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

I dislike artist that has great talent but they fall into a routine, they rely too much in their talent and don’t try hard enough. 

This is the reason I appreciate artist who puts their soul and emotions into their act. Like Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, James Brown, etc

has made this post so comical and entertaining

No doubt about it, @mylogic .

. . . if the meter would have worked out better, The Boss could have titled his best selling album Triggering Snowflakes In The USA.  As it was, it only sold over 30 million. . . .

I wonder how Born To Trigger would have gone over back in ’75?

Only one triggered is you.

Now to another horrid band BUSH!

WAY too many to list...

My tastes in music tend toward to the progressive and avant-garde.

I am not at all interested in music that does not meet the criteria I love in music.

Those criteria are, in no particular order: very high levels of musicianship, deep and broad ranges of emotional and/or intellectual content conveyed, moderate to high levels of complexity, (usually) long form songs. I am not usually interested in: hooks, verse>chorus>bridge>repeat song structure.

So, almost all of mainstream music bores me at the very least, or annoys me. Even stuff I used to listen to and love, is not very tolerable for me.