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

idgi either, so boring

OTM, their music has always just slid right off my brain.

IDK if I would even call their style "American indie;" it's something even more colorless.

+1 to the above

they are... not difficult to make fun of

such challenging original opinions itt

Angel Olsen, mainly because we lived in the same town, but no

i absolutely cosign on the national. i think i saw them play about 15 years ago in perpignan at the fnac for free in front of maybe 15 people (they weren't famous yet) and thought what an unmemorable boring guitar band that will never go anyway. i was wrong and right at the same time.

you guys really “keep trying to like them”? all it took for me was hearing the singer open his mouth and I was out

it's true I never really tried

and last night I watched a Showtime documentary about Jeff Beck who seems like a chill guy in addition to being a supremely talented and inventive musician and who likes a fair amount of music adjacent to music I like but I'm not really gonna try him either

it seems like maybe he is the joe satriani of the second british wave (and there aren't really any tunes?) and when in the mood for fusion noodling there is always the *actual* john mclaughlin

wave=invasion

Jeff beck is great we can have him and mahavishnu John

“Blue wind”!

“Beck’s Bolero”

“Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers”

so many tunes omg

McLaughlin/Mahavishnu is so *intense* in its shredding. Joe Satriani of the second British wave is not totally off the mark, but Beck's gift is in his lyricism (see: his tremelo/volume knob virtuosity). Though tbh I literally never listen to his albums, it's worth perusing a few youtube clips. Like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toMTAHsz26I

xp ok I know those but what else

Gah, now I'm watching a bunch of Billy Cobham clips on youtube, thanks a lot (but also, seriously, thanks a lot, Billy Cobham is rad)

it’s just really pleasurable hearing him do his thing, and the backing/production is always way way better than satriani records

Yeah I can understand that...but I mean the early run of Beck records as I remember them are just kind of lacking...personality?

ftr I love the faces

I've tried Jeff Beck several times and I don't hear anything there at all. Totally lacking in personality, plus I'm not exactly convinced of Rod Stewart's worth either.

Billy Cobham is amazing to listen to sometimes but other times it's like watching a guy keep a soccer ball in the air for 45 minutes - you would have been happier watching him do it for 5.

I dig Beck's playing in that video above but that band behind him is leaden and absent enough that it sounds at times like one of those shreds vids

There are some old clips on YouTube of him with Jan hammer that are pretty dope

Obviously some folks here haven't raved-up w/The Yardbirds!

J/K That probably won't change your minds either.

"Scatterbrain"!

I like the band with Vinnie and Tal.

xxp I have a 2CD Yardbirds comp (Rhino) that def. did not make me a fan. (I guess “British Invasion Rock” in general is something I have tried and failed to get into, with a few minor exceptions...)

Um “happenings ten years time ago”???? dude

“Over under sideways down” is the freakiest danciest freakbeat madness

I’ll give it another shot

(I guess “British Invasion Rock” in general is something I have tried and failed to get into, with a few minor exceptions...)

Totally with you on this. I find the next stage, British teacups-and-lace-cuffs psychedelia, similarly worthless.

there’s a smokin live disc with page that came out recently too... disc 2 of that “yardbirds 68” set... that’ll get your motor running

no lace or teacups there, just straight up whiskey soaked blues rock terror

yes, this is killer

I've never been able to get into the Yardbirds. Or Traffic. Or Blind Faith. Or Clapton in anything, not even much of Derek & the Dominoes, tbh, though I want to keep trying with that one.

Clapton is a nobhead though so understandable. What about Cream?

Traffic are great.

yardbirds are great but they sound pretty different from any later clapton stuff to me. i like cream and some of the layla album well enough but can't really get into anything else.

Wouldn't lump Traffic in with the other bands listed at all.

Apart from Blind Faith!

I think I cut off liking Clapton at about the Laylah lp too. May have been way too mainstream after that.
Do like the earlier stuff for the main part though.

I'm not a big Cream fan, either - though I do like Ginger Baker solo!

I did have a Best if Cream tape that I liked as a kid; those are good songs, though I wouldn’t listen on purpose these days.

Beck's playing style kind of annoys me (Wired/Blow by Blow and on) Yardbirds are good but if you don't like the 2cd Rhino comp mentioned up thread you don't like them

Cream has a bit of "you had to be there" I think, influential but so quickly eclipsed by a wave of Cream inspired heavy rock/proto metal

Small Faces/Faces are fantastic

I do like the Cream pop tunes, maybe those were Bruce mostly?

Beck's playing style now is the end product of a natural impulse to throw in little licks and inventive tricks to spice things up in a song you've played forever... problem is that these little touches accumulate over time and eventually you've lost the core of what it was, it's all these little doo-dads and volume knob squiggles

like at what point do you cease being a fish with feet and start being an amphibian?

Like many, I pretty much have no use for Clapton's music after the Layla album.

The moment he shut himself away as a smack-addled recluse in the early '70s, it was over, and coaxing him out to do tours when he'd merely swapped smack for booze and coke was a huge mistake.

i love disraeli gears, mainly for clapton's leslie-boosted guitar tone, but cream is basically a singles band, and a ten-track comp of their best songs would be a bit disjointed but it would also rip

yeah I like their quirky pop Tales of Brave Ulysses/I Feel Free type shit

Clapton was such a purist he quit the Yardbirds because they finally wrote a good song

I honest will give the Yardbirds comp another go; it’s been a while.