'Classic' acts that you JUST DON'T GET...

[Heno]

i was there

he ran straight into the arrow m'lud

[Bunny]

Turgid muso wankery......Im having that on my gravestone!!! 

[Bever]

1) Bob Dylan. Spent over an hour watching his performance at the Torhout festival in 1990. Was waiting for The Cure to close the bill. The longest hour in my life.

2) Queen. For obvious reasons.

3) Jeff Buckley. Hallelujah must be the most annoying and boring son ever.

[Anna Woman von NRW]

Bob Dylan - Seems he is a pretty damn fine songwriter and lyricist but lets face it the term Singer/Songwriter wasn't invented for him was it? In fact the word Singer isn't really applicable. FFS you could endure me singing karaoke Dylan and while I might not be able to carry a tune for love nor money you would a least be able to understand the bloody words I was croaking out 

Buckley I don't really know I'm afraid.

How about Hendrix then? Surely the ultimate guitarist, a virtuoso genius. No argument from me.  Don't mind hearing the odd track every now and then but.....ugghh.............bored..................  It don't touch me. I don't connect with whatever is the"soul" of the music. So nah - not bothered thanks.

 

[Master Ray]

New one... Eric Clapton.  As before, some good tunes here and there, both solo and with previous bands... but he's just so bloody DULL!  Yet he is revered in certain quarters!

 

[Anna Woman von NRW]

Clapton? Lets go baby 

What a load of runny bottom burp dribblings that bloke has farted out on us all 

And honestly................ that beard - yuck 

I'm not really a fan of "Classic Rock" 

[Master Ray]

OK, a couple of new ones... firstly NEW ORDER.  Now, I like some of their tunes... Bizarre Love Triangle, 1963, True Faith, Run, Regret, Shellshock... but most of their albums seems to be a couple of crackers separated by an awful lot of ****-all... and, dammit, the worst vocals EVER!  For the record, I love Joy Division...

And secondly, and I'm sure you're all agree with me on this one... ******* COLDPLAY.  I truly cannot get to grips with how a band this shit-awful got to be so big.  Whiny-assed crap that got massive by some accident of faith / misfortune / Satan.  They are just so, so bad... yet they sell out stadiums all over the world.  I truly do not understand how people, all over the world, are loving this shit!  One Direction... I get that, it's little girls spending their pocket money!  But why have so many supposedly intelligent adults fallen for this utter ******* ARSEBOLLOCKS?   

[GaylesOtherHalf]

As others have mentioned, I don't get
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
A few good songs but most of their output passed me by like white noise. I'd alsou include The Clash,

You can't like everything and it'd be boring if we all liked the same stuff

[Anna Woman von NRW]

New Order?

Yeah some great records but awful live. What a disappointment they were. For gods sake, Cromwell snuffling in his sleep can carry a tune better than Sumner, come to think of it a fart in a collender has more resonance than that blokes "voice". Pah "Bag of Shite" as Paul Calf would say............... 

And Coldplay - yeah a decent first single but then drone........drone.........drone.......... on and on and on................ never seems to end does it?

 

[Amandistan]

I think Jeff Buckley was absolutely brilliant! His vocals are not-of this earth. A remarkable loss to music. 
....But not everyone's thing.

I get some of the New Order thing. They were better as Joy Division but after Ian Curtis died, they lost the magic.

Bob Dylan has written some amazing songs and is a poet but some songs just don't ignite my emotions like others.
Same With Bob Marley.  No Woman, No cry is one of the most powerful songs ever written though and he was a remarkable person.

I think I didn't get the Sex Pistols because I was not born at the time. Sid could not play his instrument, John could not sing.

[sozbot]

Like some others, I'm really not into Coldplay, although have they really achieved "classic" status yet?

For me, it's Nirvana. I just don't get it. I don't think they're unworthy of praise, or reputation, but it's just absolutely not for me. I don't mind Smells Like Teen Spirit, but that's about where it stops.

[Shush]

Phil Collins. His songs aren't that bad, I just hate his singing voice. Flat as a pancake. Status Quo, same reasons.

[Pol]

Paul ****** err Weller

[Ron B]

 Good Question. Thinking Back on all the music I have heard I have to admit That Electric Light Orchestra Which many consider a great band I just was never into their sound. Not that they are bad musicians but their sound just did not grab me and still doesn't.

[jimmie 8]

Got to admit cant stand bob dylan good songwriter but prefer other people doing his songs not a fan either of eric clapton they ask crazy prices for there gigs as well onlly time have paid crazy money to see anyone was john mellencamp £78 in manchester a  few years back only time i would probably ever see him as he doesnt tour in the uk