What kind of MUSIC do you hate...

[threebikesmcginty]

Blues Brothers I think - when they play behind that cage and end up playing 'Rawhide' a million times

 

[GrahamG]

There are redeeming bands/artists in every genre, but the one that I feel I can confidently write off as just turgid crap is everything that is now described as R&B. It offends me by being so awful, although I only hear it when the TV ads for 'Akon' or whatever come on. From what I can gather it's only listened to by teenagers who think they're too cool to listen to anything else.

 

[ChrisKH]

Rap music. Not because it's bad particularly ; I just don't get it.

My sister and her husband on the other hand, were the only white people at a Snoop Doggy Dog Concert.

Wiggers, don't you just love 'em?

 

[John the Monkey]

I was going to say, "oo, nothing really" and then RT's post about fake soul reminded me that I do hate some.

I used to think I hated Country and Western, until I realised quite how diverse a genre that is - I'm listening to a lot of Dallas Wayne and Todd Snider right now (traditional sounding, left field lyrics) - that shades through to the "is it country?" sort of stuff that Lambchop and Bonnie "Prince" Billy do.

Most modern rap is appalling, although I suspect that digging around a bit would yield a group doing good stuff (like Company Flow were last time I got fed up with most rap music)

 

[alecstilleyedye]

bands packaged to take money off teenage girls, 'urban' music á la craig david (dull), coldplay and clones (chewing gum for the ears) and country and western music played outside of bars in the deep south of the usa.

 

[dellzeqq]

like FM I was going to entirely above hating music, but reading this thread I realise that, while I can leave the vengeance to Yenners, there's a lot that really strikes me as worthless.

In a bid to be just a tiny bit original, I'll point out that I once lived with a pianist who moved in on the strict understanding that there would be no Debussy. Or Rachmaninov. Or Brahms.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

country and western music played outside of bars in the deep south of the usa.

oooooo - my favourite!!

 

[Chromatic]

Ho ho ho - I like that, well, I don't, but I like that name (you know what I mean)!

I've pretty much given up listening to the radio because there is so much crap on air these days. It's not (just) that I'm getting older - I'd have hated that stuff when I was young too. Mind you, it took me about 6 albums to decide that 'Yes' should really have been named 'No'! I had a ticket to go and see them at Bingley Hall, Stafford in 1977 when I heard some punk band on the radio. I had a very sudden 'Ah, ah!' moment and ripped my ticket up. That was me finished with Prog Rock. One of my friends (in a desperate act of non-solidarity) picked up the bits of my ticket and sellotaped them back together. She said that it was one of the best gigs she'd ever been to...

I went to that gig if it was the one where Donovan supported, which I think it was. Your friend was right, it was good. And in the main punk turned out to be a pile of shite really didn't it?

 

[Andy in Sig]

like FM I was going to entirely above hating music, but reading this thread I realise that, while I can leave the vengeance to Yenners, there's a lot that really strikes me as worthless.

In a bid to be just a tiny bit original, I'll point out that I once lived with a pianist who moved in on the strict understanding that there would be no Debussy. Or Rachmaninov. Or Brahms.

I know what you mean: I tried about five times to get my head round Brahms' 1st symphony but came to the conclusion that it was music to bury your granny to. Didn't Rachmaninov knock out the theme tune to the Onedin Line? That was quite jolly.

 

[Fnaar]

don't really hate any genre per se (ooh, get me!). Not keen on metal at all, but then I have a penchant for certain bits of Thin Lizzy and also Motorhead.
Used to say I hated country music, but then i was young and ignorant, now i realise (like any genre0 there's a range from utter sh!te to top-notch excellent.
However, if I had to choose one, it's what my kids call "charva-beats" ... you hear it coming out of barry-mobiles, speeded up synthed tripe with a stupidly fast beat and a woman's voice speeded up till it sounds like a chipmunk or pinky & perky. You also hear it at fairgrounds.

 

[Andy in Sig]

I never thought of Thin Lizzy as heavy metal. To me they were the acceptable end of white boy rock.

 

[Bodhbh]

It is a tad unfair country always gets it in the neck in these threads, it covering a fair number very different sub-genres - bluegrass, western swing, honky-tonk, rockabilly, countrypolitain, country rock, etc - spanning pretty much the history of recorded music.

Not that I can talk, I can't stand Jazz and not much interested in finding out different either.

 

[tyred]

I suspect in many people's eyes, country is perceived as boring and probably as something old people listen too. In reality, if you ignore the mainstream Nashville stuff, Country music is often pretty good with songs full of meaning, unlike the music you find in the charts.

 

[Wolf04]

It is a tad unfair country always gets it in the neck in these threads, it covering a fair number very different sub-genres - bluegrass, western swing, honky-tonk, rockabilly, countrypolitain, country rock, etc - spanning pretty much the history of recorded music.

Not that I can talk, I can't stand Jazz and not much interested in finding out different either.

Not to mention Americana, alt. Country etc.

Like a great deal of the above and even bits of Trisha Yearwood and even the Dixie Chicks but draw the line (or should that be walk the line) at acts such as Garth Brooks, though wish I had his bank account.

 

[ColinJ]

I went to that gig if it was the one where Donovan supported, which I think it was. Your friend was right, it was good. And in the main punk turned out to be a pile of shite really didn't it?

Oh, I didn't remember Donovan supporting. I used to like one of his early albums which my sister was always playing in the late 60s.

Yeah, there was a lot of punk shite but at least it was exciting. Most of the stuff that I was listening to in the mid-70s seemed to have been about playing the maximum number of notes per second in obscure time signatures. I just got bored of watching musicians showing off how clever they thought they were. "Less is more" was more appealing than "Even more than that is more"!