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?

Why not Wendy? I was born in 1971 but I still know a lot of music from before my time.

Because you are hearing them out of context.
What they did in the early 60s was stunning compared with what went before.

Only 5????

U2
Oasis
Deacon Blue
Lighthouse Family
The Beautiful South - OMG they are awful, beyond words, they truly are

WHO said RHCP???????

Some mad woman further down the thread, BBM.

Agree wendyweber

Am really really at all the mentions of the Beatles

Anyone who thinks they know anything about music and doesn't get the Beatles

the inkspots

the platters

who sang the purple people eater song

jody reynolds endless sleep is one of my favourite ever songs

Well I'm shocked!! But then I see Pink Floyd mentioned too ...OMG and Hendrix??????????

..probably typed by someone with the entire Beautiful South Collection

that is radom bands from the fifties

the singing nun

hendrix tho he obvioulsy needs some experience behind him to be a band

BBM, there is no hope for some people

Pmsl zippi

Jim Reeves
Cliff Richard (eg Bachelor Boy)
Frank Ifield
Tommy Steele
Kenny Ball
Acker Bilk
Matt Monro
Tony Bennett
Pat Boone
Burl Ives
Del Shannon

...

need I go on?

all these folks who under rate pink floyd...
which songs do you base your opinions on?
you seriously cannot have listened to Momentary Lapse of Reason....
spine tingling feckin genius....

des oconnor
acker bilk
billy cotton

do you know it's great to find some women who like floyd, hendrix, led zeppelin etc - all the people who I know in RL who like that sort of thing are men

I like Hendrix and Zeppelin, but not Floyd.

It was The Wall that put me off. I hated that song. And the video with its walking hammers and children made into mince meat. Dreadful.

Piffle, it was a concert I went to that seriously put me off the pf. I got totally bored

Hmmmm....The Wall is not one of my favourite songs but I think 'young lust' (on the same album) is fab in it's simplicity. Never bothered watching the videos but I have many happy memories as a child of listening to my pink floyd mix tape while laying on the flat roof of our garage for hours at night and watching the stars

I may just have to murder James Blunt

(sound is a bit poor sadly)

The Wall is one of Pink Floyd's worst songs and unfortunately is the one they are most known for

The haunting melody and emotional lyrics of "Shine on your Crazy Diamond" get me every time and once you realise that the song was written for Syd Barrett it makes it all the more poignant.

Do not get ....

Radiohead
Beck
Marilyn Manson
Nick Cave
Boyzone
Westlife
I could go on and on and on :O

Kaiser Chiefs.
Worst lyrics ever!!!!

Something's bothering me.

Are there actually people out there who think that Deacon Blue is/ever was a great band ? Erm...sense of perspective please.

i don't get led zep, or lynard skynard or all floyd with the exception of comfortably numb.