Musicians you hate now but didn't when you first heard them

[SteCenturion]

I had a brief dalliance with pop/electronica in the 80's & bought a few Erasure CD's .... even went to see them at Mcr GMEX, I just don't get that stuff anymore.

This sat particularly oddly with me as apart from New Order/Joy Division who I still love to listen to, my genre of choice has always been rock/blues/metal, indeed Erasure sat between G 'n' R, Aerosmith, Dire Straits, Springsteen, Dylan, Clapton & the Smiths to name but a few of the time.

Another departure from the norm for me was the Housemartins, although I haven't listened to them in a day & an age, I still rate them.

One of those 80's pop groups I most definitely will revisit is A - Ha, quality & I also owned a few Phil Collins albums back in the day, a few of the tracks stand the test of time but I wouldn't hunt them out over something else.

 

[Spoked Wheels]

I'm sure it is just an oversight that you didn't include Oasis in the list. I'll overlook it this time...

You are right, I love the music but I have little time for Liam..... or I should say no time at all. I've no idea what he does now.
My daughter took my wife and I to see them in Wembley and I wasn't impressed. Liam as always was in a bad mood and wondered off at some point. One day somebody will teach him some manners. He's like a spoiled teenager, the problem is that he is like 40 by now.

 

[Oldbloke]

Anyone Scottish

 

[Fnaar]

In 1982, for a few months, I went out with a woman who was really into Jethro Tull. I tried, I even bought an album on cassette. But by god, it was awful.

I also saw U2 for 80p before they were famous. Apart from a few songs that I really like, I grew to hate them vehemently.

Sting can go do one.

 

[Fnaar]

I also saw U2 for 80p before they were famous. Apart from a few songs that I really like, I grew to hate them vehemently.

Sting can go do one.

Time for this

 

[accountantpete]

Madness

One Step Beyond hinted that the band could go two ways - sadly they chose the commercial pop reggae for kids route.

 

[Over The Hill]

Paul McCartney.
OK to his credit he was a major part of the Beatles. But that all finished in 1970 and we have had 45 years of utter crap from him since.

 

[slowmotion]

Paul McCartney.
OK to his credit he was a major part of the Beatles. But that all finished in 1970 and we have had 45 years of utter crap from him since.

Fair point. I would put the Rolling Stones in the same category, post-1970-ish

 

[vernon]

Fair point. I would put the Rolling Stones in the same category, post-1970-ish

I hate to think what music Nat King Cole would be performing if he was still alive.

 

[swee'pea99]

Emerson Lake & Palmer, ELO, Rick Wakeman - pompous rock, pretentious rock, up its own bum rock. I was never a punk - found all the spitting and unpleasantness rather distasteful - but I did kind of recognise and understand the loathing, even then. Have to admit to putting on a Yes album t'other day and finding it not entirely worthless. Only tolerable in small doses tho'...

 

[lazybloke]

Ooh, a shame to go off ELO. Don't think I could ever do that.

I spent a couple of years really liking The Blutones but stopped listening after having a bad experience at one of their concerts just before the turn of the millenium. The venue had terrible amplification (clipping?) but their live performance was just not up to scratch. Never listened to them again.

 

[Over The Hill]

Fair point. I would put the Rolling Stones in the same category, post-1970-ish

Thought I may get a bit of backlash for McCartney, but it seems not.

Musicians have a bit of a dilemma of either having to change and move into new areas - which can be very hit and miss- or become a bit of a tribute act of themselves when younger. Stones took that route.

 

[swee'pea99]

Hell no. It would have been so much better had they all died together in a plane crash.

Rock & Roll!

I still enjoy Band on the Run, FWIW. The rest I can live without. Mull of Kintyre alone merits an aisle seat on the Dakota Of Doom. Having said all of which, I'm definitely in the Beatles were Tops team, but as for post-, I'll take McMoppet over that other sanctimonious dirgist any day of the week. Imagine. 'nuff said.

 

[Tin Pot]

Nope.

 

[MontyVeda]

Used to be a big U2 fan in th'eighties... turned my back on them after hearing Rattle & Hum and haven't looked back since.