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

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:

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all genres of music are terrible

except chillwave

THE CHILLEST OF THE BROS

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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.

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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