Bands whose music you dislike but that you love reading about

I remember Tom Scharpling saying this about Zappa, I sort of have this with the Dead. Does anyone else suffer from this?

Oasis interviews back when the bros. did them together (though i'm more just neutral on their music)

ICP

Oh yeah, I've always wanted to check those Oasis interviews out...thanks!

The Dead are definitely way more interesting to read about than listen to

the track-by-track Eagles listening thread is way more interesting than any of the Eagles songs I've ever heard

Sort of indifferent to Rammstein's music, but love their antics.

Kiss

Run the Jewels

steely dan

the track-by-track Eagles listening thread is way more interesting than any of the Eagles songs I've ever heard

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I think I can speak for of us victims of love participants in that thread by offering a hearty...

Well, yeah.

"ALL of us"

Joy Division. Also, very very glad to see someone who does not like Steely Dan.

medals of valor all around

I hated the Doors until I read a book about them.

I'm fairly non-enthusiastic about Talking Heads, though I definitely don't DISlike them. I love how much passion people devote to the topic when speaking/writing about them, though.

Miles Davis

Hmmm... but do I dislike Blink 182?

Oasis, definitely.

Beatles, Zappa.

ICP is a pretty good answer to this. Their interviews (especially with anyone trying to "nail" them) are incredible.

The Fall

Why?/Y0ni Wolf. i really like his weekly podcast, which has gotten me more into his music, but i'd still rather listen to him talk than listen to his records.

Zappa. I actively dislike his music (some of which I completely loathe), but his autobiography was pretty entertaining, even if it had a bit too much "everyone is stupid except me."

I'd have to take another look at the Ben Watson book, but I think the definitive book about FZ hasn't been written yet. The Neil Slaven one was absolute crap...the more I think about it the madder I get.

I'm not an Elvis Presley fan, but a detailed non-fawning bio would probably be really good. (Any recs?)

Guralnick's Presley bios are likely your best bet. They're definitely not fawning, but almost to a fault: at a certain point, the retelling of events gets bland enough that you wish a critical voice would step in for a minute (and Guralnick's critical voice does occasionally, but only for a minute). But they're insanely detailed/well-researched.

the Zappa autobio I had was pretty entertaining but yeah I kinda came out of it having my worst suspicions about Zappa confirmed

U2

Bill Flanagan's U2 bio from the nineties is one of the smartest of its kind; it hoodwinked me into liking them for a few minutes.

I love reading up about pretty much any band that I dislike, to be honest.

Alfo can you confirm for me that that U2 book has a chapter detailing Bono's "nautical kleptomania" where he steals boats any chance he gets?
I read it as a teen and that chapter seems too weird to be a real memory

I don't remember the phrase, but yeah, he likes boats and skinnydipping.

Ugh, Bono skinnydipping, thx for that guys

Bono is a Parrothead!

Kiss p much owns this thread for me

also, Motley Crue