Music you find overrated or "not your thing"

i don't like any of kendrick lamars music. i guess i just prefer older rap. weird, because i know it's not actually materially better. just a strange preference i've developed.

Well, kendrick lamar is meh, but in the current landscape of rap music he's elevated. Like back in the 90's-early 00's I don't think he would be popular.
 
I don't know who that is, but that's a super good quote. I agree completely.


I think it sounds fine. In general I think it's important to always allow yourself to explore new things, but I won't fault anyone who are content in what they like.

Last year I listened to an ungodly amount of Django Reinhardt. I'm slow though, so it's usually like a few new (to me) artists/bands I hyperfocus on per year, if I jump into an entire genre I tend to forget what I liked.
Sun Ra is next on my list.
Oh same I wasn’t trying to come across as listening to one genre is lame.

My father was as elitist as they came, if it wasn’t Spanish RNB then he didn’t give a shit, you could show him the most beautiful 80’s or 2000’s song and he’d still clarify that his form of music was superior.

I think people should be allowed to be close-minded on a genre if they don’t act like an ass, not everyone needs to expand their taste. ?
 
As a huge Led Zeppelin fan, I don't get what's so great about Stairway To Heaven, it feels like people are talking about an entirely different song from the one I've heard.

On a more general level, Metallica and Alice in Chains don't sound appealing to me at all
 
Any album or song that you always see people laud it as the greatest thing since sliced bread, but that it personally didn't do much for you. Maybe you just didn't see what everyone else saw in it, or you just think that you weren't the target audience.

My example is Pink Floyd in general. My older brother used to always put them on and talk on lengths about how good it was, he would then punch me when I said that I didn't like it. I think that subconsciously made me hate anything I heard from them.
all new music, all music from this century.
 
Tool. I didn't get the appeal in the 90's and I don't get it today. Speaking as a prog/metal fan.
I like Tool a lot, I’d go so far to say I even love some of their work but they’re definitely way overrated. I always saw them more in the same category as the Melvins or Soundgarden, rather than traditional prog, which is the way I’ve been enjoying them. They probably have more in common sonically with other LA bands like RATM than with bands like Dream Theater.

I’m a musician myself so I try to be as open-minded as possible, but yeah plenty of music is just not my thing. Easiest way to make me bored is a song that only exists to show off players‘ technical abilities with no concern for interesting songwriting or if a song is incredibly boilerplate and low-effort which applies to most music on larger radio stations these days. No matter the genre mind you, modern radio rock is somehow the worst offender. Generic contemporary film music is also nails on the chalkboard for me. It’s cool you all love the same audio plugins, guys, but there’s a world of sound outside the kiddy pool. Remember, not every movie needs to sound like an ad for warthunder.

There is music that is "not for me" that I still respect though, a lot of dance music for example or some sub-genres of rap like trap. Not my thing but there’s a lot of creativity in it and it was something new at the time. I may have enjoyed dubstep more as well if it hadn’t become overexposed immediately and then copied to death.

On the topic of Pink Floyd: I don’t really like them much either. The 60s and 70s are two of my favorite decades for music, PF is one of my least favorite big acts for both of them. Having said that a lot of bands I like have claimed them as inspiration so I don’t want to dunk on them. I also like melancholic slightly psychedelic bands that tap into Pink Floyd vibes so I guess I like the sounds, just not necessarily the songs or the people making them safe for Syd Barrett. Shine on you crazy diamond
 
Can't stand Taylor Swift, Hate Country music <any generation of> Religious and Bubblegum rock/pop
i like J-Rock and such, but the Tween pop/rock music.. i would rather Jam my NASA Pen in my ears or Un-alive myself than Listen to it.


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*Me mentally hearing Taylor Swift on the Radio for the umpteenth million time while at work*
 
I like Tool a lot, I’d go so far to say I even love some of their work but they’re definitely way overrated. I always saw them more in the same category as the Melvins or Soundgarden, rather than traditional prog, which is the way I’ve been enjoying them. They probably have more in common sonically with other LA bands like RATM than with bands like Dream Theater.

