Reval 5 artists you, as a Liberal, are supposed to like, but don't.

[CanuckAmok]

Me:

The Grateful Dead

Joni Mitchell

Rage Against the Machine

Don Henley

Wilco

[HeyManThatsCool]

1. mine are

Wilco

The Dead

Joni Mitchell

Joan Baez

cant think of a 3rd off the top of the head.

[HEyHEY]

2. Tom Waits

[bhobbhobbins]

5. blasphemy!!!

[CanuckAmok]

7. Oh, yeah, me too.

I keep setting fire to bums in alleys, in the hopes that one of them will be Waits.

So far, no luck.

I saw him in the Robson Street Chapters a few years ago, and shouted "Hey, Ron Perlman, you suck!" at him from the safety of the upwards-moving elevator.

I've never been more proud of myself.

[bhobbhobbins]

3. Linkin Park is the only one that comes to mind

but i'm sure there are lots of other bands that suck just as much if not worse..

PS...the Grateful Dead kick ass

[KitchenWitch]

6. Welcome to DU

[bhobbhobbins]

9. eh, i've been here, just started a new name

[drumwolf]

36. why Stinkin' Park?

Why would a liberal be supposed to like them? For that matter, why would anyone of any political persuasion with any taste in music like them?

Yes, I know that a few years back a kid shot up his high school in San Diego and he was a Linkin Park fan, so some right-wingers including Brent Bozell tried to blame the shooting on the band's music. Now, granted, I'm not into blaming any bands for kids' violent behavior in general, but to blame an utterly cheesy band like Linkin Park in particular is especially hilarious and ludicrous.

[DBoon]

4. Holly Near

Rage Against the Machine (i really want to like them!)
Dixie Chicks
AntiFlag (bad pop masquerading as punk. Blag Flag should sue for trademark infringement)

[tigereye]

17. aw but Anti Flag does mean it -

a friend of mine is related to one of the guys. They are very sincere from what I have heard. Maybe it's more homage than a rip-off. I like the Chicks myself. Don't know much about RAM, I'm not much of a rock-rap fan. I used to love Holly Near.

:hi:

[DBoon]

46. Like I said, I WANT to like these bands

but they just don't do it for me.

A matter of personal taste

[Blue-Jay]

8. Tori Amos

Tori Amos

Tori Amos

Tori Amos

Grateful Dead (Would it KILL you to tune your fucking guitar?!?!)



typo edit.

[CanuckAmok]

10. Ever hear my Tori Amos impression?

It's been said before, but:

"Look at me, I'm playing the piano with my legs open! Take that, patriarchy!"

[Fenris]

11. Ani DiFranco

Don Henley

Bruce Springsteen

Grateful Dead

Other assorted hippie crap I can't think of now.

[NightTrain]

12. In alphabetical order....

ANI DiFRANCO. She has a beautiful voice, but her music is little more than Nth-generation Bob Dylan.

THE GRATEFUL DEAD. Back in the '80s, I knew a Mohawk-sporting, leather-clad punk rocker with a pin that read, "I'll be grateful when they're dead." That pretty well summed up my feelings, too!

JANIS JOPLIN. I'm so fucking tired of hearing about this woman's "originality." Janis Joplin didn't have an original bone in her body! She lifted her singing "style" hook, line and sinker from at least a dozen different R&B and soul artists, every one of whom could sing circles around her without breaking a sweat. And most of those people are still alive, which gives them another leg up on Pearl!

PETER, PAUL & MARY. The folk music revival of the early 1960s needed a bland face to push it into the American musical mainstream. And boy, did these three provide it!

TOM WAITS. Annoying voice, boring music. Any questions?

[CanuckAmok]

13. holy mackarel, we agree on something!

Although I like Janis Joplin. But the rest, you hit it right on the head.

[NightTrain]

14. I liked Janis Joplin myself...

...until I started collecting blues and soul records. Then I became exposed to the original versions of the songs for which Joplin became famous. IMHO, not one of her remakes held a candle to the original!

[CanuckAmok]

15. Cool! give me an example, and I'll check it out.

I'm in need of some new old music.

[NightTrain]

19. Happy to oblige!

CRY BABY - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters

GET IT WHILE YOU CAN - Howard Tate (The 1967 original, not the 2002 remake, though the latter's not half bad itself!)

PIECE OF MY HEART - Erma Franklin (Aretha's sister.)

TRY (JUST A LITTLE BIT HARDER) - Lorraine Ellison

[RevolutionaryActs]

16. Well...

The Grateful Dead.

Tori Amos.

I can't think right now.. I'll get back to you later with the rest. :P

[tigereye]

22. Alannis

my husband likes her, but she gives me a pain.

Natalie Merchant- Loved 10,00 Maniacs, but I find her annoying as a solo.

Cowboy Junkies - I'm still mad about them eviscerating Sweet Jane and choking the life out of it.

[CanuckAmok]

23. oh, my god...

I remember when nobody would shaddap about Cowboy Junkies (and...what was her name...Margo Timmins? The poor man's Mariel Hemmingway)...I never got that one.

[tigereye]

43. I like her voice

but they piss me off for some reason. And I am hard to piss off. I like her song Wedding Ring, but that's about it.

