Bands you keep trying to like but can't get into

Neu! too for me.

Cheap Trick always seem like they should be right in my sweet spot but i've had trouble finding any affection for anything besides the big undeniable hits

I've just accepted that they were a singles band. It happens.

Van Morrison is another one for me, although I think all the Jann Wenner types finally stopped trying to guilt everyone into liking him about 15 years ago.

i think wedding dj's (white ones) still bust out "brown eyed girl" when they want the parents to dance.

I keep trying to like Hate Eternal, but I just don't. Their songs are so boring. But Erik Rutan does such an amazing job producing Cannibal Corpse albums that periodically I think, "There's got to be something good about his own band" and I revisit one of the albums and...nope, Hate Eternal still suck.

hah, yeah. cosign on hate eternal.

Afghan Whigs

mussorgsky

I was kinda waiting for this thread to line-up with the Joy Formidable thread, but yeah... them.

Grizzly Bear / Other Lives / Deerhunter - my bandmates love these bands, but they just sound so nothingy to me - like pale imitations of whatever continuum Animal Collective and Arcade Fire were on up to eight years ago.

Nick Cave - I like a lot of things like Nick Cave, but I find him overbearing and not that interesting either.

thread split about halfway between cloth-eared idiots and people stressing about not liking some shit

Grizzly Bear / Other Lives / Deerhunter - my bandmates love these bands, but they just sound so nothingy to me - like pale imitations of whatever continuum Animal Collective and Arcade Fire were on up to eight years ago.

Can't stand any of these bands, including AnCo and Arcade Fire. Sometimes, someone I respect - a poster or some other musician - will namedrop them in passing and I'll go listen to like 15 seconds of a youtube of one of them. Invariably, it does not cause me to waver in my contempt for this garbage. I don't know if that counts toward "keep trying to get into".

I liked the first Arcade Fire album - it had some solid songs on there - and my Animal Collective fandom has been on a steep decline since 2004's 'Sung Tongs' to the point where I can't really bear to listen to their last one at all. The other bands I mention are by comparison all surface, no feeling. The textures are imitated, but that's all - I don't hear anything to come back to at all.

Every time I have to check the iPod to see what the hell that awful track was that just came up on shuffle, it's always Brian Eno. Guess I'll persist, maybe listen to some of his albums on the proper hi-fi at home but maybe it's just not destined to be for me and Eno. Of course, it's totally wrong of me not to like Eno, right?

I've listened to four different Grateful Dead albums trying to find an 'in' but I've got nowhere beyond finding the odd song quite pleasant.

Jefferson Airplane

I don't know if this counts but... Even though I purchase albums recommended to me, new hip-hop albums I like seem to get fewer and farther between as I get older.

One thing you notice though is that a disproportionate number of the aforementioned bands have the most obnoxious fans

Every time I have to check the iPod to see what the hell that awful track was that just came up on shuffle, it's always Brian Eno. Guess I'll persist, maybe listen to some of his albums on the proper hi-fi at home but maybe it's just not destined to be for me and Eno. Of course, it's totally wrong of me not to like Eno, right?

― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:07 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty wrong, although you're talking to someone who named their cat Eno. But there's so much variety in his catalog--which records come up on shuffle? His stuff works best as album-length listening IMHO.

"I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this GARBAGE?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers." -- Nick Cave

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/original/Pot-calling-the-kettle-black-734818.jpg

Scott Walker, idgi

― sleeve, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

first immediate skip on the ilm top 77 spotify list

youse are missing out. but maybe try Scott 4 and then Nite Flights before Bish Bosch.

Can totally see why some people can't get into Scott Walker

I always get him confused with Scott Wyland.

I always get him confused with Scott Wyland.

― how's life, Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:55 AM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/Scott-Weiland_Christmas-300x300.jpg

Funnily enough he had a jolly Christmas number on his last album too

why is nick cave always near a stereo that's playing the red hot chili peppers? or is that just a dream he has a lot?

I'm always near a stereo playing Nick Cave listening to the Chili Peppers.

it is hell

i can't take nick past the mercy seat.

Definitely feel no love for Animal Collective. Seems like my grandma's idea of what psychedelic music should sound like. I guess that doesn't really make any sense, does it?

I'm trying to get in to them at the moment - well, I'm listening to them

... vocals are uh a sticking point

Sung Tongs. Ignore most of the stuff after that.

That's the one I'm trying to listen to

I guess Sung Tongs is kind of nice. They've taken a huge turn for the worse since then.

they are just horrible.

Suicide.

I know how important and influential they are, particularly on bands/artists I do like, but...nuthin'.

Put "Cherie" on a loop, keep going until you get it

What albums have you tried JF? The second one is somewhat less famous, but it is a lot poppier and somehwat less psychotic - might be more up yr street?

Oh, I went through a spell in the late 90s/early 2000s where I collected everything there was (napster!) and I keep going back to it every once in a while to see if it will stick this time. It never does. I've finally decided to give up.

I like some of Martin Rev's solo stuff, though.

Suicide is boring. IMO.

mussorgsky

― the maybe of bâcon (clouds), Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:39 AM

Just go and watch Boris Godunov, or get a good dvd. Original version if possible, not the Rimsky remix. If that doesn't sway you, nothing will.

Beefheart. Mad respect for what he did and all the artists he influenced, and I do like a song or three, but my attention span for his brand of weirdness is just not very great.

But persistence pays off sometimes - with Beefheart, it took aclimating to things similar to him as well as people he influenced to finally make the jump into his world. It's hard to approach music that doesn't fit the core of what we like, but it can happen.

Not a band exactly but I have been introducing myself to Joni Mitchell, and uggggh Heijera is killing me. That fretless bass takes me right out of whatever I could possibly get out of her singing. I've tried a couple of times now, but I think I'm going to have to shelve it and maybe circle back in a few years. Or burn it.

I don't fuck with Heijera, and I like both Mitchell and Jaco. It should work for me. It totally doesn't.

RE: Beefheart: he takes time to get into, but is ultimately pretty rewarding.

Between first hearing Trout Mask in high school, owning and selling Shimy Beast, and just giving Lick My Decals another spin in the last month, I've spent decades with Beeheart. Ten minutes into any album I want to hear something else.