OT: "Classic" band that you just cannot stand?

[arcadesonfire]

 

 

I love Krieger's solo on Light My Fire.

He had an outside-the-box way of playing that suited the Doors.

 

Yeah... call me crazy, but in the budding days of (white people playing) electrified blues/rock, most (white) players (on now-classic recordings) were figuring things out, making up a new style that took the blues style/articulation and applied it to a STRAIGHT BEAT(!!) without the usual blues chords. So at that point, somehow a simple player like Eric Clapton could be a god.

 

Krieger otoh pursued some jazz influence. He hits a few (a FEW) bum notes on those recordings, and they stick out cuz on records,we're now accustomed to 'perfect' performances (thanks overdubbing!). BUT Krieger also plays a greater variety of notes and goes through more interesting harmonic progression hoops than the blusier players. Sure, Jimi tops em all, but among the others, Krieger is a fave of mine. (Yes, you could find far superior jazz guitarists at the time and before... but a bebop record can get old fast.)

[arcadesonfire]

Nirvana

 

When I am so sick of every chord progression 'making sense' and fitting one mold or another, I put on Nevermind to remind myself that free will does exist after all!

[onelife]

I didn't 'get' The Doors when they were doing their thing - for the same reasons cited in the OP - but, when I got a Fender Rhodes in the mid-seventies, I borrowed the album with 'Riders On The Storm' and started hearing things I liked.

 

Since then, I've played a lot of Doors songs in cover bands and always been able to find someting worthwhile in each one of them.

[Tom Hicks]

The Negroes in the forest brightly feathered

They are saying, "Forget the night.

Live with us in forests of azure.

 

 

I was always WTF when Big Beat played on the radio.

[E-money]

I'm having trouble because I can generally think of at least 1 song that I like by most bands.

 

A couple bands that didn't click with me (but still had a song I liked).

 

Foreigner (I hear Trump hates them too).

Rush

Velvet Underground

[harrycox1]

The Doors. I'm not a big Springsteen fan either.

[arcadesonfire]

Gangsta rap fan.

[bildo]

So I take it you have never been cruzin' in a 72 Camaro with friends and your girls....Sparkin' one up and then Crash in your Dash throws on Smokin"?

[arcadesonfire]

Yeah. I never listened or liked them much on my own. My friends roped me into doing a Rumours cover last halloween, and it was fun cuz I got to use my Traynor for classic crunchy tones... and even though I never really liked the songs, turns out that I already had the solos memorized in my head from years of overplay on classic rock radio. The strange thing was hearing that all these kids currently in their mid 20s were huge fans! My parents were stuck on Bob Dylan and Motown. 10 years younger and the kids' parents all listened to coked out folk rock.

[Hoddy]

King Crimson

Genesis

Steely Dan

Journey

Boston

Jefferson Airplane/Starship

Grateful Dead

Little Feat

Janis Joplin

Frank Zappa

[willhaven]

Led Zeppelin

 

Never liked his voice or the bluesy stuff.

 

I get it. I get why people like it. I think it has great merit. I just hate it personally.

[arcadesonfire]

In 2nd or 3rd grade, I thought Camaros were the most god-awful ugly cars. From the school playground, I once yelled at a woman at the stop light, 'i HATE camaros!!' She yelled, 'Well at least I have a car!

 

Other than that, I don't understand any of that gibberish Bildo.

[Zig al-din]

For me its The Doors, hands down. Between JM's drunken mewl, his pseudo-poetry lyrical meanderings, Ray's stiff-@$$ playing with the hideous Vox organ sound, and Krieger's cringe-worthy guitaring, its just a horror show for me. Densmore's alright though, dude was a good swingin' drummer.

 

Then there's their love for Kurt Veil. Oh and no bass.

 

Go...

 

 

The stuff by the Doors that I like is some of my favorite 'classic rock' - Love Me Two Times, Riders on the Storm, People Are Strange, Love Her Madly, Soul Kitchen. Great tunes and I like the fact that Morrison was sort of a proto-goth, though that's probably another reason you'd hate him.

