Popular groups of the 70s/80s that you didn't 'get'?

[JonnyBlade]

For me, there were certain bands that I never got into at all and failed to understand their popularity. Here's the ones I never 'got'.

Led Zeppelin (considered 'drop-out' music)
Yes (pretentious pseudo-classical nonsense)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer (see contents of previous brackets)
Black Sabbath (completely passed me by)
Rory Gallagher (couldn't stand his haircut)
And in my opinion, the worst of the lot, Uriah Heap (disjointed music and that standing on one leg! Pick the other one up)

Yes, it's raining and I'm bored.

Sorry can't understand why anyone could not understand Zeppelin or Sabbath!!!!!
Is this a serious post

 

[PaulB]

Sorry can't understand why anyone could not understand Zeppelin or Sabbath!!!!!
Is this a serious post

Yes, serious. I recently read Ozzy's autobiography as that's the kind of books I like but have to admit not knowing any of the songs he was writing about from the band's most creative times. That's why I mean they passed me by. I had to go on i-tunes and play the highlights of their best known hits and none of them meant anything to me.

As for Led Zeppelin, I think the people I knew at the time tended to regard music like that as being uncool and a bit 'beneath' us and we saved our vitriol for the fans of the band. I know I was wrong as obviously they are justifiably great and I have made the effort of listening to their music. Still doesn't raise the mercury level too high in the enjoyometer like but I have at least attempted to right that wrong.

 

[JonnyBlade]

Yes, serious. I recently read Ozzy's autobiography as that's the kind of books I like but have to admit not knowing any of the songs he was writing about from the band's most creative times. That's why I mean they passed me by. I had to go on i-tunes and play the highlights of their best known hits and none of them meant anything to me.

As for Led Zeppelin, I think the people I knew at the time tended to regard music like that as being uncool and a bit 'beneath' us and we saved our vitriol for the fans of the band. I know I was wrong as obviously they are justifiably great and I have made the effort of listening to their music. Still doesn't raise the mercury level too high in the enjoyometer like but I have at least attempted to right that wrong.

Like most there was good and bad. Zeppelin for me are timeless with words in songs you can hear and often understand! I think Sabbath tore us out of the free sex of the 60s and the melancholic 70s. Try listening to Sabbath playing 'fluff', very Tony Hart

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Budgie and The Groundhogs.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

And any Genesis solo stuff.

 

[Ludwig]

The late Rory Gallagher was superb and saw him at the Victoria Hall, Hanley. Check out his brilliant bull frog blues on youtube. How can anyone not like Led Zep, Sabbath, Pink Floyd Emerson Lake and Palmer and U2. I think you need to apply yourselves as my teachers would always say.
I never quite got The Wedding Present or Half Man Half Buiscuit or The Fall

 

[ianrauk]

Another one who didn't get Led Zeppelin or the Clash. Both bands output sounded like complete drivel to me. And it still does.

 

[dellzeqq]

Middle Genesis.

Oh, and early Genesis.
And late.

isn't late Genesis a contradiction in terms? And shouldn't they have taken the hint?

 

[jonesy]

I quite liked Genesis in the mid 1980s! Along with Pink Floyd. And Marillion... (<runs for cover!>) Still listen to Pink Floyd occasionally.

 

[Rebel Ian]

Simple Minds, U2 and Level 42. If I never heard another song from any of them again it wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

 

[albion]

They all had their moments.

Everyone play(s) Darts ?


A short moment thankfully.

 

[accountantpete]

David Bowie - what was that Laughing Gnome all about?

 

[Kestevan]

I never quite got The Wedding Present or Half Man Half Buiscuit or The Fall

Heretic
Burn The Witch

 

[Dave Davenport]

Progressive rock what was there to understand except brilliant musicians that new how to play and not the crap we have to listen to today. Yes and later Rick Wakeman were and still are my greatest groups of the 70s/80s

Progresive rock - AKA Musical self-gratifying

 

[The Jogger]

Spandau Ballet FFS
Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
U2 pretentious give me The Undertones anyday.