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whats going to turn you off a song or band or record immediately? even with out hearing it (maybe)

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 5 May 2003 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

the word jazz in a review or press release normally does it for me.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 5 May 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Hang on Gaz, doesn't that rule out too many people? What about Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker etc etc? Surely you mean 'jazz funk'?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 5 May 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

vibrato on the singer's voice

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 5 May 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

die anti-jazz curmudgeons

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 5 May 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

no i am not speaking German

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 5 May 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, any review that mentions 'nu skool breaks' or 'uplifting strings' has me running for the hills.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 5 May 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Guitar players who lurch forward like those mooks in Korn, wallet chains, silly goatees, a turn-tablist with no discernible contribution to the sonic element of the band (hello, Incubus), baseball caps worn at askew angles, heavy choreography,.....more invariably to come.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 May 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Slap bass.

― s woods, Monday, 5 May 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Or the phrase 'refreshing antidote' in a press release. i.e., "_______ are a refreshing antidote to the manufactured sounds currently cluttering the airwaves."

― s woods, Monday, 5 May 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Q: whats going to turn you off a song or band or record immediately? even with out hearing it (maybe)

A: the words "produced by Fred Durst"

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 5 May 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Any band members wearing t-shirts emblazoned with "MADE", "ATTICUS", "HURLEY" or "ECKO".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 May 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

any band that starts with a "K" and ends with joke.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 May 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

except THAT one, of course.
I was refering to the M*A*S*H*-inspired soul-funk trio Klinger's Joke.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 May 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

if the press release tells me they will be opening for a band like matchbox 20 or nickelback, or some other mainstream rock band that I despise, that pretty much does it for me, even without hearing a note.

― Jonathan, Monday, 5 May 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Designed by robots specifically to make me hate it"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 5 May 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

any band that starts with a "K" and ends with joke. except THAT one, of course. I was refering to the M*A*S*H*-inspired soul-funk trio Klinger's Joke.

We are not amused.

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― Joke Management (vassifer), Monday, 5 May 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The AINYC-baiting never gets old.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 May 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

die anti-jazz curmudgeons

doh! i actually meant "jazzy" rather than jazz.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 5 May 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

a "real live band" will possibly worry me also. specially if the music in question is hiphop or electronica.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 5 May 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Mellotron. It can be used well, but i remain highly suspicious.

However, the Chamberlin is always a mark of a quality album (except where Fiona Apple is concerned.)

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Monday, 5 May 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"No synthesizers were used in the making of this album."

― s woods, Monday, 5 May 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

you don't like queen?

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 5 May 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

In fact, I do like Queen. (You talking to me??)

― s woods, Monday, 5 May 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Another fatal element: any album made by a backing band, minus the lead singer.

― s woods, Monday, 5 May 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

???

Food For Thought, Doing It to Death, Breakin' Bread, Damn Right, I am Somebody, Hustle With Speed

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 5 May 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Case in point, in my view!
(I mean, I can't say I know those albums real well, but all the JBs stuff I've heard has bored me...sorry.)

― s woods, Monday, 5 May 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"No synthesizers were used in the making of this album."

this was written on every queen album sleeve.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 5 May 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

That's rather hysterical, actually. I didn't know that. Oh well, another one bites the....ah, fuck it.

― s woods, Monday, 5 May 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Unrest put something very similar that on one of their albums too. I suspect it was a fib.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 5 May 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Rage Against the Machine put it on their albums because they were so happy to showcase what a yank 'em crank 'em wank 'em soloist Tom Morello is. They would.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

yank 'em crank 'em wank 'em

I am amazed that you used this phrase to describe Rage Against The Machine rather than Revolting Cocks.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

They would be more suck 'em fuck 'em pluck 'em and then shuck 'em.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Turnarounds turn me off. They were rather stale in 1970.

― squirl plise, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, all of the elements of Linkin Park are pretty
much fatal:
High-pitched singer trying to sound bad and angry, marble-mouthed
monosyllabic rapper, "dark" synth pings, distorted eighth-grader
guitar during the chorus, totally vague and cliched lyrics,
etc.

― squirl plise, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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