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

What is so irritating about REO Speedwagon?

Not that you were addressing this to me, but I'll chime in anyway and offer a short answer:  I used to listen to REO and Styx and Kansas and Boston and bands such as those in the late '70s and early '80s, and it is not so much that I am irritated by them now-a-days, but to me their music/lyrics no longer seems to have any depth.  (I don't mean depth in a literal sense.)  That would be my short answer.  However, just because my tastes have changed with the passage of time, and although I have made some judgmental comments on this thread, I truly don't condemn anything that someone else appreciates just because I don't care for it.

@immatthewj REO Speedwagon

What an answer. 
You should be a politician.

You answered a question without saying anything that could possibly offend anyone. And in the end said nothing in any way.

In that way l mean nothing controversial ….Ha

That sort of thing makes a great politician.

No insult intended.

Footnote…l don’t want anyone on here suggesting l am falling in love with you. I know this has been implied about you and some others on here.

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I won’t take any insult from that.  But I cannot precisely put my finger on and articulate why I no longer like REO/Boston/Kansas/Styx/Alice Cooper/BTO/Nazareth/Head East/AC DC/etc except to say I no longer hear anything at all in the music that they produced that means anything to me or talks to me in any way.  I can do a much better job of explaining why it is that I enjoy the music of the artists that I do like.  But I realize that taste in probably everything is subjective and personal, and who am I to say what is right or wrong for anyone besides myself.  

. . . I  don’t find their music to be honest or dishonest.  I just don’t find their music to be anything at all.  And I guess somewhere I must have missed the implication that you were falling in love with me.

@immatthewj 

@mahgister has the same logic as you. He has stated he knows more about why he loves some artists music than the reasons why he dislikes certain other artists.

l think we just grow out of some artists but only the great ones remain long term. That’s why the charity shops in the UK have loads of the same discarded artists on their shelves. I collect Original Soundtracks and l can guarantee when l look in charity shops over here l can always find multiple copies of “Titanic”  “The Bodyguard” and “Gladiator”

Pop music is no different….Robbie Williams, Take That, Christine Aguilera, Shania Twain. No Beatles or Stones EVER.

This discussion is red hot today. Nearly 1000 visits l noticed just in one day. Over 22,000 to date.