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Bands that are popular on these forums that you don't like

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by too_black_too_strong

I've never really liked Johnny Foreigner but everyone on DiS seems to love them so much that i went and checked them out and listened to a lot of their songs and i don't get it at all. why are they so well liked? aren't they just pretty average?

Also, Los Campesinos are awful. they make me cringe so much

any bands you don't like that are popular on DiS??

too_black_too_strong | 09 Jun '08, 21:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i always say this in these threads

but Liars.


ditto

minus 'Broken Witch'.


Anything twee/indie/folky

(girls music basically.)


dude you like Health!

they are sooooo similar!

I dislike Los Campesidinosos.


I agree with Liars

I think 'Drum's Not Dead' in particular is fucking dreadful.

Also, At The Drive-in. Overrated wank.


I thought that a lot of people on DiS

didn't like At the Drive-In. Maybe I'm just mistaken, either way they weren't a bad a band by any stretch of the imagination and infinitely preferable to The Mars Volta; prog-lite wank that makes my skin crawl!


Los Campesinos!

make e cringe alt of the time they are alright some times maybe almost...

JoFo I like quie a lot I just think they are fun and wriet good tunes. They aint breakingany boundrys butI can listen to mad stuff another time.

I dont get Cut opy really I seem to like the idea of it more than I like the music.... like if I dont listn to them I start think ae cut copy are alrihgt....then I play the and its just avrge boarin 80s/90s revival chart pop dance.


ill back up

los campesinos, i just dont get them?


Johnny Foreigner, Frightened Rabbit

Fight like Apes, Foals.


I dont think Fols are popular on here

I agree with you on Frightened Rabbit they sound boaring as do Fleet Foxs.


Is it the moment to say...

volcano!


yes...

it is the very correct moment to mention volcano!


Wild Beast

if hey are popular on here I dunno but I think thy are horible


I can see

Johnny Foreigner and LC! being 'popular' choices in this thread.

Going back a couple of years it was Arcade Fire although that was more complete frustration of not being able to see what the fuss was about rather than me really disliking them.


i really don't understand folk

who don't'get' Frightened Rabbit
Midnight Orgain Fight is one of the greatest records this year


I get them easy enough

they just dont excite me at all. They are just a bit boaring and generic sounding indie.


fair play

each to their own, personally I love em to bits


yeah indeed

I haven't hear a album of it but I dont think I could after hearing the odd track. Glad ou like um though


Yeah

I completely agree, I would probably go as far as to say that its been the album I've played the most this year...


youthmovies

arent very good either


dunno

not heard any of them


Not so much don't like

but can't get excited over.
Foals, 65dos, Wild Beasts, Animal Collective, MMISL.
Still, each to their own and all that.


MMISL is mine.

I saw them live and thought they were turgid.


MMISL

i assume this is an acronym for something??


Meet Me In St Louis

I think there ace :)


oh yeah!

i like them too. never seen them referred to by acronym.
didnt they split up a few months ago?


I think they split near the begining of the year

:( I never got to see them play :(


Johnny Foreigner

big time.

I want to burn his vocal chords.

Stop singing with an American accent. Just Stop it.


^^^ thats what i thought!

i thought he must be american? and just like living in glasgow?


the dirty projectors

just dont see the appeal


Lemme see

Fleet Foxes
Born Ruffians
Let's Wrestle
Animal Collective
Frightened Rabbit
volcano!
Bon Iver
Arcade Fire
of Montreal
Sebadoh


i just cant see

how anyone could not like Bon Iver?
I am a big fan of Born Ruffians/Arcade Fire but can see how they divide opinion.
As for the rest, I completely agree. Especially Animal Collective, horrible stuff.


I don't get

Los Campesinos, they are not that good and The National bore me. I went out and bought boxer cause everyone on here raved about it but I didn’t get the hype.


oh yeah The National

snore.......


^ this

Don't understand the attraction at all.


I know there are loads...

No Age and Xiu Xiu are the only two I can think of right now, not so much that I dislike them intensely as that I can't see what all the fuss is about. I don't like Why?
I do like Johnny Foreigner and LC! a lot though.


i agree

completely about JF, LC! i kind of like though, they were fun live, but on record they don't quite capture it. Also, Bon Iver - one decent tune, the skinny lovers one, but the rest is a little dull i find.


LOS CAMPESINOS!


Nobody

will admit to having liked Los Campesinos in five years. Rather like The Streets.

Also, 65 Days of Static, the Arcade Fire and Foals are all limited, mediocre talents who've got very lucky indeed.


