For my late 60's crowd it was this one . . . The rockers and the poppers and the freaky and the straights all liked it. Even the brothers liked The Rascals.
I love RHCP and artistically just so much better with Frusciante in the line up and I agree with @uscvball 2nd time around was better than the 1st. I'm not a dead head but their stuff is okay. It was before my time but I was in the corps with 2 guys my age that would have had Garcia's babies. I Love Otis Redding so guess to each their own. Never cared much for Coldplay but I dig Alabama Shakes, maybe the only thing associated with that shit hole worth a damn, other than a chic named Beth from Boaz that I met at PCB circa 1986
I've known people like that....I never understood it. Some bands are like that for people. My best good tailgating friend who passed away last September was a huge parrothead. He traveled everywhere to see Buffett. Hallelujah, can I get an Amen. They are like a dead fish-in-the-sack-on-your-honeymoon type of band for me.
I neither worship bands nor castigate them if I don't care for their music. I'm a huge fan of several bands, but I never owned tons of their merchandise nor followed them from gig to gig. I like The Dead an awful lot and saw them twice, but I never understood the unlimited devotion thing. Same thing with Buffett. I saw him waaaay back when at a state fair gig when nobody had heard of him and I own a couple of his albums. But I know people that dress like him, behave like his song characters, and have been living in Margaritaville for 3 decades. I want to tell them to get a life. Coldplay . . . pretty damned ordinary, if you ask me. Not that there anything wrong with that.
I've never been a Coldplay guy either. Muse and Radiohead i dig though. I always thought Coldplay was the poor man's version of Muse and Muse was the poor man's version of Radiohead.
My cousin is like that for Widespread Panic, following them from gig to gig when she can. Supposedly, they are her generation's Grateful Dead.
my friend who has been out of touch with any recent music (last 10-20 years) singled out Radiohead as a band he really really likes although the only thing I can think of when watching Thom Yorke is Martin Short's Jackie Rogers Jr. character portrayal
