AnckSuNamun said:

What I think you mean to say here, and correct me if I'm wrong , is that it's most MODERN Broadway musical music that sucks balls.

It doesn't get any more cheesy and homogenized than that IMO.

minneapolisgenius said:

theAudience said:

snooze jazz is new age without whale sounds.

minneapolisgenius said:

classic broadway musical music can be really complex and witty, and i think every great once in a while a great contemporary musical comes along too. i think what i hate most about musical theater is the way performers are trained to sing in those horribly affected voices. if there was affectation in the old timey days of broadway, it at least sounded pleasant and appropriate to the characterizations. nowadays, it sounds really forced and pretentious and theme-park-y. the worst was trying to sit through a performance of 'hedwig' with someone playing the lead using that "trained musical theater" voice...it was painful. PAINFUL.

SoulAlive said:

Yeah, especially at three in the f-n morning. You're trying to sleep and some no-class ghetto trash blasts it from his SUV, like NWF said. I'm on the ninth floor, yet my windows rattle from that sh!t.
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i don't know if this is indicative of a genre, but anything with a pennywhistle in it drives me batshit.

Anxiety said:

You said it all with the word "theme-park-y".

And yes, I just think that everyone's voices as well as the music they are singing to sound the same. It's all just so bland and unmemorable. (is "unmemorable" a word? )

Anxiety said:

ha ha ha I'm a bit like that with sax breaks in songs

Anxiety said:

Look what you've done. You gigalo-o-ooooo.

jami0mckay said:

tenor sax makes me freakin nutso too...there are exceptions, but the kenny g kinda crap? sounds like a damn chimp in heat to me...

Anxiety said:

I don't even know what that is.

minneapolisgenius said:

you know, that fucking thing they were playing all through 'titanic'.

Anxiety said:

yeah the kenny g thing, always reminds me of eightes cop shows for some reason

they even don't sound right in springsteen songs, mind you Ive never really got into him, tho i have tried.

Anxiety said:

Oh yeah.

SoulAlive said:

Exactly. You know, I try and be respectful of every genre, but it's very difficult to respect one where every songs has to have the same kind of beat. I understand that Reggaeton is derived from Jamaican Dancehall, but even they switched their beats every now and then. You could tell a Mad Cobra song from a Yellowman song, or a Sizzla song from a Shabba Ranks song. But with Reggaeton I can't tell the difference between any song.

Anxiety said:

Kenny G

Stax said:

Give me a shotgun!
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lilgish said:

Rockabilly

lilgish said:

me too. I don't actually like fifties rock n' roll that much, or the blues. I like a whole lot of music that came from it, though.

You read about how rock n' roll was the most exciting sound ever when it came out, it's kind of hard to relate.

lilgish said:

oh damn, that ouches.

i LOVE the "rockin' bones" rockabilly boxed set rhino put out a while back...it's a collection of the really skanky juvenille delinquent classics of the day - the music in this boxed set makes me feel dirty and depraved, and i love it!

Stax said:

tA

Tribal Disorder

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

theAudience said:

Didn't you say once that your daughter listens to death metal?

Anxiety said:

Kenny G plays Soprano sax doesn't he? I think the "muzak" or MOR sax sound is very grating to me as well, but there's much more to the instrument than that, try Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins etc.

lilgish said:

I like rockabilly.

Stax said:

I like whales.

jacktheimprovident said:

I like the Coltrane stuff I've heard, what Sonny Rollins do you suggest? I never know where to start with some of the Jazz guys!

jacktheimprovident said:

I was freaked out when I heard Kenny G speak once in an interview. All these years, I thought the bitch was mute.

sextonseven said:

Hence the hate.
She's kind of tone it down as of late.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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

theAudience said:

That's how I feel about calypso. My parents played it seemingly nonstop when I was growing up. It's the one genre of music that you would never ever find in my collection.

Maybe polka too.