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Music "Boring" bands
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ACDC
Motley Crue
Kiss
Guns And Roses
Queen
U2
Coldplay
Mumford and Sons
1975
Arctic Monkeys after the debut (which is a certifiable classic)
Keane
fecking Hard-Fi
Motley Crue
Kiss
Guns And Roses
Queen
U2
Coldplay
Mumford and Sons
1975
Arctic Monkeys after the debut (which is a certifiable classic)
Keane
fecking Hard-Fi
We can be mates.
This is getting ridiculous.
It's alright mate, if you bought that Hard-Fi album no one will judge you, except for me, god and your family.
And everyone.
Hard Fi is the one you got right but GnR and Queen is simply unacceptable.
They can both bore off the edge of a cliff.
Brian May - has done about as much good for badgers as he has bad for Guitars.
Fred - Rest in Peace an all that, but even Frank Zappa can hold a note on vowels, get a new trick.
Axl - feckin nah, insipid man child. I've felt more inspired by bad curry shits.
Slash - No self respecting man from Stoke calls himself Slash, cnut off with your cnut hat.
Slash is Stoke's greatest export since the Staffordshire oatcake. Not sure about the Freddie vowel thing, further research required.
I don't actually like Queen but I'd still not call them boring.
It's a bad WUM when you get 2/4 right.
I don't think they are terrible, I just find it really hard to make it through an entire song of theirs.
I'd forgotten about Hard Fi, there were definitely more from that era too but I've blocked them out.
I don't like U2, but some of their stuff was genuinely good, I don't listen to them either so couldn't say if they're boring or not. I think if a band tries to reinvent their sound that it is at least an attempt to avoid being boring.
Another good shout was the Kooks, dreadful. One I'd forgotten, actually maybe two, from my original list were "super bands" - The Raconteurs and Velvet Revolver. Bumhole puckeringly boring.
*Edited because I typed the The Velvet Underground instead of Velvet Revolver
I don't like U2, but some of their stuff was genuinely good, I don't listen to them either so couldn't say if they're boring or not. I think if a band tries to reinvent their sound that it is at least an attempt to avoid being boring.
Another good shout was the Kooks, dreadful. One I'd forgotten, actually maybe two, from my original list were "super bands" - The Raconteurs and Velvet Revolver. Bumhole puckeringly boring.
*Edited because I typed the The Velvet Underground instead of Velvet Revolver
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Three pages in and nobody has mentioned Embrace. For shame.
I agree
U2
You're putting The Velvet Underground in the same box as the Raconteurs? Disgusting behaviour
Who's in a band on the caf?
Them too
Them too
Slayer
I try to ignore these sorts of threads, but: what the feck did Franz Ferdinand do to deserve being mentioned in a list alongside the Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight and the fecking Ordinary Boys, never mind unfavourably to Muse and the bloody Killers.
Edit: I've just seen the Velvet Underground linked to the Raconteurs post. I'm running away.
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I'm sadly not wumming, all of those bands I listed are the very definition of dross to me. Just so passé.
Good shout. It was wild that they got big in the first place. I was playing in bands in and around Leeds at the time they started. The keyboard player used to put on a lot of gigs for touring bands back then, so he'd put his own band on the support slots more often than not. They were dreadful. I saw them play to an empty room twice. Nobody liked them because they were just shite, but they were everywhere all because one of them knew the right people.
They somehow struck gold with that 'I Predict a Riot' song, and then they blew up. There was so many great bands in Leeds around that time, but they were the ones who took off. Crazy.
Guilty as charged, though in my defence I typed the The Velvet Underground instead of Velvet Revolver.
I meant Velvet Revolver, not The Velvet Undergound.
Kasabian are another who are utterly sleep inducing.
Adore this band but 100% get this opinion.
Velvet Revolver and Kasabian are both indeed poor. I'd forgotten Velvet Revolver even existed.
Saw the Arctic Monkeys a few years ago, full as dishwater. Sounded good but boring.
Has anyone mentioned The Greatful Dead yet? 
I'll admit the next 2 may be issues of taste but The Clash used to bore the tits off me back in the day. Also, with the exception of a couple of songs, I find David Bowie to be comparable with Andrew Lloyd-Webber.
I'll admit the next 2 may be issues of taste but The Clash used to bore the tits off me back in the day. Also, with the exception of a couple of songs, I find David Bowie to be comparable with Andrew Lloyd-Webber.
Oh god yeah. Dull as dishwater.
I opened this thread and read Sonic Youth and Radiohead. What the hell, guys?!
I saw him do a 20 or 30 minute set years ago, not expecting much, but he was really good and the atmos was great.
Radiohead and Coldplay, obviously.
As someone who doesn't mind the Foo Fighters, they are boring to be fair.
Maroon 5. Just awful
Rolling Stones
Not a band, but Bob Dylan.
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
As someone who doesn't mind the Foo Fighters, they are boring to be fair.
Maroon 5. Just awful
Rolling Stones
Not a band, but Bob Dylan.
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Did you leave early? or Paul Weller?
My Dad has seen him twice, and both times he walked off after half an hour.
Never been fond of any of his solo stuff, or even the Style Council, but I do love The Jam.
I left early. He seemed to be playing up to the grumpy old/serious artist man persona and would only play his stuff off the new album at that time, which was terrible. Told the crowd about this at length. Normally I'd be fine with this stance, but in reality his new stuff was poor and he's something of a nostalgia act for a lot of his gig goers it seems so why not throw them a classic or two.
This is a crime. He’s one of the best singer songwriters of his generation. Continuum is incredible. Born & Raised was great.
His work with Dead & Co has cemented his place as one of the best guitar players of all time.
With all that said… some of the self indulgent stuff has been genuinely disappointing. Feels like he’s taking a Ferrari to do his Tesco shop.
Nope. Not agreeing. Not at all. He's clearly among the most boring and pointless musicians ever. His music does absolutely nothing for me. It is so incredibly boring, I tend to forget it while listening to it. He is like an even more boring version of Van Morrison. And that's an insult I'm not handing out lightly.
My head exploded.Has anyone mentioned The Greatful Dead yet?
I'll admit the next 2 may be issues of taste but The Clash used to bore the tits off me back in the day. Also, with the exception of a couple of songs, I find David Bowie to be comparable with Andrew Lloyd-Webber.
Haha, to be fair it's all subjective - maybe it was a bit harsh to include FF in my list.
I'd certainly compare them unfavourably to Muse, but, you like what you like
Separator is one of the best songs ever and it's on King of Limbs. Lotus Flower is a banger as well.
Surprised we've made it 3 pages without anyone mentioning some band well known for holding a graph in their hand.
I fully admit it may come down to just taste but that's what I hear when my wife makes me listen to him.
Oh, I get it. Bowie was out of his cool phase when I first listened to him, and there were a lot of his songs that I didn't like at the time. However, I had a girlfriend who was way into him, and slowly but surely cracks formed in my defenses. I think the Berlin trilogy [Low, "Heroes", Lodger] are a good place to try again, if you are so inclined. The greatest hits packages tend to diminish his genius, I think, because he had such radical stylistic changes over the years. My personal favorites are Diamond Dogs and Aladdin Sane. Try again, please! You'll thank me for it, eventually.
I've read a bunch of interviews with them and they seem like they'd be right up my alley. Tried listening to the Frankenstein one last week, and made it about 5 songs. I'm sorry.