Who's your "I just don't get it" artist?

[bigboy_78]

Puts on flame suit and says.................Jaco.

 

[Blissful_Lad]

The Beatles

I see what you did there. Very clever!!!

 

[Oddly]

Rush.
I've tried, and while I'll accept they may be fine musicians, I can't listen to them.

 

[bigboy_78]

Anyone who writes lazy lyrics. For example:

Under my umbrella -ella, -ella, eh, eh, eh
Under my umbrella -ella, -ella, eh, eh, eh
Under my umbrella -ella, -ella, eh, eh, eh
Under my umbrella -ella, -ella, eh, eh, eh

That's a chorus? Geesh.

Nah it's not a chorus. The chorus is:

When the sun shines, we shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said I'll always be your friend
Took an oath that I'm a stick it out till the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella

A nice play on "in sickness in health, for richer or poorer" etc

"Nah, Nah-Nah, Nahn a nah-nah, Nahn a nah-nah, Hey Jude" has to set the gold standard for lazy lyrics.

 

[skygzr]

I'd start with Bob Dylan and Randy Newman for the same reason....I just cannot get past their voices.

On the other hand, I think Neil Young is pretty cool, and his voice is well, you know.....

And, since you ask, I bet I've tried half a dozen times to "get" Gentle Giant. I really did. I don't hate them, I just don't get it. Ditto the Grateful Dead.

 

[aldaa]

animal collective, bruce springsteen, glam/hair rock

 

[Bass Man Dan]

i dunno about that.
Back then...no web, no books, no teachers, etc. Their records taught a lot of us how to play and arrange for...what else...2 guitars, bass, and drums.
"Musicianship" also includes how they used the studio. IMO.

Granted, they were not Cream...

I agree, bad choice of words. None of them were virtuosos. That's all.

 

[5StringBlues]

Guns and Roses

 

[gln1955]

Jimi Hendrix.

I am of that era and played guitar then. Still didn't think much of what he did.

 

[Spectrum]

Nickelback. I don't understand why I'm the only one that doesn't like them.

 

[aldaa]

Nickelback. I don't understand why I'm the only one that doesn't like them.

I can assure you that I've met more people who absolutely hate them vs people who like them.

 

[Aqualung60]

Led Zeppelin.

 

[joker820]

Elvis Costello, U2 (vertigo might be one of the corniest songs ever), Springsteen (sounds like he stepped on a nail), Imagine Dragons, too many to list really...

 

[cmcbass]

Prince

 

[BubbaZed]

Springsteen and Clapton.

 

[Wandering Bass]

Kiss - no matter how much they go on about being "real" rock they are simply soulless pop music.

 

[Bassngtr]

Cue the hate: Jaco

Amazing talent, technique, and inventiveness? Without question.
But to me it's always been: huh?? I just don't get it, not because I haven't tried or that it's intellectually beyond me...I just don't like what I hear. At all. I own Heavy Weather and for years kept trying to like it, but I just don't.
And that tone - OMG that tone is everything I hate about a bass tone.

If Jaco was all I knew of bass playing, I never ever would have picked up a bass.

And he'd be well within his rights to list ME as the answer to this question, if anyone had ever heard of me.

 

[kodiakblair]

I've never got Jaco but then apart from a couple of Stanley C funky numbers I don't care for solo bass tunes.
Rush,Yes and the whole Prog thing is another alien concept.
The Beatles I get as a pop group,what I don't get is the god-like status some folks in the US give them. It's a bit different over here in the UK.

So far I'm agreeing with every artist folks have listed.

 

[RichardW]

Zappa
Bjork
Bon Jovi

 

[5StringBlues]

5StringBlues



I figured I'd say it before someone else does.................