[RevolutionaryActs]

25. Natalie Merchant, that's another person to add to my list

Gah she annoys me. x(

[tigereye]

44. again, I like some aspects of her voice

but a cloying quality has crept into it. I saw her with the Maniacs before they were popular and she sang with her back to the audience, I think she was very shy. But as a solo, hmmm, I can't really put my finger on it. Like her stuff on Mermaid Ave. with Billy Bragg, I always think, darn why is that on there. MIaaooowwww. ;)

[x-g.o.p.er]

18. Mine are...

Babs, Martin Sheen, Michael Moore, Bob Dylan, and Julia Roberts.

[hippiechick]

20. Tori Amos, Sheryl Crow, Dixie Chicks, The Boss

I stopped liking Bruce after The River.
That was his last, best album, IMO.

#5 ?? hmmmmm....

[realisticphish]

21. none that i hate, per se

but i don't listen to a lot of the ones people have mentioned here :shrug:

i love RATM, like the dead, and the others have no opinion on

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[last_texas_dem]

24. Taking politics into consideration...

Rage Against the Machine (I like some tracks off the debut, but not much else)

Moby (I like him as a person, but don't care for his music)

Sonic Youth

Bob Marley (Like the messages in many of the songs, but not much of the music)

Yoko Ono

[CanuckAmok]

26. Sonic Youth...

Their first two albums ("Bad Moon Rising" and "Evol") are incredible. Everything else they've done is...meh.

Check out those first albums, if you can find them...they're revolutionary.

[last_texas_dem]

29. Cool

I mainly know them from a friend of mine who is obsessed with them (favorite band of all-time) who has just played me several tracks from various albums. They never did much for me, but I'll have to see if he has those early albums; maybe they'll change my opinion of them.

[CanuckAmok]

30. Check out "Madonna, Sean, and Me" from Evol...

Put on some full-coverage headphones, lay back, and hang on!

[dhinojosa]

27. Bob Dylan, Soundgarden, Grateful Dead, Phish, Joan Baez, Peter Paul Mary..

Patty Smyth, Pearl Jam, and on and on and on

[enigmatic]

28. "Womyn's music"..

Holly Near, Cris Williamson, etc....I'd rather get a drano enema..

[KitchenWitch]

34. I take it you will never go to the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

Do they still hold that event?

[enigmatic]

35. I'm pretty sure they do....

Yep:

http://www.michfest.com/

[vajraroshana]

31. U2

I can't think of any more, so:

U2, U2, U2, U2.

I have found them to be unbearable since they came out when I was a teen in the 80s.

Oh, ok, maybe I should take away one of those U2s and add Rage Against the Machine as well.

[UdoKier]

32. Nirvana.

Never did a thing for me. Cobain was a silly spoiled brat, like his wife.

Talking Heads - WAY overrated college pap. Didn't dislike them, just hated how they were made out to be SOOO profound.


Also, I don't hate all manufactured bubblegum pop as I'm supposed to. So what if it's a product? It's written and produced by talented musicians - you just never see them. So what?


There are a few things by U2 that I like, but I think they are pretty overrated, too.

[Rooktoven]

33. Indigo Girls

Ani Difranco
Melissa Etheridge (not ONE song)
The Talking Heads (some songs are ok)
Midnight Oil (ditto)

[drumwolf]

37. Rage Against the Machine

They make leftist politics in rock music feel utterly tedious.

Also, Nirvana, Dave Matthews Band and Bruce Springsteen. And a possible mention to a couple of musically-unimpressive queercore bands, Pansy Division and Tribe 8.

[ChairOne]

38. The converse question is also a goodie.... /eom

[Donkeyboy75]

39. Jimmy Buffett

:puke:

Billy Joel

Dave Matthews Band

Peter Tosh

Natalie Merchant


And a big F-OFF to those of you who put Wilco down. :evilgrin:

[Spider Jerusalem]

40. Mine:

The Grateful Dead. There apparently aren't enough drugs on the planet to change my mind about their music.

Bruce Springsteen. Tremendously overrated.

Bob Marley, Don't like reggae. Dub, though, is an entirely different story.

There must be others, but those are the first to come to mind, because they get regarded with something bordering on reverence by so disturbingly many people.

[AngryAmish]

41. Michael Moore

-(Don asbestos suit)-

he is about the size of 5 artists. I don't like being told what to beleive. People that I know who know him think he is a complete dick. Everyone I ever met from Flint hate him. And I think that he used us to make money w/ F-911. Pal, I can make up my own mind, ok?

[johnnie]

42. Only five?

Springsteen
Melissa Etheridge
Bette Midler (is she someone I am supposed to like?)
Jimi Hendrix
U2

[Wat_Tyler]

45. Ani di Franco.

Whiny, over-complicated tuneless crap.

[peekaloo]

47. Wyclef Jean, Melissa Etheridge,Pearl Jam,Moby,Ani

:shrug:

[DrGonzoLives]

48. Moby, Grateful Dead, Phish, James Taylor, Tori Amos

Flame away.

[MissMillie]

49. Bob Seger

Tom Petty
Grateful Dead
Bob Marley
Bob Dylan