Most hated music genre?

[Hygro]

Techno by a large margin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_dance_music_genres

There are 200+ links on that page. Some people that like this stuff aren't (in my opinion) in it for the music but have a juvenile fetish for the esoteric. Look at me, I like a style of music only 10 people in the world know about!

And I'm fluent in most of them

 

[globaooba]

Wait why is Rockabilly in emo?

And also I chose techno.

 

[bhsup]

I wouldn't rely on people in this thread to be the voice on what music is good or bad.

Good

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Bad

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[Skwink]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Yeah, the video is weird, but it was better than your link's video.

 

[Disgustipated]

Good

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Bad

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I think you got those backwards.

Actually the choice you chose for bad was bad. There are better death metal bands out there you know. I've never even heard of these guys.

 

[bhsup]

To be honest, I did a search on youtube for death metal, skipped one near the top with Justin Timberlake (I suspect some sort of spoof?) and saw this image a bit further down. Pretty random.

 

[Disgustipated]

Link to video.

It actually is Justin Timberlake doing death metal. It was on one of his B-sides EP's he put out a few years ago.

To be honest, I don't really like Death Metal. I prefer Thrash. Thrash is extremely heavy but they aren't afraid of doing clean vocals. Cookie Monster vocals get old after a while.

Death Metal I do like is Opeth.


Link to video.


Link to video.

 

[Jolly Rogerer]

I voted for Reggae, simple, slow and dull. Would have preferred to vote for rap for similar reasons, as it is even less musical. Country would also make the list, though it's mainly the enduring influence of "The Nashville Sound" that I hate.

 

[Communisto]

I voted for Reggae, simple, slow and dull. Would have preferred to vote for rap for similar reasons, as it is even less musical. Country would also make the list, though it's mainly the enduring influence of "The Nashville Sound" that I hate.

Oh yea, wheres the music in this?


Link to video.

 

[Left]

Define "even less musical", explain why slow and simple are qualifications for "bad".

 

[Jolly Rogerer]

Define "even less musical", explain why slow and simple are qualifications for "bad".

The poll asked for most hated music, it didn't mention "badness", nor did I introduce that term to the discussion. I prefer music that is more complicated, varied and tending to be faster.

As for rap being less musical than reggae, it tends to have far fewer melodic elements and an even simpler beat. At some point the difference between music and sound becomes obscure, and my position is that rap is closer to that point than reggae, and both are too close to it for my taste.

Music:

1. an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.

 

[Communisto]

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As for rap being less musical than reggae, it tends to have far fewer melodic elements and an even simpler beat. At some point the difference between music and sound becomes obscure, and my position is that rap is closer to that point than reggae, and both are too close to it for my taste.

Music:

1. an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.

Did you take a look at the video I provided?

 

[tycoonist]

Death metal on the whole is often a tad poo. Melodic Death, however is fantastic. I could write essays on In Flames

 

[Jolly Rogerer]

Did you take a look at the video I provided?

No, my browser doesn't play nice with youtube, unfortunately.

 

[Virote_Considon]

I believe that would be a tie between Rap, Pop, Country, and Disco.

This post is obviously a troll. There's no way by any measurement Disco could even be considered slightly close to being the worst genre.

 

[Left]

The poll asked for most hated music, it didn't mention "badness", nor did I introduce that term to the discussion. I prefer music that is more complicated, varied and tending to be faster.

You did call it "dull". And I don't know how you can say its the most hated when it is among the most globally enjoyed genres.

As for rap being less musical than reggae, it tends to have far fewer melodic elements and an even simpler beat. At some point the difference between music and sound becomes obscure, and my position is that rap is closer to that point than reggae, and both are too close to it for my taste.

Music:

1. an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.

Simple beats are not "less musical" than complex beats. Rap contains elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color, none of which are required to qualify as music and many traditional and accepted music lacks these elements. It is created with the intent of being musical, it is appreciated as music.

 

[Jolly Rogerer]

You did call it "dull". And I don't know how you can say its the most hated when it is among the most globally enjoyed genres.

That could be a misunderstanding on my part. To be clear, it is my most hated musical form of those listed in the poll.

Simple beats are not "less musical" than complex beats. Rap contains elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color, none of which are required to qualify as music and many traditional and accepted music lacks these elements. It is created with the intent of being musical, it is appreciated as music.

The simplest possible beat is one "thump". To most people that is not even recognizable as a beat, they'd have to be told that someone intended it to be musical to recognize it as such. The same is true of melody. One could make the same argument for complexity as well. I could make a mash up of 200 different musical pieces all played simultaneously at 50x speed and call it a musical composition, but it would probably just sound like noise to a lot of people.

My argument is that the more minimalist the genre, the less recognizably musical it is. I do not argue that rap or reggae are not music, only that they skew too much to the minimal to maintain my interest as such.

 

[warpus]

My argument is that the more minimalist the genre, the less recognizably musical it is. I do not argue that rap or reggae are not music, only that they skew too much to the minimal to maintain my interest as such.

I've never heard of anyone saying that rap or reggae are 'minimalist'. Minimalist music to me is something like minimalist techno, ambient, etc. You know, like Detroit Escalator Company. Snoop Dogg is not minimalist

 

[Communisto]

Exactly, there are minimalist rap artists, but the vast majority of it is far from that. Many samples working in harmony, complex to simple beats keeping tempo, all while an MC spits over top of it in time and with varying rhyme structures and compositions.

 

[Ultraworld]

voted for Reggae, not do I hate it but I just prefer the others