Bands I Do Not Get

Prompted by 50poundnote 's recent posting about Zep and Beatles (I don't get Zep at all, and have quite a lot of meh re: the Beatles) I was reminded I was going to say something along the lines of:

In Cali if someone starts saying how great The Grateful Dead were, clap your hand around my mouth. I don't think I'm going to say anything that makes any friends...cos I think they took 12 bar blues rock and made it really lumpen. I get Big Brother Holding Company and Janis, there's some blues and groove there...but I'm thinking a few people took too much LSD and rewired their memory somewhat. Do. Not. Get. Weirdly I get the spaced out slightly prog rock of Hawkwind (ra ra! silver machine!) but not them.

Ditto later Stones after about 1967 (refried blues only goes so far, and not THAT far, soz),
Ditto The Doors (please ditch the doomed poet schtick)
Ditto Skynyrd (but Sweet Home Alabama rocks - that might be not hearing enough of them)
DItto Arcade Fire - hmm jury's out, hated their early stuff, seemed like a Canadian Elbow, and one's enough of those
Ditto Killers - never good, liked the first few singles until I realised that's ALL they do
Ditto Kings of Pigeon Shit Leon - enduring their Sex on Fire album on rotation at work has not endured them to me
Ditto The Who - like some of their stuff, but boy after Tommy did it get bloated and drunken
Dylan - great songs, shame about the voice
Ditto Neil Young - ditto -, apart from Our House which literally can make me wreck rooms if I can't turn it off
Pearl Jam - shit songs, shame about Eddie's voice

Basically describe a MOJO/Q playlist that doesn't include: Kinks, Smiths, Fall, New Order, Joy Division, Pulp, Sabbaf, Sonics, Pixies, Nirvana (although they're getting close to Beatles status in overplay and overfawn), The Clash, Public Enemy (nah too black and political to be in a MOJO/Q playlist :-P), Tribe Called Quest (ditto), Sly and the Family Stone or Fleetwood Mac - to name a few - then I probably will hate it. 

Classic rock? Ugh. That said I'm getting to love later Brian Wilson SMILE-era Beach Boys and Tommy James and the Shondells recently...love garage/psych rock. Shame the pop charts seem then and now to be rather samey, with few exceptions.

Bands I Do Not Get

Prompted by 50poundnote 's recent posting about Zep and Beatles (I don't get Zep at all, and have quite a lot of meh re: the Beatles) I was reminded I was going to say something along the lines of:

In Cali if someone starts saying how great The Grateful Dead were, clap your hand around my mouth. I don't think I'm going to say anything that makes any friends...cos I think they took 12 bar blues rock and made it really lumpen. I get Big Brother Holding Company and Janis, there's some blues and groove there...but I'm thinking a few people took too much LSD and rewired their memory somewhat. Do. Not. Get. Weirdly I get the spaced out slightly prog rock of Hawkwind (ra ra! silver machine!) but not them.

Ditto later Stones after about 1967 (refried blues only goes so far, and not THAT far, soz),
Ditto The Doors (please ditch the doomed poet schtick)
Ditto Skynyrd (but Sweet Home Alabama rocks - that might be not hearing enough of them)
DItto Arcade Fire - hmm jury's out, hated their early stuff, seemed like a Canadian Elbow, and one's enough of those
Ditto Killers - never good, liked the first few singles until I realised that's ALL they do
Ditto Kings of Pigeon Shit Leon - enduring their Sex on Fire album on rotation at work has not endured them to me
Ditto The Who - like some of their stuff, but boy after Tommy did it get bloated and drunken
Dylan - great songs, shame about the voice
Ditto Neil Young - ditto -, apart from Our House which literally can make me wreck rooms if I can't turn it off
Pearl Jam - shit songs, shame about Eddie's voice

Basically describe a MOJO/Q playlist that doesn't include: Kinks, Smiths, Fall, New Order, Joy Division, Pulp, Sabbaf, Sonics, Pixies, Nirvana (although they're getting close to Beatles status in overplay and overfawn), The Clash, Public Enemy (nah too black and political to be in a MOJO/Q playlist :-P), Tribe Called Quest (ditto), Sly and the Family Stone or Fleetwood Mac - to name a few - then I probably will hate it. 

Classic rock? Ugh. That said I'm getting to love later Brian Wilson SMILE-era Beach Boys and Tommy James and the Shondells recently...love garage/psych rock. Shame the pop charts seem then and now to be rather samey, with few exceptions.