 

And Manzarek produced all those great albums by X.

 

Same goes for Yes. Most of it I find unlistenable, but there are ten tracks or so that are some of my favorite music EVER. Gates of Delirium, Siberian Khatru, Parallels, Going for the One, Close to the Edge, etc. But yeah, it's totally "Elf Rock." Haha. Exactly what I like about it!

 

The only classic rock band I can't stand is probably Rush. Though there are things about Rush that I like -- Lifeson has some interesting approaches to guitar, and I like Geddy Lee's bass playing. The problem is the writing and above all, the drumming. Ugh. Peart might be my least favorite drummer of all time. (The stuff before he joined is actually kinda cool for what it was.)

 

If I had to listen only to classic rock, I'd probably shoot myself, but overall there's a lot of good in there, especially from the standpoint of musicianship.

 

 

 

 

[Telecruiser]

one of my favorite phrases

 

I often ask my wife

 

do you love me ?? ----YES

 

can you stand me ??-------NO

 

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Isn't the same without Buddy Emmons playing steel on it.

[Telecruiser]

Oh and no bass.

 

Go...

 

Well, I'm not sure about that. Carol Kaye sat at my desk back I '96 and produced a copy of her studio log that said she played bass on the recording of "Light My Fire" as well as on Jose Feliciano's cover of it. That's what she told me.

 

 

[Opposite Day]

Yeah, probably Bruce Springsteen. Just does nothing for me. Years ago I would have said the Beatles, but just the sheer breadth of their material means there's stuff in there for just about everyone. Love me some "I Am the Walrus." Love me some "Peace Frog" too. No hate for The Doors.

[1001gear]

Most of the bands from the 70s, 80, 90s (I'm pretty sure there were bands in the 90s) do nothing for me. No hate; I save that for relevant stuff. Lot of the hits are real catchy though and I actually like hundreds of songs. Well scores for sure.

[thankyou]

Fleetwood Mac. The worst thing about them is Stevie Nicks' whiny vocals. I also have a special dislike for the Steve Miller Band. When they sing ''Jet Airliner' date=''' the ''liner'' part rhymes with ''rhino'' as in ''jet air-lino.'' It just grates on my nerves.[/quote']

 

There are many different kinds of rhymes. If you exclude all but identical rhymes, I can see your point, but there are probably others that you like but don't realize they fail your standard.

 

As to Fleetwood Mac, my favorite album of theirs, Bare Trees, doesn't have Stevie Nicks or Lindsey Buckingham. I do really like Buckingham's finger style playing.

[sirfun]

 

Isn't the same without Buddy Emmons playing steel on it.

 

He was born in my home town !! )

 

 

been listening to Moon lately on Rainy Day Woman !! )

 

(damn !! )

 

[Red Ant]

Don't even get me started on Rush

[Red Ant]

 

Well, I'm not sure about that. Carol Kaye sat at my desk back I '96 and produced a copy of her studio log that said she played bass on the recording of "Light My Fire" as well as on Jose Feliciano's cover of it. That's what she told me.

 

 

Carol told me about the Feliciano session bur not the original. She also claims to have played the bass on "I was made to love her"

 

I love Carol, but she's an ornery old lady

 

On the other hand, Harvey Brooks definitely played bass on the Doors' later work.

[Red Ant]

Funny, if there's one Doors song that I can dig, it's Peace Frog

[Red Ant]

Apocalypse Now is probably my favorite film, and I agree the the use of The End is brilliant, as is everything else about it.

[Red Ant]

I think you're literally the 1st person I've run across who doesn't like Little Feat.

[Crazyfoo]

It took me a very long time to appreciate the Beatles - couldn't stand them until I reached my late 40's and then everything changed . I used to love so much stuff from the 80's and now I'm like WTF was I thinking ?