[Music] unpopular bands you like.

[Redmage]

Just wondering if there is anyone else that has bands they really like that seem unpopular / controversial / considered bad.

For example i absolutely love Modest Mouse but most people i meet can't stand them. Maybe it's just where i live?

bands i get shit all the time for liking:
Modest Mouse
White Stripes
Silversun Pickups
The Pillows

EDIT: Forgot to label the thread as music, sorry mods.

[Pwellzor]

Just wondering if there is anyone else that has bands they really like the seem unpopular / controversial / considered bad.

For example i absolutely love Modest Mouse but most people i meet can't stand them. Maybe it's just where i live?

bands i get shit all the time for liking:
Modest Mouse
White Stripes
Silversun Pickups
The Pillows

These are all "popular" bands except for The Pillows, and by no means are they controversial. You probably get shit for liking them because they ARE popular and people like to make themselves appear to be special snowflakes. for the record, silversun pickups are an incredible band (my favorite).

[Redmage]

These are all "popular" bands except for The Pillows, and by no means are they controversial. You probably get shit for liking them because they ARE popular and people like to make themselves appear to be special snowflakes. for the record, silversun pickups are an incredible band (my favorite).

i know they are all pretty commercially successful bands so they are popular on some level, but trying to find a fellow silversun pickups fan in the DC / VA area is pretty damn hard.

Also i know what you mean, Pikul is one of the greatest albums ever imo.

[Caiada]

Well, when I was younger I enjoyed Nickleback....

Also, I still like Coldplay, which just about everybody seems to hate.

[Redmage]

Well, when I was younger I enjoyed Nickleback....

Also, I still like Coldplay, which just about everybody seems to hate.

i really don't get the nickelback phobia, it's like hating nickleback suddenly became the cool thing to do back in the day.

Not my favorite band by any stretch of the imagination but they are really not as bad as people make them out to be.

[Skelington]

I listen to psychobilly, gothabilly, and horror rock/punk primarily.
Not only does no one know what those genres are, even less would be able to name a single band(other than The Misfits for horror punk maybe).
So:
Nekromantix
The Creepshow
The Meteors
Koffin Kats
Zombina and the Skeletones
Blitzkid
Zombie Ghost Train

Those are just a few. If any of you recognize even one of those names, i do not lie when i say i am surprised.

[TehSteelygar]

I'm listening to the Beatles at the moment, they're not that popular.

[Badpaladin]

What qualifies as unpopular? Not well-known, or known and hated?

If it's the former, Neurosis. They're easily one of the top 5 innovators in Metal, having created just about everything aside from prog and melodic death since the early 90's. Just about nobody knows them, though. I like it that way.

If it's the latter, I used to love Good Charlotte.

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i really don't get the nickelback phobia, it's like hating nickleback suddenly became the cool thing to do back in the day.

Not my favorite band by any stretch of the imagination but they are really not as bad as people make them out to be.

Ohhh, I could definitely give you a massive laundry list about Nickelback if I wanted to. That would kill the point of the thread, though.

[Redmage]

What qualifies as unpopular? Not well-known, or known and hated?

either or, mainly leaning towards the known and hated. obviously most people will recognize the bands i listed, i just find they are not well liked by many people.

---------- Post added 2011-08-27 at 03:46 AM ----------

If it's the latter, I used to love Good Charlotte..

LOL i haven't even thought about that band since like, middle school.

---------- Post added 2011-08-27 at 03:50 AM ----------

I listen to psychobilly, gothabilly, and horror rock/punk primarily.
Not only does no one know what those genres are, even less would be able to name a single band(other than The Misfits for horror punk maybe).
So:
Nekromantix
The Creepshow
The Meteors
Koffin Kats
Zombina and the Skeletones
Blitzkid
Zombie Ghost Train

Those are just a few. If any of you recognize even one of those names, i do not lie when i say i am surprised.

I recognize a few (Nekromantix / Creepshow) i would probably recognize some of the others if i heard them aswell. i used to date a guy who listened to alot of horror rock / whatever you call it.

I kinda liked it, but it wasn't really my style, i like laid back music.

[jreg]

For known and hated: Kanye West

For simply being unknown: Colour Haze

[Deleted]

Sorry, I had to. On topic: Ashes Divide, Ghost Brigade, People In Planes, Defeater, Callisto. (My top5 in these parts.)
Could be terribly wrong, so do bash me

Edit: Okay, misunderstood OP (more like didn't read it at all). >.<

[Bodygrinder]

Isomnium
Devil Driver
Solution .45
Brokenkites
Scar Symmetry
Sybreed
The Mercury Arc


All are amazing bands that I'm pretty sure aren't main stream.

[gvd13]

I listen to heavy metal, so I rarely meet anyone who likes the same music as me. Although I occasionally meet people who will say they like heavy metal too and list stuff like Linkin Park, which they think is heavy metal. Sigh...

[GodlyBob]

That song Rebecca Black sang, which got her death threats, was so bad that it was addicting. It's like watching a 50's horror movie. I like listening to geek rock, so there's a lot of things nobody has heard of in there.

[Durandro]

I'm a Bum Sick fan. I doubt many people have even heard of them, so does that count as 'unpopular'?

[Eldar45]

As far as "Hated", at least amongst the metal crowd... hmm

I love Disturbed, and I like Linkin Park's first two albums.

And as far as unknown, has anyone ever heard of "Whispered"? Yea, thought not. Really good melodic death metal from... Finland I think.



And to completely de-metalfy myself, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" has been stuck on repeat for about 2 hours... seriously the best love song ever.

[Redmage]

That song Rebecca Black sang, which got her death threats, was so bad that it was addicting. It's like watching a 50's horror movie. I like listening to geek rock, so there's a lot of things nobody has heard of in there.

dude offtopic but i'm a bad movie aficionado, i would rather watch some cheesey 50's horror movie and make fun of it then any of the crap hollywood makes these days :P

[RincrowTheOmnipotent]

I listen to heavy metal, so I rarely meet anyone who likes the same music as me. Although I occasionally meet people who will say they like heavy metal too and list stuff like Linkin Park, which they think is heavy metal. Sigh...

Its an exaggeration that its hard to find heavy metal loving friends. Heavy metal is one of the most loved genres out there. They only reason people say they can't find heavy metal loving friends is because heavy metal fans tend to not socialize, consider themselves a small group when in reality its quite big, or consider other people's taste in metal not "true metal".

Also I'll go with the Op's examples. Good bands that receive lots hate from hipsters who backstab bands once they turn successful no matter if they are still the same, or people who just generaly hate on indie bands. Not a big fan of indie music myself but I give credit where its due.

[Deleted]

Bowling For Soup's very entertaining.

[Potente]

I was just raping sub pvp listening to my psycho mix of demented are go / meteors/ batmobile / nekromantix. And more.