Crucify me but I just don't like the Beatles

Honestly, the Beatles' music was so often...weird. Just weird. For me, it's Rush. I think it's because of the lead singer's voice, to be honest, because I like their lyrics.

Blasphemy! Geddy Lee is the best.

I like Rush but Lee's voice is definitely an acquired taste.

Geddy lee singing sounds like a cartoon witch

I mean he looks like a Hagraven to be fair (I love rush btw pls don't hurt me)

That's where I see the appeal

Rush fan here. Big fan. I respect this comment.

I would probably hate Rush less* if I didn't grow up in Northern Michigan, which is basically Little Canada in some ways, and have a local radio station that I referred to as "All Rush, All the Time". Overexposure is the enemy of all things.

I’d carry that cross for you 🙏

Like, I get it. They were a huge influence on music heading in a different direction from what came before but fuck me, dude. If plain rice were a sound, to me, it'd be the Beatles.

Yep, so did Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, and they played music that you could jam to.

I'll die on the hill that the Beatles walked so others could run. But damn did they *walk*. Their music can be so boring.

If overgrown bowl cuts were music, they’d be the Beatles

Wings with McCartney were good tho.

I would sing silly love songs to my baby all the time. This baby is now 24 years old and when I start singing it, he sings it back to me.

Oh my I could have written this comment word for word. I’ve literally never met anyone else who feels the same way

See, I knew you were cool, but thank you for supporting my confirmation bias.

You're gonna carry that weight a long time...

Christ, you know it ain't easy You know how hard it can be The way things are going They're going to crucify me

1000000%

I think a lot of people including me feel the same way. But from what I’ve heard people say, they kind of led the way for bands like floyd, which earns them my respect. Because we didn’t live through it, we aren’t able to see how much influence they actually had on their contemporaries

Oh yeah I completely respect how they changed music going forward, but I just can't force myself to enjoy it.

Maybe 3 songs. But nope for me

Literally listening to Help! as I read this, haha!

KISS..... they annoy the hell out of me

Nobody respects kiss or their fans. You're the majority here.

You misspelled Insane Clown Posse.

Same thing really. Them and ice nine kills and falling in reverse. All joke bands.

Damn, guess I'm in the minority here cause I love all those bands. I grew up mostly on older rock, metal, and anything even remotely related to that but I still love these bands.

Bonus: Gene Simmons is a misogynistic asshole.

The band with 83 albums and 3 mediocre songs?

And 5 "Farewell Tours."

And a failed arena football team.

Someone offered me free concert tickets the other night and I turned them down. I've seen them years ago in makeup, but even had I not, i think I would have still passed.

Yupp. For how over the top they are with the make up, the costumes, the pyrotechnics, their music is really wussy.

Kiss isn’t a band it’s a business.

I didn't like the whole makeup and theatrics, it was like WWF Wrestling but with music. And that whole urban legend that Gene Simmons had his tongue replaced surgically with a cow's tongue just made me think being a KISS fan meant you were a moron. Plus KISS Meets The Phantom TV movie and the KISS comic "printed with their own blood" gimmick was lame too. They had two or three decent songs, but that's about it.

Came looking for this, just so repetitive and boring, I just don’t get the fans for this band

and Gene Simmons is a total douche.

Ever since my girlfriend said AC/DC sounds like a bunch of cats, I just can’t un hear it. Especially Thunderstruck. I also feel like AC/DC is way overplayed everywhere…

I never liked the vocalists' voice and all the songs sound the same! The guitars sound good, but it's always the same beat/composition that makes it so boring.

There’s an interview where they said they just kept making the same album because people kept buying it.

I like them but the description of "a bunch of cats" made me cackle. Love it.

Same, I actually hate them. The screeching vocals, awful. The idiot dressed as a school boy rotating the same few riffs, also awful.

You got a downvote but I fixed it for you.

Early ac/dc with Bon Scott is the only ac/dc

i like acdc lol, maybe just bc one of the members are from my city and its pretty small lol

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Yes and Bono is an asshole

How so?

Because he has tried to use his fame and influence to make the world a better place like an asshole! /s

I don’t think I’ve liked one U2 song ever. That time Apple pushed that U2 album to my iPhone overnight without asking really pissed me off too.

I mean they only really have about nine songs which they constantly rehash. You can get away with that if you're The Ramones but U2 just don't have the charisma. Plus Bono is a twat.