I’m a musician myself so I try to be as open-minded as possible, but yeah plenty of music is just not my thing. Easiest way to make me bored is a song that only exists to show off players‘ technical abilities with no concern for interesting songwriting or if a song is incredibly boilerplate and low-effort which applies to most music on larger radio stations these days. No matter the genre mind you, modern radio rock is somehow the worst offender. Generic contemporary film music is also nails on the chalkboard for me. It’s cool you all love the same audio plugins, guys, but there’s a world of sound outside the kiddy pool. Remember, not every movie needs to sound like an ad for warthunder.

There is music that is "not for me" that I still respect though, a lot of dance music for example or some sub-genres of rap like trap. Not my thing but there’s a lot of creativity in it and it was something new at the time. I may have enjoyed dubstep more as well if it hadn’t become overexposed immediately and then copied to death.

On the topic of Pink Floyd: I don’t really like them much either. The 60s and 70s are two of my favorite decades for music, PF is one of my least favorite big acts for both of them. Having said that a lot of bands I like have claimed them as inspiration so I don’t want to dunk on them. I also like melancholic slightly psychedelic bands that tap into Pink Floyd vibes so I guess I like the sounds, just not necessarily the songs or the people making them safe for Syd Barrett. Shine on you crazy diamond

As someone who went deep into the Pink Floyd and Tool rabbithole, it is more about the messages of their songs than the actual music. The songs themselves are experimental and by nature, pretty hit or miss.
 
Many popular Greek singers (mostly rock ones) are overrated as hell, especially the "classic" ones that somehow are still glorified in a religious level.

From global ones I find Eminem as one of the most overrated singers of all times. Sure, he made 2-3 nice catchy songs but that's about it. To think that I used to be huge fanboy of his when I was an edgy teen. Just from his hate boner against Michael Jackson I should realize what a shitty person he is that mostly became famous for being "controversial". At least I'll admit that his movie is from the rare cases of movies starring popular singers that isn't trash.

From music genres heavy metal is also overrated in my opinion. From music aspect they're great but the moment the singers open their mouths they make your ears bleed from the sound rape.
 
As someone who went deep into the Pink Floyd and Tool rabbithole, it is more about the messages of their songs than the actual music. The songs themselves are experimental and by nature, pretty hit or miss.
Experimental. Hmmm, Pink Floyd yeah, sonically at least by rock standards. Tool? Maybe up to and including Lateralus. Fear Inoculum felt really formulaic to me.
The songs tend to stay in the same scales for the most part (e-minor pentatonic until aenima and then d-minor pentatonic afterwards) with few deviations. Rhythmically Tool can be very complex because Danny Carey is one of the greatest drummers alive, but sonically and harmonically not so much. I don’t mean this as a slight. It’s their style, no one sounds quite like them, their combination of catchy grungy riffs over kinda jazzy complex drum parts is their biggest strength. Just trying to keep it real here. A lot of Tool fans put them on an impossible pedestal that the band members themselves would be really uncomfortable with.
 
Experimental. Hmmm, Pink Floyd yeah, sonically at least by rock standards. Tool? Maybe up to and including Lateralus. Fear Inoculum felt really formulaic to me.
The songs tend to stay in the same scales for the most part (e-minor pentatonic until aenima and then d-minor pentatonic afterwards) with few deviations. Rhythmically Tool can be very complex because Danny Carey is one of the greatest drummers alive, but sonically and harmonically not so much. I don’t mean this as a slight. It’s their style, no one sounds quite like them, their combination of catchy grungy riffs over kinda jazzy complex drum parts is their biggest strength. Just trying to keep it real here. A lot of Tool fans put them on an impossible pedestal that the band members themselves would be really uncomfortable with.

