MikeMatronik said:

Have you never heard the roots, k os or common?

Anxiety said:

Accurate Discription Anxiety.

Anxiety said:

When heard live in person face2face, free jazz is an altogether different thing. Very few studio recordings capture the feeling and even live recordings don't measure up. Too often it sounds like musicians practicing, but when you're there on-the-scene you get more of creative spontanaiety.

uPtoWnNY said:

no...there is a genre of metal that is extremely racist and all about the "white pride" crap, but it's a whole different thing from death metal. different asthetics, different scene.

icke4presidant said:

then said:

[Uncalled for flame snip - luv4u]

Big band music... too much horns. Lots of horns bothers me in any form of music.

Anxiety said:

Absolutely.

REGGAETON!!!

While I am an admirer of all types of music, I fucking hate this genre. I thought it was just a passing fad that'll disappear in 5 years or less. But no, it's getting bigger and bigger.

What's the appeal about Reggaeton? It's just the same repetitive beat in every songs with some Spanish Hip-Hop that I can't understand or can't relate to. And the shit is not even real roots Reggae.

God, it's so irritating, especially when I have to hear the latinos blast it out their SUV's in my hood of Harlem (as well as Washington Heights).

REGGAETON!!!

LittleSmedley said:

Real Gone Kid by Deacon Blue might be the single most nauseating song I've ever heard. Pure aural torture.

I have a small soft spot for the Waterboys, but otherwise I'm totally on board with everything you've listed above.

I despise:

Thug rap and/or hip/hop - I do like some rap and some hip/hop, but not those that are nothing but thugs with dough.

New Country
Death metal
techno music
Some pop (such as the Britney's, Linday's and Jessica's of the world)

I'm not a fan of country music or almost any kind of rock, but the worst songs for me are rock ballads (like Celine Dion). Just too painful.

Some songs that are supposed to be for a good cause are also a bit naff (e.g. in the UK charts right now we have Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat). Better to cut out the middleman and just give the money to charity.

Industrial Metal(Marilyn Manson,Orgy,Deadsy,Etc)
Pop Punk
Hair Metal(stupid ripoff of glam rock)
Gangsta Rap
ranchera
Darkwave(I used to like it buts it so boring now)
EBM


i dont hate it with a passion..i just dislike it..

I firmly believe that there's good music to be found in every genre. Sure, you might have to try a little harder with some genres than others to find it, but it's there. I don't understand the mentality that can completely write off an entire kind of music. It's very narrow-minded IMO, and the listener in question risks denying themselves a hell of a lot of good tunes if they do.

I understand the theory about genre loyalties being a form of tribal allegiance for the modern world, but it still seems pointless to me for a person to proclaim all rap shit, or all punk shit, or all country shit, etc. without even trying to find the gold in the sound.


That said, there are a lot of particular bands or performers I think suck giant donkey dong, but that's a different issue.

PFunkjazz said:

You should've gone with me to see the return of Azar Lawrence at Catalina.
The brother was doing some serious blowing.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

meow85 said:

Yes, you're right when you say that an entire genre shouldn't be written off as crap even if it has some crappy artists representing it. That's why I think a genre like Emo Rock gets unfairly criticized. The way I see it there's good emo (Thursday, Jimmy Eat World, Dismemberment Plan, At The Drive-In, Q & Not U, Cursive, Les Savy Fav, etc.) and then there's the garbage (My Chemical Romance, Underoath, Dashboard Confessional, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, etc.).

But when you get a genre like Reggaeton where each has the same, repetitive generic beat over and over again, there's not much you can learn and gain from that. Plus I'm....OK at the Spanish language, but I can't appreciate lyrics that I can't proficiently understand. That's why I hate the genre.

At the same time I feel that there's an audience for that kind of music. I'm not apart of it, but hey, whatever. Live and let live.

meow85 said:

Not with Broadway show tunes. Fingernails on a blackboard is preferable to that sh!t.

NWF saidand then there's the garbage (My Chemical Romance, Underoath, Dashboard Confessional, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, etc.).[/quote]

My 13 yr old daughter listens to all these. I hadn't detected anything to be offensive or garbage about them (I make absolutely no attempt to regulate waht my kids listen to), but she has no interest in hip-hop or stripper-pop. Happily, we've found common ground with Ben Harper. She's more into RHCP, while I'm more for Fishbone.

PFunkjazz said:

My 13 yr old daughter listens to all these. I hadn't detected anything to be offensive or garbage about them (I make absolutely no attempt to regulate waht my kids listen to), but she has no interest in hip-hop or stripper-pop. Happily, we've found common ground with Ben Harper. She's more into RHCP, while I'm more for Fishbone.[/quote]

Wait, what's the difference between RHCP and Fishbone other than color and one being more commercially successful than the other? They've both been band buddies since their humble beginnings in L.A. To me they have the same sound.

meow85 said:

Co-sign! I mean, what are the odds that you hate every single song in a particular genre?

LittleSmedley said:

[Uncalled for flame snip - luv4u][/quote]

That's a civilized way of dealing with contrary opinions. Well you were the one who posed the question. Now deal with the side effects.
[Edited 7/9/07 15:26pm]

uPtoWnNY said:

Some broadway tunes ain't to be sniffed @ at all.

I thought the whole thing was campy and cheesy untill I heard Nina Simone's take on it,,,,she was the one who really introduced me to it.

Now you won't see me rush to the store and buy a Liza Minnelli/Barbara Streisand/Julie Andrews tape,,,,but I'll be a DAMN LIAR if I said I didn't enjoy watching them doing their big over-the-top theatrical numbers

icke4presidant said:

NWF said:[quote]

PFunkjazz said:

RHCP is cool, I just happen to know the FB guys. Still, I'd say due ue to a combination of RHCP's greater commercial success and race (of her peers) she's heard more RHCP than she's heard FB hanging with Dad.

Harlepolis said:

A large portion of the jazz songbook comes from doing covers of Broadway tunes by Gershwin, Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein, Sondheim etc etc.

Punk
New wave
Most types of Jazz (miles davis for example)

Harlepolis said:

That reminds me that i've gotta pick up a copy of...



...Guys and Dolls



I used to love hearing tunes like...

Luck Be a Lady
The Oldest Established
Marry The Man Today
Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat

...when my parents played the album when I was a kid.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

See, I love a lot of those classic tunes ( Though my wife always looks at me funny, Lol!)

some of my favorites:

Send In The Clowns (From "A Little Night Music")

On the Willows (from "Godspell")

I Have Dreamed (From "The King and I")

Comedy Tonight (From "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to The Forum")

One Hand, One Heart (From "West Side Story")



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[Edited 7/9/07 16:39pm]

PFunkjazz said:

My little sister that is 12 yo is also a great fan of those bands. She stopped listening to pop because of that.

I prefer that fact that she digs Fall Out Boy or My Chemical Romance, instead of her liking some rapper like for example 50 Cent.
[Edited 7/9/07 16:42pm]