Which artists do you just not get?

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.

What is PJ Harvey all about? I don't get it! I tried to like K D Lang too, but it didn't take. Must be the intial thing...

Nrchy - You plucked out two ringers that I was trying to think of myself. PJ just grates on me and I've tried several albums on numerous occassions. KD's got a great voice but I just can't get into her songs for some reason.

Tomryan - I'm still laughing about the Red M&M's! Reminds me of that great Kevin Spacey film, Swimming with Sharks. I do happen to like some of Springstein's music though. Just shoot me.

Enjoy Nirvana at times in small doses, as I do some other 'unlikely' bands when you consider my broader tastes. In those realms I do really enjoy Tool and Filter in small doses if I'm in the mood. These kind of unlikely preferences keep me way open to all kinds of music. I'll always give something a try, at least a few times.

Not a fan of opera overall, but have heard and been drawn to many gorgeous passages of opera music, and performers whose voices defy confinement. How could you not be moved by someone like Cecilia Bartoli?!

Marco

Kublakhan,

I didn't take your comments to mean you were arguing or debating! Not in the least. I don't know much about Coltrane, the man. My comment about "it's people I don't get" was meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek and to refer to people in general, not anyone specifically.

As for Coltrane, I know and love his music. All I know about him otherwise is that he had a heroin problem for quite a while, but that he became very spiritual later.