Kiss, my arse
Just don't get them. please add them to my frankly enormous list of 'just don't get thems' - includes Bowie, Bolan, Clash, Cure, Springsteen, Dylan..........
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:24, 1 reply)

I agree with you on most of those
but recently I have developed a massive love of Bowie and the Cure.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:38, closed)

My problem with the Cure
is not really their fault - it's simply that they are middle of the road pop (or have been since A Forest and those quite good, quite dark tunes) that is lumped into 'alternative' because of Robert Smith's hair and little else. Fuck me, Lovecats is not goth, it's fucking bent.

My problem isn't really Bowie actually - but people who are 'reaaaallly into Bowie, man' (not you, dear chap). He wasn't very original apart from in terms of presentation as far as I can see and has a weak voice.

If it's tranny-rock I want to hear I go to the New York Dolls....
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:45, closed)

the Cure have a lot of albums, and some of them are actually quite gothy
and that is the stuff that I like (for the most part. I do love Lovecats)

same with Bowie I guess, you have to listen to the right stuff. The early stuff is awesome.

I get concerned occasionally that I am one of those sorts of people you mention, because I really love a lot of music, and if you get me going I will happily enthuse about it for hours...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:03, closed)

I am too
but I'm also a music Nazi and can scathingly put down stuff I don't like as easily as I can enthuse. I care so much about it that I can rant and rave like a mentalist, at the drop of a hat.

So much so that I've been offered a slot DJing on a pirate station - a feature of which will be a section called 'Mock the Weak', where I play something popular that I think is shit - followed by something similar that I think is ace, and explain why I've come to both conclusions.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 12:15, closed)