I had my entire iTunes library on shuffle last night. It's roughly 22 days of music long so there is still quite a bit of material I haven't gotten around to yet. After hearing a few displeasing tracks from bands so highly praised, I decided to make this thread.
You know when you find a band you haven't really listened to yet but you know is very important/highly praised, then you take a listen and are let down like none other? I'm not talking about bands that take a little longer to digest than most, I'm talking about spinning through an album roughly 20 times and still not finding anything worth listening to. I know everyone has these bands. I have one. But it's a big one:
Bathory
What the fuck happened here? Everybody writes of Quorthon as if he were a godsent legendary guitarist that shifted the universe with his divine music. I've listened through Blood on Ice, Norland I, and Blood, Fire, Death about 15 times through each, and besides a few solos on Blood, Fire, Death, I found myself hating the music. It's boring, Quorthon sounds like a dying duck singing, and the production isn't my cup of tea (even though apparantly a complete shit production job is good?). Would someone like to explain this band to me? I know they were "the beginning" but I still don't get it...
So what about everyone else?
You know when you find a band you haven't really listened to yet but you know is very important/highly praised, then you take a listen and are let down like none other? I'm not talking about bands that take a little longer to digest than most, I'm talking about spinning through an album roughly 20 times and still not finding anything worth listening to. I know everyone has these bands. I have one. But it's a big one:
Bathory
What the fuck happened here? Everybody writes of Quorthon as if he were a godsent legendary guitarist that shifted the universe with his divine music. I've listened through Blood on Ice, Norland I, and Blood, Fire, Death about 15 times through each, and besides a few solos on Blood, Fire, Death, I found myself hating the music. It's boring, Quorthon sounds like a dying duck singing, and the production isn't my cup of tea (even though apparantly a complete shit production job is good?). Would someone like to explain this band to me? I know they were "the beginning" but I still don't get it...
So what about everyone else?