Glad the Ramones have been mentioned. I can’t stand them but I thought I was the only one. Is it just their punk pioneer status that people like them for or do they actually listen to those terrible songs?
I never really got Nirvana. I kind of understood why they were cool but the music did nothing for me. I had a friend who was very into them from the early days. She tried to drag me along to a gig at a tiny venue, just a few months before Teen Spirit catapulted them to megastardom. I turned it down. One of those gigs that would earn you much cred for being able to say ‘I was there’ but... meh.
Indeed, the
Ramones are dull as dishwater and I've never met anyone who actually listens to them.
I actually liked
Nirvana though but they weren't half as clever as they thought they were.
The Smiths did a couple of catchy songs, but like the Morrissey stuff, it pretty much soon overwhelmed your whimsy threshold. I like
Radiohead though, so there. I'm not sure
Pink Floyd can be cool as my dad forever fucking goes on about them.
I have no idea with the
Rolling Stones are popular or why people still think it's cool to spend their annual salary to see them. I never got it, they did a couple of a moderately OK songs, even after several decades not enough to fill a greatest hits album, mostly anodyne pub rock.
In a similar vein,
Oasis and anything those tedious Gallagher brothers do. Utterly mediocre pub music, the sort that makes you leave the pub and go find somewhere better.
