Music You Strongly Dislike (Just For Fun)

[Belgik]

Of late, I've been listening solely to Bob Dylan, chronilogically. And I don't dislike it.

 

[Daverz]

Yes sorry you are correct. The music is so anthemic that it seemed like patriotic pap. I should have given him more credit as there are music and lyrics by him that I love. But I stand by not liking the way it sounds. I will not be so quick to judge before fully understanding a song again. A bit embarrassing actually.

I prefer this version:

 

[napfkuchen]

Metal music has the same problem, but at also missing a melody = just noise.

While most metal music is not mixed/mastered in a way that's pleasing to my audiophile/audiophool expectations, claiming that it's just noise goes to far. Metal has many subgenres that may seem like that when you first hear them, it just takes some time getting used to because they are almost never played on FM radio etc. There are also many intersections with other established genres. Let's take this classical song for example which clearly inspired a beautiful metal rendition (although they claim it noise on the cover, too ).

 

[Axo1989]

The ironic thing is not the lyric but the delivery, it’s sung in a very bombastic way , a parody of sort .
It’s a part of whole record , it’s popularity is a bit absurd so I get why you would not like it ( I don’t like this Bruce song either, I like the ghost of Tom Joad or the river ) .

It’s overplayed and miss understood as no one give a second thought about the lyrics . And it’s get tiring in it simplicity.
It’s almost a s bad as sport anthems ?

“We are the champions” any one

Born in the USA as jingoistic anthem is just another example of Poe's law.

 

[pseudoid]

Sorry, my comment was tongue-in-cheek, no need to get all defensive and submit your resumé

McTongue-in-Cheek goes McNasty, but who am I to tell you to NOT do you?

 

[EERecordist]

I think when you are a teen you choose your musical interests. I never went through a metal phase. Movie director Penelope Spheeris made a music documentary The Decline and Fall of Modern Civilization Part II about metal music. Her conclusion was that it was cosplay to provide a safe outlet for rebellion by middle class suburban youth.

Other of my friends like it. The music world is vast and ever changing. It would be boring if everyone liked the same thing.

 

[pseudoid]

Any genres in here that haven't been given a blanket "yuck" yet?

May I?
Up for nomination: Middle-Eastern jingly beats and music.

 

[Peterinvan]

Wailing saxophones or horns; opera; Eastern cultures; pounding synth heart-beat rhythms;

LIKE: acoustic instruments

 

[pseudoid]

Wailing saxophones

I used to like some sax-ophone, until such similar sentiments started me questioning it.

 

[Rick63]

 

[Vacceo]

While most metal music is not mixed/mastered in a way that's pleasing to my audiophile/audiophool expectations, claiming that it's just noise goes to far. Metal has many subgenres that may seem like that when you first hear them, it just takes some time getting used to because they are almost never played on FM radio etc. There are also many intersections with other established genres. Let's take this classical song for example which clearly inspired a beautiful metal rendition (although they claim it noise on the cover, too ).

I´m very fine being an audiophobe. As I´m writting this post, I have some Axis of Perdition playing; that is indeed a lot of noise.

 

[Robin L]

I couldn't honestly say that any genre of music is out of my wheelhouse. If I haven't heard enough examples of a genre, how could I know? I can guess there are varieties of music I would tend to avoid but can never know for certain that there is nothing within a given category on a given day that could turn me on. My guess is that I'm allergic to most modern iterations of Metal and have left more Operas than any other sorts of concerts. But there are operas that I love, and my understanding is that Led Zeppelin is a species of metal (as far as I'm concerned, their best stuff is a form of mutant prog). I guess that working for so long in so many different record stores has exposed me to enough different genres of music as to make me more open to many different kinds of music.

 

[Peterinvan]

I believe that my preferred genres have changed as I get older. Now at 75 I only listen to pop and rock when I am exercising .
Got to get those legs moving.

I listen to music many hours a day, sometimes dedicated listening in my carefully calibrated triangle, and sometimes just filling the room as background to other activities around the apartment.

Nowadays, I prefer music that doesn’t jar my tranquility. Funny that I never thought my parents’ music would ever interest me.

 

[Crook]

The Killers and specifically Mr Fu**ing Brightside. Everyone seems to love it, but it makes me want to throw up. Edit, sorry for the bad language, but what is matter with everyone liking it?

 

[JSmith]

Slide on the corner feeling brand new dope.
Gotta brand new phone
Slide on the corner feeling brand new dope.
Gotta brand new phone
Tryna find that gold

JSmith

 

[PristineSound]

1. Bob Dylan: I absolutely hate Bob Dylan's voice. It is physically repulsive to me. In my opinion he simply cannot sing. He should have stuck to the songwriter part of singer songwriter. He writes beautiful songs but ruins them by singing them.

I'm not sure if he sings or mumbles. I am confident that the Nobel award is for the lyrics and not for his "singing" abilities.

 

[kemmler3D]

The Killers and specifically Mr Fu**ing Brightside. Everyone seems to love it, but it makes me want to throw up. Edit, sorry for the bad language, but what is matter with everyone liking it?

Agree, it's not my taste but that song is still wildly overrated.

 

[Crook]

Agree, it's not my taste but that song is still wildly overrated.

Horses for courses. A good friend of mine dislikes the entire Beatles back catalogue with a passion. I think it's one of the best of any popular music band. We agree to differ

 

[Sgt. Ear Ache]

I work in a retail environment and there's music playing over the air all the time. Usually 80s hits. I find it incredibly irritating in general but often a track or two will rise above the rest in that regard. Lately it's been a couple of Billy Joel "classics" - Uptown Girl and We Didn't Start The Fire. I just find them both to be really pretty terrible.

 

[Hear Here]

1. Bob Dylan: I absolutely hate Bob Dylan's voice. It is physically repulsive to me. In my opinion he simply cannot sing. He should have stuck to the songwriter part of singer songwriter. He writes beautiful songs but ruins them by singing them.

Yep - totally agree. Like most "singer-songwriters" they shoul;d stick to writing and leave singers to do the singing!

OK other dislikes:

Fanfare for the Common Man

Beethoven's 1812 Overture - I gather he wasn't keen on writing this, but maybe he was short of money at the time

Most National Anthems

There'll be others to follow