Which artists do you just not get?

Nearly everything played on the radio.

Pearl Jam anything after Ten. The lazy grunge movement so permeated everything about Eddie Vedder that he doesn't even try to sing--usually he doesn't even bother to open his mouth. I apparently got lazy too because I don't bother to even play his cds...

Norah Jones. Has anyone else noticed that she only has one song? It's the length of the whole album and for some reason has these short 3-5 second breaks of silence every 4 or 5 minutes. I predict a One-hit-wonder here.

To reveal my own hypocrisy though. I love albums like The Cure's Disintegration because it all sounds the same. I find this to be very relaxing on this particular album. It's odd how some things just click with some people. I for one am an ardent U2 fan; clearly others chiming in on this thread are not, but I bet that there are many artists that we both like. I wonder what makes some of us "get it" but not others?

Warren Zevon (RIP), Randy Newman. I just never got what the
hoopla was all about. Werewolves of London? Short People?
Huh? This kind of "outragious" writing makes critics darlings? I know they did other stuff, but....for 5 years or more back in the '70s these guys had streams of articles
written about how great they were. Theirs sounded like conventional material to me, compared to Zappa, Beefheart,
Reed, et al.

Tori Amos
R.E.M.
Steve Earle

Dave Matthews--(has a killer drummer)--terrible songwriter, off-key & repulsive voice, going for soul but has none;
Randy Newman--ought to write the score for an Albert Brooks movie called "The Ruse"
Diana Krall--We go from Billie Holliday to this? Well, I guess Smooth Jazz is evidence that artistic culture can move in reverse.

Flaming Lips & Wilco

I never got Garth Brooks Hokey Hokey Hokey!

Cdelplato,

I didn't get Wilco, either, until I saw them in concert last fall. They are a damn good live band. I then relistened to some studio stuff... still don't get it! Live is best, I guess.

yoko ono.....

as a musician in a working band,have often wondered what it is about music that makes one person love one-thing,and another hate same.no answer,other than this is simply what makes every-one an individual.

never got the eagles
never got the pretty girls version of fleetwood mac
never got rem (sleep)
never got the cowboy junkies
never got foreigner
never got al stewart
don't get norah jones
all of this stuff is like sonic pablum

All rap, all country. Pretty much most music after 1982.

Never cared much for Wagner or Copeland (Copeland=nails on chalkboard for me).

Who's Copeland?

You know the music they play for the commercials for beef? That is part of a Copeland composition.

Aaron Copland.

(And I do love Fanfare for the Common Man)

Oops...sorry for the misspelling (even though I still don't like him).

This thread certainly reinforces my opinion on what a waste of paper and ink record reviews are. Excluding the late Ralph J. Gleason, of course...

I don't get the Moody Blues. All my friends dug them since the 60's. I always thought they were grandiose,pompous windbags, but then I like King Crimson, so go figure.