I over-dream every dream, my love, when I dream about you

Let it not be said that I'm not willing to try things that I don't think I'm going to enjoy. Well, I'm only trying things that I don't think I'm going to enjoy because I'm only forcing myself  to, but still. Shit, this one was rough. Rough as hell.

Day 114 - Foo Fighters - 'Your Favorite Toy'
This one was a no-brainer, right? If I loathed Nirvana, then the chances of me ever liking Foo Fighters were very slim indeed. And it didn't help, no, not one bit, oh no sir, that I really didn't like anything I'd listened to before by them - which were mainly a few videos I'd see in MTV every now and again. This is one is rather stale, unoriginal, sounds like every Foo Fighters song I'd heard before, with maybe a couple of decent songs at the end of the record. 3/10
Day 115 - U2 - 'Songs Of Experience'
I'll be the first to say that very early U2 has some pretty good stuff, but for the life of me I can't stand Bono, I can't stand that whole holier than thou aura they seem to project, and sincerely? I never got why they are worthy of such adulation, considering the shit I've listened from them over the decades.
So I press play on the record, and about ten minutes in I forget that I'm listening to an U2 record. I thought I was listening to an Imagine Dragons or Bastille record, or one of those crappy poppy bands that people seem to love. This one was pretty awful. A 2/10 is being very generous.
Day 116 - Primus - 'The Desaturating Seven'
First (and only) time I listened to a Primus song was on a video I saw on MTV. I thought to myself, 'what the fuck is this shit?', and quietly hated them ever since. What can I say about this record? Nothing here is objectively bad, but it's not objectively good either. I don't even know how to classify this other than stupid music, because it gets pretty damn stupid. I'll give it a stupid 3/10.
Day 117 - Limp Bizkit - 'Still Sucks'
I knew that Nu-Metal would be a part of my listens eventually. I coulda gone with Crazy Town, but no, stupid though that 'come my lady, come come my lady' song may be, what led me to loathe Nu-Metal was bands like Korn, Marilyn Manson and Limp fucking Bizkit. I 100% hated how they sounded, how they looked, how awful the artwork they used for their records was. Time, alas, has not changed my stance on that particular sub-genre of metal. And funnily enough, here they go having the album I enjoyed the most this week, and that by leaps and bounds. Is it everything you'd expect from a traditional Limp Bizkit record? Well, I suppose so - maybe even more. But what I really enjoyed was how they embraced just how much they were perceived by the press, by their peers, and by the public in general. And they use that perception on self -deprecating humour that makes this a surprisingly enjoyable listen. A very unexpected 7/10
Day 118 - Beck -'Hyperspace'
I remember when Beck first came along, and I really didn't mind that 'I'm a loser, baby' song. Didn't love it - but didn't hate it. And I never, ever tried to listen to one of his records : never had the inclination, never felt the pull. And this one, I had no idea what to expect, but something synthwave-ish wasn't it. And it kinda starts OK, I get my hopes up and even think we got a winner right here, but it soon devolves into M83-lite slop. This isn't just bad - it's embarrassingly bad. I'll give it a 3/10.
Day 119 - Sonic Youth - 'The Eternal'

Ah... Sonic Youth. Never listened to a single record by them, ever, and of the odd songs I listened here and there, I liked a couple, disliked a couple, never really bothered with them. Especially because - and without exception - everyone I ever knew who liked this band was an insufferable, insufferable leftist, and before you call me a rightist, know that I'm a nowhereist, and be that as it may, I just couldn't come to like a band with a fairly stupid name and I always only saw people with that one tee of the guy with his arm around a girl who's smoking.

I was prepared to hate this, but I found it mostly OK. Not a fan of the singer's voice, never was. And this isn't bad at all - I can see how much they influenced bands I like like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, though at times I found them a bit too Pixies-ish in their sound. It's a 6/10, coulda gone higher, but at around an hour, my patience for the whole thing was long gone.

Day 120 - The Velvet Underground & Nico - 'The Velvet Underground & Nico'

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Jesus H. Christ, what a crock of shit this was. Terrible, right up there with the worst things I've ever listened. It gets a 0/10. A ZERO OUT OF TEN.

Another likely painful week ahead. Gonna listen to bands that I really should be into but never managed to get into.