Is there some musical artist that everyone loves who you just can't stand?
I just spoke to this in my other thread, but thought maybe it was threadworthy on its own.
Bob Seger. People love Bob Seger. His music was everywhere in 70s and 80s. He's an icon.
And, he's a hometown here in Detroit. Lived like a mile and half, 2 miles from my house for 20 some years. My sisters boss knew him from the neighborhood, lived a street over. Mr. Seger used to walk his dogs and chat with the neighbors. Everyone says he's an ultra nice guy. He's done a lot for Detroit in terms of charity etc.
And a Bob Seger song to me is a crescendo of fingernails on chalkboard. Can't turn the radio dial fast enough.
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Read the question, brain went "Dave Matthews." No hesitation, no actual time for extended thought.
Seger, though, is quite awesome.
but I am not the target audience. 
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makes my hair stand on end and not in a good way
They just get more and more excruciating with each forced listen (they're a Muzak favorite). I hate their songs . . . HATE them. There is no middle ground and no "dislike". I HATE THEM. Every single one. Fucking weak-ass whitebread, khaki-and-Birkenstocks, radio whore bullshit. "If I Had A Million Dollars", I'd drop them in a running helicopter blade. "One Week" should be incinerated and buried. Same with "Brian Wilson", "Pinch Me" and every other musical torture device that band jacks out. That Christmas Carol with Sarah McLachlchlchlchlan makes me want to punt Steven Page's balls in. GOD they fucking suck.
but Phish is self indulgent noodeling which could be said of the dead too so......
OMG how I can't stand that lil aberration of nature! Yuk!
I've heard that damn "Somebody That I Used To Know" song so many times lately that it's almost like fingernails on a chalkboard anymore. 
They'd be better off listening to a generic-ass band from the 2000's than one from the 1990's.
Of course, I criticize both of those bands but I like Shinedown so I really should just shut up. 
I just saw Hayley's comet
She waved
Said, "Why you always running in place?"
Even the man in the
Moon disappeared
Somewhere in the
Stratosphere
is that supposed to mean?
I'm not trying to convince you to like Frank. I'm just saying that I've heard every one of his commercially released albums/CDs, I saw him in concert three times, and I am a fan, and there are albums/songs that I can't stomach.
Even Steve Vai...who PLAYED with Zappa and pretty much worships every song, note, and utterance that came from Frank, has gone on record as saying FZ's "Broadway the Hard Way" album (1988) was crap.
But he's got a HUGE range, and while I don't know what you like, even though you dislike what you've heard, there's stuff in there that might surprise you. It's not all comedy porn with "March of the Wooden Soldiers" percussion and fart noises.
Kenny G does not play jazz. He noodles (random notes with no harmonic structure or chord changes under it).
A famous rant by Pat Metheny (Jazz guitarist who I think is usually awesome) about Kenny G's lack of imagination and skills:
http://spitballarmy.com/?p=269
Bad rock'n'roll: Led Zeppelin and their descendants who insist on so much screaming and distortion that it's nerve-wracking to listen to. And their successors in heavy metal, or any other kind of metal. A few months ago a young woman told me I needed to listen to Nightwish because "they were really good". I was not impressed at all. I told this person I really liked Lady Gaga, and she LAUGHED IN MY FACE.
She does not apparently know shit about music.
The first time I heard "Jack and Diane" on the radio, by John Mellencamp, I thought, "Damn, this guy is a cheap imitation Midwestern Springsteen".
Madonna-- yuck. Mediocre voice supported by many costume changes, persona changes, dancing etc. Lady Gaga is what Madonna wishes she could be, because Lady Gaga has TALENT and a beautiful voice.
I gave up on rock'n'roll in 1983 when The Police broke up. They were the last rock group that I thought was interesting. I saw them on their last tour, the Synchronicity tour, and they were getting interesting.
All Country-Western music except for a couple of exceptions: I DO NOT UNDERSTAND why most of America listens to whiny, crappy, unimaginative, negative, depressing kicker music. They sing with a clothespin on their noses, they sound like they are in major physical and mental pain, and they commit pedal steel guitar abuse. The two exceptions are Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson. They do not whine.
No wonder middle America is depressed. They listen to depressing country music and go to church twice a week and hear depressing sermons about what filthy worms they are just because they are breathing due to original sin, which is a total and utter LIE and fairy tale. Yeah, if I put up with church and country music, I'd wanna kill myself. But I listen to classical music and jazz and old rock'n'roll, which is far more positive and uplifting, and so I don't get depressed.
Oh, and contemporary Christian music is pure drivel. For some reason, most of middle America is obsessed with Jesus. They are certainly not inspired like Brahms and Mozart and Haydn were when they wrote church music in Latin or German(Brahms, a German Requiem).
I listen to lots of church music in Latin, like the stuff by Anonymous Four and The Tallis Scholars. I refuse to tolerate the Protestant drivel like the hymns by Martin Luther and the Wesleys. And Amazing Grace makes me want to throw something. First of all, I am NOT a "wretch", and neither is anyone else.
Rap and hip-hop: Spare me, please. No melody, just too much mindless rhythm. Only song by an alleged rap or hiphop group I like is "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley which actually has some interesting melody in it and a catchy rhythm.
END OF MUSICAL RANT. And yes, I have been a musician since the age of five and taken years of lessons on two instruments and voice, and been in numerous choirs and orchestras.
