Bands/musicians you know you "should" like but you don't

[LynneSin]

4. I just do not like the Rolling Stones. I know I should but I'm just not impressed

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Yes there are a few of their songs that I love very few like 'You can't always get what you want'. And I have a couple of their albums in my collections because I feel I would be scorned as a collector of great rock music to not include the classics from the Rolling Stones. I even saw them in concert back in 1989 (was not impressed).

But personnally - I think they suck - BIG TIME.

Here's the thing, they haven't done a decent album since 1980's 'Some Girls' (and that was an OK album at best - it was no 'Sticky Fingers' or "Exile on Main Street' or 'Beggar Banquet'). Yet the Rolling Stones keep doing these massive tours and people keep paying outrageous ticket money in hopes to see this band that once put out these legendary concerts. But to me seeing the Rolling Stones in concert today is like shopping at Wal-mart - it's just all generic and commonplace. However, there are alot of people out there who like shopping at Wal-mart just like there are alot of people who will still buy Rolling Stones tickets thinking it will make them somehow hipper when what they are doing is just watching a band that should have given it up about 20 years ago.

In the end I think that Led Zeppelin was smart to stop touring after the death of John Bonham because it has put them at a level that the Rolling Stones will never achieve. I think that's one of the reason why when LZ's Robert Plant and Jimmy Page toured in the mid-90s they didn't call themselves Led Zeppelin or invite John Paul Jones. They knew if the tour bombed it would sully the Led Zepplin name. The Beatles are the same way - there is mystical aura about them because they were only there on the earth for so long until they ended the band and toured no more.

In the end I am the first to admit that perhaps if the Stones had pretty much retired back in the 80s I would have been a huge fan. The fact that they keep touring and replaying the same songs and putting out subpar albums again and again - I am so over them.

BTW same for Aerosmith.