Bands with a big reputation that are (musically) shite

[The39thStep]

I try again, perhaps once a year or so, but it just doesn't resonate with me.

I think they are fairly niche tbh and not to everyone taste but I'm a sucker for that electronic psychedelic tinged dream pop vibe

 

[Spandex]

There's a potentially interesting question here about whether much of what we now call "classical music" was originally intended to be "for the ages", and how much of it was rather the pop music of its day.

Classical composers were artists paid by wealthy patrons: princes, barons, archdukes and archbishops, to create their art. The instruments themselves, the training to learn them, seeing the orchestras play were all out of the reach of normal folk. Most people would be lucky if they heard a classical piece played once in their lifetime. It was the preserve of the aristocracy, maybe with the new bourgeoisie getting a listen in once they were a thing. In the time before recorded music if you weren't able to hear it played live you wouldn't hear it. Even Beethoven's biggest fans would've only heard his pieces played a handful of times. So no, classical wasn't the pop music of its day.

Folk music was the popular music for regular people, or from the 1850s with the rise of music halls the new style of music hall songs.

 

[Wilf]

I was joking really. Sorry Wilf .

Six string guitar chords are against my aesthetic philosophy. They're very common and beginners get taught them but they're inherently stodgy and unartful IMO. But that's just my thinking, and an aesthetic is something you choose.

Six strings good, three strings better!

 

[Kaka Tim]

I was joking really. Sorry Wilf .

Six string guitar chords are against my aesthetic philosophy. They're very common and beginners get taught them but they're inherently stodgy and unartful IMO. But that's just my thinking, and an aesthetic is something you choose.

yeah - they have their place, but chugging on on a barre chord is the default rythym playing for waaaaay too many rock guitarists. even more boring when youve got two guitarist doing it.