Funny, but I'm a guitarist and Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen are among the most universally hated guitarists among my guitar playing friends. I can appreciate their skill, but they are sort of caricatures of that over-blown, speed metal, let me rip through a million notes style. There are some funny YouTube take offs on them.
I hear you, I was like that for a long time. I don't play like that and I usually play folk style stuff and I mostly listen to punk music, I definetly wish I could play that fast though, I like Satriani's version of the chase.