What genres of music don't you like?

I loathe contemporary Country music.

I never quite understood the appeal of drum'n'bass either, but it doesn't send me into fits (tho' my nextdoor neighbor in my old building used to crank it through the walls on weeknights after 11pm, prompting me to fire back with equally volumous airrings of Motorhead and the Exploited....that was actually sort've fun, now that I look back on it. Still D'n'B? Yawn.)

What's the kind of music the Happy Monday's play?

They called it "baggy" back in the day.

There are only three things that come to mind right now as far as "no turn it off and kill it with knives": emo, adult contemporary and nu-metal.

everything else is fine

* jam bands like Phish and Widespread Panic

* faux-angsty nu-metal (with the exception of Linkin Park, who are a dance-pop band at heart)

* third-generation grunge a la Hoobastank, Staind, Puddle Of Mudd

* tuneless hardcore punk

* tuneful but utterly toothless pop-punk (Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, etc)

Beyond that, the slate is wide open.

apart from that, i kind of listen to anything.

Not a big fan of Cajun and Zydeco music--about two songs and zzzz...

and Zamfir, I hate Zamfir--my pal makes me otherwise great mixed CDs and insists on putting that pan-flute or whatever it is motherfuck on them, spoils my "listening experience"...

Jam Bands

Mid-to-late 90's Matchbox 20 style "modern rock"

Nu-Metal i guess

Practically any band on the cover of Alternative Press

Modern Country music. Sorry, but no fuckin way. I'll admit its funny to listen to sometimes. I imagine its bearable outside the south, because it seems almost exotic, but seriously I live in South Carolina and it is the Sound of Opression.

did the Dead Kennedys have tunes? Bad Brains?

Have you ever heard these bands? The DK's were never a tuneless hardcore punk. East Bay Ray's psychobilly guitar is ALL tunes. Likewise the Bad Brains....if you can't hear the melodic brilliance on, say, I Against I, you've got ocelot dung in your ears.

Alex OTM

Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, and Bad Brains I like. I'm referring to the one-chord, utterly witless, borderline Nazi, atonal crapola that gets called "hardcore" nowadays.

Such as? "Hardcore" is a rather nebulous term nowadays.

90s ska
nu-metal
alt.country
jam bands
adult contemporary

i don't like it but i still think it's defensible:

blues
"post-rock"
most indie rock these days

What is soulless music? Much like Potter Stewart knows pornography when he sees it, I know it when I hear it. However, unlike the aforementioned Supreme Court Justice and his relationship with pornography, soulless music does not give me a hard-on. Not even Ashlee Simpson when her soulless domesticated noise comes replete with a video of her. It's a shame that it doesn't give me an erection, otherwise soulless music could be constituted as pornography since (according to the Supreme Court) pornography is without artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts. That makes no sense considering that The Cure's Pornography has artistic merit and doesn't cause sexual thoughts (unless you think about the lyrics to "The Hanging Garden" and "Siamese Twins").

This concludes my unfunny hour that was only twelve minutes.

and the list goes on...

Peace,
A

(Of course, however, there's always the possibility that I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about, and that my favourite musician who plays "X" music isn't considered a REAL "X" musician by hardcore fans of the genre. Back in the '70s, Chicago regularly topped the "Best Jazz Musician" list in the annual Creem Magazine reader's poll. I'm much better informed than that, I like to think, but who really knows?)

happy hardcore

metal

oh yeah, nu-metal

I've always really hated Irish folk music and anything modern that incorporated it (Pogues, various legions of shitty punk bands). I can't really explain why it sounds so offensive to my ears (i'm at least 25% Irish, ffs), but I really really really can't stand it.

Fiddle-dee-diddley-didley-dee!

Reggaeton

xp: Although I dislike "typical" Irish music such as fetchboy describes, I really like hornpipe tunes, which I think are English in origin but sound sort of similar and had a big influence on American folk. The difference is modal maybe, but my music theory is rusty and I don't really feel like looking it up at the moment.

I wonder what the most disliked sub-genre of a style of music would be on ilm. Nu-Metal maybe?

crunkcore

Is there a difference between genre's you dislike vs. genre's you're simply not likely to buy anything from? I mean, I enjoy jazz when I hear it but aside from some swing artists I'm not likely to buy it.

