Music Music I Can't Tolerate: Pet Peeves Revealed

[Hornbein]

I can't tolerate anything with a dominant quarter note bass drum. It makes me feel like a galley slave.



Dammit, it's supposed to start at 2:08. It used to work....

Any pet peeves out there?

 

[topsquark]

Rap. Any of it.

-Dan

 

[malawi_glenn]

Praise songs

 

[fresh_42]

Rap. Any of it.

-Dan

Gangster's paradise?

 

[hutchphd]

Praise songs

Amen to that....

 

[DennisN]

It makes me feel like a galley slave.

Row, slave, row!

I don't enjoy ska music. It makes me nervous at best and angry at worst. It is psychological torture to me .

 

[fresh_42]

My first impetus was to post something about 12-tone-music, Schönberg, or free jazz, or rap, or Prokovjev.

But even those not-so-easy-listening pieces and composers are no instances of "Music I can't stand." They have their mood and their time. Even if they weren't my first choice, there are moments when it is ok. Heck, I switch the channel if I recognize Mozart, but I would never call it "music I can't stand". I love his g-minor though.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Rap. Any of it.

I heard a group rap The Raven. Not bad.

I still think they should have called themselves The Po' Boys.

 

[topsquark]

Gangster's paradise?

It's...okay. ish.

-Dan

 

[DaveC426913]

Anything with autotune.

^{(Except Cher's 'Believe' which is what God intended autotune for.)}

 

[jedishrfu]

How about the Barney song or Baby Shark?

 

[Frabjous]

How about the Barney song or Baby Shark?

This is the version I am familiar with, so it doesn‘t really bother me.

 

[jedishrfu]

@Frabjous do you have little kids or know someone who does? Its the repetition that kids love that drives you crazy after a hearing it everyday.

We once drove our high school running coach nuts on a bus ride to a meet by singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall.

 

[Frabjous]

@Frabjous do you have little kids or know someone who does? Its the repetition that kids love that drives you crazy after a hearing it everyday.

We once drove our high school running coach nuts on a bus ride to a meet by singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall.

We once took a 1000 mile drive with an older cousin of mine. He led us in a rendition of 1000 bottle of beer. My father was so scarred that he still spoke negatively of it 40 years later.

 

[sbrothy]

Row, slave, row!

I don't enjoy ska music. It makes me nervous at best and angry at worst. It is psychological torture to me .

Ska is like reggae without the inclusion and "goodnatureness". As if a bunch of hippie musicians ran out of weed.

 

[pinball1970]

Praise songs

That rules out a lot of very beautiful classical music, Handel, Bach, Mozart?

Or do you just mean modern happy clappy stuff?
Nuns with guitars and fixed smiles?

 

[pinball1970]

Gangster's paradise?

Stevie (Wonder) was the original for that.

 

[malawi_glenn]

That rules out a lot of very beautiful classical music, Handel, Bach, Mozart?

Or do you just mean modern happy clappy stuff?
Nuns with guitars and fixed smiles?

Modern praise songs

 

[hutchphd]

Nuns with guitars and fixed smiles?

Jump for joy sisters, jump for joy.*

_{*Obscure movie reference.....}

 

[pinball1970]

Row, slave, row!

I don't enjoy ska music. It makes me nervous at best and angry at worst. It is psychological torture to me .

I loved Ska when it came out in the UK 1979 with the Specials!
It was just so different, the feel, the sound.
Terry Halls voice was very unusual too.
We only had two years really.
Perhaps I will send you a few links, convert you!

 

[pinball1970]

Not a fan of RAP but Eminem did some ok stuff. Very clever lyrics. "lose yourself" has that guitar part sounds cool, Its only Dm to Bb but it sounds like an augmented 5th to me. Gold dust Woman has the same two chords.

Anyway UK chart music stopped for me in 1982.
This is when people stopped talking about great singing or beautiful chord progressions and focused on clothes and make up instead,
Punk did the same in 1975, rock music played and sang very badly and image came first.

 

[pinball1970]

Some bright spark had the idea of getting an already famous soap star, start giving them a song, record it and then knock it out to a very stupid public who will buy it because they like the soap.

Love the soap love the single right?

