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Your Musical Dislikes...
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Violet.
blackout
Violet.
I don't like it either.
I played it year after year as a church musician as well.:areyoucra
Don't like any of it. Religious or Secular.
Some of it, you can dress up in jazz chords,
and ditch the words.
It's about the best you can do.
It's enough to make me avoid the stores the entire month of December.
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blackout
Violet.
If you can, what in PARTICULAR do you dislike about them?
What qualities make you dislike them?
blackout
Violet.
oh the really obvious autotuned voice like Kesha and Katie Perry makes me want to drill holes in my head.
eta and Enya
Do you dislike the entire "sound" of their music?
or just the vocal sound.
I heard Katy Perry live on youtube a few times,
and she was really off.:areyoucra
Why would she use autotune to record,
and then not use it live?
I wonder.
When I heard Kesha on some night show or something,
her voice sounded pretty clean actually.
It didn't sound "effected".
And she pulled it off quite well I thought.
She's sung in completely different genres as well,
I think even punk? (haven't actually heard it)
But anyway, I'm no expert on vocal effects.
When I sing, you get me
(and maybe a dash of reverb)
I don't have money for all that stuff anyway.
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Smoke
Done here.
You should be grateful. But too late; I'm about to spoil your innocence.
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Smoke
Done here.
I think Creed is very good for Christian rock, which is sort of like being really good at tiddly-winks. At least it's better than being bad at tiddly-winks. Their lyrics completely ruin any possible enjoyment I might get out of their music, since they're not merely Christian lyrics but brainless evangelical lyrics.
I like Nickelback and I don't care what anybody says. I'm not saying their music is a milestone in Western Civilization, but I enjoy it.
dawny0826
Mother Heathen
Ok, I'll start with a negative musical perception that I have.
Country music is too whiny, from the vocal style to the lyrics.
Usually the sound of it just says either "whiny" or "hick' to me,:sorry1:
and then I turn it off before even giving it more than 10 seconds
to (possibly) show me otherwise.
I bypass country music on the radio automatically,
on the basis of my own style stereo-type.
I will say though that I do like Taylor Swift.
I guess you could call her "country pop" ?
She doesn't whine. Her voice is clear and not all "draaawnnn",
her lyrics are usually cute and uplifting,
minimal "twang" and none of that "stompin" beat.
Her style of country, doesn't feel all... "country".
(and bonus points for no mention of pick-up trucks and cowboy hats...) :areyoucra
I echo your comments here. Taylor Swift is okay and I think so for the same reasons that you've posted - she doesn't have the stereotypical "country" sound. Every now and then there will be a song or two from an artist that I'll like but country just isn't my thing.
Rap, hip hop and mainstream pop are the next genres of music that I don't care for as much, with rap being that which I like the least. However, please note, I'll take gangster style rap any day over twangy, whiny, nasal country music. Beat...rhythm...I love it...not always the message - the sex...the violence...the money and drugs...but I can appreciate artists and songs from each genre - they're just not genres that I frequently listen to or purchase music from.
Lady GaGa and Kesha are the only two artists from this entire realm of musical classification that I'm really listening to right now.
Finally...some of the older, "classic" type music:
The Beatles to me are the most overrated band ever. I. Don't. Get. It.
Neil Diamond makes my teeth hurt when I hear him sing. It's the hardest thing to explain but it's the truth. My teeth and the side of my right face hurt when he sings.
John Cougar Melloncamp (if I'm spelling his name wrong, I don't care) makes my head hurt too. That horrible song about Jack and Diane gets under my skin and drives me batty. Ugh.
Bruce Springsteen is just odd to me and his voice sounds so strained - it seems like it must be painful for him to perform. I don't like his singing, even though I too was born in the USA.
As much as I love to rock out and I love hair bands and metal, Metallica has always been overrated to me. Repetitive. Screeching. Wailing. Ugly dudes. No.
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YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
I utterly despise Jazz in almost all its forms. That does not mean that there are not some songs and performances I can tolerate. For the most part, as soon as I detect jazz my skin begins to crawl. *shivers*
Akin to this is "Scat". I am pretty far from a violent person, but whenever I hear "Scat" I sincerely wish I had a shotgun to put the poor creature out of its misery.
Next down the list is rap. I'd say I don't like rap music, but first I would have to consider it to be a valid musical form. I have difficulty doing that. That said, I have heard the odd piece that didn't make my gorge rise.
Next... insufferable country and western. Not, the somewhat insipid "modern" country, but country as it was when I was a child. Hank Snow is enough to make anyone, even a child, wish they were drunk... Anything to dull that horrid twang.
