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Music You Strongly Dislike (Just For Fun)

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:

 
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 ;)).
 
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.
 
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.

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

LIKE: acoustic instruments
 
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. :D
 
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.
 
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.
 
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