Ranking 50 Artists I Can't Get Into 

This took WAY TOO LONG, but I hope you guys dig it I ranked 50 artists I previously haven't been able to get into just to see if my opinions have changed. What's an artist/band you WANT to get into, but can't?! Drop a like/comment your answer 😈 EDIT: A clip of The Used played for As It Is, pretend I did that to spare you from "I Miss 2003"

bro be like: watch me piss off 50 fanbases at once

I do enjoy some of the artists on the list, but hey, that just shows that everyone has different opinions on artists we like and don’t like, and I respect that.

The fact that the list was an alphabetical order made me way more happy than it should have lol

I could’ve sworn you liked Charli XCX and Metallica. Some of the others make sense because I remember you either talking about not liking them before or just knowing your taste it makes sense but those two are ones that stuck out to me.

XX_BR00T4LSW4G in 2024?! This is something I never thought I’d see!

Nice to see Br00talSwAg return and go through his own rebranding!

"It would be a low hanging fruit to just write off BVB because they're cheesy, and cringe, and have a sexy front man" Proceeds to write off Motionless In White for those exact reasons.

XX_BR00T4LSW4G and Cal Chuchesta should collab sometime in the distant future 😅😅😅

I was never a fan of Lana until I started to listen and discovered a deeper message hidden in her "evocative and sad 50s housewife style". She's the real deal. Have fun at the Lana Del Rey Hate Train Hill.

One band I can’t get into that you didn’t mention was Ice Nine Kills. Anytime someone mentions them, I ask them to show me some songs to get into them and all anyone says is “see them live”. I finally brought it up and one of my friends gave me one of their cds because he had an extra copy and that cd went in one ear and right out the other

I'm a diehard Starset fan, I understand if you can't get into them. They're one of the few bands from highschool that I still love. Saw them live last month and it was one of the coolest shows aesthetically I've seen. Even if you don't like them, I would give them credit for managing to blend a mainstream rock appeal with EDM electronics, djent guitar tuning with a strong pop sensibility before that style really blew up a few years ago. They were definitely ahead of the curve there.

Animal Collective fan here, alot of AnCo fans will give long-winded paragraphs explaining why they love the band so much, but I love the band for just one major reason, its just fun music. They definitely aren't a happy band by any means and they definitely have some oddball instrumentation but whenever I listen to the band (especially the run from Sung Tongs up to Centipede Hz), I'm just soaked in warm vibes and colourful atmospheres. Welp, I guess I just gave a long-winded paragraph there now lmao

I live for these long ranking vids!!!

I don't get the hype for Buddy Holly (not the Weezer song, that one's a banger). My dad plays his music in the car quite often, and when I give his songs a shot, I don't like them. His music makes me think of Chip and Skip from Camp Lazlo. It sounds like music to scoop the pig enclosure to. The song Listen To Me is the biggest example of what I'm thinking of. Buddy's vocal delivery is just NOT it. I'd put him in "Utter Confusion", since I don't get how he became this highly regarded.

From the way you talked about all the artists on this list, I’m sure you listened to a lot of music from all the artists, but I’d love to hear your opinions on the first 2 Glass Animals records, Zaba and How to Be a Human Being. Especially with their newest album out, there seems to be a divide in the fanbase of old fans who adore those albums but don’t like the new stuff and newer fans who love their pop leaning stuff of the past two records. I personally love How to Be a Human Being, it’s one of my favorite albums of all time for its story telling and its mix of indie rock and hip hop beats. Also, I get how “you have to see it live!” isn’t a valid argument as concerts aren’t as accessible as albums, but I will say it is fascinating to see them perform stuff from all 4 albums at their concerts and find a way to make the setlist fit together when each album is so different.

I agree with the heavy majority of the bands you've listed so far, some of these artists have always just annoyed me lol. anyway, I almost died when I saw Death Grips, and it was INCREDIBLE. Great records as well, I'll disagree with that one.

