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?

The thing with the Beatles is that even if you don't like their stuff they did change the whole state of the Pop music industry in the 60s, in a way than no group even has before , or since.

Elvis did the same thing. I can't personally stand his stuff, but I have to accept that he revolutionised pock and roll.

the beatles were the same

lol at pock and roll. I'm going to use that

good one even for me!

Martyr to acne he was, Elvis! What a guy.

Jailhouse Pock was one of his biggies!

I shouldn't laugh. On another thread someone was looking for fancy dress ideas for her DD, who's a wheelchair user. The topic was TOTP through the ages.

I suggested Thomas the Tank Engine and Postman Pat.

I even included pictures

Have to agree with Tinker on the Beatles. Also how can anyone say Elvis if you don't like Jailhouse Rock, King Creole etc etc you gotta be dead from the waist down I'm sorry. Here's my five FWIW

Coldplay
Bruce Springsteen (not strictly a band I know)
Stereophonics
Foo Fighters
Keane

Fecking Status Quo - can't abide them..and not really a band but Neil Young's wailing drives me to despair (DP loves it )

Beatles (and in partic Paul McC)
Oasis (just horrible people)
The Verve
McFly
Iron Maiden

Trivium
Keane
Good Charlotte
Coldplay
McFly

Drives me nuts.

Yes, beck absolutely. Never got him. Plays lots of instruments and may be talented but not a single song appeals to me.

And Coldplay.

Beatles like lots of people - their music doesn't appeal much to me, but like MB said earlier in thread, I can understand that they were massive at the time. It would have helped if we had been there!

Others for me: The Divine Comedy, Jamiroquai, Prince. Yuck to all of them.

mind you not sure if anyone would argue jamiroquai were great

aDad, I think it helps that i was there for the Beatles See how old I am!

They were revolutionary.

I listened to the album 1, prompted by this thread and it is astonishing to see how thier music and writing developed of the 6 year they were producing records.

16 number 1s in 6 years and none of the number ones were on albums

Rolling Stones
Oasis
Elvis
Amy Winehouse

oh, and Califrau has reminded me of the Smiths

Coldplay
Queen
Pink Floyd
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles

The Smiths are gods though!

Coldplay (turgid)

U2 (Bonio)

James Cunt (Whinging arse)

Oasis (Not mad fer 'em)

Any prog rock whatsoever (Pretentious wank)

Wow Sheik, you've got the same anti-music taste as me.

Coldplay used to do our local pub quiz; they always got low-level boos from our table

U2

Vampire Weekend
Ting Tings
Fratellis
Beatles
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Foo fecking Fighters

coldplay any gothy type rock.pink floyd abba queen

Genesis
Pink Floyd
Fleetwood Mac

Ummmm...Errrrr can't think of any more

now im crying at the shock of sicovering that people donmt like beele and sebastian i tell you if you were in need then they would be friends

I like Belle and Sebastian. Saw them a few years ago in Scarborough