• @CycloneWolf@midwest.social
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    281 year ago

    I only found out a few years ago that Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies was commonly regarded as one of the worst songs of the 90s, but it reminds me of middle school and summers at the pool. Same with Sex And Candy by Marcy Playground.

    • circuitfarmer
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      81 year ago

      Hanging out, downtown by myself, and there’s just too much Marcy, Playground in my head, and there it was

    • @MrZee@lemm.ee
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      61 year ago

      The other day I heard sex and candy for the first time in ages. I got immediate nostalgia. The song has a GREAT hook and I totally see why middle school me liked it. Sex. Candy. Cool vibe.

      But hearing it now, i quickly realized the lyrics aren’t mysterious/poetic. They are meaningless and had nothing to say except repeating the chorus over and over and over because the words sound good together.

    • LaughingM0n
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      21 year ago

      What!? Mmm Mmm Mmm is a great song! Who says it’s not!? Give me their name, number and address.

    • @Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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      121 year ago

      I don’t think there’s that many people who dislike Nickelback. It just became trendy to dislike them, so people jumped on the bandwagon, regardless of whether they actually cared either way.

    • Chuckles
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      41 year ago

      I tried because so many of my friends dig them. I just can’t get past the songs that seem like they’re written with a rhyming dictionary and they’re full of teeny bopper cliches. I love the guitar tone and some of the riffs but I just can’t get past those dumbass lyrics.

  • @TheAndrewBrown@lemm.ee
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    221 year ago

    I’ll say it, I like Imagine Dragons. They have some great songs, they just also have some radio rock drivel (oh god Thunder is bad). Also, I saw them live back in 2013 and it’s one of the best concerts I’ve been to.

    • @DadWagonDriver@lemm.ee
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      91 year ago

      In 2022, they were my then-12-year-old child’s favorite band, so I took the kiddo to see the band in Milwaukee. Holy shit, they put on a FANTASTIC concert.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      61 year ago

      My wife discovered them about idk… 6 years ago? She was crazy about their music. She listened to it all the time, and put the music videos on our home theater. Then out of nowhere she suddenly decided that she hates them. She still hates them to this day. I think it might be because their music is so repetitive that it sounds catchy at first and then gets really annoying. Whatever the reason, they cultivated a super fan and then lost her all within a couple of months.

    • @mycroftholmess@lemm.ee
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      41 year ago

      Unfortunately they became a bit annoying after a bit but looking back, they’ve put out some fantastic tracks that are hard not to groove to

      Kinda like Nickelback. How can you not enjoy Rockstar

    • @Squirrel@thelemmy.club
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      21 year ago

      I like them, too. I only recently learned that we’re not supposed to, for some reason. shrug I enjoy a good bit of their music.

    • Guy Dudeman
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      11 year ago

      It baffles me why anyone doesn’t like them. I’m 42 and didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to like them.

  • @Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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    201 year ago

    You could play me 10 random songs from my playlist and I could maybe name the artist of one of them. I’m so hipster even I don’t know the bands I’m listening to.

    • AggressivelyPassive
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      31 year ago

      That’s the problem with autogenerated playlists. I really like it, but can’t remember the names of the bands - especially since half of them are Cyrillic.

      • @madcaesar@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        I don’t know, that’s what I like about my playlist. No loyalties. If I like it, it’s in. From rap to classical I got it! Maybe even a few country songs, but those are the very rare for me.

  • ZeroTemp
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    181 year ago

    Whenever I play shoegaze music it tends to upset my family.

  • @kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    111 year ago

    Zappa.

    Those who are into his music are really into it, and those who aren’t generally really dislike it.

    • @ShunkW@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      I’d argue with you about people disliking his music, but I’m moving to Montana soon. Gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

  • FartsWithAnAccent
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    101 year ago

    Mindless Self Indulgence: Yeah, the lead singer was obviously a piece of shit, but their music was still catchy.

    • @Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      41 year ago

      My Highschool Girlfriend was a huge Matchbox 20 fan, so I took her to one of their concerts. I gotta say, I was impressed. They do a great show.

      • HousePanther
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        21 year ago

        Me too! They were kind of a band that was assembled by a recording label too. They’ve an interesting and atypical history.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      21 year ago

      Is Matchbox 20 supposed to be a band that people hate? I’m familiar with the Nickelback hate, but I’ve never heard anything bad about Matchbox 20.

    • XYZinfernoOP
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      11 year ago

      Coldplay is among my favorite bands, absolutely agree there

      A lot of people criticize the direction they’ve taken recently, and while I don’t keep up with their newest releases, Viva la Vida is still one of my favorite songs. And other tracks like Paradise, Sky Full of Stars, etc. will always be fun for me to listen to as well

    • @RetroGradeBE@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      Nickelback is good, especially the early music. Imagine Dragons is similar in that they both are kinda hated because their music is really mainstream and accessible, which is in my opinion a pretty weird reason to hate the bands.

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        I can understand hating something because it’s overplayed and you’ve heard it so much that it just makes your skin crawl.

        I have that with Queen’s Radio Ga Ga. When I was working on a cruise ship at 19, I boarded while it was still being constructed and out of the 2 weeks it was in drydock before we set sail, 1 of them was spent testing the PA system by playing that song, on loop, 24/7 for a week straight with no breaks. It was psychological torture. I liked the song at first; never heard it until that. But now, I want to punch a thousand babies if I hear it.

  • I think a lot of people got burnt out on sex and candy, but Marcy playground’s first two albums are legitimately fantastic. I didn’t even get into them until like 2018

    • Sex and Candy got overplayed so much on radio, it was everywhere. I remember mom switching radio station because it came on like twice in the same hour and the station she fliped to was playing it as well.

      There were so many good songs just ran into the ground like that.

    • @chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz
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      31 year ago

      I had that album when Sex and Candy was popular and I loved it as an early teen. I didn’t register to it until probably 10+ years later, but it’s damn good. I them quickly picked up all their music released after that and it’s great, too.

      Got to see them live in a small venue back in 2012 or so and they were great.