When you said you didn't like the gravely voiced vocal style a'la Springsteen and you listed a bunch of similar artists, I was shocked you didn't add Gaslight Anthem here. I am interested in your opinion on them, since they also share a similar vocal style?

Arcade Fire at their best are superb, but there’s also a lot that leaves me uninterested. The Suburbs album however is a no skips for me.

No hate whatsoever cause we all like what we like, but I am a huge lana del rey fan myself and I’m curious on your takes on her later work. Especially the more sentimental songs, like the grants. The grants for instance is about taking on cherished memories of your loved ones to heaven with you when you die. She does occasionally bring back the nostalgiac but bad girl aesthetic sometimes but way less than her older career. I think her lyrics have really improved over the years but also your take is 100% valid! Curious to hear your thoughts on more recent releases like “did you know there’s a tunnel…” and NFR! :) Much love, excited for a new artv vid as always

Not much of a Smiths fan and definitely not a Morrissey fan, but I do think "How Soon Is Now?" is one of the all time great songs.

I love Beyonce but I feel like to a lot of people, she's more of an ICON than she is a musician.

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I have many artists I can't get into, but the most embarrassing one by far is David Bowie. I like I'm Afraid of Americans and that's about it 😅

circa survive are one of those groups where you either get it or you don't. I've shown them off to people who fell in love, and some people who wouldn't mind never hearing Green's vocals ever again. one of my personal favorites. great vid as always! love this long-form content

Dude you won’t believe how happy I was to have seen that you’re getting into the national , I’ve grown up with them. I’m 21 and they ‘re like my third favorite band. I have a vinyl collection and I want to get all of their records . Again very happy to see you getting into them 😃😃

Cool to see you've come around on Circa Survive!

Hardcore punk mixed with metalcore? Isn't metalcore already supposed to be metal tinged hardcore punk?

Dude, you’re such a talent, great vid

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Well done, Jon! The editing on this vid is excellent!👌🏻

Damn the spicy takes 🌶! But in all seriousness, even though there’s some like Beyoncé, The Smiths, and Bruce Springsteen where I’m the complete opposite, I do see why they may not be your cup of tea. Hell some of these artists I also couldn’t get into like U2, Death Grips and Charli XCX. For me the 2 bands I could never get into are Panic! at the Disco and Vampire Weekend. To me Panic sounds like that annoying theater kid that brags about how talented they are, but you wanna punch them in the face (Though admittedly Pretty. Odd. got some good songs) and Vampire Weekend, basically Crash and Mark from Spectrum Pulse pretty much said my thoughts on the recent Rock Coliseum, they come off as a bit too snobbish for my liking and it gets eye-roll worthy for me. And I listen to that new album cause people were praising it to high heaven and I was mostly whatever on it.

happy to find out that you've changed your opinion on circa survive! personally, i love anthony's voice. it's unique and beautiful. being a big fan of his projects lately

Great video idea/execution for real!!

dont mind most of yout takes jon agree with most! Not the biggest smiths fan only really know "the queen in dead" that being said that album is a masterpiece, up there with the cure's disintegration!!! Definitely give that one a second chance!

Surprised not to see Blur or Keane on here, especially Blur as they were on one of their previous iterations. Did you come around on them?

I think against the currents first album has a very special vibe to it… i love wasteland and roses so much

oooh my god. thank you for reminding me that hopelessness blues exists! it's soooo good, can't believe I forgot about it

Thank you for making this! For the last couple years I've been trying to remember what the name of this band was that I had an album for like over a decade ago, but for the life of me could not figure it out. But now, finally, you've brought it back: Circa Survive! Thank you!

My take on Knocked Loose: I saw them with Gojira and they were midway through their set until I realized they were playing a different song. I listened to them on Apple Music and got about four songs in until I noticed I wasn’t listening to the song I’d put on. I’m a diehard AC/DC fan so keep that in mind…..

