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

[Scurvy]

dislike anything that isn't metalic...

[naut]

I like prog-rock, so I'm relatively odd

I used to hate it, but now I like it. I love Pink Floyd, for which I blame Beirut.

What do you all mean by Modern Punk? What bands?

Pretty much anything made after 1990.

[The_Mark]

Schlagers, oh God. What I've heard of German schlagers, they're a lot better than the Finnish variant, which is everywhere.

Rap. Fer cryin' out loud, aren't you supposed to have a melody in somewhere?

'Rap haters!' - At least you got us to acknowledge that it's theoretically a type of music.

I wouldn't go that far. I'd say it's more like poetry reading with someone/-thing giving a beat, and if we try to evaluate rap as poetry reading, well, gah.

Then there's Cannibal Corpse and other hardcore black/death metal bands. I mean, growling? All the time?

Britney Spears and lookalikes? Disgusting.

(Language please - Beirut)

[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.

[Beirut]

I used to hate it, but now I like it. I love Pink Floyd, for which I blame Beirut.

My pleasure.

[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.

[offtopic]

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.

[edyzmedieval]

'Rap haters!' - At least you got us to acknowledge that it's theoretically a type of music.

Rap is basically a single/double/triple beat and also has a text, which combines with the beat. It's classified into different cathegories...

Old school rap (Nas), Pure rap (Eminem - his old songs, and some of his new ones...) and others...Rap is basically about expressing hardships, not all this new ****.

Hip hop is basically a funky beat, with different texts. It's not actually a music, it's something like... I don't know, it's something weird, and it makes perfect dancing music. All these new guys are from the hip hop part, like the Black Eyed Peas or Nelly.

So, it's a music.

[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

[doc_bean]

The only Bebop I'm familiar with is the place on the Tiense where I have a few drinks occasionally with friends.

Also known as bebop, Bop was a radical new music that developed gradually in the early '40s and exploded in 1945. The main difference between bop and swing is that the soloists engaged in chordal (rather than melodic) improvisation, often discarding the melody altogether after the first chorus and using the chords as the basis for the solo. Ensembles tended to be unisons, most jazz groups were under seven pieces, and the soloist was free to get as adventurous as possible as long as the overall improvisation fit into the chord structure. Since the virtuoso musicians were getting away from using the melodies as the basis for their solos (leading some listeners to ask "Where's the melody?") and some of the tempos were very fast, bop divorced itself from popular music and a dancing audience, uplifting jazz to an art music but cutting deeply into its potential commercial success. Ironically the once-radical bebop style has become the foundation for all of the innovations that followed and now can be almost thought of as establishment music. Among its key innovators were altoist Charlie Parker, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, pianist Bud Powell, drummer Max Roach, and pianist/composer Thelonious Monk. -- Scott Yanow

Essentially: a bunch of very fast solo's which barely contain melody or structure and are utterly uninteresting.

No rhythm changes, wha ?

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

It's all basic 4/4. But you're right that some DJs can actually turn it into something halfway decent.

On Rap:Hip Hop:

I view it as a modern kind of 'folk' music (like country). The lyrics are almost always more important than the music, there's often a message and because of the simple song structure it's almost universally accessible.

On Rock:

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.

On Schlagers:

Shhh we've got the Americans convinced that we Europeans are refined and sophisticated, don't bring this up !

[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.

[Boyar Son]

Wow alot of disliking toward rap...

They're ***** now, its the same thing over (cars, money, girls). I lsten to hip hip around the world and they not making it better everyone back in the 80's and 90's were muucchh better then now.

EDIT: oops back then they also talked about cars, girls, and money. But did it better and didnt bore you to tears with it.

(Language - Beirut)

omg!, sorry beirut! lol lol!! didnt know that was also considered a curse word. Unless I wrote the S word...I cant remeber...

[master of the puppets]

i forgot to mention, reggae (if thats how its spelled) is terrible, even if i was'nt on pot that stuff would put me to sleep... except for the song about tallying bananas, that one just makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

[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.

[edyzmedieval]

i forgot to mention, reggae (if thats how its spelled) is terrible, even if i was'nt on pot that stuff would put me to sleep... except for the song about tallying bananas, that one just makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

I like raggae. Love the funky beats, bananas, dreadlocks, women in bikinis and cannot-understand-anything lyrics.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

I LOVE Rap/Hip hop, although my favourite is RnB.

I deteste Emo, Punk Rock, Heavy Metal, Deathmetal... Mostly rock, I don't eat.

seconded.. hip-hop more than rap and i like Reggae. who doesn't like Reggae and Bob Marley?

[Zalmoxis]

I hate O-Zone, bad music and terrible lyrics, but everytime I tell someone that I'm Romanian and they know what that is, they always ask "So do you like O-Zone?"

[Bijo]

I hate O-Zone, bad music and terrible lyrics, but everytime I tell someone that I'm Romanian and they know what that is, they always ask "So do you like O-Zone?"

Wow.... So, like... do you like O-Zone?!?!!11!

*runs off quickly*

[edyzmedieval]

Wow.... So, like... do you like O-Zone?!?!!11!

*runs off quickly*

*Follows Bijo with a huge halberd*

[naut]

I don't think I want to know what O-Zone is.

[Fragony]

Can't stand rap, there are a few exceptions though, Outcast for example can actually be quite clever. Worst song ever: Woooooo we're going to ibiza. Every time I hear that I feel like nuking the place.

[doc_bean]

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

Well, I don't really have the time anymore to go digging through obscure bands to find the precious few gems, and I'm not in any rush the hear the 'next best thing' anymore, but I do try to broaden my horizons a bit. I mentioned those three mostly because they were hypes and everyone would know them.

The black keys and other white stripe like bands often make good songs, but they miss the impact the White Stripes had (I've stopped paying much attention to them too BTW, it's becoming too much of a gimmick).

Great album I do recommend: 'Here comes that weird Chill EP' by Mark Lanegan (Band), imho leagues above the album that followed it (Hit the City).

[The Wizard]

Emo, punk, grunting metal, and any bloody thing having to do with electronic music (trance, dance, hardcore, -- anything). In fact, "music" is too honorable a title for it. I like to think of it as a series of random sounds made to sound inviting.

Sinatra... typical?

(Insert noise of thundering thousand-ton train full of steel girders and screeming pigs slamming into a napalm factory.)

I do not, sir, share your opnion. Cough.

Forgive me if I brave your flurry of axe swings, but Frank Sinatra was a white man who (crappily) imitated (good) black music to make big money while the real, original black musicians starved in the gutter. Same goes for Elvis.

Note: "black" as in the music and the simple skin color; not the political side of things.

[Bijo]

Ahhh, the joys of O-Zone. It seems that here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-zone are a couple of links about them. Sounds like a crappy pop group indeed... from what I read. Haven't even heard their music but I'm already convinced they're bad. The keywords; summer hits, eurodance, Eurovision festival: they say enough.


Btw

Frank Sinatra was a white man who (crappily) imitated (good) black music to make big money while the real, original black musicians starved in the gutter.

Oh yes And it sounds very typical too, such action.

[Fragony]

original black musicians starved in the gutter.

So we gave them the bluezzzzz