popular bands that you hate

[gcczep]

What's in a word?

As clichéd as it sounds, I can't say I hate any band. To some degree it is a semantics issue with me. The word "hate" itself (in my working definition) implies I expend energy disliking something. Just don't have time or energy to be that passionate about disliking something.

Twenty years ago, my opinion would have been very different.

This just about sums it up for me. Well put Phil B. ***:

Either it moves me or it doesn't...

 

[Vehicle]

Like I said with ZZ Top and Jackson Browne, I don't hate him, but Eric Clapton bores the life out of me.

I will never understand how this guy is considered one of the 'greats'. I don't know what people hear when they listen.

He's bland, vanilla, and wholly average. Everything he plays sounds so rehearsed and practiced and memorized to the note. He doesn't flow, he recites.

Anyway, that's what I hear.

 

[runningshoes]

He's bland, vanilla, and wholly average. Everything he plays sounds so rehearsed and practiced and memorized to the note. He doesn't flow, he recites.

Anyway, that's what I hear.

What do you think about his work on Pros And Cons of Hitchhiking?

 

[Metal Health]

Most of his work is supposed to be relaxing and calming. Not upbeat or hard rock. Maybe that's just not your kind of music.

 

[Vehicle]

What do you think about his work on Pros And Cons of Hitchhiking?

Roger Waters' album? I didn't know he was on it.

 

[Johnny-Too-Good]

Clapton is, first and foremost, a Blues Man. He would say he has no time for the guitar heroics that made him famous in the first place. Having said that, his Blues doesn't excite me that much. I would much rather listen to his mentor John Mayall.

 

[tones of home]

Clapton is better when he's surrounded by other artists who are on the same caliber. Cream, Blind Faith, Derek And The Dominoes, his minglings with George Harrison. He's not a slouch when other people challenge his talent.

And, no matter how you look at it, he was a guitar god in the 60s, dethroned only by Jimi Hendrix.

 

[gcczep]

EC was...

I liked Clapton's guitar work with Cream. His 70's work weren't too bad but as mentioned he was not into fret-board pyrotechnics. The 80's were more pop-oriented fare.

 

[Khor1255]

Like I said with ZZ Top and Jackson Browne, I don't hate him, but Eric Clapton bores the life out of me.

I will never understand how this guy is considered one of the 'greats'. I don't know what people hear when they listen.

He's bland, vanilla, and wholly average. Everything he plays sounds so rehearsed and practiced and memorized to the note. He doesn't flow, he recites.

Anyway, that's what I hear.

Well, I think in Clapton's case they started saying it back when he was pretty amazing in the 60s and it just stuck. I mean, listen to the way he plays solos through the verses and his general technique.

For my money there were always players equal to and better than him but when I hear some Cream stuff, Blind Faith etc it is clear why someone would find him very good at complimenting a song with rhythms and leads.

If you are talking mid 70s onward I agree with what you said wholeheartedly. He seemed to have really lost something when he went solo.

 

[Aero]

For my money there were always players equal to and better than him...

Like the dude from Camel.