What genre of music can you not tolerate?

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We all like to think we are pretty open minded here on ILM. But theres surely a genre of music that you cannot stand and has no redeeming factors or at least one good tune? A few years ago I would have probably have said opera but thats got some sublime moments (Nessun Dorma).Contemporary C&W (Garth Brooks, Dwight Yoakam) is a genre I cant stand and cant find any worth in. Well?

― Michael, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The hardest sell amongst all the pop fans that contribute to ILM for me has always been the adult contemporary/pop country stuff like Faith Hill and Shania Twain (and Garth and, uh, that Clint Black guy if he's still around.) I really can't stand that stuff at all. I know that some of the appeal in pop music is familiarity, but that stuff is just WAY TOO FAMILIAR, and I've never developed a single positive association with it. I feel like songs like "I Can Hear You Breath" has been on in the background somewhere all my life, somebody with a transistor radio tuned into "Lite Rock" (which is all contemporary country is now, of course.)

― Mark, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I could probably listen to any music. Not sure I could sit through a whole opera though! I always look forward to the Country Mucic awards being shown on TV, some of the songs are actually quite good.

When I say listen...I don't mean purchase or own. I listen to chart pop, but I don't buy it. Is Beautiful South and stuff like that a genre?, because I do dispise them...So, the genre of music I hate is "bland supposedly credible rock-lite"!

― james e l, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suppose, as others have said, a certain type of AOR-pop. Also UK corporate / programme music after about 1980 (strangely though I like a lot of it before that).

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, thanks for proving my point.

― , Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oversung R'n'B cheeze whiz of the Destiny's Child, 112, R.Kelly variety, Vaccuous teen pop/boy bands like N'synch and 98 Degrees, anything that involves the word "diva," as in Mariah, Whitney, Mary J. Blige, and sanctimonious Lilith rock ala Paula Cole and Jewel (and to some extent Ani "so pious" DiFranco). I also have a very low tolerance for drum'n'bass.

― alex in nyc, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We're only allowed to nominate one genre?

― the pinefox, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The majority of garage music i really can't stand. Unimaginative boring ploddy rubbish - at least Trance (which i hate almost as much) you can dance to.

― dog latin, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can I take back something I said? Yes...okay...I really can't stand UK Garage in particular Artful Dodger *shudder*...I was obviously trying to block it out.

― james e l, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

most electronic and dance music. or anything that is horribly repetitive.

― Jeff, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I actually cannot stand anything that uses a '12 bar blues' chord structure (not that much does these days). I just don't like those chords.

― David, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Vai and Coverdale. Together. In a "hard rock" band. Yuk.

― Simon, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

horrid music

http://www.melodicrock.com Melodic Rock.com covers a naff sort of rock music - mullets with poddle rock big songs choons and naff guitar solos - this music was horrid to hear. These peole still think that its (the worst of rock) 1985-1989 in their crazy world and don't realise everyone else was laughing at them then, never mind 12 years later. Music for that loser in beavis and butthead.

UK Garage - I disliked as well that scatty lite hiccup production and bleating vocals. I live in North London and this music was booming of car stereos last summer - I bloody hated it. Ghastly sounding music, the bleatings of artful dodger and craig david - were enough to ruin anyone's day.

Power Metal - is totally naff and crap to.

RNB and Swing - that slowed down languid mid tempo paced horrid crap with the production that is over baked in the studio that never changes, inane vocals and lyrics with a bleating style again. Thankfully I don't know the names of the artists of this music but can instantly recognise the sound if I have the misfortunate opportunity to hear it, on the radio, in a shop, booming out of a car stereo or on television.

and whatever music genre that Ocean Crapping Scene fit in again a plodding music style.

Sub grunge/ US corporate college rock - you know everyone from the Spin Doctors to Creed to Semisonic to Matchbox 20 and Vertical Horizon. Thankfully in Britain we don't get to much of - but I pity you folks in America - as there are whole radio stations dedicated to this muck across the states.

― DJ Martian, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dog latin.....Cant dance to Uk Garage.......c'mon!!! If ever there was a music to shake yer booty to!!!!!!...pah!

