Name a band or artist whose popularity you've never understood (YTC)

"Is there an artist or band about which you feel this way?"


Yes.

Lol, I didn't even realize I was disparaging the band Yes. 😅  Not my favorite but they're aight.  

I just don't want to slag on anyone else's favorites.  

"Thank goodness we don't all think in lock step, sez I!"

I was justing think about this tune.

"You know some people are different
Now ain't that a crying shame
Now wouldn't it be a real drag if
We were all the same"

Kate Bush

When Detroit AM radio wedged Journey to the Center of the Mind in between all the top 40 stuff I thought it was just too cool. Back in the late 70s/early 80s the band I was in was managed by Ted's long time road manager. We got back stage passes at a show in Flint and pretty much all I recall was volume, bare chest, a swinging rope and bow & arrow, lol. I did kinda like his remake of Little Red Book.

Back in that time I never quite got Janis Joplin. I always thought that Lydia Pense with the band Cold Blood was much better. Lydia is still with us and still performing with Cold Blood.

David Bowie?

meh...

Always just seemed to me to be mostly a guy playing dress up.

Must've been something else going on there, but I wasn't able to detect it.

The entire genre of “new” country. All that crap is just pop with a twang.

Velvet Underground.

Feels very "Emperor's new clothes" to me. Ask people why it is good, and you get a lot of name dropping and fart sniffing. Especially anything involving Nico... I'll hear the story about how she was actually a model and sang on the album, blah blah blah... but it doesn't matter because she's an awful singer! Someone makes me listen to her version of These Days at least a couple times a month.

Lynyrd Skynyrd comes to mind. I know they are many people's anthem band but I never did get them. I'm a guitar player and I thought they had too many. None of them were very inspiring to me.

Grateful Dead

I'll make the broad and stereotypical geezer statement of all artists contained within the rap/hip-hop genre. I just don't get it. To me there's no discerning element between the delivery. It's funny and predictable how internet discussions most often turn to such statements as "I think there is a dark side to your dislike", which is the typical toss of tear gas to disburse the crowd. I grew up living in and listening to Motown. I still love so much of the music. Same with old blues and jazz. There isn't a dark side. For me it's cacophony. And the messages/lyrics? No different than people who may acknowledge Dylan as a poet but cannot stand his voice. I just can't invest the time to "understand it".

I once was certain the genre was a passing thing, maybe my worst prediction ever. I "accept" the fact that there is something about it that makes it endure. Some people can't stand classical music yet it endures. We like what we like and more often than not won't invest the time to cultivate a taste for something.