Albums you do not get...a plea for help and understanding

Adele: enough already.  Stop smoking. Stop writing about old boyfriends

Heavy metal: screaming unintelligible lyrics

Rap:Ticking on a cymbal and electronic bass while they talk about drug dealing and killing cops.  Mumble rap, c'mon

Jazz: can't understand sixties experimental.  Uninformed cause I  couldn't even give it a chance

Country:  generic most of the time.  I  like some.

I  always wanted to listen to the groundbreaking stuff.  Synthesizers, sampling, polyrhythms, African rhythms.  Now we've done all that.  Just looking for modern bands of many genres that sound good to me.

I’ve already posted but can please somebody explain Wilco / Uncle Tupelo to me? It just seems generic and uninspiring. This is truly inline with the OPs title. I want to get it but I can’t get thru more than three songs without moving on.

@fdroadrunner    We must be the same person re: musical taste

That's the wonderful thing about music, there are so diverse tastes, they often change over time, so it's totally natural not to "get" a vast chunk of recorded music.

My addendum to the issue:

The audio gear bears a VAST impact on how wide your inclusion zone is, and what you consider as beloved, tolerable, or insufferable. The majority of audiophile systems are overspecialized and they allow only a select few genres to play properly, and the excluded genres / songs are just presented so awful to hunt your nightmares.

A system that does not narrow down your choices can allow access even to genres that you found intolerable. I was surprised to get moved to tears by a few pieces that I previously did not get...

So… The Beatles. They found a formula - the secret key to making good harmonies - but it somehow always comes off as unauthentic. The early work is better, but still maybe I can listen to 1 song per album. For a comparison of their various incarnations, I’d listen to Them, or Lazy Smoke, or Bob Smith any day.