Name some:
Songs or bands (or for classical folks, pieces or composers) that everyone and his kid brother seem to love, but that you, personally, cannot stand. Alternatively, the opposite: songs or bands that you adore but that critics and/or public just never warmed to.
Give at least three or four words of explanation, so that this can turn into an actual discussion rather than just a list of various opinions.
I'll start: I really HATE John Lennon's "Imagine." The message* is not only mush-headed but muddled. The instrumentation and structure is simplistic and repetitive. In short, it's an awful song. You can't escape from the damn thing either, since it still gets played far too much. And yet, when you tell people you don't like the song, they stare at you like you just said you eat puppies.
--M.
*Y'know, I don't really mind the message itself -- or I wouldn't if it actually had a single clear message. It's just that it's incoherent. Peace and love and all that are nice--but communism, anarchy, and atheism thrown in for good measure, and all together in one single midden heap?
Edited by: mrpenney to add footnote
