Daft Punk == Stardust
pretty much.

[OutlawJim]

I'm totally in agreement with Zoot on Annie Lennox/The Eurythmics.

I love NIN, but I can totally see how people wouldn't like them. Bon Jovi seems like the sort of thing that everyone shouldn't mind listening to. I can see people not thinking they're amazing or anything, but I really don't understand how, like, if you were at a party or something, how you couldnt enjoy a bit of Slippery When Wet, or Keep The Faith.

I find it hard to think of a band who I consider as the sort of band you cant HATE.

for example, i love Alanis Morissette, but I can see how people would dislike her voice.

[gaekwad2]

Originally posted by OutlawJim
Bon Jovi seems like the sort of thing that everyone shouldn't mind listening to. I can see people not thinking they're amazing or anything, but I really don't understand how, like, if you were at a party or something, how you couldnt enjoy a bit of Slippery When Wet, or Keep The Faith.

Well, those were long ago and long forgiven, but then they had to make It's My Life...



(not even mentioning their awful ballads)

[ScorLibran]

Originally posted by Cylob
I'm still not comfortable with Pink Floyd, the anti-prog-rock-lobby of the 80's did a good hatchet job. What makes me laugh is, Floyd fans get irritated when you label them 'prog rock', despite the fact many tracks take the length of a whole Buzzcocks single to even begin. What is it then?

Really? I'm not at all uncomfortable putting them in the progressive rock genre. Although they also fit other subgenres as well, namely art rock, space rock and psychedelic rock.

And even though I'm the biggest PF fan I know, I'd be naive to say there aren't high points and low points in their career. My favorite era of theirs, recently, is their old psychedelic stuff, 1967 to 1971. I also very much like their "more" progressive stuff, from Dark Side to The Wall.

Their biggest low point (and many would agree with me) was around the time Roger left the band. The Final Cut is by far their most unremarkable album, in my opinion.

But I consider the Roger-less era of Momentary Lapse to The Division Bell to be another great time in their history, although it has to be judged on its own; not in comparison to their pre-1982 work. It wasn't as good as their earlier work, but it was still good in its own right. Waters may have been the chief mastermind of most of their greatest political angst-filled work of the seventies, but Gilmour (and Mason and Wright, to a lesser degree) must be given proper credit as a great writer and musician as well.

And then, in the beginning, there was Syd. Oh Syd...Moderation, man. Moderation. You could have still been a part of the whole thing after 1968.

As I always say, music is entertainment, and entertainment is subjective. But even though I'd say "How can you hate Pink Floyd?", I'd also be the first to say that a particular "era" of the band should be picked for this judgment (as should be done for any long-lived band). And this would also only apply to someone who likes the particular genre of the band. So...

"If you like psychedelic rock, how could you possibly hate Pink Floyd circa 1967 to 1971?"

[eheiney]

As I always say, music is entertainment, and entertainment is subjective. But even though I'd say "How can you hate Pink Floyd Nine Inch Nails?", I'd also be the first to say that a particular "era" of the band should be picked for this judgment (as should be done for any long-lived band). And this would also only apply to someone who likes the particular genre of the band. So...

"If you like psychedelic industrial/electronic rock, how could you possibly hate Pink Floyd Nine Inch Nails circa 1967 1994 to 1971 1997?"

[ScorLibran]

[gaekwad2]

If you like playing Trout Mask Replica at 78rpm how can you possibly hate early Melt-Banana?

[gaekwad2]

Pixies

[Cylob]

Polysics!

Originally posted by ScorLibran
"If you like psychedelic rock, how could you possibly hate Pink Floyd circa 1967 to 1971?"

It's not a case of hating them, it's more a case of "not listening to the albums, for fear of liking it and falling into the pink hole".

Pink Floyd have huge gravity, I'm comfortable at a safe distance.

For now.

Led Zeppelin are another such band...

[gaekwad2]

Speaking from experience I'd say that danger is grossly obverstated.
But maybe I was just immunized by early childhood exposure.


Back on topic:

Melvins

[protegechris]

The Lovehammers.
http://radioblogclub.com/open/65921/5/lovehammers
You really have to hear their live and older stuff.. the latest CD is a bit overproduced IMO. Lemme know if anyone wants to hear some.

Hrm.. I don't want to name a billion bands but nobody will know of any of them

[Mattress]

Switchfoot I think they do rock proper.
They're one of the few rock bands I still enjoy listening to.