Some good ones already, I just want to add:

Anything by:

REM
Cold Play
Morrissey
Bob Dylan (start the slaughter now, but I can't stand any of it)
U2 are pretty much up there
Status Quo

Bob Dylan (start the slaughter now, but I can't stand any of it)

 
I respect your right to be clueless.

Oh, Jonesy!  You HURT me deeply!!!  I love all those bands (except for Status Quo.  Never heard of them)!!  Honestly, my top favorite Bands of all time include both Dylan and U2.....  'Course I'm an 80's child, so meybe there was something in the water that made me like U2, REM, Morrissey, The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Jesus and Marychain, etc...

Can we still be friends??? :)

That's because only the pre-80's Dylan was good.

We won't get into what I think of Bob Dylan, but I thought some of you might find this funny.

I was at a Holiday party a couple of years ago. The hosts were middle aged hippies, and had invited a eclectic group of friends. For some reason the husband puts a Dylan cd in. A few people smiled, and some not so much. A guy standing near me muttered something about "can't stand this guy" and walked off to the kitchen. About a half hour later he comes walking back into the room and this is the conversation.
Guy: This crap is still playing?
Host: Its a compilation I made of Bobs best stuff.
Guy: Why didn't you record different Dylan songs instead of this one
         playing over and over.
Host: I didn't, they're all different
Guy:  Coulda fooled me. (shrugs and walks back to kitchen)


Randy

Hi,

I can't say there is a lot of stuff out there I do not like ... I may not like someone's voice, but they have a right to their expression ... the issue being when some of these folks that are so horny about their fame, have to do things that everyone seems to think raise their ... whatever ...

Elton did a fine rendition of the song ... but it hardly had the strength and meaning that it did when it came out ... but if it was one of her favorite songs ... fine ... let the jet set enjoy their evenings having Elton John sing for you at dinner and bed! But it doesn't mean that it has more meaning for you and I and anyone else. And it was even more meaningless when my own father had written a poem about lit candles in the beach at night during the fascist time in Portugal ... when it was derided and attacked and some of the children got guns to their heads to shut up the father from writing any more "freedom poetry" ... so I'm sorry Elton ... yours is no disgrace .. but it is quite empty!

To me, the worst of them all is Elvis Presley ... in his later years he got better and the music fit him better ... but in the early days it was like the worst rocker around that was trying to suggest to all the girls that he was a better lay than any other guy ... and he was better looking ... and there is no better advertising machine to sell stuff and make money ... than MOVIES ... and you gotta show the ... you get the idea! Talk about white noise and politics ... one guy does it with a gun and it is not ok, but another does it with movies and it is ok! ...

I really thought that the american radio/musicbusiness machine, is by far the worst ... I remember about 20 years ago that some rapper got flamed left and right for the use of language, and all the newspapers and whatnot went after him ... and the record company said that they had fired him ... what a crock of merde that was ... he was sent to another company run by the same company with the name that came from the sister, with a couple of figureheads that made it look like it was not that same record company ... nothing changed, except they had to add another person or two as poster children posing as new executives!

In case you haven't noticed ... so far it's all been about the money and the fame!

In a place where your freedom only means that someone likes Brittany Spears and/or Bruce Springsteen, or ... (heaven forbid) Rod Stewart (gotta be modern now!) ... what does it matter if something is bad or not ... advertising is still going to make you think it's better than it really is anyway and there is no meter anywhere that can value the depth/emptiness of any of these ...

A lot of people (specially in America) don't like Madonna either ... but in many countries she is a symbol of a woman that can say no ... in places where women are subservient slaves ... and could almost be said to not even be people ... thrashed for lies ... no votes ... insulted and beaten because they said something ... and in light of something like that .. I'm sorry Brittany ... you're a little girl that got lucky and you don't even appreciate your wealth and luck!

I once played some Peter Hammill for a lady that ran a new age store here in Portland and she was part of that upper group of people that thought themselves goddesses and the rest of the world was excrement and not spiritual unless you had their crystals ... and even then ... you were never good enough ... all she could say was ... "all that anger" ... and I really wanted to say ... ohh yeah ... you don't have any anger ... you are never incorrect ... your excrement has no smell ... you are so pure ... you have all the crystals ... she was so wrapped up in the image of herself that she could never actually think that anyone else was "real" ... or "spirit" ... when I asked her why a spiritual person had to be on a cd, a book , or in her crystals, but not saying hello to her for her to say it back ... she turned around, and left the room ... I guess she didn't like seeing the ugly witch behind the mirror asking ... mirror mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all ... right to her face!  Sorry ... so sorry ... that is the worst vomit I have ever seen adn felt in my life ... and any music, regardless, including Brittany is fine ...

The hippocrisy is what is NOT fine! It's ok to be wanting to be famous ... it's not ok to abuse the priviledge!

bapu

Bob Dylan (start the slaughter now, but I can't stand any of it)

 
I respect your right to be clueless.

Too bad that Manfred Mann can do Bob Dylan so much better ... but this comment might be way too eccentric for Bapu's humor here ...
 
I liked it when he stopped doing Bob Dylan songs - had one song in every album! -- because Bob had lost it ... and on the next album did a Springsteen song ... and made it famous again ... and is actually better remembered than Bruce's because it became a hit on radio and helped establish Bruce ... he was good already, but in those days he was not being taken as seriously ... even though the concerts were very good.
 
Heck, even Jimi did him better ... or Bryan Ferry ...

Thanks, Strummy... power 70's - that's why I didn't know! I was too young... and at that time, mom had me listening to Streisand and Sinatra and Cats.  Thank God my older cousin made me a mixed tape with Soft Cell and Springstein and other early 80s pop when I was 9.  Otherwise, I might still be listening to Karen Carpenter.

The Kiosk Project

• "Lookin' Out for Love" by Fleetwood Mac

Yeah Jessie I was watching a Fleetwood Mac documentary on BBC TV last week, including recent interviews with many of the various FM band members. That particular number always disturbs me due to what I consider to be a strangely manic vocal from Lindsay Buckingham, the documentary sort of covered the possible reasons that might have been at the time. He seems a lot more grounded nowadays with his young family thankfully

True story - I was having dinner in a Budapest restaurant about 4 years ago and that song came on. Then it came on again. And again. It played about 9 times in a row before a guy at a table near the bar ripped the plug out of the wall.

The horror, the horror..


Back to the subject - the opening piano line of 'I Will Survive' makes me dive for the off-switch to avoid projectile hurling.

Legion

Foxwolfen:
Everything by Springsteen, even Tom Joad and Nebraska? Damn, you're hard on him.

LOL - Bruce Springsteen and Brian Adams are two people that cause an immediate flip of the radio knob. They make my skin crawl.

Not a big Dylan fan here.  I usually don't go on about it, due to the sheer number of people who won't shut up about how great he is.  I'm afraid I'd have to fight off armies if I told anyone how I find that his music triggers menstrual cramps.

Old U2 is awesome.  Present-day U2 is sadly ho-hum.

 
Personally, I find it hard to listen to any of Madonna's stuff
 
 
 
Well, not since the hand of God 'goal' anyway..........
 
 
 

marcos69


That's because only the pre-80's Dylan was good.

Maybe pre-70s. 

It's a good job we all don't like the same stuff isn't it!

What I've heard of his Xmas CD leads me to think it's just a money spinner (obviously) and wouldn't be my first choice of music for the festive period.

Give me the originals any day of the week.