Duran Duran rules so hard I didn’t know people don’t like them
They were really easy to hate back in the day. They’ve withstood the test of time though.
John Taylor is so underrated as a bassist. He was amazing in that band.
Come Undone is one of the coolest songs I’ve ever heard. I’ve never been able to figure out if it’s about living in the closet though. The lyrics could be interpreted as such, and the video definitely reinforces that concept.
I didn’t know Duran Duran was even disliked lmao
Been listening to Rio by DD as inspiration for a writing piece, and it’s a pretty good song imo
People hate Duran Duran??
I’ll say it, I like Imagine Dragons. They have some great songs, they just also have some radio rock drivel (oh god Thunder is bad). Also, I saw them live back in 2013 and it’s one of the best concerts I’ve been to.
In 2022, they were my then-12-year-old child’s favorite band, so I took the kiddo to see the band in Milwaukee. Holy shit, they put on a FANTASTIC concert.
My wife discovered them about idk… 6 years ago? She was crazy about their music. She listened to it all the time, and put the music videos on our home theater. Then out of nowhere she suddenly decided that she hates them. She still hates them to this day. I think it might be because their music is so repetitive that it sounds catchy at first and then gets really annoying. Whatever the reason, they cultivated a super fan and then lost her all within a couple of months.
Unfortunately they became a bit annoying after a bit but looking back, they’ve put out some fantastic tracks that are hard not to groove to
Kinda like Nickelback. How can you not enjoy Rockstar
It baffles me why anyone doesn’t like them. I’m 42 and didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to like them.
Is Imagine Dragon really widely disliked?
Once you get past their boring singles, Nickelback isn’t all that bad.
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I don’t think there’s that many people who dislike Nickelback. It just became trendy to dislike them, so people jumped on the bandwagon, regardless of whether they actually cared either way.
Nailed it - it became trendy to dislike Nickelback, Imagine Dragons and the likes
My parents took us to one of their concerts in like 2008. They were surprisingly good live.
I tried because so many of my friends dig them. I just can’t get past the songs that seem like they’re written with a rhyming dictionary and they’re full of teeny bopper cliches. I love the guitar tone and some of the riffs but I just can’t get past those dumbass lyrics.
Nickelback
Shame on you
Bold of you to put that where potential employers will see.
Whenever I play shoegaze music it tends to upset my family.
Slowdive is one of the greatest bands ever
Need a new family who can appreciate a perfectly honed use of a delay pedal.
Coldplay had some good ones
Who doesn’t like Coldplay??
Well of course I know him. He’s me.
Coldplay is among my favorite bands, absolutely agree there
A lot of people criticize the direction they’ve taken recently, and while I don’t keep up with their newest releases, Viva la Vida is still one of my favorite songs. And other tracks like Paradise, Sky Full of Stars, etc. will always be fun for me to listen to as well
Mindless Self Indulgence: Yeah, the lead singer was obviously a piece of shit, but their music was still catchy.
Never heard of them.
They were popularish maybe 20-25 years ago, but the singer was a creep. Presumably still is if he’s alive.
My thread prediction was spot on. We all secretly listen to Nickelback.
I’m not sure how many bands even sit in the widely known and also disliked by most Venn diagram. The only example I can even think of is Phish, which I can’t stand but I know a guy who lives his whole life around their touring schedule.
An avid Phisherman, you might say?
Phish is a weird one. When I listen to a whole record it kind of all sounds like one long song. An experimental variation on the theme. But live… Holy s***. I’ll go see him anytime they’re close.
I listen to a lot of stuff that would be widely disliked if it were widely heard. Extremely dissonant, abstract, and harsh avant-garde metal is for very few people. It’s hard to describe it without sounding like a dopey elitist type, but I just like caustic, hostile, and often formless stuff.
Sounds like I’m perfect for you
Modern day Smashing Pumpkins. The community is very split these days.
It doesn’t help that Billy Corgan is a MAGA Republican.
Worked with Billy about a year ago on his wrestling program.
I heard him tell a small audience of people that he was, “Rock n’ Roll.”
The context was in regards to covid protocols, something like “I’m Rock n’ Roll and all, but we’ve gotta do what the facility says…”
Not the worst in context I suppose, but I just couldn’t get past, “I’m Rock n’ Roll”, falling out of his mouth.
He’s such a douche.
I didn’t even realize they were still around. Is the new music more hard rock, or more of some of the soft shit they put out?
The majority of it is softer. There’s been a lot more synthesizer keyboard type stuff since 2018 or so. Jimmy and James are also back in the band.
I’ll check it out today. Thanks!
I think a lot of people got burnt out on sex and candy, but Marcy playground’s first two albums are legitimately fantastic. I didn’t even get into them until like 2018
Sex and Candy got overplayed so much on radio, it was everywhere. I remember mom switching radio station because it came on like twice in the same hour and the station she fliped to was playing it as well.
There were so many good songs just ran into the ground like that.
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One of the few albums from my youth I can listen to is Anti-Nowhere League - We are the League
It was a kind of joke album mocking punk music and some of their bigotry and phobias, but of course people took it at face value and thought it was serious.
It’s an absolute work of offensive genius and beautifully produced