Yeah, I mean experimental by popular music standards, not music theory standards. Like they try different genres and odd ideas for their songs. Early Pink Floyd was into the psychadelia and so was Tool to a certain extent.
 
Time to take down a god as if I was an RPG hero:

I hate Led Zeppelin. Can't stand hearing the same few songs played for the billionth time, can't stand hearing the same weak argument again as to why they are "measurably better than everything else," can't stand Rolling Stones' old and impotent writers yet again insisting they belong at #1 on their all time lists. Regardless of merit, they don't earn this absurd endless veneration by people who need to get out more.

So in the late 60s and 70s, after the old school rock n roll era began its decline, rock music went in 2 different directions. One was so-called progressive rock (or "prog rock" now). Prog is a legit idea screwed up by an inane premise: that rock music will never be a true art unless it is "progressed" by combining with the "higher" art of European classical music. (Whether they meant it or not, this reeked of chauvinism, hence the new "prog" name to distanced it from this idea.) So a bunch of bands started throwing their noses in the air like they just don't care and turned a once danceable music into something you sit down for. Then Lep Zep came along and started using power chords in prog, which turned it into heavy metal.

So you'd think this was fine with everyone, right? Not at all. This actually caused the biggest and most important schism in the rock world. Sure plenty of metal bands followed from Zep's influence. But even as prog got started, they were faced with opposition. Iggy Pop and The Stooges, MC5, The New York Dolls, and a few others hated this new trend and purposely played against it. They tried to play a style that was old school R&R but with more of what made it not prog, which would later be dubbed proto-punk. This spun off punk rock, which itself spun off post-punk, new wave, college rock, alternative rock, and pretty much every rock subgenre that wasn't a type of metal. And the fans of those genres often were opposed to prog's offspring. (It was often said that the only band both metalheads and punks could agree on was Motörhead, who were a crossover band.) In other words, a massive amount of rock history owes little or nothing to Led Zep.

(There was also hip-hop and disco in the 70s competing with prog and metal's dominance, as well as techno later on, and they also created a huge portion of the modern music landscape independent of prog's influence. But to keep it simple, we'll stick to rock.)

Fast-forward to now. We've gone through so much of rock's history. So many genres, so many artists, so much music that could compete for the greatest. But despite all the greats that have existed, we still have to hear "Zep is the greatest ever" argued endlessly by pretentious people trying to show their taste is superior. We still have to put up with an aging music critic landscape still not giving the other branch of rock music credit for its artistic merit. (Though credit is due to Pitchfork, who are almost hilariously a total backlash to this.) We still have to hear "Stairway to Heaven" or "Immigrant Song" lauded as "the absolute pinnacle of rock music" 100 times a year as yet another movie, TV show, stage play, or advertisement plays them as their go-to pacifier for the audience's ears.

And don't get me wrong: it's fine if you like Zep. Whatever, you do you. But they aren't the greatest band ever, and I'll sooner listen to Wesley Willis on repeat than climb the stairway to boredom or listen to Robert Plant "YAAAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AA" again.
 
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Time to take down a god as if I was Kratos:

I hate Led Zeppelin. Can't stand hearing the same few songs played for the billionth time, can't stand hearing the same weak argument again as to why they are "measurably better than everything else," can't stand Rolling Stones' old and impotent writers yet again insisting they belong at #1 on their all time lists. Regardless of merit, they don't earn this absurd endless veneration by people who need to get out more.

So in the late 60s and 70s, after the old school rock n roll era began its decline, rock music went in 2 different directions. One was so-called progressive rock (or "prog rock" now). Prog is a legit idea screwed up by an inane premise: that rock music will never be a true art unless it is "progressed" by combining with the "higher" art of European classical music. (Whether they meant it or not, this reeked of chauvinism, hence the new "prog" name to distanced it from this idea.) So a bunch of bands started throwing their noses in the air like they just don't care and turned a once danceable music into something you sit down for. Then Lep Zep came along and started using power chords in prog, which turned it into heavy metal.

