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An interesting point of view this. I will start listing my fave albums in four genres that I really usually dislike:

Starting off with a genre that I don't really dislike, but that I have still had some problems with regarding the genre's anti-melody sentiments. Here are my favourite 10 dance albums:

1. Orbital: In Sides
2. Leftfield: Leftism
3. Orbital: (Brown)
4. Daft Punk: Homework
5. Massive Attack: Protection
6. Orb: U.F.Orb
7. Basement Jaxx: Remedy
8. Orb: Orblivion
9. Massive Attack: Mezzanine
10.Orbital: Snivilisation

(William Orbit's "Pieces In a Modern Style" was left out of the list because you can't dance to it)

Then to my favourite hard rock albums

1. Def Leppard: Hysteria
2. Van Halen: Van Halen
3. Jane's Addiction: Ritual De Lo Habitual
4. Nirvana: Nevermind
5. AC/DC: Highway To Hell
6. Led Zeppelin: 4
7. AC/DC: Back In Black
8. Van Halen: 1984
9. Deep Purple: Machine Head
10.Def Leppard: Pyromania

My favourite country albums (including 70s country rock, exluding alt.country)

1. The Byrds: Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
2. Flying Burrito Brothers: The Gilded Palace Of Sin
3. The Eagles: Desperado
4. Gram Parsons: Grievous Angel
5. Elvis Costello: Almost Blue
6. Gram Parsons: G.P.
7. The Eagles: The Eagles
8. Flying Burrito Brothers: Burrito De Luxe
9. Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline
10.Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison

And, possibly a surprising thing I was even able to make this one :-): My favourite hip-hop albums:

1. Snoop Doggy Dogg: Doggystyle
2. 2 Pac: All Eyez On Me
3. Missy Elliot: Miss E - So Addictive
4. Dr. Dre: The Chronic
5. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP
6. Fugees: The Score
7. Eminem: The Eminem Show
8. Missy Elliot: Under Construction
9. Outkast: Stankonia
10.De La Soul: 3 Feet High And Rising

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 11 October 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

woah

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 11 October 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't really like dance music much, but I like Everything But The Girl's "Tempermental." I'm also not a big fan of rap, but Gang Starr's "Step Into The Arena" is pretty good. No offense, but if you like more than 4 or 5 albums in a particular genre, you probably like that genre more than you're willing to admit.

― Mark M, Saturday, 11 October 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"the genre's anti-melody sentiments"?

Please explain. Seems like bull to me.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Sunday, 12 October 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, I don't get into classical music, but I found a handful of sort of avante-garde-modernist 20th century Russian composers I like quite a bit. Prokofiev and Shostakovich to name the best. Their stuff is sharp and exciting, not flabby old lady music and I love that they worked for the revolution. Sadly I can't name the records cuz someone stole my CD book off my desk at school last year, the bitches. Luckily it was empty except the handful of classical CD's I had and those are easy to get.

Jazz bores the shit outta me except a very small amount of the best of bebop I've heard on radio. I also love noir films and the soundtrack to Taxi Driver by Bernard Herrman. Thats a soundtrack though so I don't think it counts does it.

Hiphop is my least favorite music, but "the message" is beyond great so I want to hear more of those 80's classics. Another thing I like that probably would make mainstream hiphop fans sneer or be confused is MC 900 Foot Jesus and his 3 good albums of synthpop-industrial-beat poetry-rap.

― sucka (sucka), Sunday, 12 October 2003 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Those are cool lists Geir!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 12 October 2003 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Your country and hip-hop lists are lame.

All of the artists in the country and hip-hop lists are cross-overs. Johnny Cash is the only country artist in the country list (and he was heavily influenced by other genres). The hip-hop list reads like an MTV roll-call.

Why don't you just admit the real name of this thread:

'Albums in genres I don't know shit about, so I just say I don't like.'

― Debito, Sunday, 12 October 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

no it should be 'Albums in genres I don't like, so I don't know shit about them, so I just say I don't like them'

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Sunday, 12 October 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Picking on Geir, how boring.

― Damian (Damian), Sunday, 12 October 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

All of the artists in the country and hip-hop lists are cross-overs.

All the best music is a result of crossover between different genres. Compromise always makes the nicest-sounding music.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 12 October 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok, ok. Point taken. That post was a bit rude.

My point is 'not liking' particular kinds of music is a bit close minded. Especially considering that the artists included in the country list were paying homage to that genre. So it seems a bit strange to say that you don't like country, but you do like rock artists doing country.

By the way, I rate those albums very highly.

― Debito (Debito), Sunday, 12 October 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Not liking genres is like not liking languages. What are your 10 favorite words from languages you don't like?

― spittle, Sunday, 12 October 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

the idea that Geir doesn't genuinely dislike [most] hip-hop may be the most mind-blowing of ILM's past month or so.

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 12 October 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

agreed

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 12 October 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i was just thinking that
what do you like about those albums geir,out of curiosity?
is it that you like them in spite of the fact that they are not melodic,or what?
i mean,they don't seem any more melodic than other similar albums...
homework isn't an album i would have expected you to like at all...

― robin (robin), Sunday, 12 October 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you heard any Willie Nelson, Geir? He's got quite a way w/a great melody.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 12 October 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

what do you like about those albums geir,out of curiosity?

Most of them are kind of melodic, at least in the choruses. Also, a lot of them have an 80s-like kind of production.

In the case of Fugees, I respect them a lot for the fact that they do actually compose some melodic music themselves rather than just sample older stuff.

As for Willie Nelson, I've heard "Red Headed Stranger" which I find a bit too underproduced. Guess that goes for the entire outlaw genre

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 12 October 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

You would probably like Willie's Nelson's Stardust.

Out of curiosity: Geir, what's your take on contemporary R&B?

― scott m (mcd), Sunday, 12 October 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Contemporary R&B: Cool production/sound, but I have never heard any melodies I have liked.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 13 October 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think genres are comparable to languages, and nothing wrong with not liking a genre, it's just peronal taste. If someone says they don't like romance novels, game shows, or infomercials I won't call them closeminded. Man it makes me mad though when people say synths aren't real instruments.

― sucka (sucka), Monday, 13 October 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm trying really hard to think of a genre I dislike. Still thinking.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

...I respect them a lot for the fact that they do actually compose some melodic music themselves rather than just sample older stuff.

If The Fugees is the only group you've heard of that does this I feel really sorry for you. Get thee to some Cee-Lo Green stat!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd do some of those electronic-music sub-genres but I don't know shit about any of that stuff ha ha.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually now that I think harder about that Fugees-as-sole-composers-of-their-own-music-in-hip-hop I'm laughing very very hard, as I don't think ONE song on The Score didn't pilfer a hook or riff from somewhere else.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

A small sampling of hip-hoppers who have composed some-or-in-most-cases-all of the music on their albums: Cee-Lo, Del the Funky Homosapien, Mos Def, Michael Franti, El-P, Mike Ladd (aka Infesticons/Majesticons), Outkast, The Pharcyde...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, the Roots?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 13 October 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha smack me in the face will ya?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 13 October 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The Roots, obviously.

While I am not that interested in the idea of live music, the fact that The Roots and Fugees prefer to perform their music without the use of turntables obviously makes them have to rely less on already existing records

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 13 October 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning
Magma - Live
Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

any album by LKJ
Dilinger's 'Cocaine in my Brain'
and, err.. that's it.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't name 10 albums in genres I *do* like.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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