As an Animal Collective super fan (I’ve collected most of their albums, I’ve seen them live, I met the lead guy Avey Tare, he signed my CDs), I honestly do not know what Animal Collective album you would like. I’m sure you’re mostly referring to Merriweather Post Pavilion which was an album that had me stumped. However the way I got into them was by hearing the one before, Strawberry Jam. That’s when it clicked for me and by hearing that album, it made me more open and understandable to songs from Merriweather Post Pavilion. However, I don’t know if you’ve heard it because if you have, then I would say “Try Feels”but that one might be a bit boring by the end for you. Then I would say Try Sung Tongs but that one might weird you out. Then I would bring you to a newer album but you might not get that either. And I would have to avoid their earliest stuff cause it would scare you. So all in all, I would say.. Just listen to Person Pitch by Panda Bear (or Sleep Cycle by Deakin)

I have the exact same reasons for avoiding artists like Arcade fire, Bob dylan, Bruce springsteen, and Logic! Might like them more in the future, but who knows. It also hurts me to see Starset lol. I am curious what your thoughts are on songs like Where the Skies End and Icarus. Great video, John was worth my time!

I feel like people expect something different than what they get from Set it Off. Yes, they do have parts of being edgy pop punk (Cinematics), but most of the time it's more on the pop side of pop punk, which can be a turn off for some people. I frankly love them but I can see them being divisive.

Give Swans some time, you'll click with it one day

Great stuff here … as always, love that you share your thoughts and not giving into popular opinions.

Listening to As It Is after a long break from pop punk was a tough listen. They honestly have some bangers, but it feels like they lost themselves after Okay.

The journey take is truth, over play kills it's for anyone unless you're a greatest hits fan which makes you not a fan an admirer of few songs

The artists and bands that i can't get into:jason Aldean falling in reverse aka the Ronnie karen radke experience luke bryan blake Shelton Florida Georgia line sam hunt six feet under pantera MACHINE GUN KAREN I MEAN KELLY trapt puddle of Mudd kiss the smiths ted nugent Aaron Lewis kid rock Kanye west tom Macdonald Adam Calhoun maroon 5 Marilyn Manson dababy drake AJR HARDY Brantley gilbert thomas rhett toby keith Morgan wallen alice cooper SIXNINE john mayer Mumford and sons lana del rey arcade fire limp bizkit theory of a deadman megadeth lil dicky chris brown mayhem burzum glass animals iggy azeala trace adkins asking Alexandria walker hayes Kodak black jason Derulo five finger death punch Justin Bieber Meghan Trainor

My question probably disappears into the shadows, but what do you think of the band Periphery? Have you ever heard of them or even listened to one of their songs?

Arcade Fire is fun live and sound extremely good live so I in that way I am a fan of them. The rest of these bands I feel the same way as you do

So glad you're getting into National. Sorry it comes with the price of depression 😅

Just started watching your stuff today, because BratAlgorithm! Watching that vid first prepared me for your opinion of Charli here and honestly I can't argue against the "I like some stuff more than other stuff" energy with her since my roommate is exactly the same lol. Bruce Springsteen is a deep musical and personal sometimes tearful love I feel almost alone in having amongst my younger peers so I shed another tear at your opinion and moved on lol. JK we GenX/Millennial cuspers are strong in our righteous love of pre 1990 Bruce works and know the younger folks just didn't have the experience of being with Bruce in the 80s and you kinda had to be there. Oh yea btw! Your work is really good, love a confident music talker with different taste than me, I always learn stuff!

Motionless in White is weird to me, because I like a lot of their peers but can't get into them in particular. I love their song with Knocked Loose, though, so they do have potential in my mind.

I knew as soon as I saw the title, I knew The Smiths would be mentioned. I understand the dislike for Morrissey, but I don’t feel any vileness towards him. However, the rest of the group’s talent should be recognised.

You do a great job of explaining your opinions in the video! The Smiths, Dashboard Confessional and Dave Matthew’s were probably the only 3 artists that I love on here. I’ve personally never been able to get into All Time Low. Missing You is a great ballad and they have some bangers but I put them more in the Simple Plan category of “pop punk” The guitars aren’t nearly heavy enough and the tempos never get that high.

