The Smiths/Morrissey
Fugazi
Sonic Youth
Sheer Mag
Megadeth
Minutemen
Paranoid (Sweden)
Subhumans (UK)

I think I don't like The Stooges much besides a couple of songs.

dave thomas what about jazz fart pt 3

Not quite sure what that it is but I am a fan of jazz and farts

Unwound goes in one ear and out the other

Always thought Neu! was fine but I have a hard time buying them as towering krautrock giants and not like something a tier below that. It doesn’t help that they’re probably the easiest one to rip off, so if there’s a forgettable cheesy punk-adjacent psych rock band with a purported krautrock influence, good chance Neu! is what’s most detectable.

I had a switch flip and now I never want to listen to Wire, the Fall, or Mission of Burma. I’m bummed about the first two and can’t explain it but Mission of Burma sounds cheesy to me…too anthemic. Strangely I have come around to Joy Division lately so maybe I have only so many slots available for the classic post-punk bands.

Big name shoegazers other than MBV

The bands Steve Albini played in

Seconding Sun City Girls, I should like them but there’s clearly a level of enjoyment I haven’t unlocked

I thought I was into Stereolab but I would almost
always prefer to listen to Broadcast or Pram or Electrelane

I’m not trying to get banned but…the Screamers

    Replacements for sure.

    Also that Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog song. I don't know why you all love it so much.

    The Ponys
    The Hunches
    The Spits
    (are my most blasphemous)

    Mystery_Ship Anything Nick Cave has ever touched.

    Years ago, the new Nick Cave album came out and was behind the counter in the record store I work in with it playing. My co-worker started absentmindedly singing "this spooky songgggg is verrrry spooky" along. Wasn't much of a fan to begin with, that killed everything.

    I never understood why a band like Elastica was always so appreciated

    paperhose Hearing the Paris 1942 album really helped Sun City Girls click for me, if that helps.

      The Shadow Ring. Lord knows I’ve fucking tried.

      I try every few years to give the following bands another chance because I’m certain I’m just missing something, but it never works out:

      • Minute Men
      • Husker Du (I dig Land Speed Record but that’s it)
      • Bikini Kill (if every song sounded like “Fuck Twin Peaks” I’d be on board)
      • Slint / Tortoise / post-rock in general

      Also, i wouldn’t say I dislike the Fall (when I hear other people play it, I’m into it, and I like bands that get compared to them), but I just can never listen to them. There’s just too much shit and the fan base seems a bit too rabid about them that I get too overwhelmed to ever get started.

        Never got into The Replacements. Bruce Springsteen for people with extensive punk/garage/rock'n'roll collections

          I think I could go the rest of my life never listening to Talking Heads again. I used to really love them, too, but every algorithmic streaming service in every brewery or coffee shop has oversaturated them and I just don't care anymore.

          I think everyone is just pretending to like the Replacements.

          The Who post My Generation
          Shoegaze
          The Fall
          Pink Floyd (well, maybe not everyone here, but everyone elsewhere)

            I’m with folks on the Replacements, except I’ll go to bat for “I Hate Music”, “Fuck School”, and “Gary’s Got a Boner”.

            Lol, these are song I legitimately like, but as I’m typing them out, I’m realizing it makes me sound like a fuckin twelve year old.

            Gimmie Sopor Never got into The Replacements. Bruce Springsteen for people with extensive punk/garage/rock'n'roll collections

            Perfect summation.

              sixbigboys my way not crazy about the Minutemen either. Come to think of it most of the SST big dogs don’t do it for me

              elimaxxx The Who

              This is mine. Maybe it'll click one day.

              Also not into Queen at all.

                Mitch C. Queen is awful and the who always messes up really great songs with some goofy bullshit

                • Josh replied to this.

                  Speaking of The Who, here are two deep cuts that non-believers might appreciate (The Good's Gone and Heaven & Hell, the links won't play directly)

                    Queef Richards Same, that was exactly who I had in mind as unflattering points of comparison. Even Faust with their unfortunate wanderings in Zappa territory have more/higher peaks in my opinion

                    Of the hyped bands from the current wave of Australian rock'n'roll, I can't get into Stiff Richards, Civic and Private Function.

                    Randall Gimmie Sopor Never got into The Replacements. Bruce Springsteen for people with extensive punk/garage/rock'n'roll collections

                    Perfect summation.

                    Replacements took a while for me to appreciate. Let It Be and Tim have some amazing tracks but they're kinda uneven as records. But songs such as "Favorite Thing", "Unsatisfied", "Seen Your Video", "Sixteen Blue", and the whole second side of Tim (exc. Lay it Down Clown) are all classics in my book. Also, Tommy Ramone's production on Tim didn't exactly help too.

                    another unenthusiastic vote for the Minutemen & I never cared one way or the other about Sonic Youth or Husker Du
                    the random classic rock band that irks me most is probably ELO
                    and I really cant stand Van Morrison

                      Randall Boris The Spider has the goofy dosage spot on, and the bass rips.