No! If the music is awful then it is still crap right? It turned out I was in a minority on that and after Kylie came Jason, then both together, then the brother got in on the action (Stefan Denis).

Eastenders cast may have started this awful trend, Anita Dobson and Nick Berry, some guy from Coronation street as well.

Hell even Russel Grant the corpulent astrologist released a couple.

It was a terrible time for creative music

 

[DennisN]

I don't enjoy ska music. It makes me nervous at best and angry at worst.

I loved Ska when it came out in the UK 1979 with the Specials!
It was just so different, the feel, the sound.
Terry Halls voice was very unusual too.
We only had two years really.
Perhaps I will send you a few links, convert you!

Hmm, maybe I was generalising regarding ska, I'm not so familiar with the genre.
I was thinking of very fast tempo ska (let's say ca 130 bpm and upwards), which has a tendency of making me nervous.

I have no problems with songs like this one, which I think is excellent:
(the atmosphere in the song is very cool, I think)

The Specials - Ghost Town


(genre reggae rock/two-tone according to Wikipedia, and two-tone seems to have ska as one of the stylistic origins)

 

[pinball1970]

Great track and not your three chord wonder either.

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/the-specials/ghost-town-chords-1245302

They split right after this. Probably the first time I really looked a lyrics seriously.

A grim time in the city in terms of rioting and mass unemployment.

 

[jedishrfu]

That rules out a lot of very beautiful classical music, Handel, Bach, Mozart?

Or do you just mean modern happy clappy stuff?
Nuns with guitars and fixed smiles?

Not Sister Sourire, the Singing Nun though.

 

[DaveC426913]

Praise songs

Nuns with guitars and fixed smiles?

 

[pinball1970]

Not Sister Sourire, the Singing Nun though.

I just watched a french nun on the Ed Sullivan show. Is that her? Not the worst thing I have heard.

Probably best stop banging them now before we get a ban!

 

[BWV]

Dont like
Tejano
Middle Eastern or Indian pop music (like the traditional music)
Most any traditional music from East Asia

 

[jedishrfu]

This is Sister Sourire singing her most famous song, Dominque:



The song had apparently some unintended interpretations of the song lyrics with French listeners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Nun

 

[pinball1970]

The French language is so strange to an English person. It is very lyrical, artistic and beautiful.
One can listen to Dominique and get something from it without understanding what is going on.

 

[Freyja]

Pop, rap/hiphop and regaetton. The riannas, ladycacas, byonces, taylorshits, jlos, disney "stars", badbunnies, daddyyankees. Everything the genre stands for. It literally revolts me. Glorification of mediocrity. Dictatorship of the lowest common denominator. Where's the :puke: emote???

Very closely followed by growling metal (or whatever is that they call it nowadays, don't know, don't care honestly). This coming from somebody who loves good metal. Listening to masterpieces like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner or Freewheel Burning, and then having to bear the forementioned aural torture triggers my killing switch. It doesn't help a bit the fact that I used to have an infamous coworker, dumber than a bag of bricks I must add, who got into some half-arsed "lead" position of sorts by means of rear-kissing, and would play this type of aberration over and over for 12 hours in order to establish dominance

Which brings us to another genre I can't stand: trailer park stuff. It can be anything ranging from Dolly Parton to Guns and Roses. Y'all get the idea.

Then all the emo/indie stuff. You know, the "different" ones, yet so ordinary :sigh:

 

[Hornbein]

Very closely followed by growling metal (or whatever is that they call it nowadays, don't know, don't care honestly).

It's called Death Metal. I was going to mention that, but nah. Too easy a target.

 

[BWV]

I love good death metal and hip hop

 

[Klystron]

Rap. Any of it.

-Dan

I liked Dan's post but might change rap to hip-hop. I enjoyed early rap recordings with decent prose/poetry performed over contemporary jazz. Low talent 'rhyme busting' tends to aggravate.

 

[malawi_glenn]

Very closely followed by growling metal

Very good music for weight lifting though

 

[Mondayman]

Pop music.
Rap music. I like some songs, all from the 1990s.
Modern country.
Dubstep.
Any sort of death/black metal.

 

[fresh_42]

Very good music for weight lifting though

And believe it or not, I like techno to fall asleep.
(Sheep counting by letting count!)