I'll happily admit

The streets 1st album is brilliant and I like them,then again I also like L!C so :p

I don't really know whats big on the forum but I don't really like Foals, or Battle, I never really got it. Lots of people hating Johnny Foreigner but I've not heard enough to form an opinion.

Animal Collective, I never used to get but I love them now, and those insulting MGMT or Arcade Fire I say give them more chance, they are actually great.

People who are hating things, what do you like? I'd be interested to know what kinda things you listen to instead


also: No Age


No Age

are just a bit wank aren't they really...


MGMT

are quite liked on herea bit. And i think they're awful.

Also Johnny Foreigner well overated.


Also

that Lykkie Li or whtaver her name is. And Robyn if she's liked on here.
Just rubbish.


The Smiths

ive never realy understood them they made a few good songs but i keep felling im missing out. i just keep thinking The Cure are so much more talented


this, ^

along with animal collective and fleet foxes.


oasis

don't see the appeal, personally.


^


Wrightylew does,

I think.


radiohead

but there's a lot of non-radiohead fans here too, so that's okay.


Johnny Foreigner

pretty wanky rubbish really.

Foals, Santogold, Hot Chip.


and another.

basically i hate everything.


Muse.


yndi halda

they might as well have put a sign in the middle of the stage that read "POST-ROCK", left it at that and saved me half an hour of predictable generic tedium.


^hahaha

a lot of post rock bands are like this, you need a lot of talent to not make it sound reaaly boring


LCD Soundsystem

Fucking hate them, the racket they make drives me insane and makes me want to leave the room.

Animal Collective (they're like fingernails on a blackboard to my ears)

Interpol, Johnny Foreigner.

There are countless others but I can't be arsed. Oh, Guided By Voices. What a disappointment.


guided by voices

good call


What

do you like?


Nothing.

I hate music.


:)


Animal Collective

I really don't get it.

At all.

And also Grizzly Bear.


Johnny Foreigner and Foals

are the first to spring to mind.


Times New Viking

why put all that unlistenable fuzz over otherwise half-decent pop songs?


^kind of this I can see the appeal

but I always find myself straining to pick up the melodies underneath the fuzz.


Foals

and also Battles, although i think if i bothered to listen to battles properly i might like them.

Most of my favourite bands are on this thread :(


same :(

i love times new viking
but i started it, i have no-one else to blame


seeeee this thread is much more depressing than mine

but more fun i guess and better chance to be truley smug and awfully indie :)


^

LC! & JoFo :(


Really not a fan

of Johnny Foreigner. I bought the Los Campesinos! album based on peoples opinions on here. I think some of the tracks are good, but im not sure its as good as people say.


I cant be arsed

with any bands with swear words, spanish words or exclamation marks in their names. "look at us, we're indy!"


Thats stupid

Most of my favourite bands have absolutely shite names that I cannot justify in any way. It doesn't make them bad musically though.


LCD Soundsystem

Fuck Buttons
Los Campesinos
Liars
Johnny Foreigner
The Field
Frightened Rabbit
Interpol
The Smiths
Morrissey
Bob Dylan
Leonard Cohen


Cutting Pink With Knives

Sunn O)))
Boris
Rolo Tomassi
Interpol
Foals
No Age
(to an extent) Les Savy Fav


I love LSF's live show

but just can't get into their albums...


I really like Johnny Foreigner.

I peronally don't think much of Fugazi and they're one of the uber-popular DiS bands.


foals

how why?

i dont really like No Age, but i see why people would, but it is hardly original, to me it sounds like apples in stereo being remixed by david lynch.
battles are also quite boring, and i cant stand the chipmunk voice.
anything else i either havent heard or just dont pay any attention too.


Twee/Folk/Indie

JoFo
Los Campesinos!
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes
Multiple Indie bollocks
and all the 'scene' stuff people abng on about just to appear 'cool'.


youthmovies - proper rubbish

meet me in st louis - alright i get it, you like at the drive-in.

this town needs guns - not terrible, but not very good either. why don't we all listen to owls or american football instead.

65 days of static - they sound like linkin park.


whilst i respect your disliking of something,

please describe how 'Hole' sounds like 'Crawling'


whilst i respect your disliking of something,

please describe how 'Hole' sounds like 'Crawling'


srsly,

if you imagine linkin park without the mad rap skillz, i think it would sound pretty close to what 65 days of static sound like.


How...

How can you compare 65 to Likin' Pork?!

Your opinion is wrong, sir.

Personally, I'm gonna go for Foals... they just aren't good.