Damn, you just dissed a ton of my favorite artists. Im going to rank the fact of each artist being here, not the spots. Don't take it personally. Just the ones I listen to. Still love you, Jon. Takes I disagree with: Beyonce, Bob Dylan, Charli XCX, Death Grips, Fleet Foxes, Gorillaz, Knocked Loose (I've only heard YWGBYST), Metallica (80s outweighs and 90s decent, rest isn't completely awful), Swans (patience, Jon) In The Middle: Bruce Springsteen, Don Toliver, Journey, National, Pantera (first two official albums have great highs), The Smiths (can be beautiful, but also pretentious), U2 (can be boring), Wilco (can also be boring) Takes I agree with: Dave Matthews Band, Future (aside from a couple songs), Glass Animals, Hobo Johnson, Jon Bellion, Juice WRLD (aside from a couple songs), Lana Del Rey, Logic, Mumford And Sons, The Neighbourhood,

Loved this! Entertaining watch. It's a topic that I bet every music lover knows very well. Appreciate your honesty and down to earth vibe in these kinds of videos a lot. Makes me as a viewer feel like we are on a similar page and that it's completely normal struggling to get into stuff, or to just find it unlistenable altogether. I found that sometimes it's just a matter of in which phase in life you are and start to click with stuff you never understood

I actually really liked this format and concept. It's kinda inspired me to come up with my own for my little music blog. Of course I'd mention that I got the idea from you too though

When you said I'd see Glass Beach in a video soon I was specifically hoping "gosh I hope it's not a 'bands I can't get into' video" 😭 glad to see them in Heating Up though.

haha, Lana Del Rey is my favorite. (Although less a fan of the folk-Americana turn she took on the last 2 albums). Her collaborations with producer songwriter Rick Nowells were the best. Now, Lana is best appreciated while under some influence. Freak, High on the Beach, Born to Die, Blue Jeans,Summertime Sadness while tripping... Just. Wow.

so happy to see lana on this list. her music all sounds so monotonous and the whole “art” thing shes doing is so try hard 😭everyone who likes all my fav artists loves her too but i just can’t get into her same with the neighbourhood! i like like 3 of their songs (i actually like those a lot) but i lowkey cant stand the whole slow moody indie rock thing? it’s just so boring 😭 idk how to explain this but they are that one band every e-kid discovered in 2019 and now its in every spotify playlist ever, even if there is absolutely no relation to the playlist title and description! i don’t understand. how does every popular spotify playlist owner have the exact same music taste??? pale waves for me as well. i dont like heather’s voice texture and technique tbh…

Kings Of Leon from what i have heard of them (3 albums) i dont care for them much. Also while i do like songs by the likes of Billie Eilish and Lady Gaga i also am not huge fans of either of them

One artist I've never been able to get into and I honestly don't see the appeal is the Grateful Dead.

I used to be into Bastille...but I'm not much into them nowadays. Me and their music, we grew apart. Liked some of The Neighbourhood's songs, but I saw them live in 2016 and they were really bad. I remember seeing Pale Waves at a festival in 2019...they were ok, but I weren't invested into them back then, I'm not invested into them now. On a more positive note, it's nice to hear that Jon is warming up to The National. I think they're good, even if I haven't listened to absolutely everything they released....and even if I have to be in a specific mood to listen to them.

I’ll never understand your disdain for Set It Off tbh but I’ll respect it. I am not hearing what your hearing whatsoever 😅

I agree about Bob Dylan. I completely disagree about Springsteen though. I'd say about 90% of his output is S-tier to me. Guy also worked his way from nothing to get where he got. I'd say he deserves his riches.