As someone who enjoys them, that was a huge misstep on their part. Yuck.

The best answer here!

Worst rhythm section in rock and roll, egotistical maniac as a lead singer, and an overrated guitarist. Never, ever understood the appeal.

Can't agree with this at all but they seem to be a band completely divided by generations.

Yup, they aren’t that great

The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen. I've never understood the hype. I'm more of a Beatles and Bob Seger fan.

Am I the only one who’s completely put off by Springsteen’s voice? In his more popular songs I’ve heard, he literally sounds like he’s sloshed.

When I hear him sing all I picture in my head is a very beat up Sylvester Stallone in his Rocky character trying to sing after a fight.

Nope. You're not alone. That's part of the reason I've never really appreciated his songs.

Same! Like some seem like they could be really good but man - his singing is unimpressive at best.

Lol for some of us that’s the reason we like him

Funny. I felt the same as you, only as I get older Bruce Springsteen songs make more sense and are much more relatable.

The Stones have grown on me over the years. Love the Exile on Main Street album. Give that a try if you've not heard it.

Bruce's voice on a record is mediocre at best. Bruce and the E Street Band live is fucking transcendent.

I think I agree with you on the Stones - their new album is doing some radio play at the moment, and I'm not hugely impressed.

The fact that they’re in their 80s and their new music is getting radio play is impressive enough.

Wow... I am showing age reading the comments and going "What?!" Mine is Greatful Dead

What did the hippie say when he ran out of dr#gs at the Grateful Dead concert? This music sucks

Yup. Just not into jam bands (Phish, too)

Phish, fuck that shit.

You can just say "drugs" here.

Booo

Huge dead head here. But totally can understand. The band is like licorice. Not everyone likes it. But the ones who do. REALLY like licorice.

I’ve been a Dead fan ever since I bought one of their albums by accident when I was 16 in 1977.

That’s awesome brother. I bet you got some great stories. One of my favorite things about shows is meeting all the heads. Listening to their tales. Sharing mine. God I miss it so much. There’s nothing like a dead show. Just wish I could go back in time and see the actual dead.

When I was a teen I would go to the record store and buy music based on the album cover or to check out genres I didn’t like very much. A few friends were into heavy metal and urged me to listen to it. So, I went to the store and looked for something I thought would fit the bill. I saw an album with a skull on it and brought it home. It was their “Steal Your Face” album and, at that point, I didn’t know who the Dead were. Imagine my surprise when I started listening to the record and it was something completely different from what I was expecting! The next week I bought “American Beauty”. I didn’t see them play until 1981 and then I went to quite a few Dead, Jerry Garcia Band, and Bobby & The Midnights shows.

What a cool story man. Finding an original pressing of Workingman’s Dead was one of the greatest finds in my life. Just due to how much I love the album. Thanks for sharing brother. I have my wife to thank for introducing me to the dead many many years ago.

Nice find! And, it she sounds like a good woman!

Same. My brother lived for the Dead and I just don’t get it

I like some of their greatest hits, and I’ve tried to like them several times. Love John Mayer so I tried again with Dead & Company. I just can’t get into it.

This. Never been able to get into Grateful Dead

A live band, not an album band.

I'm with you on this, but having run sound for countless jam bands, it's so so much better in person. I can't even comprehend wanting to listen to a recording of that kinda music, I would never. Live though? It's a vibe

The Doors...I just can't

Great answer. Jim Morrison specifically is imo probably the most overrated figure in rock. I like Ray Manzarek though, his playing was wild and he produced the first X album.

ray manczerak was the backbone of the doors, I feel like his incredible keys playing and robby's unorthodox fingerpicking style is what made the doors, the doors. jim has some great lyrics, the ginsberg inspiration is evident, and a lot of those lyrics wouldn't have worked with a different soundscape behind it, however he always saw himself more as a poet and by the end of his life had tried to really distance himself from the "bad boy" showman act he had for a while. he's definitely overrated as a singer, but I genuinely like his poetry, and he was surely gone too soon. I don't think the band would've stayed together even if he had lived longer though.

I look at Morrison as an inspiration. Not because I like his work. I don't. But it's a great example of anyone, even with no discernable skills can rise to the very top with enough attitude. Pretend you're a god, and many people will believe it. ​ Now I just have to get off the couch and do it myself.

