@NoVADad99 --I’m sure that’s true, but it doesn’t excuse “the smile ran away from his face” or “talking with Davy, who’s still in the Navy.” 
And I second the best live performances thread!
@WalknOnEggShells - My uncle once said he hated The Beatles and my first thought was “Wow! That’s un-American!”
My nomination for best live performance would include someone’s Musical Artists You can’t Stand " 
Does anyone remember when Eddie Murphy attempted a singing career ?
" My girl wants to party all the time, party all the time, party all the tiimme "
I started a new thread on best live performance or most memorable performance.
cobrat- lol, hilarious!
“* Partially because one older friend is a big Beegees fan and lives to annoy me by overplaying them”
I had a similar experience with REO Speedwagon. A roommate of mine played them constantly. I wasn’t overly enamored of them to begin with but by the time I moved out I never really wanted to hear them again.
NoVADad - I can’t find your thread!
I find myself liking old disco and other bad music from the '70s. There’s something comical about it now.
The Beatles: English rock in general in the 60s and 70s (pre-punk, pre-ska revival) had four strains, all of which were amply represented in The Beatles’ music (and that of many other groups as well): fascination with and imitation of American r&b, folk revival, the British music hall tradition, and overblown, pretentious prog rock incorporating jazz and symphonic elements (and, in The Beatles’ case, Indian classical ). I generally liked the first two, was ambivalent about the third, and hated the prog. Which meant I was ambivalent about The Beatles and pretty much all of the other seminal English acts, except for The Rolling Stones (whose minimal progisms I forgave) and Fairport Convention. Age has muted some of my dislike of the worst Beatle excesses (Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Within You and Without You, She’s Leaving Home).
I really disliked groups like Genesis, Supertramp, Procul Harum, The Moody Blues, ELP, and, yes, Queen. I had trouble with early Bowie, too.
Kid Rock
Dave Matthews Band
95% of the oversouling clowns who find their way onto the stages of Americal Idol, The Voice, etc.
Phish
@JHS–“She’s Leaving Home” --I don’t care who identifies with the sentiments of it; musically it is unlistenable!
The best live music thread:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-confidential-cafe/1888854-best-or-most-memorable-live-musical-performece.html#latest
I was never a fan of Billy Joel, but I started listening to him again when a middle school classmate played and belted out two of his songs at a concert and was riveting. (I often wonder whatever happened to her.) He gave a fabulous interview to Alec Baldwin: http://www.wnyc.org/story/225651-billy-joel/
I like the early Beatles because they are fun dance music. And I like the George Harrison Beatles songs - especially “While my guitar gently weeps”.
I had a roommate who overplayed James Taylor’s Sweet Baby James album. I can still barely listen to it. And she also listened to Pachabel’s Canon far too many times. BTW if you haven’t seen the Pachabel Canon rant - it’s priceless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
@NoVADad99 I responded to your link, but I just realized it’s not in the Parent Cafe, so I’m not likely to be seeing it again (not a knock; I just haven’t gone to the other Cafe in years.)
I don’t think there are any entire genres I hate–even if you don’t like slick Nashville country music, it’s pretty hard to dislike all of Johnny Cash, for example.
But I don’t like Ella Fitzgerald all that much. I actively hate her rendition of Cole Porter’s songs, like “Love for Sale,” since she essentially trashes the meaning of the lyrics and just uses them as a platform for her vocal gymnastics. That’s fine for “A Tisket, A Tasket,” but not so much for songs that actually mean something.
I’m also not a fan of Sondheim, except for some of his earlier work writing lyrics of others. Actually, “Send in the Clowns” is OK if it’s sung properly, by an older female singer. Again, it has words that mean something, and they don’t mean anything when sung by somebody young. Also, it should end after “they’re here,” but it doesn’t.
@hunt, you don’t like Ella’s version of Love For Sale in her Cole Porter Song Book Album?
I don’t generally like mainstream country but I like some “fringe” country like some of Lyle Lovett’s early stuff is country style and Nanci Griffith and KD Lang. Also like some Johnny Cash and love Patsy Cline though I can’t listen to a lot of it because of the hokey instrumental accompaniment. Maybe if she had lived longer she would have evolved and done some work with less hokey instrumentals.
Beyonce and her leotards. I’ve had enough of that.
No, I don’t like it at all. It’s like she doesn’t get what the song is about, or ignores what it is about. It’s a sad song. Of course, she’s not the only one who sings it wrong. I don’t think she’s a very good interpreter of Cole Porter at all.
@hunt, ok.
Which version do you like?