 

[gmax137]

Rap / hip hop
Autotune
Death metal
Modern country

I like almost anything else...

 

[TeethWhitener]

There’s a follow-on video where he attempts to learn/appreciate contemporary Christian rock that’s also pretty interesting.

 

[Freyja]

Very good music for weight lifting though

Nah bro, I find nothing inspiring on it whatsoever. Plus weightlifting should be consciously done, not out of just anger. That genre simply enrages me blindly. Almost as much as that porsche without breaks garbage

 

[malawi_glenn]

Plus weightlifting should be consciously done, not out of just anger

Lifting iron is my anger management

 

[Freyja]

Lifting iron is my anger management

Fair enough, just be careful not to tear anything up. Been there, done that, it sucks royally. But I understand your point.

 

[malawi_glenn]

Fair enough, just be careful not to tear anything up. Been there, done that, it sucks royally. But I understand your point.

I have lifted weights for more than 20 years. My max deadlift is 250 kg. I am careful and only use light weights these days :)

 

[Freyja]

I have lifted weights for more than 20 years. My max deadlift is 250 kg. I am careful and only use light weights these days

I should, at some point, go back to the gym. But for a reason or another I just can't find either the motivation, the time, or the mood

 

[DaveC426913]

Oh yeah. And any "music" played in a vehicle whose bass can be heard outside the vehicle. No need to weaponize music.

 

[Vanadium 50]

No need to weaponize music.

Everybody polka!

 

[Mondayman]

I have lifted weights for more than 20 years. My max deadlift is 250 kg. I am careful and only use light weights these days :)

Impressive. My max deadlift is 251kg.

 

[malawi_glenn]

masterpieces like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner or Freewheel Burning

Then the spell starts to break
The albatross falls from his neck
Sinks down like lead into the sea
Then down in falls comes the rain!

Look before you, leap has never been the way we keep, our road is free
Charging to the top and never give in, never stops the way to be
Hold on to the lead with all your will and concede, you'll find there's life
With victory on high!

 

[topsquark]

Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.

-Me, when listening to rap music, or just about anything from the Gaither Vocal Band

 

[Freyja]

Then the spell starts to break
The albatross falls from his neck
Sinks down like lead into the sea
Then down in falls comes the rain!

Look before you, leap has never been the way we keep, our road is free
Charging to the top and never give in, never stops the way to be
Hold on to the lead with all your will and concede, you'll find there's life
With victory on high!

Epic songs, aren’t they? I had a funny? (or not lol) story about that Judas song. It cost me literally shy of $400 on a speeding ticket.

Long story short, it was a Sunday morning on an empty highway; everybody was in Church, and I was having a very rare great mood after a serious traumatic experience and a period of deep sadness. Took my old 86 NYorker (first car I ever had, loved everything about it) for a ride, it was a gorgeous day and I was feeling on top of the world listening to Freewheel Burning. Hauling my happy ass through the hwy, I missed the reduced speed sign as I was entering town limits. Sure enough, the cop car was right there, pulled me over and of course got me a ticket and a citation to go to Court. So to Court I went.

The Judge was this elderly gentleman, all dressed up in his Judge garb, serious and composed as you’d expect him to be. So he reads the charges and asks me how I’d plead, I told him: “Guilty as a kid caught red handed in the cookie jar, Your Honor”. Told him I wasn’t there to get away from it, but more so to ask the Court if I could pay the ticket in a few installments, since I knew it was going to be a salty matter. He asked me what happened, and I told him the whole truth: that I had been going through a very trying period in my personal life, and that day was a very bright one for some reason, plus Judas Priest helped to put me in such good mood. He stops for a second, looks at me and goes, with this charming look of nostalgia: “Ahhhh, Judas Priest, that explains everything”. I was dumbfounded, and asked him: “Do you really know Judas Priest, Your Honor?” And he goes: “Well, believe it or not, I do!” And of course all of us in his Court started laughing

I asked to let me pay the ticket in 4 installments of $100 each, and he even said: “Look, just in case, I’m going to order installments of $75, so you don’t get very overwhelmed; if you can pay more, good for you, you finish paying earlier; but if you can’t, you can do 75 at a time”.

God bless his heart!