I wonder what the most disliked sub-genre of a style of music would be on ilm. Nu-Metal maybe?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, July 25, 2010 11:54 AM (54 minutes ago)

indie rock

the pop music canon

probably only like six people on ilm who actively dislike all indie rock. and even then, you'd be surprised

i don't think there's a genre i don't like. don't really get techno but i feel like one day maybe it'll happen

yeah, I was being half-facetious

I think the only style of music I have no interest in whatsoever has to be modern R'n'B

ugh son

I really hate the fake ska.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

i don't think there's a genre i don't like. don't really get techno but i feel like one day maybe it'll happen

― young monet (samosa gibreel)

weren't you the one requesting vocal house tracks? not a big jump to liking techno.

yeah, totally. i can feel it coming. thx a lot for the recs btw

np, love recommending house to people just getting into it. to answer the thread question... idk, polka, i guess. i even hate it when any other genre of music begins to remind me of polka with a "bing, bonk, bing, bonk" bassline.

Just modern country for me. I just can't get past the twang; it always seems so put-on, like a way they authenticate themselves as REAL COUNTRY to their fans. Not sure if that makes any sense or not.

I had the country music station on the other day and it isn't really bad at all, it's just that they have basically been doing rock for a long time now. I mean this is not the country music I grew up with, is it bad that I like the old stuff better.

the few times i've heard modern mainstream country music stations lately, it sounds like a twangy and bland version of 80s pop radio.

some musics i hate:
-trance
-contemporary country
-folk-punk
-nu-metal
-contemporary rock? like, commercial rock.

there are a lot more, but that's the 'most-hated' list.

totally agree on contemporary country and the last two mentioned (nu-metal worst of all).

classical

folk-punk hahaha

btw if you get into subgenres and era-based genres this is easy, let's leave it all out there guys

real and fake ska both blow

I've always really hated Irish folk music and anything modern that incorporated it (Pogues, various legions of shitty punk bands). I can't really explain why it sounds so offensive to my ears (i'm at least 25% Irish, ffs), but I really really really can't stand it.

You and me and everybody else who's never listened to Planxty

Oh, and French disco for me.

irish music and anything influenced by irish music is probably bad

What do you dislike about classical music, destroyer? Is it just a specific period you dislike or the entire spectrum from AD 900 to now?

well this opinion is me being a pain in the ass but while i really enjoy going to the symphony and seeing an orchestra perform classical music, listening to a recording of it is basically the last thing i ever want to be doing.

I agree, seeing the actual orchestra would make all the difference in the world. Otherwise I fall asleep.

re: classical music. my wife and i used to have season tickets to the florida grand opera, and it was a great experience. thinking about going back, actualy.

live opera is a blast

well I'm pretty much one of three or four that regularly posts in the CM thread, so you're probably not alone.

I've always really hated Irish folk music and anything modern that incorporated it (Pogues, various legions of shitty punk bands). I can't really explain why it sounds so offensive to my ears (i'm at least 25% Irish, ffs), but I really really really can't stand it.

― Fetchboy, Sunday, July 25, 2010 3:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^this, exactly!

As a kid I always hated when classical music was on in the car, because whenever it would often get quiet, it would always get drowned out by the sound of the car or the highway, and listening to random crescendos that suddenly went quiet was infuriating to me.

80s mainstream rock esp. hair-metal will always be my musical bete noir.

Black Metal. Generally dislike hip-hop too, but can like some stuff that doesn't make itself dependent on turntables (i.e. contains originally composed melodic sections).

You and me and everybody else who's never listened to Planxty

Speak for yourself, Planxty are awesome.

I can't think of a genre I hate. There's genres I'm not interested in - metal, for instance.

Metal.
Indie rock.
Prog rock.
Rock in general, I guess, except the sort or R&B oriented stuff you can dance to.

Opera

Have you ever seen opera live? I thought I didn't like it before I did.

Why would I want to go and see an opera though?

I'm not saying you should, but it might change your opinion on it, as it is very much a "live" genre. Judging opera by just listening to the music is kinda like judging movies by just reading the scripts.

Hardly

At least when you listen to opera, you don't have to watch the terrible "acting" of the singers and various cornball theatrical aspects of the performance

^ he's got a point there

I don't like hip-hop, reggae, soul, funk or R&B.

