Doors
Jethro Tull
Rush
I just never understood how people could play albums or tapes of these bands over and over - still don't.
,p> Then again, maybe some folks don't like some of my favorites, either.
Kansas was my turn off band. Can’t figure why they were so popular in the 70’s. I just hated ALL their stuff.
Eddie Money was a singer I couldn’t handle.
Led Zeppelin
Rush
Journey
Boston
Jefferson Starship (with Mickey Thomas)
As you can see, I despise high-pitched screeching
Can't think of a more depressing song than "Riders On The Storm" which played on AOR radio endlessly during the early 1970s. I was just a kid then but I remember walking to a run-down Italian food joint in my neighborhood to order some pizza for my father. I was probably about 12 years old and back in those days, they let you sit at the bar while you were waiting for your take-out order no matter how old you were. So I ordered pizza to go and also a Coke to drink while I was waiting. Back then, you got the Cokes served to you in those iconic bottles that are now collectors items on eBay so the bartender took my food order and slided a Coke bottle down to me.
Like I said, it was a run-down place and at the bar you had some sad sack losers nursing Bud drafts. There was hardly any lights in the joint and the atmosphere was dark and dreary. The guy running the bar was this enormous 400-pound man who only had about three years left to live. He was perpetually sweating and whenever I went in there, he always stared at me like he wanted to take me out back and have his way with me.
Anyway, this "Riders In The Storm" song comes up on the jukebox and I remember being mesmerized by it and just having this feeling of impending doom coming over me. I wanted to get out that place so badly but I had to wait for the pizzas to come. The patrons at the bar are all wearing staring into their glasses and the smell of stale spilled beer permeates the room while the fat bartender is leering at me. I thought that song would never end, it seemed to go on for 20 minutes - I'm thinking whoever picked it on the jukebox paid to have it played multiple times.
Finally I get my pizzas and bolt out of the place only to find that it is pouring rain outside with thunder and lightning - just like in the song! For a thunderstorm had come upon us while I was sitting in there. I just bolted through the pouring rain the two or three blocks back to my house, completely drenching myself and the cardboard pizza boxes.
So every time I hear that song to this day, even 40 years later, that same feeling of doom and gloom comes over me and I think about that time I sat at that depressing bar waiting for the pizzas to get made.
Grand Funk(Junk) Railroad
Bloodrock
Chris Montez
John Lennon
The Grateful Dead
Pearl Jam
I get satellite radio and scram when these come up for play
Um, I mean Wishmaster by Nightwish, but who’s counting?
Kiss. They had cool costumes and an excellent marketing gimmick, but not a single one of them was actually a musician. Raucous noise and simple-minded lyrics. Totally overrated.
Makin' Thunderbirds
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet
Earth Blues
Jimi Hendrix
Born To Move
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Awaiting on You All
George Harrison
Heading for the Light
The Traveling Wilburys
Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night
Robert Plant
Woke Up This Morning [Sopranos theme!]
A3
Older Guys
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Any idea how many of these are new to my ears? Unbelievable!
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The only songs I despise are the ones I have to hear on a daily basis, it ain't happenin' here, TG! :)
Spot on. Never could stand The Doors. Rush’s screeching still gives me headaches. I could tolerate Jethro Tull...but not a steady diet of them.
This is probably anathema to some, but I could live without hearing ‘Wayward Son’ by Kansas for pretty much the rest of my life.
Gotta have my Boston, though. And ELO and The Alan Parson’s Project were pure GENIUS, as was Pink Floyd.
AC/DC. They only made one decent song in their entire career, and that was “Highway To Hell”. Short, loud, evil, and right to the point.
Jethro Tull is up there just a tier below The Beatles. Ian Anderson has continued for all these years exploring new styles, rewriting older music to fit classical styles and of course running through new musicians like a drunk w a six pack. Far too many bands not only play their same hits over and over, they play them the same way year after year. The Stones, Springsteen, etal offer no reason not to just stay at home and play their records.