You like, I dislike

areazione wrote: Why is Krautrock usually as joyful and pleasent as a bbq in a desecrated cemetery eating rotten meat baking at midday's summer sun?

And i don't understand the success of Led Zeppelin. I don't completely dislike their music but it's really badly produced and performed.

Progosopher wrote: Most bands in any of the metal categories ultimately bore me.  It is exciting for one song, then it all starts to sound the same.  This includes older classic bands as well as newer ones, notably Porcupine Tree, Opeth, and Metallica.   The album We're Only in it for the Money is mostly random noise and has no artistic value.  The same goes for Trout Mask Replica.   Kobaian simply sounds like a mix between German and French, no big deal.  And what is the point of singing in a language nobody else knows?   Radiohead is dull and Sigur Ros is coma inducing.   Tool does what they do very well but they only do three or four things, so after three or four songs they repeat themselves.  They also repeat themselves in all of their songs.  This all ends up with a lot of repetetion.   I wish Dream Theater would stop showing off and just play some songs.  Ones that don't sound like Metallica.  Their lyrics are sophmoric.   Zappa wallowed in way too much juvenalia.   Blackmore's Night is for tween girls, not the demographic I belong to.   Steve Morse has been playing the same guitar solo for 25 years.  Granted, it is a good one, but still.   Anybody can listen to what they want for whatever reasons they want.  That is not anybody else's decision.  These are just some of my negative views.

I don't like Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater, and I find that Gentle Giant's albums after "In a Glass House" are really lame.

There, I said it.

I dislike when people take a genre of music (or artist) and say "it all sounds the same." I mean it's one thing if you can back it up with real facts (all the songs by this artist start in the same key, or similar chord progressions, etc.) but usually it's just an excuse for them to slam on something they don't like and say their own favorites are superior. And it's lame.

I particularly dislike Peter Gabriel's singing.

There, just the favourite singer from this forum, and one among my very least favourites in prog.

There's not too many works I really dislike, but when I do, oh boy.

I'm really not to fond of Lumpy Gravy or Filmore East, June '71, both by Frank Zappa and both of which were flat out boring. The ideas in the former were done much better with We're Only In It For The Money and Uncle Meat and the latter with Overnite Sensation, Sheik Yerbouti and Joe's Garage.

Mirror Man by Captain Beefheart. Really don't see why Lester Bangs thought this was much better than the live disc of Cream's Wheels Of Fire; at one point, Bangs said that the Magic Band's jamming was better and more varied than Cream's. I don't hear it. "Tarotplane" and "Mirror Man" drag just as much as the Fire versions of "Spoonful" and "Toad" and have just as little variation. I will admit that "Kandy Korn" is funny and "25th Century Quaker" is a decent foreshadowing of Can's minimalistic styled work, but the other two tracks I can do without, other than to show why Beefheart's songs weren't meant to pass the 10-mintue mark.

More by Pink Floyd. Half the album is brillaint ("Main Theme", "Cirrus Minor", "NIle Song", "Ibiza Bar", "Green Is The Color", "Cymbaline"), while the other half is either inconsequential or, in the case of "Quicksilver", a total waste of time.

Valleys Of Neptune by Jimi Hendrix. A subpar compilation of outtakes, especially when compared to First Rays Of The New Rising Sun and South Saturn Delta; in fact, the title track of Neptune could have just been put into one of the other two works.

Master of Time wrote: I agree with most everything you said here except I don't really know anything about Zappa, I like some occasional Sigur Ros, I love Kobaian, and the only person I know that listens to Blackmore's Night is 53, and a man.

Well, there are exceptions to every rule.    Just some quick views on my part, not always thought through or deeply.  I deeply respect Zappa and like a lot of his music, there are just some aspects of it I don't care for.  Rather than just spew out a few names, I thought I would provide some more color to my thoughts.

I like Greenslade.

Edited by coolerking - May 29 2012 at 09:18