Which artists do you just not get?

Campbell speaks the truth again. have you been meditating or reading the krishnamurti again? i also think springsteen is sincere. Bono is another story all together.

rock virgo referenced limos in regard to these super rich musicians who started in poverty: springsteen once said he doesn't like riding in a limo. he said it's only fun when you know you're not supposed to be in one. that's thinking a long time back for him but at least he still gets it.

Tom waits is someone who really HAS avoided the pitfalls of success and remained humble, always experimenting with his music, pushing himself, unconcerned with public reaction and certainly unconcerned with the way he dresses (joan rivers wont be asking him from what designer he got his tux from anytime soon.)

Opera for sure. I really cannot see what there is to listening to something I need a program to tell me what is being said. I can appreciate the range which some of the singers can hit, but I cannot see anything on it besides that. Most C&W I do not like either and the syuff that is out today is R&R Country. I could appreciate Hank Williams that was Country to me.

FOr Rock I have not come to understand much of Radiohead ,but I have just started to listen to it.The Dead I really do not see much in,but there are a few songs I can appreciate. Never got into the whole Dead scene though ,guess it just went right over my head without stopping to say hey Dude!

Dave Matthews has a few good tunes like "don't drink the water", but the rest go nowhere to me.

The ENYA thing is really stupid to me! Sounds like Mumbles and a woman having an orgasm on drugs! Maybe 1 song I can tolerate. The Cranberries remind me of Enya , but at least they have a voice with words. Kinda having an Orgasm with words.

Some of this stuff I will still try to listen to the stuff with the exception of Opera.

I could make a whole list, but I will stop banging the drum!

I rest my case.................

Please Viggen, give Orff's "Carman Burana" a try. It turned me into a hunter of those rare pieces of musical, non-vocal domineered, opera. (Ooops, I said that word again)!

Having said that - Sorry to have driven so many to write so much.

Many of you have brought up The Greatful Dead. I agree. I don't get it, BUT the "Shakedown Street" is a great album especially for it's "vibe".

Interesting about Nirvana and Kurt. If you like rock, as something other than entertainment value, or some form of mind numbness ( T. Adorno, Aesthetics Theory), Nirvana, had
some interesting things to say, with some blazing chordal progressions, white heat kind of music. Maybe in some very limited way the last of the great rock bands, that had roots from the 60s and 70s. Having said that, I do appreciate the White Stripes, and the Yeah, Yeah Yeahs, as a take on garage band music of the 60s with a tinge of punk.

After Charlie Patten and Robert Johnson, there is not one artist I like for acoustical blues.

After Muddy Waters( the best concert I every saw) and Howlin' Wolf, there is not one artist I like for electric blues.

After Bo Diddley and Buddy Holley, most of the 50s music is
horridly unoriginal (Maybe Fats and Chuck B.), and even their music is highly uneven.

After the Yardbirds and Rolling Stones, most of the 60s music is a take off of their styles.

After Led Zeppelin, most of the 70s stuff is absolutely wretched.

After REM, most of the 80s stuff is bland and boring.

After Nirvana, most of the 90s stuff is unlistenable whining.

I cannot say anything affirmative or negative about the 00s.

It is not that I do not like other artists, but most of is not important or not very artistic, in a aesthetic way. In a very perverted way, I could listen to the Beep Beep song
by the Playmates, it was funny and entertaining.

There is only one pop group I cannot stand in any shape or
form and that is the Beatles.

Country music: After Hank Williams Sr. what more could be said or done, about drinking and lovin'.

Bluegrass: After Bill Munroe or Flat and Scruggs......

Jazz: After Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker........

Classical: Stravinsky was the biggest fraud.

Now that I got that of my chest: Pick up some Alfred
Schnittke and play it loud or G Ligeti and play it even
louder! Probably the most dissonant, incredibly dense
harmonically structured music I have ever heard. I want
more, makes Webern and Schoenberg look like gushing romantics that they were.