Disagreement with the masses

Pearl Jam. I can only understand about 10% of the lyrics, and those that I can, are just pointless.

John Mayer. Why is he the spokesman of my generation? Why?

I'm a huge Monster Magnet fan.

don't beat around the bush or anything, why don't you just.....say what you mean to say

I like REM and Pearl Jam but can't stand Led Zeppelin. I find the singer's voice whiny. I HATE stairway to heaven.

Stairway to Heaven encapsulates every dance I went to for years before Disco, Glam, and Punk hit - that and Knights in White Satin and a couple of others - again, I don't find it relevant today but back then...well - I can't hate it for that reason alone - too many memories

I said Knights in white satin - someone usually catches that and let's me know about it :-)

sorry, carry on

sympathy for the dyslectics, 's why.

obviously you know my pain ;-)

Of curse....

I hear you regarding "Imagine." It's one song that other singers don't seem to mind bowdlerizing because it's so logically tortured. I heard Joan Baez add an "except your own" onto the end of that "and no religion too" line at a concert, and some gospel singer add a "just one God" in the same spot on a TV show. Imagine that!

I'll just stick to a couple of acts and a song people (and critics) think of as actually "good" other than in a cash-register sense. Otherwise the list would be way too long.

U2. I had "Boy" and "October" (and some bootleg LP too) long ago and liked them, but never bought anything from "War" onward. Don't like them, don't hate them. They do nothing for me.

Lenny Kravitz. If you want to talk about derivative music you may as well begin here. Everyone goes on about his talent, but to me he's most talented as a ripoff artist peddling instant nostalgia to people who have no actual memories of the good music he's pillaging.

GnR. I just don't get it. I have no idea why they are somehow considered better than the rest of the crap on MTV at the same time. I have friends (whose taste I respect) who are fans, but I don't see it.

Red Hot Chili Peppers. I can't stand this kind of strutting dumbth generally, and these guys may as well be the poster boys.

The Santana song "Everything is Coming Our Way." Those first three Santana albums have some great stuff on them, but that song... It didn't help that we had a houseguest in college who, over the course of a weekend, had us play that song (and nothing else off the album) about thirty times, sometimes five or six times in a row.

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I cannot stand Queen and not a fan of Guns & Roses.

Bob Dylan. I don't understand where all the love comes from. "But...but...he's the GREATEST POET OF OUR GENERA TION...yadda yadda..." I can hardly understand him, and his nasally whine is more than I can handle for more than 1 or 2 songs.

I'm a Dylan fan but disagree with people who say he's a great poet or lyricist. He does write some great lyrics but even in songs which I enjoy I sometimes find the lyrics to be poor or feel as if they don't really fit that well with the music. It's hard to describe but overall I do think he's good.