bands you don't like but know you should

nice to see you around Brian... haven't seen you around much. Glad to see you stuck with  Balletto di Bronzo.. easy... it is my single favorite album...as you know well..... life isn't all love, peace, and walks in the moonlight...  and if ever you need a soundtrack for 'air keyboarding' 'air guitaring' and 'air drumming' every damn bit of frustration and anger out of you... that is the album. 

and that album taught me that 'air keyboards' smoke 'air guitar'...

Shakespeare wrote: What albums have you tried, Frogger?

hahhaha...  oh.. Progger... the original anti-Genesis fan.  One of ivan's favorites ...

Gabriel era Genesis. I just find them the music lacking in agression & musicianship. And those schoolboy lyrics are abysmal!

For a long time, Bacamarte, but I've warmed up to them recently. But, besides the second song which royally owns, Pseu have eluded me for a while now. C'est Mortel are right up my alley, but I have to stop after a while because I feel like harm is being done to my soul. It's a strange feeling.

NaturalScience wrote: I'm glad, in a way, to see many here that can't get into Genesis, because I always thought there was "something wrong with me" when albums like Foxtrot were being praised to the heavens - I don't hate that record, but I can't place it anywhere near the top prog albums of my collection.  Like micky, the one exception here for me is Selling England which I do consider brilliant - love every second of music on it.

  you are not alone my friend. 

As I said before... I am predisposed to more aggressive.. and less subtle music  Not to say I don't like it if is isn't fiery and passionate.  I have fallen completely for Battiato's music.. and there isn't an aggressive bone in his body.    It is a bit easy to think there is something wrong with you when everyone seemingly loves Genesis.. purveyors of average music... average lyrcis.. average everything damnit hahha.. yet  are praised here as if God himself reached down and put Gabriel in a red dress.  There are people here who I respect completely in knowledge ..both musically and prog-wise that swear on that group.  So I can't  just generalize and say... pretty much what I said earlier in this thread with regards to me personally.. that something like Supper's Ready is a nice track.. but put against some  lesser known 'epics'  it simply is nothing but an average performance.   I can't hold the sword and shield of saying that IF you knew more than the 'same old ...same old.' you would see things the same way I do. For many here love that song ..and know as much.. or more than I do.  That isn't the case... much as I would love it TO be hahha.  It to me encapsulates my feelings about the group.. nice... but not anything that merits the regard others give it.  Maybe it is me perhaps..

 Anyhow...  we are love what we love ..and that is the beauty of music.. and prog.  Like art... for one...it might draw you  in and changes your life...  to the next person...  'eehhhh.. not bad... but where's the paintings of naked chicks'.... and the next person might be repulsed by it... which is as powerful and great a reaction as the other extreme.  That is what prog is about...

No point bashing the bands I don't like.You have a very good point.

The whole point of the thread was not to bash bands you don't like, that's why it was worded ' you should like'.   So be respectful as in, I should like Yes, when I tell people my favorite band is PG era Genesis, lots of them say, ' so you must like Yes'.  All of the members of Yes are excellent musicians, the style is symphonic I should like them, but I've never grown used to Jon's voice.  I've tired for years because I feel I must be missing something, but alas decades pass and still I can't enjoy Yes.

tszirmay wrote: Often seeing a band live can change your opinion quickly and dramatically (Hint GG) . In terms of recordings, one that keeps stumping me all these years in Museo Rosenbach "Zarathustra" ! I LOVE the Italian school (cause I speak the language enough to "capish"!) but I just cannot get their heavy symph  vibe  (maybe "You gotta gettin , to get out" over & over until it happens) . I tried day, night, wine, grappa, various drugs, pills, zen, yoga,standing, sitting, with dinner, fasting ! and Niente!  .  Still in my collection , though, taunting me!

ghost_of_morphy wrote: I have never understood why I should waste a moment of my precious music listening time on Gentle Giant.

Pretty much how I feel about Nektar. I just can't get into them. I know they're revered by many, but I can't. I listened to them a bit in the early '90s, and again more recently at a good friend's insistence, but Nektar, to me, sounds like a band without its own sound. One song sounds like a take on The Moody Blues, another sounds like Pink Floyd or Yes, yet another sounds like Eloy...is it just me?

For the record, I'm not into GG, but at least they have their own sound.