So a little thing I would like to just point out regarding DGD, and this is not me stirring anything up, even though they kind of keep this on the down low, it’s very much out there. So from my understanding, the reason for Kurt Travis’s departure from DGD, was because Will Swan was apparently not happy with the state of the band at that time, and he wanted to end DGD, but he wanted to go out with a bang, so he had ask Kurt to leave, in order to bring back Jonny. This later turned into DGD doing more shows, which later turned to more touring, which later turned into another album, and the rest is history. Again, none of the singers hate each other, and if anything, they have love and respect for one another. Although in a lot of ways I’m definitely in the minority that I’m glad that Kurt and Jonny didn’t return to DGD, even after this recent departure of Tillian. I just feel like Kurt is doing better things that are more suited for him in his musical endeavors that don’t involve DGD and I personally like him more in A Lot Like Birds.

Total 180 on Gorillaz. YES! Total 180 on Jon Bellion. Dang it. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be. I ain't mad. Opinions change over time.

I only listen to Dance Gavin Dance if it’s their instrumental albums.

I sometimes do listen to Set It Off and enjoy it, but man the cringe factor is so real. It's baked into almost every aspect of their music in a way that's always given me very edgy scene kid "hehe welcome to my TWISTED mind 😈🔪⛓️🥀" and they're so lacking any of the subtleties or charisma or sincerity that their predecessors (like FOB) have

Tom Waits should have made the list. I can't stand his voice.

It’s interesting how you mentioned U2 since, as someone who’s gone through the halftime shows that are available to watch, I’m not into their halftime show. I get why it was a big deal due to what had been going on at the time. But, as a show, it’s not for me and I’m not into the songs performed. Well, that certainly was a hot take. Better put on some over mitts for it.

I’m glad that Glass Beach ended up towards the higher end of this list. They aren’t nearly my favorite band, but Coelacanth is my song of the year so far. EDIT: I was only part of the way through the video, and because Starset is one of my favorite bands and it’s towards the bottom, I’m back in the middle.

I highly recommend you to check out a Japanese hip-hop & R&B girl group XG. They are a new underrated group debut in 2022. If you want to check out one of their songs, check out their recent song Woke Up. I can tell you this one thing with confidence. If XG was promoting mostly in Japan and South Korea, they would have dominated the current female rap in America. XG said it themselves that they are very inspired by the OG western artists like Jay-Z, TLC, Lauryn Hill, Beyoncé, etc. They have a lot of extra contents like their cyphers (XG Tape), cover songs that they did (XG Vox), their dance choreography videos, (XG Move). IN THEIR EXTRA CONTENTS, THEY PAY A LOT OF HOMAGES TO THE OG! 😂

Thank you for all the great content

Hey i was wondering when will your video on cancelled artist will be come out?

This was a great video. Also your opinion on Lana Del Rey and The Smiths is interesting because both are well loved music artists with critically acclaimed music and lots of fans. However, I'll admit I like The Cure more than The Smiths. Robert Smith is way better than Morrissey. :)

It was weird how I agreed with most of these and then every once in a while a band I love would show up 😂

The only disagreements I have are The Used and Motionless in White. Motionless in White get too much hate imo tbh. No their discography isn’t perfect. In fact, there’s stuff I can’t stop of them. But I like them more than I don’t. Saw them twice and they’re great. The Used, yes the quality has gone down a lot but I still hold a special place for the early stuff. Glad Knocked Loose has grown on you a little

Hey bro! Your vids are fire! 🔥

I understand why people hate Bruce sometimes but god damn, How can you listen to a song like Thunder Road and not love him? Oh well

When I only knew a few songs from Suicide Silence (from the Mitch era) I thought I kinda understood the hype but I couldn’t get in to the Eddie music. And then I tried listening to more of the Mitch deep cuts and I was very disappointed

Personally, The Smiths are one of my favourite bands. I’m not a huge Lana Del Rey fan but I think she belongs in the It’s Fine tier.

I'm right there with you when it comes to Springstein and Dylan

Animal collective is that type of band I just always wanted to listen to on shrooms. There were just so many sounds happening that it was perfect music for that experience. No shame

A lot of these are artist whose first couple of works I still enjoy but they gradually got bad ie. ‘the Used’, ‘In this moment’, ‘Motionless in white’ and ‘Lana del Rey’. Their are quite a few artists I just don’t get either like ‘Gorillaz’, ‘Queens of the stone age’, ‘Eminem’, ‘Adele’, ‘AC/DC’, almost every rock act from the eighties

While I do disagree with a lot of the picks I will still watch your channel because I like hearing people different opinions on things with music being one of them.

