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Music that everyone else loves but you just don't

Like the thread title says, there's some music that everyone else seems to love but I don't.
I don't have their albums, I switch stations if I hear it, my eyes glaze over when yet another thread starts up about how great the remaster of the remastered tapes begins...get a grip I wanna yell it's elevator muzak! :p

Who's on your list then?

Here's some of mine:

Eagles (Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...run's a country mile to get away)
DSOTM
ACDC
Dianna Krall
The Boss (but if he's in a backing band then that's OK(think Warren Zevon) )
Madonna
All Boy Bands
All Girl Bands
ABBA
The Stones...basically everything
Nickleback
Fleetwood Mac (everything since P.Green left)
Adele
The twenty thousand clones of Aretha Franklin
Johnny Winter
Grateful Dead
Lots and lots of Neil Young
U2
Steely Dan all albums except CDTE
The Doors
Led Zep after Houses of the Holy

There's more but that's a start.

I think growing up listening to Grand Funk Railroad ruined me for heavy metal music....nothing compares I'm afraid to Mark, Don and Mel.

......

Yep, I know there's a lot of elevator muzak a lot of Mall muzak in there but ...hey that's where this stuff tends to end up or on baby boomer FM stations.

Now don't get angry, don't get cranky if your favourite music appears in someone's list...just chill and write your own. This is just a thread for people who mightn't like what everybody else likes. Some harmless fun if you like.

You could of course put an alternative to your disliked band/singer/musician in brackets. Even though I didn't, feel free to do so yourself.

Cheers :D
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yu11375
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Hi Brownsfan / Tubegroover,

Thank you for your suggestions.

For me,

Bach - spiritually simplicity (borrowed from Furtwangler)
Beethoven - emotionally humane
Brahms - solitarily loneliness
Schubert - lyrically subtlety

But I just simply can't capture the inner core of Chopin's music. Being a classical music lover for the past 30 years, more than a few times I seriously decided to understand Chopin's music and tried to listen to his music systematically. The results were very disappointing. Ironical as it is that I can even find something enlightening in Bruckner's music.

Whenever my daughter's piano teacher suggests Chopin's piece to her for practicing, he withdraws the idea at once as he realizes his student lives in a no-Chopin-but-everything-else residence.

Poor girl!

Happy Listening.
brownsfan
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Yu, Very insightful comments!
Everything Bach wrote was a prayer. He was a genius and a Lutheran, an inch wide and a mile deep. More focused and profound than simple, I would say.
Beethoven- He had a soul as large as Bach, and his early tutor was a Lutheran and disciple of Bach. But Beethoven did not share Bach's certainty, and instead asked divine questions in very human terms.
Brahms-Yes, after all this life long bachelor's motto was frei aber einsam. Free but alone.
Schubert's music at its best sings with a lyricism that would make even Mozart envious.
Bruckner= I always think of him as the Roman Catholic Bach. I would say the same of him as Bach. Everything Bruckner wrote was a prayer. The character of his music as compared to Bach reflects not only the difference in time but also the difference in theology. However, for a different Bruckner, please try Venzago's Bruckner 2. All I can say is wow! Mario Venzago is on to something.
Mozart-The singer of love and Mahler, the singer of nature, to quote Franz Welser-Most.
Now Chopin? Though I now love his music, it has not provided a window into his soul. For that reason, he will never be as dear to me as Bach or Bruckner, though his music brings me deep satisfaction.
johnnyb53
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Billie Holiday--amateurish heroin-hazed delivery, very limited range (barely an octave)

Glenn Gould--Perfectionist manufactured music; too mechanical for my taste

Diva pop defined entirely by vocal gymnastics rather than singing

Leonard Bernstein--erratic tempos, sometimes so fast the orchestra could barely play it

I never picked up on metal except for Van Halen, and then only when fronted by DLR.

Maria Callas--hard, irritating voice
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mapman
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Nickelback. A few songs are ok.
jdoris
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Led Zepplin
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