Albums/Artists Everyone Loves But You Can't Get Into or Hate Outright

[Timothy Hunter]

What are some popular musicians or specific albums that are generally deemed to be great that you don't understand what makes them so acclaimed and loved.

[Buried Alien]

I never have understood critics' hulaballoo over Van Morrison's ASTRAL WEEKS or Love's FOREVER CHANGES. Despite being a huge fan of the pop and rock of that era, I found both these albums incredibly dull.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[The Darknight Detective]

I never have understood critics' hulaballoo over Van Morrison's ASTRAL WEEKS or Love's FOREVER CHANGES. Despite being a huge fan of the pop and rock of that era, I found both these albums incredibly dull.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

I like the first one a lot and have no opinion of the second.

[Kirby101]

Mis-Education of Lauren Hill. Mediocre talent praised as a new superstar.

[dancj]

Most people with similar tastes to me seem to love The Smiths. For me they had one great track (How Soon is Now) and one decent track (Panic). After that it's rubbish.

Bruce Springsteen.

The Scissor Sisters

Sam Smith (In fairness, no-one I actually know seems to like him).

[dancj]

Love's FOREVER CHANGES.

I love this album!

[MyriVerse]

Tom Waits. All I hear is cacophony, and not good cacophony.

Genesis before Phil Collins showed up.

[Timothy Hunter]

My Bloody Valentine Loveless
It's album drenched in incomprehensible noise rock as a means of veiling it's vapidness. I don't see what the fuss is about.

Radiohead O.K Computer
I admire the last two tracks, which are admittedly quite good, and that's about it. Radiohead is one of those bands that I don't quite understand why they get the acclaim and respect that they do. O.K Computer is probably the least compelling album if their's that I have listened to. I even prefer Pablo Honey over this record.


Pink Floyd's The Wall
Out of all of the post-Meddle Pink Floyd albums, this is probably my least favorite besides the Division Bell.

[Tugger]

In no particular order; Adele, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Emili Sandé.

All highly overrated, IMO.

[Magik]

In no particular order; Adele, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Emili Sandé.

All highly overrated, IMO.

+1

I have a loong list so idk if I should write it here.

[KOSLOX]

I've never cared for The Doors, Pink Floyd, or The Eagles.

[C_Miller]

I've never cared for The Doors, Pink Floyd, or The Eagles.

I agree with this list. Probably would have been my choices as well. I just find The Doors pretentious. I don't find the poetry all that interesting and the music isn't all that fun to listen to. Pink Floyd, got really boring, IMO after Piper at the Gates of Dawn (which is actually one of my favorite albums). And The Eagles, I liked as a kid, but I find their music relatively vapid. There's not a whole lot there to keep a lifelong fandom going.

I feel the same way with Dave Matthews. I got really into him when I was in college for literally one summer. And similar to The Eagles, his music just isn't very layered, so there was nothing keeping me around.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I never understood the appeal of Led Zeppelin. I've tried, but I just couldn't get into their music.

[ZombieHavoc]

I never understood the appeal of Led Zeppelin. I've tried, but I just couldn't get into their music.

I always felt the same way and didn't get the appeal, save for a riff here or there on some radio hits. I genuinely tried and probably purchased a total of 4 different LZ albums along the way, but none really grabbed me. Then a couple years ago I heard "Achilles Last Stand" on DIRECTV's hard rock channel, and it blew me away and I became obsessed with that song. I've since found LZ stuff I like, but plenty I still don't get the appeal of.

[ZombieHavoc]

Love's FOREVER CHANGES

Same here. I love Love's first album, and Da Capo is okay, spotty though, but I'm not really into FC. I think it's pretty boring. But then, many of the bands who were playing more frenetic garage rock in 65/66 had started getting extra flower power psychedelic or whatever by 1967 (see The Zombies' Odessey and Oracle, another well revered album that I think is BORING).

I also like Love's Black Beauty, which I guess was recorded in the 70s and remained unreleased until a few years ago.

Arthur Lee is cool as hell.