Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too?

@hilde45 

William Shatner

Remember….Jim’s music could be considered…..out of this world 

It maybe should stay there?

Now that is just ‘go to hell’ plain logical!

Abbey Lincoln is an acquired taste, I encourage everyone to try again, this is my favorite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Gotta_Pay_the_Band

you can go from, 'she can't even sing' to 'oh my god, she's the best ever!'

James Taylor, who if not favored by family connections, an ingratiating personality, and lucky timing (a cultural moment of stunning vapidity -- "I'm OK, You're OK;" "Johnathan Livingston Seagull;" "Love Story" -- "Fire and Rain" was of a piece) would have become the summer camp music director he was born to be.
Can't write, can't play, can't sing, which alone would make him merely uninteresting, but best known for cluelessly eviscerating dozens of fine-to-magnificent songs earlier recorded, profoundly and definitively, by REAL artists. "Covers," which ought to have been called "Eviscerations," is unlistenable not just because the arrangements and vocals suck so badly, but because they are full-bore desecrations.

Shoe Gaze, Death Folk, Opera (that's a shame but oh well), most Hippity Hop, most pop although occasionally something squeaks through somewhere. Although in my many decades as a musician I've never been a jazz player, that's pretty much 90% of my listening with a seemingly endless jazz trio obsession. Kjetil Mulelid anybody?

Diane Schuur.  Plenty of talent, but her voice just grates on me.