Music You Strongly Dislike (Just For Fun)

[ryanosaur]

Van Morrison, lol. Imagine being blessed with a beautiful Belfast accent, then deciding to follow the crowd and attempt to sing with yet another fake American accent

Thank God for the likes of Lankum, and Radie Peat in particular. Now THAT'S a voice!

I was thinking Jim, but yes, Van fits in too

 

[ThatM1key]

I never liked listening to Dolly Parton, her voice is just so screechy. Would rather listen to Bob Dylan.

Speaking of Dolly Parton. I hated when country artists back then did the "Broadway/City" sound or whatever you call it (Dolly Parton's "9-5"). Merle Haggard kind of did something like this with "I think I'll just stay here and drink".

I like Willie's Nelson music but I think people glaze him too much. More praise then Waylon Jennings?, yeah no. I know he wrote "Crazy" but he hardly sings in his version but the instruments make up for it. I guess you can argue Johnny Cash didn't really sing at times either.

With any kind of modern music, it just seems like artist to borrow too much from different eras. 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. It feels tacky hearing old beats messed up with modern crap lyrics. Back in the 1990s, people use to complain that "Oleander" was too late on the grungy sound. I think its better to be late on a new type of sound then to recycle stuff from years ago. I used to think 2000s country was going down but today's country is just garbage to pick through. Its either really good or really crap. Every decade up to this point, there was always these middle ground ok songs. I mean seriously, there still mixing hip hop beats with country, this is a lot worse then 70s pop country. People back then used to complain that Kenny Rodgers was "too pop", those same people should listen to modern and reevaluate their opinion's.

The only modern artist I had hope for was The Weeknd. All these years later, I realize, he's like Toby Keith. Every time they release a song, its slightly worse. You go from "Should've Been A Cowboy" to "Trailerhood" (I would've said Red Solo Cup, that's too easy of a target). I feel like The Weeknd is just collaborating for the sake of boosting a songs popularity these days. I don't mind collabs, The Weeknd and Daft Punk made a good song together, so it possible for a good collab to happen again.

I feel like an old man rambling. You know, there was country song called "Old Hippie" by The Bellamy Brothers. A lyric "Should he hang on to the old, Should he grab on to the new". I'm like that old hippie.

 

[shuppatsu]

dude come on. you have centuries of music history stacked against you.
I know classical. music is not for everyone, but that statement flirts with the ignorant border.

I used the most outrageous contrasts I could think of so that it was clear that I was joking. I should have gone with Salieri instead.

I love Mozart, although his catalog is indeed too large to really wrap my mind around. His Violin Sonatas were fantastic study music in college and law school. They sound perfectly mellifluous and non-distracting when you’re in the zone, but the interplay between violin and piano is also endlessly inventive when you want to take a break for a moment.

I’m also a big fan of his Piano Sonata 14 in C Minor. The version I’m most familiar with and like the most is Richard Shirk’s but my son also plays it quite well! This is Mozart really pushing the classical format towards Beethoven territory.

 

[Robin L]

W.A. Mozart. Overrated, untalented hack. Churning out compositions left and right. He should’ve known it’s all about quality, not quantity.

Glenn Gould would agree with you, for some ungodly reason.

Look at Mötley Crüe. They only put out nine albums, every one a stone cold classic. That’s the way it’s done.

Be sure to thoroughly pronounce the umlauts when intoning their name for the full, Chthonic effect.

 

[pablolie]

I used the most outrageous contrasts I could think of so that it was clear that I was joking. I should have gone with Salieri instead.

I love Mozart, although his catalog is indeed too large to really wrap my mind around. His Violin Sonatas were fantastic study music in college and law school. They sound perfectly mellifluous and non-distracting when you’re in the zone, but the interplay between violin and piano is also endlessly inventive when you want to take a break for a moment.

I’m also a big fan of his Piano Sonata 14 in C Minor. The version I’m most familiar with and like the most is Richard Shirk’s but my son also plays it quite well! This is Mozart really pushing the classical format towards Beethoven territory.

 

[shuppatsu]

Glenn Gould would agree with you

Yeah, Gould was a big time Crüehead. His Girls, Girls, Girls Variations caused a sensation in the classical world, though cognoscenti were scandalized by the groans he would utter in imitation of Vince Neil’s orgasmic delivery.

