Marillion
Why?

Nearly all my friends at school thought they were amazing. I like to think I have a pretty broad spectrum of musical taste, but I just don’t get Marillion.

I’ve always had a suspicion that they deliberately made their music overcomplicated so people thought you had to be intelligent to ‘get’ it. I don’t listen to music so that people might think I’m clever, you’d have to be pretty stupid to do that.
( g_j_p, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 12:13, 5 replies)

Hmm
Probably you didn't get Marillion because it was a bit too technical. All those tempo changes, odd time signatures and so on. Fish's lyrics were a bit, er, unusual too.

If you're looking for a straight beat, a tune you can sing in the bath and three chord riffs you've got the wrong band.

Personally, I'm quite a fan. Well, not now, seeing as they've gone all AOR, but I think the first four albums were fantastic. Because I like that sort of thing.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 12:21, closed)

Still not very good
Like I said, my musical tastes range from Alien Sex Fiend to Wagner.

I just don’t get Marrilion.

You’re kind of proving my point that fans think they’re good because they’re complicated, not because they’re actually good. Thanks for that.
( g_j_p, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 12:27, closed)

Not quite
In my opinion they are good, and being complicated is part of that. I happen to appreciate that sort of thing. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't like it if they were just being technical for the sake of it. Some jazz is like that, and it sounds like a lot of bollocks to me. Marillion, IMO, managed to get the balance right so it was out of the ordinary but still musical.

I don't much like music which has no variation. Remember Edwin Collins' hit of a few years back, "Never met a girl like you before"? It charted quite highly, and everyone raved about it. To me it was crap. It had little in the way of melody, no variation in rhythm and the same fucking chord all the way through.

Each to his own though. Hip hop has a huge following. I'm not part of it. I'm not saying those who are fans are wrong. They're just different from me.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 13:35, closed)

That's more like it
I'm with you on Collins and hip-hop, though I tend to like rock/hip-hop cross-overs. I guess they're a modern kind of novelty record.

I have the same problem with the beatles too. Sergeant Pepper = shit

Jazz is weird one. Some I like, some I don't.
( g_j_p, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 14:30, closed)

Agreed
The first 4 albums with Fish were very good. I gave up after he fucked off. No idea what they are like now.
( Snollock Biffer I don't really sniff Bollocks, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 12:48, closed)