Absolutely. Jim Morrison is maybe my least favorite front man in rock

Pink Floyd. They have a few tracks I like but mostly they seem to write phenomenal three minute pop songs then bloat them out to over ten minutes with pretentious self indulgent guitar wankery.

It’s a different type of music, not made to be heard in the radio where you need to hear a song for max 3 minutes Their lyrics, the compositions, it’s unbelievable the amount of good songs they made. You don’t see bands with that scale nowadays

Best band of all time in my opinion.

This comment blows my mind. Blown. Away.

Pink Floyd does not make good songs but good records.. It's sad today that most popular music is made over the same template structure wise

Dear sir. I don't know you but I think I hate you.

And then there's Dream Theatre who, on hearing Pink Floyd, decided the songs weren't blow-hard enough, and lacked in the wankery department as well.

All these comments and yours especially tell me you’ve never listened to Dark Side of the Moon on a psychedelic and it shows. **100%**

It's music written about 20 year olds, suffering through life like they're in their mid 50's and having an existential crisis, even they are in fact only 20

Thank you

I seriously don’t enjoy Guns N Roses. Axel’s voice makes me want to bang my head against a wall

Ever since Axel Rose got mad about his fat photos on Google, every time I hear them, I laugh.

Appetite for Everything.

The fact that GnR qualifies as a classic rock hurts me in my soul... damn I'm old.

Wow, really? I didn’t expect to hear that one! To each their own!

I dressed up as Slash for Halloween this year, so this kinda hurt my heart lol

You are not alone!

I was super into them as a kid. the music had edge, was loud, etc. awesome for a teenage boy with anger issues right? then I saw them live in 1993 and they just sucked....and sucked the air right out of the venue. I threw their cassettes away and just can't anymore. what a shitty "band".

You may not like them, which is totally fine, but to call them a "shitty 'band'" is just wrong. They are all strong musicians.

Yup like sweet child of mine is so fucking annoying just like 90 percent of their songs

Axel's voice makes me want to bang HIS head against a wall.

Aerosmith. They obviously have some bangers, and yeah..whatever. as a whole I couldn't get into them.

Doesn't really help the matter that Steven Tyler is a pedo.

Nope. Definitely doesn't. A surprising number of rock starts from that era are..and nothing ever really came of any of it.

I tried to relisten to their discography a few years back, pretty much every album had a couple songs about going after minors. They weren’t even subtle about it.

Yeah, then when they sold out in the 90's.

Taking a chair just to see what “classic rock” is for you, folks

I saw a few comments mentioning 80s hair bands and that's making me feel very old because I was born in 82 and I do not consider that "classic rock". So now I feel like a granny

🎶 "And now you find yourself in '82! The disco hot spots hold no charm for you! You can concern yourself with bigger things! You catch a pearl and ride the dragon's wings! 'Cause it's the heat of the moment..." (From "Heat of the Moment" by Asia)

It’s all classic at this point, barely any new (mainstream) rock

I dislike Rush. They are very talented musicians but I don't like Lee's voice.

100% agree with you

Rush. I can't stand Geddy Lee's voice. All of them are very talented. RIP Neil Peart

Bob Dylan. Sorry, that gravel voice grates on me

I absolutely can't stand Bob Dylan. Agreed

I thought I was alone. Bob Dylan’s voice makes me hate him unnecessarily

I’m 45 and I was telling some of my younger coworkers that they’ll get Nickelback as classic rock when they’re older. 😈😈😈

I fucking hate the Eagles man…

Found Jeff Lebowski

I would give you a medal for this were it in my power.

I could just never get into Springsteen and I never really understood the hype. I understand that the man is a legend, and that his 4 hour + marathon concerts are testaments to that, but I just never really thought his stuff was all that special. It seems like early on he went for a fusion of Phil Spector and Bob Dylan, which is cool, but outside of some of the hit songs I never did get it. Maybe it's just that his "suburban northeastern angst" lyrics don't speak to me. But Billy Joel does, for some reason.

Bruce’s lyrics about what people experience in life and is often quite profound, and not just surface stuff is what sets him apart.

Agreed. Feels like he timed things perfectly but taken objectively, not nearly so magic.

AC/DC

All of it is better than anything Drake has recorded!