 

[MarkS]

I used the most outrageous contrasts I could think of so that it was clear that I was joking.

Sarcasm just does not come across on the interwebs ... consider using an appropriate tone indicator like /s or /j if you don't want to be misunderstood as serious ...

 

[shuppatsu]

Sarcasm just does not come across on the interwebs ... consider using an appropriate tone indicator like /s or /j if you don't want to be misunderstood as serious ...

I know it can be a challenge but I usually feel like I can make myself clear while online. But that might not work as well at ASR given that people are here from all over the world and humor doesn’t necessarily translate.

Personally there’s something about a /s that ruins the joke for me, when other people use it. It’s like I get offended that they think I wouldn’t get it.

 

[DanielT]

Stevie Nicks. I agree with Andy Edwards.

From 23:27 to 32:15. With a piece of music for illustration. A fun one by Andy I think.

1:05:30 about Roger Waters, in itself plus about the debackle regarding Ozzy and riff-based rock vs sing song writing. A lot of what I agree with.

 

[pinger]

For vocalists the most annoying for me is Geddy Lee from Rush. Unlistenable. Mentioning Van the Man here is absurd. He is one of the greatest vocalists ever.

 

[Multicore]

I have a general dislike for Rock as a genre, which of course is a gross generalisation since I realise it's a very wide genre, but electric lead guitars in particularly I find noisy and unlistenable, and Rock/Pop instrumentation just plain dull.

However, what really really grinds my gears is guitars played with that awful scraping sound of the fingers across the strings.

Understandable. Well, you can rejoice in the fact that rock is gone as pop music. It's not dead yet, just living out its retirement in a sad state of derangement.

Rock n Roll is really in a weird spot in its decades long identity crisis.
Is it to be taken seriously or not? Anti establishment or part of the establishment?
It backed it self into a corner identifying as the youth movement of a generation now in their senior years.
Took the electric guitar with it. It’s the totem for some pretty silly(in retrospect) music.

 

[Multicore]

Stevie Nicks. I agree with Andy Edwards.

Stevie Nicks - yes. Also Andy Edwards. I mean Stevie Nicks was a lead singer on the second most boring pop album of all time and Andy Edwards is second only to Beato.

 

[Multicore]

I never liked listening to Dolly Parton, her voice is just so screechy.

She's my hero. I may not listen to her music very often or even know that much of it but Dolly Parton is my hero. She's up there with Iannis Xenakis and Aki Takahashi for me.

I got official Dolly signature merchandise cast iron skillet in the shape of a guitar manufactured by Lodge for my birthday this year.

 

[Multicore]

I used the most outrageous contrasts I could think of so that it was clear that I was joking. I should have gone with Salieri instead.

It made me lol, almost rotfl. The first line was -- hm, yes, I know some people feel that way about J S Bach too. Then slam in there with Mötley Crüe. Boom. ggwp.

That old Salieri thing was done to death in the 80s and needn't come back.

Sarcasm just does not come across on the interwebs ... consider using an appropriate tone indicator like /s or /j if you don't want to be misunderstood as serious ...

Thread title: Music You Strongly Dislike (Just For Fun). Emphasis mine.

If we're going to have to annotate our jokes to make them unambiguous to all comers then that could be fun too. New tricks and all that.

 

[Noske]

Opera.

The Who.

Synth-pop new wave.

Edit - having now skimmed back quite a few pages, I have no issue with most of what many do have issues with. Doesn't mean that I would actually buy the stuff.

I forgot Yoko. Nice name, tho.

 

[DanielT]

I've never been a big fan of Van Morrison. But I don't dislike him as much as Andy Edwards, who takes the mickey out of Van in the video below. Sounds pretty much like Van Morrison I must say. It sounds....well...listen for yourself when Andy is channeling his inner Van.

Is he lip syncing to the original?

 

[AdrianusG]

Almost, (probably some 98%) all Rap and Hip-Hop, in any language!

 

[pinger]

I've never been a big fan of Van Morrison. But I don't dislike him as much as Andy Edwards, who takes the mickey out of Van in the video below. Sounds pretty much like Van Morrison I must say. It sounds....well...listen for yourself when Andy is channeling his inner Van.

Is he lip syncing to the original?

Thats absurd. Sorry I clicked on it. Van is the best

 

[olds1959special]

Where's the vomit emoji?

 

[olds1959special]