So you'd think this was fine with everyone, right? Not at all. This actually caused the biggest and most important schism in the rock world. Sure plenty of metal bands followed from Zep's influence. But even as prog got started, they were faced with opposition. Iggy Pop and The Stooges, MC5, The New York Dolls, and a few others hated this new trend and purposely played against it. They tried to play a style that was old school R&R but with more of what made it not prog, which would later be dubbed proto-punk. This spun off punk rock, which itself spun off post-punk, new wave, college rock, alternative rock, and pretty much every rock subgenre that wasn't a type of metal. And the fans of those genres often were opposed to prog's offspring. (It was often said that the only band both metalheads and punks could agree on was Motörhead, who were a crossover band.) In other words, a massive amount of rock history owes little or nothing to Led Zep.

(There was also hip-hop and disco in the 70s competing with prog and metal's dominance, but to keep it simple, we'll stick to rock.)

Fast-forward to now. We've gone through so much of rock's history. So many genres, so many artists, so much music that could compete for the greatest. But despite all the greats that have existed, we still have to hear "Zep is the greatest ever" argued endlessly by pretentious people trying to show their taste is superior. We still have to put up with an aging music critic landscape still not giving the other branch of rock music credit for its artistic merit. We still have to hear "Stairway to Heaven" or "Immigrant Song" lauded as "the absolute pinnacle of rock music" 100 times a year as yet another movie, TV show, stage play, or advertisement plays them as their go-to pacifier for the audience's ears.

And don't get me wrong: it's fine if you like Zep. Whatever, you do you. But they aren't the greatest band ever, and I'll sooner listen to Wesley Willis on repeat than climb the stairway to boredom or listen to Robert Plant "YAAAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AA" again.

I like Led Zeppelin but I'm perfectly ok with people hating them. Not only was Jimmy Page a pedophile, they were notorious for stealing riffs from other bands.

 
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I hate Led Zeppelin.
Couple of good songs, Bonham was a beast fr, but horrible people the lot of them.
Apart from my personal dislike for them as people I do think their importance is very overstated. I know this is beyond hypothetical but if you erased a band like Black Sabbath from existence the whole history of heavy music would change so dramatically you might end up in a completely unrecognizable parallel universe. I doubt the absence of Led Zeppelin would be felt to that degree.
I'll sooner listen to Wesley Willis on repeat
As you should, "the chicken cow" is a solid gold classic
 
I'm not gonna lie, I don't like Vocaloid, I've never understood the appeal.
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I don't care about Taylor Swift either.
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Hatsune Miku is pretty cute though.
 
Primus are in a league of their own. They're to alt-rock what Blind Guardian is to power metal. In genres riddled by mediocrity and uninspired cringe, they're like giants in comparison, so you can just skip the entire genre.
Man, if you're into Primus as much as I am and just wish they had more music, may I present to you: CARTOON! AKA, Australian Primus lol.
Australian funk rock band that put out two excellent CDs in the late-90s, extremely Primus inspired, but good in their own right. They're also incredibly hard to google.
 
Music? I’m not really sure because I tend to like most music. There’s a few underground artists I don’t like but that’s mostly it.
 
The Beatles
Queen, especially Bohemian Rhapsody
Pink Floyd
Avenged Sevenfold
Linkin Park
Lorna Shore
Knocked Loose
Bring Me The Horizon
Spiritbox
Ghost
Sleep Token
Deafheaven

Genres - there are some artists I like/find ok, but as a whole I'm not into them:
Rap/Hip-Hop
Hardcore
K-pop
"Billboard" pop music
Dubstep and most non-goth forms of electronic/dance music
Slam/modern deathcore
Metalcore outside of the second-wave/2000s melodeath-metalcore
Noise (I used to be big into noise in college, now I just find it to be pretentious nonsense)
New-old-school death metal
Djent
 

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