Spinning off from Ian's comment on the thread about Mark E Smith...
"The Fall were one of those bands that it was cool to like without actually having to listen to"
What artists / bands / albums / songs etc would fit into our personal lists of cool but unlikeable? The criteria is that whatever you nominate has to be "critically acclaimed", "classic" etc., but, to you, either unfathomable or just plain crap.
I'll start by taunting the prog-rockers and nominating Yes. I loved a lot of prog and still play imaginary drums to early Genesis records (yes, I know
) but I could never get Yes. It always sounded to me as though five people had all turned up in the recording studio on different days, had a noodle for a couple of hours, and then gone home again without ever listening to what the others had done.