Bands you want to like, but don't do anything for you

Portishead
Any band that deliberately puts crackles & pops in their music should be taken out back & shot

That's not pops & crackles
That's just sampled radio nonsense.
Portihead seemingly use pops & crackles as an instrument.
Sounds like they mic'd up a bowl of rice krispies

Terrible is a very benevolent adjective.

The Beautiful South
The Communards
Literally everything Paul Weller did after The Jam broke up.
Talking Heads
The Power Station

While I do like Joy Division, at least some of their stuff, I don't like them with the kind of ecstatic awe that it seems you're supposed to feel towards them.

Another one is My Bloody Valentine: I recognize why they are great, but they just don't do it for me.

Rolling Stones

Muse
R.E.M.
Rolling Stones
Beatles
Nick Cave

and 99% of new music. I'm stuck in the past or stuck in my own bubble