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Never got the point of Stevie Wonder. At. All.

boudicca wrote:Good topic! I can think of loads of cases of this.

Perhaps the most obvious one for me (though it is a bit ambivalent) is The Beatles' Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It comes top of poll after poll of greatest albums, and I do have to say the first time I put it on, aged 10, my life changed there and then. That was the moment I stopped listening to the charts and what was being played to me on the radio and started to seek out what I liked.

However it is by no means the Beatles' best - for that I'd say probably Revolver, though I have a soft spot for Rubber Soul, Abbey Road and even *gasp* Magical Mystery Tour. I'd much rather listen to any of them these days. And all Beatles albums did have their terrible moments... usually something to do with Paul being twee or Ringo being given a microphone

Just opened up this thread to satisfy my curiosity and see which bands were disliked. Then I stumbled upon this post with the 'B' word repeated several times. I dislike them with a passion, and can hardly wait until the day I won't be subjected to them anymore, anywhere, anytime, at all. Now, admittedly, it's not the band's fault. They wrote some great songs and the music scene wouldn't be the same without them. I acknowledge that. But all my life, I encountered these zealots whose life's ambition it was/is to drive a sane person mad by subjecting him/her to fan fanaticism bordering on hysteria and trying to convert said sane person. On the radio too : no day would go by without hearing at least one song of theirs. For me, there was no escaping this band and I've always felt it was being rammed down my throat. 'B' rape, as it were. A mild appreciation for them grew into intense dislike and, today, allergy to all things related to this band. See, a couple of years ago, I ended up in Music Hell, when I unknowingly ended up sharing an appartment with people who were the epitomy of the aforementioned zealotry. For three years in a row I was subjected to this band's music 24/7. I kid you not. Everything the band ever did, said, recorded, taped for screening, what other people said about them, bootlegs, rarities... Everything was analyzed, dissected, sung and repeated thrice a day and discussed ad infinitum. To make matters even worse, they even had this cover band that rehearsed at the appartment two nights a week. So even if this traumatic time has been behind me for three years now, I still suffer from its aftereffects (call it a post traumatic 'B' syndrome) and even if I hear just one of their songs once a year, I react to it by attempting to either remove myself away from it as fast and far as humanly possible or have the song removed from my vicinity. While everyone and their grandmother reveres them, I abhor being subjected to them and their music for as little as a nanosecond...

Do you feel better for that?

You mean, other than the sweat and fear of waking up after having had another nightmare about Sir Paul et al?

P.S.: Don't point that thing at me unless you mean it...

boudicca wrote:Never got the point of Stevie Wonder. At. All.

Ever heard any of these ?

New Order is one group that I just couldn't get into.I have listenend to loads of their music over the years and I respect them a lot and I know they are adorerd by many but they never worked for me.

Spigel wrote:New Order is one group that I just couldn't get into.I have listenend to loads of their music over the years and I respect them a lot and I know they are adorerd by many but they never worked for me.

I feel that way about Echo and the Bunnymen

i don't like anything legendary, if anything it makes me suspicious of the act. This whole concept is one created by media and corporations, they choose to promote some artists and make them legendary. It's all completely irrelevant to me. And, objectivelly looking at them, they really are full of crap. Like Black Sabbath, or Pink Floyd, or U2, or Guns N' Roses, or Nirvana, or or or.

There's different reasons as to why different things have been promoted over everything else and created into legendary status in our minds.

In line with what Boudicca said about Mr Wonder. I've always thought that being his manager, album sleeve artist ,accountant or stylist must be the easist job in the world.

Some examples that may of occured :

Wonder to his laughing stylist : " Are you sure this won't make me look like a complete tw*t on global television?" - moments before he takes to the stage at Live8 in that riduclous poncho thing that he graced us with.

A + R man at Ste's record label : " Steve, this picture of you on the cover is breath taking, the depth of perception captures your very escence, it radiates the rainbow of emotions that you so eminate.! As Wonder gazes upon a horde of foam covered bikini clad beauties bending over the bonnet of a Corvette whilst super-imposed over yet another unflaterring, out of focus picture of himself in the bath aged 7, now being marketed as a 'concept' album cover.

