good bands whom you associate with the worst music tastes

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