good bands whom you associate with the worst music tastes

grateful dead

MBV?

i don't like "shoegaze"

fair enough

smiths own this thread

the cure

Pulp
Black Sabbath
Nine Inch Nails
Radiohead
Fall Out Boy

Bob Marley.

Mars Volta
O.A.R.
John Mayer

Never thought of Black Sabbath as one of these. Liking them almost seems to have nothing to do with taste. Like have you heard Black Sabbath. I mean duh. You like Black Sabbath.

Daft Punk (in the last few years, that is)

grateful dead!

U2

The Cure

E Street Band

The Rolling Stones

The Beatles, maybe

Miles Davis?

I think maybe we're getting not so much into "=sign bad taste" as "=you're just sort of a douche and don't know diddle" ...??

sign of*, blahblah

Dave Matthews Band
Coldplay
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Neil Diamond
Rage Against the Machine
Barenaked Ladies
The Residents

Don't much like any of the above, but they're all adept at what they do and beloved by millions (or , in the case of The Residents, an enthusiastic several), so it seems churlish to deny their quality. I associate them with musical tastes that are not mine.

Portishead
Vampire Weekend
David Byrne

Every Time I Die/At The Drive In ((scr)emo/hardcore/whatever the fuck that was called fallout)
Lil Wayne/Kanye West (thirteen year old girls and i guess to a lesser extent hipsters)
NWA/Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg/Wu Tang et al (teenage wigger assholes who sell me drugs)
Sam Roberts (middle-aged canadians who think that rock sure ain't what it used to be, but hey that new SR single isn't so bad)

James

And also: Guided By Voices

A lot of bands that fall into this category have been re-evaluated. I remember the moment when I realized that I actually loved Phil Collins and everybody around me realized they felt the same way.

Massive Attack
DJ Shadow
Roots Manuva

There was a time in the late 90s when many records with those three in them would have all sorts of abysmal go-nowhere stoner shit in between.

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Faith No More

-Andrew WK (indie kids who crave fist-pumping rawk 'n' roll but try to keep a safe distance from all those meatheaded AC/DC fans for fear of betraying their totally non-mainstream taste)
-AC/DC (meatheads)

the eagles
fleetwood mac
boston
steely dan

respectable "authentic" grunge acts like the Screaming Trees, Malfunkshun, Mudhoney, and Green River

So, basically anything.

deftones

Yeah I think we're on our way to listing anything we happen to like but also other people have heard of it.

hell is other people listening to music

hell is Metacritic's "best of year" list

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fairly solid taste at a scroll

Thank god for the end key.

seriously?
belle & sebastian, the allman brothers, big star, the palace brothers.

iron maiden. swans.

benny goodman's orchestra.

pearl jam.

benny goodman's orchestra.

― ian, Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:32 PM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark

ok this one just makes me think of all the dudes that i was in jazz band with in lol HS and how they all looked up to and aspired to be like turtle-necked or tie-and-shirt-same-color pasty white jazz d-bags when they grew up

maynard ferguson stans, all of them

"iron maiden. swans."

swans fans have great taste! i was on a swans e-mail list for years and the people there were really well-rounded and very curious listeners. yeah, a bunch of them liked mogwai and godspeed too much, but lots of people did back then.

and maiden fans just like lots of metal! they are the salt of the earth, for real.

if you had said metallica and nine inch nails, i would have gone along with that. (metallica being a once good band)

(and nine inch nails being a once listenable band, i guess...)

wait, that other thread gave me a good idea:

DEAD CAN DANCE

(i love dcd, but i am totally scared of their newage wikkawikka fan-base in the states)

Yeah but the people who like Metallica when they were good generally have good taste in music.

No comment on Nine Inch Nails.

Newage wikkawikka fan-base is actually pretty harmless. More pertinent to this discussion is that those DCD influenced darkwave bands (Projekt's marketing term, not mine). A few, like Sopor Aeternus and Elend have put out some good records, but there's a huge amount of abysmal out-of-tune goth girl w/ one-synth boyfriend material that files under this rubric.

Perhaps this is misguided, but I imagine that most Tom Petty fans are boring as fuck.

Yeah, if someone says to me Tom Petty is one of their fave artists...

How dare you be like that about my mother!

franky, there are probably worse things to say about your mother.

It wasn't genuine indignation, dude.

Smashing Pumpkins, anyone?

The thread specifies good bands.

It wasn't genuine indignation, dude.

The thread specifies good bands.

FWIW, I proudly rep for Petty. But I also know that every '89 white Dodge Caravan with faux-wood paneling came pre-equipped with a copy of Full Moon Fever.

on cassette.

"Never thought of Black Sabbath as one of these. Liking them almost seems to have nothing to do with taste. Like have you heard Black Sabbath. I mean duh. You like Black Sabbath."

OTM. This is the same reason that I didn't list Slayer.

phish

and let me say preemptively fuck all of you for hating phish btw

2 Pac Shakur

And Eminem to some extent.

pat metheney group

tool def otm imo

Also M.I.A although those who have the worst tastes tend to write her off.

Venetian Snares

yes

Yes, rather

the band Yes

Iron & Wine

xp- are you saying Venetian Snares is a good band?

Bob Marley.

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^^^winner of this thread

I don't know anybody else that likes the kind of music I like, so I have nothing to contribute to this thread.

RHCP are a good band? this is kind of a dumb thread

"i am cooler than all the people who like this band"

I am, too.

Just kidding.

RHCP do suck, though.

hoos otm

i guess deftones typify this for me, although i still have a hard time thinking of them as a "good band". I think in the UK their following is quite different from in the US.

MGs I'm afraid

What, like Isaac Hayes? Aretha Franklin? Sam & Dave?

your friend who says "woke" a little too often

Radiohead, obviously. So many people i've known rep for them above all bands