Music, songs, etc., that you dislike (or hate)

[doc_bean]

I've become much more tolerant of music over the years, certainly of different genres. That said:

Hip Hop: 90% is pure crap, most of the other 10% is still derivative, like variations on a single song. Rappers have gotten worse with time too.

RnB, the new style: yuck, too mellow, too fake.

Pop: There's seems to be a high period now, maybe because Britney is out. Nothing I'd pay money for, but not as terrible as it sometimes is.

Goth Rock/Emo: occasionally decent, mostly just whiney

Heavy Metal: meh, technical prowness and cliché's, not much 'song' in there usually

Improvisational Jazz: practice at home, play some music when other people can hear you

BeBop: you can play fast, now play somethign good

Techno: is this even music ? No rythm changes, barely any melody

Trance: like techno, but worse.

[Geoffrey S]

I like most things, though I draw the line at Partysquad and the likes. And Boten Anna.

Overrated band? The Flaming Lips.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Overrated band? The Flaming Lips.

Their most recent efoort was a bit dicey, but The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots were great albums. Even if they did rip Cat Stevens off.

[Bijo]

I've become much more tolerant of music over the years, certainly of different genres. That said:

Hip Hop: 90% is pure crap, most of the other 10% is still derivative, like variations on a single song. Rappers have gotten worse with time too.

RnB, the new style: yuck, too mellow, too fake.

Pop: There's seems to be a high period now, maybe because Britney is out. Nothing I'd pay money for, but not as terrible as it sometimes is.

Goth Rock/Emo: occasionally decent, mostly just whiney

Heavy Metal: meh, technical prowness and cliché's, not much 'song' in there usually

Improvisational Jazz: practice at home, play some music when other people can hear you

BeBop: you can play fast, now play somethign good

Techno: is this even music ? No rythm changes, barely any melody

Trance: like techno, but worse.

I like this list

[master of the puppets]

Rap = barbaric and low-brow... and it sounds like crud.

Emo... 'i wish my grass was emo so it'd cut itself'

RnB and country both are horrible

jazz puts me to sleep

pop is barely music

[Dutch_guy]

Techno: is this even music ? No rythm changes, barely any melody

No rhythm changes, wha ?

It's common knowledge it's only good in mixes.

Trance is commercialized techno, just like dance is commercialized trance. Tiesto, ugh...

PS: Forgot to add the Toppers to my former list, how I hate those. All three of 'em.

[Geoffrey S]

No rhythm changes, wha ?

It's common knowledge it's only good in mixes.

Until relatively recently I'd have disagreed, but after having seen some excellent djs at work at great parties my opinion of the genre has improved immensely.

PS: Forgot to add the Toppers to my former list, how I hate those. All three of 'em.

Doe mij een toppertje en een breezer ananas
En doe er ook maar een dubbele whiskey bij
Want vanavond gaan alle remmen los
En we dansen en springen, zijn zo blij.

[Togakure]

I "hate" Head Over Heels by the Go Gos.

I used to have to play that song, night after night, along with other dippy songs like "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun."

I had four keyboards and a drum machine, but all were geared towards new wave, and none were weight-sensitive. I didn't have a good piano sound at the time. So it was embarrassing to me to have to use my Prophet-5 for that sound (though no one else seemed to notice or care).

When it came time to drop some songs after learning new ones, I wanted to drop "Head ...," but our chick singer refused, I believe just to spite me (she was the type that delighted in pissing other people off). I got so pissed (gah, yes, she succeeded) ... it was either her face or the wall. I couldn't bring myself to hit a woman (even though she acted more like a man than many men I know), so I put a hole through the wall instead. I carry a scar between the pointer and middle finger knuckles of my left hand to this day as a result of that momentary loss of reason.

Heh, but she got hers in the end, and did it all herself too. But that is another story.

[AntiochusIII]

Heh, but she got hers in the end, and did it all herself too. But that is another story.

Call me a curious sadistic bastard, but, well, I'm curious.

[/puts on evil clown face]

Aaaanyway. It's unfortunate that I'm quite out of touch with my musical sensibilities right when there is an appropriate thread to launch my tirade on. Ah well, hope it will still be here when I need to complain about having to expose myself to more stuff from the gangsta crowd. They sound all the same to me. And all the popular pop from Disney & Co., which always sound like they try to emulate Avril Lavigne, over and over again -- even though, blasphemous as it is to some around here, I actually really liked her first album.

As long as I'm not exposed to long periods of it, I actually find country to be sort of okay. Not my type, but I won't recoil from it and mentally spitting like I would've done if it was from, say, some modern big name rapper with no real panache.