Pretty far back, but nonetheless, are radio stations that focus on "classic rock". Alright already. Fully 1/2 of the tunes that are played weren't all that good when they were released, but to keep playing them 20-40 years later is almost cruel.
Did I mention Abba? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Did I mention Disco? Double Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...
Did I mention "Bass and drums" Triple Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....
All that considered, I do enjoy a very wide range of music and frankly, have excellent musical taste. All I need... is that singers must be able to actually sing and musicians must actually be able to play their instruments. These days, it seems to be asking a lot, I know.
Akin to this is "Scat". I am pretty far from a violent person, but whenever I hear "Scat" I sincerely wish I had a shotgun to put the poor creature out of its misery.
Next down the list is rap. I'd say I don't like rap music, but first I would have to consider it to be a valid musical form. I have difficulty doing that. That said, I have heard the odd piece that didn't make my gorge rise.
Next... insufferable country and western. Not, the somewhat insipid "modern" country, but country as it was when I was a child. Hank Snow is enough to make anyone, even a child, wish they were drunk... Anything to dull that horrid twang.
Pretty far back, but nonetheless, are radio stations that focus on "classic rock". Alright already. Fully 1/2 of the tunes that are played weren't all that good when they were released, but to keep playing them 20-40 years later is almost cruel.
Did I mention Abba? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Did I mention Disco? Double Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...
Did I mention "Bass and drums" Triple Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....
All that considered, I do enjoy a very wide range of music and frankly, have excellent musical taste. All I need... is that singers must be able to actually sing and musicians must actually be able to play their instruments. These days, it seems to be asking a lot, I know.
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
I could probably find individual pieces of music within every genre that I like, although within some genres it would be pretty difficult. The ones I generally dislike (I mean can't stand!) are:What styles/genres of music do you tend to dislike the most and Why?
Please be as specific as you can about the 'Why's'.
As a musician, I'm very curious about people's perceptions
of what they hear, and how music is labeled,
and as well, what people specifically do and DON'T like to hear.
While the purpose of the thread is not really meant to be "debate"
(as we are talking in part about perception and personal taste)
still I invite and hope for some interactive conversation.
If your perception is different than another posters,
don't be rude, but feel free to state why. :cover:
People can be very protective of 'their' music.
1. Country. I detest the old-style twangy stuff especially. I don't like the themes (but I do know a good joke about them. Question: What do you get when you play country music backwards? Answer: You get your girl back, you get your horse back, you get your dog back.) I think I'm just way too much of a city girl to find what I see as "redneck" music appealing.
2. Improv Jazz. It all sounds the same to me. If I were to listen to it for an hour, I wouldn't have known when one song ended and another one started. Maybe it was just all one song. And "song" is such an inaccurate word for this kind of music anyway. There is absolutely no discernable melody, at least not to my ears. To me, it's just random sounds going on and on and on and on.
3. Heavy Metal/ Death Metal. I just don't like music that is meant to be played so loudly that my head feels like it's going to explode and that I can't distinguish the words. (Maybe I wouldn't want to hear the words. I should probably be grateful that I can't.)
That's all, really. I like pretty much everything else. I'm even okay with hip-hop. It became popular when my son was in junior high school and he listened to it all the time. I'm really kind of intrigued by it. Gansta rap, on the other hand -- NO!
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Smoke
Done here.
:clap I'll grant you that John and Paul wrote some good songs, but they always sound better when performed by somebody else. George Harrison was the only one who did anything tolerable on his own. Wings .... (shudder)
I love the Boss. You ought to see him live. Best concerts I've ever seen.
But I've been arguing about Springsteen for years. When I was 19 I liked Springsteen and my roommate liked Michael Jackson. Dueling vinyl.
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Country music sure is getting a lot of flak in here. But there are some GREAT country artists and music!
Like I've said, George Strait - good voice, great lyrics - hard to beat.
As several have mentioned - Taylor Swift is a breath of fresh air.
WILLIE NELSON is FANTASTIC - from start to finish (except thank God he's not finished yet - GO, WILLIE!).
The fabulous song "Grand Tour" is country music at it's most stereotypical, and it's been done by so many different artists, country and otherwise, that I think it exemplifies the universal and timeless themes that so many country songs embody:
YouTube - Aaron Neville - The Grand Tour
Aaron Neville - WHAT A VOICE!
