Music Music I Can't Tolerate: Pet Peeves Revealed

[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!

 

[Hornbein]

Judas Priest lives on in Japan, mostly in the guitar playing, but there is a vid of Halford singing along with Babymetal. Japan has taken the whole thing to the nth degree but the singing tends to be the weakness.

It was my impression that JP popularized metal lead guitar duets with the guitars playing harmony but this appears to have been wrong. So who did that?

 

[gmax137]

My father used to say, "Judas Priest!" when he was annoyed. That is a "polite" alternative to "Jesus Christ!" which was (is?) swearing, the way my dad was raised.

I had a co-worker who actually said "jeepers!" I think that is an even more oblique reference, "JP" to "jee pee" to "jeepers."

 

[topsquark]

My father used to say, "Judas Priest!" when he was annoyed. That is a "polite" alternative to "Jesus Christ!" which was (is?) swearing, the way my dad was raised.

I had a co-worker who actually said "jeepers!" I think that is an even more oblique reference, "JP" to "jee pee" to "jeepers."

"jeepers" is a corruption of the name "Jesus" as well.

Where "jeepers creepers" comes from is beyond me.

-Dan

 

[Vanadium 50]

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Fits beautifully to Ghost Riders In The Sky.

You can even add
Yippee-aye-ay
Yippee-aye-aoh
I shot the al-ba-tross

 

[pinball1970]

Judas Priest lives on in Japan, mostly in the guitar playing, but there is a vid of Halford singing along with Babymetal. Japan has taken the whole thing to the nth degree but the singing tends to be the weakness.

It was my impression that JP popularized metal lead guitar duets with the guitars playing harmony but this appears to have been wrong. So who did that?

The Eagles did that on Hotel California, Thin Lizzy did a lot of guitar duets also. The Alman brothers? Jessica has two in harmony I think.
Golden slumbers, The Beatles has John Paul George taking a solo at the end.

 

[pinball1970]

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!

There are a few Judas Priest I like, I stick them firmly in metal/British metal.
Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, classic rock, followed by metal.
Motorhead, JP, UFO, Saxon.
American rock comes after this which puts the thread back on track with music I hate.
Guns & Roses, Poison, Ratt, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue and other cr4p my brain has forced me to forget.

 

[Freyja]

There are a few Judas Priest I like, I stick them firmly in metal/British metal.
Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, classic rock, followed by metal.
Motorhead, JP, UFO, Saxon.
American rock comes after this which puts the thread back on track with music I hate.
Guns & Roses, Poison, Ratt, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue and other cr4p my brain has forced me to forget.

Another metal band I loved was Accept, great German band! Ahhh those were the days. I honestly haven't followed any of them anymore, so no idea what they are up to nowadays. Life happened, new companies, newfound solitude through the years, and then Bach, my faithful constant ever since childhood, Who of course trumps everything and everybody else by a landslide. When metalheads say the Man was totally metal it annoys the headlights out of me. I mean, duh, there isn't anything heavier or more metal than the majesty of a pipe organ, so I guess they might be right to some point. Problem is, that's not the reason for the comparison. That the Man did the most stunningly, perfect and excellent Music in history is out of the question, and so is the fact that metal as a whole genre could only wish to be worth of clipping Bach's toenails. One cannot take some of His sublime bars, desecrate the sh...t out of them by mindless shredding and noise, without concern for harmony whatsoever, and compare it to the Master

As for American rock, I couldn't agree more. Trailer park music. I love this country to death for many reasons, but its popular music leaves a lot to be desired.

 

[pinball1970]

Following on from another discussion regarding John Cage, led me to look into his work a little more.

I very rarely hear this sort of thing on the radio, TV or anywhere really.

I always referred to this kind of modern classical music as “plink plonk.”

I do not hate it but given enough air time..

 

[Hornbein]

I always referred to this kind of modern classical music as “plink plonk.”

Then there is the electronic version, which I think of as "bloop bleep."

 

[gmax137]

I always referred to this kind of modern classical music as “plink plonk.”

Well, it took 1:40 (about a third) of that to change my mind. Hip hop is no longer at the very bottom of my list.