Bands you would normally hate but... don't

You know what I'm talking about; that band that does many or all of the things you find irritating in music, things that you have crucified a million bands for in the past, yet for some reason when THIS band does it, it's kind of... good?

Maybe you don't buy their albums but you will turn them up on the radio or you smile and enjoy yourself if you happen to catch their song in a public space. These are the bands this thread is about.

Please keep this thread as positive as possible; I'm not asking folks to write love letters to Creed or anything but let's keep belittling of others to a minimum.

Inspired partially because of the "bands that enrage you" thread and partially because a mention of She & Him made me search for them on Youtube, which recommended Death Cab For Cutie's "I Will Possess Your Heart" and is my textbook example for this thread.

Toad the Wet Sprocket....a real guilty pleasure of mine.

Warren Zevon, PJ Harvey, Bruce Springsteen, Motorhead, Led Zeppelin, U2, Derek and the Dominos, Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden

and Aerosmith

i secretly pretend i hate Kings of Leon, when i secretly kind of like some of there stuff. BAN ME.

well i don't secretly pretend i hate them, i just tell people i do.

Nite Jewel and Zola Jesus have a lot in common with chillwave but just... aren't? I like em

That Frankmusik chap.

Scooter, absolutely love em, who knows why

The band that did "Breakfast at Tifany's." I likes it! The guitar sounds like Disco Inferno (the band, not the song)!

arrgh. tiffany's. fuck.

Fastball

The Smiths!

The Dandy Warhols! (actively LOVE them)

Children of Bodom

Broken Social Scene. I really love their instrumentals, even tho they suk.

sugar ray have about 2 (3?) songs i'll crank

It took me months to get into the Fever Ray/The Knife scene almost exclusively because I was turned off by the formers similarity - namewise - to Sugar Ray. I guess that's another thread tho.

All things George Clinton, I guess.

I See Stars. They're a screamo-meets-electro act from Michigan who slather their vocals in AutoTune when they're not, well, screaming; their music throws metalcore, techno, 80s AOR and Trans-Siberian Orchestra pomp-rock into a blender; their first album had a guest rap from Bizzy Bone. And yet, I'm a giant fan.

Weezer, whose appeal I've never grasped. But I'm very willing to nod my head enthusiastically to "My Name Is Jonas".

I can't stand club music, but I have almost all of New Order's albums.

Of Montreal

Got a real soft spot for "My Worst Enemy" by Lit. No one can understand why.

xxxp My Name is Jonas is about as likable as Weezer got...

Dave Matthews Band. Everything about them...fans, the rotten snare sound, the bassist who wears his bass right below his neck, their whole neo-hippie carefreeness...is something I hate about a lot (A LOT) of other bands, but Dave has a voice I like and writes on/plays guitar in a way that very much appeals to me.

Grateful Dead. Once I realized that if you take away all the deadhead bullshit and twirling and aging hippies and dancing bears and just hang put with an album or two, stuff like American Beauty and Workingman's Dead is really gorgeous. I really really do like them even though I spent my whole life eyerolling at the idea of them.

Fallout Boy. Omg their hooks, They just seemed like the best of what that genre had to offer. Or something. Wentz is the most ridic frontman ever but they had something very good and very pop at their core.

^ co-sign

I didn't really fuck with Fall Out Boy until "This Ain't a Scene...", but after that I went back and realized they weren't all that bad. Totally looking forward to Patrick Stump's new record.

"this ain't a scene" is one of the greatest goddam songs of our sad, tub pruny age. wish i liked the band better on the whole.

Patrick is the best thing about them, excited for his solo yeah. His voice on the last album was like, O_O

I can't even remember how I got into them, they were definitely one of those bands I was SURE I hated. Funny how that works

Grateful Dead. Once I realized that if you take away all the deadhead bullshit and twirling and aging hippies and dancing bears and just hang put with an album or two, stuff like American Beauty and Workingman's Dead is really gorgeous. I really really do like them even though I spent my whole life eyerolling at the idea of them.

Interesting; I agree that the Grateful Dead only have a very narrow wedge of good material amid a giant wheel of stinking cheese, but we disagree about what the good stuff is. I don't like American Beauty or Workingman's Dead; I basically only like live albums from 1969 (Live/Dead, the 10-CD Fillmore East boxed set), when they were noisy and skronky and very briefly a rock band.

the 10-CD fillmore east boxed set. yes and i will take half a bale of space underwear to go with that.

Gayngs

Green Day. Every time they release a single I find myself actively pleased when it comes on the radio or TV. Had to go to see them for work and was dreading three hours of it, but it was one of my favourite shows of whatever year it was.

Ha yes, Green Day! I don't know why but I think they're great.

jellyfish

thought i would hate Jay Reatard merely because of his name...and never gave him a chance. really like it.

libertines. got to be the libertines.

Actually yeah, Libertines for me too.

Scooter, absolutely love em, who knows why

― frogbs, Wednesday, January 5, 2011 11:02 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Because they are amazing.

Husker Du, but I usually cannot stand hardcore punk. Near every band adopts the same voice and bitches about the same shit. Oh, and at that - Fugazi. Neither of them really fit the aforementioned classification, though - maybe post-punk?

Ween

Chicago