Free Floating Hostility 21 - Bands I Just Don't Get

Welcome everybody to the 21th edition of the Internet's favorite rage column. Welcome everybody to Free Floating Hostility! This is where RJ rants about Today's Culture Items That He is Bored of, Tired of, or Pissed At!

I consider myself to have a rather eclictic taste in music. Who else can listen to KoRn, Journey, Montgomery Gentry, Johnny Cash, Ice Cube, Behemoth, The Beatles, Bon Jovi, and REM in one sitting and love every minute of those songs? Plus enjoy the local scene as well? Good music is good music. It doesn't matter if it has a long haired tough guy rocking on the double bass guitar, an urban individual scratching the vinyl, or a redneck plucking the ole' mandolin. I refuse to consider myself an elitist, and I refuse to criticize other people's tastes in music... unless you like Paris Hilton.

However, there are some bands, I am sorry... I just don't get it! You might like them. Good for you. I don't.

U2 - If you want to talk about an overrated piece of shit band, look no further than U fucking 2. Seriously, what is the big deal with these guys? They produce boring monotonous elevator music, and the public treats them like they are the Rolling fucking Stones.

Then, you got a lead singer with an agenda, Bono. Who thinks that just because he made "When the Streets Have No Names" he can save the environment and tell people how to live their lives. Fuck you Bono! Fuck you with a big rubber dick!

When it comes right down to it... this is band that got by on good marketing, not good music.

The Police - I am sorry people, I just don't get it. What did these guys do to deserve a $250 ticket price for their reunion tour? Seriously, what the fucking fuck? Sting's solo career is a lot more appealing. For one, he doesn't sound drunk on his solo work like he does on such so-called Police hits as "Roxeanne."

The music lacks a lot of pizaz and spark. I feel like I am at the deoderant aisle at Wal-Mart when I listen to The Police. Nothing more to it than that.

Poison - Okay, I do admit that I enjoy a little butt rock from time to time. I like Def Leppard, Van Halen, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Twisted Sister, and other. It is cheesy but still fun!

However, I just never have gotten what the big deal is with fucking Poison. There are far superior bands in that genre, yet people seem to place them as one of the head bands in the genre. I don't think so, Scooter! Van Halen made some fantastic hits and had one of the most innovative guitarists of all time, Mr. Eddie Van Halen. Def Leppard's catalog varies as they went from a New Wave of Brittish Heavy Metal ("On Through the Night" & "High 'n' Dry") band to Pop Metal ("Hysteria" & "Adrenalize") to even Grunge ("Slang"). Bon Jovi actually broke away from the Pop Metal scene and evolved into some very good Adult Contemporary in their later years.

Poison? Well Bret Michaels continues to make an ass of himself on his reality show. Obviously, he was desparate for money.

Their latest album, Poison'd, is a glorified cover album. Bret has pretty much lost his voice in the later users, so what I have heard off of it sounds like shit. GO POISON!

Brad Paisley - Okay, here is a Country Superstar not worth the hype. Brad Paisley... half cliche, half retarded.

Although it probably didn't help that I heard "Wrapped Around" every morning for 9 months when I worked at McDonalds. I would be cleaning the tables and would hear "I was wrapped... around... her finger... since the first time we went out!" God, somebody shoot me.

Oh yeah, and thanks for butchering ZZ Top in your shitty shitty cover of "Sharped Dressed Man."

Hatebreed - Hi, our name is Hatebreed, and we are a generic metalcore band with nothing really new to offer in any way. Almost all of our songs are all skippable when you play our CDs. Our music might be okay, but you can find about 90 other metalcore bands that are better than us in almost every way.

I went to Ozzfest in Chicago this year. I wanna know why these guys headlined Second Stage of this year's Ozzfest and not Behemoth? Behemoth is the far superior band and they just kick ass. Oh well... I guess I was getting heat exhaustion at that point anyway, so I didn't miss anything good while I got under the pavilion to cool down.

And yes, I know their guitarist died. I feel bad for them. No one should have to go through that. I am not heartless.

Oasis - Here is a band that gets literally treated like the second coming of The Beatles, when they far from deserved it. They didn't sound like Pre-Sgt. Pepper Beatles and they barely sounded like Post Sgt. Pepper Beatles. However, they were from United Kingdom and had the hair do. They claimed The Beatles was their influence, you know... like that was never done before! So that make them just like The Beatles, right? RIGHT?

I am sorry guys, but hair style, native country, claiming influence, and a Strawberry Fields Forever rip-off does not a Beatles make.

There ya have it! A few artists and bands that... I just don't get! I would to hear what bands you don't get. Even if I like them, that's cool. Everyone is entitled to their own taste in music, unless you like Paris Hilton.

Till next time!

RJ45