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

216 replies

SirJimmySeville · 23/05/2008 22:27

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?

OP posts:
BlueDragonfly · 23/05/2008 22:30

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 · 23/05/2008 22:30

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

oh I am stuck now

james twunt
jz

harpomarx · 23/05/2008 22:30

yours

and

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

EsmeWeatherwax · 23/05/2008 22:30

Coldplay
Travis
The Smiths
Manic Street Preachers
Stereophonics

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

EsmeWeatherwax · 23/05/2008 22:31

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

BlueDragonfly · 23/05/2008 22:31

TRAVIS theres a good one!

charliecat · 23/05/2008 22:32

Oasis
Blur
abba
dunno dunno

ranting · 23/05/2008 22:32

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

Habbibu · 23/05/2008 22:32

Kaiser Chiefs
Snow patrol
...

expatinscotland · 23/05/2008 22:33

Coldplay make me lose the will to live.

TillyScoutsmum · 23/05/2008 22:33

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

Original poster
SirJimmySeville · 23/05/2008 22:33

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

OP posts:
queen2shoes · 23/05/2008 22:33

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

fishie · 23/05/2008 22:34

the feeling

unknownrebelbang · 23/05/2008 22:34

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

ivykaty44 · 23/05/2008 22:35

beatles

Mercy · 23/05/2008 22:35

Pink Floyd

Love the smiths though

somersetmum · 23/05/2008 22:36

The Jam
Oasis
New Order
Pink Floyd
Sex Pistols

MrsWeasley · 23/05/2008 22:37

U2
the beetles
Oasis
Duran Duran
Queen
Michael Jackson

OK so thats 5 bands plus 1 extra

harpomarx · 23/05/2008 22:39

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 · 23/05/2008 22:40

Radiohead
Muse
Bob Marley

southeastastra · 23/05/2008 22:41

guns 'n' roses

Mercy · 23/05/2008 22:42

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 · 23/05/2008 22:42

the who

callmeovercautious · 23/05/2008 22:43

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.