Bands or musicians that you like that everybody else seems to hate

All of them.

 

Does Blue Oyster Cult fit into this category?

Most people know them for stuff like Fear the Reaper and Godzilla, but that sort of thing wasn't real appealing to me. Now, the stuff on the early albums about biker gangs and sci-fi shit...I love.

DOMINANCE!!!

and submission...

 

Most people know Blue Oyster Cult from the "Burning For You" video which was on MTV quite a bit back in the day.
But they'd fit the thread - with the exception of one or two songs most people hate 'em.

 

Somehow I missed this post. I love Tift Merritt - have already pre-ordered her new album due out next month.

 

For bands with geographic locations in their name:
New York Dolls
The Delaware Destroyers (George Thorogood)
The Georgia Satellites (other than "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" did they have another hit?)
Fountains of Wayne (named after an actual store in Wayne, NJ)
The Front Street Runners (John Eddie's original backing band named for the street in Philadelphia)

 

I love Boston. And I think "Don't Look Back" -- the "unfinished" album, according to Scholz -- is better than the debut.

I also do not apologize for my love of Kelly Clarkson and Gretchen Wilson.

 

Kind of an obscure band but everyone has been subjected to their music if they have been at a big arena sporting event- 2Unlimited.

Great Techodance music.

 

See if I can catch up here.

Kansas: Song For America is one of the most hugely underrated records ever made, and their first album's pretty good, too. Started going downhill after that.

Yes: They were the show in the Spring of 1973 that changed my understanding of what serious musicians could do with rock music. The three albums that make up the best of their repertoire (The Yes Album, Fragile and Close to the Edge) are masterpieces. They started to lose it with Tales From Topographic Oceans, when they started taking themselves entirely too seriously.

Jethro Tull: I have a love-hate relationship with Aqualung. Some great songs, but the best of them have been played into the ground. The two albums before that, though (Stand Up and Benefit), are outstanding, far superior to Aqualung IMO. They had some decent records after that, especially Songs From the Wood, but nothing like their earlier work.

Blue Oyster Cult: Don't Fear the Reaper and Agents of Forture was the worst thing that could have happened to them, because after that they started going for hits, instead of just making music. But their first three albums are epic. I mean, you've gotta love a band with a song entitled OD'd On Life Itself.

Oh, and here's one that hasn't been mentioned yet: Emerson, Lake and Palmer. One of the greatest live performances of my life was when I saw them at the old Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis in 1974. I love me some ELP.

 

I could listen to Hymn 43 on an endless loop. The rest I have to be in the right mood for.

 

Actually, I thought Accelerate was pretty good. That's the only R.E.M. record I own.

 

Had a BOC cassette in high school that I wore out. This song I had never heard before when I picked it up. It's an incredible song. Can't listen to it without transporting back to the late '80s, hanging out and trying to avoid trouble on the backroads of my home state.

Then Came The Last Days of May:

 

Great song

Albert77, I saw ELP during that time period, too. Outstanding show.