"post-classical"

At least when you listen to opera, you don't have to watch the terrible "acting" of the singers and various cornball theatrical aspects of the performance

You've never seen Opera so how do you know?

So opera has never been filmed, has it? Is there some kind of law in force or something?

Powell and Pressburger made The Tales of Hoffmann. Offenbach's not my thing, but the film is stunning.

So are you saying you've seen about 5 min footage of an opera on TV and have used that to judge all acting in opera as "terrible" and all theatrical aspects of it as "cornball"?

You and me and everybody else who's never listened to Planxty

Speak for yourself, Planxty are awesome.

Sorry, I meant "me, before I started listening to Planxty and other Andy Irvine related things". Irish music for many people means hearing "The Minstrel Boy" on uilleann pipes over the closing credits, or a dude with a guitar singing "Dirty Old Town" at the bar across the street, and it did for me too, for years.

Scottish music is even worse IMO as bad as their food.

German folk music is so much worse than either imo.

you're all fucking retards

I don't like hip-hop, reggae, soul, funk or R&B.

Loath though I am to judge other people for their candour itt, there's something wrong with you if you don't like soul.

you're all fucking retards

― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 July 2010 16:20 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^ This guy knows what's up

Loath though I am to judge other people for their candour itt, there's something wrong with you if you don't like soul.

All subjective though right? Soul doesn't affect me emotionally, post-rock does. Funny old world innit.

You know you got soul. If you didn't you wouldn't be in here.

I don't like hip-hop, reggae, soul, funk or R&B.

― margana (anagram)

i assumed this was a joke

planxty is fucking awesome

this thread is very depressing

i assumed this was a joke

Not at all, sorry.

Definition of a joke not dependent on the intentionality of the teller imo

loooooool

I don't like hip-hop, reggae, soul, funk or R&B.

― margana (anagram)

i assumed this was a joke

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, July 26, 2010 4:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

so did i :(

this thread make puppies less adorable

Maybe I'm not being clear. I love Planxty and that Andy Irvine/Paul Brady record and to anybody who says "I don't like Irish music / I hate the Pogues", I say, "Word, I was there once, now check out this Planxty record."

i really cant stand big band jazz

I'm in a phase right now of not liking jazz too much, but I used to like it and probably will again.

I don't like hip-hop, reggae, soul, funk or R&B.

― margana (anagram)

i assumed this was a joke

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, July 26, 2010 4:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

so did i :(

Sigh, I thought I'd been posting here long enough now for folks to know I'm being sincere and also what I like and don't like. Obviously not. Keep going I guess.

I've been trying really hard to think of an answer to this question.

But the problem is, for almost every genre of music I can think of, there's nothing that's singularly *all* bad. There's always one problematic artist that I'm like "well, actually, I like X..."

I mean, even jazz, which is usually my standard answer, well, I like big band, and I like 1920s jazz, and I even like bits of it all the way up to bebop, so I can't categorically say I HATE THE GENRE OF JAZZ even though I really kinda do, there's bits of it I'm fine with.

maximum hongroe

Whatever genre Garrison Keillor is, I hate it. I wish I could trade him to Fox News.

yeah the talking about imaginary towns style of music is pretty played out

It's imaginary? I kind of felt bad about hating on an actual town, but now the hate waves are set on maximum!

it's also... not music

i really cant stand big band jazz

I wouldn't say I hated it but I've never been able to actively enjoy big band/swing type stuff. Someone with a better grasp of music theory than me could probably pinpoint what it's missing for me but melodically, it doesn't grab me at all. I like Sinatra when he's doing ballads though, same with some other vocal jazz people.

I think the only style of music I have no interest in whatsoever has to be modern R'n'B

ugh son

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:13 (Yesterday)

ummm... six years ago

generally I like to think of genres i'm not into as being genres i haven't discovered properly yet.

there are very few artists who could be described as "country" whom I enjoy

"it's also... not music"

his show starts with a warbling guitar and a warbling garrison warbling something which gives me shivers. I'll tune in again some time later and it's either him still warbling or some poor folks he's pressganged into warbling, and though it is more shrill than 1000 merzbows, it is sadly still music.

i ended up liking big band/swing and stuff even though i didn't at first

have not acquired a taste for dixieland jazz though, kinda bugs the shit outta me right now

garrison's most annoying musical tic to me is how he so obviously tries to sing like "real" harmony parts even though he can barely sing

there are very few artists who could be described as "country" whom I enjoy

ICP haven't made a country hip-hop album yet?