I was a self-admitted rap hater but, alas, it appears the flame has burned out. Thanks to that I remembered how a few of the rap songs did hit me quite well; I still have fond memories of when Where is the Love was still popular.

So right now, because of the omnipresent...presence...of the name Pink Floyd around the Frontroom, I'm starting to check them out. Very curious indeed; even my untrained ears can hear where the great influences of modern music come from. I ought to find some time to properly listen to them.

Edit: Oh, and Bijo has a point: in every genre there's always the great stuff and the imitators. Though I do possess a special respect for Classical and Jazz, even if the latter has its fair share of godawful crap.

[Togakure]

Call me a curious sadistic bastard, but, well, I'm curious.

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We had an agent who managed us and booked our gigs. At one of our highest paying gigs at a club called Clancey's in Tempe, Arizona, the owner asked if we would play some "harder" tunes to compliment our edgy new wave (by "edgy" I mean we did tunes like Sex by Berlin, and Never Say Never by Romeo Void ("I might like you better if we slept together ..."). Arizonans like their music a bit harder (KK Downing and Rob Halford hung out at this particular club from time to time back then).

We (the band members) were willing, but she was not. He insisted. She refused. He called our agent and said we wouldn't be back if we didn't comply. Our agent said he'd speak with her about it. She got pissed, insulted the manager publicly from the stage, and wrote insulting comments on the band room wall with her lipstick on our last night that fateful week. Needless to say, the club dropped us. We, and especially our agent who made LOTS of money booking us and five other bands, were very upset about this.

Another band he managed was also having personnel problems, and their guitar player and singer were quite good. We had a two month gig in Anchorage, Alaska, coming up (Chilkoot Charlie's anyone?), which paid a lot. So, we played it off like everything was fine, went to Alaska, and partied our arses off. The troublesome singer and her kind of boyfriend guitar player were mad because the trip was supposed to be a "woodshacking" opportunity--a chance to write some more of our own tunes and practice up. We just partied and partied and partied ... it was rockin' fun.

When we got back, she called a meeting with our agent present. She said that the reason we were being called out on the carpet was because we just wasted two months of excellent woodshack time. It was a pleasure to smile and quietly say, "No, actually, the reason we are having this meeting is to let you and M*** know that you are fired, because of what happened in Phoenix, and the constant inharmony the two of you bring into the band." She was flabbergasted and furious, as was her cling-on M***.

We had given the other singer and guitar player a songlist and tapes before we left for Alaska. We were back on the road in our new incarnation as a rough and tumble rock band within two weeks. The two that were trouble never surfaced on our particular club circuit again.

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EDIT: typos, spelling

[AntiochusIII]

Nice story. Thx. Sounds like you guys got an egotistical singer kind. Lucky you got rid of her.

[Dutch_guy]

Until relatively recently I'd have disagreed, but after having seen some excellent djs at work at great parties my opinion of the genre has improved immensely.

Nice, which DJ's did you go see - or which parties did you visit ?

Doe mij een toppertje en een breezer ananas
En doe er ook maar een dubbele whiskey bij
Want vanavond gaan alle remmen los
En we dansen en springen, zijn zo blij.

While you're on the right track song quality wise, I was actually referring to the Toppers. You know, Gordon, Froger and Bauer...

[Bijo]

Gordon, Froger and Bauer...

Argh

[Geoffrey S]

Nice, which DJ's did you go see - or which parties did you visit ?

Nothing huge, late last year smaller parties around Leiden and the Hague as an alternative to drum 'n bass. Once I'm uittraining I'll have to look around Amsterdam, I hear it's the place to be for techno.

I find most recent bands pretty uninteresting for some reason, maybe because I'm getting old, but the last great 'new' band were imho the White Stripes, I haven't had a 'wow, great new band' moment since them. I still don't get what's supposed to be so great about the Artic Monkeys for instance. And I find Coldplay highly overrated, though their songs do have a nice sing along feel which is often their saving grace, the music itself is often too repetitive (just a chord scheme repeated over and over) for my taste.

Well, yes, if you limit yourself to the larger rock acts that end up on MTV then it's going to get real boring real quickly. If you like White Stripes I would recommend giving The Black Keys a go for a start, definitely if they're live and in the neighbourhood.

[doc_bean]

Well, yes, if you limit yourself to the larger rock acts that end up on MTV then it's going to get real boring real quickly.

I don't.

[Geoffrey S]

Good for you. Just your earlier post mentioning The White Stripes, Coldplay, and Arctic Monkeys implied that.

And for the record, I agree with your opinion of the above three.