― Michael, Saturday, 28 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anything from Clubland - Trance, Hard House. It's only redeemed by the fact that it'll be forgotten pretty fast

― K-reg, Sunday, 29 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

big beat.

nu-school breaks. i don't really know what that is. but i don't like it anyway. unless it includes that freq nasty record, 'boomin' back atcha'. that was pretty good.

comedy cybergoth nonsense.

new acoustic movement

― gareth, Sunday, 29 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New age and industrial.

― Patrick, Sunday, 29 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Any pop or rock with a J in front of it. Sadly I have to tolerate it whenever I enter a Japanese recordshop. J-Pop and J-Rock is so bland but I still get a headache when it's played for more than ten minutes.

― Stevie Nixed, Sunday, 29 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In theory I don't like trance, but isn't this entire question contrary to the concepts inherent in ILM (i.e. "loving music")?

― Keiko, Sunday, 29 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really don't like Country & Western - godawful stuff. I'm not especially fond of it's hipper cousin new country either.

― Eamonn, Sunday, 29 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can't say that polka does a whole lot for me.

― Grim Kim, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can generally find something to like in any genre, really. The question, really, is finding the good stuff.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

UK garage really turns me off, I'm afraid. Just something about the sound of it provokes this k-negative response - "get this shit off!"

Worst of all is all that sub-green day nonsense - kiddiepunk.

I quite like husker du, but I always HATE bands who sound like them for some reason. There seemed to be alot of that a couple of years ago.

Generally if steeeeve lamacq is pushing something, it's quite unlikely that I'll like it too much.

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― norman fay, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not a genre per se, but the most irritating thread of music for me lately has been all that Lauryn Hill spawned: pan-cultural, genre-blending female singers with hippy leanings interpreted as earthy spirituality and points for any clumsy attempt at sounding empowering. Your Macy Grays, Nelly Furtados, Jill Scotts, Didos, Sunshine Andersons, the one that sings "Video" and the like.

I can't quite pin down why they irk me so. Obviously, I'm just sexist.

Also throat singing. So clearly I'm xenophobic as well.

― Scott Plagenhoef, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Amen, Scott. I LOATHE that stuff as well. Call me sexist, I couldn't care less.

― alex in nyc, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not so much Lauryn Hill that birthed said blight upon the music world, but rather (I think, at least) Erykah Badu,....who simply can't expire from this earth soon enough for my taste.

― alex in nyc, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

said well by someone who came here from a killing joke mailing list

― ethan, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Honor the Fire! =)

― alex in nyc, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah......but he's right. At its worst this stuff is the soul equivalent of Ocean Colour Scene.

― Tom, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have I told anyone before how much the *font* on Nelly Furtado's album cover makes me physically sick?

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The font! Lord yes. Blechh.

― Grim Kim, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Robin -- I haven't seen the font you mention, but just for fun, I wonder if you could name some album covers containing fonts you do like. Just curious about what makes a good font for you, since I gather it's something you pay some attention to.

― Mark, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No. You don't understand... the font is evil.

― Grim Kim, Monday, 30 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Font shmont, *EVERYTHING* about Nelly Furtado makes me physically sick, not least her apparent absolute dearth of anything even remotely resembling humility. When will she make good on her threat and "fly away"?

― alex in nyc, Tuesday, 1 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lack of humility? Where are you getting that from, Alex? I'm curious because I've not read any interviews w/her, and the video didn't seem any more or less egocentric than the other singer/songwriter vids out there.

It's just that it's so fucking annoying. She has a very punchable face -- maybe it's just because she looks like a more smug and tanned version of Courtney Cox. The only amusing/entertaining thing about her or that wretched song is that a friend of mine thought it was about masturbation...

― Nicole, Tuesday, 1 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

as far as i'm concerned there is no one particular genre of music i dislike. what pisses me off is that we're always placing music into categories instead of judging songs on their individual merits. Stop saying i hate garage or r,n,b or whatever, and just enjoy what you enjoy and don't what you dont. simple.