They do have a song called "Red Neck Hoe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADZMu93vYbk

im too scared to click

you should be

"song"

term used loosely, i assume.

very!

listening now to "red neck hoe", man this is great, like if you combined the best elements of the beatles, stones, prince, and velvet underground

Is there a sub-genre of ICP spin offs?

basically their record label

omg m@tt

incapacitated over here

hey m@tt i see a stevie wonder influence in there too
xp

man this is great, like if you combined the best elements of the beatles, stones, prince, and velvet underground

do these acts have any "best elements" to combine? geez.

stevie wonder, too.

i hear a little crash test dummies influence, tho. now that's a good act.

i am pretty fucking open minded but when 'red neck hoe' got to the part about fuckin' her with his big toe, like maybe 20 seconds in? i was out.

I sense some mariah, the songs teenage girls the world over liked too.

i am pretty fucking open minded but when 'red neck hoe' got to the part about fuckin' her with his big toe, like maybe 20 seconds in? i was out.

oh dude, it gets WORSE

you missed the earnest "I don't like racists" bridge, too

I sense some mariah, the songs teenage girls the world over liked too.

real talk. i hear a little "hanna-montana," too. that girl is talented.

I've heard very little modern (say post- '85) pop country that i care much about. in all fairness i haven't tried *that* hard, and when i do check in, there are always a handful of standout tracks. it seems that a lot of it is just recorded badly. (imo, that is. obviously it is adequately produced, expertly played, etc.)

it seems that a lot of it is just recorded badly

when i've heard modern pop country over the past few years, the production seems very 80s glossy to me. even down to a similar gated drums sound?

modern r&b mostly makes me want to stab my ears out. so sad that it basically has ruined hip hop too

Oh my god, "Red Neck Hoe" is seriously like the worst commercially released song I've ever heard!

ahahhahahahahahahahahahhaaaahahhahaha

okay now I have to hear this

imho not so bad as long as you don't pay any attention to the actual lyrics

I mean, there are some songs that are so horrible they're incomprehensible to me - I just don't understand what they're supposed to do, so it's easy just to dismiss them as something from an alien world. These songs don't make me angry. But "Red Neck Hoe", I can see exactly what they were trying to do there - and it makes me ashamed of humanity.

how does it compare to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXkk43z15wI

(it feels like Ice-T is phoning it in here a little, though)

by virtue of it being Ice-T, I can tell you without even clicking on the link that there is no way that song is worse than "Red Neck Hoe"

Yeah, at least that tune has some nice riffing. Even without the lyrics, the beat on "Red Neck Hoe" is weak as oatmeal.

Ice-T phoning it in can't be as bad as:

Bitch, you's a ho
And ho, you's a bitch
Everybody knows that you
A funky, funky bitch

Dan, I thought you were a fan of ICP?

he's president of the nat'l icp fan club, iirc.

if you search for "Red Neck Hoe" on the boards, you will see that the only reason I ever mention it is because it is hilariously terrible

re: phoning it in,
I don't mean the lyrics are phoned in, (though they are kind of by-the-numbers), but Ice-T's heart is just not in this performance. Maybe if RIchard Belzer subbed on guitars in full Detective Munch regalia, he'd be inspired to step up his game.

OK I went and gave Planxty a chance... and it's not doing it for me. Can I officially dislike everything Irish-sounding now?

modern country
nu metal
most top 40 rap and rnb
reggaeton
pop punk
happy hardcore
anything that sounds like dave matthews band

"modern r&b mostly makes me want to stab my ears out. so sad that it basically has ruined hip hop too"

OTM

r&b is a totally separate genre from hip-hop? i assumed there is a lot of overlap, but maybe i'm mistaken.

R&B needs to forget the last 10 years ever happened. That said, least liked sub-genre would have to be whatever sounds like Ke$ha, Katy Perry, Flo-Rida or B.E.P. Not all pop is bad, of course, but I can't wait until this watered-down, American electro-pop sound is over. Never been able to listen to more than 5 seconds of Folk music either....horribly horrible stuff to my ears.

r&b is a totally separate genre from hip-hop?

once upon a time... NO CROSSOVER lol

OK I went and gave Planxty a chance... and it's not doing it for me. Can I officially dislike everything Irish-sounding now?