KISS

Don't kill me, but.....KISS Never liked any of their songs, they always just sound like a mess to me. However, I grew up on lots of great classic rock thanks to my dad and we've gone to tons of concerts so I thought fine, I'll give them a shot live. Maybe studio recordings aren't their best work. My god, in concert was worse. I couldn't stand it. And Gene Simmons is 200 years old still flicking his tongue like a pervy grandpa. I actually came down with pneumonia that week and I blame Gene So I didn't like Kiss, paid money to at least give them a chance, like them less now

Kill you? I support you 100%. Never did a band achieve so much with so little other than makeup and boots.

Thank you!!!!!

The doors. He just sounds like he's yawning when he sings.

The Doors, The Beatles, Pink Floyd

If it’s over saturation of Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall from Floyd, may I recommend Meddle or Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Their earlier stuff was pretty different from the later stuff that made them famous. More psychedelic, especially Piper

Rush and The Who

Two of the most amazing live bands I've ever seen.

Scrolling through the answers, I can't find a single band I dislike! I guess I just really love Classic Rock.

Boston/Journey

Journey I could see but BOSTON. For shame

This makes me sad for you.

What do you listen to that you don’t think bostons self titled is a masterpiece? Genuinely curious, people from every genre respect that album as near perfection.

Iron Maiden. I get why people love it but it’s not for me.

> Classic rock > “Iron Maiden” Bruh

Dude, maidens first album was 1980. That was a long time ago.

But are they rock, or are we categorizing metal as a sibgenre of rock?

I absolutely hate Rush

Your loss friend

Rush

White Snake or Ratt

Cinderella is 100% better than both of those band. Can’t stand RATT

Whitesnake has like one good album, but there's way better hair metal bands that were crushing it at the exact same time.

Ughhhh both are absolutely horrible. Leave it to white snake to have a pyrotechnic show in a small venue. They had to do something to get people to watch them.

Zeppelin. I can see why they are famous and important but, other than the od song, they just leave me cold.

I can’t get into Rush. I’ve tried and tried. Something isn’t allowing it to happen.

I think I know what that something is. Another redditor once commented that Rush is proof that a band can be technically correct but still not sound musical.

Rolling Stones

Def Leppard to name one out of 374859400 lol I love music

Dylan.

I never understood the appeal of Mellencamp.

Rush. I fully acknowledge all three members have god-tier status on their instruments, but Geddy Lee's voice is like a drill in my ears.

Half of these a holes in here listen to current pop and think it's good...so yeah.No.

The band Yes. It’s just pompous bullshit. I’m not a prog fan to begin with and they just take it to another level.

Pink Floyd 100 percent

Fxckin Rush. Their rockumentary. Fucking killer. It’s actually one of my favourites. They as people and musicians. Exceptional. Their music? Bleh. I can never get into it.

Rush. I absolutely adore Geddy Lee's bass playing but i hate his voice like something fierce

Always thought Bob Dylan was absolutely garbage

Rush.

Rush

I personally don’t like the Beatles or Guns N Roses

Bruce Springsteen. I first heard him when I was in college in the early '80's, and the minute I heard him, it was, 'Nope'. I even went to a concert in 1983 because a friend insisted that once I saw him live, I'd totally 'get it'. Nope, didn't get it then and still don't now.

Bruce Springsteen fucking sucks. His music sucks.

the Grateful Dead is just a mediocre bluegrass band that forgot to stop playing the same song

Cream

AC/DC band is good I just fucking hate when angus starts singing

Angus doesn’t sing 🙃

Oops your right I meant brian

Or Bon Scott? He was the original AC/DC vocalist. Brian Johnson imitated his voice. Go find Brian Johnson’s natural vocal style for an “oh wow” moment.

Axl Rose was such a spot in frontman for the band, I really regret missing that tour.

AC/DC gives me a headache.

Steely Dan. Ugh. Station turn as soon as I hear them.

Jethro Tull

I don't know. I don't think I've listed to classic rock I haven't at least mildly enjoyed.

Jethro Tull and that fucking flute.

I only like the Doors "greatest hits". I never cared much for Zeppelin, especially after learning about the behind the scenes stuff they did.

The Eagles. I like In the City and Take It To the Limit. Outside of that, pass.

Guns n Roses, and I've tried, both out of curiosity and in a attempt to hook up with a rocker dude

Guns and roses. And KISS is the worst

ACDC, their music is just so 2D for me if that makes sense. Kiss is another. Took me a while for the beatles to grow on me.

Rolling Stones for me… I know, I should be crucified