Step right up, come on in
If you'd like to take the grand tour
Of a lonely house that once was home sweet home
I have nothing here to sell you
Just some things that I will tell you
Some things I know will chill you to the bone
Over there sits the chair
Where she'd bring the paper to me
And sit down on my knee and whisper oh I love you
But now she's gone forever
And this old house will never be the same
Without the love that we once knew
Straight ahead that's the bed
Where we lay and love together
And lord knows we had a good thing going here
See her picture on the table
Don't it look like she'd be able
Just to touch me and say good morning dear
There's her rings all her things
And her clothes are in the closet
like she left them when she tore my world apart
As you leave you'll see the nursery
Oh she left me without mercy
Taking nothing but our baby and my heart
Step right up, come on in, come on in...
If that doesn't break your heart, you're made of stone!
Like I've said, George Strait - good voice, great lyrics - hard to beat.
As several have mentioned - Taylor Swift is a breath of fresh air.
WILLIE NELSON is FANTASTIC - from start to finish (except thank God he's not finished yet - GO, WILLIE!).
The fabulous song "Grand Tour" is country music at it's most stereotypical, and it's been done by so many different artists, country and otherwise, that I think it exemplifies the universal and timeless themes that so many country songs embody:
YouTube - Aaron Neville - The Grand Tour
Aaron Neville - WHAT A VOICE!
Step right up, come on in
If you'd like to take the grand tour
Of a lonely house that once was home sweet home
I have nothing here to sell you
Just some things that I will tell you
Some things I know will chill you to the bone
Over there sits the chair
Where she'd bring the paper to me
And sit down on my knee and whisper oh I love you
But now she's gone forever
And this old house will never be the same
Without the love that we once knew
Straight ahead that's the bed
Where we lay and love together
And lord knows we had a good thing going here
See her picture on the table
Don't it look like she'd be able
Just to touch me and say good morning dear
There's her rings all her things
And her clothes are in the closet
like she left them when she tore my world apart
As you leave you'll see the nursery
Oh she left me without mercy
Taking nothing but our baby and my heart
Step right up, come on in, come on in...
If that doesn't break your heart, you're made of stone!
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Erebus
Well-Known Member
Have a look at some of Cannibal Corpse's lyrics and you'll definitely be glad you can't tell what they're saying
[youtube]NuQ5C2BRrqY[/youtube]Have a look at some of Cannibal Corpse's lyrics and you'll definitely be glad you can't tell what they're saying
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I'm not partial to slow I'm so sad country ballads at all. Slow stuff like the works from Iris Dement such as, "Let the Mystery Be" are included in my faves however.
I happen though for the most part to like the fast hillbilly/redneck old style country music esp those involving banjos and harmonicas.
Synth pop is for a large part is hopelessly dull and repetitive although there are exceptions like that of the Book of Love, Buggles (Video killed the radio star), Cindi Lauper, and Falco to just to name a few in the genre.
Ballistic in your face style aggressive rap is on my **** list for the most part with some exceptions. I also liked the early stuff such as that done by MC Hammer and DMC.
Mainstream rock. **** yea. Punk even more.......Ramones anyone?
Miscellaneous stuff like Dr Demento, Wretched Refuse, and Weird Al is loads of fun.
Hybrid music like that of RedneX (Cotton Eye Joe) is cool. I like mixes of genres.
Classical, Folk (some of it), and Jazz is excellent for those slow moments in life usually when I'm tuckered out from all the rest of it.
Guess I like something of everything then. If it sounds good, I'll definitely listen to it. :O)
I happen though for the most part to like the fast hillbilly/redneck old style country music esp those involving banjos and harmonicas.
Synth pop is for a large part is hopelessly dull and repetitive although there are exceptions like that of the Book of Love, Buggles (Video killed the radio star), Cindi Lauper, and Falco to just to name a few in the genre.
Ballistic in your face style aggressive rap is on my **** list for the most part with some exceptions. I also liked the early stuff such as that done by MC Hammer and DMC.
Mainstream rock. **** yea. Punk even more.......Ramones anyone?
Miscellaneous stuff like Dr Demento, Wretched Refuse, and Weird Al is loads of fun.
Hybrid music like that of RedneX (Cotton Eye Joe) is cool. I like mixes of genres.
Classical, Folk (some of it), and Jazz is excellent for those slow moments in life usually when I'm tuckered out from all the rest of it.
Guess I like something of everything then. If it sounds good, I'll definitely listen to it. :O)
Klaufi_Wodensson
Vinlandic Warrior
Have a look at some of Cannibal Corpse's lyrics and you'll definitely be glad you can't tell what they're saying
I like to think of Cannibal Corpse's lyrics as peaceful...