Posted on 04/21/2013 4:18:03 PM PDT by Baynative
To break the monotony of the media rushing to make fools of themselves over the Marathon bombing story I thought I'd bring up a subject that got me thinking earlier today while listening to a classic rock station instead of my usual talk show selection.
I lived through the 70's explosion of hard rock music and although some of it still gets me rocking in my own geriatric way. I thought I'd ask if anyone here had bands that were popular that they never liked, or/and still don't care to hear.
OK, you’d know - I’ve never listened to any Bosses.
You are one brave soul as crazy as the market is! I wish I had the intestinal fortitude. :)
I've toyed with the idea of recreating a radio show to reintroduce the renegade FM format of the late 60s and mid 70s when they played anything and everything in long sets and you were not always sure who you were hearing.
Natalie with 10,000 Maniacs...Don’t You Know What The Night Can Do.
One of the best!
Agreed on Merchant’s merchandise. But this is a thread about our hates not loves.
How about Pat Benatar, then?
Electric Light Orchestra reminds me of the modern-day Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Overwrought and overly pretentious. Mannheim Steamroller sort of fits in that mold too but I do like their Christmas music.
I wish I had tried the stock market back in the mid 80's. Could have made a killing. It was almost impossible to lose from the mid 80's until 1999. I had a friend who bought Yahoo and made 500,000. I really just wanted to learn how to play the market (figured it was more fun than a casino), and if lucky make some money and if not then I would only blow a certain limit I had said I would play with.
10,000 shares that 2nd one should be.
I wish you much, much luck and success!
Another band I did not like from the 1970s was Kiss. I never did get that scene. Four men dressed like clowns from the gates of hell playing mostly awful slabs of derivative "hard rock". Yet most of my friends at the time went nuts over them. I only liked one song from that group, the ballad "Beth" which reminds me of the first girl I had a crush on back in late 1976. Only her name was not Beth, but Teresa. No songs I'm aware of that have Teresa in the title.
Sergio Endrigo disagrees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncSgXn8882U
Thank you.
Joe Dolan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAeWVM14BXU
I can’t listen to the early Rush stuff, but right around Permanent Waves, Geddy’s voice became more normal.
He is right, though. Nothing makes people head for a beer run or a bathroom break quicker than, "And here is something from our new album."
Thanks for the links! I favor the Joe Dolan version as I’m mostly Irish. However, my high school Teresa was Italian so the Sergio version is probably more appropriate to remember her by.
Another band I did not like from the 1970s was Kiss. I never did get that scene. Four men dressed like clowns from the gates of hell playing mostly awful slabs of derivative “hard rock”.
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That’s a great description of Kiss. I actually went to a Kiss concert at college, believe it or not, in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Loudest, craziest event I ever been to. Don’t know why I went to it but at the time (1978)they were a hot
band and it was an excuse to party. Think I lost some brain cells that night. Anyway, their whole marketing effort seemed to revolve around those crazy costumes and Gene Simmons’ super long tongue. It was “erotic” to the girls, you know :)
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