Bands with a big reputation that are (musically) shite

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Ramones have plenty of melodic songs of their own.
I want you around
I can't make it on time
I'd argue that the first LP is already pretty poppy .
Basement, I wanna be your boyfriend.

 

[Kaka Tim]

I mean, my first reaction to this was "that Motown tradition that song comes out of is very much not one with a strong tie between artist/songwriter and song, it's like trying to say who Heard It Through The Grapevine 'belongs' to, or any of the Holland-Dozier-Holland songs, so it's their song as much as it is anyone's." Then I looked at the somewhat alarming wikipedia entry for it, and if by that you mean that it only had Joey on it and none of the other Ramones then fair criticism, I didn't know that. But it came out on a Ramones record, so I think it's still a Ramones song. And Rock'n'Roll Radio is unimpeachably Ramones.

Yeah, I think there's something to that.

It's not their song in that it's a cover of a ronnettes song. Cos Phil spector. It's a great version tbf.

 

[stavros]

I can never quite understand the critical love for Broadcast.

I think I don't understand the Ramones. Any of it. I guess they're a pop band in disguise really.

That's the case with a lot of punk. The Buzzcocks and the Undertones definitely wrote pop songs.

 

[hash tag]

The Quo had a huge reputation, were superb live but musically really left a lot to be desired both musically and lyrically.

 

[chilango]

Radiohead

I mean, they've a few decent enough tunes. But I don't get the accolades they attract

 

[chilango]

Aphex Twin.

I really don't get it.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Radiohead

I mean, they've a few decent enough tunes. But I don't get the accolades they attract

Yeah, well your music's not as good.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I don't get Daft Punk. I was only very vaguely aware of them for years, then I finally twigged a few tunes tunes that were theirs. Hmmm.

 

[krtek a houby]

Never really got Men Without Hats, Men at Work and Men Who Argue About Music

 

[PTK]

I think that most pop music is not meant to live beyond its era. The Ramones were good at the time, if you were young. They were a refreshing contrast to what had gone before. As you mature, and the world of popular musical culture moves on, then particular artists lose their relevance. It galls me to see people wearing tee-shirts with the Ramones on them, when the wearer is too young to have known the band when it was active, and the tee-shirt was made after the band members died.

 

[krtek a houby]

I think that most pop music is not meant to live beyond its era. The Ramones were good at the time, if you were young. They were a refreshing contrast to what had gone before. As you mature, and the world of popular musical culture moves on, then particular artists lose their relevance. It galls me to see people wearing tee-shirts with the Ramones on them, when the wearer is too young to have known the band when it was active, and the tee-shirt was made after the band members died.

Used to wear a Grateful Dead t-shirt in the 80s, despite not being too young to appreciate the band.

See plenty of youth wearing Nirvana t-shirts and Rolling Stones. Delighted it irks folks.

 

[Humberto]

Not a band but I never got Muddy Waters at all, and I like most if not all of his early electric blues contemporaries.

 

[The39thStep]

I can never quite understand the critical love for Broadcast.

That's the case with a lot of punk. The Buzzcocks and the Undertones definitely wrote pop songs.

good grief

 

[PursuedByBears]

I think if a lot of the posters on this thread pulled their heads out of their arses, they would hear the music much better.