As for his accountant : "The figure's never lie, just take a look for yourself Stevie and prove me wrong."
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Badlander wrote:

boudicca wrote:Never got the point of Stevie Wonder. At. All.

Ever heard any of these ?

Ummm.... no

But does that take away a shred of my conviction? Does it f-

I never understood the atraction to these

No me neither. KISS are a bad joke.

Well - I really loved KISS...
when I was 9 years old

vicus wrote:Well - I really loved KISS...

No! Kiss were just silly and they ruined an Argent classic, the Bastards!

The rolling stones... it's time to lay you heads to rest now mr. Jagger,Richards and Watts.

Angie... angieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

G'n'R ~ You could be Whine, a more apt title I think?

A band I allways hated are the Scorpions. The music has no balls, the singer sounds like he hasn´t any either..

boudicca wrote:

Badlander wrote:

boudicca wrote:Never got the point of Stevie Wonder. At. All.

Ever heard any of these ?

Ummm.... no

But does that take away a shred of my conviction? Does it f-

I guess it should, unless you're totally insensitive to soul music. 70s Stevie Wonder is considered by many a genius, and certainly has very little to do with the pathetic 80s version we all know and hate (with good reasons).

Just like this Bowie

has very little to do with that Bowie

Badlander wrote:

boudicca wrote:Never got the point of Stevie Wonder. At. All.

...unless you're totally insensitive to soul music. 70s Stevie Wonder is considered by many a genius, and certainly has very little to do with the pathetic 80s version we all know and hate (with good reasons).

I'm with you on this one, Eric
Up to Hotter Than July (1980) he made really great albums. Hotter Than July itself had some misses, but also a few classics ('Master Blaster' of course and I really love 'All I do' too), but then it's gone...

spot778 wrote:Nick Cave: Too goff

Have I got the wrong concept of 'Goth'?

Sexgang Children / Bauhaus / Make-up/ Victoriana / Humourless songs. Doesn';t sound like Nick Cave to me.

Arch Deviant wrote:

spot778 wrote:Nick Cave: Too goff

Have I got the wrong concept of 'Goth'?

Sexgang Children / Bauhaus / Make-up/ Victoriana / Humourless songs. Doesn';t sound like Nick Cave to me.

Well, he was in the 80s.

Proof: the father of one of my schoolmates owned a well-known pub. One day he'd told me: Hey why don't you come over once to my pub. I have a regular who would fit you perfectly, thin as a stick, ridiculously pointy cowboy boots, tousled black hair and staring nightlong gloomily in his drinks...

I took a look at the guy just to be confronted with bloody Nick Cave (whom I adored very much back then...).

Too bad that I was just f**king 15 years old back then and a real beginner....

Badlander wrote:

spot778 wrote: Kate Bush: I respect her as an artist but just never got in to her which is odd considering my musical tastes

We need to talk.

Again I don't dispute her talent as I think she's incredibly talented, but honestly if push came to shove I would have to admit The Sensual World came really really close to tipping me over to her side and Rubberband Man wasn't bad either. I'm not saying she's crap far from it. You'll have to make me a mixed tape so I know what I'm missing

Erm Nick Cave ...

Where The Wild Roses Grow

canon docre wrote:

Arch Deviant wrote:

spot778 wrote:Nick Cave: Too goff

Have I got the wrong concept of 'Goth'?

Sexgang Children / Bauhaus / Make-up/ Victoriana / Humourless songs. Doesn';t sound like Nick Cave to me.

Well, he was in the 80s.

I took that at Nightmoves on The Birthday Party's farewell tour, 82-83-ish not that Goth, not like this...

Goff or not, they're both

I have to confess to really liking a lot of the songs on "Tonight", Badlander. I quite enjoyed Bowie's sellout phase... not his finest hour, but I can dig it.

James Blast wrote:

canon docre wrote:

Arch Deviant wrote: Have I got the wrong concept of 'Goth'?

Sexgang Children / Bauhaus / Make-up/ Victoriana / Humourless songs. Doesn';t sound like Nick Cave to me.

Well, he was in the 80s.

I took that at Nightmoves on The Birthday Party's farewell tour, 82-83-ish not that Goth, not like this...

dinnae see much of a difference there James