For real? You can imagine that island sinking into the sea if you like

Like a lot of people, I feel that genres I don't like are probably just genres I haven't listened to enough/haven't heard in the right context, with the right people, etc, etc. That said, I have a real hard time with the bel canto conventions which, along with minstrelsy, dominated popular singing in the first few decades of recorded music. The ornate, neatly phrased chirping drives me up the wall. I even have a hard time with some Ethel Waters stuff because she often betrays the residual influence of that tradition, what with all the damned rolled r's.
I don't have much use for the contemporary Christian rock scene, but I also don't pay that scene any attention, and it's possible there's some decent stuff.
I don't think I've heard anything labeled as screamo that I've enjoyed in the slightest.
I simply don't have the patience for most drone-style music, though some of it I quite like for about 3 to 5 minutes at a time.
There's a lot of regional musical traditions I've never learned to really hear, from Mexican ranchera to Indiana ragas.

Another vote for contemporary tuneless autotuned R&B.

How can it be "tuneless" and "autotuned" at the same time?

how can something be "rock" and "not rock" = Coldplay

Metal for me. Was never even a very big Zep/Sabbath fan in high school, but by the time the scene morphed to Maiden/Priest/Metallica/Slayer whatever, I was totally off a bus I was never on to begin with. Can't find a gateway band into shrieky vocals, bludgeoning rhythms and 200 BPM solos.

chillwave. so far.

i like to think i'll appraise the quality of the artist rather than its associated genre, but often a particular genre will be too compromised by its own limitations to have much to offer me. i guess what generally irk me are sub-genres, many of which have been invented (or coined) to lend title and identity to music that is often arbitrary and lacking in imagination. the classification of metal, for example, has totally been stretched beyond reason.

it's all been mentioned but pop punk, pop punk/ska, "irish" pop punk, and the new wave of watered-down american electro-pop are the ones that get my blood boiling.

pop punk hatred goes back to deep-rooted high school rivalries. also, it sucks.

irish pop punk? What's with all the irish hate here? Some larky boys signed up lately?

I don't think anyone round here hates Irishmen, per se. Just the Dropkick Murphys and the Pogues (not even Irish though, right?) and Riverdance, probably.

Celtic Moods, innit?

kkvgz has got the right idea

riverdance hate is fine by me

How can it be "tuneless" and "autotuned" at the same time?

That objection did occur to me when I posted, but yep, 'tuneless' in the sense that it seems to me that the melodies are almost always uniformly terrible/generic (he says, going all Geir here), and what there is of them is almost invariably autotuned beyond listenability.

if you hate celtic moods u r dead to me

Scottish music is even worse IMO as bad as their food.

^ this person has no soul

Take one of these and report back:

http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/images/largerec/nomoreforever_lercd2072.jpg

all genres of music are terrible

except chillwave

THE CHILLEST OF THE BROS

http://news8austin.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/palomo.jpg

That photo has the color scheme of a DOS game from 1991.

Banda.

I had to look that up... this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btiFmzTo9K4

Yes.

car commercial music. also the genre of car commercial music that sounds like a popular song but not exactly, because they are too cheap to pay for the actual song.

^ http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qFYv9zD9ZRo/ShqQV-r2SHI/AAAAAAAAAJA/gQpSNp2M-SI/s400/moby%2Bplay.jpg

Most electronica, or any other modern day muzak

music in car driving games, but strangely, I'm OK with the music in pro-wrestling games, which is basically the same music.

hahahahaha totally weirdly OTM

Blues is the only genre I can think of that I dislike pretty much across the board. Any creative endeavor that rote and formulaic and rule-based is gonna have a tough time winning me over.

It's true, and why do blues songs all sound exactly the same and have the same lyrics.

Bingo. Hate Chicago-style blues especially.

Weirdly, though, I like some blues-based jazz, like hard bop.

oh man i just

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJeoYnmqbw
if that doesn't work then lord have mercy on your soul

Damn , doesn't it any more raw than this ...cigarette filled club , cheap whiskey , knife fight in the parking lot ... Junior trying to get paid for his bad ass performance ..... just like Tabasco , aint no substitute .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSscKLEvlMg&feature=related