― jane roderigues, Tuesday, 1 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What reignited my hatred of Furtado's font is the exit to Tottenham Court Road underground station and the fucking appalling tastes they obviously imagine their "customers" (very 1989 injoke there) to have: the most prominent adverts are for Furtado's album, Neil Finn's album, and Heart 106.2 FM. For those who don't know, it's an appallingly frilly 60s pastiche design.

I'm sure I listed some fonts on album covers I do like in a recent thread, though I can't remember what it was called. Two I didn't mention then: Broadcast's "The Noise Made By People" and the second Tindersticks album.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

i couldn't agree more- jane is so right it hurts. Listen up folks--- this girl knows a thing or two about a thing or two.

― kieran john joseph hadley, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

But I DO hate R'n'B! I tell you no lie!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I'll say "Anything excessively melismatic." Which conveniently points to most RnB but just conveniently excludes stuff I like (most Aaliyah, Ciara, Kelis).

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

"just as" conveniently.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Nelly Furtado's "Explode" made my tracks list in the 2004 poll. Also, Erykah Badu w/ Roots = classic.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Meatloaf makes me vomit

― Shaun (shaun), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you have a food allergy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 27 January 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

my secret shame is my lack of appreciation for black metal. maybe someday i'll grow into it.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 27 January 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

the cookie monster metal voice always makes me laugh, because it's supposed to sound tough or something, and it just sounds like a blue puppet.

― shookout (shookout), Thursday, 27 January 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

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That's like saying one day I'll be mature enough to go back to the potty.

― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 27 January 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Revive!

I can't stand that lite-pop bull**** played on easy listening stations. There's a new station coming out called 'The Breeze', and the ads for that have been playing INCESSANTLY! It's all Corrs and Shania Twain and Michael Bolton and it's horrible horrible horrible AAAGH!

... Stupid radio station.

― GLC (ZakAce), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

These days, it's really hard to come up with an answer to this question. I guess I'd have to go with house.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:27 (eighteen years ago)

everyone who posted to this thread should be banned

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

i guess that includes you then, dipshit.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

I actually cannot stand anything that uses a '12 bar blues' chord structure (not that much does these days)

This sums up something for me. I can usually find something worthwile in any genre, but it's the derivative stuff that will drive me away. And some genres get swamped by the derivative stuff. Slick BB King/Robert Cray/SRV blues annoys me to no end; enough that it even spoils listening to my beloved Muddy Waters when he worked in this mode. Those endless string bends and soulful squinted-eye head tilts turn me off. I think the Fat Possum stuff stood out and revived (hipster) interest in contemporary blues because it avoided, or at least buried, this structure.

Likewise, drop-D grunge got painfully cliched very soon after Cobain's body cooled. But it was genuinely fresh five years earlier, and those tracks still sound good. Contemporary commerical country is dire, but a few good bits of wordplay and melody slip through.

However, post-1960 Musical Theatre is uniformly intolerable.

― bendy (bendy), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:45 (eighteen years ago)

Dance music is for dancing, not for listening.

Put a reggae beat on anything and it sends me right to sleep.

All blues sounds the same.

Blanket Statements are Fun!

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:49 (eighteen years ago)

yeah but goa, chill out and acid are way cool.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

cynthia mckinney is frequently self-contradictory & needs to chill with the anti-israel shit, but so heroic in so many ways - campaigning to declassify files on 9/11 & the assassination of MLK, working for union & miners rights in africa, encouraging american distribution of international news instead of domestic propaganda, challenging sexism & racism in the house, & quoting pac while speaking at king memorial last year. her principles are a huge asset to congress & and im proud to say she represents GA.

-- +++++ (...), April 5th, 2006.

― karol osbourne (kosb), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

Have you ever heard those Bass testing CDs? They always have implant babes on the cover in front of a car, and the first 40 tracks are really low frequency tones designed for testing your speakers. The first ones that the system can detect really make your butt itch.

Actually, this is probably the best genre of music, sorry.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 04:33 (eighteen years ago)

Hip-hop
All metal that is harder than Def Leppard and Van Halen (i.e. most)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

There are only two styles of music that I don't like, and those are "Country" and "Western"

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:45 (eighteen years ago)

Emo

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

new country, a lot of old country, most hip hop, most industrial, death metal, grindcore, plenty of experimental if not most, all of the 90s alternative and new metal stuff, most anything with a drop-d tuning, 80s styled techno, most twee and indie pop (what with the boring depression or cutsey childlike shtick).

― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, and emo, too.

― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

haha Butt Dickass is emo

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

i am?

― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously though I have little time for:

- Banal R'n'B other than the odd Destiny's Child track and that Blackstreet thing. Way too vapid and bleating as described in some of the posts upthread.
- The majority of NME-rock that sounds like a local band except with more hype.
- Emo, although once in a while a track can stand out (My Chemical Romance are cunts for making me sort of like them). It's more the vocal style I can't stand whereas the music is often quite interesting.
- Chart Pop, yeh there are a couple of listenable "gems" but a lot of it is just wrong wrong wrong.

There's defunct styles I didn't like, for instance Nu-Metal, Garage, Diva-House and many other kinds of House.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

well, i don't know, but you didn't mention it in your list

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

personally, i have to agree w/emo, i like it even less (in general) than that Cafe del Mar downtempo lounge shite

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

Americana.

Nein danke.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, I did

― Butt Dickass (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

I dispise amelodic, rhythm dominate coloured musics of today. It is all the faults of James Browne, who should have been kept a slave for all our goods!

― Comstock Carabineri (nostudium), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

woops sorry dude

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

Metal, and any other forms rock that're based on distorted electric guitar and singing like you have a hamster in your mouth. Also, all other forms of rock you can't dance to.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

Trance. I mean, not that it matters anymore, but 5 years ago, this was one of the few things that my ex-roomate and I used to ever disagree about.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

Hip-hop and classical.

And even then, there have been a couple of stray rap records that somehow made their way to my collection. But I'm still not a fan, I just happen to like those particular records. And I will likely never get it with classical music.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

1980's synth pop

(when friends of mine in my mid-late 30's age bracket start reminiscing fondly on bands in this vein, I stay out of the conversation)

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

Aenemic indie. Britpop that isn't Blur, Pulp or Supergrass.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

I dispise amelodic, rhythm dominate coloured musics of today. It is all the faults of James Browne, who should have been kept a slave for all our goods!

Someone please tell me this is a Geir parody. Thanks in advance.

― Apocalypse '07: Rodney Strikes Back (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

You haven't met Comstock?

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and it's the cookie monster death metal for me, too.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I see. It's just Marcello.

― Apocalypse '07: Rodney Strikes Back (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

I confess: "Comstock"'s most recent rantings have been pretty funny and getting funnier - especially since he's more OTT than ever, and has apparently been employing the same fact-checker as Jackie "The Outside Scoop" Harvey.

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Oi!

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

ZYDECO

I'm sure there's a rich and wholly satisfying lineage of zydeco out there, but it's really best that zydeco and I remain as far apart as humanly possible.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

Chinese opera, especially Sichuan, gag. :-/ Does this make me a philistine?

― vingt regards (vignt_regards), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Nickelback

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

Not a genre. YET.

― Erroneous Botch (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Nickelback

[b]Genre[/b]
Rock

[b]Styles[/b]
Alternative Metal
Post-Grunge

[b]Moods[/b]
Brooding
Angst-Ridden
Bleak
Searching
Aggressive
Cathartic
Tense/Anxious
Energetic
Raucous
Rousing
Earnest
Harsh
Reflective
Somber
Gloomy
Bitter
Theatrical

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Stone Temple Pilots
Helmet
Limp Bizkit
Primus

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

oops i fucked up the tags :(

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Meatloaf makes me vomit
-- Shaun (shaun), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 23:11 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link
Maybe you have a food allergy.
-- Alex in NYC (vassifer),

Classic

― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 3 January 2008 00:51 (seventeen years ago)

Any genre with the words Intelligent or Ambient in the title.

― rock_is_dead, Thursday, 3 January 2008 01:50 (seventeen years ago)

I don't know that I can completely write off one genre, I mean there are many genres I don't really listen to (like country) although I don't know that I wouldn't like it if I dared to explore it beyond the crap like Garth Brooks. I just haven't.

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Thursday, 3 January 2008 02:00 (seventeen years ago)

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