Top 5 bands whose 'greatness' you totally fail to understand

[SirJimmySeville]

Not meant in the spirit of nastiness or taste-bashing but, I don't get why people get even vaguely hot under the collar about...

Coldplay
REM
U2
Pink Floyd
Belle & Sebastian

(oh and Genesis, but shurely no-one likes them anyway )

What are your enigmatic over-raters?

[BlueDragonfly]

the beatles
coldplay
u2
elvis (ok so i know that he is not a "band"!)
and erm erm

another will come to me i am sure

[queen2shoes]

cold play
the beatles
maddona(now, not when she was young)

oh I am stuck now

james twunt
jz

[harpomarx]

yours

and

queen
dire straits
abba
red hot chili pepers
the doors (though I did when I was about 17)

[EsmeWeatherwax]

Coldplay
Travis
The Smiths
Manic Street Preachers
Stereophonics

Horrendous. Cheer the feck up lads, it might never happen!

[EsmeWeatherwax]

Oh god yes, James Twunt...ARRGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!

[BlueDragonfly]

TRAVIS theres a good one!

[charliecat]

Oasis
Blur
abba
dunno dunno

[ranting]

The beatles
U2
Coldplay
Pink Floyd (post Syd Barrett)
The Eagles.

[Habbibu]

Kaiser Chiefs
Snow patrol
...

[expatinscotland]

Coldplay make me lose the will to live.

[TillyScoutsmum]

The Smiths
Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones

Errrrm

there are others I don't like but can't imagine they could be considered "great" by the masses

[SirJimmySeville]

Why did I forget the Gallagher Bros? And Travis for that matter. Cap'n Blunty goes without saying

[queen2shoes]

ffs how can any one mention the doors on this thread(half joking)

[fishie]

the feeling

[unknownrebelbang]

The Smiths are the only ones I never got, and still don't.

[ivykaty44]

beatles

[Mercy]

Pink Floyd

Love the smiths though

[somersetmum]

The Jam
Oasis
New Order
Pink Floyd
Sex Pistols

[MrsWeasley]

U2
the beetles
Oasis
Duran Duran
Queen
Michael Jackson

OK so thats 5 bands plus 1 extra

[harpomarx]

ok queen2shoes, i half retract that listing.

admit to great tunes

just seem to have lost their magic for me, over-exposure, make me think of car adverts these days!

[fatzak]

Radiohead
Muse
Bob Marley

[southeastastra]

guns 'n' roses

[Mercy]

agree U2 (excepting very early stuff) adn Duran Duran (pile of cack imo)

I don't necessarily like the others on your list but I think they are extremely influential an to be fair pretty good)

[fishie]

the who

[callmeovercautious]

Tonight it is Pink Floyd - I usually quite like them but DP is watching a dull documentary on BBC4 and it has done me in It is Friday, we should be watching a film or a comedy show.
Also in his list of things to bore me with are the Pixies.