I'm sure there's one person in the comments who loves at least one of these artists.

A few for me, avoiding artists I straight up dislike: Foals - This is the most frustrating one for me because I really love a number of their singles, i.e. Mountain at My Gates, The Runner, Hummer, My Number and a couple of deep cuts I've picked up on like Out of the Woods and Wash It Off, but I've listened to numerous albums and they just don't do anything for me as cohesive projects. Blur - This is a band I thought I liked for a while and still have enough of a passion for them to be annoyed when somebody refers to them as "one-hit wonders", but I've come to realise for every great song, there's a bland one I don't really care for, and I don't find Parklife to be that good of an album; over time I've come to realise the answer of Blur VS Oasis is Pulp. Also hot take but I hate Coffee & TV. The Verve - I think Bitter Sweet Symphony and The Drugs Don't Work are brilliant songs and a couple of others grew on me like Lucky Man, but I've listened to Urban Hymns and find it very bland overall and Richard Ashcroft is a bit of a one-trick pony in his songwriting. I've tried listening to their earlier shoegazy-psychedelic stuff because it was an influence on Doves, a band I now really love but that also leaves me cold. Catfish & The Bottlemen - Speaking of one trick ponies, Catfish. My mum's gotten super into them lately so I'm hearing them all the time and they have some undeniably great songs like Cocoon & 7 but it gets pretty repetitive eventually and I find Van McCann's voice annoying at times. I also consider them to be a worse version of Arctic Monkeys across all their "mainstream" albums. Gorillaz - Hey, it's Jon from 8 years ago lol. I picked up Demon Days from a charity shop a couple of years ago as part of a 3-for-1 deal and I enjoy the singles but haven't really gotten into anything else, with the spoken word of Fire Coming Out The Monkey's Head being very off-putting. Also my favourite song of theirs is 19-2000 and even then, it's the remix version I like. Radiohead - This is a band I've gotten more into to the point I'd say I'm a casual fan, but I do not get the universal critical acclaim for them. In Rainbows has several songs I enjoy but a lot I find extremely bland (in fact I genuinely prefer Bangers + Mash over most of the main album), and Kid A is mostly misses for me. Florence + The Machine - I need to listen to more of their albums really, Lungs is good and Florence Welch is a brilliant singer but I find it blends into one for the most part, and some of the singles are so overplayed I've become numb to them. I've also never understood the mass acclaim of Hunger, it's good but not THAT amazing.

If you can’t get into Bob Dylan bc of the vocals I highly reccomend Any Day Now by Joan Baez. She’s a songwriter but primarily records covers, most notably Bob Dylan. When being sung by her golden vibrato I find his music much more enjoyable, they even dated for a while and did a duet for his song “With God On Our Side” which was rlly good

as it is first album is still a bop tho

You totally used THAT Metallica song because of the Dave Mustaine meme didn't you

I’d love to know your take on Enter Shikari - Americans and Canadians seem to have a strange time liking them

I agree with a lot and disagree with only a few honeslty i pretty much agree with you on most, one band i cant get into is Radiohead like i love the first 3 albums but everythinf after just runined the band for me☹️

I don’t listen to much of the same music that I used to but I still loveeee Pale Waves. All of their songs are so good to me!!

Lmaooo Jon you forgot to mention when U2 told Apple to put one of their albums into your phone/iPod over night WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT HAHAHAHA 😂💀😂💀😂💀

*Anyone says something not praising Beyonce* Bey Hive: 🐝🐝🐝

death grips and the smiths get behind me 😤

So...where is Zack and the Zacktones?

I can understand the placement of every other musician but Pantera, Dimebags riffs and the overall groove of the band is just untouchable. In my opinion a top 5 Heavy metal band of all time.