Most hated music genre?

[Jolly Rogerer]

I find 90+% of both forms dull. Vocals (in rap) that are basically someone reciting poetry, very basic rhythms, and an occasional sample just don't interest me. Reggae tends to be repetitive, slow, and the vocals likewise I find less than interesting. I could honestly add the blues to the list of overly constrained musical styles, but its long history has allowed for more evolution to the extent that I don't automatically want to head for the exit.

I'm not saying you shouldn't like them, I'm saying that I don't. I prefer jazz, classical and the like, particularly stuff that I can't predict how the composition is going to play out after hearing one chorus. I like odd time signatures, timing changes, and non-symmetrical or non-stylized compositions. Music that is complicated and weird, like me.

 

[_random_]

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.

This post obligates me to post this song:

Link to video.

 

[Communisto]

I find 90+% of both forms dull. Vocals (in rap) that are basically someone reciting poetry, very basic rhythms, and an occasional sample just don't interest me. Reggae tends to be repetitive, slow, and the vocals likewise I find less than interesting. I could honestly add the blues to the list of overly constrained musical styles, but its long history has allowed for more evolution to the extent that I don't automatically want to head for the exit.

I'm not saying you shouldn't like them, I'm saying that I don't. I prefer jazz, classical and the like, particularly stuff that I can't predict how the composition is going to play out after hearing one chorus. I like odd time signatures, timing changes, and non-symmetrical or non-stylized compositions. Music that is complicated and weird, like me.

If you like jazz, you really should find a way to listen to A Tribe Called Quest (the group that I tried to link you), which is jazz infused hip hop. Hip Hop is in many ways the next evolution of jazz.

 

[Left]

If you like jazz, you really should find a way to listen to A Tribe Called Quest (the group that I tried to link you), which is jazz infused hip hop. Hip Hop is in many ways the next evolution of jazz.

Also read this interview with Archie Shepp

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26450

"Rap is really just a continuation of the blues from a textual and verbal point of view. African-American music is as rich, verbally—coming from folktales and folklore—blues and that lyric idiom could be considered a kind of poetry. The rappers are really an extension of the blues man, which is of course the preacher."

 

[Jolly Rogerer]

If you like jazz, you really should find a way to listen to A Tribe Called Quest (the group that I tried to link you), which is jazz infused hip hop. Hip Hop is in many ways the next evolution of jazz.

I'll check them out. My favorite rap artist was MC 900 Foot Jesus from the 1990s. He was like the anti rapper. In an age where rap artists sampled almost all their melodic elements from jazz and pop music he had a real jazz band and only sampled vocals from other rap artists.

 

[Tani Coyote]

I think it's heavy metal or screamo, not sure, but I hate any genre of music where they're screaming at the top of your lungs so badly you can't even understand them.

Not only do I like my eardrums, but if I can't understand your voice, chances are you should leave the song instrumental and get the hell out of the "singing" occupation.

 

[Holycannoli]

I think it's heavy metal or screamo, not sure, but I hate any genre of music where they're screaming at the top of your lungs so badly you can't even understand them.

Not only do I like my eardrums, but if I can't understand your voice, chances are you should leave the song instrumental and get the hell out of the "singing" occupation.

Sounds like black or death metal which I can't stand. I do like other metal though like thrash, mainly metal from the 80s which was it's golden age.

 

[Traitorfish]

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!

Most of those are legitimate at heart, they just demand the appropriate context, even if some usages may be obnoxious. "Paisley accent" means nothing to an American, little more to a Londoner, hardly much at all to a Dundonian, but can speak volumes to a Glaswegian. It's about how you use the terminology, not whether or not you use it at all.

Death metal on the whole is often a tad poo.

That's just because it's relatively more easy to churn out a formulaic, derivative work than in other genres. If you look at the best death bands- Morbid Angel, Suffocation, (early) Cryptology, Entombed, and so forth- they stand shoulder to shoulder with the other greats of metal.

I think it's heavy metal or screamo, not sure, but I hate any genre of music where they're screaming at the top of your lungs so badly you can't even understand them.

"Heavy metal" is kind of vague; the genre ranges from clean vocals, to shouts, to shrieks, to growls, to roars, to soaring operatic vocals, all of varying levels of intelligibility.

Screamo does involve pretty literal screaming, although it's not always that unintellegible, and it's probably not what you think it is anyway, being, as it is, the most horribly misused of genre labels as yet invented.

Thing is, once you get into it, it's actually really good.

 

[_random_]

Screamo does involve pretty literal screaming, although it's not always that unintellegible, and it's probably not what you think it is anyway, being, as it is, the most horribly misused of genre labels as yet invented.

Thing is, once you get into it, it's actually really good.

Could you give me a good example of screamo? I hear a lot of people, both fans and detractors, apply the label to things like this. While they're pretty clearly wrong, I haven't found a good example of what WOULD be screamo.

 

[Traitorfish]

Could you give me a good example of screamo? I hear a lot of people, both fans and detractors, apply the label to things like this. While they're pretty clearly wrong, I haven't found a good example of what WOULD be screamo.

That was actually part of an example of really unintelligible vocals, which I deleted for getting a bit off-topic, and apparently missed that last bit. Screamo honestly isn't something I'm very well acquainted with, beyond knowing that it's a sub-genre of hardcore punk.

 

[tycoonist]

Pantera was frequently called thrash, rarely power. TBH, it was more groove metal than anything else.

 

[Virote_Considon]

Not only do I like my eardrums

If it actually hurts your eardrums, then they're waaay to sensitive. I'd go to a doctor to get that checked out, if I were you.